After all, if everything we know is stored online, and we all carry around smart phones to instantly aid with factual queries, and our brains are actually adjusting to these changes, then it appears that technology and biology have at last converged into one seamless, packet-fueled stream.

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Yet the distinction between job-satisfaction and pay packet is one we can all recognise.

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For one thing, the genius of the packet-switched network means new VoIP services can reach every user worldwide without any specific infrastructure investment.

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They did not merge with you, or give you any cell membranes or nutrients just an infinitesimally small packet of DNA, less than one-millionth of your mass.

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When he invites you to share his lunch with him, he beckons one of his assistants to mix an extra packet of chocolate protein powder with warm water in a Dixie cup.

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This is one reason the Swiss banks continue to make a packet.

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They found that smokers of very low nicotine cigarettes inhaled about eight times more nicotine than stated on the packet, whereas smokers of higher nicotine brands took in about one-and-a-half times as much.

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The secure communication link is a virtual private network communication link over the computer network in which one or more data values that vary according to a pseudo-random sequence are inserted into each data packet.

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