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pokerknave

pokerknave posted Poker Totty | Jul 16, 2008

There is something rather alluring about women poker players. The general idea that poker is a macho game gets blown out of the window when you have all your chips taken away from you by a woman with a nice smile and a crafty slow play. When a bloke reduces your chip stack to zero, you feel angry...

Builder

Builder posted What Are The Limits Of Possibility? | Jun 27, 2008

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction novelist (1917-2008) It wasn't possible for humans to fly, with or without wings. Perhaps the greatest genius of all time--certainly the greatest polymath of all...

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Builder posted Just How Dumb Can We Get? | Apr 26, 2008

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones, US critic & educator (1892 - 1980) Not just your age Mumford, the present one as well. Many people have an odd fascination with machines with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Two generations ago...

shehab

shehab posted RIP: Arthur C. Clarke | Apr 13, 2008