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dsspence

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    Comment #13553350

    Yes, that would deter me personally but I can't fault anyone else who feels that those things aren't relevant.

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    Comment #1960907

    Now let's calculate the excessive energy required to launch adobe acrobat and install a new security patch weekly.

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    Comment #1808371

    While that is the De facto rule in career centers, there is a rule that usurps it, which is if it really does distinguish you from the average applicant, use it.

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    Comment #1802117

    You could expand the question to say why do abc, disney, and espn all include go.com in their url? Obviously they all share the same ownership. Although I think there would be bett…

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    Comment #1799261

    There is an IMBD link: http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi1301021721/ . Although it just looks like an embedded hulu player.

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    Comment #1799255

    Yes, I didn't want to editorialize and I've never seen this available online before. Everyone is free to think what they want. The privatization of the Bolivian water supply was th…

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    The Corporation

    Full movie on Hulu.

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    Comment #1796731

    duncanspencer.ww.com -> duncanspencer.com (174.133.21.104/web74.webfaction.com) I Appreciate it.

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    Comment #1784175

    Be careful about calling any part of web design cutting-edge. It may change quickly what is in fashion on the web, don't mistake that for being technically challenging.

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    Comment #1769625

    Apple doesn't license PDF from Adobe even though it is part of OS X's native graphics renderer. “The Quartz renderer and the PDF interpreter that Apple ships with Mac OS X are buil…

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    Comment #1761814

    You mean those too poor to own a house so they don't get the John-McCain-8-house-ownership-tax-credit?

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    Comment #1758489

    What part of the New Deal is 'oddly' happening again? $300 billion of the $862 billion dollar stimulus were either tax cuts or credits. Here is a link seemingly debunking that guis…

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    Comment #1758219

    Off topic: I just tried embedding a marquee inside of a marquee and it surprisingly worked.

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    Comment #1745019

    Entering goo.gl should return itself don't you think?

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    Comment #1700158

    Colbert's faux opposing rally http://www.keepfearalive.com/ . I also thought it was odd in the source of both pages is a commented out link that solicited donations.

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    Comment #1689203

    Depends which consistency you mean. It wasn't consistent prior to 10 when you went to press the green button to get the mini-player and the orientation of the buttons changed from …

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    Comment #1677867

    The United States Army has a suicide rate of 20.2/100,000. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/suic-j06.shtml

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    Comment #1677801

    The point you're making has been debated ad nauseum in the past so I won't attempt to refute it. What I took from the article was that while the stimulus/recovery act was largely s…

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    Comment #1664753

    I don't think you read the article. We can't support a consumerist economy when the top 1%, who don't reinvest their money necessarily, earn 23% of the wealth. Who is taking money …

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    Comment #1599554

    The other kicker about the original use of firewire was that it could charge the iPod simultaneously while syncing. I don't recall usb 1.1 being able to charge a device.

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    Comment #1599543

    Maybe the purchase of LaLa will change that.

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    Comment #1596452

    Well said. Wages have flatlined over the past 30 years, partially because the higher cost of benefits has absorbed what would have been a pay raise. I'm glad whenever someone, whet…

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    Comment #1592360

    "Philip OCarroll wrote: Jul 23rd 2010 12:21 GMT I hate bankers - they only cause trouble. e.g. financial catastrophe, global depression"