What Makes Masculinity? Thanks to fauxparadiso (who posted this in ONTD_political)

...'s accompanying slideshow. The caption of her photo reads, "When I wear men's clothes I feel comfortable and confident in how I look on the outside which now matches the inside." States decouples masculinity not only from birth-sex, but also from sexual orientation. Mike stands confidently, wearing a Speedo, and his caption reads, "I want to show that, despite stereotypes, gay men can be ...

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What is money?

... Originaly paper currency was nothing more than a check. An IOU from the bank that issued it, which you could exchange for some commodity. (ie gold) In 1971 we effectively went off the gold standard. This decouples any hard link between currency from it's basic purpose, to represent money.. or human motivation. To spend now: We can tax, borrow or inflate. We can't borrow, no one will lend. We ...

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adult dvd database

... and by centralized resource management controlled in a finely graduated way based on access rights and firm tit porn priorities. at the same time the high firm tit porn degree of virtualization decouples the application software from hardware and implementation details and so creates firm tit porn the foundation for the long-term compatibility, high Zdzisaw,(b. Firm tit porn october 18 1927 in ...

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Red Hat to Acquire Middleware Software Firm

... arena when it purchase Java-based on two legs server software platform outfit JBoss for US$420 million. With the MetaMatrix taking department, Red Hat can add on a data services division that decouples applications from their data source, freeing data from single application silos, according to Connolly. The data management souk is hard-hitting to realize $1.3 billion in 2007, according to ...

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New fish species discovered that bridges two catfish families

...its head and tail, plus other features, link the species to the Loricariidae, a widespread and successful family of fully armored catfishes. But L. wahari also has a specialized pelvic fin that decouples from its body and moves backward and forward independently. This feature—used in combination with a grasping mouth to move like an inchworm up rocks—is otherwise found only in a family of climbing...

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1 billion triangles

... the renderer or scenegraph, you also have to change the other), it can also mean lots of draw calls, and the more draw calls you have the slower things get. The submission engine on the other hand completely decouples the renderer from the scene. The renderer doesn't care what it's drawing, it just has a whole bunch of data that it renders in as few calls as possible (in my case, just a single ...

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