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quote: Originally posted by Sentinel400:
Maybe we are underestimating our fellow humans. Maybe nobody will buy this book. Maybe people will be so disgusted by it that huge unsold piles of this book will have to be pulped and the publishers will take a bath.
It could happen, right?
If it does, then I'm getting some religion.
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quote: Originally posted by Wanderer: quote: It could happen, right?
Was that irony?
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How do you steal live train overhead wires during morning peak hour?Someone did it here this morning. 
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"It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself."
--GK Chesterton, "Heretics"
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Indian student develops paper-based storage systemA Kerala student claims to have invented an eco-friendly, paper-based storage system capable of compacting 90 to 450GB on a single disk, Arab News reports. Sainul Abideen, 24, of the Muslim Educational Society Engineering College, says the secret behind his "Rainbow Versatile Disc" (RVD) is that "instead of using zeroes and ones for computing, he used geometric shapes such as circles, squares and triangles for computing which combine with various colours and preserve the data in images". This "Rainbow Format" data is then read by a scanner. In a demo at his college lab, Abideen demonstrated 432 pages of foolscap content compacted onto a four-inch-square piece of paper. The Arab News correspondent said he also saw a 45-second video clip read from ordinary paper.
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Reality is, of course, an illusion. But it's a *real* illusion.
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Minority Report, anyone?Targeting 'likely offenders' and intervening - before anyone's committed any sort of crime. Innocent until proven guilty? Hah!
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"It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself."
--GK Chesterton, "Heretics"
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quote: Originally posted by Gromit: Minority Report, anyone?Targeting 'likely offenders' and intervening - before anyone's committed any sort of crime. Innocent until proven guilty? Hah!
Yes, this is only acceptable when they are pedophiles I guess.
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This is what happens after letting Blair spend too much time hanging out with Bush.
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I didn't know he had one left,but that surely shows the last one is gone!
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