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for many of those 49. And yet another slightly different
spelling that may have been the intent, as well.
Although the two ESPN boys are rather unambiguous.
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:20:14AM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
I've noticed a rather interesting asymmetry. People on the list who
are
Perhaps you forgot that JDG killfiled me for a while, although I may
be out of it now, I'm not sure. Anyway, in case you forgot, I'm not
religious.
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/criticised/stoned for doing so.'
Is that better? :)
A little. But I don't put a high value on such anecdotal evidence. A
poll of at least 1000 of those people (randomly selected across a
diverse range of backgrounds) asking how favorably they view OBL would
be more convincing.
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muslims than India.
Maybe an India-based entrepreneur should start a polling organization.
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:12:42AM +0530, ritu wrote:
I remember most of the 120 million muslims of my country speaking out
against the atrocity.
You must have a phenomenal memory! I can only remember 120 people on a
good day, let alone 120 MILLION!
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Hershey's cocoa out of the tin.
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with whole milk, but to
call the instant a completely different animal? Ridiculous.
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:55:28PM -0500, David Hobby wrote:
Still working on my machine, though. It's not dead, just no
longer supported!
I regret to say the Proxomitron web filter is well and truly dead.
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feel is
a problem for Mozilla, please do. If you feel the need for something
esoteric, you can always fork the code. If your fork is good enough, it
may even get into the main branch. If not many people find it useful,
well...
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:22:07PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
You don't taste a distinct difference?
You don't read well?
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:17:05PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
You don't read well?
[Nonsense deleted]
Apparently the answer is yes. Why do I bother replying to you? Will
endeavor for this to be the last time.
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 09:16:05PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Now that you've dissed Julia,
You need to pay closer attention if you think that. Out of curiousity,
having an off day, Dan?
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; the cocoanut tree.
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that there will be a discussion
that is not nonsense. Which there frequently is, but unfortunately not
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at keeping discussions civil with
folks the rest of us could not. My memory is that I read a post of
yours, and thought to myself, well even Julia isn't perfect (sorry
Julia).
Dan, you've got dissing on the brain. If you can't get a new concept,
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And a Department of Homeland Security
+4
(author unknown)
Uh huh. Meter (metrically?) challenged.
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On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:06:23AM -0600, The Fool wrote:
Proxomitron is better. All hail Proxomitron. Oh wait erik can't use
it...
Proxomitron is dead. http://www.proxomitron.org/
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On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:17:32AM -0600, The Fool wrote:
Proxomitron needs no more improvement.
Yeah, and the web isn't changing, either.
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but it didn't hold my attention). I probably won't see #3. All I
want to know is was a better explanation given for the stupid humans as
battery thing? I think you had a theory on them revealing that it was
actually computation, not energy?
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:02:18PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All I want to know is was a better explanation given for the stupid
humans as battery thing?
Actually, I wrote a backstory to make the storyline more conceivable
when the first Matrix movie
hail Mozilla!
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for the name, and that is legal.
'Fakes' are illegal, even if those 'fakes' came out the back door of
the same factory that makes the 'real' product.
If your fake is identical except that you don't put the other
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?
Did he say that? I must have missed it.
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or educational institutions would actually be more efficient,
in terms of using available resources and creating beneficial advances
for everyone, than the current state of affairs. Some, but not all.
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silly and obviously in
contradiction to the U.S. Constitution. I would like to see the system
move towards eliminating many copyright protections and instead move
towards a subscription and/or large payment for early purchasers model.
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:44:08PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Even the alleged stability is false:
That is false.
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:23:58PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
variable terms depending on the item and the quality of the invention).
As far as 5 years go; in the industries that I am familiar with, five years
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:18:49PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
NIH is funded by the government, it is *not* a corporation.
News flash from Julia!
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:57:09PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Ass flash from Erik!
Butt in from Rob!
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It seems most yardwork, snow shoveling, home remodeling work, etc. is
done by going to the pick-up zone and hiring a few Mexicans. It sounds
rather sad, but all parties involved seem to be voluntarily gaining a
benefit of some sort, so it may actually be for the best.
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, and horrible
buses. There is no choice for most people but to sit in traffic. It
sucks, no matter how much the apologists compare it to other cities with
bad traffic but good buses and/or trains.
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:58:52AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
and have somewhat more regular work than that. Do you see many Mexicans
with more regular employment than just pick-up work?
Yes, the townhome associations seem to have all Mexicans working for
them.
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:55:52AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
but the whole thing of not being *allowed* to pump your own gas bugged us.
