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Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:18:04 GMT

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Political Terminology Explained

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:27:45 GMT

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FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.

FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

(Original source unknown . . . this version expanded and Illuminated by SJ.)

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Clipmarks press

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:13:07 GMT

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"The advantage Clipmarks has over other bookmark managers is that you can highlight a certain part of a lengthy document, saving you the hassle of having to scour!" Link

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AMD CEO

Tue, 23 May 2006 21:36:40 GMT

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Hector Ruiz

Hector de J. Ruiz, Ph.D.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Hector Ruiz is chairman and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Dr. Ruiz joined AMD in January 2000 as president and chief operating officer, and was named chief executive officer in April 2002. He was appointed as chairman of the board in April 2004.

Previously, Dr. Ruiz served as president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector. In his 22-year career with the technology firm, Dr. Ruiz held a variety of executive positions in the United States and overseas. He also worked at Texas Instruments in the company's research laboratories and manufacturing operations.

Born in Piedras Negras , Mexico , Dr. Ruiz earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas , Austin . He earned his doctorate in Electronics from Rice University in 1973.

Dr. Ruiz is passionate about the role of technology in education and empowering the underprivileged. At the 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, he announced AMD's 50x15 Initiative, a commitment to empower 50% of the world's population with basic Internet access by the year 2015.

Dr. Ruiz currently serves on the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST advises the President of the United States on issues related to technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education.

Dr. Ruiz also serves on the Eastman Kodak Company Board of Directors, the advisory board for the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (TSEM), and the Board of Directors for the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

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Hosting deal

Tue, 23 May 2006 07:26:34 GMT

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Backup XBOX360 games

Sun, 21 May 2006 08:17:20 GMT

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How-to Backup Your Original XBOX360 Games

This guide is written to help you take backups of your original xbox360 games, mainly due the fact that the microsoft xbox360 is causing alot of trouble on game discs like scratches due the malfunction of several dvd-drives and therefore you should be able to backup your own legit copy.

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Time perception

Sat, 20 May 2006 16:50:37 GMT

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Time Perception

However much we might try to resist its incessant march, time is central to almost everything we do, from knowing when to sleep or use the toilet, to timing our movements so that a kiss doesn't become a head butt.

Although biologists haven't been able to agree how they work, it seems clear that the body has a number of internal timing systems to help us judge the passage of time.

Sometimes, however, our natural clocks seem to run fast or slow. Not because our internal clocks themselves are faulty, but because our perception of the passing of time seems to vary with circumstances.

When time seems to fly or drag, it's nothing to do with our internal clock speeding up or slowing down. It's how the brain processes time-related information that generates the illusion.

When a person's life is in danger, a phenomenon known as 'time-dilation' can occur. This is when, during a car crash for example, time seems to slow down or become frozen.

In these cases the body's internal clock speeds up when facing a potential catastrophe, so that it can take in more information more quickly and function more effectively in an emergency.

This is also a phenomenon actively sought by elite sportspeople, when they get 'in the zone'.

Some of the chemicals in the brain, such as dopamine, can affect our perception of time. Deficiencies in these chemicals can lead to brain disorders.

In today's technological age, the body's natural clocks are being hijacked by timetables, schedules and diaries. By paying more attention to our watches, rather than our internal clocks, could we be losing touch with time as it should be perceived?

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Algae as mint for smokestacks

Sat, 20 May 2006 02:51:07 GMT

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Algae - like a breath mint for smokestacks

Isaac Berzin is a big fan of algae. The tiny, single-celled plant, he says, could transform the world's energy needs and cut global warming.

Overshadowed by a multibillion-dollar push into other "clean-coal" technologies, a handful of tiny companies are racing to create an even cleaner, greener process using the same slimy stuff that thrives in the world's oceans.

BOSTON

A 'GREEN' SCRUBBER:

"This is a big idea," Berzin says, "a really powerful idea."

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Sounds like Bach

Sat, 20 May 2006 02:09:50 GMT

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Sounds Like Bach

But the day when music is finally and irrevocably reduced to syntactic pattern and pattern alone will be, to my old-fashioned way of looking at things, a very dark day indeed.

DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

Back when I was young -- when I wrote "Gödel, Escher, Bach" -- I asked myself the question "Will a computer program ever write beautiful music?", and then proceeded to speculate as follows: "There will be no new kinds of beauty turned up for a long time by computer music-composing programs... To think -- and I have heard this suggested -- that we might soon be able to command a preprogrammed mass-produced mail-order twenty-dollar desk-model 'music box' to bring forth from its sterile circuitry pieces which Chopin or Bach might have written had they lived longer is a grotesque and shameful misestimation of the depth of the human spirit." I went on and on in this vein.

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Monica Bellucci pics

Sat, 20 May 2006 01:43:02 GMT

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alternative bach

Sat, 20 May 2006 01:30:34 GMT

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Lara St. John leading the charge to sex up classical music's cerebral and demure image.

VARIATIONS ON A THEME: Judging a Bach By Its Cover

If people are no longer as interested in classical music as a cerebral escape from the banalities of the everyday, then certain producers of classical recordings are willing to embrace this cultural condition by selling Bach not as an alternative to popular image culture, but as a part of it.

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Presentation tips from Steve Jobs

Sat, 20 May 2006 00:57:13 GMT

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How to Wow 'Em Like Steve Jobs

The Apple CEO is well known for his electrifying presentations. Here are five tips to make your next talk just as mesmerizing -- or close

Apple Computer (AAPL), now celebrating 30 years of innovation, has revolutionized the way we use computers and listen to music. Now its charismatic co-founder, Steve Jobs, has transformed the corporate pitch. Anyone who has watched a Jobs keynote will tell you he is one of the most extraordinary speakers in Corporate America. Jobs learned a long time ago that a leader must be a company evangelist and brand spokesperson.

Sell the Benefit

Steve Jobs does not sell bits of metal; he sells an experience. Instead of focusing on mind-numbing statistics, as most technologists tend to do, Jobs sells the benefit. For example, when introducing a 30 GB iPod, he clearly explains what it means to the consumer -- users can carry 7,500 songs, 25,000 photos, or up to 75 hours of video. In January when Jobs introduced the first Intel (INTC)-based Mac notebook he began by saying, "What does this mean?"

Keep It Visual

Speaking of slides, there are very few bullet points in a Jobs presentation. Each slide is highly visual. If he's discussing the new chip inside a computer, a slide in the background will show a colorful image of the chip itself alongside the product. That's it. Simple and visual.

Exude Passion, Energy, and Enthusiasm

Jobs has an infectious enthusiasm. When launching the video iPod, Jobs said, "It's the best music player we've made," "It has a gorgeous screen," "The color is fantastic," and "The video quality is amazing."

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Philosophy of mind-wikipedia featured

Fri, 19 May 2006 21:54:18 GMT

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Philosophy of mind

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of the exact nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness, and of the nature of their relationship with the physical body: the so-called "mind–body problem".^[1]

A Phrenological mapping of the brain. Phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain.

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The Apple CEO is well known for his electrifying presentations. Here are five tips to make your next talk just as mesmerizing -- or close

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