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I think connie has a point! I can totally see Frank Herbert writing The Terminator. Frank has so much in common with James Cameron, they're practically the same person! Whoa....

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redbugpest wrote:"Do not fear the lxians [...] They can make the machines, but they no longer can make arafel. I know. I was there."
Leto II, explicitly saying that humanity is no longer threatened by extinction from machines. Hence, completely incompatible with the return of Omnius.

Wrong – the Ixian’s do not make him again – he survived the Jihad. Leto II is saying that it is safe for the Ixians to make more hi tech equipment. He knows that technology such as the No Ships and the Ixian drives will be needed to fight the machines when Humanity meets them again in the future.
"...the Ixian's do not make him again - he survived the Jihad" ... what the fuck does that even mean?

If Leto foresaw the return of the machines, why does he never mention it? You would think something like that would be worth warning people about, no?

The Butlerian Jihad tried to rid our universe of machines which simulate the mind of man.
Not machines which killed men, which would be the more relevant point if that was what they did.

It can be taken either way. It’s too vague a statement to be conclusive.
Which is why you evaluate it in relation to everything else you know from the ORIGINAL books. Nowhere is there mention of machines threatening the survival of the human species through actual physical slaughter. If you have a quote, present it.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

That could be a lead in to the Titans, who controlled Omnius until Omnius was freed through a programming error. Again this is open to the interpretation of the person reading it.
The Titans are an inferior addition straight from the bowels of Kevin J. Anderson. If Frank Herbert ever imagined or planned to include such a crew of 50's B-grade move rejects, let KJA or BH prove it by releasing the appropriate notes/materials.
Then came the Butlerian Jihad -- two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: "Man may not be replaced."

God of machine-logic was overthrown could be interpreted as violence between machine and humanity.
Only if you're a moron with a loose grasp on the language. :roll:

The masses believed in the infallibility of machine reasoning (=god of machine-logic) until they were shown the error of their ways (their idol was overthrown). Got it?
JIHAD, BUTLERIAN: (see also Great Revolt) -- the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Hmmmm – Thinking machines and conscious robots – crusade – sounds like an argument for the legends series!
Only to the unimaginative. Like KJA and you.
Its possession was the shibboleth of this age, but it carried also the taint of old immorality. Once, they'd been guided by an artificial intelligence, computer brains. The Butlerian Jihad had ended that, but it hadn't ended the aura of aristocratic vice which enclosed such things.
About a fencing machine - which is the closest thing to a robot in the Dune universe.

Guided by an artificial intelligence – Omnius!
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SandChigger wrote:Only to the unimaginative. Like KJA and you.
That does it! You think you can insult my man and escape either a wall-of-text reply or a terse-but-bland comeback? I'll have your....salmon! :lol:
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redbugpest wrote:"Do not fear the lxians [...] They can make the machines, but they no longer can make arafel. I know. I was there."

Leto II, explicitly saying that humanity is no longer threatened by extinction from machines. Hence, completely incompatible with the return of Omnius.

Wrong – the Ixian’s do not make him again – he survived the Jihad. Leto II is saying that it is safe for the Ixians to make more hi tech equipment. He knows that technology such as the No Ships and the Ixian drives will be needed to fight the machines when Humanity meets them again in the future.
Are you kidding me! You are saying that all through God Emperor, Leto II had a secret plan for when humanity met the machines again - and he never once mentioned that even in his thoughts! Wow! Never mind the original quote or that you think I think the Ixians remade Omnius (!?!?!?!?!?) or anything, just wow.

redbugpest wrote:"The Butlerian Jihad tried to rid our universe of machines which simulate the mind of man."

Not machines which killed men, which would be the more relevant point if that was what they did.

It can be taken either way. It’s too vague a statement to be conclusive.
This is Leto thinking back. Are you saying that in reality, he is remembering the whole Skynet thing, but he is just musing out loud how the goal was not survival, but to exterminate the thinking machines?

redbugpest wrote:One moment he felt himself setting forth on the Butlerian Jihad, eager to destroy any machine which simulated human awareness. That had to be the past -- over and done with. Yet his senses hurtled through the experience, absorbing the most minute details. He heard a minister-companion speaking from a pulpit: "We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program!" He heard the voice clearly, knew his surroundings -- a vast wooden hall with dark windows. Light came from sputtering flames. And his minister-companion said: "Our Jihad is a 'dump program.' We dump the things which destroy us as humans!"

