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Diesel is now more expensive than regular gas in my country. Actually, premium gas is only 0.009€/litre more expensive than Diesel.

Not that it means that having a Diesel car is a disadvantage because, frankly, you still get a better mileage out of a Diesel car than a gas car.

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Despite distance, beloved...

        As the flight of a river
        That flows to the sea
        My soul rushes ever
        In tumult to thee.

        A twofold existence
        I am where thou art:
        My heart in the distance
        Beats close to thy heart.

        Look up, I am near thee,
        I gaze on thy face:
        I see thee, I hear thee,
        I feel thine embrace.

        As the magnet's control on
        The steel it draws to it,
        Is the charm of thy soul on
        The thoughts that pursue it.

        And absence but brightens
        The eyes that I miss,
        And custom but heightens
        The spell of thy kiss.

        It is not from duty,
        Though that may be owed, -
        It is not from beauty,
        though that be bestowed.

        But all that I care for,
        And all that I know,
        Is that, without wherefore,
        I worship thee so.

        Through granite it breaketh
        A tree to a ray:
        As a dreamer forsaketh
        The grief of the day,

        My soul in its fever
        Escapes unto thee:
        O dream to the griever!
        O light to the tree!

        A twofold existence
        I am where thou art:
        Hark, hear in the distance
        The beat of my heart!

                                        -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

...my heart and thoughts remain with thee, wherever thou art, and whatever thy days contain.

Well my two discount coupons arrived, so now I am searching for two recievers so I won't be left out in the cold come Feb. of next year. It is interesting the government is willing to subsidize new recievers (up to $40 each); I am pretty sure the government has an easier time broadcasting mind control rays over digital tv. Anyway, so far I haven't been able to find any; Walmart is always sold out, and every place else (Circuit City, Best Buy) has of course jacked up their prices to $60. Oh and btw Radioshack, your website sucks; who knows if they sell them or what the prices are.

So, anyone else hunting around for converter boxes, or was everyone else smart enough to buy an HD ready tv?

Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible - Re:Mythbusters

Personally I got tired how all the good things that happened in my life were God's blessings and how all the bad things were just part of some incomprehensible plan. A lot of non-believers like to talk about how religion is popular because it gives people hope, but for me it was a millstone around my neck. Imagine the kind of self-esteem issues one develops after being repeatedly told that you didn't really earn the good things in your life, and that the bad things in your life happened for some reasons beyond your comprehension.

Confirmation Bias

Morton's demon
Morton's Demon was devised by Glenn R. Morton in 2002] as part of a thought experiment to explain his own experience of confirmation bias. By analogy with Maxwell's demon, Morton's demon stands at the gateway of a person's senses and lets in facts that agree with that person's beliefs while deflecting those that do not.
Morton was at one time a Young Earth creationist who later disavowed this belief. The demon was his way of referring to his own bias and that which he continued to observe in other Young Earth creationists. With time it has become a common shorthand for confirmation bias in a variety of situations.

'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

Two weeks ago, The Observer revealed how 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader was beaten to death by her father after becoming infatuated with a British soldier in Basra. In this remarkable interview, Abdel-Qader Ali explains why he is unrepentant - and how police backed his actions. Afif Sarhan in Basra and Caroline Davies report