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        <![CDATA[ There is knowledge you can only gain by participating in it. There's no way to learn it by standing off and looking.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Societal priorities ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1280/t/Societal-priorities.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <blockquote>
  The average high energy physicist will receive a much greater benefit from the LHC [Large Hadron Accelerator] than will the average human. Consequently, the
  self-interests of high energy physicists don&#39;t align with that of the rest of humanity in deciding whether to turn on the LHC, so we should be very
  suspicious of their claims <a target="_blank" href="http://emptymirror.blogspot.com/2008/07/god.html">that the LHC is safe</a>.
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  - <a target="_blank"... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:16:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Tibet ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.helium.com/items/720205-thousand-years-tibet-operated">A bit of background</a>
<br>
<br>
Symbolic gestures by the international community are cheap.
<br>
<br>
If the population and government of any country is absolutely serious about the moral primacy of freeing Tibet, let them impose significant economic and trade
sanctions on China.
<br>
<br>
... er, no? ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:17:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cycles of climate ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1278/t/Cycles-of-climate.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Australia: unprecedented heat wave/drought.
<br>
Midwest/northeastern/Pacific coast N. America: record and near-record snowfalls.
<br>
West/central Europe: cold waves and the storm waves coming in from N. America.
<br>
Central N.America, from top to the Mexican border: bitter, often record cold -- and that too has now drifted into parts of Europe.
<br>
<br>
The last time these kinds of snow records were set in the east, the heartlands plunged into the &#39;Dust Bowl&#39; of the Depression --... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:22:36 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ The global economic network ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1277/t/The-global-economic-network.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Why should China care about keeping friends during an Olympic-driven series of insurrectionist protests, so long as the export pipelines remain open at global
addiction levels? Countries don&#39;t have friends, they have interests: and China&#39;s world interests continue to be met quite satisfactorally. Now, if the
world were willing to impose sanctions in the same way as they had during South African apartheid, it might be a different story ... but the importing world
seems unwilling to do... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:06:21 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ This board will upgrade...this week ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/612/t/This-board-will-upgrade-this-week.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ to yu.. who what?<br>ah, I have a bad feeling about this.<br> ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Rhui Chatar)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:32:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Kosovo independence ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/446/t/Kosovo-independence.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Pro or con? ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:20:26 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Monsanto wants to patent the Neem Tree!? ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/447/t/Monsanto-wants-to-patent-the-Neem-Tree-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ and they going to get away with it...<br><br>then the drought resistant grains...<br><br>then the breathable air<br><br>and heat... <br><br>no wait, somebody already patented that.<br><br><br>I am depressed, so I'm not scared by all this. ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:29:25 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ It is okay to wish me a Merry Christmas ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/613/t/It-is-okay-to-wish-me-a-Merry-Christmas.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Or a Happy Hanukkah. Or a festive Eid, or Diwali, or ... take your pick. They are all festivals of celebration and peace, and that is all to the good! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:04:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Death Note ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ If you were given the power to kill anyone in the world, at any distance, in any manner, and seemingly without consequence either in this world or the next: what would you do with it?<br><br>This is the question posed by the manga/anime <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Death Note</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->.<br><br>When a death note, a amall notebook originally belonging to the shinigami, falls into the hands of Yagami Raito (&quot;Light&quot;), he finds himself able to command the death of... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:34:20 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ An illusion of scarcity ]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The tragedy of the commons does not teach what economists think it teaches.<br><br>Property held and tended in common will be individually abused, so long as human beings choose to see themselves primarily as individuals.  This much is true: but its application to communally-held property is a special case, a specific symptom of a deeper cause, in much the same way that our perception of gravity results from our not having the full picture.  The primary lesson the tragedy of the commons has... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:25:43 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Media hyper-distribution and new social/economic models... ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/448/t/Media-hyper-distribution-and-new-social-economic-models-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html">www.mindjack.com/feature/...51305.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Mark Pesce is the co-creator of the  Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) - the first 3D interface to the internet - and the founder of the Interactive Media Program at USC's School of Cinema-Television.<br><br>with courtesy,<br><br>MH ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ what did we/you/they learn from the internet boards? ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/1077/t/what-did-we-you-they-learn-from-the-internet-boards-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ i've been reading about dialogue.  the guy who wrote the book thought it was possible, and didn't require leadership, except to start the process and help with boundaries at first.  after my board experience, i'm thinking that what that really means is that people internalize the leadership.  or they don't.  which doesn't actually solve the problem of what role leadership.<br><br>what did others learn? ]]></description>

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			<author>feeds@yuku.com (Camilla)</author>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 18:24:22 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Retrospect ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/449/t/Retrospect.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ <!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.<br>- <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke">Edmund Burke</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://p222.ezboard.com/fofficialtpmbashersboard40038frm11.showMessageRange?topicID=227.topic&amp;start=81&amp;stop=100">HOLY... ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:04:35 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A reminder ... ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/365/t/A-reminder-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ That this board can only ever be what its visitors make of it.  If you wish to see more discussion, post! ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:42:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Chat time - what works best for you? ]]></title>
			<link>http://thevirtualcommunity.yuku.com/topic/615/t/Chat-time-what-works-best-for-you-.html</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The original time was set because I was relying on public and semi-public access, and extended access was only possible then.<br><br>Now, I am no longer restricted (except by dog who tells time too well and has learned to eagerly anticipate his walks, but that is another story).<br><br>What days and times work best for you? ]]></description>

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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:21:48 GMT</pubDate>
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