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Sony PS3 40GB For Sale - $175 I am selling my fully updated, Playstation 3. It has a Blue Ray DVD player built in. Its only about a year old, and has about three games PRE-LOADED on it. ( Ratchet and Clank: Quest For Booty, Flowers, and Street fighter 2). It comes with: -Wireless Controller -Power Cables -VGA Cords The system is in perfect condition, you can try it out even if you feel more comfortable with that. I also have disc PS3 games for sale, $20 each. - The Orange Box: Valve 5 Game Collection ( Half Life - Half Life 2 - Half Life: Episode 1 - Portal - Team Fortress ) - Ratchet and Clank: Tools Of Destruction ( Platformer ) - Folklore ( RPG )
Accessories: HDMI Cable - $25
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04:52 am dinosaurcomics
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guys i think i made myself sad for bacteria with the phrase "those tiny lives"
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11:37 pm prof_vencire
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10:48 pm prof_vencire
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Hieronymus Machine ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
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10:46 pm prof_vencire
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BIONIC ARMS ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
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03:21 pm news [theljstaff]
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LiveJournal Major Notes: LiveJournal: The First Decade, AIDS vgift fundraiser, LJ_Photophile poll!

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including: -
Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a
ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
- A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
- Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
- Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
- Mouthwatering dishes from
food_porn
What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.
Tweaks and enhancements- You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
- Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!
Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.
Photos of the weekWe're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!
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Curtains
Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!
Tags: aids vgift red ribbon fundraiser, blurb, livejournal: the first decade, lj_photophile poll
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04:55 am dinosaurcomics
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anyway, i'll show myself out, professor!!
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12:18 pm lj_maintenance [mhwest]
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MogileFS Maintenance **EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **
Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...
Hey LJers,
I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)
Thanks,
Current Location: Jumping out of a perfectly good plane Current Mood: dirty Current Music: Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction Tags: mogilefs, upgrade, userpics
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10:07 am dinosaurcomics
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OH, ALSO, THE SENDER OF THIS CARD WANTS TO LICK YOUR TEETH CLEAN, EVEN IF THEY DENY IT, THEY TOTALLY
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More for the Christmas Wishlist ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
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04:35 am dinosaurcomics
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seriously tempted to put out a whole line of these novels: "CLASSICS OF WESTERN LITERATURE: THE ODYS
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05:43 am dinosaurcomics
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openoffice doesn't have "utahraptor" OR "superduds" in its spell check dictionary. it's open source
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10:53 pm tesc [mizdiva]
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Books for sale! I just graduated in June and finally found a job! Unfortunately, this means saying goodbye to Oly. Could you help me unload some books I have AND support an AMAZING non-profit supporting youth of color? 40+ Titles! $1-$5 OBO. All money will go to Brother's & Sister's Keepers a non-profit in Portland, OR. To find out more about this amazing organization visit: brothersandsisterskeepers.com. I'm more than happy to drop off if it's within reasonable distance.
I listed the titles out by name and author on craiglist. That can be found here: http://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/bks/1484902007.html
I appreciate it!!!
Current Location: westside Current Mood: awake
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06:42 am dinosaurcomics
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bedbug sex is just part of the beauty of Mother Someanimalsengageinterribleawfulsexyouguys
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05:13 am dinosaurcomics
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PLATONIC FORMS
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05:48 pm calypsomatic
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Now accepting applications "A multi-agent system can also be seen as a loosely coupled network of problem solvers that work together on problems that may be beyond the scope of any of the agents individually (Durfee and Lesser 1989). The problem solvers of a multi-agent system, besides being autonomous, may also be of heterogeneous design. Based on analysis by Jennings, Sycara, and Wooldridge (]998), there are four important characteristics of multi-agent problem solving. First, each agent has incomplete information and insufficient capabilities for solving the entire problem, and thus can suffer from a limited viewpoint. Second, there is no global system controller for the entire problem solving. Third, the knowledge and input data for the problem is also decentralized, and fourth, the reasoning processes are often asynchronous." -Artificial Intelligence, George F Luger
If we consider a human to qualify as one of the autonomous problem-solving agents, then this is what I desire to create. The heterogeneity is a key component that I feel that many people with perhaps somewhat related intentions forget.
What makes me a little sad is that I have all these desires and ambitions, things that I want to *happen*, and although I occasionally get it in my head that maybe I actually *will* try very hard, and that maybe things actually *will* be different this time, I pretty much know that I'm not going to have much if anything to do with creating the sorts of technologies and advances and ideas and changes that I want. I'm not going to make any significant contributions to AI or brain emulation or longevity or DNA programming, or to any sort of autonomous non-decidophobic movement, and probably not even really any minor ones. Yes, I know that having that sort of attitude is certainly going to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy, but there's also merit in being realistic once in a while. That isn't the problem so much as this sort of dreadful, impossible to extirpate Manicheanism that drives me to assume that since I can't or won't be doing anything huge, then I won't be doing anything at all and that I'm useless and everything I do is shit that doesn't matter. Without getting into the impossible morass of something mattering, I can at least find something relatively satisfying to spend my time doing. And that is to build a multi-agent parallel processor out of humans.
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