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		<title>The Field... er... Sea of Battle!</title>
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		<description>This is for civilized debating. Debate, don't flame.</description>
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			<title>Sick babies denied treatment in DNA row</title>
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			<dc:creator>Obsidian_Stray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sick-babies-denied-treatment-in-row/2008/11/28/1227491827171.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/sick-babies-denied-treatment-in-row/2008/11/28/1227491827171.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1</a>
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Hooray for capitalism.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>A truth?</title>
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			<dc:creator>r1nn</dc:creator>
			<description>&quot;If one nation understands another nation more so than that nation understands the other nation, then that nation may be manipulated by that nation.&quot;



(So if China understands how the USA works more so than the USA understands China, China manipulates the USA.)



Taking it further...



&quot;If another person understands you more so than you understand yourself, you could be manipulated.&quot;



My question is, do you agree with both or either of these statements and if  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Election's over, we need a new debate topic</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Socialism: Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
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Capitalism: Is it good or bad?
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Regulation: Do we need it?  If so, how much?  Is there a point where it's too much?  Why?
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Taxes: what do you think of them?]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:25:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>John McCain vs. Barack Obama</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>It's no longer nomination season, so I think we need a new thread.



Here we are, the beginning of June, in what will be an election in November.  That makes... about 6 months in which to learn as much as we can about both candidates, and six more months to deal with political drama before the actual election.



So here it is, Obama vs. McCain.  Both, in my opinion, honest, trustworthy, and straightforward guys.  However, in the hyperpartisan world of today, it's just as easy to say that  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:33:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Tubes clogged</title>
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			<dc:creator>MGL</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/27/stevens-convicted-on-all_n_138287.html" class="postlink" target="_blank">Ted &quot;Series of Tubes&quot; Stevens has been convicted of all corruption charges.</a> Bonus points for Sarah Palin making a statement pretending she didn't support Ted Stevens.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:56:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>HURRAY!</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>same sex marriage legalized in CT



      



Some people think this is a bad thing, but fuck em' </description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:09:19 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Canadian politics</title>
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			<dc:creator>Faolan</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Now, we have a few topics on the upcoming American election, but all you folks seem to be ignoring (or simply don't know) that we here in Canada are also having an election soon! C'mon, weigh in on the issues! Stephen Harper (Conservative) vs. Stéphane Dion (Liberal) vs Jack Layton (NDP) vs Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois) vs Elizabeth May (Green Party.)
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<span style="font-size: 3px; line-height: normal">Don't look at me, I don't know much about it either....</span>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:13:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>FW: RE: RE: RE: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW: HACKING - VERY IMPORTANT</title>
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			<dc:creator>MGL</dc:creator>
			<description>Yesterday, hackers from 4chan's /b/ message board broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, which she used for government purposes. Arguably, this is information that would have come out anyway, since there's been an open records act request since effin' June, which is itself related to the trooper firing fiasco (I refuse to use the -gate suffix for every scandal that comes along ). On the other hand, it's an invasion of privacy, and although I don't think the US has any laws against hacking  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:08:28 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>McCain suspends campaign, asks to delay first debate</title>
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			<dc:creator>Ilpala</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[So he can focus on the economy.
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:10:41 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Telling it like it is.</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>video



Honestly.  Whether you believe media is liberally or conservatively bent, TV news shows are retarded.



Next time you hear the next big controversy, the next &quot;lipstick on a pig&quot;, or the next &quot;Barack Obama is a Muslim&quot; try to remind people what really matters in this election.



And I know I get caught up in it, but it's not hatred about the republicans, and it's not a smear campaign.  What matters is what you think is best for America. </description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:17:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>horrible pun on current event</title>
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			<dc:creator>Lady</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[quote from article, link
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rehashing of opinion, joke in ill-humor, mildly controversial but open-ended and easily misinterpreted opinion]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:13:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Preparing for the RNC, step 1: SWAT raids on local Democrats</title>
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			<dc:creator>MGL</dc:creator>
			<description>Link



Quote:Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:25:27 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>DC Court: Public health less important than corporate profit</title>
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			<dc:creator>MGL</dc:creator>
			<description>Link



Quote:WASHINGTON (AP) — The government can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a federal appeals court said Friday, overturning a lower court ruling that would have allowed such testing.



