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Very important testimony from Somalian Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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From his new book Brink Lindsey on prosperity and libertarianism
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Pay attention to Fred Smith letter.
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I agree
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Don’t come later crying because companies outsource outside of the US.
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I think # 1 is the answer.
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Just the kind of thing I need, I always wonder why there are electric thermal blankets, and not cooler blankets, this is must for the summer
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This is a very useful tip to test your website on phones or bypass censorship at your offices.
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I have seen a prerelease is awesome. I highly recommend it.
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Creative marketing indeed for the book.
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Got to be careful when updating facebook.
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In my country we will call him Sapo!!!
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Privacy advocates say flap over Real ID Act requirements was the last straw for a bill to overhaul immigration laws.
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I see the I phone coming to my office, opps…
Archive for June, 2007
links for 2007-06-30
In Uncategorized on June 30, 2007 at 1:21 amlinks for 2007-06-29
In Uncategorized on June 29, 2007 at 1:24 am-
One of the consecuences of the war on drugs
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The wonders of socialized health care.
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Interesting.
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Big brother is going to be watching us very soon.
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How shortsighded are the protectionists, free trade for all, no restrictions.
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The revolution will not be televised it will be seen on YouTube.
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Powerpoint reevaluated on its 20 anniversary.
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New Masters program on Austrian economics organized by Juan de Mariana Institute
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This is a surprise.
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A transition not so smooth.
links for 2007-06-28
In Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 at 1:23 am-
I have seen a few of these.
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Well that is the reason why we need to promote not only democracy but economic freedom and growth.
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The house is on fire and the chief is on denial.
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But why people can’t remember when they were babies.
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Tell this to an antimigrant conservative.
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Too bad that I missed it.. it was last weekend according to the link
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Google goes to Africa.
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My country is definitevely funny.
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Opps, better stop drinking soda at all.
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Uhm, what’s next?
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Finally I need one of this urgently.
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And I thought that this was a problem that only happened in Manabi
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I will have to try this.
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Worth seeing it.
links for 2007-06-27
In Uncategorized on June 27, 2007 at 1:22 am-
Very nice Photoblog of Quito
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I know someone like this…reality is stranger than fiction.
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Funny mistakes in donor events.
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Even the countries that have huge emigration find benefit in being open to inmigrants.
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Why is immigration immigreat? Post your video responses for the chance to win and immigreat tee and other sweet swag. See link for more details.
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Jeffersonians agains Hamiltonians.
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Very funny.
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And I thought that Spain was a backward country regarding the use of technology.
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And I thought that just staying on the sand was the safest thing.
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The importance of not only respecting people’s diverse culture, but of having a unifiying culture.
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It seems that global warming is the result of fat people getting fatter.
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Very cool machine, but even cooler is that the guy on the video is a friend of mine, Xavier Vidal.
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Why Microsoft decided to backpedal on virtualization for cheaper Vista versions.
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Sounds like a nice project to do with my son.
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Nice to check your typing speed.
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I have one of those, but producing the receipt is going to be impossible. What do they expect that you keep your receipts for 10 years?
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So it seems that the web2.0, did not really erased social classes.
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This is classic problem with inflation, the actual metal is worth more than the coins, thus the coins dissapear and the metal is used for other purposes, classic economics 101.
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A must read.
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Why the GOP is loosing more by not supporting inmigration reform
links for 2007-06-26
In Uncategorized on June 26, 2007 at 1:21 amlinks for 2007-06-25
In Uncategorized on June 25, 2007 at 1:21 am-
Genial!!!!
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How the rich live in an era of globalization and democratization of certain things that we considered luxury before and now have become regular stuff for the people.
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A charred bib with Elmo’s face on it is on the driveway. A melted toaster hangs out of what was once a kitchen wall. The stench of charred plastic lingers even a month after an early morning fire burned a Bristow home to the ground.
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Could an elimination or reduction of entitlements make our country even more attractive while at the same time removing some of the economic incentives for xenophobia? I think so, but that reduction has to be general not limited to inmigrants.
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Sarkski the mercantilist.
