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    Maybe this thread should be renamed to UK gone
    mad
    . We're completely sane and rational over here
    in the United States.
    Staying away from General.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ethic View Post
    Maybe this thread should be renamed to UK gone
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    . We're completely sane and rational over here
    in the United States.
    He says with his funky "I'm not going to make my lines long because I don't want you to expend the 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 watts of energy required to move your eye from right to left".

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    you're welcome.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom View Post
    Yes, but those people don't agree with MK, which means they're stupid and not worth acknowledging for the points he's trying to make. I'm sorry jwenting, I think you've lost this one.
    I didn't ask for an article where a former environmentalist (qv. his wikipedia page) marches against a wind farm.

    David Bellamy was never an advocate of wind power. So this is not an example of some environmentalist (or group thereof) first lobbying for wind power and then against it, which is what jwenting claimed and what I'm saying has never happened in reality.

    Also, everything I found on the web about the guy indicates people on both sides consider him a quack. He apparently was president of a wild plant conservation charity for a long time until a few years ago when they asked him to resign because of public anti-environmental statements he was starting to make. He's now associated with neo-liberal thinktanks*, hence a former environmentalist.

    Finally, taking one dubious quack as representative of anything is only a demonstration of how you are lead around by your own prejudices, seeing only what you want to find.

    * ie, a for hire mercenary
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    Current ISO draft standard
    CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
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    Quote Originally Posted by MK27 View Post
    Also, everything I found on the web about the guy indicates people on both sides consider him a quack. He apparently was president of a wild plant conservation charity for a long time until a few years ago when they asked him to resign because of public anti-environmental statements he was starting to make. He's now associated with neo-liberal thinktanks*, hence a former environmentalist.
    He's probably a commie, too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom View Post
    He's probably a commie, too.
    You mean a
    Sleeper agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    C programming resources:
    GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
    The C Book -- nice online learner guide
    Current ISO draft standard
    CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
    3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
    cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge

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    Yes, but those people don't agree with MK, which means they're stupid and not worth acknowledging for the points he's trying to make.
    Haha. ROFL.

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