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What do you mean gecko? the guy? an intruder? me?

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So my sister's been talking to this guy for 2 months, and she's considered dating him. Anyway, today she sent him an email, and about 15 minutes later she gets her email forwarded back to her - and her email is edited to only have the \"juicy\" parts - with this potential guy making commen...

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Actually supporting our troops has been \"in vogue\" ever since 9/11 (and before). I think you're conflating non-support for US foreign policy with non-support of the US troops themselves. I believe Bush as a \"thug\" was a popular sentiment - but not the troops.

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I've worked in various coffee shops over the years and made smoothies a variety of ways. You said the powder has no flavor? It sounds like the \"mix\" you have is just a vanilla powder. The powders give the smoothie that granular texture and sweetness that people identify with smoothies bu...

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It's difficult to communicate with my coworkers. The other night my cab got stuck in a parking lot full of ice, and after 40 minutes of chipping at the ice with a hammer I finally got it out. Later at the cabshack, I decided to try to have a conversation with a fellow cabbie, and told him that my ca...

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What's so bad about flame wars?

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I'm the driver.

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Do you ever have one of those nights where you get in a fight with your wife and she hits you in the mouth with a blunt object and bloodies your nose and knocks out two of your teeth and the neighbors hearing the chaos call the cops and the cops come and put you in their squad car and tell you to ch...

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To those who don't know, this Myers-Briggs typology isn't unique to that site - search for your type on wiki and you can read more about it. There's actually communities built around this. I read the INTP Central forums from time to time. As for ambiguity in the questions: I tend to chalk that up to...

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If you don't know you can take the test here:

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

I'm an INTP myself - polarized on all except the P, which is about 30% - so I'm similar to an INTJ but inclined toward perceiving.

What's your type? - I expect alot of INTPs/ INTJs here.

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An earlier post used the metaphor of a painting: where the spectators could only guess at the painting's meaning, whereas only the painter could actually know. I don't know that this is always true. For the same reason that I don't think anyone truly knows why they do the things they do, I don't bel...

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Alright, I just did it, it works like a charm, 200 bucks back in my PayPal account within 10 minutes. For those that don't know, check out the live.com cashback program.

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Has anyone done this? Did it work and how long did it take to get your refund? I'm looking to buy one of the new Macbook Pros on eBay - after Apple's pathetic Black Friday sell it looks like Microsoft will give me a bigger discount on a macbook than Apple - and just wanted to see what someone's expe...

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I liked My Life. Clinton is very well-read and his writing isn't as pedestrian as I expected.

Invisible Man is also good.

I just started Moby Dick. So far, I'm floored. Anyone else read it?

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Grendel, I've been reading the God Delusion as well, what do you make of it?

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Why People Believe Weird Things I've mostly stopped arguing with folks here on .net and on .com because I've come to realize it's generally futile. Instead I've decided to spend my efforts on figuring out what's wrong with people's mental wiring. Unfortunately, despite its promising title this book...

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There's a podcast on itunes U - I believe in the Stanford electrical engineering section - of a lecture by some head of EA. It's quite interesting to hear his thoughts on the future of consoles/PCs.

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I've had some time off since school got out so I've been reading about 4-6 hours a day. Working on the Hyperion series now. What have you all got?

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Aggressor, I like the things you're saying. Just to be sure of where we disagree, I don't believe the best way to learn philosophy is to go to a top liberal arts school. But, like you hinted at, all of this depends on what your purpose in this study is. I like to think a state school will do, or see...

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I haven't actually read this particular case, but I read a recent law review covering the various rape laws among the states. The most controversial aspect of a rape case - to me - is what rape shield laws allow/disallow. The evidence that is excluded - that could potentially exonerate a given DF - ...

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I agree that people on forums aren't the best go-tos for answers. Which is why it's great there are so many avenues to learn about philosophy. I disagree that the best way to learn philosophy is to go to a top liberal arts school. If someone has a true passion for philosophy it is incumbent on them ...

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While I don't personally agree with Aggressor, to add to his post, anyone can download podcasts off Itunes U from some of the top schools on many subjects, including philosophy. They're all great.

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I love Epicureanism, and many of its tenants are alive and well in the Christian belief.

We could all use a little epicureanism in our lives I think.

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Tunnelcat, It seems the issue wasn't the nature of the porn itself - whether it was pixels or magazines or photos - but the delivery of the porn. More specifically, what intent is required to violate this law? Duper, Often a law may be unconstitutional because it is overbroad - it encompasses conduc...

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Thanks for the link Duper, I look forward to listening to it later - when I have my non-mac. I'm curious to hear what he says about Epicureanism and it's relation to later Christian thought. Although if he purports that Epicureanism is evil and no part of Christian philosophy I might stop listening....

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Duper, you're right, this case doesn't make it federal law. It's been federal law for a long time. The Supreme Court has declared the provision in the federal child porn act as constitutional.

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Disrespectful and disruptive ain't a good subsitute for violence. It's just as strong as physical violence. Just think, would you want your kids seeing or experiencing that sort of play? I wouldn't. Honestly, the only black nowadays I've seen that has been trying to do good or make any positive cha...

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Ok BSH, you have spelled out what I and most here already knew…. Please give your opinion now… Does continuing on for 5 or so seconds after being told to stop = rape? Lawyerly answer: it depends. I could conjure plenty of situations where I would imagine it would be rape, and plenty of situations w...

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Thanks for the replies. The printed word does not do a trial justice This has been recognized by several people involved in the discussion. It was referenced several times that we simply didn't have all of the information that the Jury did. So we were having a discussion based on the best info we ha...

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There's a few other points people have made that I'd like to comment on. Someone said that all that matters is the DFs INTENT. This is far from true in a rape case. Even if the DF did not INTEND to rape the victim, the lack of CONSENT automatically makes the act of sex a USE OF FORCE. - This is the ...

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There's alot of absolutes being tossed about in this thread. I'm curious how many of you have read the actual case? I don't mean a 2 page news article, I mean a 20-80 page opinion that would give far more perspective than the story we're basing our opinions on. Beyond that, how many were in the cour...

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Every six months or so, I'll have a dream that I'm covered in spiders. I'll wake up in real life, and run out into the hall yelling. I've done this ever since I was a kid. I'm 27 years old now. It always strikes me as odd, since most of my dreams I never remember, or if I do I never jolt awake from ...

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But I've got another rat. I have one of those tall wall heaters with a pilot light. The rat or mouse or squirrel or whatever it is is inside of it. I guess it came in from a vent in the roof or on the side of the house? Where are those vents usually located? Secondly, I don't know how these heaters ...

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Wow, I had to double check to see if Money! was one of my other DBB aliases. Then realized I already used the other 3 in this thread.

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I saw it last night. For a movie where I didn't know what to expect, it was pretty much what I expected.

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I mentioned in my last post that I was going to investigate how Baldy had managed to circumvent my quagmire of mouse traps to end up outside the cabinets and dead on my kitchen floor. Baldy outwits me even in death. So I came home later that night, and immediately went to work trying to figure how h...

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Baldy is dead. I went into my kitchen this morning and there he was, laying on a snaptrap with the plybard halfway into his skull, eyes bulging, arms erect.It was a sorry sight and I stood there for a moment getting past my initial shock of seeing him up close, with some sense of loss (of purpose) b...

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