Leto II remebering genetically.

Again this could be argued either way. Humans must set their own guidelines could imply that machines had started imposing guidelines among humans.
Again, are you for real?

According to you, the machines did not "set guidelines". They enslaved people! They killed them! "I think it is wrong for the murderous machines to shoot at me whenever I walk out my door, maybe if we had a commitee meeting and cupcakes and..."

This is a situation in which someone is inciting the masses, a minister of sorts. He is espousing philosophy, he is talking about taken the reins ad setting guidelines. Not escaping bloody internment camps.
Can you imagine a jew i Krakow, nazis streaming through the initial gates before the great purge, holding a stolen mauser rifle and talking to his huttled band: "The inherent problem with the national socialist ideology is that..."?
No. If one is fighting for ones life, that is all the reason you need. You do not argue for the need to stop a huge bloody thing from ripping your throat out!

Do you seriously believe that when Frank wrote that, he was thinking about humanity fighting for its survival against an evil AI? I am humbly suggesting that he was imagining a scenario where humanity decided to get rid of (dump?) the machines and steer the course of humanity for itself (guidelines).

redbugpest wrote:"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

That could be a lead in to the Titans, who controlled Omnius until Omnius was freed through a programming error. Again this is open to the interpretation of the person reading it.
No. You are raping it, forcing it open so it will fit with your preconceived notion. The original text (6 books!) never once hints that there was an evil AI in humanitys past. Not once!
If Frank had intended there to be such an AI, he would have written "But that only permitted a machine to enslave them." He didn't.

redbugpest wrote:Then came the Butlerian Jihad -- two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: "Man may not be replaced."

God of machine-logic was overthrown could be interpreted as violence between machine and humanity.
No. It can be interpreted as an idea, like this:
[quote="Frank Herbert, in GEoD]"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."[/quote]

It is replaced by a concept, for f...
Overthrown among the masses means a change among people, like you overthrow an idea or belief. It does not mean Terminators trampling on skulls.

Jeez. You are not even reading these things, are you? Do you get at what I am saying here? Do you even understand what I am saying Frank meant here? Do you see how it fits with every single sentence of the books?

Why the bloody hell would Frank, who was not retarded, write about an evil AI killing off humanity as "machine-logic was overthrown". Was he including deliberately obtruse prose on a drunken bet?

redbugpest wrote:JIHAD, BUTLERIAN: (see also Great Revolt) -- the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Hmmmm – Thinking machines and conscious robots – crusade – sounds like an argument for the legends series!
Crusade is religious. Would you kindly read the damn things?

It has a commandment after it.

Can you see how this is a religion-thing? That the proscription is motivated by religious feelings and philosophy, according to Frank writings?

It was "against" them. Not in response to their attempt to wipe us out.



No
redbugpest wrote:Its possession was the shibboleth of this age, but it carried also the taint of old immorality. Once, they'd been guided by an artificial intelligence, computer brains. The Butlerian Jihad had ended that, but it hadn't ended the aura of aristocratic vice which enclosed such things.
About a fencing machine - which is the closest thing to a robot in the Dune universe.

Guided by an artificial intelligence – Omnius!


Let's try this one again:
This is Leto II
He is pretty darn smart and knows a lot of stuff, ok?
Two sentences.
Hold on now, we are going to start at the last one, ok?
Got it?
It goes "Naturally, the machines were destroyed."
What could that mean? How does that make sense? Is he talking about icecream?
I posit, and I am all ears as to alternatives here, that such a sentence only makes sense if whatever word, sentence or paragraph preceeding it is the reason the machines were destroyed.

Now, lets look at what comes before it, shall we? What will it be?
A robot mixed someone a bad drink? Keanu Reeves was elected actor of the years too many times in a row because we had computer judges? An evil AI tried to murder everyone?
Exciting, hu?
"Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments."

So there you have it.

Wanna take a look at that sentence?

Who is acting, who is the subject of the sentence?

Thats right. "Humans" - as in humanity, or most of us, or consensus. Humans.

What did we do?

