Beautiful neck, stupid label...

I wonder why they put the label in such a stupid place. The only acceptable explanation, in this case, would have been if the label could somehow had been designed to match the tattoo or serve as its extension. I very much doubt that's the case here. The label's place is just stupid, made even more obvious by overlapping with the tattoo in the the neck.

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Delete ALL by selected criteria

Allow an email function where the user can select a sender, subject and/or date in their inbox and delete or move ALL messages that meet the selected criteria. One or two clicks can remove hundreds of old, unwanted messages.

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General Motors >>> Government Motors

Since GM is now owned by taxpayers, I would like to institute that I don't need to pay for my car loan anymore. Technically I own a portion of the company that produced my car, right? I don't like the fact that I purchased special order non-returnable domestic car parts for my damn taxpayer owned car. I'm pretty sure that had I brought my car to the dealership, the wiper blades would cost more to fix than the wipers on the Audi. When I can find 321 ways to spend that money every month instead of paying for something that won't even be made in 4 years, the temptation to stop paying the loan now that I own a portion of the company is just too strong to let go...

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Better than sex

The phrase 'better than sex' naturally begs the question of what kind of sex you're talking about. When I hear someone using it to describe an experience they had, I am always tempted to ask if they are making a statement about their sex life or a statement about the thing that's better than the kind of sex they're talking about but never really define it. The phrase begs many questions that go unanswered in the listener's mind. If you are the listener and your sex life doesn't suck don't nod your head in agreement, don't agree in any way.

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Insurance companies to issue driver's licenses

Why not allow insurance companies to issue driver's licenses with the catch that they then have to insure the driver for the duration of the license. The duration can be 3-5 years. Upon expiration the license has to be renewed. That's when drivers can pick new insurance companies and insurance companies choose new drivers. The scheme would encourage insurance companies to train their drivers well, and would allow them to better distinguish between who is safe and who is not.

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The equal distribution of happiness

I empathize with the sense of fairness that propels people to desire a more equal distribution of wealth and resources. Should we all get the same pay and privileges? Sure.

But then, why shouldn't we all get the same love and respect, the same health and happiness, the same cute little butt and big boobs? Why don't we desire more of that as well? To be equally loved and appreciated. Why does life have to be such a capitalist bitch if its goal is to teach us 'communistically' that finding meaning in life is common to all, yet it should be defined individually?

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"tell us a little about yourself"

how do you usually answer this question. isn't better to say how tall you are, give color of eyes, describe physical appearance than say where you come from, who your father is etc etc people have stereotypes and if you say who you are by talking about your family or country to a stranger you might trigger a stereotype in people's minds. why do we ask this question? can't you just form your own opinion about me over time without asking me to tell you who i am?

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Where to, everybody, where to?

I have the perverse habit, or morbid curiosity if you like, to read obituaries. They are our dead, found each day on the back page of the newspaper. There they are, all gathered, a squad of fresh explorers, heading into the great unknown. New faces, names and personal histories come and go on the obits every single day. Unlike a cemetery, where stones never change, the obits get restocked daily. They remind me of the evanescent quality and fleeting image of our lives. A minute browsing through the obits can be just as educational, if not more, than a visit to the church or local cemetery. Where to, everybody, where to?

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A thought on the human brain

I just had a thought that I hope is worth sharing. I was thinking about how we use our human brains. We are told we utilise only a small percentage of the brain's overall capacity. This awareness leads me to think about its actual structure, namely billions of neurons making connections continuously. I suddenly see the possibility that the whole of humankind functions as if it were a single brain made up of billions of neurons.

Each neuron is a single human brain in this analogy. In our present world, billions of neurons exist, but the majority remain untapped potential. Every death is equivalent to the loss of a vital brain cell, and millions die every day in our world through neglect by the active neurons, and lack of nourishment.

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More roundabouts would be nice

Roundabouts are a seeming contradiction, they slow traffic while they keep it moving. But they are safer than traffic lights because they demand that your - and more to the point everybody else's - operation is cooperation. They save fuel because unlike a light-directed intersection they don't require you to stop, idle and start again. They have no moving parts. And you can plant trees and flowers in the circle.

