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Monbiot.com » Choose Life
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This piece is excellent food for thought. The first thought that occurred to me was "Are student loans in the US a form of indentured servitude?" It guarantees that young graduates must find the highest paying job available, rather than whatever their idealism and passion would take them towards. Soon, they become entrenched in the lifestyle of materialsm, such that, even after a few years, they would no longer want to give it up to go rekindle their earlier passions if it meant working for a reduced wage.
58 months, 1 week, 13 days, 4 hours ago.
Another Layer of Scandal - New York Times
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If that links doesn't work, try http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/opinion/09mon1.html?ex=1333771200&en=24985510dc151c0e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
59 months, 2 days, 22 hours ago.
McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants Say - New York Times
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Telling, from the article:
Several merchants said Monday that the Americans’ visit might have only made the market a more inviting target for insurgents. “Every time the government announces anything — that the electricity is good or the water supply is good — the insurgents come to attack it immediately,” said Abu Samer, 49, who would give only his nickname out of concern for his safety.
59 months, 8 days, 22 hours ago.
Google Debuts New Privacy Policies
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Agreed. I was expecting them to say something like, "after 30 to 60 days..."
59 months, 1 week, 4 days, 20 hours ago.
Silicon Valley gurus, caught in funny and sexy pictures
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lmao...
59 months, 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours ago.
The Future of Web 2.0
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This was a joke piece, not a serious article. Probably should have been tagged differently.
59 months, 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours ago.
Court Rejects Law Limiting Online Pornography - New York Times
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I love how the URL has "porn.html" in the title. I wonder how many software filters would prevent someone from reading the article...
59 months, 1 week, 6 days, 7 hours ago.
House Democrats Weigh Plan for Iraq Withdrawal - New York Times
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“No matter what we do, it’s going to be the president’s decision of how we go forward in Iraq. That decision should rest with the commander in chief.”
Rep. Boren, D-OK should immediately resign from Congress, because he clearly has no idea what his Constitutional duties are with respect to making war and is in dereliction of them.
59 months, 1 week, 7 days, 6 hours ago.
Real Life Mario Kart Race
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Brilliant. I would have swapped out some of the hard, pointy things for more custard pies. And alcohol would have been important. Maybe the blue shell is actually, "Make 1st place do a shot."
59 months, 1 week, 9 days, 6 hours ago.
Joe Hill, Prince of Darkness - New York Times
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If that link doesn't work, try
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/magazine/18hill.t.html?ex=1331870400&en=d22fa4fb70468247&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
59 months, 1 week, 9 days, 6 hours ago.
White House Security Chief Reveals -- No Probe of Plame Leak There
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I'm lovin' it. "Rep. Waxman at one point said that he regretted not being able to put up a video of the president promising a full probe but added, 'I guess we will leave that to The Daily Show.'"
59 months, 1 week, 10 days ago.
Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts - washingtonpost.com
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What worries me is that the Congress will agree with Bush that this means we need to spend *more* money on our military to make it bigger. This would put them at odds with the American people, who wish that our military was used less often, and would probably love some of that money back for schools, healthcare, and other luxuries.
59 months, 1 week, 10 days, 1 hour ago.
Christians Gather in D.C. to Protest War - washingtonpost.com
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"Mr. Bush, my Christian brother, we don't need a surge in troops. We need a surge in the nonviolent army of the Lord. We need a surge in conscience and a surge in activism and a surge in truth-telling."
-- Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church
59 months, 1 week, 10 days, 2 hours ago.
Is Gonzales a Diversion? | White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
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This is the actual permalink to the story. I am trying to remove/edit an earlier post that was to Froomkin's "current story" page.
59 months, 1 week, 13 days, 5 hours ago.
Is Gonzales a Diversion? | White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
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This story has been moved to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/03/14/BL2007031401330.html
It seems that the dynamically generated link used in the headline is to the most recent post by Froomkin. Which begs the question, "why would *anyone* do that?"
59 months, 1 week, 13 days, 5 hours ago.
Desktop Tower Defense
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Exalt. This game is ridiculously addictive, and the high-score page just eggs you on. Best way to waste time on the Internets that I am currently aware of.
59 months, 1 week, 13 days, 6 hours ago.
The Great Global Warming Swindle (UK Channel 4)
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Hmm, from looking at the link, it seems like a single unsourced television program is taking on the best of the world's scientists.
The only place this debate is still on-going is in the media. In the scientific community, the jury came back in years ago.
59 months, 1 week, 13 days, 6 hours ago.
David Lee Roth Is Banned From His Own Hall Of Fame Induction
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That headline seems misleading, based on what I've read. The LA Times has an article at
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-vanhalen9mar09,0,1661766.story?coll=la-home-entertainment He was not banned from the event. Van Halen was not asked to perform because very few of them were going to show up. From the LA Times article, "Without the Brothers Van Halen, the Hall faced the prospect of putting Roth on stage with [bassist Michael] Anthony, and Sammy Hagar, Roth's replacement in the band and longtime foil." Instead, they asked Velvet Revolver to play Van Halen songs. I agree, that sucks -- let the man play. But that's not what the headline claimed.
59 months, 1 week, 13 days, 6 hours ago.
Firefox “Speed up” tricks…
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Did some investigation on the author's claims, and ended up not modifying any of my configuration properties.
1.) set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.proxy.pipelining. May not be supported by all HTTP/1.1 servers, and has no effect if you're not using a proxy. 2.) set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dns.disableIPv6 . OSX and OS/2 should set this to true (which is the default). Other operating systems shouldn't have the same problem. From the KB, "If your OS or ISP does not support IPv6, there is no reason to have this preference set to false. Some suggest that setting this preference to true on any OS will speed up connections, though this is probably a placebo effect." 3.) Set content.notify.interval to 750000. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Content.notify.interval. This value is 120,000 by default. "Lowering the interval will lower the perceived page loading time but increase the total loading time, especially on slower connections. Values below 100,000 have a significant impact on performance and are not recommended." 4.) Set content.switch.treshold to 750000. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Content.switch.threshold. This is the internal default value. The property does not exist by default, but creating the property and setting it to this will have no effect. 5.) Set browser.cache.memory.capacity to 65536. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity. This is an interesting property. After leaving firefox open for long periods of time, I frequently find my memory usage up to 150 - 220 MB, which is ridiculous. It's probably not the cache, probably just good old fashioned leaks, but an interesting avenue to investigate.
59 months, 1 week, 13 days, 7 hours ago.
Paul Krugman: Did Bush misuse the Justice Department?
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Krugman's closing:
"Fortunately, Rove's smear-and-fear tactics fell short last November. I say fortunately, because without Democrats in control of Congress, able to hold hearings and issue subpoenas, the prosecutor purge would probably have become yet another suppressed Bush-era scandal -- a huge abuse of power that somehow never became front-page news. Before the midterm election, I wrote that what the election was really about could be summed up in two words: subpoena power. Well, the Democrats now have that power, and the hearings on the prosecutor purge look like the shape of things to come. In the months ahead, we will hear a lot about what has really been going on these past six years. And I predict that we will learn about abuses of power that would have made Richard Nixon green with envy." It's scary because it's true. "Democracy dies behind closed doors."
59 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 2 hours ago.
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