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| 2005/6/3 [Reference/Law/Court] UID:37952 Activity:nil |
6/2 Don't know enough about watergate... why Mark Felt didn't
go to Grand Jury instead? What is the risk of going through
the grand jury?
\_ When your boss is involved in the incident...
\_ Why be known as the whistleblower when reporters can do all the
dirty work, get some credit as well, and it won't look like he
did it just to screw Nixon.
\- Do you know what the "saturday night massacre" refers to
w.r.t. to watergate? also see united states v nixon. ok tnx.
[btw, the two legacies of the SNM are BORK and STARR] |
| 2005/6/3 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:37953 Activity:nil |
6/2 yaBlueToothHack:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7461&feedId=online-news_rss20 |
| 2005/6/3 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Politics/Domestic/President] UID:37954 Activity:high |
6/2 Wow, Ben Stein has a... different view of Nixon.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8242
\_ Ben Stein has always quite proudly been a Republican
tool. G Gordon Liddy's views on Nixon are funnier. - danh
\_ No, the funniest was probably the recent Peggy Noonan column,
where she called W. Mark Felt a bringer of death and then
claimed that the most honorable man in the Nixon administration
was Chuck Colson.
\_ Mark Felt is actually Pol Pot's father.
\_ Not just a republican tool. He was a speechwriter and lawyer
for Nixon.
\_ Not really, if you saw Nixon it has a lot of the points
made by Stein, and I doubt Stone is a fan of the RNC.
As for the Khmer Rouge allegation, I highly doubt that
though. Would the KR have ever existed if we had gotten
out of Vietnam earlier? It's an interesting point because
\_ Or if we had stayed out of cambodia, period.
it was the Vietnamese who finally overthrew KR. Also,
would the KR have ever existed without the Vietnamese
conflict? Most likely not. It's really tricky to determine
geopolitics like this. Nixon also probably would have let
KR happen, Nam was a lost cause, and getting China was much
more important than protecting southeast asia.
\_ Stein is correct. Nixon was a good president and a
decent human being who was unfairly attacked by the
left wing nut-cases in this country. He got overly
involved in a minor crime which was his ONLY fault.
\_ "Only"... If you can't find faults in a leader, you're following
a little too blindly.
\_ "Now there are some who would like to rewrite history:
revisionist historians is what I like to call them." --GWB
\_ "I don't want to see this country to go that way. You
know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality
destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know
that, so was Socrates." -RMN
\_ "They're not like us. They smell different, they look
different, they act different. The trouble is, you
can't find one that's honest." -Nixon on Italians
\_ "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards
that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What
the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the
matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them
are psychiatrists." -RMN
\_ "Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six
Roman emperors were fags. . . . You know what happened
to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying
the nuns." -RMN
\_ "You have to face the fact that whole problem is really
the blacks. The key is to divise a system that reconizes
this while not appearing to..." -RMN
\_ I guess it makes sense that Nixon is a hero to the
anonymous troll wingnuts. -tom
\_ ... and to Ben Stein!
\_ Am I naive to think that a President doesn't
have to massively abuse his power to be President? |
| 2005/6/3-4 [Recreation/Media] UID:37955 Activity:low |
6/2 scotsman - are you going to be doing another Shakespeare play
this summer? Last years was really cool.
\_ I'm not, unfortunately. I started a new job that's too far from
rehearsals, and don't have enough time off yet to do them anyway.
SF Shakes should be very good this year, though. And Marin Shakes
and Shakes at Stinson are always a pretty safe bet (though IIRC,
Stinson's not actually doing any shakespeare play this year).
Cal Shakes is really hit or miss. Also, the next two weekends
are my choir's Jazz and Pop A Cappella concert. Should be very
fun. http://pacificmozart.org --scotsman
p.s. I must have been thinking of a different festival. Stinson
is doing Richard III and Much Ado. R3 is the same director as
the 12th Night I was in last year. Hector Correa (Much Ado) is
also pretty good, but Kelleher (12th Night, R3) is also directing
SF Shakes' Much Ado this summer. |
| 2005/6/3-6 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37956 Activity:nil |
6/3 Every once in a while, Feinstein shows herself as worthy.