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The best security tool, don’t use email. Thanks for the recommendation
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Ecuador is the antipodes of Singapur. Now we have the Geographical evidence that Ecuador is not only the political and economical antipodes of Singapur.
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Uhm very good trick.
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Why private law should be above public law.
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Meet the Rasputin of the Bush administration.
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At 2 years old, Lanah Boissy has perfected the art of linguistic one-upmanship. Perched in a highchair at dinnertime in Sterling, she will say something in Farsi, wait for a look of bafflement from her Senegal-born parents and dissolve into giggles when t
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Happy birthday frisbee
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Good advise
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Punishment for prosecutorial misconduct is so rare, Michael B. Nifong’s demise is a surprise.
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I disagree with Oppenheimer, I actually think is good to decrease assistance, but the US should increase trade and get rid of commerce barriers.
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Interesting story it shows the hipocracy of some antiinmigrants among Republicans.
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A good excuse to visit Tenesse
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Storyteller, Mario Vargas Llosa is interviewed by WSJ.
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Arosemena reviews the last Osvaldo Hurtado book that tries to find an answer to Ecuador’s underdevelopment in Ecuadorean culture.
links for 2007-06-24
In Uncategorized on June 24, 2007 at 1:21 am-
This is the best hack out of the list of 10 hacks.
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Harsh words or Lech Walesa for Chavez.
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Who is going to win the battle?
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I have had a totally different experience, I never sign the credit card and I think is better to get rid of it and use instead a Pin in conjunction with the card. At least they can not steal what you have in your mind.
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I will have to give it a try.
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What I found interesting is the story at the link of Vallejo.
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I do believe that private companies have the right to protect themselves from being photographed, but that place is public, moreover it was subsidized by public money, so there is no reason to prohibit the pictures.
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A lone gone profession in my hometown too.
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I don’t understand him either.
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More on the same issue bookmarked before.
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Another reason to ditch this agency.
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Uhm, less toys definitively.
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Complete site about credit cards from the Federal Reserve.
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Uhm, how long will it take software companies to send letters or cancel licenses for companies that are careless?
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Interesting, I was not aware that you could download PDF’s on itunes.
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If you don’t like to bathe and you want a compelling reason to do it, use the bacon soap, here the instructions on how to make it.
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Interesting concept finally recording houses are figuring out how to give more value added in order to keep the flow of money coming. It doesn’t matter how much the music cost (or the USB BTW), but certainly it gives you more incentives to shell out the
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Finally let’s check the facts and see what really happened.
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The end of the dinosaurs, on the internet.
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One of the top promoters of the free culture is moving to a different arena. How will he fight corruption?
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Egypt, Jordan, the Saudis–and Palestine.
links for 2007-06-23
In Uncategorized on June 23, 2007 at 1:21 am-
Interesting interview.
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The next Bill Gates.
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This prooves that Guayaquil is a small town in which everybody knows and its related to everybody.
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Not a bad business to stay for 23 days in jail for a million dollars. Maybe the judges should rule that whatever money you earn while in jail gets confiscated.
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Interesting
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The trash king of Guayaquil, entepreneurship to solve the problems of the city.
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Ups the left is coming in Guatemala too.
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My wife agrees with the fashion blogger that the use of this crocs with black socks are on itself good grounding for impeachment.
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Montaner ponders on the recent death of Raul Castro’s wife Vilma, and how would that play in the post Castro Cuba.
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Good point.
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Run Windows Vista, Office 2007 Together Without Installation at Digital Inspiration Technology GuideVery useful, I was thinking in repartioning my hard disk to run it side by side, but now I am going to try this.
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Interesting Google by way of supporting free trade are supporting free speech. Free speech is after all a good business practice.
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Too lazy or too scared to switch to linux? Make your windows look like Ubuntu instead.
links for 2007-06-22
In Uncategorized on June 22, 2007 at 1:22 am-
Very handy..
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The first or the oldest victim of the Spanish conquest of Peru.
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The vatican has issued the 10 commandments for driving. Are they set on stone?
