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Ron, I know 90% of your posts' content was about a different topic. but it was all addressed to someone else. There didn't seem to be any reason for me to respond to that material. But I did find your suggestion that my original post was an 'attack' to be interesting and worth discussing. So rest assured that I don't need to be reminded about the primary content of your posts just because I only responded to one relatively minor point which happened to be the only one that really involves me. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I think this is absolutely hilarious and entirely possible! First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Hmm. I suppose it could be seen that way. Advancing a theory that a poster is paid might fall under the rules about 'attacks', but it's unclear. Perhaps we'll get some guidance from an authority. On the other hand, I DID advance the theory once while he WAS here to defend himself and he declined to. His reasons could have been innocent or not. We don't know. Now you're suggesting that discussion about someone should stop when they stop posting. Would that prohibition also hold when someone is banned (and thus no longer here to defend themselves?) It seems like that would be good manners, but are you suggesting it should be a formal rule as well? First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! Troll conspiracy theoriest troll! Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! Troll troll troll! There. Now it must be true. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Yeah, I think you're right. It's a sorta slang/not very common/not very important semi-word. Dictionary.com says "One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle." First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Oh, I don't know? This is just a back-of-the-napkin figuring, but I bet it's not too far off... How many hundreds of millions of dollars were used to buy how many tens of millions of votes? Let's assume $20/vote. Assuming 80% of the votes were going to vote one way or the other anyway, that means $100 per swayed vote. Now hire someone for, oh say $1000/month to spend a couple of hours a day on a couple of online forums riling up the discussion. If you net an average of 120 votes per shill in a year, that's economical. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Movies don't interest me. Haven't been to a theater in almost a decade... First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Conspiracy: Any two people talking about doing something unsavory. The ultimate defense: As soon as you're caught, point at your accuser and scream, "Conspiracy theorist!" First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Tunaplanet, author of approximately 4000 vigorously pro-Bush, anti-gay, pro-war posts starting one year to the day before the election to shortly after the election. No posts since. Looks like my theory that he was a non-skydiving, contracted republican shill was right afterall. I asked him once how much he was paid to post his propoganda. He was honest enough not to deny it. Modern american politics relies on some very strange practices. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I bet 10 times as many post titles would be interesting enough to click on if they weren't so incomplete. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I had about 200 jumps with a 10+ year break. One (U.S.) DZ said "You have to do the entire AFF course over again. No exceptions!" Another said, "Well, we'll talk with you for a while to see how much you still know, then if that goes well we'll go out for a jump together. After that, we'll see." We did one single-instructor AFF-style jump together. After a debrief he said, "Good job. Welcome back to the sport" and that was that. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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"Greed" can mean "the desire to provide for yourself through production of value" and it can also mean "the desire to provide for yourself through cheating others." The former is hard to call a 'vice' but many people won't know that's what you mean. Edited to add: The more traditional word for the desirable form of greed would be "selfishness" but that's just as misunderstood. Ah well, isn't that the nature of the original question? First Class Citizen Twice Over
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They're running the site off a cable broadband connection (Sunflower Cablevision if you're curious). The provider blocks the normal web server ports. This gets around it (at least temporarily!) First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I despise the virtue of meddlesomeness and the admire the vice of isolationism. (Is that redundant?) First Class Citizen Twice Over
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US Supreme Court - is it Bound by the World Court?
narcimund replied to lawrocket's topic in Speakers Corner
Oddly, that's exactly what he CAN have. It's convenient being emperor. First Class Citizen Twice Over -
No, that's not at all the reason. Synthetic corks and screw tops are being used because the oak 'cork' has an occasional bad habit of bringing undesirable bacteria to the wine and ruining it. . If you open two bottles of the same wine and one smells bad while the other doesn't, it's said to be 'corked'. It's a rare and random but annoying problem. Some say it happens as often as one bottle per case, but I haven't found that to be true at all. I find corked bottles maybe half that often. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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No... that quote indicates that cask aging does not add more oak flavor beyond a certain point. Cask aging is done by the wine maker before it gets to the consumer. Aging in bottle (which is what people usually mean by 'old wine') is an entirely different subject. But if you like cheap young wine, or if you look to chemistry reports to decide what tastes good, great! This will save you money and effort. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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There are many ways to ask questions and there are many ways to attack. One common way to attack is to ask questions then misinterpret, re-interpret, or selectively read the answers: "... ... ... doggie treat .... ... ...." Another is to pose insults in the form of questions. "Have you stopped beating your wife?" That's a special favorite around here. Even I have indulged. It's fun! First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I can't wait to hear what websites you're browsing to educate yourself about gay people. That sounds like a truly BAD idea. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Touchy touchy! Now admittedly you are the one who writes "any" then tells us we should telepathically know you meant "many", but still, words ARE important. So go back and read my words. I said "something", not "someone". What "thing" did I mean? Think hard... First Class Citizen Twice Over
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I should go back and read the thread carefully, but I sure don't remember any gay person in this thread saying anything of the sort. Well, something certainly is. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Would someone with authority please amend the dropzone.com rules page? We're now required to telepathically understand what someone meant, not what they wrote. First Class Citizen Twice Over
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Wow. You really make me sorry I answered your question carefully. Why did I bother again? First Class Citizen Twice Over
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She's aware of the hypocrisy. She even makes fun of it (which I thought ruined the joke) but apparently even that wasn't blatant enough for some. First Class Citizen Twice Over