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  • S Shog9 0

    Matthew Faithfull wrote:

    Frankly who would believe it?

    I'll buy it. Not because i have any particular knowledge of the subject (i don't), or because i have a good amount of faith in my Gov't (ditto)... I'll believe it because frankly there are more important things to worry about.

    Citizen 20.1.01

    'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

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    like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview...

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      Ah well, to each his own. Maybe someday I'll be watching a documentary thinking, "wow, Matthew was right." Or maybe the world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.


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      BoneSoft wrote:

      world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.

      After that date, who would really care? I plan on living life to its fullest everyday upto that date, and including that day, and afterwards. Nothings going to happen.

      "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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        like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview...

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        bulg wrote:

        like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview

        Matthew probably has a beanie for that, too

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          like getting 5+ years of C++0x experience for my next job interview...

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          Well... no. :)

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            Matthew Faithfull wrote:

            Ruled out by the fact that pancaking would simply have been too slow

            You've obviously never seen me making pancakes... :-\

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            :laugh: That's funny :) I was beginning to think those guys were proof there are yetis out there.

            "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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              Trollslayer wrote:

              just jump to wild conclusions

              :laugh::laugh::laugh: I don't need to. I remember watching the towers fall that day, and it was pretty obvious what was the cause.

              "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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              BoneSoft
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              Paul Conrad wrote:

              and it was pretty obvious what was the cause

              I couldn't tell for sure what you were agreeing to there.


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                BoneSoft wrote:

                world will end on Dec 21 2012 and we'll never know.

                After that date, who would really care? I plan on living life to its fullest everyday upto that date, and including that day, and afterwards. Nothings going to happen.

                "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                BoneSoft
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                Paul Conrad wrote:

                Nothings going to happen

                Of course not. It's a running joke in the office. Helps dodge some deadline discussions ;P


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                  Paul Conrad wrote:

                  and it was pretty obvious what was the cause

                  I couldn't tell for sure what you were agreeing to there.


                  Visit BoneSoft.com for code generation tools (XML & XSD -> C#, VB, etc...) and some free developer tools as well.

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                  Caused by airplanes being rammed into the building and the burning jet fuel. Sorry, I'm not a conspiracy theorist...

                  "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                    Paul Conrad wrote:

                    Nothings going to happen

                    Of course not. It's a running joke in the office. Helps dodge some deadline discussions ;P


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                    BoneSoft wrote:

                    Helps dodge some deadline discussions

                    Very true. Just tell folks the project will be completed around 23rd, or so. Oops, that's Christmas vacation time right after Dec. 21st :rolleyes:

                    BoneSoft wrote:

                    Of course not.

                    Yeah, a guy that works with my dad was pretty convinced that Planet X was going to wipe out the earth back in 2003. He invested hundreds of thousands of dollars building some sort of shelter thing up in Alaska, and it never happened. Guy is a PhD in Astrophysics and I figured he would have done his homework a bit better :suss:

                    "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                      Caused by airplanes being rammed into the building and the burning jet fuel. Sorry, I'm not a conspiracy theorist...

                      "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                      BoneSoft
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                      Just checking, couldn't tell if you were voting for flying jihadis or the grassy knoll.


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                        Just checking, couldn't tell if you were voting for flying jihadis or the grassy knoll.


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                        Paul Conrad
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                        Yeah, sorry about the vagueness of the one post. Coffee is still kicking in :-O

                        "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                        • P Paul Conrad

                          BoneSoft wrote:

                          Helps dodge some deadline discussions

                          Very true. Just tell folks the project will be completed around 23rd, or so. Oops, that's Christmas vacation time right after Dec. 21st :rolleyes:

                          BoneSoft wrote:

                          Of course not.

                          Yeah, a guy that works with my dad was pretty convinced that Planet X was going to wipe out the earth back in 2003. He invested hundreds of thousands of dollars building some sort of shelter thing up in Alaska, and it never happened. Guy is a PhD in Astrophysics and I figured he would have done his homework a bit better :suss:

                          "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                          BoneSoft
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                          Paul Conrad wrote:

                          He invested hundreds of thousands of dollars building some sort of shelter thing up in Alaska

                          Good God, as if it would have done him any good or he'd want to be the only one around in the aftermath... And he too can vote. :sigh: I ran accross some pretty whacky stuff on Planet X a couple of years ago. Those people put Scientology to shame on the fruitloop-o-meter. Something to the effect that Planet X orbits a near brown star that we can't see, and once every 4,000 or so years it swings over for a pass around our sun causing a pole shift. Even heard somebody claim that the magnetic drag of it's approach was the actual cause of global warming. Anyway, the people that live in the brown star's system apparently use the rougue planet to come visit Earth once in a while, which they supposedly populated by genitically engineering humans from monkeys and themselves. Good stuff.