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It might surprise you what is under your keys.
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Mart Laar on the Russian attemps to curtail those countries breaking from the Russian sphere of influence.
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Impressing.
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Very useful for cartoon fans.
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Interesting review of Mario Vargas Llosa “La tentacion de lo imposible”. Too bad that is gated the article.
links for 2007-06-21
In Uncategorized on June 21, 2007 at 1:21 am-
That is the real question, en que Momento se jodió Ecuador?, reflections on the current visit to Ecuador by Mario Vargas Llosa.
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24 shapping the judicial debate in the US, WTF?
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What is the purpose of this entangled turns?
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I wonder if they can come clean like Dell and issue some sort of apology.
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Interesting, but I found that the company I work with has a listing already to a phone number and Google takes 4 weeks to update the entry.
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I tried this tool, I am blocked of course, but guess who is not blocked? Granma.cu…. Even the oficial mouthpiece of Chinese government in english, is blocked to Chinese users.
links for 2007-06-20
In Uncategorized on June 20, 2007 at 1:22 am-
I think it is Chavez or one of Saudi King…
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There is hope…
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The mystery continues.
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Believe it or not.
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Why Slim fortunes are not trully the result of a free market economy and recent changes in Mexican legislation is going to address those issues.
links for 2007-06-19
In Uncategorized on June 19, 2007 at 1:22 am-
Is there a difference? I thought that bad capitalism, was not capitalism at all.
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Some people’s Avatars are not exactly like the real person.
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Be careful with those online greeting cards, they can be a door for trojans or spyware.
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How magnanimous our dear President
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A very good analysis of the current political fight between Correa and Nebot
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Other nations of inmigrants
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Interesting proposal, very simple too.
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Seems like Argentinean populism is going down.
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Very good marketing makes me want to buy it.
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Blogs that discuss the translations of movies into Spain’s spanish.
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Why jumping the line to enter the US is meaningless.
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Do they know something that we don’t know, or just simple Political correctness.
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I bet is going to be able to handle the load.
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For those who suffer OCD.
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Makes a lot of sense even though I highly dislike Hugo.
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The cult following of the Trabant.
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Always hard, but got to try it.
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What the giant is thinking on regards to public policy.
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I agree somewhat but I am not ready to make the jump as these guys suggest. I am dissapointed at Norton latest versions.
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Little by little but finally all of them start to pass away.
links for 2007-06-18
In Uncategorized on June 18, 2007 at 1:20 am-
Montaner on the latest tour of Bush to Europe and how he is received.
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Where the dolar comes from.
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Tips to avoid the embarasment of not remembering someones name. This happens a lot to me, even with long time friends.
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Inmigration is deporting US citizens, WTF?
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The original article, why the USSR collapsed.
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Troops Are Returning From the Battlefield With Psychological Wounds, But the Mental-Health System That Serves Them Makes Healing Difficult.
links for 2007-06-17
In Uncategorized on June 17, 2007 at 1:23 am-
Interesting animation.
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Por mucho tiempo ha sido la gran paradoja de la diplomacia en las Américas. En teoría, la Organización de Estados Americanos — la organización multilateral política más antigua del mundo, cuyos 34 países miembros son hoy todos democracias — podr
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An you thought you have a bad job…
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Clash of Titans…
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Interesting, check the last one, slide after the salary has been calculated offers a calculator for dads.
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I suffer a lot from #2.
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Very useful.
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This is what I call perseverance.
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What a beauty.
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Done to prevent AIDS? You got to be kidding me.
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Interesting way of earning your degree.
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This is what I call a very stubborn kid.
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Finally the X files team has some work.
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How much it cost to build these structures, they can provide food, but if they cost more to build than what they cost, it just becomes a waste of money.
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Be careful with your screensaver, and allways remember to disable it when doing presentations, otherwise this can happen.
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I am amazed at how easy it is to do it.
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Could this be happening currently to my hometown Guayaquil?
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Very important list of alternative programs that you use in windows if you are considering Linux.
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Is the US so sure that he will not face resistance that he speaks undiplomatically (even if I agree)?