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Running out of months.

President Obama issued an official White House proclamation naming the month of June as the official gay pride month. Without getting into personal views on the issue of gays, or as they are now known in a more politically inclusive way LGBT, is this really a necessary thing? We will soon run out of months as we try to separate groups by race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference etc.

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Make an Olga Kurylenko lolly...please!!

They're making a Daniel Craig ice lolly because a poll asked women which celebrity they'd most like to see on the end of a stick and the answer was Daniel Craig. His torso, in purple, will now be sold with the slogan "Licence to Chill"!! Why double standards? Why can't men also be asked which celebrity they'd like to lick? I never thought you could make anyone interested in lolly licks, but then again it's not that men would have voted for Moneypenny on a stick! They'd rather lick my favorite Olga, right?

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Remarriage. Why is there a limit?

I'm having this debate in my head...Why is there a limit as to how many times a person can get remarried? I don't see the reason for setting limits. Why is a limit of 3 times better than a limit of 5 or 10 times? What's the point of setting limits on human relationships? Shouldn't people be free to arrange them in any way they want?

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Mr and Mrs. God

For me, one of the most interesting aspects of the Abrahamic religions is that all three were created by members of the male gender. I think this goes a long way toward explaining why it was written that Men are created in the image of God (who -- surprise, surprise -- also happens to be a fella) and why woman was created From a man, not independently. By utilizing the literary devise of woman's being be borne from part of the male body (his rib), it placed the fairer sex in an eternally submissive position.

I've often thought about how these three religions might have been different If Women, not men, were the drivers behind their creation. For starters, I seriously doubt there would be one singular Heavenly Father.

Women tend to be the ones in a family that try to bring everyone together (utilizing the stereotypical mothering function), so my guess is that a woman-infused religious system would have created a heavenly couple, Mr and Mrs. God or the Heavenly Father and Mother.

Since women, not men, bring new life into the world via the womb, it's hard for me to imagine a woman-infused religion creating the tragic figure of Jesus dying on the cross to save the world from sin.

Most of the mothers I know would throw themselves in front of a bus in order to save their child EVEN if that child happens to be a rapist or a murderer. It's just the maternal instinct to want to shield your child from harm.

Anyway, this is all merely my own conjecture. What's yours?

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A thought on abortion

A 17-year-old girl in the United States pays a 21-year-old friend to beat her up, hoping the assault would cause her to miscarriage. He is charged with attempt murder.

She is charged with solicitation to commit murder. Yet women solicit doctors to abort their babies every day. Why is the former a crime and the latter a choice? Just a thought.

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Obama to Palestinians: Stop violence!

You may think Obama's message was good news for Israel, you may think that all Israelis will benefit by ending violence. Here are some facts about Israel's economy to inform your opinion in a way that is upsetting to us Israelis.

Israel has put counter-terrorism at the center of its export economy and its economy has been booming since September 2001.

Let's call it trickle-down war economics.

Israel is the world's 4th largest arms dealer in the world, larger than the UK. Its technology sector, much of it linked to security makes up 60% of all exports.

Israel has become a shopping mall for homeland security technologies all over the world.

Nice Systems, Verint, Comverse, SuperCom, Check Point, New Age Security Solutions, Instinctive Shooting International etc are just some of the world's best and largest homeland security companies.

A call made to the New York Police Department will be recorded and analyzed by technology created by Nice Systems, an Israeli firm. Images captured in the London tube system are recorded on Verint video surveillance cameras, owned by the Israeli firm Comverse.

These are but two examples. When it comes to defense and security technology, Israel is the "Made in China" story. Not just cheaper, but also made by the best in the world.

In view of the above, I hope you can now begin to understand why, when the war with Lebanon started in August 2006, the Tel Aviv stock exchange went up. In the final quarter of the same year, which had also included the bloody escalation in the West Bank and Gaza following the election of Hamas, Israel's economy grew by a staggering 8%.