We set "those machines..." - Dang. We put the machines in a position. It wasn't Donald Duck who did it, and it wasn't Omnius and it wasn't evil cyborgs. It was humans. Wow. Who would have thunk that, reading Terminator novels.

Hang on, don't confuse the two universes.

What was the problem, we did something with the computers. We put them to "usurp" something. Difficult word, that.

Let's look it up, hu?

"Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession"

Wow. That is kind of a paradox, isn't it?

We set the machines as to take something, maybe it wasn't really meant to happen, or thought out.

And maybe, and this is gonna blow you mind, so stay with it.

We are getting a glimpse into Leto II's psyche. Maybe he is using that word because he disliked how the machines had that power.

How about that, hu? Characterization with saying stuff like "Leto II was really mad at the machines". He must be a real author or something.

OK, too much at a time. Back to the sentence.

Let's look at it again.

"Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments."

OK, they took "our sense of beauty", which is also "our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgements."

Wow.

Not our lives or anything?

No "our right to live and the newborn out of the hands of the mothers"?

Just some philosophical stuff about making decisions ourselves?

That's boring! Can't make an action novel about that.

I know it is tough, but maybe Dune just isn't for you. There's like, thoughts and stuff in it.

It takes time to digest.

'Ead 'Urts.

The Jihad was because humanity put the machines in a position which made us less human. Took our choices away.


Now, just for kicks, lets look at the sentence behind the all.

You're doing great, hang in there.

Maybe it will contradict what I am saying and mention Omnius, wouldn't that be exciting?

Ready?

Excited?

"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines,"

Wow!

No AIs :-(

No lazerz-gunz or anything.

Machine-attitude!

Now an attitude is a way of thinking, right?

You don't worry about attitudes when death wrapped in steel is punching your brothers face in, do you?

This is all so exciting, isn't it?

We are learning stuff. By reading, no less.

The Jihad was against a certain "attitude", maybe the same attitude which allowed machines to make our choices for us?

Machines took away philosophical concepts which made us human. They weren't killing us?



I know. It is kinda hard stuff, and Herbert did read Heidegger and nobody fucking gets Heidegger. This is why I wanted to start you up on the obvious stuff first. Like how you cannot believe a machine is always compliant and trustworthy, while also believing a machine once betrayed and nigh-extermionated mankind. Maybe we should start there, before we wax philosophical?
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Hold your thoughts folks - I have to go do RL stuff - I'll pick this up tomarrow :)
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Say hi to Kevin for us when he gives you "your" answers! :)
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Are you kidding me! You are saying that all through God Emperor, Leto II had a secret plan for when humanity met the machines again - and he never once mentioned that even in his thoughts! Wow! Never mind the original quote or that you think I think the Ixians remade Omnius (!?!?!?!?!?) or anything, just wow.

I didn’t mean to imply that the Ixans made Omnius in the first place, though I can see how you may have drawn that conclusion from my statement. Let me clarify. Ixans are not able to make anything like Omnius, a thinking machine.
Leto II does not leave a blueprint to follow, and doesn’t have a plan other than to push humanity to populate far and wide to protect them from the extinction that he and Paul both saw as a possible future. They never really say how they would become extinct. Leto knew that the Ixaian technology, even though against the precepts of the Butlerian Jihad needed to be developed for the Golden Path to be successful.


This is Leto thinking back. Are you saying that in reality, he is remembering the whole Skynet thing, but he is just musing out loud how the goal was not survival, but to exterminate the thinking machines?

He is remembering an uprising against the thinking machine, and if you are willing to believe that it was a machine against man conflict, survival would hinge on the extermination of the thinking machine.
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According to you, the machines did not "set guidelines". They enslaved people! They killed them! "I think it is wrong for the murderous machines to shoot at me whenever I walk out my door, maybe if we had a commitee meeting and cupcakes and..."

This is a situation in which someone is inciting the masses, a minister of sorts. He is espousing philosophy, he is talking about taken the reins ad setting guidelines. Not escaping bloody internment camps.
Can you imagine a jew i Krakow, nazis streaming through the initial gates before the great purge, holding a stolen mauser rifle and talking to his huttled band: "The inherent problem with the national socialist ideology is that..."?
No. If one is fighting for ones life, that is all the reason you need. You do not argue for the need to stop a huge bloody thing from ripping your throat out!