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What kind of entepreneur you are?
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The ancient superpower could teach the U.S. a thing or two about a strong multicultural society.
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I am speechless the future has arrived.
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Born Lomborg on priorities to solve worlds problems.
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Very complete guide.
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it’s easier to imagine the object (the boy) before the action (the hitting), simplicity is the key and english writers excel on that compared to German or even Spanish writers.
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Dell listens to the customers, and sets the record straight on the consumerist post.
links for 2007-06-16
In Uncategorized on June 16, 2007 at 1:21 amlinks for 2007-06-15
In Uncategorized on June 15, 2007 at 1:22 am-
What a long life!!!
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As errepece said oops!!
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the cultural pressure for a middle-class chinese-american to walk, talk and act like a lower-class thug from chinatown is nil. for a middle-class african-american, though, the opposite is true. Sad, sad.
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Thanks errepece, I want one too.
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Ouchh….
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Outrageous, they have nothing better to do.
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The bolivian one is a very interesting concept.
links for 2007-06-14
In Uncategorized on June 14, 2007 at 1:21 am-
Not to forget that the Reagan pushed the Soviet Union into a race arms that made them spend all money left or to consider cutting back on military expenses.
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This is new to me.
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I am usually in favor of the inmigration reform, but somehow I agree with Borjas not all the antiinmigration bill are antihispanics, but we have to recognize that there are some people hiding behind the good antiinmigration bill opponents to hide their ra
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Unbeliavable slavery in the XXI century, another reason for inmigration reform and open borders.
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We will have to start learning chinese
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa ponders on the paradox that dictatorships have better economic results than democracies.
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Interesting.
links for 2007-06-13
In Uncategorized on June 13, 2007 at 1:25 am-
Hopefully Morales is wrong and will die in the process of proving it.
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Reactions on the latest problem with the inmigration bill being killed on the senate floor.
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Some of the ammenities at Google
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Not only he is not able to govern and win a war(that he should have started to begin with) but add to the insult that he is a victim of theft.
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Interesting, but the graphics shown seem not to be that realistic, despite the detail.
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Sounds like the future of email is being carried by Google.
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I am trying it, definetively is faster, but I hate to press ctrl or right click to open things on a new tab.
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That guy must be very bored
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Interesting…
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Seems written by Jaime Rodriguez
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The oldest voice of Ecuador goes mute thanks to censorship.
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The spammers fight back.
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If I could convince my wife…
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Ironies
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You are in deep trouble…
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Technology is being used to deport aliens that have not complied with the deportation order. Too bad that those things are still inaccurate and violate your privacy, so you might end kick out regardless of your current status.
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Ahh the wegdy..
links for 2007-06-12
In Uncategorized on June 12, 2007 at 1:24 am-
Useful run commands
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So it seems that finally we stopped dreaming.
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Stateless, why don’t they return them to where they pick them up. Another casualty of a stupid war. Why don’t the use takes them?
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Open the borders to Iraki refugees at least.
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A follow up on the map that showed up a few months ago with the GDP compared to states. As I thought originally not weighing in the population was a bit misleading, but nonetheless the map was a very powerful image.
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Amity Shlaes makes the case against FDR.
links for 2007-06-11
In Uncategorized on June 11, 2007 at 1:21 am-
The casualties of war, really outraegous, all for a stupid war.
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Or any Latin mother or grandmother.
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A high community school tries to heal its wounds.
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Marginal revolution is attacked by antiinmigration hooligans.
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Cronology of Film in Ecuador 1901-1934
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Do this means that inmigration reform is more difficult now because technology helps bring the anti-inmigrants to the debate?
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No big surprises at the Sopranos finale
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21 year old looks for his birthmother and makes a documentary out of it.
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Teaching Your Child to Read
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Misfortunes for some are gains for others
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Come on Google, stop the legal fight win the market don’t resort to a legal battle.
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Arosemena’s take on the Pativideos Crime
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Why Brazil behaves like it behaves.
