29-05-2004 03:14									#121
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quote: Originally posted by Gazarus and the Limp Long-term readers are well aware of the fact that posts attached to this handle fall very sharply into one of two camps. These are- 1- Impassioned calls to reason and pragmatism with a solid core of humanist compassion. 2- Obscene, frothing rants with copious references to genitalia in impenetrable English slang. I'm amazed nobody's worked it out yet.

Most of your posts seem to be more like embittered cynicism than either of those.

* Last Conformist ducks.

	29-05-2004 03:27									#122
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I was amazed the last time I checked, how many members bear the Austrian flag and actually NEVERposted! On page 2 of 6 the "0"-posters start!! But I don't think it's the fact that an elite is clinging to power that retains people, after all they don't go to the OT in first place! It's the course of nature.

	29-05-2004 03:43									#123
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Just passing thru

	29-05-2004 03:44									#124
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Since we've been bashing the OT elitists lately, perhaps we should ask ourselves if there'd be any activity at all down there without them.

	29-05-2004 04:18									#125
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The person who should be the "six degree's of..." should be Fez/Giancarlo.

An Apolyton Legend!!!

	29-05-2004 04:51									#126
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quote: Originally posted by Frankychan The person who should be the "six degree's of..." should be Fez/Giancarlo. An Apolyton Legend!!!

Don't know him. I *do* know Ming and I *do* know MrWhereItsAt and I know both are active pretty much everywhere. Those guys work better.

	29-05-2004 15:27									#127
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Problem is, they work to well. The only poster with more than ten posts who aren't one degree removed from Ming is Ming himself.

	29-05-2004 15:59									#128
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist Problem is, they work to well. The only poster with more than ten posts who aren't one degree removed from Ming is Ming himself.

you are good with your double dutch

	29-05-2004 16:15									#129
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What's "double dutch" mean?

	29-05-2004 16:24									#130
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Lower quality than triple dutch.
Oh wait, I'm thinking of vodka. Nevermind.

	29-05-2004 18:02									#131
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Can anybody explain to me what "one degree removed" and "six degree related" mean?

	29-05-2004 19:11									#132
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Lower quality than triple dutch. Oh wait, I'm thinking of vodka. Nevermind.

	29-05-2004 20:05									#133
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quote: Originally posted by HongHu Can anybody explain to me what "one degree removed" and "six degree related" mean?

If A is somehow related to B who is somehow related to C, there is said to have a single degree of seperation between A and C. If C is somehow related to D then A and D have two degrees of seperation. Add in E, you have three degree, add F and you have four degrees etc.

The idea of six degrees is that you can link anyone to anyone (i.e all 6+ billion of us on the planet) with just six linkages.

Handshakes (or other physical contact) is the usual way of determing the validity of a linkage.

	29-05-2004 20:56									#134
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Dauphin's example is messed up: A is two degrees separated from C (there being one link A-B and one B-C), three from D, and so on.

	29-05-2004 21:14									#135
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Its based on links? I thought it was based on the number of in-between people.

	29-05-2004 21:19									#136
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I'd tend more towards LC's useage.

	31-05-2004 03:50									#137
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I think n00bs lurk a lot before they start posting. I've lurked here since about 2000 maybe even 1999 and so I know a few of you for a long time but the majority of you guys won't know who I am at all. I post in bursts now. I know a couple of people from NZ who visit everyday but just don't post.

	31-05-2004 11:43									#138
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We'll have to send them on a crash-course in spamming.

	31-05-2004 12:52									#139
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is derived from drunken babbling and speculation about the play and movie Six Degrees of Separation. Kevin Bacon isn't in the film, but there's only one degree of separation between the film and Kevin Bacon (who was in JFK with Donald Sutherland).

Kevin Bacon was in Mystic River with (1) Laura Linney, who was in Dave with (2) Sigourney Weaver, whose (3) niece worked (4) Tom, who is (5) my brother. I therefore have a Bacon Number of 5.

Email experiment confirms six degrees of separation

	01-06-2004 00:10									#140
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Tom Straybow?? Never heard of him.

I, on the other hand, went to Jr/Sr High School with Farah Fawcette. That's ONE degree of separation from The Angel. The other degrees don't matter: It's like a Station City giving the road/RR bonus.


Monk

	01-06-2004 00:34									#141
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Who the heck is Farah Fawcette?

	01-06-2004 01:18									#142
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	01-06-2004 01:20									#143
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One of Charlie's Angels.

	01-06-2004 01:21									#144
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That's one of those movies you laugh against rather than with ...

	01-06-2004 01:22									#145
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin Its based on links? I thought it was based on the number of in-between people.

It's easy to see who is right. If A links to B, is B one degree separated from A? Or is A and B really unseperable.

Talking about degree of separation, some people may remember that Shengji Yang is a bright 6 yr old neighbor kid who learnt a little about SMAC from me. Two degrees separation perhaps.

	01-06-2004 01:39									#146
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quote: Who the heck is Farrah Fawcette?

This answer your question?

	01-06-2004 02:09									#147
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quote: Originally posted by HongHu It's easy to see who is right. If A links to B, is B one degree separated from A? Or is A and B really unseperable.

I work in an environment where seperation is acheived when the people involved are not directly related or otherwise aware of each others actions. i.e there is an intermediary. Which is probably the source of my misconception.

	01-06-2004 14:36									#148
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quote: Originally posted by Arnelos The "Six Degrees of MrWhereItsAt" would probably net more Apolyton members. That guy is in every single demogame on this forum, I swear.

All but the CtP2 and the Civ2 Exodus. And TECHNICALLY the as-yet unstarted new ACDG (although I spend more time there than many members).

And of the 38 posters in this thread (37 if you don't count me), I have had some contact or connection (that I can clearly remember) with 19. Very few of the other 18 I don't recognize the sigs of.

Some work to do there, but seeing as I spend more time out of the Community than in, that's not too bad.....

	01-06-2004 20:07									#149
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quote: Originally posted by Bloody Monk Tom Straybow?? Never heard of him. I, on the other hand, went to Jr/Sr High School with Farah Fawcette. That's ONE degree of separation from The Angel. The other degrees don't matter: It's like a Station City giving the road/RR bonus. Monk

but how well do you really have know them? I went to high school with Tim Robbins, which should give me a low kevin bacon number, but i dont remember if i even spoke to him - the HS had over 2000 students. Of course Im sure I knew SOMEONE who knew Tim.

	01-06-2004 20:54									#150
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Hmm... personally, I'm 2 degrees of separation from US President John F. Kennedy and 2 degrees from Basketball player Wang Zhizi of LA

[So, within 3-4 degrees, I think I have just about everyone covered ]