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Aug 29, 2007 at 09:48 AM |
One in four women would consider having sex with another woman according to a new online survey of the nation’s female sex lives.
Ninety-one per cent of the women questioned described themselves as either heterosexual or straight in the survey, but 26 per cent admitted that they would consider having sex with a women, or that they had fantasised about it.
Of more than 200 women questioned in the survey, conducted by lesbian personals site GaydarGirls.com, seven per cent admitted they had had sex with another woman.
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Aug 08, 2007 at 09:32 PM |
The Past. In 1882, with 2 associates, newspaperman Charles Henry Dow founded Dow Jones and Company, Inc., a news agency for the financial world. Seven years later, the company published the 1st issue of The Wall Street Journal, which was then a mere collection of bulletins of news affecting business.
In 1901, The Wall Street Journal was bought from Dow by Clarence Walker Barrow, a portly, friendly, hardworking newspaperman. He was a specialist in economic journalism, and he took the little financial newssheet far beyond its beginnings. Under his leadership, the Journal published stories to explain the facts behind statistics and formal statements so that the nonexpert could understand them.
In 1939, The Wall Street Journal submitted a series attacking outmoded building codes to the Pulitzer Prize board. The board returned the material, saying that "trade papers are not eligible for consideration." It outgrew its classification as a trade paper and won its 1st Pulitzer Prize in 1947. Since then, it has won several Pulitzer Prizes.
From 1940 to 1970, the paper's circulation grew from 35,000 to more than a million.
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Aug 02, 2007 at 02:03 PM |
For all of you who have ever been involved in an online debate in any way, Arthur Schopenhauer’s “38 Ways To Win An Argument” is indispensable. Most of these techniques will seem familiar to you, right from questioning the motive of a person making the argument instead of the argument itself (No. 35), exaggerating the propositions stated by the other person (No. 1) , misrepresenting the other person’s words (No. 2) and attacking a straw man instead (No. 3).
It’s a full handbook of intellectual dishonesty there. Indeed, I generally avoid online debates because they inevitably degenerate to No. 38.
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May 22, 2007 at 07:37 PM |
PiHKAL is a 1991 book by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about psychedelic phenethylamines. The full title of the book is Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved: A Chemical Love Story. The book is widely regarded as pioneering in the field, and is a respected work on the subject.
The book is arranged in two parts. The first part is a fictionalized autobiography of the couple. The second part contains detailed synthesis instructions for over 200 psychedelic compounds (most of which Shulgin personally invented), including dosages, subjective experiences, and other commentary.
Shulgin's choices of synthesis procedures in the second half of the book are themselves perhaps a small act of subversion: While the reactions are beyond the ability of people with no chemistry education, they tend to emphasize techniques that do not require difficult to obtain chemicals. Notable among these are the use of mercury-aluminum amalgam (an unusual but easy to obtain reagent) as a reducing agent and detailed suggestions on legal plant sources of important drug precursors such as safrole.
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May 21, 2007 at 06:49 AM |
Compiler construction brings together techniques from disparate parts of Computer Science. The compiler deals with many big-picture issues. At its simplest, a compiler is just a computer program that takes as input one potentially executable program and produces as output another, related, potentially executable program. As part of this translation, the compiler must perform syntax analysis to determine if the input program is valid.
To map that input program onto the finite resources of a target computer, the compiler must manipulate several distinct name spaces, allocate several different kinds of resources, and synchronize the behavior of different run-time components. For the output program to have reasonable performance, it must manage hardware latencies in functional units, predict the flow of execution and the demand for memory, and reason about the independence and dependence of different machine-level operations in the program.
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