Torture supporters are victims of a logical fallacy called "The Ticking Time Bomb".
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In 1908 E.M. Forster predicted the end of America with astonishing prescience. His short story is essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of the present calamity.
Anyone can see the difference between the Obama who stood for Hope and the Obama who is bailing out a sinking ship.
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A 7.8 Richter earthquake in New Zealand has triggered a tsunami warning for seaside areas along the Australian east coast. No damage is expected in urban areas and no evacuations have been ordered.
Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family [...]
This is an article for those of us who just couldn't resist jailbreaking 3.0 early and often. Which is to say often because of early. So far I've restored 3 times because of getting too ambitious, and I'd be very surprised to find I'm out of the woods yet.
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Thanks to the continuing dedication of the iPhone Dev Team jailbroken 3.0 firmware is now available.
Safari 4 is unusable. It's a memory hog, slow, unstable, and makes other parts of OSX unstable too. Plus it permanently removes the blue loading bar, ditches the safari-4-beta title bar tabs, and hides the reload button in a stupid place.
All we need to fix all America's economic ills is a wealth ceiling for the richest 1%. Say $1 Million each after their primary residence. No one on Earth needs more than $1 Million after owning their residence - anyone who says they do is obviously a robber baron:
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Income accruing to [the top 1 percent] remained essentially flat until the late 1970s, when it began climbing dramatically, surpassing its pre-war highs. [...]
A tiny new Javascript library, "RightJS" from Nikolay Nemshilov, is 2-5 times faster than all the popular alternatives.
BBC Documentary explaining exactly how Neo-conservatives invented a story called Al-Qaeda, how this story was used to twist American patiotism into paranoia, exactly who is behind the myth of international terrorism, who benefits, and how everything you thought you knew about the …
In our galaxy there are over 700,000,000,000 stars, each capable of creating conditions suitable for the evolution of intelligent life. And our galaxy is over 13,000,000,000 years old.
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This is a review of the new Star Trek film and prequel comics that is so full of spoilers that only a revenge-crazed Romulan could possibly want to read it before going and actually seeing this very fine new film.
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Rice just confessed to a focal role in a joint criminal enterprise. Nixon White House counsel John Dean, who has a lot of first-hand experience with the legal issues in play, had the same take: Rice just admitted to her role in a conspiracy to torture, a felony under 18 U.S.C.
An new business model radically changes EV prices. Rather than recharging the batteries the charging station swaps out the whole battery. You never buy the battery so both the car and the mileage are much cheaper than gasoline cars.
What is the purpose of America? What does our nation really stand for? The truth was spoken in America's darkest days, during our hardest struggle, by our greatest President. Not in 2001. In 1941.
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Star Trek promises us strange new worlds. New life-forms and new civilizations. But mostly we get tired old worlds. Pointy weapons, glowing explosions, "whoosh" sounds and cutesy catch-phrases. Trek Clipart.
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Right now you see a whole lot of hand wringing in the mainstream media and right here on the vine about all the spending Obama's doing. But if you think about it, this spending is actually a good thing for us. It actually makes sense and it's simple to understand.
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The value of a US Dollar used to depend entirely on what we, the people, actually did. For much of the 40s and 50s, what we did was very smart, and thereby very valuable.
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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders: Who'd you loan the money to? [...] Who makes the decisions? Are there conflicts of interest? [...] Will you tell the American people to whom you lent $2.2 Trillion of their dollars?"
This interview is about 50% longer than the broadcast version and contains the word "phuque". But it leaves out Cramer's most extraordinary comment from 2006:
Grey Goo. It's fun, it's fast, it's self-replicating, and it's coming to your corner of the planet just a couple of days after it's created. Breathe while you still can.
The Vatican and anti-Abortion activists have condemned Obama's promotion of Stem-Cell Research:
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Watchmen is the ultimate superhero movie. I mean ultimate as in final. Everything else will seem silly now. You don't thinks so? Okay, avoiding spoilers, tell me:
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