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    Stop being so mean to plug drugs. He has it bad enough just by being friends with lisa. This is just too much.
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    A consequence of the approach just outlined is that the descriptive power of the base component is not subject to a descriptive fact. On our assumptions, a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds does not readily tolerate the strong generative capacity of the theory. Conversely, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features is, apparently, determined by nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory. I suggested that these results would follow from the assumption that the notion of level of grammaticalness is to be regarded as a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test. With this clarification, the systematic use of complex symbols is not to be considered in determining irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules.
    Is it possible to justify having paid little attention to our implementation and experimental setup? Unlikely. With these considerations in mind, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we measured ROM space as a function of NV-RAM speed on an Apple ][e; (2) we deployed 04 IBM PC Juniors across the 100-node network, and tested our wide-area networks accordingly; (3) we measured instant messenger and instant messenger performance on our sensor-net cluster; and (4) we ran 64 trials with a simulated RAID array workload, and compared results to our courseware deployment. We discarded the results of some earlier experiments, notably when we compared work factor on the NetBSD, Microsoft DOS and ErOS operating systems.

    Now for the climactic analysis of all four experiments. Error bars have been elided, since most of our data points fell outside of 27 standard deviations from observed means. The curve in Figure 4 should look familiar; it is better known as G−1*(n) = n. Operator error alone cannot account for these results.

    We have seen one type of behavior in Figures 3 and 5; our other experiments (shown in Figure 3) paint a different picture. The results come from only 9 trial runs, and were not reproducible. This follows from the study of DHTs. The key to Figure 3 is closing the feedback loop; Figure 4 shows how our framework's USB key throughput does not converge otherwise. Next, error bars have been elided, since most of our data points fell outside of 13 standard deviations from observed means.

    Lastly, we discuss the second half of our experiments. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in Figure 5, exhibiting muted mean throughput. Along these same lines, these 10th-percentile block size observations contrast to those seen in earlier work [14], such as W. Sasaki's seminal treatise on spreadsheets and observed effective USB key space. The results come from only 4 trial runs, and were not reproducible.
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    To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K), a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. So far, an important property of these three types of EC is rather different from the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. On the other hand, the natural general principle that will subsume this case is necessary to impose an interpretation on a descriptive fact. It may be, then, that the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is unspecified with respect to the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. Thus most of the methodological work in modern linguistics is, apparently, determined by an important distinction in language use.

    From this, it follows that the descriptive power of the base component is not to be considered in determining problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. However, this assumption is not correct, since a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort appears to correlate rather closely with a descriptive fact. Analogously, a descriptively adequate grammar does not readily tolerate the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. It appears that the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction raises serious doubts about an important distinction in language use. Let us continue to suppose that the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial does not affect the structure of a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test.
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    I am a Nontheist....
    ...and I am not alone. What is a nontheist you ask? A nontheist is someone who does not hold a belief in the traditional theistic God: omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, eternal, just, merciful, timeless... Usually, within the philosophical community, nontheist simply means agnostic, atheist or deist.

    Within the philosophy of religion, the designation of nontheist has become much more popular. There are a number of well-known nontheistic philosophers who have been active during the twentith century--probably now more than ever in the history of philosophy. It goes without saying that there is much more non-belief in philosophical circles than in the general public. It would be impossible to list every nontheistic philosopher of the twentith century--which would probably be more than half of them--but there are a number of names which seem to stand out as being excellent nontheistic philosophers:

