We envision a future where spindly robotic legs shudder under the weight of our grossly obese frames -- but maybe we've seen Wall-E too many times.
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There are of course, dedicated e-readers too: the tablet equivalent to filmed-before-a live-studio-audience sitcoms.
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And, it is almost needless to say, they will want everybody that does business with them to do it the e-way too.
Consider too the e-commerce services that online shoppers (a growing group) value.
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And I'm hearing too many e-mails and calls from folks that are saying, I'm just having information overload, I can't take it anymore, it's just constant fatigue.
Online sales account for only 1% of retailing, and the chains and specialty shops that dominate commerce in the real world are quick to use their leverage to control e-tailing, too.
For starters, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says the global fishing fleet is 2.5 times bigger than "what the oceans can sustainably support" - i.e. there are too many boats catching too many fish, and not giving fish stocks enough time to replenish them.
But consumers' insatiable appetite for Apple devices aside, e-reading may be too small a market for more new entrants.
Almost three-quarters say it helps them communicate with more people, although a third say that e-mail makes them too accessible.
On the Web, surfers too often give e-mailed rumors and unverified assertions the same weight as news from, say, The Washington Post website.
It makes Napster look simplistic and e-speak look all too Establishment.
Too much vitamin E can cause nausea, diarrhea and flatulence.
And the Cbeebies website is likely to provide an oasis of calm when my three-and-a-half-year-old son - strung out on Christmas e-numbers - becomes too much of a handful.
We eat the wrong stuff, drink too much, and merrily watch TV on the couch, until we get sick, and then we go to the doctor (or too often the E-room) to get fixed.
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Government officials say they have read stored e-mails in the past, because it was too hard to get a search warrant for an e-mail while it is in transmission.
The e-mail app in general looks great: Facebook integration comes into play here, too, so when you load an e-mail it's accompanied with the sender's Facebook portrait as well.
Goldman employees are going to get some new training, too, perhaps in e-mail etiquette?
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Save any complimentary e-mails or notes, too, to get ideas for potential references.
Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
For some it motivates them to go for the grand slam (i.e. nothing to lose), for others it makes them too laid back about actually getting the product rolling (i.e. having comfort of newfound money).
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Moreover, the rationale for this provision was a concern that health insurance markets were too concentrated, i.e.
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This is a key consideration for those saving for retirement, as inflation represents a persistent economic loss on your savings and investing too conservatively (i.e. not beating inflation) is tantamount to locking in that loss.
It turns out that the more family members you have who have been found to have major depression, anxiety disorders, or drug or alcohol dependence, the greater the chances that you will too, according to Terrie E.
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Every other e-reader contender has incentives, too.
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E-filed returns bring quicker refunds, too, and they can be made directly to a bank account.
That said it is far too early for any declaration that e-cigs are completely benign for our health.
Germany, too, is preparing legislation requiring e-mails and website-address records to be retained.
This scheme works fine if you just surf the Web and check e-mail, but it's too limiting for many users.
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