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Admittedly, I haven't read the article quite yet, but immediately the obvious protest that comes to my mind is that evaluation of an entire race, especially the inherent traits of that race, based on any genetic evidence from currently living subjects is an inherently flawed evaluation method, espec...

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Was it just me or did Nathan call Kaito, Hiro? Beyond that, I wonder if Monica's power extends beyond TV. Just judging from how she seemed to take it in, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. Also... was there more to Micah's trying to "fix" her than I picked up on? There certainly seemed ...

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Because C-... I'm not even gonna try spelling his name again, knew from the start the identity of both Locke and Demosthenes, and as head of the IF had access to more info about Peter than even Peter himself had. He's not using his regular e-mail because he has indeed been feeding info to Peter, and...

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Wil, you write that people should be content when they're out-voted in a democracy, but isn't this just a dictatorship of the majority? And as democracy spreads, does this not also mean that more and more people must be simply content with living by the rule of the majority? On a large-scale, this i...

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I'm forgetting the exact political climate at the time of these e-mails, but if I recall correctly, the IF was fairly divorced from any earth-bound power at this time, it's only objective being to not interfere with the goings-on of earth as its all-encompassing intel and military might could be far...

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Because you've already done everything you can.

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Cincinnatus was a Roman general who was given, as was authorized by their laws, given dictatorial powers for the sake of defending the Republic. Normally, these powers were given only temporarily in times of crisis and the dictator was expected to step down after the crisis was over. Having successf...

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling. Looking back... the way Sirius is treated by Order members doesn't make any sense. The Art of War, Sun Tzu, Stephen Kaufman's translation. This one's a little too oriented towards the business aspect of things in someway, but overall there's ve...

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Only things I'm paying attention to are Eagles football (;_;), and UNC Basketball (^_^).

*Looks out for Cowboys and Duke fans*

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Dr. Who vs. Jean Luc Picard?

;_; Not fair. So... not... fair.

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It's... difficult for me to take, solidly, a side on this issue, because, strangely enough, I find the question of when life begins to be almost fundamentally unanswerable. There are for me, two driving philosophies in my life, absolute respect for both life and liberty. That may sound rather cliche...

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Hiro's storyline I see as a necessary detour. The "symbol", that is the supposed kanji for "Godsend", also plays a significance as Kensei's symbol. As far as I noticed, however, Kensei himself bore the symbol nowhere on his person, and the only place we see it in Hiro's storyline...

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...kung fu student 1) Go ahead. Say Grasshopper. SAY IT! 2) Make "the noises" and wave your arms around. Lift your leg a wiggle it if you wanna make yourself look silly while you're doing it. 3) Bow. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you're doing it wrong, and it's rather awkward. 4) Ask...

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Maybe I've gotten the roles of literary agencies and publishing companies a little confused here, but shouldn't dealing with an iTunes screw up like that be the role of the publishers? I mean, aside from dealing with the author's reaction to tha sort of news, once an agency's found a publisher for a...

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Were the golden flames that saved Harry from Voldemort in the beginning ever properly explained?

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I'll agree that the ending of the book, from about the point where we find out Harry's supposed to be a Horcrux onward was the kind of canon-futzing that would have comic fans up in arms, and was probably written as an attempt to reconcile her original ending, where I really wouldn't be suprised to ...

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Well, the Deathly Hallows was leaked via bittorent overnight, in PDF form, and as photos of the book, page by page. For those of you demanding blood, don't worry, the guy forgot to remove the EXIF data, so he should be getting hauled in very shortly. Either way, I'm curious what people think, or pla...

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Out of curiosity, how long had your predecessor been doing the job?

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An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are locked into separate cells, and given a single can of food, though no can opener, and told that if they get the can open, they'll be given another, and another, for a month, when they'll be released. The engineer strings up the can using his shoestri...

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I don't know the key to success, but I know that the key to failure is trying to please everyone.

Between selling pudding pops and complaining about the state of education in America, Bill Cosby does tend to crank out a few words worth remembering every once in a while, y'see?

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You're right, logically there's no need for most racism, or if there is than it should flow both ways. But, human behavior is anything but logical, and we're very quick to judge a people based on the actions of a few or based on their pasts, either personal or racial. Even if we know individuals of ...

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Rufus Wainwright's cover of "Hallelujah". It's the only piece of music that's ever brought me to tears.

That and Christmas Shoes, but that was only because it's the single most depressing piece of work known to man.

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Thanks for the welcome. Maybe track record wasn't the best choice of words, it's more like a black mark on the record. A sizable mark, and in the eyes of those who were oppressed, the defining mark. And don't forget that most adults in the country now, while not having live through a time when black...

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This is something that seems to be coming up more and more frequently with "solutions" varying from stopping the release of certain horomones to altering the human genome, but there's an example most of us are familiar with that we need to be wary of. Bean, everyone's favorite little genet...

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As a physics student, and emphasis on student because my understanding is FAR from complete, but quantum mechanics tells us that determinism in the physical universe is a crock. There would seem to be entirely random, probabilistic occurences in the universe. That is that as we currently understand ...

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Well, if there are any African-American users on p-web, I'm making a shout out to you, I want to know your opinions whatever they may be. Well, here's my two cents. I'm a black guy, who's grown up in an area of South Jersey that's pretty racially diverse, so I can't speak for everyone, but this is ...

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For me, my religous memory is very sketchy. My parents are both Christians, my mother a bit moreso than my father, but more on that later. I don't think I ever really had a single thought about religion until I was at least 11 or 12. Kinda late, yeah, but with an understandable reason. My parents, w...

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Whether spanking is appropriate or not depends more on the situation than the child. The child is obviously part of the situation, but from my point of view there are only a few really different situtations when it comes to disciplining a child. First and foremost, however, is a parent't duty to ens...

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by the way, welcome to Pweb, Janus.

we're a bit dead at the moment. but things always pick up eventually.

Thanks. I figure this is for the best though, instead of getting lost in a flurry.

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Out of curiosity, why does so much get done through snail mail?

Obviously having hard copies of an MS allows it to be read somewhere other than sitting at your desk, but as far as query letters and whatnot, wouldn't having an electronic slush pile be easier to manage?

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I met O'Brien when he was speaking at UNC. Very cool guy, though he makes me feel like the entire sum of my life experiences is worth less than that cap he wears ;_;. More on topic, though, I always carry my keys with my Borders minicard and a USB Key on them. My wallet with a bit of cash, and more ...

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I liked Trigun's dub. Then I realized that Vash's VA was a Power Ranger and the 4th wall was completely shattered.

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Personally, I think globalization is a dangerous trend towards placing too much power into the hands of a very powerful few. This documentary does a better job of detailing why than I can, though I have formed many ideas on courses of action since seeing it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4...

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Why not set your intern to it? She seems gifted at making things disappear.

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Will you read the leaked copy of the Deathly Hallows?