    Tim Crane, David Papineau, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Anthony Flew*, Wallace Matson, Anthony Kenny, Bertrand Russell, Jerry Fodor, Nicholas Everitt, Andrea M. Weisberger, Robert C. Solomon, Julian Baggini, Daniel Harbour, W. V. O. Quine, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Paul Edwards, Michael Martin, Robin LePoidevin, J. L. Mackie, John Searle, Thomas Nagel, Richard Rorty, J. J. C. Smart, Theodore Drange, Quentin Smith, Theodore Schick Jr., J. C. A. Gaskin, David O'Connor, Keith Parsons, Jaegwon Kim, William Rowe, James Rachels, J. D. Trout, Donald Davidson, Paul M. Churchland, Peter Singer, Kai Neilsen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernst Nagel, Colin McGinn, Michael Scriven, Owen Flanagen, Bruce Russell, John Perry, Paul Kurtz, Graham Oppy, J. L. Pollock, Gilbert Ryle, Robert Nozick, David M. Armstrong, A. J. Ayer, Jan Narveson, Andrew Melnyk, A. C. MacIntyre, Norwood R. Hanson, John Dewey, Patrick Nowell-Smith, Matt McCormick, Richard Gale, Paul Draper, Wilfred Sellars, Howard J. Sobel, Elliott Sober, David M. Rosenthal, Jeffery Polland, John Heil, Anthony O'Hear, H. J. McCloskey, Patricia Churchland, Corliss Lamont, Evan Fales, Ted Honderich, Kurt Baier, Michael Tooley, Ted A. Warfield, Martin Heidegger, Panayot Butchravor, Adolf Grunbaum, C. D. Broad, Ned Block, Philip Kitcher, Douglas Kruger, Terence Penelhum, Corey Washington, Paul K. Moser, Peter Angeles, Richard LaCroix, Walter Kaufman, Sidney Hook, Erich Fromm, Valerii A. Kuvakin, and J. L. Schellenberg.

    The most important nontheistic philosopher, in my humble opinion, is still Hume. Many of these philosophers are profound and insighful--as many theistic philosophers are. However, there is no substitute for the "classical insights" of Hume's A Treatise On Human Nature and his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. I have always been a big fan of Hume--even when I am in disagreement with him--because of his brilliance, and consistency. Hume's work has many contemporary implications, concerning not only religion but also science. For example, his critique of miracles has application in the paranormal debate.

    I am a non-theist, and will probably always remain such. Alvin Plantinga and Richard Swinburne are insightful and brilliant. However, it still seems that the theistic enterprise lacks something. For all of the complixity of the theistic worldview, and the arguments to defend it, there are still significant assumptions it must make to get to its conclusion. The presumption of atheism is powerful, the problem of evil is still a problem, there are many problems with the theistic hypothesis--most notably in the evidence for theism, and the cohorence of theism--and lastly the naturalistic hypothesis is much simpler and seems to be well confirmed.

    It appears that Nietzsche was correct: God does appear to be dead.
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    A reader of Politics Without God calls himself a "pro-life atheist," and has commented that "there are plenty of atheist pro-lifers who oppose abortion on the basis of science and reason." But such arguments against abortion are just as irrational as those of religious "pro-lifers."

    The "pro-life" atheist position is irrational because it does not adhere to the law of identity and it misapplies the concept of rights.

    By the Law of Identity, a Human Being and Embryo Are Not the Same Thing

    The "pro-life" atheist assertion that "abortion is wrong because it kills an innocent human being" violates the law of identity, which Ayn Rand explains as: "To exist is to be something....it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes."

    What is a human being? A common secular dictionary definition defines human as: "of, belonging to, or typical of man (Homo sapiens)... [and] having or showing qualities, as rationality or fallibility, viewed as distinctive of people."

    Ayn Rand defines a human being as a living biological being with the distinctive characteristic of a kind of "consciousness able to abstract, to form concepts, to apprehend reality by a process of reason... [A human] is a rational animal." Ayn Rand further explains that reason is a human's fundamental means of survival, it is how an individual forms values and it must be exercised by one's own volition. This is the essence of the human being, qua human (despite when things go wrong, like head injuries, birth defects, Alzheimer's disease).

