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The bizarre thing about this is that if they somehow get information, they are like Inspector Clouseau and cannot connect the dots or actually do anything to stop people clearly intent on doing harm. For example: they had plenty of information, including information from the Russian government, tha...

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This is a problem, but I'm not losing any sleep over it.

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jbuck919 wrote:If after all that you are still bursting with curiosity and willing to put up with the commercial catch-up, go here and advance to 15 minutes, wait some seconds while the scene proceeds, and you will hear William Frawley very clearly say "S*it."

Leave it up to jbuck to bring us the good sh*t

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The only source of "controversiality" here I've read about comes from Youtube comments, which shouldn't ever be taken seriously. People troll there on purpose.

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This is the first I've seen in some time about the Boston bombers. Makes me wonder. I think they gave out a lot of info regarding the initial questioning of the suspect, much more than I expected, but, now they are working on those leads and I would expect that to remain private, but the FBI just k...

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Wow that's cool

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Sorry, only one ride per customer.

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Imagine if individual journalists did that

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The names of the other suspects are here:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/bre ... 27478.html

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And they were planning an attack in Times Square...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/us/boston ... ?hpt=hp_t2

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Wow Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night E-mail | Print | Comments (1) 04/25/2013 9:45 PM 710 2 7857 E-mail By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him...

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It also wastes an enormous amount of money . It often costs more to execute someone in the long run than to keep that person in prison for life . That's an assumption based on attorney fees. Life imprisonment cases can also draw numerous appeals and legal fees, sometimes exceeding those of a death ...

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Live police radio chatter. Seems like they have him cornered. http://www.ydr.com/nation-world/ci_23059137/listen-live-boston-police-scanner?source=most_viewed It's pretty bad that there is a live stream of this. They just buckled down on some of the more sensitive audio, but it's still a lot of info...

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-epi ... ton-marath

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It's a phase. He'll get over himself

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jbuck919 wrote:Chehnya? You don't suppose we're actually going to have to call on the Russians for some help with this, do you?

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/201 ... in_america

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I'm sorry that you've lost a classmate, but whether the charges against him were justified and how serious his crimes was for a court of law to decide, and he chose to make that impossible. End of story, surely. Whether that law remains a tool of the federal government is up to the electorate to de...

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Swartz broke the law and what's more, he knew he was breaking it. To steal others' property which they are selling is no less a crime when you give that property away for free. If he was willing to put his reputation and his freedom on the line, as Gandhi and King did in far greater causes, he shou...

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Oh hey, now he is going to get more living in jail on the taxpayers' dime than he did as a hermit. Everybody wins.

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Why apologize?

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jbuck919 wrote:
living_stradivarius wrote:I can also see someone writing a piece of software that generates essays that score highly within this system
This is a scream:

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

I love it

I might as well be reading Baudrillard.

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Presently it isn't about curriculum, it's about individual courses that students can take online or teachers can use as resources on campus. The point, then, is learning the course content and getting a grade that maybe, one way or another, might be counted toward a college degree. When the medium ...

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I don't see the point of taking these online "courses" when they offer no coherent curriculum.

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HBO has a new short film coming out soon.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/hot-tv- ... delabra-2/

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Whether this makes brick-and-mortar shops competitive remains to be seen. People still save a lot of time and hassle ordering online than driving to a local shop and it may be difficult to change online shopping habits given minor changes in price. And online retailers still have the advantage in ov...

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He'll need to go into his account settings and remove all the apps that are causing these automated posts: 1) When logged in, click on the gear near the top right hand corner (to the right of the lock). 2) Choose "Account Settings" from the menu that appears. 3) Click on "Apps" on the left hand menu...

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http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25061.aspx

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No groundhog, no shadow. Problem solved?

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This sort of thing happens at higher levels of education as well. University bureaucracies have a tendency to smother entrepreneurial drive and ambition too

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Don't let schoolwork get in the way of your education

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piston wrote:So, when the Chinese state that their overwhelming smog results from coal consumption, I report it. You reply that's not the case and I say who are you to say that???????

That's not what he said. He said the smog results were irrelevant to the matter of anthropogenic global warming.

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The specs look solid. You'll enjoy it.

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I suspect that the young NK communist leader needs to prove that he is not weak to his own government apparatus but could these more vociferous threats, i.e., "we're going to nuke you," also stem from China's gradual shift in favor of real sanctions? NK must feel very isolated at this hour. Or NK i...

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So as far as you're concerned, all "private institutions" are alike? And professors at public institutions such as state universities are different? Neither of these is true. Employees at most institutions, private or public, don't have tenure, a keystone of academic freedom. And private and state ...

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Meh. They're employees of a private institution. Big deal.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magaz ... d=all&_r=0

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The amount of time people dedicate to this nonsense is utterly ridiculous.

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http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/ ... pped+disc)

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piston wrote:No one here has refuted that statement because it is the wrong place to get any informed response to it!

The Corner Pub is the right place for everything

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All I want to see is a scientific refutation of this claim from page 3, which basically nobody bothered to research (including myself). Here it should become obvious why whether the net feedback is positive or negative is so critical to the whole issue. The IPCC and climate science community claims ...

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a horse-choking stack of pastrami Do horses eat pastrami? Do we eat horse? Not so far, but all over Europe they're finding that their hamburger has been adulterated with horse meat, and we may be next. Would horse meat make good pastrami? Would we choke on it? Pastrami appears to be becoming mainst...

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The project spans a 32-year period, which provides a good indication of the mechanism involved, yet is too short for definite conclusions.

Yep.

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No one stepped up to steal the show?
http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/ ... -show.html

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My wife's computer in the other room just isn't connecting that well with the wireless modem located in my room--At Staples today a guy said the 4GJet Pack mifi might work better. I called Verizon and a tech said maybe I should see if my 4g Samsung smart phone working as a hotspot would give that c...

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Sorry to be so dense, but would you or someone please explain that for me? Chinese are leaving their home country in droves and buying properties elsewhere with up-front cash (mortgages/loans are a foreign concept to many Chinese. Vancouver is a prime example -- the area that used to be the French ...

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And the people of China continue to choke because the air they breathe is saturated with particles which largely originate from (unpure) coal burning and other unregulated fossil fuel consumption. It certainly is not happening to them because solar rays are only directed their way, because clouds c...

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Used to go to these every day after school. Remember when bagels with cream cheese there were only 50 cents?

Oh wait, wrong generation.

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Dirty air in modern Bejing is preferable than the clean air of Maoist poverty Particularly from a safe distance. Poor, not so poor, comfortable, or rich, I do not believe there's anything worst than being unable to breathe (or to leave the house, if you're a kid). Nothing airplanes and tourist visa...

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piston wrote:And the beat goes on.... A recent photo from China:

He couldn't get a shot of a Maserati? That would be the perfect juxtaposition.

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