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Were they twisty and all alike?

xyzzy

Different game.

It’s present in both Zork and Crowther Woods adventure. Guess you never played zork?

Ever played Zork? If you say "xyzzy" or "plugh" in Zork it replies "A hollow voice says, 'Fool'" or simply "Cretin." A nod to Crowther and Woods.

plugh

plover

Even though he personally benefited from them. Pull up the ladder!

Do you have reason to believe he benefitted from gifted programs around the level of kindergarten or maybe first or second grade?

He never had to work a day in his life and now he's mayor elect of NYC!

Maybe there are too many colleges if there's not enough qualified students. Perhaps save taxpayer money and downsize UCSD. Better have fewer, but qualified, students than load it up with people who shouldn't be there.

Alternatively, maybe some of the rejected students could be admitted. I don't know that any college has an excellent admissions process that reliably identifies talent (or the lack thereof).

False dichotomy.


In the United States if someone makes a false statement about you, comminicates that statement to a third party, and that statement can or has caused financial harm, you can reocover damages in court. If there are similar laws in your country. it's probably worth sending a demand letter to cover the time wasted on investigation.

I think monotype would argue they only sent the message to the company they were shaking down.

Of course, LinkedIn’s ToS might beg to differ. I wonder if the bar is worded like a big and statement like you said, or if the disclosure to the third party has to be part of the chain of harm or something (and what precedent says).


There are multiple relevant elements to defamation in the US: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/defamation-and-first-...

What 3rd party was involved here?


Microsoft has succumbed to extortion recently.

Zinc is very useful! I wouldn't want to imagine a world without zinc.

Thank goodness we still live in a world of telephones, car batteries, handguns, and many things made of zinc.

That's how I read it, too! I got excited! "Finally," I thought "I can run WinAmp on my OS/2 Machine". Then I clicked to the repo and saw it was just a Mac thing.

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