In the democratic version of the model, Roper and Conradt allowed each virtual deer to vote, by standing up when it has finished ruminating. When half the deer have stood up, the group moves off. In the despotic version, one individual makes the decision based on its preference with the rest forced to follow suit.

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"(Apple) introduced a sense of play to computing," Goldstein said. "Microsoft is demanding, disciplined and also fucked up. It gives the experience of being under the thumb. There's this relationship with the two brands."

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"This is George," a girl's voice says of an oblivious man at a gas station. "This is the gas that George bought for his S.U.V." The screen then shows a map of the Middle East. "These are the countries where the executives bought the oil that made the gas that George bought for his S.U.V." The picture switches to a scene of armed terrorists in a desert. "And these are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his S.U.V."

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The Papal State's police force says 608 penal offences were committed last year in the independent religious state whose population is just 455.

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The reasons for breast milk's apparent preventive effects aren't entirely clear, but Dewey suspects that babies who are breast-fed are better able to program themselves to stop eating when they are full. Parents who bottle-fed often over-feed their children, Dewey said. Over-feeding in infancy can increase the number of fat cells.

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Well - what happened is that in a family "Secret Santa" gift exchange, I got what I felt was the worst present ever. A little plastic figurine of Moses. I posted a thread on the Something Awful Forums bemoaning this fact, and after a couple of Photoshops, I got inspired to dress it up.

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"Without a change in the law, individuals will be less willing to purchase digital media if their use of the media within the home is severely circumscribed and the manufacturers of equipment and software that enables circumvention for legitimate purposes will be reluctant to introduce the products into the market," Boucher said.

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