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Venezuela Falling Behind
Christopher Frank writes "Seems Venezuela's lack of power has finally caught up with them! MSNBC has the story: 'If you thought Venezuela's political crisis seemed to be dragging for an impossibly long time -- you were right. In a bizarre mass-malfunction, Venezuela's clocks are ticking too slowly due to a power shortage weakening the electric current nationwide. By the end of each day, the sluggish time pieces still have another 150 seconds to tick before they catch up to midnight.'"
of course, I could have read the article and commented intelligently, but this is slashdot, I'm tired, and the laundry is finished. Now can I go to sleep? Thank you.
Oh fantasy free me! And nothing can ever be the same. With the vis of a mind flip. You're into the time slip!!!! LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN! -Rocky Horror Picture Show
I claim this fp for all GHETTO SOULJAZ like me.
whats the topic?
No, no, no. That'll never do. It should be: "In Soviet Russia, the Behind falls YOU How can one say that this is getting old? One could certainly compare it to CowboyNeal. His option in the poll is older.
Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.
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Time is just nature's way to keep everything from happening at once.
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg
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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
- Hector Berlioz
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It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
- Hofstadter's Law
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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law
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Time as he grows old teaches all things.
- Aeschylus
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle
This is funny and best of all it has a link to a real news site! No JOKE! :P
That's unsubstantiated Horse Shit! Indeed, the CIA did was involved in overthrowing Salvador Allende, but that was it. Whenever another dictator gets overthrown, nothing is more convenient for a despot to have the populace focus their rage on a distant, foreign enemy, rather than on the despot himself. Worked in 1984, it's working in Venezuela, and it will work again in the future.
What keeps America or Britain or Germany or Russia or China ticking?
Not in the literal "atomic clock" sense. How is it that America's government is still functioning when a majority of its "democratic" populace didn't vote for its leader? Judging by the past few weeks/years of protests, the other countries don't really care for their "elected" leaders either.
How can so few people hold so much sway over so many people?
Mayber I should take more PoliSci courses (just a poor CompSci major typing here!), but that the human populace can function at all, given the variety of personalities and prejudices, I consider a miracle.
In fact, I think that Venezuala is one country that is acting the way things are supposed to go!
obviously no deficiencies vs. no obvious deficiencies
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