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He has become a minor celebrity among geeks worldwide, who read his blog religiously. Impressively, he has also succeeded where small armies of more conventional public-relations types have been failing abjectly for years: he has made Microsoft, with its history of monopolistic bullying, appear marginally but noticeably less evil to the outside world, and especially to the independent software developers that are his core audience

Bruce Sterling defines argot as “the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique… a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world.” For example: “He philosophized and recited baseball statistics in a Brooklyn argot that was fast-fading.”

That sounds like a lot of work. Besides, if a hurricane comes sweeping up in here, maybe it’s, like, a sign. A sign that we should take less stock in material possessions and shit and, like, return to motherf�cking nature. Relinquish the trappings of overfed American society and make like beasts. It could be, like, a return to Eden, man. A primitive reawakening… A reordering! Yeah, man, a f�cking reordering of corporate society or some such shit. Businessman ripping free from the chains of suits and shackles of cufflinks and ties, the plebs rising up from the ashes of soiled money and sodden silks — the debris of the higher-ups — and taking their rightful places as the makers of this world.

Most people don't really bother to study communism, in theory or practice, but have a basic sense of it: communism was a good idea, but it was implemented by bad people. Of course, study of the ideas and the practice of these ideas will lead you to exactly the opposite conclusion — it was a bad idea and that's why it attracted bad people who implemented it for ill. But most people don't stick around that long, and they have a powerful reason not to do so: abject fear of being called a McCarthyite. So deeply ingrained are the lessons of McCarthyism, that people deeply fear even debating communism, even saying anything critical about it, for not only of appearing politically incorrect, but of actually contributing to some unfair prosecution or punishment of a person with leftist beliefs. On Twitter, if you even use the word “Marxist” or “Communist,” a guy with an account called RedScareBot with a Joe McCarthy icon on his account will come around and apprehend you, trying to name and shame you even for raising the topic.

It's not hard, but it will take at least an hour of practice before you become proficient enough to use the keyboard regularly. For the first few days, my words per minute dropped precipitously.

Because snakes vary from one country to another, first aid methods also vary. As always, this article is not a legitimate substitute for professional medical advice. Readers are strongly advised to obtain guidelines from a reputable first aid organization in their own region, and to be wary of homegrown or anecdotal remedies.

Myotoxins are small, basic peptides found in snake venoms, such as in that of certain rattlesnakes. This involves a non-enzymatic mechanism that leads to severe muscle necrosis. These peptides act very quickly, causing instantaneous paralysis to prevent prey from escaping and eventually death due to diaphragmatic paralysis.

The first myotoxin to be identified and isolated was crotamine, from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, a tropical South American rattlesnake, by Brazilian scientist José Moura Gonçalves, in the 1950s. Its biological actions, molecular structure and gene responsible for its synthesis were all elucidated in the last two decades.

It's similar in many ways to the pervasive spirit in NYC's tech community today. Last week, we interviewed dot.com legend Josh Harris, who went from being a bona fide New York City millionaire to bootstrapped artist with a harrowing vision of the future. This got me thinking about how many other great stories from that era need to be told.

The debate is controversial and contentious due to the implications of not raising the debt ceiling, political ideologies, long-term debt concerns, and competing plans to address these concerns.

At issue is that the failure to extend the limit may leave the federal government unable to pay all its obligations, including paying interest on existing debt, a default that could have serious repercussions. This would probably include causing panic in bond markets and damaging the economic recovery from the Great Recession. Such a crisis could throw the United States back into a recession.