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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for the rant in alt.philosophy
Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Sep 20, 2008 11:09

... because (so far as I know), he has rarely if ever dissed/ criticized (very fallible) Marxism, so in my own semi liberal mindset he's a demagogue-dogmatist somewhat as his ideo-cohorts Chavez (Venezuela) and other reigning-ranting tyrants whose names (in Burma et cetera) I don't keep up with as nearly as I would like. However: I think this essay is fairly candid and an incisive attempt at capturing some harsh as helle truth/reality/...
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Re: F-35 coming along as planned. Never.
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Author: Addinall
Date: Sep 19, 2008 23:06

...> Any of the current 4.5 fighters will wipe the F-35 from the sky. "Oh but it's stealthy, it will kill you from a distance".  Hint. The USSA is not the only country with missiles or RADAR. Your rant is empty so far. You are stating your opinion as fact with no real information to back-up your position. The early deployments of the F-22 F-22 Squadron Shot Down by the International Date Line 01-Mar-2007 05:35 EST ...
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Re: F-35 coming along as planned. Never.
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Author: Airyx
Date: Sep 19, 2008 14:32

... Any of the current 4.5 fighters will wipe the F-35 from the sky. "Oh but it's stealthy, it will kill you from a distance".  Hint. The USSA is not the only country with missiles or RADAR. Your rant is empty so far. You are stating your opinion as fact with no real information to back-up your position. The early deployments of the F-22 have made it very clear, that the combination of stealth, speed, sensor integration, and platform ...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: John Doty
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:56

... your usual soap-box. If it would be helpful, I could write a script that would inject a message into comp.lang.forth periodically with plenty of key-words you could use to go off any any number of canonical rants. It might help if you didn't always rise to his bait. I'm trying to learn that lesson, too. Why do you think that a viewpoint from outside your narrow world is intended as bait? There was no such intent,...
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: Elizabeth D Rather
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:25

.... If it would be helpful, I could write a script that would inject a message into comp.lang.forth periodically with plenty of key-words you could use to go off any any number of canonical rants. It might help if you didn't always rise to his bait. I'm trying to learn that lesson, too. Cheers, Elizabeth -- ================================================== Elizabeth D. Rather (US & Canada) 800-55-FORTH FORTH Inc....
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Re: Version Control Strategies For Block-Based Forths?
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Author: John Passaniti
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:13

... than anything else. But we also disagree on what "application" means. Applications are things like selling soap and finding planets. The computer and its code are tools. I'm glad my message allowed you to return to your usual soap-box. If it would be helpful, I could write a script that would inject a message into comp.lang.forth periodically with plenty of key-words you could use to go off any any number of canonical rants.
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Author: srezic
Date: Sep 19, 2008 12:10

This distribution has been tested as part of the cpan-testers effort to test as many new uploads to CPAN as possible. See http://testers.cpan.org/ -- Dear Casey West, This is a computer-generated report for Acme-Rant-0.1 on perl 5.8.8 patch 34313, created by CPAN-Reporter-1.17. Thank you for uploading your work to CPAN. Congratulations! All tests were successful. Sections of this report: * Tester comments * ...
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Re: using a lapack routine
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Author: e p chandler
Date: Sep 18, 2008 22:03

... which sets default integer ...... default double precision ........ one include file for SP, a second one for DP. [rant] ICK. I like conditional compilation as much as I like wading through C header files. :-(. [Bad memories ...O via IN and OUT, another for memory mapped I/O.... /* I actually _liked_ memory mapped I/O */ ] [/rant] So I usually just add what the include file would have added to the source file myself. YMMV. ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Sep 17, 2008 17:48

...> interests, percentage, commission, fee. pay, graft, feathering their own nest <what does that mean?> More horse sense & apples later- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - re: more rantings Earlier I did not rag (condemn) borrowers whom lied about their solvency & borrowed in speculation that their houses would appreciate anyhow, and encouraged to think in the vein by our national culture of hubris, positive thinking, ...
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Re: Is the "Nice Guy" really nice?
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Author: Alex
Date: Sep 17, 2008 17:41

...." So are you going to point out a specific logical falicy, or continue to whine like a cranky bitch? hey fucking moron, maybe if you had a reading comprehension level above 3rd grade, you could play.. now run along little girl and play with your dollies. :) LOL silly bitch. So, then that would be a "no," on the specifics? I'm sure no one is surprised by your inability to do anything other than rant.
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