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11 Dec 08

Introduction to Linux

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Linux

02 Dec 08

Torque, HP, Speed

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Torque Horsepower Formulas

17 Oct 08

Pumper Magazine - Dedicated to the Liquid Waste Industry - Combating the Low-Price Argument - November 2007

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Sales Sales Management

02 Oct 08

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Robert Baer is the author of a new book, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, which argues that Iran has already become the leading power in the Middle East and the United States has no choice but to negotiate with it.

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Politics

Robert Baer is the author of a new book, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, which argues that Iran has already become the leading power in the Middle East and the United States has no choice but to negotiate with it.

01 Oct 08

The Value Of Science

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Science Feynman

So what is this mind of ours: what are these atoms with consciousness?
Last week's potatoes! They now can remember what was going on
in my mind a year ago -- a mind which has long ago been replaced.
We have found it of paramount
importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and
leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of
varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none
absolutely certain.
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- we find that even great forces and abilities do not seem to carry
  with them clear instructions on how to use them. As an example, the great
  accumulation of understanding as to how the physical world behaves only
  convinces one that this behavior seems to have a kind of meaninglessness
- What, then, is the meaning of it all? What can we say to dispel the
  mystery of existence?
  
  If we take everything into account -- not only what the ancients knew, but
  all of what we know today that they didn't know -- then I think we must
  frankly admit that we do not know.
- But, in admitting this, we have probably found the open channel.
  
  This is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the
  philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under.
  The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea
  that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed,
  tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in -- a
  trial-and-error system. This method was a result of the fact that science
  was already showing itself to be a successful venture at the end of the
  eighteenth century. Even then it was clear to socially minded people that
  the openness of possibilities was an opportunity, and that doubt and
  discussion were essential to progress into the unknown. If we want to
  solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door
  to the unknown ajar.
- Our responsibility is to do what we can,
  learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on
- to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and
  discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming
  generations

22 Sep 08

Titles, End Punctuation, Dashes, Parentheses

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Writing

20 Sep 08

RSS Tutorial - How Does RSS Work

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RSS

How Does RSS Work?

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RSS

19 Sep 08

I don't believe that believers really believe | Jamie Whyte - Times Online

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Religion

British Roman Catholics allegedly believe that such slaughter is really happening. They claim that humans have immortal souls from conception, and that killing a foetus is no less murder than killing a ten-year-old. From the Catholic point of view, abortion clinics are slaughterhouses for children

04 Sep 08

Pathways of the Soul - fun personality test

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Phsychology

22 Aug 08

Cringing jurors watch Duncan torture boy on tape - CNN.com

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Evil

14 Aug 08

How to think faster, better on your feet - CNN.com

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Sales

06 Aug 08

Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory » About

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Evolutionary Alogorithms

05 Aug 08

The stock market prefers Democratic presidents. - By Carol Vinzant - Slate Magazine

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Politics

The stock market prefers Democratic presidents to Republicans. Why?
Most of the 20^th century's bear markets, incidentally, have been Republican bear markets: the Crash of '29, the early '70s oil shock, the '87 correction, and the current stall occurred under GOP presidents.
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- Republicans are no doubt muttering that that's just the stock market, not the whole economy. But real GDP growth follows the same pattern. Since 1930 (the first year decent data is available), GDP growth was 5.4 percent for Democratic presidents and 1.6 percent for Republicans.
- The foundation of recent GOP economic policy—tax cuts—may offer narrower benefits than Republicans claim. High defense spending, another GOP hallmark, may only boost one sector while hurting the whole economy in the form of bigger federal deficits and higher interest rates.

USATODAY.com - Democrats or Republicans? Just the facts

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Politics

a $10,000 investment compounded during Democratic presidencies since 1901 would be worth $279,705 after 48 years. The same $10,000 investment during 56 Republican years would have been worth just $78,699

Stock markets historically do better under Dems than Reps. - Jan. 22, 2004

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Politics

But here's Wall Street's strange little irony -- studies show the stock market performs better and tends to be less volatile when Democrats are in power.

25 Jul 08