Do you seriously believe that when Frank wrote that, he was thinking about humanity fighting for its survival against an evil AI? I am humbly suggesting that he was imagining a scenario where humanity decided to get rid of (dump?) the machines and steer the course of humanity for itself (guidelines).

He saw thinking machines as something that would ultimately lead to the destruction of humanity. That threat could be either physical or psychological or both. I think the ambiguity left it open to the interpretation of KJA and BH.
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If Frank had intended there to be such an AI, he would have written "But that only permitted a machine to enslave them." He didn't.

Since Frank didn’t know he was going to die before writing the book himself, we cannot know what HE really intended. I’m saying that the above statement does not preclude such a turn of events.
Didn’t Frank allude to Paul (or Leto II?) being fascinated with the idea of a human / machine hybrid?
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No. It can be interpreted as an idea, like this:
Frank Herbert, in GEoD]"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."[/quote]

And these thinking machines – intelligent like a human sat there and said “yes, I can see now, destroying me is the only way”. I think that it is entirely plausible to think that they fought back, or even enslaved humanity.

Why the bloody hell would Frank, who was not retarded, write about an evil AI killing off humanity as "machine-logic was overthrown". Was he including deliberately obtruse prose on a drunken bet?

Part of your problem with whole line of argument is that you surmise that Frank already knew what was going to be written in the future, and should have written his books more in line with that train of thought.
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[quote="redbugpest wrote:JIHAD, BUTLERIAN: (see also Great Revolt) -- the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Hmmmm – Thinking machines and conscious robots – crusade – sounds like an argument for the legends series!

Crusade is religious. Would you kindly read the damn things?
It has a commandment after it.

Can you see how this is a religion-thing? That the proscription is motivated by religious feelings and philosophy, according to Frank writings?

It was "against" them. Not in response to their attempt to wipe us out.

No

O.C. bible reference – religious, Jihad, and Crusade – references to religious of fanatical conflicts, Great Revolt – Revolts do not have to be religious in nature, but do tend to be a vehicle used to throw off the yolk of oppression.
The Crusade against the Cathars was a crusade against a philosophy that took the form of a violent slaughter. Wars are fought over philosophies all the time.
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redbugpest wrote:Are you kidding me! You are saying that all through God Emperor, Leto II had a secret plan for when humanity met the machines again - and he never once mentioned that even in his thoughts! Wow! Never mind the original quote or that you think I think the Ixians remade Omnius (!?!?!?!?!?) or anything, just wow.

I didn’t mean to imply that the Ixans made Omnius in the first place, though I can see how you may have drawn that conclusion from my statement. Let me clarify. Ixans are not able to make anything like Omnius, a thinking machine.
Leto II does not leave a blueprint to follow, and doesn’t have a plan other than to push humanity to populate far and wide to protect them from the extinction that he and Paul both saw as a possible future.
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Wrong, Paul didn't see it. Besides, the possible extinction of humanity was prevented DURRING Leto II's lifetime by his transformation.
They never really say how they would become extinct. Leto knew that the Ixaian technology, even though against the precepts of the Butlerian Jihad needed to be developed for the Golden Path to be successful.
Self improving AI hunter-seekers the Ixians would have made, had not Leto stopped them, was hinted at.
This is Leto thinking back. Are you saying that in reality, he is remembering the whole Skynet thing, but he is just musing out loud how the goal was not survival, but to exterminate the thinking machines?
He is remembering an uprising against the thinking machine, and if you are willing to believe that it was a machine against man conflict, survival would hinge on the extermination of the thinking machine.
Dune says quite plainly, it was men versus men with machines, why can't you understand that?
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O.C. bible reference – religious, Jihad, and Crusade – references to religious of fanatical conflicts, Great Revolt – Revolts do not have to be religious in nature, but do tend to be a vehicle used to throw off the yolk of oppression.
The Crusade against the Cathars was a crusade against a philosophy that took the form of a violent slaughter. Wars are fought over philosophies all the time.


And in this case the philosophy is machine logic. Philosophies are held by humans and people rose up against this reasoning. This could have been violent (and likely was) but was not against robots. It was man vs man. Rising up against the god of machine logic would necessarily involve changing opinions about the necessity of machines. This would not be accomplished simply by smashing things. Again, this points to a man vs man conflict.
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Freakzilla wrote:Dune says quite plainly, it was men versus men with machines, why can't you understand that?
This is the funniest part, isn't it?

