Electoral commision, Tamarins, Ruby

Electoral commision has declared this is illegal humour


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This week on CounterSpin: Coverage of the Honduran coup ousting president Manuel Zelaya has often included the claim that the coup was prompted by Zelaya’s move to change th
ork University history professor Greg Grandin about the real reasons certain parts of Honduran society wanted Zelaya out of the picture.
..non binding referendum nothing to do with term limits...

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"managed austerity" - a much better term than my phase"universal poverty"
energy shortage leads to metals shortage???

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Not just 2yr old humans...
When tamarins were exposed to words that "broke" the rules they had learned, they looked toward the speaker in a startled manner, observers noted.

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baby squid
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princeton


Drosophila embryonic neuro
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Contemplating altruism:
note that this can lead to insanity:
vs: the buddy of Bill Hamilton who contributed (amateur ) valuable equations of cooperation, then gave his inheritance to homeless bums, then killed self.
Nash himself was famously crazy.
In the early 90s I read in PNAS a 2d model of co-operation colour coded it looked something like a Turkish carpet. Islands of cheaters in a sea of co-operation, could be isolated and swamped by consistent cooperators.
A whole place-time algebra required.

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Ruby on Rails
is this the nbt?

DRY dont repeat yourself
A simple ruby web server (WEBrick) and Rake
. Mongrel is generally preferred over WEBrick
Apache is a great full-featured web server, but for highly traffic nginx seems to consistently deliver better throughput at lower memory use.

I wanted a language more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python.

rubycentral
net
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I got Ubuntu booted on my recalcitrant Vista laptop only to find that Ubuntu still doesnt do NTFS you have to load some extra software which is not guaranteed safe...
A look at Ruby reveals a fascination with reg-expressions and string manipulations.

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