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wtf lol. - Michael Ryan

"michaelsaidthis. or saidmichael. I don't know which will come up with a result." - Michael Ryan

"michaelsaidthis. or saidmichael. I don't know which will come up with a result." - Michael Ryan

"The way I understood it, Gordan was put in suspended animation, so he hasn't really aged at all." - Michael Ryan

"What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects -- a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch." - Michael Ryan from Bookmarklet

"I might be up for it. Depends on when you want to." - Michael Ryan

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"Can we get someone to verify this?" - Michael Ryan

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"Time it took for Palm Developers to re-enable iTunes sync for webOS 1.2.1: just shy of two and a half hours (we'll be extremely curious to see if this is true and how they did it)" - Michael Ryan from Bookmarklet

"Well, he starts off by apologizing, and that's good, but then he started being confusing." - Michael Ryan

"Well, he starts off by apologizing, and that's good, but then he started being confusing." - Michael Ryan

This is going to confuse the You Lie crowd. - Micah Wittman

Again, a uniter, not a divider. - (My friend Ian) - MVB (Grinch of FF) from fftogo

I had just boarded a plane in San Diego. We were still at the gate when the ground stop started. - Maggie

I had just landed in San Diego airport having flown from Washington Dulles (En Route from Vienna). My brother-in-law called and when I picked up, his first words were "thank God" - Deepak Singh

"Liquidity is a result of its value, not a cause of it." - Michael Ryan

"How respectful. I commend your effort to foster discourse." - Michael Ryan

"I don't need to. Like everything else, every single object, on earth, a constitution has value because people put faith in it. Just like you put faith in computers, the electric grid powering your house, and the diamond ring you might have bought your husband/wife. You perceive these things as valuable because they inherently are: the computer connects you with other people, the electric grid keeps lights running at night, the diamond ring...well, maybe that was a bad example :) Paper money lacks this inherent value that humans attach to it. On its own, it's worthless, and will die just like the civilization that abandoned it, with time. The only thing motivating you to use it is because somebody, like a government or a dictatorship, mandates you to use it. The value it has can only be sustained with force, and once that is removed, it is about as valuable as your toilet paper. Actually, it's probably worth less than that. Most bills are too small, and aren't attached with perforated..." - Michael Ryan

"It has value, of course it has "money like traits". What do you think we did before money, never traded anything? With all respect due, I don't think you've fully expressed what you wanted to say, but it can be a valid argument if it's the one I think you're trying to use (I'm being really presumptuous here, pardon me): money, like these certain goods, is traded at a price that people are willing to buy it for and have been doing so for many hundreds of years. Therefore, money has intrinsic value. But does it? If I were to take a United States federal reserve note and send it one thousand years into the past, would it be as valuable? Unless there was an excruciating demand for a cloth/paper hybrid, probably not. The major difference (but not the only one) between that dollar bill and a baseball card or a painting is that those goods have creative effort put into them. In many cases, it is unique and pleasing enough that someone who may have no idea of the source of that card or..." - Michael Ryan