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Haggling for Hot Dogs

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Everything is open to negotiation. Everything. For three months, the author treated the world that way. This is what ensued. He's really not a very good hagg…

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Energy

Jay Leno on Speed (and Tesla)

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In the real world I have a Porsche Carrera GT, I have a McLaren F1, and anybody that tells you they've taken those cars to 200mph is a liar. They haven't. Be…

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Internet

Cool World Clock

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Poodwadle has a pretty cool flash-based World Clock.

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CEO Salaries and Compensation Explained

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In 2006, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs whose official executive salary form Apple was $1, earned approximately $646 million dollars in compensation from Apple. Where…

In 2006, Apple CEO, Steve Jobs whose official executive salary form Apple was $1, earned approximately $646 million dollars in compensation from Apple. Whereas, Forbes 2nd richest man in the world,…
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World's First Flying Car Enters Production

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In a moment we've been waiting for since the first time we saw The Jetsons, the first flying car has finally gone on sale. Just like the car George uses to d…

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Tallest Man vs. Shortest Man

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The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun shook hands with He Pingping who claims to be Earth's shortest.

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Happy 4th

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.…
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