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Mario Vargas Llosa complains against the scandalous journalism. He is outraged by the Bolocco photos, being more important than current affairs in serious press.
links for 2007-06-10
In Uncategorized on June 10, 2007 at 1:21 am-
Ecuador’s proposal to not develop Yasuní is praised.
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Let’s see if he listens as he says I doub it.
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Nuns for beer, drink more beer.
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Thanks to the Republican foolishness.
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It really is but why the stores are not coming?
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Music from my country.
In Uncategorized on June 10, 2007 at 12:58 am
La muerte de Julio Jaramillo
Narrada por Fernando Artieda
In Uncategorized on June 9, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Guajira a Guayaquil
Napolitano pays tribute to Guayaquil.
links for 2007-06-09
In Uncategorized on June 9, 2007 at 1:21 am-
The bionic woman is coming back.
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Great resource if you were interested in UBUNTU.
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El Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez ha cumplido su amenaza y se ha negado a renovar la licencia de la disidente Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), silenciándola por apoyar el corto golpe de estado en su contra en 2002. Mientras otras estaciones privad
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Nature seems to be more resilient than we think.
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Celebrate telling jokes. I love his jokes.
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But you are making inmigrants second class citizens by not allowing them to be treated equally against the law. Racial preferences should be abolished but you could not ban certain groups from it. Its all or nothing.
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Would these protest be the tipping point to get rid of Chavez?
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Too bad I just found this, would have been perfect for my wife. We just got rid of the stroller now my son has to walk, not strollers.
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I have to start wearing the thin foil hat.
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Very useful for barbecues.
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Sorry Paris, the law is for everyone. Good thing that the judge upheld his decision.
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I agree with Danny this is theft and nothing else. Private solidarity is good, public solidarity carried on by the government is theft.
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Madonna does blogging, I wonder if this is real done by herself or she hires a ghost blogger – Pr firm to fill the content.
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Freedom makes women happier, but also make them bossier towards men. If you don’t believe talk to the dutch.
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I have seen one of those gossip magazines saying that Dubya is out of control doing booze all the time. This is the proof, as a supposedly recovered alcoholic he should not even try alcohol. If he is drinking it means that he is not any more in control
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This is funny one of the most important advocates of tort reform, is using the current tort laws to sue for an accident that he had. Good thing that he never was able to convince people to go ahead with his tort reform proposals.
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This is disgusting, Guantanamo has to close.
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I knew it, the minute they said yes I do, sex diminishes almost completely.
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No meetings? I need to move to that office.
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This is what I call principles coherence, Ron Paul for President.
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This is the best tip ever, I use laundry detergent like Coca Cola.
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How do you like your computer? Rare, medium rare, Done, Well done?
links for 2007-06-08
In Uncategorized on June 8, 2007 at 1:22 am-
Problems for TAIWAN?
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Borjas in support of Heritage
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A westener telling Africans what to do…
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Influential Movies: Flicks Your Kids Must See
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Just the thought of someone who was probably witness to the Spanish American War is chiling. I hope that if I live that long, I am visited by Iris Chacón or someone like that in the future.
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How people of the world eat and how much they spend.
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Seems like Facebook is the most recent social networking fad.
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Can you not get infected by TB on an airplane? Seems like the best seat to seat is the middle row on a wide cabin plane.
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Poor Paris nobody gives her a break.
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Seems like Taiwan is loosing the battle, maybe its time to talk to China.
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Cowards that’s what they are.
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The end of the oldes newspaper of Ecuador.
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Not so funny, biased at best, I am libertarian and I am not rich.
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The ride must be a little bumpy.
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Vintage style LCD monitor
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In a day like this in 1929, the Holy see became a soverign state.
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Expected!! In the meantime keep the party going on. The Democrats are also to blame, since they kept throwing wrenches to the law.
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The advantages of becoming citizens.
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Funny but book publishes don’t understand the new techonologies.
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Makes a lot of sense.
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A new left for France, interesting. Sounds like a Chilean left, (the current one, not the pre 1973 one).
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Hollowed out by arrogance, corruption and a bloated military, the greatest empire the world has ever known fell. Is America doomed to follow in its footsteps? I think so.
