So when I hear that 3 out of 4 small business owners feel they are more impacted by a technical problem than a sick employee I get it.

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And my guess is that in a technical sense it was legal, but it ought to make us feel badly enough that we make it illegal.

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In the past few years, there have been a number of articles about divergence analysis that I feel do not allow it to be judged correctly as a technical tool.

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The technical details of the California case may differ, but the level of fear people feel as they listen to accounts of the manhunt for a well trained suspect who authorities say has a vendetta is similarly acute, said Jim Trainum, a former homicide detective with the Washington Metropolitan Police Department who worked on the sniper case.

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The right set of emotions can even make up for bad numbers or technical uncertainty in high risk startups- whereas great numbers will rarely make up for a failure to make people feel the right way about what you are doing.

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Though that doesn't meet the technical definition of what is spent, it falls under the umbrella of "obligated" -- and we feel and see that in the economy today.

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