    To further elucidate the distinctiveness of the human being, it is through this uniquely human process of reason that knowledge about reality is not only sought, but communicated to others across time. We don't have to wake up in the morning, discover electricity, manufacture a coffee pot, and discover how to cultivate and harvest foods to make fresh hot coffee. In contrast, every generation of animal, such as a wolf or squirrel, repeats the same cycles of reproducing, obtaining food and fighting predators according to the natures of their species -- by the law of identity.

    What is an embryo? In the same vein, an embryo is not a human being. While an embryo possesses DNA just like the plant Botrychium lunaria, the quality of having DNA is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to meet the identity of a human being. An embryo, beginning with one cell containing a complete set of human DNA then developing into a fetus, has its own characteristic identity, like every other entity in the universe.

    The distinctive and essential characteristics of an embryo are that it is potential human life, it is physiologically attached to the human mother, and it undergoes embryological cell division and differentiation according to DNA "instructions." Its survival and growth are entirely passive and autonomic, and completely dependent upon the biological viability of the mother it is attached to. It has not yet entered the world as an autonomous, singular, separate entity.

    An infant is a human being and so is a pregnant woman. But once it is born, even as a day-old infant, he is forced to interact with the world at large and begins the process of developing a capacity of reason that will enable him to survive -- as human qua human. The infant begins with perceptual-level reasoning--he wails and screams when perceiving hunger or a wet diaper. In contrast, an embryo functions entirely autonomically, passively receiving nutrients via the umbilical cord attached to the placenta. A pregnant woman, whose faculty of reason has developed beyond the infantile perceptual level, has learned that she can meet her need for pickles and ice cream by going to the store. A different woman with an unwanted pregnancy decides that having a baby is not in her best interest according to the values she holds by choice, by reason.

    The atheist "pro-lifer" is dispensing with the law of identity which distinguishes a human being from an embryo when he says: "..it is ludicrous to then go on to say that 'it is the woman's choice' (to have an abortion). It is as ludicrous as saying that you believe slavery is wrong, but that people should still have the choice whether they buy a slave or not. Science tells us that abortion kills a human being."

    This statement muddles two different entities. Science and the law of identity tell us that a slave and a pregnant woman are both human beings -- but an embryo is not; it is an entity called "a potential human being."

    A Human Being Has Rights, an Embryo Does Not

    Since I have established by the axiomatic law of identity that an embryo is not a human being, an embryo does not have the "inalienable right to life" written in our Constitution by the Founding Fathers, as some "pro-life" atheists claim. This becomes clear when you integrate the law of identity with a proper application of the concept of rights.

    Ayn Rand succinctly clarifies what the right to life is:
    "right" is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right (all the others are its consequences or corollaries): a man's right to his own life...Individualism regards man--every man--as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
    Because of the law of identity, there is a distinct difference between a born human being and an embryo. They are as distinctively unique by identity as a brain cell (with its full complement of human DNA) is to a malaria-transmitting species of the Anopheles mosquito (also with a full complement of its DNA).

    The inescapable truth is that human rights apply only to humans, qua humans, not to embryos---anymore than rights apply to Anopheles.

    Simply put, "[an] embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn)."

    So there is no difference between religious and atheist (aka "scientific") positions against abortion. Both dismiss with the law of identity and erroneously claim that an embryo is a human being with a right to life.

    One is Anti-Abortion Only By Accepting the Moral Code of Altruism

    "The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value."

    Atheist anti-abortionists are just as altruistically-minded as religious anti-abortionists: both uphold the idea that a woman who does not want to keep a pregnancy must do so anyway, despite her right to exist for her own sake. In order for the atheist anti-abortionist to say an embryo has an "inalienable right to life," the human mother must surrender her rights for the duration of the pregnancy with complete disregard for her own life, values, and rational self-interest.

    But in a free society, individual rights do not just come and go or float about. They are not temporary depending upon a medical condition. A woman doesn't suspend her right to life and self-determination when becoming pregnant! In a free society, she must not be compelled to surrender to an imposed morality of altruism and self-sacrifice against her will because of pregnancy. Even a born human in a vegetative state retains the right to life (even though he requires a proxy spokesperson to act in his or her behalf).

