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I can't help but wonder...
you really should see an opthalmologist about that winking problem
Daniel
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8/31/2005 2:24:28 AM
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I can't help but wonder...
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/30/2005 7:54:54 PM
Who wrote the book of love...
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Tom Brosz
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8/31/2005 7:57:40 AM
Lieutenant Brosz, you've interrupted my thread. I'm sorry... there'll be no ice cream for you tonight.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 3:15:55 PM
My My, aren't you modest....
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DL
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8/31/2005 6:00:00 PM
You're a bit young...it's lost in translation.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/1/2005 12:42:05 AM
Hey, I remembered. Must be a geek shortage around here...
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Tom Brosz
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9/1/2005 4:36:30 AM
Yipes. I take it back. Just saw the rest of the thread.
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Tom Brosz
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9/1/2005 4:38:05 AM
I think paraphrasing Star Trek now is "old school" geek.
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/1/2005 5:20:47 AM
All you need is love.
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Mary Anne
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8/31/2005 12:50:05 PM
Love... you're better off without it, and I'm better off without mine.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 3:20:30 PM
"Love, Is A Many Splendored Thing."......
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Publius
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8/31/2005 3:31:40 PM
re: "Love, Is A Many *Splintered* Thing."......
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DL
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8/31/2005 3:44:09 PM
"What's LOVE got to do with it?"
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 5:12:30 PM
You also can't help but be predictable
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Fox
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8/31/2005 3:53:22 AM
Just another talent...
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 5:08:08 AM
re: "come and gone"
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Fox
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8/31/2005 3:04:56 PM
You know what Joe's mistake was? He wasn't born an lrishman
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 3:43:23 PM
One more time!
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Tom Brosz
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9/1/2005 8:58:55 PM
Why, that's rational of you SDAI........
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 5:37:36 PM
how can you tar Fox, Robert et al with the same brush as 'go insurgents'?
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Daniel
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8/31/2005 2:00:26 PM
Easy: tar -czpf insurgents /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox
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DL
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8/31/2005 3:49:43 PM
hey bro, me big mojo, you get mine ponitifications serious-like ..
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not that DL
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8/31/2005 5:21:36 PM
oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/fox
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DL
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8/31/2005 3:51:11 PM
re: oops:tar -czpf go_insurgents.tar /root/worthy/fox /root/worthy/robert
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DL
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8/31/2005 3:58:32 PM
LOL...suh-weet!
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McFly
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8/31/2005 5:22:44 PM
A ClearCase can be made that you should ZIP it and SIT
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Robert
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8/31/2005 4:00:12 PM
ant, um, it is clear now that this is the prologue to a flame war....
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:15:33 PM
The post is prologue as we stack flames and pop the caller
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Robert
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8/31/2005 5:31:45 PM
Don't push it too far, though. Our buffer here only goes so far...
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:33:30 PM
That's why I implemented TOC paging
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Robert
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8/31/2005 5:35:31 PM
LOL! good comeback.
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:47:17 PM
Ohh, maybe I should have said 'good callback'!
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:58:49 PM
Your right, Robert- I am only the Shell of the geek that you were bourne as. But please don't bash me too hard.
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DL
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8/31/2005 4:02:07 PM
Oh, I wouldn't bash you, though I might hash you and /bin you
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Robert
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8/31/2005 4:05:36 PM
Hmmm, I compute a key collision in this attempt to hash this thing out. I think we should not cast the object of this disagreement too strongly, I'm not sure I could, er, find the class in my library…
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DL
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8/31/2005 4:22:56 PM
It's a matter of using the framework and respecting the class hierarchy, through which one inherits authority
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Robert
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8/31/2005 4:54:54 PM
Although, through reflection, one can free oneself from the class hierarchy, and undermine its protections and the privacy of its members.
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:05:14 PM
Worker threads of the world, interrupt! You have nothing to lose but your call chain!
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Robert
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8/31/2005 5:28:17 PM
hey, I take exception() to, umm, Calls like that! Watch where you pointer that thing! Referncing things ut of memory like that could lead to global insecurity!
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:31:26 PM
I try to buffer overruns, but sometimes I register a pointer overrun do to invalid memory, and it's all my fault
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Robert
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8/31/2005 5:34:50 PM
Robert, its okay, we forgive your segmentation faults. don't feel better after such a core dump? Getting all of that corrupted memory off your chest?
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:48:57 PM
It may be a corrupted memory, but I feel as though I was born of a General Protection Fault
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Robert
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8/31/2005 6:12:43 PM
So it ends where it begins? Back at inheritance? Its an endless loop, eh?
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DL
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8/31/2005 6:16:12 PM
do while( nature > nurture )
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Robert
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8/31/2005 8:05:36 PM
You Glib cat's need to be less object oriented and more interpretive before this thread turns into a huge Python.
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et
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8/31/2005 4:46:05 PM
lisp-en up, Ecto... I know, ummm, smalltalk bores you, but maybe we can take a more functional approach?
