2013-08-29, 21:20 | Link #30341 |
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Insight: China prepares to ditch cotton stockpiling, wider reform looms
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97S18F20130829 Nasdaq says software bug caused trading outage http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97S11420130829
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2013-08-29, 22:05 | Link #30342 |
Kurumada's lost child
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Rhetorical question; why aren't the major news networks not covering the fast food workers protesting in over 60 cities to raise the minimum wage?
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2013-08-29, 22:26 | Link #30344 |
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Snowden impersonated NSA officials, sources say:
"Edward Snowden accessed some secret national security documents by assuming the electronic identities of top NSA officials, said intelligence sources. “Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,” said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. “This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.”" See: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_n...urces-say?lite |
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2013-08-30, 06:29 | Link #30347 |
books-eater youkai
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Japan seeks biggest defense budget rise in 22 years
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97T08920130830 The biggest surprise isn't than she wasn't executed for simply being his ex-girlfriend ?
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2013-08-30, 07:44 | Link #30348 |
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I'm wiling to bet the decision to kill her and 11 other women came before coming up with what lies and labels they plan to embellish on her to "justify" the killings.
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2013-08-30, 18:52 | Link #30350 | ||
Love Yourself
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Location: Northeast USA
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For example, when voting for president I was presented with four or five choices (not including the write-in choice). I get to choose one, and one only. Most Americans know that most other Americans are going to vote for one of two parties, meaning that a vote for any candidate besides the "big two" might as well be leaving the vote for president blank. It will show up in the statistics, but it doesn't really count for anything. And if you really don't want one of those "big two" candidates to win, well... you'd better contribute your vote to the other "big two" candidate. (For state-level positions, all positions listed two candidates, and in some cases, only one.) If a ranking system were employed instead, this is how it would operate: I would rank all candidates by my preferences. If my first-ranked candidate didn't receive enough high rankings ("votes") from other voters and was ultimately taken out of the race, then instead of invalidating my vote entirely, my second highest choice would receive my nomination. In other words, I could vote (rank) who ever I wanted, secure in the knowledge that my vote would still count toward something even if my top choice didn't make it. This would free people from feeling that they had to strictly vote for one of the "big two," as they could give their first ranking(s) to third-party candidates. As long as they ranked one of the "big two" above the other, they could be secure in knowing that even if it came down to a "big two" race again, their vote in that scenario would still count... but the need to rank one of the "big two" very highly simply to "have their vote count" would no longer be an issue. Quote:
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2013-08-30, 20:29 | Link #30351 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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Fat Kim must be really trying for the most caricature-like villian of the year award
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2013-08-30, 22:14 | Link #30352 |
books-eater youkai
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UK asked N.Y. Times to destroy Snowden material
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97T0RC20130830 Six dead as thousands of Mursi supporters march in Egypt http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97T0JI20130830
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2013-08-31, 16:02 | Link #30356 |
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Indian teen sentenced to three years in Delhi gang rape case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97U06R20130831 Home of Irish whiskey woos tourists with fake shops http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97T0BO20130830
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2013-08-31, 20:38 | Link #30357 | |
Still Alive
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2013-09-01, 00:36 | Link #30360 | |
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Endless "Blofeld" Soul
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