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Pauline Phillips aka 'Dear Abby' has passed on [^]
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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You say no more advice, but I've just noticed @Dead_Abby is promising to keep the advice coming on Twitter.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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and technically, her daughter took on the role several years ago...
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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"Dear Abby: I have always wanted to have my family history traced, but I can’t afford to spend a lot of money to do it. Have you any suggestions? — M.J.B. in Oakland, Calif.
Dear M.J.B.: Yes. Run for a public office."
Nihil obstat
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: But sometimes I just have to poke a hole in things
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. Hi Colin, that's an intriguing signature.
I keep wondering if a variation on that might "hold bananas:"
"A room full of Hamlets, given intelligent monkeys, probably could crank out a copy of a programmer: unfortunately the one program she, or he, would write would attempt to calculate whether "to be, or not to be" was a question, and go into endless recursion, which might not matter, since the monkeys could be infinite.
yrs, Bill
"What do humans depend on: words ! We're suspended in language: we can never say what's up: or, down. We must communicate experience and ideas, but in ways that do not become ambiguous, and lose objectivity.
For parallels to quantum theory: we must turn to psychology, or to paradoxes thinkers like Buddha and Lao Tzu illuminated, examining reality, as both observer, and actor, in human life's small-scale micro-cosmic drama."
Niels Bohr, 1937
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