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Dear Bob... Well. It was fun while it lasted. The whole "all good things" routine, you know the drill. Although, it would have been nice to have even just a day or so of notice that I was going to be laid off, and not just catching me as I'm leaving, as I'm walking out the door, to tell me...

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Confession: I think I may have been deluding myself into a state of pseudo-detatchment; my inability to attain any semblance of true mindfulness and to maintain my awareness seem to have given rise to a quasi-waking-dream-like state in which I feel serene and detatched, gaining insights into my conc...

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Sweet. Now we've got the makings of a party.

Me: Grass.
Ollie: Cheese-doodles.

We still need some more snacks, alcohol for the drinkers and probably some soda. Oh, and latex. It's not a party without latex.

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Eh. Sorry to interrupt the conversation. I don't really expect you to be happy, Satya, but at this point I don't much care as long as I'm left alone. Then I'm happy, and that's what counts to me.

Will be PMing you.

Roger. *salute*

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After a gradual process of substitution of the whole brain for more durable parts... with our conscience, our soul, being there, what's to keep that electronic brain into our marked-for-death bodies? I think our "soul" (whatever you may call it - soul, Atman, Akasha, auia, consciousness, ...

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It's because of them the sig limit is so damn short.

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On the Way To Replacing the Brain (Wednesday April 04 2007) If we are going to replace the brain for the long term, it will be slowly, neuron by neuron, with something more durable. The first, early steps on the path to the necessary technology are already underway, as reported in Popular Science: ...

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Not to pee on anybody's parade, but the very idea that there can be a distinction drawn between a "hate" crime and any other type of crime is a joke. Crime (when it relates to private citizens' interaction, as is the case here), is the concept of infringing upon another individual's rights...

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lol

Nice people can't be annoyed or irritated either, apparently.

STEE-RIKE!

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Mobius: Whatever philosophical texts you feel are appropriate. Of course, economic or political philosophy probably won't fit in as well, so I'm meaning more of a personal and/or spiritual philosophy as far as "similarly-themed". H_K: The way I act or don't act should be of no concern to y...

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what does the punishment concerning crack and cocaine have to do with anything? I'm sorry I have to connect the dots for you. The relevance is twofold; on the fundemental level, poor legislation like that is a negative factor for a city's prosperity. On the primary level, the majority of D.C. is no...

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George Washington warnd against entangling foreign alliances, but he never foresaw the rise of Fascism, Right, because monarchys, military dictatorships, fuedalisms and most of the governmental systems prior to that era were totally NOT a form of facism. This is really the only point I'm going to b...

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You know, even as a person who advocates the decriminalization of recreational drugs (at the very least), I'm not going to "fight" against drug testing minors. While I believe that it's the parents choice, the fundemental question being asked is "can/should we test kids for drugs?&quo...

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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703220463 Friday is the deadline for students at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School to follow orders or risk suspension. School Principal Sister Margaret Van Velzen sent letters home to parents this week saying, in part, that if families allow...

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I find this whole thing rather irrelevant anyways, but I appreciate anonshadow's post and the facts presented. Either way however, the only issue at hand is whether or not D.C. should have a voting representative in the House. Some people seem to jump on this issue as if it has a real and pressing i...

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Then again, he (Bush) might realize that giving a predominantly black region a voting representative won't be in the best interest of his party now or in the future. Politics, friend. Politics.

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"We want this baby polar bear dead" says animal rights lobby.

Another link.

There's just no pleasing an extremist, regardless of stripe, faction or cause.

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Looks like it doesn't matter.

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I'm a fan of not having cigarette smoke within a certain radius of public doorways. Agreed; should be banned. And people who flick butts onto the ground in parks should be shot. Already banned, re: littering. But my neighbours smoke up frequently and it gets into the ventilation system and then MY ...

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It looks like Belmont, California, will continue to allow smoking in cars and in detached, single-family homes. But the strictest version of a proposed ordinance the city council began considering this week would prohibit smoking just about everywhere else, including outdoor bar and restaurant seat...

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In fact, someone else I'm having this same discussion with pointed me to this website: http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/ ... rgans.html

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Crap, I didn't realize I posted this in the Religion forum. It should be in the Science one.

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I don't see how that would make more organs available, really. In Spain, with our default donation system, unless opted out, the people who refuse to donate organs don't do so in the scorned expectation of profit. They refuse to donate on a religious/emotional basis. And this kind of belief, specia...

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Or, "The universe is a string-net liquid" In 1998, just after he won a share of the Nobel prize for physics, Robert Laughlin of Stanford University in California was asked how his discovery of "particles" with fractional charge, now called quasi-particles, would affect the lives ...

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I don't have an ePinion about the topic, but it's good to see another reader of NewScientist.

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Well, i think it is quite more unfair that you can get an organ earlier depending on how much money you have, than depending on who got to need it earlier. First in-first out seems to me a bit fairer. Well, you're f***ing wrong, and I'll tell you why: Look, there are two ways of doing it in the cur...

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People can decline to donate their organs if they wish (I for one will not donate, because I plan on being cryonically frozen and will need all my insides in the future); however, a solution people continue to overlook is to legalize organ donation for profit - as it stands, ANY sale of ANY organ of...

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Your example 2: Take off the head covering for a proper photo. Be prepared to remove the head cvovering again for proper identification. Period. Your example 3: You can't force a church to perform a gay marriage if they don't want to. Big Deal. Find yourself a church that will, or get married by a ...

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Obviously you're not a golfer.

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You misunderstood me. In the second option, the guy is dead (when your brain is scattered on the pavement, there is not much life left in you). And well, if he survives and is not insured, he is out of luck... but you know that a modern society doesn't do that. You know that we have to take basic c...

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Well, i wouldn't have a problem with people not wearing helmets if it wasn't because of two possible consequences in case of accident: -The person without helmet could result badly injured. If he isn't insured, he would become a load on everyone's taxes... a load only because their own idiocy. -The...

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So, basically.... 1: Helmet laws are the problem, not religion. 2: Using small facial photos as primary identification is the problem. 3: Marriage dictated by government is the problem. 1.) Yes; basically correct - more broadly, laws that assume people are too stupid to understand the consequences ...

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Hoo boy, the kirpan issue is even hotter. I just figured one Sikh example was enough. I do wish we could simply let people be stupid, though. Accident without a helmet? You shoulda thought of that before. *sigh* Or, for example, burglarizing a person's home and you get locked in their garage? YOU C...

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He was actually brought to the US by the State Department "as a guest" and they sprung the trap when he got there. Sometimes the government makes me laugh. And it does mean a lot. Arresting the kingpin sends a message to everyone else that becoming a major player in the opium market could...

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Example 1: Sikhs in British Columbia are not required to wear helmets on a motorcycle. It interferes with the turban, which many see as one of the fundamentals of their faith. (There's debate over whether it's just the uncut hair, or the turban that makes it neat and tidy as well, but that's a diff...

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