Because the Agriculture Department tests only a small percentage of cows for the deadly disease, Kansas meatpacker Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wanted to test all of its cows. The government said it could not.



Larger meat companies worry that if Creekstone  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:55:38 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Life:</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>What does it mean to you, what do you want from it?



An Alzheimer's patient will lose their memory, the accumulated data that they have kept for years and years, they'll lose their personality, and eventually die.  The same will happen with someone with brain damage.  To use a less extreme example, as we age our entire personality will change.. our likes and dislikes change, and our perspectives change.



Considering that, what of the afterlife then?  What of the mind, what of the soul?  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:36:16 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Bush to open new front in War on Environment</title>
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			<dc:creator>MGL</dc:creator>
			<description>Here

Quote: The Bush administration is proposing a major change in the way the federal government decides whether wildlife and plants deserve protection under the Endangered Species Act.



Critics say the move, which is subject to a 30-day comment period before it can be put into effect, would dramatically weaken what has long been seen as a crucial law saving plants, animals, birds and fish from extinction.



The Interior Department unveiled a plan under which independent scientific  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:59:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Time to piss you all off again</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Source:



Quote:

Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed, Russian judge rules

A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race.

 



By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow

Last Updated: 1:12PM BST 30 Jul 2008



The unnamed executive, a 22-year-old from St Petersburg, had been hoping to become only the third woman in Russia's  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:57:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Warning: Should make you really pissed off.</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:City hospital officials said they were shocked by surveillance footage showing a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.



Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when she toppled from her seat at 5:32 a.m. June 19, falling face-down on the floor.



She was dead by 6:35, when someone on the medical staff, flagged down by a person in the waiting room, finally approached, nudged  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Solar energy?  I think not</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>from here



Quote:DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.



The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:02:15 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/solar-energy-i-think-not-t471.htm#22148</comments>
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			<title>Area man decides Kucinich not so bad after all</title>
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			<dc:creator>MGL</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/11/bush-impeachment-resoluti_n_106606.html" class="postlink" target="_blank">I approve.</a> It probably won't pass, but hey, I guess it's a start.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:43:24 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/area-man-decides-kucinich-not-so-bad-after-all-t458.htm#21756</comments>
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			<title>teh wimmenz can't become priests! That's silly!</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>So says the vatican:



Quote:VATICAN CITY - The Vatican issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of female priests on Thursday, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with automatic excommunication.



The decree was written by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, giving it immediate effect.



A Vatican spokesman said the decree made the church's existing ban on female  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>So...Caucus.</title>
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			<dc:creator>Lady</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1578871/20080102/index.jhtml" class="postlink" target="_blank">The Iowa caucus is tomorrow.</a>
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Are you ready?]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:16:29 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/socaucus-t273.htm#15074</comments>
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			<title>what the christ?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>source



Quote:PORT ST. LUCIE — Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son's kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.



After each classmate was allowed to say what they didn't like about Barton's 5-year-old son, Alex, his Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo said they were going to take a vote, Barton said.



By a 14 to 2 margin, the students voted Alex — who is in the process of being diagnosed with autism — out of the class.



Melissa  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 23:06:52 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>SCIENCE!</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>source



Quote:For decades, scientists have dreamed of computer chips that manipulate light rather than electricity. Unlike electrons, photons can cross paths without interfering with each other, so optical chips could compute in three dimensions rather than two, crunching data in seconds that now takes weeks to process.



