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    Tex Murphy Gets a Kickstart

    I completely agree. Tex Murphy is king. To call the full-motion videos in the last three games god-awful is silly; they added so much to the awesomeness that is Tex.
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    Control Your Xbox With Your Phone

    Windows phones are shitty. This is why: Terribly restrictive pos.
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    Gears of War 3 Epic Edition Unboxing

    I ordered the Limited Edition with the Gears 3 Controller. Statue ain't worth the extra 90 or what ever it is, but a controller is worth it to me.
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    Poll: Which final fantasy game should I play next? (6, 8, or 9)

    I recommend 6, then 8, then 9. 6 is the greatest of their 16bit creations which respect to story, visuals, and gameplay 8 is great in that the story is more character driven, plus the junction system was cool to tweak around with. 9 was okay, it was more of a "throw back" to older style -...
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    Internet Explodes Over Origin's Invasion of Privacy

    lol and some fool on these forums thought me not wanting Origin was silly. Fuck their spyware, steam is for me.
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    Nope, not sdRNA, it's ssRNA
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    Indeed, but we can also chop it up to the english language - we kill applicaitons on our computers and kill conversations too! =p
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    But it's not ALL viruses. It's actually a huge debate whether viruses are considered living or not. What it really boils down to is what are the conditions for something to be alive? Some acedemics believe that replication must occur with one's own machinery to constitute life. Or that...
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    From what I gathered from the snippet, DRACO combines with cellular proteins that are already present in the cell for defence - they simply add the programmed cell death feature when they are activated. I assume the natural proteins have some crazy mechanism to determine that they are indeed...
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    Simple: Humans don't naturally have double stranded RNA in their cells.
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    Penicillin has, and still continues to save millions of lives annually. Sure there are cases of MRSA, but the good far exceeds the risk... I don't get what you're getting at.
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    Indeed influenza is a ssRNA but it is not a retrovirus. A retrovirus uses reversetranscriptase to convert its RNA into DNA and replicate that way. Influenza, being negative ssRNA, uses specific polymers to transcribe it into positive RNA which then can be transcribed into mRNA.
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    But eliminating the source of the body's response quicker will stop the symptoms quicker.
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    New Wonder Drug Kills Almost Any Virus

    Too bad HIV is classified as ssRNA, try harder science! =|
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    TV News & "Expert" Blame Violent Games For Teen Killer

    Video games makes kid kill 2 adults. Religion and intolerance makes an adult kill 93 kids. You decide what's worse.