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    Best Practices

    My friend received the following company email... COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT Norwalk Connecticut, May 16, 2005 -- Today's Best Practice Central communication tip comes to you courtesy of a survey of 150 senior U.S. executives. According to the executives, the 10 cliches that you don't want...
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    Can Free Will and God exsist?

    The jesus story was simply the first one that popped into my head when I was reading the thread. The same argument can be used with the story of noah that uses god, not jesus.
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    Can Free Will and God exsist?

    From the link it states that the argument is ONLY valid for passive foreknowledge and that the demise of free will would only logically come if God made His knowledge public in regard to the free will choice of individuals; this would therefore alter future free will, and make it an obligation...
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    Ethics Question

    Although moral relativism is in vogue nowadays does not mean that it is only moral theory. Nor does all of ethics boil down to relativism vs objectivism, there are several prevailing theories. However, there are many logical holes in relativism. Morality can easily be argued to be...
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    So why haven't hackers cracked IE's 128bit encryption yet?

    Actually, they recently have broken the 128 bit encryption that is used in SSL. Techworld
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    POLL: A trick energy usage question

    You should lower the temperatue while away. So says the U.S. Dept of Energy: Link
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    The impossibility of a Fair Tax

    The price of a good should already be set to acheive maximum profits w/o regard to taxes. Profits = Quantity of good sold x Price of the good - expenses(taxes). Maximum profits assumes that the price of a good is set at the best point to generate the most revenue between price vs quantity...
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    How do you make a program in XP open up in windowed mode?

    Just go to the program you want, go to properties and add -windowed at the end of the filepath.
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    On the interpretation of events

    The reverse could be said as well. That life with religion is easy and thoughtless, you mindlessly follow the doctrine placed before you by your religion of choice. Whereas without religion you have to face the uncertainty of life without using religion as a psychological 'safety net'.
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    Is is possible to be a member of PETA and pro choice at the same time?

    Where am I saying a 2-3 month old fetus is capable of rational thought? I was simply countering an argument that animals are morally superior to humans by virtue of innocence. My argument simply states an animal is amoral, or without any morals. It neither states nor implies anything else.
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    Is is possible to be a member of PETA and pro choice at the same time?

    Animals are incapable of rational thought. Only those who are capable for rational thought can be responsible for their actions Morality is the concern with the distinction between right and wrong Since animals are incapable of rational thought they are not concerned with any such...
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    Win not recognizing memory!

    So I just built my new machine, athlon 64 (939) 3000+ OC to 2.4 Ghz. I have a 512 stick of memory that winXP is only recognizing as 256. I checked the stick and every other diagnostic I run shows it as at 512. Any ideas why windows is only recognizing it at 256?