For now, though, optical computing remains a dream. The chips require crystals that channel photons as nimbly as silicon channels electrons -- and though engineers have  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 23:22:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>I was told by people that they had weapons</title>
			<link>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/i-was-told-by-people-that-they-had-weapons-t423.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Obsidian_Stray</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[This was posted over at Keen and I thought I'd share. Given that it's 12 minutes long and managed to hold my attention, I'm either really bored or it's really interesting.
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<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24635229#24635229" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24635229#24635229</a>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:14:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Terrible</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>source



Quote:BANGKOK — The military leaders of Myanmar seized a shipment of United Nations food aid on Friday intended for victims of a devastating cyclone, declaring that they would accept donations of food and medicine but not the foreign aid workers international groups say are in equally short supply there.



A Myanmar woman displaced following Cyclone Nargis, fans her baby at a temporary shelter on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Friday. More Photos &gt;

Readers' Comments



The  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 01:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/terrible-t421.htm#20628</comments>
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			<title>McCain opposes new GI bill</title>
			<link>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/mccain-opposes-new-gi-bill-t411.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>source



Quote:



WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has suggested he would oppose a bipartisan measure by Virginia Sen. Jim Webb to expand college tuition benefits for military veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.



McCain told reporters Monday he was working on alternative legislation aimed at ensuring that troops do not leave the military earlier than planned to go to college.



"We are working on proposals of our own," McCain said on his  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:33:56 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/mccain-opposes-new-gi-bill-t411.htm#20394</comments>
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			<title>'Orphaned works' Legislation</title>
			<link>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/orphaned-works-legislation-t389.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>What exactly IS orphaned works legislation?  Well, I'm glad you asked!



This has to deal with copyrite law.  Let's review our rights as they stand now:



Quote:Currently, you don't have to register your artwork to own the copyright. You own a copyright as soon as you create something. International law also supports this. Right now, registration allows you to sue for damages, in addition to fair value.



'Orphaned Works' legislation is going to "revamp copyrite law in many important ways.



Well,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/orphaned-works-legislation-t389.htm#19516</comments>
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			<title>Proposition:</title>
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			<dc:creator>linkskywalker</dc:creator>
			<description>There is an ambiguous term in this argument: Government. Sometimes it is used to mean the current set of laws and positions that exist to rule America, sometimes it means the group of people who fill those positions and enforce those laws, and sometimes it means simply the position of ruler of the nation. I think it should be relatively simple to tell the difference between them, but I'd like to make clear at the outset that this flaw exists, thereby hopefully avoiding any confusion.



America  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:07:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Virtual Reality?  OMNI DIRECTIONAL TREADMILL : O</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:A stroll around the ancient city of Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill developed by European researchers.



The treadmill is a "motion platform" which gives the impression of "natural walking" in any direction.



The platform, called CyberCarpet, is made up of several belts which form an endless plane along two axes.



Scientists have combined the platform with a tracking system and virtual reality software recreating Pompeii.



The  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:37:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Why isn't anyone paying more attention to China?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:Ethnic Unrest Continues in China



Article Tools Sponsored By

By HOWARD W. FRENCH

Published: April 5, 2008



SHANGHAI — Fresh ethnic violence has erupted in a Tibetan region of southwestern China, with disputed reports of eight people shot dead by the police, and the Chinese government on Friday vowed swift and severe punishment of Tibetans accused of rioting and taking part in last month’s antigovernment protests.



Police officers on Thursday evening fired on a crowd of protesters  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:20:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>you know what's fun?  Blatently making shit up!</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>from here



Quote:By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: April 12, 2008



WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are questioning whether Merck and Schering-Plough made up information about a meeting of medical experts to discuss Vytorin after lawmakers began investigating a failed study of the drug.



Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the companies on Friday asking why minutes from a November meeting about the blockbuster cholesterol drug were created  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:35:32 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Welfare = forced sterilization?</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:Calls for Tory councillor to resign after he suggests parents on benefits should be sterilised after one child

By NEIL SEARS - More by this author » Last updated at 22:17pm on 24th March 2008



John Ward claimed parents on benefits should be sterilised after having one child

A Tory councillor has claimed that there should be compulsory sterilisation for parents on benefits.



