"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."

Why Do People Cheat?

What do you do, when the one you have loved for almost half of your life, breaks your trust in a major way? How do you move on past that? Is there light at the end of the tunnel?   I feel like my life is one big question, right now. And there isn’t an answer in sight.  …

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Tsunamis over Birmingham Alabama

  Ok. First off, these are not my pictures. I found them on the web. But, I thought they were cool, so I decided to share them with the NV community. Meteorologists have described them as "Kelvin-Helmholtz waves".

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COPS! Friend or Foe?

Are times changing? People changing? Or is it just the way we get information, now? I remember, when I was a kid, about the only time you heard about a cop in the news it was either for some heroic deed, or else they had been killed in the line of duty.

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Last space shuttle comes home, ends 30-year era - Yahoo! News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Foto-Friday: Shadow Play

 These are kind of dark, but figured they would be visible.

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Pinch Your Pennies, Tighten Your Belts, It's Recession Time!!

I’ve been reading stories on here about how people are having to cut back, tighten up their belts, and pinch pennies. Well, sit right back, and I’ll tell you a tale. This is my story. I’m not looking for sympathy.

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Cry Baby Holler

At a fork in the roads, out toward Addison in Winston County, there’s a little community known as Nesmith. Just outside of Nesmith, there’s an old iron-trellis bridge known as Maxwell Bridge. Now this bridge is very old, very narrow, and very creepy at night.

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More pics of the babies

  Got some updated pics of the babies. 

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Man Bites Dog

Man Bites Dog! That’s what the headline read on the front page. I’m thinking, “What the heck?” So I start reading the article as I envision a guy running around biting dogs. No, wait.

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Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn

Imagine being caught in a thunderstorm as wide as the Earth with discharges of lightning 10,000 times more powerful than normal, flashing 10 times per second at its peak. Now imagine that this storm is still unfolding, eight months later. One of the most violent weather …

New baby pics

Just some updated pics of babies. I added the other two babies, too.

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Snapshot Sunday? Maybe?

Someone on another thread asked me to post more pictures of our puppies. I couldn’t figure out how to post more pics to an already published article, so I decided to just write another one. This way I can share all of our babies with everybody.

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Oh What a Night...

I was at class (ugh, math), my wife and daughter were at home with the babies (seven dogs, four of which were two days old, and two cats). A sudden storm came out of seemingly nowhere around 9:30 p.m.

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James Arness of 'Gunsmoke fame dead at 88

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall — all 6 feet, 6 inches of him — on "Gunsmoke" from 1955 to 1975.

Family finds $45,000 in new home — then returns it - Yahoo! News

When Josh Ferrin closed on his family's first home, he never thought he'd make the discovery of a lifetime — then give it back.Ferrin picked up the keys earlier this week and decided to check out the house in the Salt Lake City suburb of Bountiful.

Cullman Twister part 2

The frenzy was over in about fifteen minutes. Cullman was silent…It was almost deafening. And then the sirens started. Fire trucks, ambulances, and police were racing everywhere.

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Cullman Twister part 1

Wow! What a storm! Two weeks ago today, I was sitting in my office doing paperwork. The t.v.

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Yellowstone Supervolcano Bigger Than Thought - Yahoo! News

The gigantic underground plume of partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano might be bigger than previously thought, a new image suggests. The study says nothing about the chances of a cataclysmic eruption at Yellowstone, but it provides scientists with a valuab …

Space telescopes observe unusual cosmic blast - Yahoo! News

The burst was likely caused by a star that was ripped apart after drifting too close to a supermassive black hole.

Nazi warplane lying off UK coast is intact

LONDON (Reuters) – A rare World War Two German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it. The Dornier 17 -- thought to be world's last known exampl …

The end of the world as we know it in 2012...

That’s right, I mentioned 2012. No, I’m not talking about the elections. Not interested in that. I’m talking about Planet X. Anybody heard of this? Nibiru, Planet X, end of the world as we know it.

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Rattlesnake Vaccine?

This is in response to Scott's writing challenge located here. Here you go Scott. My first try at one of these, Yall don't laugh at me too much. “Rattlesnake vaccination? Really?”

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DC incident spurs look at airport tower staffing - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Air traffic safety is under increased scrutiny by federal authorities following an incident in which two passenger jets landed without controller assistance at Reagan National Airport because no one could be reached in the airport tower. An aviation official said  …

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