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    Canada: Possible fall of government

    An interesting day in the House of Commons. A few years ago, the funding of elections was changed to forbid the contributions of corporations and unions to political parties. To maintain adequate funding, public financing was introduced, to the tune of 1.95 per vote received in the most recent...
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    New budget build replacement for 5 year old Dell

    My going on 6 year old Dell blew a gasket over the weekend, and now its noisy fan is running at full blast; can't fix it through the bios. I was going to purchase a replacement Nexus fan and a fan controller(under $20), but I spec'ed out the replacement parts for a new comp and its cheap enough...
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    War crimes of the Bush administration

    Every now and then on these boards you'll see an outraged member call out for the impeachment of the President. This will be followed by a counterargument that one needs to have committed a crime in order to be impeached, and I certainly agree with a position the impeachers then posit, that...
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    cool pic of a Typhoon

    Would you like some thighs with that sub? Where's Waldo the green bikini. Source, with some more pics if you're into that sort of thing. I also enjoyed the arctic firing one. Too bad they aren't wallpaper size, as I am in the market for an interesting desktop background and the thread...
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    asus a8v deluxe does not detect sole dvd-rw drive

    Here's a clone of my software forum post: I'm installing windows on a friend's comp but have run into a snag. His computer's motherboard, an asus a8v deluxe, does not detect his lone DVD-RW drive, so I cannot put it ahead of the IDE hard drive in the boot order. I'm currently downloading the...
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    installing windows without a cd or floppy

    I'm installing windows on a friend's comp but have run into a snag. His computer's motherboard, an asus a8v deluxe, does not detect his lone DVD-RW drive, so I cannot put it ahead of the IDE hard drive in the boot order. I'm currently downloading the motherboard manual, and will consult to see...
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    You are wrong 2

    I was going to post this in Odin's thread, but it got deleted. All that hard work for naught? For something that changed my thinking, or rather something my mind wrapped itself around, I barely remember it at all. It was probably an article someone wrote, and I only have faint recall of...
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    Behind the Iran enrichment masquerade

    A profound paper I came across the other day; it's the best thing I've read this week. The section on the recent decade long US santions on Iran was eye-opening, as I wasn't completely aware of how drastic an affect they've had nor the implications of that in the big picture. The big picture...
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    The US's geopolitical nightmare

    A long article worth reading; it rounds up some topics that you might want to be aware of. What keeps me from being pessimistic about an Iran strike is that there is a lot more friction slowing down the Bush cult these days than there ever was during the run up to the Iraq war. Hopefully the...
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    America?s Terror-war in Iraq

    A reporter I like and read, Robert Fisk, likes to trot out a comment made to him by an Sunni Iraqi at a funeral he attended on whether there would be a civil war in Iraq, "I'm married to a Shi'ite. You want me to kill my wife? Why do you westerners always want civil war?". His point in bringing...