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PHS241 wrote: To be honest, many of those riders didn't have a fraction of his talent with or without doping so in relative terms, he was still way ahead of them
BS.
PHS241 wrote: The biggest c*** though is that useless POS Floyd Landis
Agreed.
PHS241 wrote: the greatest troubled genius in the saddle was Marco Pantani.
Agreed.
PHS241 wrote: <layer> Armstrong was and still is, the greatest cyclist
BS. He is an arrogant jerk. I won't go into that debate anymore, everybody here knows about how much I despise this clown.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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The problem isn't that he doped and now confessed, but destroyed people in the process while claiming he was clean. This is a man who not only peddled a lie, but fought ferociously to protect that lie, even if it meant harming others, including well meaning sponsors who put their faith in him. When it came time to be held accountable, he not only lied, but sued everyone he could (and won; many are now suing him.) Even coming clean was timed to be after the statute of limitation.
Plus, I don't think he had as much talent as is claimed. Until he started doping, he was a better than average rider, but by no means brilliant. (There is a strong possibility that his cancer was caused by doping.)
I'm also curious why Floyd Landis is scum. He called out Armstrong AND WAS RIGHT. Yet, Landis has been demonized.
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PHS241 wrote: didn't have a fraction of his talent with or without doping so in relative terms
IF that were the case, I don't really see what he stood to gain through cheating.
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He had to compete against core riders in other teams that were on drugs. He had to compete on level terms against those that could have challenged him. The vast majority of the domestiques and specialist sprinters would still be less if they took drugs and he did not.
I really hope he identifies everyone involved in the back-office teams who played a part. His answers on Oprah's interviews were carefully measured as if he knew the questions in advance. Perhaps he cheated on that as well? 
Maybe we'll see the real inside of it all later.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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And that's still being too kind with him.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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A friend of a Facebook friend just wrote on my friend's status (paraphrased to correct grammar): "How are you on Facebook if your phone is broken?"
Youngins these days. 
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Some people don't deserve technology
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I asked someone if he had a desktop, and didn't know what that was. He also didn't know about laptops, tablets, netbooks, etc. He knew about the iPhone. That's it. Sad, isn't it?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Sad, isn't it?
Ummm... unbelievably so. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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It is sad, even the farm workers I know know what a desktop and laptop is. Just not sure if they know about tablets
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Not really.
This person is a customer, who will have no choice but to buy what we produce.
I'm quite happy that there are a lot of people who are utterly illiterate in the world of computing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I am still trying to figure out how the title relates to the subject 
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Ah, you too must be unfamiliar with computing devices which do not fit in your pocket. 
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Don't even have a smart phone. Use to have calculators that were too big for the pocket, but my phone does have a calculator, but not a very capable one.
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this means i cant get out of my home if my car is malfunctioning.
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Usage of phone for Social Networking Websites is now huge.
That's why that guy could not even think of any device other than phone, which can access Facebook, so sad !!! 
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I can't even read something that small!
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Very Cool![^]
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Not any more endless than a circle; just one-sided... or surfaced?
modified 17-Jan-13 18:59pm.
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Funny, it is just like a circle. Nothing new there, just need a hall that connects to itself. I have been in school building like that.
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Where the floor becomes the ceiling?
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Just a slight problem with gravity unless using velcro in outerspace, or one is a fly.
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Not exactly "endless"; it's just Mobius. You get the same "endlessness" with two rooms that have two connecting doors.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Tim decided to tie the knot with his long-time girlfriend.
One evening, after the honeymoon, he was assembling some loads for an upcoming hunt. His wife was standing there at the bench watching him.
After a long period of silence she finally speaks.
"Honey, I've been thinking, now that we are married I think it's time you quit hunting, shooting, hand loading and fishing. Maybe you should sell your guns and boat...?"
Tim gets this horrified look on his face.
She says "Darling, what's wrong?"
"For a minute there you were sounding like my ex-wife".
"Ex-wife!" she screams "I didn't know you were married before!"
"I wasn't".
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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+50 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Ouch
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Men with guns seldom have ex-wives. 
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IF nobody can find the body he wasn't 
is this a signature ?
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... now that voting is turned back on ... just going back to +5 a few old messages.
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Harvey
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Pauline Phillips aka 'Dear Abby' has passed on [^] ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Steve
_________________
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
_________________
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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To my surprise, my boss sent me an email this morning. His email said - your rating in the yearly review is downgraded from what I had given you in the review meeting last week. I have to do this because after reviewing the project budget again, I 've found there were many delays.
I am wondering what kind of company is this? I would have felt it that bad if he had given me this rating in the proper review meeting instead of going back and bouncing this email after one week.
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This is poor form. It's his responsibility to have the facts at his fingertips. He shouldn't be retrospectively penalising you.
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Translation:
I have to do this because after reviewing the project budget again, I 've found I didn't blame you enough for the problems I, and other department heads, caused.
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I would have thought you both signed the review form at the original meeting and that the signatures had some binding agreement. You could probably push him on that aspect but it depends on how secure you feel as to how hard you would want to push him.
My review rating is linked to both my bonus and my pay rise so I would probably not stand for it.
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Time to look for a new job. This is a sign. Start looking now.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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