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On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:00:33 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> * [OT] What's the difference between intervention and |
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> interference? None that I can see. One is just more Politically Crass - |
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> oops! Correct - than the other. |
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It's not about political correctness but perspective. The good guys |
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intervene, the baddies interfere. It's like the difference between a |
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terrorist and a freedom fighter. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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K: (n., adj.) a binary thousand, which isn't a decimal thousand or even |
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really a binary thousand (which is eight), but is the binary number |
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closest to a decimal thousand. This has proven so completely confusing |
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that is has become a standard. |
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