Conflict and violence breeds more conflict and more violence and the need for better security everywhere in the world.

The conflict in Gaza and the West Bank is free advertising for Israeli security firms around the world. They are considered the experts and there is good reason for that. "Made in Israel" means tested in violence and proven to work.

Do you really think it is in Israel's economic interest for the Palestinians and other extremists to end all violence? Perhaps it might be.

But in the short-term, the answer is probably negative. If Israel can diversify its economy in the long term, then peace might have a better chance.

The world thinks the main obstacle is illegal settlements in the West Bank. It is definitely an issue but an easier one to solve from an economic point of view than diversifying the economy away from homeland security and defense spending and exports.

If a political deal is made, some of the illegal settlements can be sold out or rented to the new Palestinian owners who will buy them or rent them with loans and economic aid. Lavish economic compensation can entice Jewish settlers to relocate. Some of them will and some will have to be forced out.

But changing the structure of the Israeli economy can take years and it is a far more difficult task because it affects the economic well-being of a larger segment of Israel's population. The sad truth is that the Israeli economy, in its current structure, has an incentive to sponsor violence, not end it. It profits massively from it.

So for the time being, I am not very optimistic that there is the kind of economic change in the horizon to usher the kind of peace we can believe in.

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White fillings for TV celebrities

Composite white fillings, made of composite, provide natural-looking restoration. They are called white fillings because of the natural, tooth color of the material. They can be made on-site and completed in only one office visit to the dentist. I like Jon Stewart very much and I love to watch his show, but I think all TV celebrities should have white fillings. Don't you agree?

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Obama Cairo Speech. Perfect.

"He will be hailed as a man of peace; he will be accomplished as a great orator; he will win hearts and minds and many will follow him; but he will be tha anti-Christ"

So, when do we receive his mark? :-)

Is Obama the anti-Christ?? I don't think he is as good as lot of people think. I don't have any good points to support this but the fact that he is a president in the US means a lot to me.

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Obama Cairo Speech. Perfect.

"He will be hailed as a man of peace; he will be accomplished as a great orator; he will win hearts and minds and many will follow him; but he will be tha anti-Christ"

So, when do we receive his mark? :-)

Is Obama the anti-Christ?? I don't think he is as good as lot of people think. I don't have any good points to support this but the fact that he is a president in the US means a lot to me.

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Life Without The Internet

Can you imagine it? I can't. I would struggle to get through the day without my fix. In that sense it's not much different from any other addiction. If you can't have it then you begin to exhibit withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms could include:

Feeling of purposelessness in life.

A general volatility in temper.

Starting up your web browser just to watch the error message and to gaze wistfully at the now-lifeless status bar.

Attempting to reconstruct the google search page in your head and fondly reminiscing about the good old days.

Frantically loading any saved web pages you may have in your cache to gaze lovingly at them. But it's like entering a Ferrari showroom, you can feel and get in the car, but you can't drive it anywhere. The showroom manager won't even let you take it on a test drive because he can sense you would never be able to afford it.

Just to clarify, the net is working fine now. But there have been times in my life, when my happiness has been cruelly crushed, when all hope is driven out of me to be replaced by a bleak vacuum of nothingness. There have been times when the internet stopped working.

** This post has been sponsored by the Board of Random Egregious Distractions (BORED)**

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Ridiculous way to monitor weight

What can be more ridiculous than a weight monitor chair that beeps, vibrates, cracks, moans or otherwise improvises its frustration with every new bite that adds a few extra unwelcome grams to your total weight. Basically, you sit on the chair to eat your lunch/dinner. The chair measures your weight before you indulge your appetite. 90 kilos. Right! Why don't you have a few more bites? 90.5 kilos, Silence..91, beep..91.2, small vibrations..91.5, cracking sounds, 92..loud moans..93, all modes of frustration-expression set loose..100, chair breaks down..there can be many ridiculous ways to lose weight, but few funnier than the one of which I speak. I rest my case..

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