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POPSRadical Islamism - Nuisance or Existential Threat? Every political decision from the Iraq war appropriation vote this week, to the Patriot Act, to the status of Guantanamo prison, to NSA intercepts, to the presidential election is seen through our conceptual squint of the threat or non-threat from radical Islam.
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POPSThe Price of Freedom without Self-Restraint Once upon a time (the"the bad old days" to some), life was slower paced, news was mostly local, parents and public schools could and did discipline, students were expected to learn - and they did, people felt safe - some left doors unlocked, people felt obliged to behave decently and held each other to account when necessary. Then August 1968 exploded and everything started to change.
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POPSThe Human Price of Justice Wealth is no defense to public ruin. Draining all their savings and putting them in debt is an additional injustice resulting from this wrongful prosecution.
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POPSCowards Kick Away Another Piece of America's Soul Blacks, in general, are extremely racist. The biggest racists of all are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Their real game is lying and extortion. I for one am boycotting those cowardly sponsors who pulled out on the truth-dealing cowboy.
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POPSFirebug This is the single most important extension for web developers to have in FireFox.
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POPSIraqi blog: Iraq The Model Iraqis read and watch US media: “Evacuate all houses in the area around the Americans’ base for we shall attack it soon… Those occupiers will soon be gone from this land. Who will protect you then?” These were roughly the words in a leaflet the “mujahideen” distributed in Adhamiya a few days ago.
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POPSSave the Archeological Sites In Iran The magnificent archaeological remains at Pasargad and Persepolis are a testament to the industriousness and grandeur of the ancient Persians. However, their loss is not only confined to Iran and her people. These sites serve as an important historical record about our collective past and the beginnings of civilization with many stories and facts yet to be revealed through further study. The tomb of this great man has been recognized and registered by UNESCO as a holly shrine to humanity.
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POPSLearning to Live with Global Warming Many of the most alarming studies rely on long-range predictions using inherently untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately forecast the weather a week from now.
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POPSHuman Brain in Silicon - the Beginning "On Intelligence" models the neocortex (the especially human layer) as a remarkably adaptable hierarchy that learns patterns of increasing sophistication using the thalamus as a sequencing clock in a manner reminiscent of computer hardware. The Numenta model is called HTM - Hierarchical Temporal Memory. Free software and tools are available for hacker experimentation.
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POPSIndonesia - Bridging Modernity and the Past What's needed ... is for countries like Indonesia and Iraq to find a way to combine effective government with a powerful respect for the rights of the citizen. We need to the emergence of a new kind of people who think in terms of being modern but still relate to the past. Right now, the fundamentalists think they're winning," he once told a friend. "But they're going to wake up one day and realize we beat them.
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