(re: filibusters)
http://feinstein.senate.gov/05speeches/cr-judicial-nom0510.htm |
| 2005/6/3-4 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:37957 Activity:low |
6/3 From http://csua.com/?entry=37951 ...Skipping all the mumbo jumbo about legality and what not, if it came from Proliant, I'd guess that they're registered DIMMs. What kind of motherboards are you putting them into? Most consumer boards don't support registered memory. \_ This is probably the most useful reply I've ever gotten. The eBay site doesn't say anything about the RAM besides the fact it came from a Compaq Proliant Server. Now that I'm looking at the RAM, it says "256MB, Sync, 100Mhz, CL3, ECC." Does Sync mean "Registered RAM?" My Motherboard is an ASUS 5PA and accord to the manual it takes 256MB 100Mhz modules. For ECC it says "ECC or Parity Support, 66Mhz only," and I've set the jumper to 66Mhz but still no luck. The manual says nothing about registered RAM. What do you think? Thanks, -pp \_ Actually, one of the "keys" (dimple in the middle of the connector pins) is different for buffered and unbuffered DIMMs. In that sense, it _shouldn't_ even fit correctly if the type is incorrect. \_ Not true. Plenty of memory that 'fits correctly' is incorrect and will not work. \_ Which doesn't address the specific case of whether buffered vs unbuffered are physically different. \_ Just downloaded manual from ASUS and checked. It says: This motherboard uses only Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs). Sockets are available for 3.3Volt (power level) unbuffered Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) of either 8, 16, 32, 64, 128MB, or 256MB to form a memory size between 8MB and 768MB. Unbuffered == Non-registered. To tell if it's registered, see if there is any "register" chips on the DIMM. You should see either 9 or 18 DRAM chips since it's got ECC. If you see other chips that are not capacitors nearer to the contacts, you've got registered DIMMs. If so, it probably won't work on that board. \_ I got 9 chips, and on the bottom are two smaller chips which I assume are registers? Ok, so I bought the wrong type. The eBay site doesn't say anything about ECC/Register, so it's my fault then? Should I resell it or report to eBay on ambiguous/misleading eBay? \_ I don't see what you have to complain about. I mean, it sounds like this guy didn't know what he had, and you didn't know what to ask. Life lesson I guess. |
| 2005/6/3 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/Korea, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Israel] UID:37958 Activity:kinda low |
6/3 Connie Chung is a Jew?
http://www.nndb.com/people/756/000024684
\_ "Is Jewish" is the phrase you probably want to use.
\_ why? just curious.
\_ You're dumb.
\_ She married a Jew, so (like it says at the bottom) she
converted to Judaism.
\_ mmm....Jewish Korean American princess. Is that double
the maintenance? *bwahaha*
\_ Page says she's chinese, not korean. Does that make you a
racist?
\_ God damned right! I am a racist! Korean American Princesses
are so high-maintenance, it's a wonder anyone marries them
at all. I have no idea how high-maintenance Chinese American
Princesses are or if such a concept exists.
\_ Was your Korean gf high-maintenance, sky? |
| 2005/6/3 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:37959 Activity:nil |
6/2 UN says weapons equipment is missing in Iraq:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050603/D8AFSH1O1.html
\_ Dual-use equipment. Be exact.
What the fuck are we doing there?! |
| 2005/6/3-6 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:37960 Activity:nil |
6/2 The fourth world, I like that idea:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_271.html |
| 2005/6/3-6 [Transportation/Airplane] UID:37961 Activity:nil |
6/2 Helicopter lands on Everest:
http://everestnews.com/stories2005/everestcopter05272005.htm
\_ What's so special about it? Choppers land on mountais everywhere.
\_ Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It's difficult
to fly a helicopter in thin air.
\_ This was the first time a helicopter managed to land on
everest.
\-It was my understanding helicopers rarely went above basecamp
and the highest rescues were in the 20k-22k feet range.
