Post #195,612
2/20/05 1:08:56 PM
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Dude, the debate's over. All wrapped up November 2.
What we're having now is a debate over the meaning of the debate. And if you think I'm not participating in *that* debate, you're just not paying attention.
I've long since wised up to the game of trying to please people like you guys. You can't manipulate me that way. But don't stop complaining! It amuses me.
Say, what was that about making money fast? Tell me more!
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Well, pardon us for winning the election.
Memo to Democrats and to the Left: hatred is not a substitute for vision.
"All the news you wish would go away"
[link|http://marlowe-essays.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-we-need-prescription-for-our.html|http://marlowe-essay...tion-for-our.html] - What We Need - a prescription for our times
[link|http://marlowe-essays.blogspot.com/2005/01/where-i-stand-proverbs-and-axioms-for.html|http://marlowe-essay...d-axioms-for.html] - Where I Stand - Proverbs and axioms for the real world
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Post #196,724
2/28/05 11:44:37 PM
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Spoken like a true authoritarian.
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Post #197,379
3/6/05 2:32:11 PM
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If democracy is authoritarianism, then yes.
Otherwise, no. Either way, it's not my problem.
I believe in democracy. Do you?
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Post #197,512
3/7/05 1:27:21 PM
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The way you practice it, it is....
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #198,351
3/13/05 2:51:08 PM
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Practise makes perfect.
By the way, the Democrat party seems to be off their game as of late.
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Post #198,620
3/14/05 6:01:36 PM
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And it really WOULD be easier if it were a dictatorship
...so long as you're the dictator, right Philbert?
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #198,414
3/14/05 1:30:07 AM
8/21/07 6:27:41 AM
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I do not think that word means what you think it means
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #198,416
3/14/05 2:03:34 AM
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..and a passel of other words.
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Post #198,492
3/14/05 11:26:01 AM
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He only misinterprets 800,000 (or so) English words.
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #198,498
3/14/05 11:36:56 AM
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Wow! you do him a lot of credit
If I understand this correctly, the Oxford English Dictionary contains 97,600 primary words with 500,000 definitions of them. The bot would have to create new words to misinterpret. Pretty good trick... :) [link|http://www.elearnaid.com/newshoroxend1.html|http://www.elearnaid...ewshoroxend1.html]
# The immense scholarship of the Oxford English Dictionary--brought within reach of everyone:
* 2 Volumes
* 500,000 definitions
* 7.5 million words
* historical useage back to 1700, however it includes Shakespeare who lived from 1564 to 1616
* 4,000 pages
* 97,600 headwords
* 25,250 variant spellings
* 87,400 illustrative quotations
* 7,333 sources of quotations (including 5,519 individual authors)
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Post #198,552
3/14/05 2:07:09 PM
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That's what used to be called the Oxford Abridged, IIRC
and it's abridged to a pretty significant degree.
...though I have to admit that the last number I heard for words in English was ~300,000. To be fair, that was before the Internet and the concomitant boom in word coinings.
Last but not least, yes Marlowe, Democracy can be authoritarian. Just ask anyone Romany, Jewish, Gay, etc after the Bundestag voted to make Hitler dictator.
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