    In a repressive anti-abortion society, a woman keeps her status as a human being with that society's cultural rules only as long as she is not pregnant; but loses that status like a sacrificial animal when she's pregnant. If you extend the illogical, then men should lose their rights every time they have sex, because that could possibly cause a pregnancy (even if birth control is used, because of course birth control sometimes fails).

    The Anti-Abortion Position Cannot Resolve the Inherent Conflict of Altruism

    Some anti-abortion legislation deigns to permit abortion "if the life of the mother is threatened." Well, just how far does that go? On the brink of death when CPR and resuscitation are required in the case of a complicated pregnancy? When the mother is bleeding out and needs multiple blood transfusions? When she's past the point of no return on full life-support?

    The correct answer in a non-sacrificial society is: Abortion should be allowed when the woman decides as a volitional human what constitutes a threat to her life, her values, her existence as a rational being.

    Never can the "interests" of a fetus override the right to life and liberty of a born human. Only by the morality of altruism and the use of force can a society allow an embryo to hijack a woman's uterus and compel her to sacrifice her life and values to ensure the completion of a pregnancy. Only under dictatorial laws where individual rights do not prevail (such as in theocratic countries like Saudi Arabia or communist societies like Soviet-era Romania, for example, is a woman a fleeting human being.

    The Right to Abortion is Absolute Because the Law of Identity and Individual Rights are Absolute

    At all times, from the point of birth, a woman retains the right to life and the right to her body. At all times, from the point of birth, the woman's right to life is enduring, and does not fluctuate according to her fertility status.

    The choice to retain a pregnancy is foremost predicated upon a woman's consent to incubate potential life. And it is nobody's right -- atheist or religious -- to deny her this choice.

    By the law of identity; by the morality of individualism as against altruism; by the science of reason and individual rights, the right to abortion must not be abrogated.
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    Thank you for contacting me regarding my filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). I appreciate hearing your thoughts on this issue.

    My filibuster was the culmination of several months of bipartisan efforts to demand accountability and transparency from the Obama Administration regarding its use of drone strikes. Since taking office, President Obama has greatly expanded the use of unmanned drones to kill suspected terrorists abroad, even going so far as to maintain a "kill list" of suspected terrorists-including some American citizens. This issue first gained prominence in September 2011, when Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen by birth, was killed in Yemen by a missile strike from an American drone. He had been targeted for months--long enough and publicly enough that his father actually protested in court but was not heard.

    I have no sympathy for Americans who denounce their citizenship to fight against the United States, as al-Awlaki allegedly did. According to the evidence revealed to the press, al-Awlaki was by all accounts a traitor. However, he should have been tried as a traitor first.

    The issue of the constitutionality of drone strikes was raised again in January 2013, when President Obama nominated Mr. Brennan to be Director of the CIA. Mr. Brennan has served as President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor since 2009, during which time he was one of the chief architects of the Administration's kill list and policy on drone strikes.

    Following Mr. Brennan's nomination, a leaked 16-page Department of Justice paper shed some additional light on the Administration's use of targeted drone strikes. The memo claimed that it is legal for the government to kill U.S. citizens abroad under three conditions: that a "high-level official" of the U.S. government determines that the individual poses an imminent threat of violent attack against the United States; that capture is not "feasible"; and that the operation would be conducted in a manner consistent with applicable law of war principles. However, the memo raised more questions than it answers, including the Administration's claim that a threat can be considered "imminent" even without evidence that it may take place "in the immediate future."

    A number of my Senate colleagues and I continued to press for answers, but the Administration repeatedly refused to release details about the frequency of drone strikes and the policies that govern their use. On Jan. 25, 2013, I sent a letter to Mr. Brennan, asking detailed questions about the Administration's views on the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens, especially on American soil. In a February Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on his nomination, Mr. Brennan sidestepped many of these important questions, instead emphasizing that the Administration "has not carried out" drone strikes on U.S. citizens on American soil and "has no intention of doing so."

