Word: contentment
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...With Kurt Loder and MTV cameras at their backs, No Doubt strolled on stage. Sans cosmetic braces, Stefani coyly flirted with the first few notes of "New" before surging into the quick paced skank-adelic pop. Instead of bumping and moving, the little ravers were content with singing along to every word. Stefani pranced around the stage to all the hits, spinning her "Spider Web" and tell us "Don't Speak." Her attempts at flirting and posing for the crowd were uncharacteristically unsuccessful, as the mostly female crowd was more interested in bassist and Stefani ex-boyfriend Tony Kanal...
While other cartoons are content to dabble in the real world, Doonesbury plunges in full-force, satirizing politicians by name...
Normally, movies on DVD are encrypted through a "content scrambling system," which prevents the material from being played on unlicensed playback devices. DeCSS, a program created last fall, bypasses this encryption system, allowing a user to copy and view movies at will...
...challenge is that we are still clueless about how the brain represents the content of our thoughts and feelings. Yes, we may know where jealousy happens--or visual images or spoken words--but "where" is not the same as "how." We don't know how the brain holds the logical connections among ideas that spell the difference between "Burr slew Hamilton" and "Hamilton slew Burr," between the image of a person winking to realign a contact lens and that of a person winking to flirt. These distinctions don't appear as blobs in a brain scan. They arise from...
...nature's products do tend to outshine our own poor workmanship by manifesting things undreamed of in all our philosophy. So let us seek nature's own replicate--on Mars or a few other potential places in our solar system, if we really luck out (and are willing to content ourselves with simple things at bacterial grade and unfit for mutual conversation); or elsewhere, despite daunting distances (beyond any possibility for two-way conversation during human lifetimes) but promising--in the most exciting and improbable long shot in all human history--a potential insight soaring well beyond our meager powers...