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	<title>Comments on: Things to say when you&apos;re losing a technical argument.</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:35:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>Things to say when you&apos;re losing a technical argument.</title>
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		<description>&lt;a href="http://pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html"&gt;Things to say when you&apos;re losing a technical argument.&lt;/a&gt; </description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:19:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Den Beste</dc:creator>		<category>humor</category>		<category>howto</category>		<category>technology</category>		<category>lists</category>
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		<title>By: jennyb</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40488</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;What? I don&apos;t speak your crazy moon-language. &lt;/i&gt;

I can think of so many situations where just that sentence is going to come in handy.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:35:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: tiaka</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40494</link>	
		<description>I don&apos;t know, I kinda like number 37 - Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting hit piece on that. </description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:39:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tiaka</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: frykitty</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40515</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;
&quot;That&apos;s a good idea -- you should do that on your home page.&quot;
&lt;/i&gt;

That one made me howl.  

Of course, being Geek Lite, I don&apos;t understand a lot of these.  Those are the ones I&apos;m gonna use the most.</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:52:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Mars Saxman</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40531</link>	
		<description>ROFL

Whoever wrote that knew their stuff.

-Mars</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 11:12:48 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mars Saxman</dc:creator>
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		<title>By: xiffix</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40555</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;1&gt; That doesn&apos;t account for indeterminate granularity.
2&gt; I guess you never read the errata for the The Art of Programming.
3&gt; TANSTAAFL.&lt;/i&gt;
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:00:17 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: pnevares</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40563</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Look, would you just get off your Be obsession for FIVE MINUTES and talk serious design with us?&lt;/i&gt;

and

&lt;i&gt;I heard that the only real application for that technology was child pornography. How did you hear about it? &lt;/i&gt;

*jots down on note pad*</description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:14:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: norm</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#40583</link>	
		<description>(buzzing sound as each joke goes over head)
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:36:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: stbalbach</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#41290</link>	
		<description>BRILLIANT .. your right Mars these came from someone whos been around.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:44:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title>By: aaron</title>
		<link>http://www.metafilter.com/5215/Things-to-say-when-youre-losing-a-technical-argument#41342</link>	
		<description>&lt;i&gt;Too point-oh for my tastes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;ROFL!</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:08:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aaron</dc:creator>
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