John Ward prompted comparisons with Adolf Hitler and calls for his resignation after attacking &quot;professional  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:15:31 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/welfare-forced-sterilization-t376.htm#19197</comments>
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			<title>Oh, Starbucks...</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:California Court Awards Starbucks Baristas $105 Million in Tip Dispute



Published: March 21, 2008



A court in California awarded baristas at Starbucks cafes in California $105 million on Thursday, ruling that the company had wrongly allowed supervisors to share in tips.



The judgment by Judge Patricia Y. Cowett of California Superior Court in San Diego could have broader ramifications for the restaurant industry in California and around the country.



Starbucks, the Seattle-based  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/oh-starbucks-t370.htm#19113</comments>
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			<title>A more perfect Union</title>
			<link>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/a-more-perfect-union-t369.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18text-obama.html?em&amp;ex=1205985600&amp;en=06a539b9d149224f&amp;ei=5087%0A" class="postlink" target="_blank">Senator Obama's speech on race and the American dream.</a>
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Whether you want to vote for him or not, the senator has managed to truly spell out the real problems and issues regarding not only race in America today, but life in America.
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Everyone should watch this.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:27:55 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Phorm co. produces the deepest data mining program to date</title>
			<link>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/phorm-co-produces-the-deepest-data-mining-program-to-date-t372.htm</link>
			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>source



Quote:Amid debate over how much data companies like Google and Yahoo should gather about people who surf the Web, one new company is drawing attention — and controversy — by boasting that it will collect the most complete information of all.



The company, called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider. The trick for Phorm is to gain access to that data, and it is trying  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:44:56 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Oh, dear lord</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>source



Quote:Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert.



Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said a debate was needed on how far Britain should go in identifying potential offenders, given that some experts believe it is possible  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:58:29 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>NEW SINS REVEALED</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88085760



Quote:Day to Day, March 11, 2008 · In an effort to appeal to the modern Catholic, the Vatican has announced a list of seven new mortal sins. Some of the new don'ts: thou shalt not pollute and thou shalt not have too much money.



Madeleine Brand speaks with Father James Martin, acting publisher of the Jesuit magazine America, about the importance of updating the 1,500-year-old sin list.



&quot;I think it's to remind people  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:18:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/new-sins-revealed-t365.htm#18896</comments>
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			<title>NASA will have no manned spacecraft by 2010</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:

NASA wary of relying on Russia

Moscow soon to be lone carrier of astronauts to the space station

By Marc Kaufman

The Washington Post

updated 2:29 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 7, 2008

Tomorrow night, a European spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from French Guiana on its maiden voyage to the international space station, giving NASA and the world a new way to reach the orbiting laboratory.



For NASA, however, the launch of the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) also  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:12:04 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/nasa-will-have-no-manned-spacecraft-by-2010-t363.htm#18804</comments>
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			<title>President to veto Waterboarding ban.</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>here



Quote:White House to veto Senate ban on waterboarding



3 days ago



WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) — US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding, his spokeswoman said Thursday.



&quot;The president will veto that bill,&quot; said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.



&quot;The United States needs the ability to interrogate effectively, within the law, captured  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:24:46 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/president-to-veto-waterboarding-ban-t338.htm#17924</comments>
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			<title>o.O</title>
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			<dc:creator>Dread Pirate Halpo</dc:creator>
			<description>Source: http://www.physorg.com/news122819670.html