Some what morbidly in the Everest area you see helicopers
maybe once a day ... you see them zoom in, and then
*immediately* come back heading in the other direction ...
and you know somebody is not a happy camper. sometimes you
are higher up then they are. also the landing strip at
lukla [main place to fly into the Everest area] is something
to see.
\_ I think the missing piece is "first time a helicopter lands
on the PEAK of Everest" |
| 2005/6/3-6 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:37962 Activity:nil |
6/2 yaBlueToothHack:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7461
\_ So Bluetooth uses symmetric key exchange in an unencrypted
wireless channel? Is that correct? If that's true then
whoever developed the Bluetooth encryption protocol wasn't
thinking too hard.
\_ Math is hard. |
| 2005/6/3-4 [Health, Health/Men] UID:37963 Activity:high |
6/3 I went to get a haircut and they recommended some new shampoo
because I may be losing some hair (which may have some truth
to it...). I've been using generic shampoo. Are there any
truth to what they are saying? Would the more expensive
shampoo be better for my hair? -clueless guy
\_ There could be. What was the name of the recommended shampoo?
\_ I forgot, but it sold for about $30+ for one large bottle...
\_ Well if it was called Nioxin (a fairly expensive shampoo
they often have in barber shops), yes it might be able to
help. It helps to prevent hair from falling out; it does
nothing to help regrow hair.
help. It helps to prevent more hair from falling out; it does
nothing to regrow hair.
\_ DANGER!!! nioxin is an anagram for "I Nixon". It's
probably GOP brainwash putty in a bottle.
\_ Not true. Nioxin doesn't have Rogaine or anything
like that in it. It does, however, help make
thinning hair look more full. Lots of men say that
Nizoral (prescription strength) works. Of course,
you can also do pills.
\_ No, I was right. So what if it doesn't have
rogaine in it; tylenol doesn't have morphine
in it, but it still helps with pain. Rogaine
helps regrow hair. Nioxin tries to prevent
more hair from falling out. -pp
\_ No, there is no drug in Nioxin no matter
what it claims. It is not proven to do
anything.
\_ There's nothing in it? so it's just
a bottle of nothing? interesting.
\_ OK so only drugs are effective?
\_ There is no chemical in Nioxin which
purports to do what they say it
does, whether it's lemon balm or
whatever. What is the active
ingredient in Nioxin that prevents
hair loss?
\_ Yes you have a point (as Nioxin
webpage's FAQ admits), but that
doesn't mean it can't achieve
an effect.
\_ In that case, smear dogshit
on your head. It might work.
\_ Did you think of that
yourself? Damn you're
clever.
\_ Interesting, I was using Nizoral for the dandruff
(it's much better than Head & Shoulders, Selsun
Blue, etc.), but I didn't know it had a hair-retention
side effect. |
| 2005/6/3-6 [Computer/Networking] UID:37964 Activity:kinda low |
6/3 Wireless question:
My Mac laptop stays connected all of the time, while my PCs (one
laptop with a PCMCIA card and one desktop) constantly drop
connections. If I reset the card the connection comes back up
instantly. Signal strength is good. I have gone through 2 routers
and multiple cards on the desktop with the same results. This
happens with both 802.11b and 802.11g. Why does it do this and why
does the Powerbook always work? The routers are a D-Link and a
Netgear, BTW. One PC runs Win2K and other is Win XP, FWIW. I don't
know what to try next, but this is annoying!
\_ I know most 802.11b Prism 2.5 chipset cards out there need their
firmware upgraded to behave better, but I don't know about your
problems with 802.11g. For some reason, most 802.11b prism cards
come with the older firmware.
\_ Maybe your cards suck. I know I've never had good experiences
with d-link.
\_ I tried a D-Link and a Linksys card. The laptop has an
Orinoco and does the same thing.
\_ I'm not the D-Link hater above, but I've had nothing but
trouble from D-Link access points. YMMV.
\_ As I said, I have the same problem with a
Netgear WAP.
