Bad Credit Hotel

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...

http://www.controlyourcredit.gov

If only those who score high in the game could claim their portion of the $700bn bailout plan...Americans love games but when will they stop playing and deal with the crisis seriously?

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Book restoration

Used books have value because they look like used books with shopworn covers and yellowish pages being part of the mystique that attracts book lovers. But what happens when you spill say coffee in a new book that's glossy and expensive? Is there anywhere you can take it to restore it for less than the cost of buying a new one? Coming up with cheap techniques to do that and selling them in bookstores will be useful and good business. It's similar to instant dirt-removal sprays that are a huge market worldwide!

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A way to keep voodoo dolls on the shelves!

French President Nicolas Sarkozy threatened to sue the company that made voodoo dolls with his image if they didn't withdraw them from the shops. Sarkozy will probably win in court but there is a way for the company to still sell the dolls. Partner with another company and sell the doll and the person's image on the doll as two separate things. It will then be up to the customer to put Sarkozy's image on the faceless voodoo doll. The shops will make more money by selling the parts separate and no one will be able to sue the customers. You can't sue a company for libel or invasion of privacy for selling a 'faceless' doll. Similarly, you can't sue another company for innocent-looking faces customers can apply anywhere. Welcome to the world of voodoo doll production! :)

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Crimebook

What do you say about a new social networking site for prisoners? It can help reduce prisoner unrest and attempts to escape. Also good for reducing loneliness and frustration which turns inmates equally dangerous after they leave prison. Sounds silly but it wouldn't surprise me if it already exists. Can you suggest some good ideas on how its privacy settings or applications will work? :)

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how many negatives make a positive?

don't we not need to not need to not use too much negation to not make a non-positive statement?

some people get confused because they read into it. it's easy ** don't read, just count! ** you only need one pair of negatives to make a positive which you can then repeat endlessly. so if you have to find out if a long statement using only negatives is positive all you have to determine is whether the number of negations is odd or even, if it's even it's positive, if it's odd it's negative.

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Sunflower-moving solar panels

Someone suggested to me that we make panels spherical to increase surface area and solar energy production. that won't work because half of the sphere will be covered by sun and half by shadow. I think it's better idea to make existing solar panels rotate with the movement of the sun like sunflowers do. follow the sun and stay constantly exposed to the most productive angle.

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Is cheating a skill to be encouraged?

I have in mind students who come up with creative ways to cheat at school. Should teachers and parents encourage those kids to pursue careers in government and spy agencies? At least that's where that kind of ingenuity is rewarded, right? Big question is, in addition to be ethically wrong is cheating also a sign of intelligence and a skill to be encouraged for kids who show such proclivity?

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