He'd rather tie himself up into elaborate logic-pretzels than just admit he didn't understand Dune.
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redbugpest wrote:According to you, the machines did not "set guidelines". They enslaved people! They killed them! "I think it is wrong for the murderous machines to shoot at me whenever I walk out my door, maybe if we had a commitee meeting and cupcakes and..."

This is a situation in which someone is inciting the masses, a minister of sorts. He is espousing philosophy, he is talking about taken the reins ad setting guidelines. Not escaping bloody internment camps.
Can you imagine a jew i Krakow, nazis streaming through the initial gates before the great purge, holding a stolen mauser rifle and talking to his huttled band: "The inherent problem with the national socialist ideology is that..."?
No. If one is fighting for ones life, that is all the reason you need. You do not argue for the need to stop a huge bloody thing from ripping your throat out!

Do you seriously believe that when Frank wrote that, he was thinking about humanity fighting for its survival against an evil AI? I am humbly suggesting that he was imagining a scenario where humanity decided to get rid of (dump?) the machines and steer the course of humanity for itself (guidelines).

He saw thinking machines as something that would ultimately lead to the destruction of humanity. That threat could be either physical or psychological or both. I think the ambiguity left it open to the interpretation of KJA and BH.
He quite plainly said turning your thinking over to machines was the danger, not that they would kill you. Again, Dune is about the human condition, not robots.
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I love the nameless quoting that deliberately forces everyone else to do extra work deciphering his posts. :)
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redbugpest wrote:If Frank had intended there to be such an AI, he would have written "But that only permitted a machine to enslave them." He didn't.

Since Frank didn’t know he was going to die before writing the book himself, we cannot know what HE really intended. I’m saying that the above statement does not preclude such a turn of events.
Didn’t Frank allude to Paul (or Leto II?) being fascinated with the idea of a human / machine hybrid?
And that has what to do with homocidal robots?
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:lol: Logic pretzels; that one's going into my dictionary. :)
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redbugpest wrote:No. It can be interpreted as an idea, like this:
Frank Herbert, in GEoD]"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."
And these thinking machines – intelligent like a human sat there and said “yes, I can see now, destroying me is the only way”. I think that it is entirely plausible to think that they fought back, or even enslaved humanity.

We have never denied that there may have been battles of men versus machines, our point is that was not what the Jihad was about. It goes deeper than smashing robots for it's own sake.
Why the bloody hell would Frank, who was not retarded, write about an evil AI killing off humanity as "machine-logic was overthrown". Was he including deliberately obtruse prose on a drunken bet?
Part of your problem with whole line of argument is that you surmise that Frank already knew what was going to be written in the future, and should have written his books more in line with that train of thought.

He wrote on the topic all through the series, you and the new authors just refuse to understand.
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GamePlayer wrote:I love the nameless quoting that deliberately forces everyone else to do extra work deciphering his posts. :)
Yes, this is starting to piss me off. :x
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Freakzilla wrote:He wrote on the topic all through the series, you and the new authors just refuse to understand.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

There it is, right there, distilled to its essence. It's not like it was some huge secret, yet Keith, Bobo, and their lickspittle apologists won't admit that they just don't get it.

And we're the ones with "closed minds"? WHATEVER. :crazy:
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Freakzilla wrote:
GamePlayer wrote:I love the nameless quoting that deliberately forces everyone else to do extra work deciphering his posts. :)
Yes, this is starting to piss me off. :x
I'm surprised it's been let slide this long. It so obviously rides the other members for no reason other than to ride them. :)
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GamePlayer wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:
GamePlayer wrote:I love the nameless quoting that deliberately forces everyone else to do extra work deciphering his posts. :)
Yes, this is starting to piss me off. :x
I'm surprised it's been let slide this long. It so obviously rides the other members for no reason other than to ride them. :)
Well, it's not often (read: never) they come here to hear our side and present their arguments, even if it is a thin veil for trolling.

Let no one say I did not give him a chance.
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Oh, the bitter critics of Jacurutu will bad mouth any action you take against an obvious troll tactic. They won't let trolling or the truth get in the way of a good site bashing :)
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