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POPSThe First Tech Support Guy For the tech support behind amplify and clipmarks & the users who might be experiencing difficulty at different times I thought this was very funny and also very timely. Thanks for your efforts.
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POPSCannonbells The famous Intel Bell chimes logo tune goes BIG, as living people are shot from cannons to make these massive tubes to play the tune!
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POPSWalls and Barriers Around the World Amazing what human folly drives us to do. I'm sure that there are lots of rationales for having them, but the real reason is that we are failing to live up to our much-vaunted sapiency.
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POPSFeds Get Huge Pay Hikes While Taxpayers are Loosing Jobs
Okay folks it is time for some straight talk. We the people need to take back our country from the thieves and robber barons occupying capital hill. We can not longer sit back and allow this outrageous behavior to continue. We need to get to the polls and vote out all the incumbents and replace them with FISCAL conservatives and strict constitutional candidates. This country was made great by adhering to the founding principles outlined in the Constitution which safeguards the rights of the citizenry, and restricts the powers of the federal government. Today as we watch the daily newscasts we are being assalted by an out of control federal government with an insatiable appetite for more and more of our hard earned money which they squander on useless pork barrel projects designed to buy votes and nothing else. IN addition they continually vote themselves hefty pay increases and benefit packages and then give us the bill. It is high time congress gets a pay cut!
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POPSMatt Taibbi: Obama Baited And Switched Us, And Let Wall Street Take Over The White House ROLLING STONE'S Matt Taibbi Exposes Obama's Wall Street's Inner Circle, Pays Particular Homage To Robert Rubin Matt Taibbi gives an in-depth presentation unmasking the Wall Street crony advisors that whisper in the President's ear daily, the political push-pull that ended up gifting Tim Geithner his current job, as well as an analysis of the brains behind it all- former Goldmanite, Robert Rubin. Matt Taibbi On "Colbert Report": Wall Street Is 'One Ponzi Scheme After Another' (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/7jYQou via Eric Weitner
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POPSLowes Selling Solar Panels (DIY) There is a catch though: "You put solar panels on your roof without a permit, bad things happen to you," said Jeff Wolfe, CEO of solar installer groSolar. "The utility could shut off the power."
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POPSA 360 degree 'real' net experience I guess it won't be too long before you can buy military surplus predators and do your own areal recons, too. Isn't technological change and "convergence" wonderful?
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POPSUS Health Tech for Licensing - Interested? Our tax dollars pay for all sorts of inventions, research, etc. All of it may be licensed and sold for a profit and/or improved upon. These are healthcare related - so there is one on a different treatment for AIDS and another for a different way to isolate viruses for vaccine production. Not exactly money for nothing but one of the users reading this might be in the market - eh?
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POPSPatient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along Mr Houben said: 'All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.' His case has only just been revealed in a scientific paper released by the man who 'saved' him, top neurological expert Dr Steven Laureys. 'Medical advances caught up with him,' said Dr Laureys, who believes there may be many similar cases of false comas around the world. The disclosure will also renew the rightto- die debate over whether people in comas are truly unconscious. Mr Houben, a former martial arts enthusiast, was paralysed in 1983.
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POPSInternet Under Siege Government intrusion in the private lives of citizens is already a reality, particularly in the so-called Western Democracies that have the necessary technology and tech-savvy manpower to tap phones and invade computers.
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POPSUber-Thin Modular Solar Panels Energize Any Building
Each Sulfurcell panel is composed of a protective frameless glass exterior layered over an enclosed solar module that is able to withstand mother nature’s most unforgiving trials. A single hair-thin semiconductor layer is coated on the back of the hardened glass surface, and each module features 82 strips of thin-film solar cells coated on the back and integrated wiring cable inside. In order to keep the solar panels cool and maximum efficiency, the panels are rear-ventilated and have recessed drainage channels which direct rainwater around each cassette. Sulfurcell utilizes copper-indium-sulfide semiconductors, which enable them to produce cells hundreds of times thinner than conventional photovoltaics, which in turn reduces the manufacturing costs. Production is said to use only half the energy used to manufacture conventional solar modules. Sulfurcell has been a pioneer in the photovoltaic industry since 2003, and the company has been named by The Guardian as one of the world’s t
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POPSSunday 11/22/09: Oakland Taco Truck Tour Numero Dos — don't miss it! The first Taco Truck Tour was a lot of fun. If you're in Oakland on Sunday and have a bike, I highly encourage you to come join the ride. I will point out again (oh so modestly) that the two people sitting down in the center of the photo, behind the dark blue bike, are {{Spiritualmonkey}} and me. :-D
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POPS"Most sophisticated computer attack ever" drains $9M from over 2000 ATMs at once Four hackers in Russia, Estonia, and Moldova orchestrate a global attack on an ATM network, stealing over nine million US dollars from over two thousand ATMs in 280 cities on three continents, all within twelve hours. As a postscript, three of the accused hackers have now been apprehended and will be tried either in the US or in their home countries. Thanks to Rob M. for posting.