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William Cowper, "On Keeping Secrets"(essays.quotidiana.org)
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by pattisapu 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6XpE9I0BLA
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by pattisapu 13y ago
> Also, their supreme court does not hear criminal matters, only civil, because it makes the appeals process for executing people faster. No. Texas simply has separate civil and criminal courts. The Court of Criminal Appeals is the supr
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by pattisapu 13y ago
Pardon if this is a dumb question, but what is it that people mean on HN when they say "This." ?? I've seen it a few times now and I still don't understand.
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Software doesn't (yet) offer the same aesthetic and emotional experiences of fine dining. But aesthetics and emotions are important to the software experience. I think that's the author's rather modest argument, that those experiences are p
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McDonalds is a known quantity. If you're in an unfamiliar area of town, or some other town, or just need to grab lunch without a big production you can do it at McDonalds without reading a menu, considering options, prices, etc. -- and with
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by pattisapu 14y ago
Uh...I started to write a highly critical reply to this paper, then, I took a couple of extra strength Tylenol, and....well...it ain’t so bad, no, not really... I think it probably was a good study, by good people, who meant well, what’s wr
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by pattisapu 14y ago
See also Thoreau.
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If "defamation" is the key here, at least truth is a complete defense to defamation.
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Very well and succinctly put. At the top of the list I'd put "the learned ability to do that with buckets of documents, quickly, and then having to draft reasonably straightforward briefs or case notes." One's goggles in going through the r
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by pattisapu 14y ago
"People don't actually read newspapers; they get into them every morning like a hot bath." -Marhsall McLuhan (1911-1980)
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Balloon Pilot Hopes New Solar Plane Will Succeed in Cleaner Skies(bloomberg.com)
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"Picture Work" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41505/41505-h/41505-h.htm
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http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)
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When asked how he simultaneously maintained a law practice; made groundbreaking discoveries in Proto-Indo-European linguistics; maintained fluency in 41 languages; translated many of the major works of Sanskrit literature into English for t