\_ I've never used Netgear wireless hw, so I can't comment
on that part. -pp
\_ So then what are you comparing D-Link to?
\_ Linksys. I have never had problems with Linksys
APs, with several different brands of wirless
cards.
\_ Try a Senao NL-2511MP Plus MiniPCI if you can get one. 200MW!
W00t! -John
\_ I want a seano NL-2511MP Plus, with extra trouser ferrets
\_ Alas, you'd need more power; I think Seano's out of range. :( |
| 2005/6/3 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:37965 Activity:high |
6/3 I once read an article that says 70% of the Jews vote Democrat. Now,
I kind of understand why 90% of the Blacks vote Democrat because it
probably has something to do with Civil Liberty, but why Jews? I mean,
don't they have the most [financial incentive] by voting Republican?
\_ A large fraction of the Jews in my family are Trotskyist athiests.
They typically hold their nose and vote Democrat, though. I have
seen no correlation between their income and their political
positions. One of the most dogmatic Trotskyists is a multi
millionaire.
\_ Plus religious incentive.
\_ Actually, in a recent article, the Economist argued that
the process of defection of religious Jews from the Dem. to
republican party has started during the 2004 election. In fact,
one major thing that delayed this process was the fact that Joe
Lieberman was running for vice pres. on the democratic ticket in
2000. They argued that these days people are starting to vote
for one or another party not based on which religion they follow
but based on the intensity of their faith. Given that, I wonder
if this is also going to apply to blacks many of whom are
religious and socially conservative.
\_ Hello? Where have you been? Many Latinos and Blacks already
switched to Bush in 2004. California Latinos are much more
likely to go for Bush for whatever the reason. Even Asians,
\_ I think you pulled this from your ass. in fact the one
report of an exit poll i just found had CA latinos voting
almost 3-1 for kerry.
\_ used to be 7-1 for Democrat 10 years ago. ?Que Paso?
\_ determined media campaigns.
esp. greedy Asian immigrants favor Bush for obvious reasons--
they fall into certain tax brackets that Kerry promised to
raise. Even Taiwanese people favor Bush because they believe
that Bush has the guts to stand up to China (which is totally
bullshit). Back in 2004 I saw quite a few Bush commercials
on channel 18, foreign channel, and none from Kerry. It's sad
to say this but Bush did a much better job appealing to
minority voters than his predecessors. As a result of double
fuckups from Gore and Kerry, we'll most likely see similar
voting patterns in 2008. -Pissed Off Asian Liberal
\_ What party was Lincoln?
\_ Wow, that's one of the more racist comments I've seen. All Jews are
rich, eh?
\_ You're mixing up the word racist and stereotype. I've always
thought racist remarks are derogatory stereotypes. For example,
the statement "all Asians are smart" is a stereotype but not
racist. The statement "all Asians are sneaky" is a racist remark.
\_ Wrong. Both comments are racist stereotypical remarks.
\_ You're an idiot.
\_ From Merriam Webster: "a belief that some races are by
nature superior to others." You're right, I'm an idiot.
\_ Yup, and you won't even realize it..
\_ Wow, you're a jerk. -!pp
\_ No, I'm pretty sure racist just means "race based
stereotype."
\_ I think it's important to distinguish illegal acts inspired
by racism (such as discrimination, or racial violence)
and race-based stereotypes themselves. I, personally, have
no problems with valid stereotypes, race-based or not. If
that's racism, then I have no problem with that form of
racism. -- ilyas
\_ Russians are always drinking Vodka and drive like
they're drunk. It's a miracle that during the cold war
they didn't accidentally launch a nuke.
\_ No, it's a fact.
\_ No offense if you're a white trailer Joe, but on average, Jews
have 2X the income and more than 2X the likelihood of going to
college. In another word, Jews are smarter and more wealthy than
your average trailer trash Joe that voted for Georgy.
http://www.jbuff.com/c052302.htm
\_ I guess I have elaborated more: all Jews are rich and that's
the only thing they care about?
\_ I find it worrisome that the plebes are beginning to accept the
idea of talking about "the jews" as some monolithic social body.
