So are you pro-pro/con debates? Or con-pro/con debates? If you get paid for being for them, are you a pro pro-pro/con debater? If you lie about being against them, are you a con con-pro/con debater?
"So, while unlimited air may sound attractive, there is no practical effect of oxygen limits on the majority of users. Understanding this should bring rationality to a discussion that is often held on a “gut feeling” level. Keeping adequate partial pressure of oxygen while allowing all users to share the limited commodity we call air is the fair way to deal with breathing. And ultimately, that is what is beneficial for air-breathing humans."
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I think you misunderstood, Leigh. Shiva Ayyadurai could learn something by following Al Gore's example.
Al Gore not repeating or standing behind a statement that is false or ambiguous at best is undoubtedly better than Shiva Ayyadurai doubling down on his false claim to have invented email. It would be even better if Al Gore corrected or repudiated his statement, like Ehud Gavron claims. But Ehud provides no evidence that he ever did so. But again, at minimum he walked away from his claim, so he is better than Ayyadurai on that point.
What is "no better" is Ehud's claim: "He never said he invented the Internet. 'Conservative' pundits looking to make fun of him made that up." Yet we all are in agreement that he said, "I took the initiative in creating the internet." He said it. No pundit made it up. Just admit it. Especially now, twenty years later.
Gore didn't say, "I took the initiative in approving the funding so that others could do the work of creating the internet." Trying to justify his statement is no better than Shiva Ayyadurai trying to justify his claim to have created email.
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Here, two of the defendants are from California (Floor64 and Mike) but the only plaintiff (Ayyadurai) is from Massachusetts.
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Apropos
Or con-pro/con debates?
If you get paid for being for them, are you a pro pro-pro/con debater?
If you lie about being against them, are you a con con-pro/con debater?
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Find and Replace
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Re: Well, THERE's your problem....
http://www.dailydot.com/news/snowden-eff-hoodie/
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That's the problem with snowbergs.
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Happy New Year!
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The officers who patrol on unicorns?
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Re: Bad math
In other words, just 1.
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Al Gore not repeating or standing behind a statement that is false or ambiguous at best is undoubtedly better than Shiva Ayyadurai doubling down on his false claim to have invented email. It would be even better if Al Gore corrected or repudiated his statement, like Ehud Gavron claims. But Ehud provides no evidence that he ever did so. But again, at minimum he walked away from his claim, so he is better than Ayyadurai on that point.
What is "no better" is Ehud's claim: "He never said he invented the Internet. 'Conservative' pundits looking to make fun of him made that up." Yet we all are in agreement that he said, "I took the initiative in creating the internet." He said it. No pundit made it up. Just admit it. Especially now, twenty years later.
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And in second place, false history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFJ8cHAlco
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