Aleatoric

Aleatoric

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Good evening, and welcome to The Money Programme. Tonight on The Money Programme, we're going to look at money. Lots of it. On film, and in the studio. Some of it in nice piles, others in lovely clanky bits of loose change. Some of it neatly counted into fat little hundreds, delicate fivers stuffed into bulging wallets, nice crisp clean checks, pert pieces of copper coinage thrust deep into trouser pockets, romantic foreign money rolling against the thigh with rough familiarity, beautiful waywar

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Oh, I am afraid our life must seem very dull and quiet compared to yours. We are but eight score young blondes and brunettes, all between sixteen and nineteen-and-a-half, cut off in this castle with no one to protect us. Oooh. It is a lonely life: bathing, dressing, undressing, knitting exciting underwear

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Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.

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That's truly bad. Just read that Mt. Stromlo observatory was lost in the fire. Certainly not as bad as the loss of life and peoples' homes, but still bad to hear about. All my prayers to all involved.

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I'll chime in and comment that I'm fully in favor of copyright and intellectual property protection with the following caveats: First, that as specified in the constitution, that the period of protection be limited, since the release into the public domain after that limited period is a substantial benefit to the generation of new ideas and intellectual property. What constitutes limited is indeed a subject for debate, but I do believe that the current limits are too long, and I am utte

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I have Gentoo linux, Open BSD, and Mandrake 9 running at home, and Solaris 8 at work (I'm a unix developer, go figure ) Using Enlightenment as my WM on all these boxen (except the BSD box, it's a firewall). Current WM theme is 23 ounces of glass (thanks, moshi for the heads up on it ).

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datarat, I'm not advocating inaction. That's often worse than the disease. And while your analogy is apt, my problem with some of the proposed actions are that an ad hoc removal of Saddam would not necessarily ameliorate the situation. To further your analogy, we could rush in, grab the man, kill him (or whatever) and feel that we've fixed the problem. But then, what if another member of that family now takes advantage of the situation to put himself in the same posit

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"No person or group or society or government has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against anyone. We have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense". (Ayn Rand) Honored more in the breach than in the keeping, to be honest. That being said, I agree most with Dange

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