It showcases a pretty spectacular decline in the level of
civilization of the lower classes. -John
\_ I find it worrisome that John is beginning to accept the idea of
talking about "the plebes" as some monolithic social body.
-- ilyas
\_ Hooookay....
\_ Ever heard the saying "Ask 2 Jews, get 3 opinions"?
\_ No, but I've heard from a self deprecating Jew that to be a
Jew, you need to have a lot of money and a nose job. |
| 2005/6/3 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:37966 Activity:insanely high |
6/3 WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Friday released new details about
mishandling of the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror
suspects, confirming that a soldier deliberately kicked the Muslim
holy book and that an interrogator stepped on a Quran and was later
fired for "a pattern of unacceptable behavior."
In other confirmed incidents, water balloons thrown by prison guards
caused an unspecified number of Qurans to get wet; a guard's urine
came through an air vent and splashed on a detainee and his Quran; and
in a confirmed but ambiguous case a two-word obscenity was written in
English on the inside cover of a Quran.
The findings, released after normal business hours Friday evening ...
the new details, that his investigation "revealed a consistent,
documented policy of respectful handling of the Quran dating back
almost 2 1/2 years."
\_ link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050603/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_bay_quran
\_ link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050603/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_bay_quran
\_ link: http://tinyurl.com/b4pxg (news.yahoo.com)
And I really love the "guard's urine came through an air vent"
rather than "a guard urinated through an air vent ..." It's the
urine's fault.
\_ And Bush drank a keg and pissed on Clinton's lawn and committed
sodomy on the Saudi Prince, yada yada yada yada yada. You know
that sadly, no one in the office cares what Girlie Men have to
say, right?
\_ Official Bush admin policy:
1) Good news is released on Monday if possible.
2) Bad news is delayed until late Friday.
3) Really really bad news is delays until late Friday before a 3
3) Really really bad news is delayed until late Friday before a 3
day weekend.
\_ Clinton didn't do these?
\_ He did Monica. With a cigar, that is.
\_ I don't know, did he? I'm talking about the Bush admin, not
Clinton.
\_ The best part is the freeper response:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416121/posts
"Who gives a Shiite?...listen closely as I drop kick one of my five
versions of the Qur'an across the floor for my cats to chase"
"Confiscate the damn books and burn them"
"You're so right and we should feed them pork. ... Oh, and serve it
to them on pages of the Koran."
"They're deliberately undermining our war effort. They're evil."
"Most Americans, given the chance, would piss on the Koran."
\_ Who cares how the Koran was handled? What is the big deal if they
flush it down the toilet or whatever? I just don't get it, its
just a damn book, it you own a copy you ought to be able to do
with it as you please.
\_ I'll bet that line of reasoning won't get you far if you go to
Saudi Arabia and start wiping your ass with pages from the Koran
in public.
\_ I loved hearing someone comparing the reported quran
desecration favorably with the crucifix-in-urine artwork.
Context is meaningless in bushworld.
\_ Oh yeah, tell me about how much better the posters on
DU are.
\_ Maybe it's just me, but I would expect more from
a media outlet than from the posters on DU. It was
on some CNN show.
\_ Heck, see how far you get in Saudi Arabia carrying a
bible in public.
\_ So you commie-libs get a pass on burning the American flag
because of "freedom of speech" ? What about those who hate America?
I wish you could see the hypocrisy. This is a war. There really
is only my way or the highway. I hope you remember that when
you are sitting in your A/C office and a dirty bomb goes off
and slowly kills your ass.
\_ Yeah. And we fight that war by abusing people who are
rounded up in mass sweeps, the immense majority of whom had
nothing to do with attacking us, here or there. Fuck you.
Do you really think peeing on a man helps us "fight terror"?
Hint, when someone burns a flag, they're not doing it in front
of someone they've arrested, strapped up by their wrists, and
beaten to a fucking pulp.
\_ You, (I assume) posted a while ago that we do mass
round ups in Iraq. Do you actually belive we randomly
grab 50 Iraqis, beat them up, and pee on their Korans?
