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Oops -- one wants the area to the _right_ of z=2. Also, the claim is made that beauty and intelligence are independent traits.

I think Amber's fear can be discounted though -- without loss of generality, we can see that no one will find a girlfriend, so there's obviously no way for one's family tree to have ancestors, descendants, or distant relatives.
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Better hope the steel rigging holds; she'd be shattered into dozens of pieces if she had to bear even 1/4 that weight.

Seriously girl, get some damned Snickers bars and try to recalcify those bones. Nothing sexy about a broken hip at 33.
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That's some Character Building furniture there... "Mommy, my hands are bleeding!" "Yeah, cardboard'll do that. Don't get blood on the carpets."
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... and the plan makes the large assumption that THC isn't the causative agent responsible for helping MS, Parkinsons, cancer, etc. patients in the first place.

It feels like figuring out how to keep smoke from getting in to the lungs would be a more useful thing to study.
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Of all the wacky architecture things I've seen, this is definitely the wackiest. Prague's Dancing House is a point of local pride but it just looks modern. This hurts the head. Neat.
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Man, life sure is going to be different once Florida is gone. No new episodes of COPS. No new "idiot criminals" funny crime stories. No new hilarious footage of people crying next to hurricane-destroyed homes claiming that they'll rebuild again this year just to spite the storm. No more presidential election jokes about hanging chads or Pat Buchanan.

It's been fun.
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Jimbo is right.

Us poor people have so much to learn from our social betters. It's my own fault for earning income rather than investment returns -- then I could pay half the taxes I do now.
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I strongly doubt the leap second had anything to do with the proliferation of dead sites -- and certainly not Linux. Afterall, Linux, like ever other Unix-derived system, just keeps track of the seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970, UTC, to keep track of time: this is the usual Unix epoch. (Well, Linux keeps track of nanoseconds since the Epoch, but the NTP time daemon that is in charge of keeping coordinated network time is really only suitable for millisecond time resolution -- so the nanoseconds are extremely skewed from machine to machine and only make sense on individual computers. Any finer accuracy than that would require your own atomic clock or using an external radio clock, but that's a digression for another day.)

Perhaps some idiot application developers assumed seconds run from 0 to 59 and did not plan for second 60 -- (much like Y2K; but leap seconds happen all the time, more frequently than leap years) -- but every Unix API that manipulates time is prepared for the 61st second in a minute. (Afterall, it is clear that many of the developers of the affected sites are poor developers -- remember the six-million unsalted and un-iterated password hashes stolen from LinkedIn? Salted and iterated password hashes were already in use on Unix systems in the late seventies, showing that the LinkedIn geniuses were three decades behind everyone else. But that too is a digression for another day.) Reasonable applications would do the same and just keep track of time using the Unix epoch.

No, the more likely cause is probably over-reliance on a single datacenter that did not survive a storm: http://m.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/real-clouds-crush-amazon/
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