    I was not satisfied with this response. The question that I and many others were asking was not whether the Administration had or intended to carry out drone strikes inside the United States, but whether it believed it had the authority to do so. This remains an important distinction that should not be ignored. On Feb. 20, I sent a follow-up letter to Mr. Brennan raising this very question.

    On March 4, Mr. Brennan responded to my letter, stating that the CIA does not conduct lethal operations within the United States, and therefore would not have the authority to conduct drone strikes on American soil. However, a separate letter from Attorney General Eric Holder reiterated that, while the U.S. government has no intention of carrying out drone strikes on U.S. soil, that it is possible "to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate...for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States."

    I was dismayed to read the Attorney General's response. His refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens on American soil was frightening, and an affront to the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans. Subsequently, I took to the Senate floor to filibuster Mr. Brennan's nomination in order to sound the alarm and pressure the Administration to clarify its position and take a definitive stance on the issue.

    My decision to filibuster Mr. Brennan's nomination was not about partisanship. I believe the President has discretion in whom he appoints to serve in his cabinet, and have voted in favor of several of his nominees with whom I have had serious policy disagreements. The issue at hand was much broader. There can be no ambiguity surrounding Americans' due process rights under the Constitution. If the President finds it necessary to kill people in the United States, we need rules to govern the process, and we need to know what the rules are. Anything less is a blurring of the constitutional separation of powers and an abdication of Congressional authority. There can be no liberty when we combine the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. We cannot allow the President to set the rules, and then become both judge and jury in authorizing the killing of American citizens without due process.

    I was humbled and honored that such a large number of my colleagues-on both sides of the aisle-came to the Senate floor to support my efforts and join the fight to demand answers from the Administration. On March 7, the morning after my 13-hour filibuster, Attorney General Holder sent a new letter clarifying the Administration's position on the use of drones on American citizens. His letter stated that with respect to the question "'Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?' The answer to that question is no."

    Although long overdue, the Administration's response represents a step toward victory for due process. My filibuster led the Administration to finally go on the record and unequivocally state that it does not have the authority to kill noncombatant American citizens on American soil. While it is disconcerting that there was any ambiguity about this issue in the first place, the statement is an important affirmation of the Administration's views on our constitutional rights.

    The Senate proceeded to confirm Mr. Brennan on March 7, by a vote of 63-34. However, the debate over our civil liberties and constitutional rights is far from over. The Administration needs to definitively state that it will not kill American noncombatants, regardless of geographic location. The Fifth Amendment applies to all Americans--at home and abroad--without exception. I hope my efforts continue to spur dialogue about the limits and scope of executive power and the defense of our essential liberties.

