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Author: Jong Kim
Date: Aug 3, 2007 08:37

"Robert Weldon" wrote:
> "Pablo Gettying" wrote:
> -crap snipped
>
> the point of this word salad?

29 For where is the disputer that there is a God in that day which shall
burn, even as an oven, saith the Lord?

30 Now of these things, ye must judge.

31 For it is that by what judgment, saith the Lord, that a man judgeth, that
he shall also be judged, and it shall be unto every man, even according to
his work.

Revelations of Jesus Christ 8:29-31

Before 1957 Mr. Getty cultivated wealth in the relative shadows of the oil
business here and abroad. He was also known by some newspaper readers for
his purchase of the Pierre Hotel in New York and for his five marriages and
an equal number of divorces. Once, however, the awesome vastness of his
riches was made generally known he acquired celebrity. This he burnished by
writing articles in mass-circulation magazines and by putting his name to
two books.
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Author: Immortalist
Date: Aug 3, 2007 16:32

Reciprocal altruism

In evolutionary biology, reciprocal altruism is a form of altruism in
which one organism provides a benefit to another in the expectation of
future reciprocation. This is equivalent to the Tit for tat strategy
in game theory. It would only be expected to evolve in the presence of
a mechanism to identify and punish "cheaters". An example of
reciprocal altruism is blood-sharing in the vampire bat, in which bats
feed regurgitated blood to those who have not collected much blood
themselves knowing that they themselves may someday benefit from this
same donation; cheaters are remembered by the colony and ousted from
this collaboration.
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Author: Jong Kim
Date: Aug 4, 2007 05:44

"Inez" wrote:
> "Republicon Battering Ram" wrote:
>> or Manifesto
>>
>> manifesto, n.
>> a public declaration of principles and policy.
>>
>> "Bret Cahill" wrote:
>>> You almost got it right. It's the "Unprincipled Certainty"
>>> of politics.
>>>
>>> It's a certainty that Republicons
>>
>> It's a certainty that I'm a Republic Conservative, though
>> not a very righteous one.
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