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"The death penalty doesn't deter crime. Innocent people end up getting put to death. If we're going to base our punishment system on revenge then we should just go back to eye-for-an-eye and chop off the hands of shoplifters."
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jdowland on Dear Apple, I have no desire to install Safari on my PC. So please stop insisting I install it with every Apple update. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Fuck You Comcast and your "Domain Helper service" -- AKA "DNS hijacker service" (happening here in the US, report from The Register in the UK) - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"@McCaffertyHimself Maybe Cheney is ready to "tell all" because he doesn't want to dragged down in history as being associated with what historians may consider to be the worst president we've ever had. I'm guessing that Cheney will try to spin all the disasters of his eight years in office as being George Bush's fault."
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The Flatiron Building is one of the coolest historic buildings in New York. It was completed in 1902 and is one of the first skyscrapers every built.
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Especially in the eastern parts of the world, there are some really whacked out ice cream flavours – like ox tongue, raw horseflesh, seaweed, shark fin, whale and goat – that will just take a teeny while longer before they catch on in the West. Here w
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From the page: "Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, a plate tectonics system and an ocean of water."
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From the page: "in the journal Nature, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and two collaborating centers reported that the Easter Island compound - called "rapamycin" after the island's Polynesian name, Rapa Nui - extended the expected lifespan of middle-aged mice by 28 percent to 38 percent. In human terms, this would be greater than the predicted increase in extra years of life if cancer and heart disease were both cured and prevented."
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