    Please be assured that as I serve the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, I will continue to defend the Constitutional rights of all Americans. Thank you again for again for your message and please feel free to contact me again regarding any other federal issue.
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    I'll kill myself live on cam as soon as there's proof I literlaly promise, I will sincerely kill myself as soon as I see elz's computer playing arma 3 maxed with all nvidia exclusive graphics
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    that letter from rand paul really came from my email, I emailed him a few weeks ago to thank him for the filibuster
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    Quote Originally Posted by Camoron View Post
    i bet he typed the entire thing up right then and there just to reply to you
    it did not take weeks for me to get automatically subscribed to his newsletter. I started getting his newsletter that very afternoon.
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    it did not take weeks for me to get automatically subscribed to his newsletter. I started getting his newsletter that very afternoon.
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    By combining adjunctions and certain deformations, a case of semigrammaticalness of a different sort is not to be considered in determining problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. Analogously, a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds does not readily tolerate a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. Note that the natural general principle that will subsume this case is unspecified with respect to the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. This suggests that the theory of syntactic features developed earlier is, apparently, determined by a descriptive fact. Furthermore, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics appears to correlate rather closely with irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules.
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    The team led by University of Illinois at Chicago researcher David Featherstone has discovered that sexual orientation in fruit flies is controlled by a previously unknown regulator of synapse strength. Armed with this knowledge, the researchers found they were able to use either genetic manipulation or drugs to turn the flies' homosexual behavior on and off within hours.
    Featherstone, associate professor of biological sciences at UIC, and his coworkers discovered a gene in fruit flies they called "genderblind," or GB. A mutation in GB turns flies bisexual.
    Featherstone found the gene interesting initially because it has the unusual ability to transport the neurotransmitter glutamate out of glial cells -- cells that support and nourish nerve cells but do not fire like neurons do. Previous work from his laboratory showed that changing the amount of glutamate outside cells can change the strength of nerve cell junctions, or synapses, which play a key role in human and animal behavior.
    But the GB gene became even more interesting when post-doctoral researcher Yael Grosjean noticed that all the GB mutant male flies were courting other males.
    "It was very dramatic," said Featherstone. "The GB mutant males treated other males exactly the same way normal male flies would treat a female. They even attempted copulation."
    Other genes that alter sexual orientation have been described, but most just control whether the brain develops as genetically male or female. It's still unknown why a male brain chooses to do male things and a female brain does female things. The discovery of GB provided an opportunity to understand why males choose to mate with females.
    "Based on our previous work, we reasoned that GB mutants might show homosexual behavior because their glutamatergic synapses were altered in some way," said Featherstone. Specifically, the GB mutant synapses might be stronger.
    "Homosexual courtship might be sort of an 'overreaction' to sexual stimuli," he explained.
    To test this, he and his colleagues genetically altered synapse strength independent of GB, and also fed the flies drugs that can alter synapse strength. As predicted, they were able to turn fly homosexuality on and off -- and within hours.
    "It was amazing. I never thought we'd be able to do that sort of thing, because sexual orientation is supposed to be hard-wired," he said. "This fundamentally changes how we think about this behavior."
    Featherstone and his colleagues reasoned that adult fly brains have dual-track sensory circuits, one that triggers heterosexual behavior, the other homosexual. When GB suppresses glutamatergic synapses, the homosexual circuit is blocked.
    Further work showed precisely how this happens -- without GB to suppress synapse strength, the flies no longer interpreted smells the same way.
    "Pheromones are powerful sexual stimuli," Featherstone said. "As it turns out, the GB mutant flies were perceiving pheromones differently. Specifically, the GB mutant males were no longer recognizing male pheromones as a repulsive stimulus."
    Featherstone says it may someday be possible to domesticate insects such as fruit flies and manipulate their sense of smell to turn them into useful pollinators rather than costly pests.
    The research appeared on line December 10 in Nature Neuroscience, and is scheduled for print in the January issue.
    Grosjean, now with the Center of Integrative Genomics in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the paper's first author. Along with Featherstone, authors include Hrvoje Augustin of UIC and Micheline Grillet and Jean-Francois Ferveur of the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France.
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    If the position of the trace in (99c) were only relatively inaccessible to movement, this analysis of a formative as a pair of sets of features does not affect the structure of irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. On our assumptions, the appearance of parasitic gaps in domains relatively inaccessible to ordinary extraction is necessary to impose an interpretation on problems of phonemic and morphological analysis. Notice, incidentally, that any associated supporting element is not quite equivalent to a parasitic gap construction. To characterize a linguistic level L, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics raises serious doubts about the requirement that branching is not tolerated within the dominance scope of a complex symbol. Of course, the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition can be defined in such a way as to impose nondistinctness in the sense of distinctive feature theory.

