2011-03-11, 15:17 | Link #4541 | |
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I have seen some very interesting 'people pod / smart road' solutions but that takes some political will and R&D that we as a country seem to be lacking anymore (looks back to the Interstate system project of the mid-20th C.).
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2011-03-11, 15:20 | Link #4542 | |
Not Enough Sleep
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2011-03-11, 15:23 | Link #4543 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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The only problem I can see with that is the instability of "modern employment under our corporate idiot-masters". You'd hate to have to move every time some troll accountant makes the numbers look good for the quarterly report by laying off staff. There's just a lot of mental modes we need to reject to actually solve some problems (or go back to modes that actually worked). Those modes benefit the very few at the expense of everyone else.
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2011-03-11, 15:41 | Link #4544 | |
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the company call us business partners i call it employees without benefits.
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2011-03-11, 22:43 | Link #4546 |
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Man dies after being run over by his own stolen car
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1939537/
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2011-03-16, 10:34 | Link #4548 |
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After the official Lambo service center couldn't fix his Gallardo, a disgruntled wealthy driver decided to have the whole supercar wrecked up for World Consumer Rights Day:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12759961 http://www.wheels.ca/Consumer%20News/article/794507
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2011-03-16, 11:47 | Link #4549 |
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Ivy League-minded mom sues preschool for $19,000
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle1944001/
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2011-03-16, 11:58 | Link #4550 | |
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2011-03-16, 23:59 | Link #4551 |
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Fiction met ‘gruesome’ reality for murder suspect, court hears
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1944136/
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2011-03-17, 04:06 | Link #4554 | |
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Of COURSE people are fascinated with evil - its incomprehensible and they want to understand its motivation. Why is Darth Vader much more a hit than the whiny Luke? The Nazis, as horrible as they were, were also almost impossible to parody as they were so over-the-top anyway. They actually *were* looking for Atlantis, space weapons, and the Ark. They *were* trying to see if the occult would give them an edge. Some of them were certified space cadets of the scary kind. The "craze" is not bizarre nor is it even new. The German war machine was spectacular in its prime and deserves to be studied by military historians no matter who was driving the bus, as was the Roman Empire, and the Persians, and the Mongols, and anyone else who was such a game-changing force. My review is that the author of the article simply thought he'd get more eyeballs by using the words "nazi" with "craze" ..... pot kettle black Speaking of the Roman Empire... Ninth Legion article of interest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12752497
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2011-03-17, 15:14 | Link #4555 | |
I disagree with you all.
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2011-03-17, 15:42 | Link #4556 | |
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Yeah, down in the content he admits something more truthful ... but as any newspaper editor will tell you - most readers read the headline and 1-5 paragraphs after that. So most articles of this type put all the inflammatory hyperbole up front and then the mea culpa in the middle and end.
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2011-03-17, 15:47 | Link #4557 |
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Civil liberties group supports polygamy in landmark court case
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1946313/
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2011-03-18, 04:00 | Link #4558 | |
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