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| SatelliteDan: < zanshin: <Jim Bartle: So the Saints benefit <for the second straight game> from one of the greatest QBs of all time throwing an absurd interception in the final minutes.>
And intercepted by the same cornerback (Tracy Porter).>
Maybe watching game vid's and picture's as well., Well done. |
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| SatelliteDan: Why do smart people jump to conclutions? |
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| SatelliteDan: btw, whole new subject! Sorry..<:() |
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| NakoSonorense: According to a poll, one fifth of adults prefer a pet over a partner on Valentine's Day. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100208... What's next, a Japanese man marrying an anime video game character??? |
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| Hovik2009: among all nations I have been in contact with, Japenese are among the coolest of all |
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| SatelliteDan: <Hovik2009: among all nations I have been in contact with, Japenese are among the coolest of all>
Of all people, the ones I would rather work with,overall. |
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| ooda: Can someone please tell me who the confirmed qualifiers for the 2010 world candidates tournament are? I think there's one place remaining (apart from the wildcard) how and when will this be decided?
I did try googling this but couldn't find anything. |
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| kormier: the who 1/2 time show, reaching the over 40 years old guys, the csi theme was on and the light were on too, from what i remembered i think the tempo(music speed) could have make it a little + but it was still quite impressive comming from these guys, .....tks |
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| Deus Ex Alekhina: The Who must have loaded up on Geritol & prune juice. |
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| kormier: There's little question that neither China nor the U.S. wants to be dependent on the other. China's rhetoric of late is proof, and you could easily demonstrate the same attitude coming from Americans. But each country has tied its economy to the other, and buyer's remorse notwithstanding, there is no immediate exit from this relationship. It remains a source of stability and prosperity for both countries. Two decades ago, China cast its lot with the United States, and until recently, that has brought it affluence. Now that things have gotten difficult, the Chinese want out. But when the heady intoxication of these weeks wears off, they will find that they have nowhere else to go. One day, perhaps, but not today.
Karabell is the author of Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It (Simon & Schuster 2009) and president of River Twice Research (rivertwice.com) See the best pictures of 2009.
See 25 people who mattered in 2009.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/arti... google-world news |
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| kormier: Q: Just how do investors bet against these countries?
A: They do so through credit-default swaps, which are exotic insurance-like financial instruments that signal how investors view the risk of any particular country's debt. As part of prudent management of the risks they're assuming, big investors that buy a country's bonds also buy these swaps as protection against default. Investors with no underlying stake in the bonds, however, can also buy swaps and bet against a country. If investors think a country is financially weak, the cost of insuring the purchase of its bonds goes up, and this also influences the return investors will demand in exchange for assuming the risk of buying a country's bonds. Q: Why do these swaps sound familiar?
A: They're the same instruments that helped amplify the near-meltdown of the U.S. financial system in September 2008 . Investors bet against the bonds of investment banks Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers , the insurer American International Group and others. yahoo top news |
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| laskersteinitz: <ooda: Can someone please tell me who the confirmed qualifiers for the 2010 world candidates tournament are? I think there's one place remaining (apart from the wildcard) how and when will this be decided? I did try googling this but couldn't find anything.> Please take a look at my profile for the answer. |
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| Travis Bickle: <SatelliteDan: Why do smart people jump to conclutions?> What assumptions did you make that led you to conclude they were smart people? |
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| kormier: By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer Jamey Keaten, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 40 mins ago PARIS – France has agreed to sell Russia an advanced amphibious warship and is considering a Russian request for three more, French defense officials said Monday. It would be the first major arms deal between Russia and a NATO member.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy approved the sale of one of the Mistral-class force projection and command vessels after months of discussions. Since then, Russian naval officials requested three more, said Jacques de Lajugie, head of international development at the French arms agency DGA. He said the new request came not at the "political level" but from the Russian navy. Possessing a Mistral-class ship, which can carry 16 attack helicopters and dozens of armored vehicles, would significantly increase the Russian military's ability to launch offensives. France sent the Mistral, which weighs 23,700 tons (21,500 metric tons) and is 980 feet (299 meters) long, to visit St. Petersburg last year in a clear sign of interest in a potential sale. yahoo top news |
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| HeMateMe: No Canadians, huh? I thought they might want to weigh in on the upcoming <Vancouver olympics>. As a kid, i enjoyned the summer olympics in Montreal very much. It was...Nadia! and the amazing american boxing team that had, I think, 7 medalists, and Teofilo Stevenson, Bruce Jenner, Edwin Moses, Alberto Jauntorena, et. al. And, the american women swimmers were introduced to the GDR swimmers who were doing male hormones, had deeper voices than James Earl Jones, and muscles like Hulk Hogan. |
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| technical draw: <Why do smart people jump to conclutions?> <among all nations I have been in contact with, Japenese are among the coolest of all> Spelling challenged smart Japanese that jump to conclusions are the coolest of them all. |
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| chessgames.com: We were just offline for over an hour due to human error. Our sincere apologies, and know that the issue is now fully resolved. |
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| kormier: Times has discovered that Mr. Pachauri's own Energy and Resources Unit, based in New Delhi, has collected millions in grants to study the effects of glacial melting – all on the strength of that bogus glacier claim, which happens to have been endorsed by the same scientist who now runs the unit that got the money. Even so, the IPCC chief is hanging tough. He insists the attacks on him are being orchestrated by companies facing lower profits. Until now, anyone who questioned the credibility of the IPCC was labelled as a climate skeptic, or worse. But many climate scientists now sense a sinking ship, and they're bailing out. Among them is Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria who acknowledges that the climate body has crossed the line into advocacy. Even Britain's Greenpeace has called for Mr. Pachauri's resignation. <India says it will establish its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the IPCC>. |
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| PinnedPiece: <CG.com>
While you were off I posted my best, most brilliant kibitz ever, tying together chess, world politics, and human nature in a novel and inspirational way. Just now I can't remember exactly how it went, though. Guess its lost. . |
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| HeMateMe: maybe its the whole inernet. My connections are running very slowly. |
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| blazerdoodle: <Travis>
mellow might not be the right word. L. |
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| Travis Bickle: <blazerdoodle> I wanted to write a Jethro Tull "accoustic" set but one of the songs had an electric guitar in it, so I changed it to mellow. Is that ok with you Boss? |
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| BishopofBlunder: <chessgames.com: We were just offline for over an hour due to human error. Our sincere apologies, and know that the issue is now fully resolved.> Well, I just hope the person responsible has been sacked. |
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| NakoSonorense: I suggest another punishment: give him 10 Sunday puzzles and force him to solve them from beginning to end without the use of a computer. |
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| kormier: <PinnedPiece> i really hope you remember: <While you were off I posted my best, most brilliant kibitz ever, tying together chess, world politics, and human nature in a novel and inspirational way>....even if it would be parts it's worth that you post!.....tks |
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