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:10:06 PM
A Perl of wisdom!
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Robert
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8/31/2005 4:55:19 PM
Eiffel over tying to read this
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McFly
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9/1/2005 5:28:59 PM
But then, some people like Hewlett-Packard so much they start to PHP
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Robert
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9/1/2005 6:47:33 PM
Start preparing scripting.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 4:14:31 PM
Shhhh! Stick with the script!
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Robert
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8/31/2005 4:55:54 PM
or did you mean: 'Schtick with the script!'
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:10:54 PM
Ohhhh null!
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Robert
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8/31/2005 5:36:20 PM
What are you de-referencing with that remark?
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DL
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8/31/2005 5:49:40 PM
I was trying to give Techie a pointer, but he overwrote it and returned null
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Robert
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8/31/2005 6:09:49 PM
Maybe thats why he only returns garbage when I call him.
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DL
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8/31/2005 6:14:30 PM
if( reply_humor < previous_humor ) return false;
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Robert
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8/31/2005 8:07:49 PM
re: if( reply_humor < previous_humor ){ doFlame(currSubject)};
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DL
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8/31/2005 8:31:24 PM
}
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Robert
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8/31/2005 9:17:50 PM
backspace backspace left-arrow ;
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DL
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8/31/2005 10:00:34 PM
No....
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Robert
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8/31/2005 10:50:31 PM
Oh, sorry. My ParseError
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DL
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8/31/2005 11:05:22 PM
That's quite a list you two have compiled.
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et
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9/1/2005 4:22:50 AM
Yeth, ithn't it? ... and they didn't Lisp onthe
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Fox
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9/1/2005 2:46:35 PM
Your "talent"
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 12:14:42 PM
Looks like...
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 4:01:55 PM
Or Godiva chocolates.....
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 5:43:22 PM
Treason is not protected by the First Amendment.
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Mary Anne
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8/31/2005 11:56:59 AM
you really should see an opthalmologist about that winking problem
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Daniel
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8/31/2005 2:24:28 AM
Ah, that's just part of my comforting predictability. ;-)
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 7:06:12 AM
"Nazis...in the HabitableZone...shrieking 'treason!'"
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Robert
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8/30/2005 10:26:00 PM
Sky: not falling. Calling your friends treasonous scumbags: likely to stir up some resistance.
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alcaray
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8/30/2005 10:08:07 PM
I Was Thinking Something Similar Today
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Mark Eby
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8/30/2005 9:48:43 PM
Because it is a fine line they play with.
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/30/2005 11:50:43 PM
Compassion has nothing to do with it.
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Mary Anne
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8/31/2005 12:35:12 AM
Depends on the situation
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 2:50:32 AM
"We need no new leftist martyrs"?
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 3:40:04 AM
Please Explain
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Mark Eby
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8/31/2005 2:00:39 AM
Only when it's "your" Libeerty
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 3:44:06 AM
re: Only when it's "your" Libeerty
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ID
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9/1/2005 2:35:55 PM
I would agree with your first statement
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Lindy
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9/2/2005 12:34:31 AM
A nation of laws
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Mary Anne
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8/31/2005 2:13:03 AM
How About A Nation Of Laws and Honest Debate?
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Mark Eby
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8/31/2005 2:28:36 AM
"Are you defending the right to lie and mislead?"
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Lindy
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8/31/2005 3:45:51 AM
How are you going to have honest debate if to hold a dissenting opinion equals an accusation of treason?
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Mary Anne
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8/31/2005 3:29:10 AM
I Thought Way Better Of You Mary Anne
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Mark Eby
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9/1/2005 2:32:08 AM
Listen, Mr. Corkscrew:
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Mary Anne
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9/1/2005 3:54:20 AM
Very Easy Proof
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ID
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9/1/2005 2:24:07 PM
No proof at all.
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Mary Anne
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9/1/2005 3:39:29 PM
Side Note
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ID
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9/1/2005 2:28:59 PM
One more time...
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Mary Anne
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9/1/2005 3:49:15 PM
Ok, if you insist. I'll take you home Kathleen...
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SDAI-Tech1
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9/1/2005 9:46:24 PM
Do you think SDAI's started drinking again??
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Lindy
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9/2/2005 12:44:48 AM
Let Me Clarify One Sentence
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Mark Eby
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9/1/2005 2:41:56 AM
What he seeks is not debate
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Fox
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8/31/2005 4:22:05 AM
So Counting Is Also A Problem For You?
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ID
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9/1/2005 2:58:26 PM
What he seeks is not debate - Hence my lone contribution to the thread......... ;-)
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Tony
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8/31/2005 3:11:51 PM
Aw nuts again
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Tony
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8/31/2005 3:13:19 PM
[ Hysterical Laughter ]
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SDAI-Tech1
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8/31/2005 4:26:11 PM
wonder away...
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Tony
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8/30/2005 9:28:17 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.