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New chapters and color illustrations. From the intro: "And so we decided to put together a 'Collector's Edition' that is bigger and more colorful than the original. We spiffed up the title pages, added a bunch of new graphics, and upgraded the paper stock from rough pulp to smooth and glossy." They also rewrote some material into the storybook format that was popular in the first edition, performed clean-up edits throughout, and added chapters about quantitative easing and the European debt crisis.

I have yet to see any universal balance that deals with coyotes or racoon as effectively. Heck, I have a friend that got a bobcat in his chicken coop this year.

Quite literally the scenario in this book. http://www.amazon.com/How-Economy-Grows-Why-Crashes/dp/1118770277

Specifically, the Theory of Gravity has not been disproven by verifiable evidence, and has tons and tons of validations of predictions by experiment.

One of the things that separates managers from other employees is agency. Not only does a manager have the power to act in the stead of the owner and enforce property rights, but also the duty to act in the best interests of the owner, which means to reduce the harm to the property through action. http://agency.uslegal.com/rights-duties-and-liabilities-between-principal-and-agent/

If you train yourself to seek out and like virtue, this mood ring will notice when you like someone. But, of course, if you have no self-knowledge it will come across pretty random, or crass.

Rags to riches a popular fiction meme in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I'm looking at you Horatio Alger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger_myth Riches to rags was an inevitable followup from the progressivist backlash to undermine capitalism. However, the massive growth of the middle class during the industrial revolution is undeniable, and that is Horatio Alger's milieu.

Quantization is not a new problem. When people used to write programs to interpret drumming and determine the rhythm, it was difficult to determine what was an error and what was expression. Auto-tuning, for example, makes it obvious that there is too much correction going on... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_%28music%29 It's amusing to see how much better quantizing is getting that it can start to emulate the "fist" of a writer for emulating handwritten notes.

Noodles? Obligatory No Agenda reference:

+1 on this one. I read it about a decade ago, maybe I should hit it again.

I think there is some benefit to pointing out how people are inconsistent to see if they'll stop, but I think Stef's tactic of focusing on child abuse may eventually yield the best results.

There are a lot of tools in Google Hangouts that would be useful in a online campaign, like shared documents.

As a matter of self-defense, you have to see how much trouble you're willing to tolerate from any relationship or interaction. If you know what that comfort level is going in, it makes it easier to manage.

Ask your representative to add a friendly amendment that "the mandatory punishment for dilatory law-making be tarring, feathering, and riding out of town on a rail." While not a law, it was a tradition from the time that Victorian dress codes were in vogue.

You have to wonder what would motivate Stef to make a [partial, incomplete] list of content other than his own to compete with him. Just saying.

If you choose to pursue a non-virtuous relationship, at least understand the costs and benefits of doing so and see if you can live with them (and her).

The article says the same thing, but let me underscore it. Making someone's memory what you want it to do it hard. Making it incorrect is easy. Stressful events with lots of witnesses are particularly painful if the witness start talking to one another, or watch one another being questioned about the event. They will quickly conflate their stories to become some combination of what they remember and what is being said to the point that what they remember will become different. They can even be influenced by recordings of the event that they watch afterward. Investigators, historians, and journalists have to be very careful how they ask questions if they do not want to influence memories as well. Memory is actually pretty bad when it comes to details. This is why one of the techniques for spotting a liar is their memory being too good for details that people don't usually notice.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/health/dietary-fat-advice-should-never-have-been-issued-finds-study.118077597

No one from [al-Islah, a branch of the] Muslim Brotherhood gives up easily... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-19557884

They have an internationally recognized federal government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Government_of_Somalia

http://lifehacker.com/the-surprising-benefits-of-role-playing-games-and-how-1684582789

http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/leading_causes_of_injury_deaths_highlighting_unintentional_injury_2012-a.pdf

If I trusted the kid to do the right thing, yes, I would have it available. I live in rural country. I have livestock. We get racoon and coyotes out here. There was also a home invasion only two miles from here. when I was a kid there was a shotgun near the front door for the same reason: predators.

I did. It really depends on knowledge, skills, and attitude. Teach the curious if they can be safe. For most it's 8-10. Feed the curiosity, do some fun shooting, and then make them clean and take care of everything afterward. The interest will abate for a little while. It comes back again a few years later. Nothing gave me more joy that getting a girl scout her rifle or shotgun merit badge, mind you. That was awesome.