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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Now I'm annoyed.
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Date: 20 Feb 91 15:53:25 GMT
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In article <9102200204.AA05525@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> newton@ARISTOTLE.ILS.NWU.EDU (David Newton) writes:
>   "can't"...  I hardly think this is a matter of ability, but choice of
>focus.  If you can figure out, chances are a billion to one for that I could
>too.

Yes, posting to this group (without using rutgers) is very easy to do
if you want to take the time to figure it out. If you're observant, it
should only take a few minutes to figure it out...

>#2
>   Hmm, I've been flamed a couple times for not posting the ObHack, even though
>I've already explained why.  So.
>   ObHack: Dropping down from the ceiling at IIT into a room with a bunch of
>people in uniforms and pulsing lasers (the people didn't have the lasers,
>silly, they were on a table (the lasers, not the people)).

So. Exactly how is that a hack?

[ other things that are probably hacks deleted ]

>From Leo Bicknell:
>> [paper clip hack]
>
>   We're getting ridiculous here, if this is a "hack"...  I almost don't
>feel bad about calling my "hey look, when I touch the end of my homemade
>Tesla coil, I fly across the basement" a neat-o hack.

I don't consider the paper clip thing as a hack either. It sounds more
like resourcefulness.

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