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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Just search for the headline on google, and click through that way. No registration. No, that's not guaranteed to work. It's a cookie issue. I have have never registered at nytimes and have seldom been able to read its articles, no ma
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Upmod for RuPaul link farther down that page. Now, that's Change!
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Aside: Whether or not your site shows a phone number, make sure your contact information and the FAQ/Help areas are usable without Javascript or Flash. Google is sure to find it. So are customers and potential customers with peculiar disa
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Rest assured, however, that we will give more money to corn farmers for ethanol, despite the fact that it is neither environmentally or economically sound as an energy source. Obama comes from a corn state. Cue the Corn Cartel. Did yo
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Addendum (since I can no longer edit): I reread the story. Never mind the above reference to illegality.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The other day, I saw a photo of the President of France and his wife walking on a beach in their bathing suits. (!) It occurred to me that here in the U.S., we don't show the President with bare arms and legs. Bill Clinton was big on outdoo
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The "Australia Project" presented to the desperate protagonists in the Manna story sounds like a come-on. I can't help picturing the recruitment of indentured servants (i.e., slaves) for the colonies or the present-day recruitment strategie
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
No, their debts will spiral and their ability to get any sort of loan for "retraining" will plummet, if they're in the U.S., that is. American households average something like $10,000 credit card debt these days. Unemployment compensation
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
"Experts aren't really experts. They suck at what they do. They just suck a little bit less than everybody else around them at the time." Disagree. There are "experts" and there are Experts. Some Ruby on Rails blogger guy is an "expert"; Pl
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I solve problems by asking yes/no questions. And, by golly, you'd better give me a yes/no answer. No blah blah blah, no roundabout story. Just say "Yes" or "No," dammit!
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
"[T]here may simply be not enough important things to do to keep everyone busy." More and more these past few years I think of a favorite old science fiction story by Frederik Pohl called "The Midas Plague." All production is done by robots
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
But the ubiquity of HFCS in bottled, jarred, canned, tubbed, and boxed foods in the US cannot be explained by the sugar policy, for so many varieties of groceries didn't contain sugar in the first place. (I'm pushing 50 and have been read
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Yet another reason why I'm glad I'm allergic to corn. Yet another reason to be fed up with the Corn Cartel's push to have everything under the sun made from corn.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Article subtitle is "A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus." This has been known for several decades, ever since Heiberg transcribed some of the text (I don't know