Me too! My first time I got yelled at for trying (there were no signs
telling me!)
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On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:32:28PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
I would prefer a monorail system instead.
Umm, how does it go, is there a danger that the track will bend?
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:36:05AM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Cancer bad. Baby may be good news or not, but cancer always bad.
Not true. For example, Saddam Hussein and/or Osama bin Laden, cancer
good.
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:34:11PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:36:05AM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Cancer bad. Baby may be good news or not, but cancer always bad.
Not true. For example, Saddam Hussein
transit has poor
coverage unless you just want to go to New York or Philly.
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:29:17PM -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Traffic's no worse than Atlanta or LA.
That would be damning with faint praise? Or like saying Fargo has nice
weather compared to Antarctica?
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to spend hours commuting to and from work, Jersey's your
place then!
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:07:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're acting like New Jersey is somehow uniquely bad in this
regard. The
No, I'm not. And we won't say what you are acting like :-)
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have useful train
systems and lots of traffic -- I'll choose the train every time (and
live close to a train). In Jersey, there just aren't enough train lines
to live next to unless you just want to commute to New York or Philly,
in which case, I'd rather live in New York or Philly anyway!
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:34:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
B) Don't bother arguing with Erik - he's baiting us. There's no point
responding to his obvious (if lame) attempts at trolling.
Wrong as usual, Tom.
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a similar problem.
Did these delays only start when you switched to your ISP's MTA?
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:52:14AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
Is there an argument in there that I missed?
Yup.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:10:38PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
So what was it?
Go back and read my prior message and try actually answering the
questions, then maybe we can get somewhere.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:40:05PM +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
Back to the netherlander sagas perhaps?
If you think that, then you need to pay closer attention.
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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 02:54:43AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 02:17 pm, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:10:38PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
So what was it?
Go back and read my prior message and try actually answering
Musicmatch jukebox?
So much for ITunes. 8^P
I think the idea is to use iTunes as the player instead of whatever
inferior software you were previously hampered by :)
So you are buying WHAT, exactly? Seems like a load of crap from the
record industry.
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in the best way for your needs?
P.S.
Do you think it is stealing to download files of television series,
like, oh, I don't know, Angel?
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understand how the brainwashing makes you forget these things.
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 09:28:33AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
However little money the creators make when one buys the music it is
more than the 'none at all' they make when one steals it.
Wrong.
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:07:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you think it is evil to contribute money to terrorists?
Um...non-sequitur?
Do you know much about the record industry and RIAA?
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it on. That would be a huge improvement over
all the trouble of the shuttle tiles.
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I meant paste, not foam. Duh!
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:50:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does it matter? Why rip off from ANYONE?
Do you think the record labels ask that question? The RIAA?
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:55:18AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And their iniquity justifies someone else's?
Do you think it is evil to contribute money to terrorists?
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, Gautam has written that he is extraordinarily
busy these days.
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On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:49:13PM -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
Seriously, what is your problem?
Oh, Jan, don't worry. I'm only prejudiced against male redskins. Jan is
such a pretty name. I'll bet you are a beautiful redskin girl. Want to
go out to a movie sometime?
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:21:36PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:14 pm, Erik Reuter wrote:
How'd you manage to see 5x02 already?
On my eMac.
Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question. I thought it wasn't
even available yet from satellite
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:54:23AM +0530, ritu wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
You might not get a reply, Gautam has written that he is
extraordinarily busy these days.
Thanks, Erik. :) I had been extremely busy lately so I missed that
mail of his
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effective battles that people could be fighting if they want to
eliminate real discrimination against people with red skin. After all,
some people's skin DID (and does) have a red tone to it, so the term
is a basic description, not an insult. Big deal, who cares about skin
color, get over it.
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people all the time, no
insult intended. Quit your whining! I will now attempt to use the word
redskins more than I otherwise would have.
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:50:54AM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Cute, but the name would still be offensive to Native Americans.
Personally, I still think it's absolutely ridiculous that the judge
ruled against them.
What law are they breaking by naming their sports team Redskins?
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On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:58:58PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
What law are they breaking by naming their sports team Redskins?
I imagine that the term is offensive, because it reminds us of a time
when Humanity was split into Four Races: whites, blacks, yellows
, but aren't most football teams
privately owned?
If the Redskins are privately owned, then the MOST that could happen
based on the law you quoted would be they would lose their trademark on
the name, right? They could still use their name, it just wouldn't be
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cameras in...
And I doubt you need as much as 200m. In most public places, you could
hide them closer than that.
