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Prescience
Yes, well....
Yeti
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4/21/2008 9:01:07 PM
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Not everyone can call it as good as you did, eh TB?
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"Perils Of Victory" (February 3, 2003 Newsweek)
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Bowser
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4/21/2008 1:40:53 AM
Prescience
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TB
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4/21/2008 4:18:11 AM
Yes, well....
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Yeti
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4/21/2008 9:01:07 PM
Heh.
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TB
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4/22/2008 5:28:13 AM
Attention Robet S.
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Yeti
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4/22/2008 3:42:46 PM
No kidding
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Robert
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4/22/2008 5:36:58 PM
Can I at least get some idea of how we're scoring this?
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TB
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4/22/2008 11:00:02 PM
The scoring system is very simple
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Robert
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4/22/2008 11:48:06 PM
Okay, you win.
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TB
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4/23/2008 12:13:10 AM
That was just plain stupid
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Robert
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4/23/2008 5:34:44 PM
No, actually, your post was.
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TB
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4/24/2008 3:35:28 AM
same as it ever was
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Robert
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4/25/2008 9:28:59 PM
Incidentally...
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TB
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4/26/2008 5:36:13 PM
re: same as it ever was
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TB
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4/26/2008 5:07:39 PM
Dude. I bet you could write a lisp program
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Yetiliza
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4/25/2008 9:59:29 PM
I don't think so...it would come out as "thothialitht."
(n/t)
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TB
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4/29/2008 8:58:21 PM
Ohh!
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Yeti
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4/26/2008 12:53:11 AM
Imagine, if you will, a search form...
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Robert
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4/26/2008 2:56:37 AM
And here...
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TB
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4/23/2008 12:14:24 AM
Tell you what, how about you just beat this mark?
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Yeti
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4/23/2008 4:44:28 AM
What, Tom- cat got your tongue?
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Yeti
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4/25/2008 4:15:28 AM
Dude, you had to go back five years.
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TB
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4/25/2008 4:58:55 AM
Tom used the word "dude"?
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azstrummer
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4/25/2008 11:03:29 PM
Actually...
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TB
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4/26/2008 5:11:21 PM
I do it too, for comedy's sake.
(n/t)
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alcaray
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4/26/2008 6:54:25 PM
I know, right?
(n/t)
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Yeti
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4/26/2008 7:18:22 PM
Far out, man.
(n/t)
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alcaray
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4/26/2008 8:09:32 PM
totally!
(n/t)
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Robert
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4/26/2008 2:57:19 AM
Insane
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Yeti
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4/25/2008 3:53:27 PM
Track record
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TB
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4/26/2008 5:26:06 PM
The value of the US in Iraq made really, really simple.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/25/2008 4:39:53 PM
The numbers make no sense.
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TB
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4/28/2008 6:39:52 PM
Check your premises.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/28/2008 10:15:31 PM
Please. Don't teach granny how to suck eggs.
(n/t)
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TB
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4/28/2008 11:00:34 PM
Another way of looking at:
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podrock
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4/27/2008 3:36:44 PM
My calculations...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/27/2008 8:36:00 PM
In other words, numbers, reason, logic etc are not needed. Its all just one big conspiracy.
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Yeti
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4/28/2008 7:28:23 PM
It's hopeless.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/28/2008 11:15:12 PM
Maybe if I speak slowly enough, you will understand.
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Yeti
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4/29/2008 12:04:58 AM
Monopolists versus Capitalists
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/29/2008 1:41:32 AM
You got nothing.
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Yeti
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4/29/2008 1:53:54 AM
Believe what you want.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/29/2008 2:18:53 AM
Like someone showing up to a southerbys auction with a little red wagon and a ball of rested bailing wire.
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Yeti
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4/29/2008 3:16:53 AM
Sotheby's? Southerby's must be for the southern folks...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/29/2008 3:52:29 AM
Problem is, you numbers and etc only make sense in TechLand
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Yeti
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4/25/2008 10:44:17 PM
Sure you do.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/25/2008 11:42:37 PM
Oookay, Tech. Thats nice.
(n/t)
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yeti
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4/26/2008 5:52:37 AM
Yeah, I thought so.
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/26/2008 8:07:22 AM
Just nothing one can say
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Yeti
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4/26/2008 5:00:06 PM
Let me get this straight...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/26/2008 6:37:23 PM
PS
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Yeti
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4/26/2008 7:17:47 PM
No, let me straighten you out.
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Yeti
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4/26/2008 7:09:32 PM
Actually, a pittance of a drop
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Yeti
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4/26/2008 7:34:37 PM
Like I said...
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/26/2008 10:28:48 PM
re: Oh! Easy one- number of wars started for causes that were fictions
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Yeti
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4/22/2008 11:27:18 PM
Whoa...looks like you win hands-down then.
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TB
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4/22/2008 11:42:27 PM
re: No kidding
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REB
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4/22/2008 9:45:48 PM
Naive, perhaps...
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Robert
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4/22/2008 10:26:26 PM
Actually
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Yeti
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4/22/2008 9:25:19 PM
re: Actually
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Robert
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4/22/2008 10:30:39 PM
re: Actually
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Yeti
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4/22/2008 11:20:16 PM
Now it's clear
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Robert
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4/23/2008 12:04:36 AM
oh, and
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Yeti
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4/23/2008 4:28:20 AM
re: Now it's clear
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Yeti
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4/23/2008 4:22:14 AM
Hey Arrell
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Yeti
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4/22/2008 8:26:45 PM
Nevermind
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Yeti
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4/23/2008 2:57:45 PM
What???!!! There is no way even YOU can revise history that way.
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Bowser
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4/22/2008 6:33:00 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.