Quote: The basis of the 2x4-inch &quot;Digital Tattoo Interface&quot; is a Bluetooth device made of thin, flexible silicon and silicone. It´s inserted through a small incision as a tightly rolled tube, and then it unfurls beneath the skin to align between skin and muscle. Through the same incision, two small tubes on the device are attached to an artery and a vein to allow the blood to flow to a coin-sized blood fuel cell that converts glucose  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:40:50 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/oo-t351.htm#18470</comments>
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			<title>Not really a debate, but a serious question.</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[Let's say you're dying.  Maybe you lived to an old age, maybe you're still young.  Maybe it's a disease, maybe it's an accident.
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What would you want to do before you died?  What would you miss, what would you regret doing, or not doing?
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What would it take for you to think to yourself, as you're dying, that life was all worthwhile?]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:50:17 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/not-really-a-debate-but-a-serious-question-t358.htm#18685</comments>
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			<title>Ralph Nader enters the race</title>
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			<dc:creator>Ilpala</dc:creator>
			<description><![CDATA[I am not amused.  <img src="http://theden.forumotion.com//users/2715/57/34/81/smiles/295921.gif" alt="Crossed arms" longdesc="82" />]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:57:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<comments>http://theden.forumotion.com/the-field-er-sea-of-battle-f8/ralph-nader-enters-the-race-t345.htm#18238</comments>
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			<title>The Purpose of Philosophy</title>
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			<dc:creator>Aris</dc:creator>
			<description>Since I am taking philosophy courses and have an unnatural interest in it, I thought I'd bring up the subject of why philosophy is useful and what it's purpose is in the eyes of society.



From what I've seen, philosophy and discussions pertaining to it often hold a negative connotation. This is most likely due to people thinking &quot;Oh, great, now he'll try to make me look stupid.&quot;

Some are scared to say something stupid, some don't want to have their views challenged, some are just  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:50:24 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>I Am Ranting</title>
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			<dc:creator>Capn_ARG</dc:creator>
			<description>Upon watching the hit movie 'I Am Legend', several thoughts pulse through my mind. Many on similar subjects, others on completely irrelevant matters. I will attempt to note them as they run through my head, and explain them as I go.



The first, is humans. Us. People. Surely you're familiar with that species. Ponder a moment, our existence. Can you imagine what far-flung probabilities were required to bring us to such a state as now? Could the first forms of intelligence that emerged within  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:59:09 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Existential debate time:</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>The future is not as far off as you think:



Quote:WASHINGTON — - It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to make life's most extraordinary molecule.



Until recently, however, even the most sophisticated laboratories could make only small snippets of DNA — an extra gene or two to be inserted into corn plants, for example, to help the plants ward off insects or tolerate drought.



Now researchers are poised  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:22:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>2007 Climate change facts:</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>From here



Quote:WASHINGTON - An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.



Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years earlier, according to new NASA satellite  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:50:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Warnings to our non-American friends! D :</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:US says it has right to kidnap British citizens

David Leppard



AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.



A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.



The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three,  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>HOLY DUE PROCESS, BATMAN!</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Is the real sad thing the fact that I thought this was never actually going to happen?



Quote:Supreme Court to Hear Guantanamo Cases



By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press Writer

    7:13 AM EST, December 5, 2007



WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is back at the Supreme Court to defend its indefinite detentions of foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Some men have been held there nearly six years.



At issue is whether the right to contest  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:20:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>In news of the strange kind...</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>Quote:San Francisco Offers Gift Cards for Guns



By JASON DEAREN | Associated Press Writer

    8:36 PM EST, December 1, 2007



SAN FRANCISCO - A man carrying a semiautomatic handgun approached a group of San Francisco police officers Saturday afternoon and, with a smile, handed over the pistol in exchange for $150 in gift cards.



&quot;I used to fire it at bottles or do some plinking in the woods,&quot; said the gun's owner, 48-year-old Bruce Bourne. &quot;But I have a 6-year-old  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:16:49 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Iran not a threat, but we'll still consider attacking</title>
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			<dc:creator>Kamineko</dc:creator>
			<description>article



Quote:Bush: Iran Still a Danger Despite Report



By TERENCE HUNT | AP White House Correspondent

    8:20 PM EST, December 4, 2007



WASHINGTON - Defending his credibility, President Bush said Tuesday that Iran is dangerous and must be squeezed by international pressure despite a blockbuster intelligence finding that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago.



Bush said the new conclusion -- contradicting earlier U.S. assessments -- would not prompt him  ...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:00:28 GMT</pubDate>
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