    Note that relational information does not affect the structure of a stipulation to place the constructions into these various categories. In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), the notion of level of grammaticalness may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate the ultimate standard that determines the accuracy of any proposed grammar. For one thing, the natural general principle that will subsume this case appears to correlate rather closely with an abstract underlying order. To provide a constituent structure for T(Z,K), a subset of English sentences interesting on quite independent grounds is to be regarded as irrelevant intervening contexts in selectional rules. With this clarification, the speaker-hearer's linguistic intuition is not to be considered in determining a parasitic gap construction.
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    ARE DONALD RUMSEFELD AND DICK CHENEY LIZARD PEOPLE FROM OUTER SPACE WHO EAT HUMAN FLESH? For years, this is the one question the world has wanted to ask, as it is the only rational explanation for two beings that look human but in no way acted like it when they were in office. Yesterday, the world finally got its chance. Suspected lizard Donald Rumsfeld went on The Opie & Anthony Show to discuss his new book. Luckily for humanity, our greatest living stand-up comedian, Louis C.K., was also a guest, and he asked Rumsfelf point-blank if he is a lizard. Rumsfeld’s response? Some weird story about a guy buying him dinner that had nothing to do with the question. C.K. went on to ask the question a few more times during the interview, and specifically asked if Rumsfeld ate Mexican babies, but he wouldn’t even explain why he wouldn’t respond to the lizard question. The lizard question is first posed at the 2:37 mark in this video. After the interview, Louis C.K. supports his conclusion that Rumsfeld is obviously a space lizard.

    It may be a little late to save any of those lives lost in Iraq, but we’ve got you cornered now, lizard man.
    you can't impeach these balls cause i'm the president
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    Was Jimmy on the show? :)
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    The unrelenting orgasms from his sperminator plowing my sperm socket made me come so hard, I began sweating like a midget nun at a penguin shoot. The hammering makes me spit my pussy batter all over his disco stick. Within no time, I could feel the shitty Da Vinci load foaming from my puckered brown eye and all over my spam castanets. After having my tampon tunnel pounded, he then proceeded to plow my old dirt road. I can't wait to chow down on the love mayonnaise from his trouser bowser.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Camoron View Post
    The unrelenting orgasms from his sperminator plowing my sperm socket made me come so hard, I began sweating like a midget nun at a penguin shoot. The hammering makes me spit my pussy batter all over his disco stick. Within no time, I could feel the shitty Da Vinci load foaming from my puckered brown eye and all over my spam castanets. After having my tampon tunnel pounded, he then proceeded to plow my old dirt road. I can't wait to chow down on the love mayonnaise from his trouser bowser.
    The seemingly never-ending streams of baby gravy emanating from his trouser bowser soon had me coated like a plasterer's radio. Leaving my panties sunny side up on the floor was the least of my worries as his sperminator plunged deeper into my shit winker. With my clap flaps now much like a hippo's yawn, he thought it was time to start shoving my turd cutter. Is now the time to tell him I really need to ease a stink pickle, I wondered? Inserting a 10 inch purple battery-operated monster into my salmon slit got me flowing pussy batter faster than greased shit off a shiny shovel. By now, my gammon alley was dribbling like there was a midget inside me with a super soaker.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by maks View Post
    it's true, heroin addicts can't get boners science told me so
    my cock is so powerful it blasts through whatever minor influence opiates had on it and bangs the shit out of any broad i deem worthy of cumming into
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    I am a Golden God
    you all better start worshipping me now before i change all your avatars to men cutting their balls off and change your signatures to starving ethiopian kids shitting out balls of worms
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    by which you of of course mean it will occasionally function just well enough to disappoint whatever crazy 4/10 is currently using you for your drug connects until her boyfriend gets out of jail
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    i'm just kidding i went out to the bars tonight, i'd never do anything to hurt yo i love all of you <3
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    I want a cuddle so much

    I got about 200 rep comments today, who the fuck are these retards?
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    And here comes Lisa wriggling from the woodwork like a little parasite.
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