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                            Paul Conrad wrote:

                            He invested hundreds of thousands of dollars building some sort of shelter thing up in Alaska

                            Good God, as if it would have done him any good or he'd want to be the only one around in the aftermath... And he too can vote. :sigh: I ran accross some pretty whacky stuff on Planet X a couple of years ago. Those people put Scientology to shame on the fruitloop-o-meter. Something to the effect that Planet X orbits a near brown star that we can't see, and once every 4,000 or so years it swings over for a pass around our sun causing a pole shift. Even heard somebody claim that the magnetic drag of it's approach was the actual cause of global warming. Anyway, the people that live in the brown star's system apparently use the rougue planet to come visit Earth once in a while, which they supposedly populated by genitically engineering humans from monkeys and themselves. Good stuff.


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                            BoneSoft wrote:

                            And he too can vote.

                            Very scary thought, too.

                            BoneSoft wrote:

                            Even heard somebody claim that the magnetic drag of it's approach was the actual cause of global warming.

                            Heard that too, and this guy even tries to claim when Planet X swings by, it stops the earth's rotation, and it was the cause of Noah's Flood in the Bible. His argument is that all the water on earth was still in motion and the earth's rotation slowed down fast enough for one mega tsunami event.

                            BoneSoft wrote:

                            the people that live in the brown star's system apparently use the rougue planet to come visit Earth once in a while

                            I see. When Planet X isn't making its trip, they come in UFOs to check on their little science experiment :rolleyes: Wonder if some of them post here on CP? :laugh:

                            "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                              BoneSoft wrote:

                              And he too can vote.

                              Very scary thought, too.

                              BoneSoft wrote:

                              Even heard somebody claim that the magnetic drag of it's approach was the actual cause of global warming.

                              Heard that too, and this guy even tries to claim when Planet X swings by, it stops the earth's rotation, and it was the cause of Noah's Flood in the Bible. His argument is that all the water on earth was still in motion and the earth's rotation slowed down fast enough for one mega tsunami event.

                              BoneSoft wrote:

                              the people that live in the brown star's system apparently use the rougue planet to come visit Earth once in a while

                              I see. When Planet X isn't making its trip, they come in UFOs to check on their little science experiment :rolleyes: Wonder if some of them post here on CP? :laugh:

                              "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                              BoneSoft
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                              Paul Conrad wrote:

                              Wonder if some of them post here on CP

                              That would explain a few things...


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                                Trollslayer wrote:

                                just jump to wild conclusions

                                :laugh::laugh::laugh: I don't need to. I remember watching the towers fall that day, and it was pretty obvious what was the cause.

                                "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                Paul Conrad wrote:

                                I remember watching the towers fall that day

                                So do I. I was at the Tech-Ed ending party, surreal enough made up like an outdoor fair in an underground parking garage, and I went back to my room for a joint, and as I stood up to leave, I walked past the TV and saw the first tower collapse. :( It was very surreal. I knew what had happened, but didn't expect the collapse.

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                                  Oakman wrote:

                                  triggering the pancaked collapse.

                                  Which did not occur. Ruled out by the fact that pancaking would simply have been too slow to match the observed collapse time and could not have occured symetrically in an asymetrically reinforced building with asymetrical fires. Even without the unexplained molten metal and eye witness testimonies of multiple eplosions and a demolition countdown this would be a pathetically inadequate explanation. Albeit that they had next to no physical evidence to go on as the crime scene was cleared without forensic examination.

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                                  Hey Matthew: The sky is green. It turned green last night at 10 pm. I saw it. It's the US inducing electromagnetic interference to block Soviet propaganda transmissions. Look outside right now! Not blue, GREEN. You have no physical evidence that it's not green, so it's green.

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                                    Hey Matthew: The sky is green. It turned green last night at 10 pm. I saw it. It's the US inducing electromagnetic interference to block Soviet propaganda transmissions. Look outside right now! Not blue, GREEN. You have no physical evidence that it's not green, so it's green.

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                                    73Zeppelin wrote:

                                    The sky is green

                                    Now he's going to blame the Swiss Gnomes.

                                    Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                                      Paul Conrad wrote:

                                      I remember watching the towers fall that day

                                      So do I. I was at the Tech-Ed ending party, surreal enough made up like an outdoor fair in an underground parking garage, and I went back to my room for a joint, and as I stood up to leave, I walked past the TV and saw the first tower collapse. :( It was very surreal. I knew what had happened, but didn't expect the collapse.

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                                      Brady Kelly wrote:

                                      It was very surreal.

                                      Felt the same here. I was in a lot of disbelief about it until I saw the headlines in the paper the next day. That is about when reality really set in for me. And remembering seeing people jumping out of the building was pretty bad, too. No judging their decision to do so. What angers me more than 9/11 is all of the conspiracy b.s. that float around it.

                                      "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                        73Zeppelin wrote:

                                        The sky is green

                                        Now he's going to blame the Swiss Gnomes.

                                        Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                                        Oakman wrote:

                                        Gnomes.

                                        You mean those creepy things people put in their gardens that come alive at night? :rolleyes:

                                        "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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                                          73Zeppelin wrote:

                                          The sky is green

                                          Now he's going to blame the Swiss Gnomes.

                                          Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

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                                          73Zeppelin
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                                          Of course he will! And then I'll admit it was us! Muwhahahahahaha

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