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Old 01-21-2012, 04:50 AM
Michelle Steiner
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

It appears that it did.

<http://graphjam.memebase.com/2012/01...youre-wonderin
g-if-the-black-out-was-worth-it/>

<http://tinyurl.com/83qt4om>

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Old 01-21-2012, 03:30 PM
Wes Groleau
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

On 01-21-2012 00:24, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> It appears that it did.
>
> <http://graphjam.memebase.com/2012/01...youre-wonderin
> g-if-the-black-out-was-worth-it/>
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/83qt4om>


A lot of interesting points in the comments on it.

Also,
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16655272>


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Old 01-21-2012, 05:50 PM
Alan Browne
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

On 2012-01-21 00:24 , Michelle Steiner wrote:
> It appears that it did.
>
> <http://graphjam.memebase.com/2012/01...youre-wonderin
> g-if-the-black-out-was-worth-it/>
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/83qt4om>


Other than co-sponsors bailing and Dodd requesting H'wood and Silicon
Valley types meet ... ? Hell yes.

Ironically, the next day The Empire Struck Back.
http://tinyurl.com/7jl8b99

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...y.html?hpid=z3



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Old 01-21-2012, 05:50 PM
Tim Streater
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

In article <michelle-A9774E.22243120012012@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> It appears that it did.


There hasn't been a blackout since the war ended in 1945. Do keep up.

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Old 01-21-2012, 05:50 PM
Michelle Steiner
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

In article <timstreater-6A9AFC.16571221012012@news.individual.net>,
Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

> > It appears that it did.

>
> There hasn't been a blackout since the war ended in 1945. Do keep up.


Maybe where you live, but there have been blackouts in other parts of the
world since 1945. Please don't be so provincial.

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Old 01-21-2012, 07:40 PM
Wes Groleau
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

On 01-21-2012 13:23, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> In article<timstreater-6A9AFC.16571221012012@news.individual.net>,
> Tim Streater<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>
>>> It appears that it did.

>>
>> There hasn't been a blackout since the war ended in 1945. Do keep up.

>
> Maybe where you live, but there have been blackouts in other parts of the
> world since 1945. Please don't be so provincial.


We could argue semantics and say this one was a "brownout."

But it was certainly world-wide.

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from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.

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Old 01-23-2012, 04:30 PM
Lu Powell
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

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>
>"Michelle Steiner" wrote in message
>news:michelle-A9774E.22243120012012@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>It appears that it did.
>
><http://graphjam.memebase.com/2012/01...youre-wonderin
>g-if-the-black-out-was-worth-it/>
>
><http://tinyurl.com/83qt4om>
>
>--
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>People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.


Cheers to the folks who stood up to the power-hungry elected officials.

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Old 01-29-2012, 06:50 AM
Joshua Whalen
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Default Did the blackout do anything?

In article <michelle-A9774E.22243120012012@news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:

> It appears that it did.
>
> <http://graphjam.memebase.com/2012/01...youre-wonderin
> g-if-the-black-out-was-worth-it/>
>
> <http://tinyurl.com/83qt4om>


I'm rather satisfied with the results myself. More to do, of course, but
a good shot for our first at-bat on this one.

Joshua
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