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Re: Why 40 percent of white Americans still called blacks lazy and violent?
Group: soc.culture.hmong · Group Profile · Search for describe in soc.culture.hmong
Author: cwjmem
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:45

... prejudiced but why 40 percent of them hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents. Given a choice of several positive and negative adjectives that might describe blacks, 20 percent of all whites said the word "violent" strongly applied. Among other words, 22 percent agreed with "boastful," 29 percent "complaining," 13 percent "lazy" and 11 percent "irresponsible." ...
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Re: Wittgenstein on the Metaphysical Self
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Author: Publius
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:45

... views (except in your view). There are certainly many views. None can be deemed "correct" or "incorrect" in that "metaphysical" sense mentioned above, i.e., that one view or another corresponds to or describes some imagined "reality" for whose existence we have no evidence. So we can only evaluate them for their consistency, elegance, simplicity, and their ability to explain --- meaning anticipate and control --- the phenomena of ...
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Re: erlang misconceptions (Re: Survey: What led you to functional programming?)
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Author: Jon Harrop
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:38

...." - Erlanger I was unable to find the quoted phrase via google, so I assume that the quotation marks were not to be taken literally? (: Yes. I read two journalistic articles that described Erlang's characteristics correctly and then incorrectly extrapolated that Erlang is a Fortran killer for HPC. Hence my paraphrased quote. I'm just awaiting a barrage of ad-hominem attacks following my other alleged misconceptions. ;-) ...
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Why 40 percent of white Americans still called blacks lazy and violent?
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Author: yajyuam
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:06

... whites are prejudiced but why 40 percent of them hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents. Given a choice of several positive and negative adjectives that might describe blacks, 20 percent of all whites said the word "violent" strongly applied. Among other words, 22 percent agreed with "boastful," 29 percent "complaining," 13 percent "lazy" and 11 percent "irresponsible." When...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: spam
Date: Sep 20, 2008 10:52

... 20 Sep 2008, Dennis Ruffer wrote: Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:17:52 GMT From: Dennis Ruffer <druffer@speakeasy.net> I remember doing many paper comparisons, along the lines of the thin paper overlay method described by John Passaniti earlier. The "triad" was a classic printing pattern for blocks in polyForth where 3 blocks would fit on one printed page. In the end, the shadow would also fit with a smaller font. The ...
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At 22, Omar Khadr Has Spent a Third of His Life in Guantanamo
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 20, 2008 09:29

... against his employer, and that's a problem," Kuebler explained. As described in the National Post, one of the medical experts chosen by Kuebler ...on apparent security concerns." The agent who visited Omar, Suneeta Millington, who described how shrapnel was "slowly working its way out of Omar's body,"... instructions from his employer." He proceeded to explain, as Michelle Shephard described it in the Toronto Star, that Taylor "had written a ...
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RE: One note printing function
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Author: todddoubleu
Date: Sep 20, 2008 07:41

...Was able to create a new driver by following the steps outlined in "Method 2" on this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952216/en-us In reading some of the other posts, be sure you do all of the steps exactly as described. Good luck! Todd *** "Chris Burns" wrote: Hi All I am a new user to One Note 2007 when I first started to use the application when i wanted to paste a web page of pdf etc into one note I...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: Dennis Ruffer
Date: Sep 20, 2008 07:17

... suggests that printing screens was common. Old FIG screen doc's suggest this strategy, but I have never seen this explained. I remember doing many paper comparisons, along the lines of the thin paper overlay method described by John Passaniti earlier. The "triad" was a classic printing pattern for blocks in polyForth where 3 blocks would fit on one printed page. In the end, the shadow would also fit with a smaller font. The ...
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RE: RESPONSES: copy to excel
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Author: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]
Date: Sep 20, 2008 06:36

You might find the Outlook VBA macro described at http://jazzerup.blogspot.com/2008/09/outlook-meeting-tracking-export.html useful. -- Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming: Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54 "Shevvie" wrote: tried the above by highlighting the responses in the tracking part of the calender meeting, went...
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Re: Crude oil will be back at $140.00 a barrel by spring. Chumps still dreaming.
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Author: Mike Smith
Date: Sep 20, 2008 05:59

...to back up your bullshit, except for the famous "liberal-think" fantasy. We do not need that anti-American socialist anywhere near our White House. (Hint: calling someone names doesn't advance your cause.) Accurately describing someone is hard for you to understand, isn't it... That's OK, you appear to be a liberal, which means you are not very intelligent. You've not proven anything, except that...
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