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know exactly where it is, it seems it would be as
easy to remove as to implant. And I can't imagine people consenting to
serious surgery for implant -- it would have to be just sub-cutaneous in
order to be widely adopted. Anything that is swallowed is unlikely to be
permanent enough.
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:04:43PM -0500, The Fool wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:39:24PM -0500, The Fool wrote:
You put the chips in their clothes,
easy to scan and remove
They can put them in riveted buttons, shoe soles, and the like
in a small dog they were tough to ever find again).
Dee
We are talking about RFID's, Dee. Very easy to pinpoint precisely with a
scanner.
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much higher
correlation with the US stock market.
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resolution. It seems it would take
some really good (expensive) optics to get adequate resolution from a
distance.
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to look natural, but in fact, appear
like someone else's.
Good point, very true. Of course, one could also wear false
fingerprints. The problem of quickly and accurately identifying people
is a difficult one, and one that likely won't be solved soon.
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:28:19AM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 11:44 pm, Erik Reuter wrote:
Good point, very true. Of course, one could also wear false
fingerprints. The problem of quickly and accurately identifying people
is a difficult one, and one
and you make it so these chips can't be removed or disabled without
destroying the product they purchased.
very difficult to do for most products that people carry with them
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:02:26AM -0400, David Hobby wrote:
Betting that dark glasses really are dark at all reasonable
wavelengths.
You'd lose that bet. Most dark tinted glass passes light above about
1000-1100nm.
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.
My my my, not only does he deserve an answer to his question, but he
also deserves to have NO extraneous information added that he does not
like. Wow, what can I do to become so privileged?
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Peace through industrial parks
Sep 18th 2003
From The Economist print edition
Israeli entrepreneur Stef Wertheimer wants to convert the Middle East to
capitalism
EVEN an optimist would have to concede that this is an awkward moment
to arrange business deals in the Middle East. Political
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 06:53:44PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
I had to look up that TLA - we call 'Liberal Arts and Sciences' 'Arts
and Social Sciences' here - I assume you meant Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Yes, you got it
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compared to stories here maybe he wasn't so
bad ( he had a Ph.D. in philosophy, though :-) I learned my high school
physics from Sears, Zemansky, and Young, and I enjoyed it immensely!
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thought was that older engineers were not
talented enough because they were old.
Do you think it would have happened on a 401(k) type plan instead of
pensions?
It seems to me this is yet another problem due to pensions. Defined
contribution plans beat defined benefit plans in many ways.
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it, but it was at least 30min, maybe 45min). But when I installed
Linux, that only took about 20min.
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:38:29AM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Forgot to reduce the Windows XP partition. It will let you make a
smaller than full size partition during the XP install.
No, I didn't. No, it didn't.
Yes, you did! Yes, it does!
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is
http://ferret.bls.census.gov/macro/032002/perinc/new01_011.htm.
Any idea how hours worked compares for the women and men in these
groups?
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that if you wanted to meet a girlfriend, take certain L.A.S.
courses. (Actually, they weren't really joking...a friend of mine took
some Education classes and met his future wife)
I wonder about MBA programs. Are those 50/50? They tend to make big
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:34:32PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
You really need to give a better description of the problem if you want
relevant suggestions. Please explain exactly what you did and what error
messages you got.
If I knew exactly what is the problem
the resizing. But this process
is fraught with peril and I would not recommend it. I would recommend
another hard drive. But I guess money may be an issue, so if you go the
resizing route, be sure to back up your important files before resizing.
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other problem. As you pointed out, we need
more information. What distro/installer is he using, EXACTLY what point
did it fail at, etc.
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the heirs of
Charlemagne, etc.
Ah, thanks for the information. I like your reply much better than
Tom's.
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that
thread?).
The real problem is making the material. So far, no one has made
any significant lengths of it and tested it to see if it behaves as
predicted.
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that -- the vehicle to lift people
and cargo would weigh tons.
The material proposed is carbon nanofilament based. But no one has yet
made a long length of it to test its properties on a large scale.
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of Days_, too.
I can't understand why people only want to read about characters they
really like. That gets awfully boring. It is also unrealistic.
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behave like a saint?
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expect anyone to like me either.
Yes, again, duh! He is the anti-hero, you aren't supposed to LIKE him.
But I don't see why you must like him to find the book interesting.
Talk about whiny!
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believable character! Plus, the whole backdrop of a fantasy world
that -- rather than being real but obscure as is common in fantasies
-- is quite likely just in the main character's mind is quirky and
unusual, which I always prefer to cliched, me too stories.
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