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A profile of Robert Murdoch
links for 2007-06-07
In Uncategorized on June 7, 2007 at 1:29 am-
Entrevista Chafuen
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Paulo Coelho discovers P2P and does not likes what he sees.
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Is he in favour of it? WTF?
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Love story in 3 acts, very funny.
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This is a real comparison of Itunes musical formats, the old DRM included and the non DRM, better grab some high quality earphones to notice the real difference.
links for 2007-06-06
In Uncategorized on June 6, 2007 at 1:21 am-
Some insight into what is happening in Cuba
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I don’t agree with this ecoalarmists, but their latest publicity stunt using a Noah’s ark is very smart.
links for 2007-06-05
In Uncategorized on June 5, 2007 at 1:23 am-
The ambitious immigration overhaul package that Congress is studying has drawn criticism from conservatives who say it offers amnesty to lawbreakers, and from immigration advocates who say it will not do enough to bring millions of people out of the shado
links for 2007-06-04
In Uncategorized on June 4, 2007 at 1:21 am-
It is or not?
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BTW I read that they have not done it in the last 30 years. They keep practicing just in case with monkey heads, but who knows.
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Poor Paris, a little reality check.
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Analysis of why men leave the toilet seat up and not down.
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BTW there was a week ago or so a special on PBS about her story.
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Liberation theology coming back?
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Very funny, I think this kids suffer from Hypochondriasis
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Otherwise they would be replaced by a competitor. This is their secret sauce.
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Interesting.
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Nice way of promoting your own brand.
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Not only in our hometown…
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How is an AK-47 like a QWERTY keyboard?
links for 2007-06-03
In Uncategorized on June 3, 2007 at 1:20 am-
Just in case to see what you have in your own file. Maybe that’s the reason why you don’t get the job you want.
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Useful for your family in case you pass away.
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Tyler says:In predictive terms, I would expect that near-death experiences make good people better and bad people worse.
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I can’t wait to use one.
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Promises to be a good movie.
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Linda Chavez (not related to the Ugly Chavez) a conservative, exposes the sad racism of some conservative antinmigrants and gets insulted by that.
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Very important to read, specially if you have your blog invaded by barbarians.
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Stop farting if you want to stop global warming.
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Al Gore a terrorist, an ecoterrorist?
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So where it came from?
links for 2007-06-02
In Uncategorized on June 2, 2007 at 1:22 am-
This is how google maps does it.
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From his 17th-floor Seattle apartment overlooking Puget Sound, Robert A. Soloway allegedly ran an illicit network of computers around the world, secretly commandeering the machines of thousands of unsuspecting bystanders. Prosecutors say Internet users wh
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Great idea for shoes.
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Pay attention, the street is named almost like my cousin.
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Yeah I noticed that inmediately, very sneaky, it makes the consumer careful not to share his tracks, but allows him to play it without that pesky 5 computers limit.
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Why he needs 600 servants for a family of 4? I can’t imagine what all these people do.
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The problems that might cause the upcoming reforms being worked out at the senate. No more Eisteins or Beatles allowed to come to stay in America, get in line and wait like everyone else.
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What’s going on in Germany. I have the solution allow inmigration specially of single women to those areas.
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Very sad, never loose sight of your kid.
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Ok, is not wild, but the size it’s just outrageous.
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211 years old?
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The difference between mainstream and mainline economics.
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The story of the stablishment of the standard time in the USA
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Earlier this year, one animated character in Second Life, a popular online fantasy world, allegedly raped another character. Virtual reality getting too real.
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Giuliani might have been good for New York but it is awful for the Republic after the decrepit Bush years.
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The long awaited interview.
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A time to choose their own destiny?
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The oddities of getting your visa.
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Living the lego life.
links for 2007-06-01
In Uncategorized on June 1, 2007 at 1:21 am-
Amazing, no further comments.
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Now I get it, my wife does it on purpose to make do the dishes, very, very sneaky.
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Scary, but I wonder how much are they overreacting?
