I'll throw in my response too. I thought it ...
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I'll throw in my response too. I thought it was three pads because of the photo and because of not being offered a color choice at checkout, which would have alerted me to the difference. Expensive lesson. Buyer beware of deceptive marketing!
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Thought provoking.  Looking forward to reasing buture editions and counter arguments. I guess in the end "time" will or won't tell! LOL!
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I like that the statements are backed up by sources though not as much as I would like.  I would like to see all of this information updated with source material and access information.  These things seem so extreme that they can't be believed!  how can we possibly accept such stuff as factual.  It must be a mistake!
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I liked it.  But I thought it is to styff.  I think I'am going to get a softer one later on.
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I think I bought it by accident? I def didn't read. But Ill give it a five-star benefit of the doubt. :)
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hmmmm... interesting, I think some information here will be useful
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Personally, I am pleased with this book. I have seen some of the results in asking for things (whether for me or for people in general).Thanks,Tom.
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I have not read all of the book, but Dembski so far has shown the arguments against I.D. to be rather weak.  One section of the book was especially interesting to me.  It asked (to me at least) why the Darwinian account of how everything is where it is today should be treated as the default position.  Until it can be proven wrong, it's right.  Huh? Darwinian origin accounts are going to be synthetic judgements just the same as the I.D. account.  Neither should be the default position.

So far a good read.
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I listened with some interest to one the authors being interviewed on CNN. A caller commented that the they may have not taken into account the powerful economic impacts of free labor in the form of slavery and the wholsale acquisition of Indian lands. In response, the Lotus commented that these were factors and referred to the land grab as a taking of an "empty continent". So it seems that ignorant mindset of the 15th century persists in a writer claiming to make intelligent conclusions about our future.
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I believe I've  already done this, however at this time, there's been no problems with the item. thanks, J.P.
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This was an eye opener for me...I am a Polish-American and recognized some of the areas in the stories...I ask myself the question..."What would I have done in a similar situation?"  Sadly, I must answer..."I don't really know..."
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I don't normally writing reviews, but this simply, for me, is the best answer I've come across in answer to this question.
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After reading the book, the above comments are quite accurate. I would just like to point out, as it already has been, that the "my 80's" essay was included for purely personal reasons.

After reading excellent quality essays like "The last Americans" & "Passover in Baghdad" & to then get dragged through "On TV I saw Brideshead Revisited and the Patrice Chereau production of Wagner's Ring...and then "Sometime in the mid-'80s I stopped swallowing cum. I don't miss its taste".

Nothing inherently wrong with that, I guess, but I submit not one of the best American essays of 2004. Sorry, call me low brow.

"My Lost City" & "My Fathers a Book" make it worth buying.

Thank you.
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I am not using it as much as I expected because my old clock radio is still working, however I think that it will be just what I wanted once I get used to it.  I'm afraid I still have not yet figured out all the intricacies of using the alarm, not that its difficult but because I am an old lady.  Please excuse my rather lame evaluation.  Just say I like it!
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actually I thought this was the book I was referring to ....when in fact I was dealing w. The First Word....although I think the same observation of using Only English as a basis of discussion...so consider my observation sent to the above book  The First Word....the same thing...only ref.  English...
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Well, Virginia, they didn't give you quite enough information. (remember that one?) I always knew that the bastards were lying to me. Go to Amazon. Click on the book to preview. You can even download. It will make you sick. Better now than later. I was curious why anyone would be so stupid to even consider "flat Earth". I'm glad that I inquired. Thanks Edward Hendrie!  P.S several more orders are on the way! I Have been alone on an island defending geocentrism long before I knew it had a name. I am proud to be in such good company.
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i wasn't paying attention or the information has leaked out through the trade off for real estate in my fibrous container yearning for relevancy. that is why i need you. to bolster the methods of a successful preparation. but i haven't bought you yet. and here i pronounce indecision. there are just too many. what if i was limited to walking to the local bookshop? i would scoff at the washed up selection of used guidebooks then feel cheated by tweaked reprints of the industry standards. this industry is too big. hypothetically, i walk home, and along the way i am taunted by the satellite dishes i wish i had already reframed (to both my community plus my unknown community) for being a completely obvious art project that sacrifices the aesthetic for the conceptual yet surprises you with anonymous racism.

what if my search terms could have been better. what if the auto completion / auto correction was hindsight itself--imagine it: letters slowly congealing into subliminal idiom. do i keep it general, interrogative, pessimistic? "how to take a good picture" "photography" "light" "portrait" struggle to completion in the same suspense of watching a kid mess up at a spelling bee, going really meditative about their my mistake, sweat stains the only glory.

once i learned through exercises how to appropriately evoke the mood of (wheel's been invented) electrical setups. it was another notebook, seventeen pages in, that i was too lazy to recycle when the storage space let out the air in its balloon. i couldn't read my handwriting anyway.

i really can't stand the artificial much longer. i am planning a purchase by justification of investment. i will be ready now when the mother of some friend of mine contacts me about a reputation i had for training in this skill and therefore she'll want to pass my name on to someone who needs headshots of their niece's aspiring actress daughter. i will agree under the condition that the daughter will probably fail in that competitive industry and it won't be my fault. i will agree under the condition i take them in natural light.

technical hocus pocus may evaporate in the politeness of a first time conversation. so i should be prepared if someone misunderstands me and wants to be portrayed as an indoorsy hermit. discovering a niche is what to sell nowadays.

so what am i going to do when the pop of a flash resting on top the camera, as lazy as a microwave, exerts itself as if it knows how to light my subject?

(i hope to have learned by now) i would plant the flash elsewhere, a coiled wire ready to trip any intruder between me and it's pi&ntilde;ata stronghold. (i hope to have learned by now) i would wrap the palm of a rubber glove around it, the allergic latex fingers brushed back like sturdy hair plugs not to interfere with the consistency of a diffuser. (i hope to have learned by now) you may decide not to pay me in fives tens and twenties because the job was shot on film, handed over in a closed off canister with a prankster smirk that reads: take it to not only walgreens but cvs, duane read and rite-aid when they are closed and shove it through their overnight drop off slot, creative directions on the envelope only--no contact information--scribbled in sharpie marker: turn me into grey scale to satisfy my craving for abstraction. (i hope to have learned by now) to prevent the inevitable of bargaining image quality for lack of knowledge. (i hope to have learned by now) i've been less qualified than others yet hired to team teach this stuff before i even have the time or energy to refresh my memory. (i hope to have learned by now) sunglasses and or a cigarette don't actually make you look cool. (i hope to have learned by now) tell the subject not to stand in front of the sun.

that larger forces in life mess up my light meter is the true search for compensation. while techniques indoctrinate trial and error, you bring me closer to secrets.