\_ The SouthComm report was talking about Afghanistan,
not Iraq. That aside, yes I do believe we go and
round up 50 people at a time. There have been reports
to that effect for the duration of the war. There
are people in Iraq who, wanting to take their neighbor's
land, tell the authorities "Hey, guess who I overheard
plotting a bombing." There is shit that happens in a
war zone that we can't control. But the things we can
control, we should. And if we fail at controlling it,
we can't just ignore that. If your brother was being
held by a foreign army, would you be more or less willing
to abet someone planning to blow them up?
\_ You missed most of my question. How interesting.
\_ I covered your question. Whether we beat every
one of them up isn't the point. We lock them away
with no legal recourse whether doing so benefits
us or not.
\_ I think you should be allowed to burn, shit/piss on, etc.,
the US flag, the Koran, the Bible, whatever. They are just
objects. However, we are trying to win the hearts and minds
of moderate Muslims, you know, part of the "WAR ON TERRA".
If we, in addition to beating them to death, making human
pyramids, etc., also defile the holy books of Muslim prisoners
this makes us more and more likely to lose the PR campaign
and that just cannot be good for our country. So, I do not
see any hypocracy. The problem is not the desecration of the
Koran -- the problem is the effect it has in the Muslim world. |
| 2005/6/3-4 [Uncategorized] UID:37967 Activity:nil |
6/3 On the lighter side of things...I hate it when this happens:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlkday.htm
\_ Why have a lighter side when you have the post above yours!
Also, you should all watch "Crash".
\_ Does this have any relationship to the spectacularly awful film
of the same name by David Cronenberg? -dans
\_ Here, go piss in someone else's pool:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010907.html |
| 2005/6/3-5 [Reference/BayArea, Transportation/Car] UID:37968 Activity:low |
6/3 Going to Mendocino tomorrow. Recommendations on roads to take and
traffic tips? I'm thinking of biiting the bullet and just taking
1 all the way up. Leaving from Oakland. Is there ever a good time to
try to cut through SF/GG Bridge? TIA. --erikred
\_ Why not the san rafael bridge and up 101->128->1? It'd be a lot
faster, and still very pretty.
\_ I grew up in Mendocino. I highly recommend the 101->128->1
route. Highway 1 all the way up is not worth the length of
the drive or the near death experiences involving Winnebagos.
--lye
\_ Is tomorrow a holiday or is there something going on in Mendocino
that would alter normal traffic patterns? I don't normally find
midday traffic to/from SF to be bad. If you want to get to the GG
bridge from the East Bay, may I recommend the Fell roll?
Basically, grab 80 across the Bay Bridge, exit Civic Center. Take
a right on 9th St, change to the leftmost lane. This drops you
onto Hayes once you cross Market, stay in the left lane, turn left
on Gough, right on Fell immediately thereafter. The lights on Fell
are timed, and this will take you all the way down to GG Park.
Follow Fell past the panhandle and it cuves and drops you on to
Lincoln. Take Lincoln to 19th Ave, and turn right. 19th Ave turns
into Park Presidio, which drops you on to the GG bridge. -dans
\- if you are leaving from oakland, take richmond bridge ...
clearly. i also think franklin to lombard is viable if you are
going through SF for some reason. traffic at fell & jfk can get
weird on weekends. and with no exit directly on to fell this
is not that ideal any more. fulton on northside of park can
also be faster than lincoln. [the advice above has 3 bits of
backtracking: go south from hayes to fell, go south again
to lincoln, go out to 19th to cross park on south when fulton
will get you to park presideo around 14th]. --SF Route Optimizer
\_ I agree that Franklin to Lombard is viable, but Lombard is
a total clusterfuck at all times both wrt bad timing of
lights and quantity of traffic. The ``backtracking'' from
Hayes to Fell is literally one block. Probably the worst
part of the route is getting from the 9th St./Civic Center
exit to Market and Hayes. I agree, Fulton >> Lincoln, but it
requires an additional tricky turn (Stanyan northbound) from
Fell. -dans |
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