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by gamerates 17y ago
Well, the key is to order all of your magazines online so that they cost next to nothing. New Yorker: Have for years, love the urban feel and the mix of arts & politics and 10,000+ word articles on very strange things. Most importantly,
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by gamerates 17y ago
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/12/14/111101/how-much-a... FT: And before you start nitpicking the numbers, a word of warning from the study: "Our Social Return on Investment analysis is not just an intellectual exercise – it has big
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by gamerates 17y ago
Well you can "borrow from the Fed" but you are right that it is different from the federal funds rate. You can borrow from the Fed at the discount window which traditionally is about a point higher than the federal funds rate (and as such o
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by gamerates 17y ago
If you are looking for a great QFG remake: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html The KQII remake (new animation/storyboard, new story, voice over pack) is probably one of my favorite games of all time.
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by gamerates 17y ago
I grew up on adventure games like this. Making them semi-multiplayer is a really cool idea. It reminded me of an adventure game MMO that's been in development forever ( http://www.blackmasquegames.info/ ).
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Digital Nomads Ditch Cubicles for Shared Spaces, Choosing Their Coworkers(washingtonpost.com)
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Entrepreneurs Win Tax Case Versus IRS(online.wsj.com)
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by gamerates 17y ago
I covered this a bit on the GameRates blog today( http://www.gamerates.com/posts/show/global_recession__virtua... ). With Eve these matters are a bit confusing as you can "role-play" a morally bankrupt character or a thief and such behavior
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by gamerates 17y ago
I got my Kinesis on Ebay for between $100-200 a about four years ago. It's a joy to type on and probably one of the best investments I've made. The second probably being the Steelcase Leap chair I got ( http://www.steelcase.com/na/leap_prod
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by gamerates 17y ago
The business school isn't too shabby either http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=7870 :)
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by gamerates 17y ago
For some Harrison Bergeron, for others John Rawls Theory of Justice. Sort of dystopian/utopian sides of a similar coin. A strong public education system is suppose to minimize the differences in upbringing (by helping those without a strong
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by gamerates 17y ago
Well of course "fair" is a normative question, but it is one that there are usually some common themes about. For example the "equal opportunity" American ideal doesn't match up if the greatest predictor of your economic success is not your
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by gamerates 18y ago
As far as combining size/importance; maybe something like newsmap: http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm
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by gamerates 18y ago
Understandable, that's why there is the debate about teaching kids about condoms in school. Does teaching them about sex education and condom usage undermine the argument that you shouldn't have sex? I feel like at least here we can look at
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by gamerates 18y ago
"Sex-Negative" is a term sociologist/anthropologists often use to describe different societies. I picked the term up from reading some of Helen Fisher's talks/papers about sex and romantic love ( http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/helen_
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by gamerates 18y ago
There's often a disconnect between the "catholic viewpoint" and the tones and reality that the theological doctrine is actually preached. Historically, Catholicism has not had a very positive outlook on human sexuality. Sex is great, but on
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by gamerates 18y ago
If they are going to commit suicide, I'd of course try to convince them not to and provide them all the help they can get. It's not really a proper analogy as there is a healthier way to have sex (even if you think it is immoral) and it's h
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by gamerates 18y ago
Newsflash: "Almost all Americans have sex before marrying, according to premarital sex research that shows such behavior is the norm in the U.S. and has been for the past 50 years. The new study shows that by age 20, 75% of Americans have h
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by gamerates 18y ago
Well from someone that has had Brock try to aggressively buy out one of his companies in the past and have talked to him many times before... He's a bit of a well... tool. Actually many of my experiences with Brock and what his company did
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by gamerates 18y ago
Maybe. I currently attend McIntire @ the University of Virginia, a top undergraduate business school ( http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_b... ). The majority of our class majors in finance, and 30% of the recent gra
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by gamerates 18y ago
You need to take into account "trophy" labor markets. These are markets where a large number of people work insane hours and make a great deal of sacrifice all to compete for that big reward at the end. So, although it seems like the people
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by gamerates 18y ago
"Nik Cubrilovic (koo-bree-low-vick) is an Australian-born entrepreneur, technologist, software developer and blogger. Nik is the founder and CEO of Omnidrive, a web content and storage platform. Nik was also the founder of Solutionstap, a t
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by gamerates 18y ago
I do a lot of reading online (one of my fav. sites being: http://www.aldaily.com/ ). I've been searching around for something like this for a while. Something that is easy to read on like the kindle, but can surf the web. Basically what I'
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by gamerates 18y ago
The blog of my startup (Think WSJ News Coverage + Consumer Reports Reviews + Price Comparison + Throw in some nifty charts, all for the virtual gaming currency industry) was covering this today. For a bit of a summary of the case and some
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by gamerates 18y ago
Yep, if you do some background it got a lot of coverage in the Turkish media, so the entire list vote wise got really skewed as far as ranking (the FP team chose who you could vote for, but then it was done the will of the people, or at lea
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by gamerates 18y ago
What happened to Iceland? Haven't they been the current rage recently as far as the "happiest" country on earth? There is actually a really interesting article about why Iceland ranked so high that makes some nice comments about the evolvin
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by gamerates 18y ago
I wish people would talk about "people" instead of senseless "generational" gaps. Although of course you are going to be shaped by common experiences of your generation (let's say 9/11, Iraq War, etc. for my generation) and the social (gay