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12-08-2013, 10:44 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Should we also thank de Klerk for ending apartheid In SA. in The Bilge

If you were going to pick an example for moving civil rights forward in the 60s, LBJ would have been by a mile the better call. JFK's interests lied...

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12-08-2013, 10:26 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

A great benefit for gamers!

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12-08-2013, 09:19 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

I'd be happy with renewable youth but a finite span, longer than the 20 thousand days of tradition and no set sell by date but not long enough to...

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12-08-2013, 09:10 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

They'll need fuel. That should provide a spark of interest in the natural world. The interface is easy enough to understand. As you say, it...

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12-08-2013, 08:59 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Should we also thank de Klerk for ending apartheid In SA. in The Bilge

This may have been lost on Geng, but before posting another uninformed comment or thread topic, it's may be instructional to him to reiterate that...

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12-08-2013, 02:24 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Annual Seattle EBS in People & Places

I thought Pat was on excellent behavior. I was incredibly disappointed by the dearth of Greek fisherman's caps. The ale was good, the pate not so...

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12-08-2013, 02:19 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread a novice with questions over an opportunity he has been presented with... in Misc. Boat Related

These two remarks are the ones to pay heed to. All else is speculative. There is no decision to be made until more information is at hand. However,...

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12-08-2013, 01:13 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread The PUB light's ON! :D in The Bilge

Sorry, Ed. I feel asleep and wound up with my face in the soup. Always happy to have you at the table, just don't expect much conversation!

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12-08-2013, 01:07 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

Isn't this predicated on seeing the body and the mind as separate things? The analogy is pouring the contents of a jar into another vessel. Quite...

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12-08-2013, 12:57 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread interesting paint schemes in The Bilge

Stick with the red.

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12-08-2013, 12:14 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread interesting paint schemes in The Bilge

Your runner (rug) is cleaner, but it looks like your wife shops where mine does! Seattle built boats, we probably shouldn't be surprised! She's...

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12-08-2013, 12:07 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

I agree with you, PLP, at least at this stage of our physics, but just to pose this as a series of questions rather than in the form of an...

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12-08-2013, 11:00 AM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

The frog just is.

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12-08-2013, 10:58 AM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

It was thrilling for her!

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12-07-2013, 11:57 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread The General in The Bilge

I think the interesting part is that they've been successful in paying back the government loans which suggests that loaning them the money was the...

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12-07-2013, 11:55 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

My theory all along has been that it's all taking place in a pimple on a frog's ass.

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12-07-2013, 11:51 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

Do you remember a store in the Public Market, I believe it was called the Discovery Store? The name doesn't matter. My family wandered in and my...

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12-07-2013, 11:40 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

I regret we didn't sit together and talk more today.

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12-07-2013, 11:21 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread interesting paint schemes in The Bilge

Great job, Lee!

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12-07-2013, 02:48 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Question about speakers for TV rather than music in The Bilge

I'm not sure if it was motorcycles or a lot of concert attendance that was the most damaging, but the combination has done some harm. By the time I...

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12-07-2013, 12:00 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Question about speakers for TV rather than music in The Bilge

It's been 53 years since I graded or paved a road, and to be honest, I have no yen to revisit either experience.

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12-07-2013, 11:58 AM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Vintage motorcycle thread, in The Bilge

Loss of 3 points for polished and chromed parts. It's an R60.

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12-07-2013, 10:32 AM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

I cannot tell a lie. But alas, I did! Given a bit of poetic license, can we say "not a lie?" It's more like a yarn! The part about the...

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12-06-2013, 09:38 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread interesting paint schemes in The Bilge

Here's a color scheme that caught my eye on the topsides of a boat at the Mystic show. Steven Bauer's daughter built (and painted) the boat of...

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12-06-2013, 09:29 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread interesting paint schemes in The Bilge

This one's for you, sean! All "my" kayaks were taken at the annual wooden boat show at CWB here in Seattle. We always considered the wood to be a...

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12-06-2013, 09:21 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Whoa! in The Bilge

In college I was able to create illusions like that simply by closing my eyes. Under certain circumstances they were visible on my dorm room ceiling...

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12-06-2013, 09:15 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC in The Bilge

It's more or less the same sort of stuff Tom quoted from Rush (including more personalities like Beck, even a few of Huckabee's guests....there are...

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12-06-2013, 09:10 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread I never worried about artificial intelligence until I read this. in The Bilge

Not to forget I, Robot. AI. The Terminator series. 2001. Most of Milla Jovovich's movies (loosely speaking :D) and a sci fi story I wrote in 8th...

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12-06-2013, 08:58 PM

Lew Barrett replied to a thread Should the Government limit executive pay? in The Bilge

That's it. They need to eat somehow. If their employers don't pay enough to cover basics, the taxpayers simply pick up the tab. Somehow, we get to...

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