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  Re: Einstein's Riddle arupneo2@gmail.com - 2015-09-17 02:19 -0700
    Re: Einstein's Riddle Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-17 12:44 -0600
      Re: Einstein's Riddle Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-18 19:33 +1000
        Re: Einstein's Riddle Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-09-19 21:27 -0600
          Re: Einstein's Riddle m <mvoicem@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 08:41 +0200
          Re: Einstein's Riddle Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 06:43 +0000

#96753 — Re: Einstein's Riddle

This is not true that only two percent of this world can solve this puzzle. May be the 2% will solve it by a quick look on the statements.

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#96777

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:19 AM,  <arupneo2@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is not true that only two percent of this world can solve this puzzle. May be the 2% will solve it by a quick look on the statements.

Are you replying to this thread?

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-March/063293.html

I had to google to find it, because if you'll take a look at the date
you'll notice that it's over fourteen years old.

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#96813

On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 04:44 am, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:19 AM,  <arupneo2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is not true that only two percent of this world can solve this
>> puzzle. May be the 2% will solve it by a quick look on the statements.
> 
> Are you replying to this thread?
> 
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-March/063293.html
> 
> I had to google to find it, because if you'll take a look at the date
> you'll notice that it's over fourteen years old.

Time is relative. Perhaps the poster has been travelling at close to the
speed of light, and for him it is only a few minutes after the original
post was sent.


-- 
Steven

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#96861

On 09/18/2015 03:51 AM, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
>> Time is relative. Perhaps the poster has been travelling at close to the
>> speed of light, and for him it is only a few minutes after the original
>> post was sent.
> 
> I prefer to think that it just took him this long to do it.

Probably what happened is some computer somewhere was finally rebooted
after 15 years of uptime, and this messages finally was processed after
years stuck in the queue.

I read once of a university that, upon decomissioning a mainframe, found
a job that had been in the queue for many years but had never run.
Probably some poor grad student's job.

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#96863

W dniu 20.09.2015 o 05:27, Michael Torrie pisze:
> On 09/18/2015 03:51 AM, Nick Sarbicki wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
>>> >> Time is relative. Perhaps the poster has been travelling at close to the
>>> >> speed of light, and for him it is only a few minutes after the original
>>> >> post was sent.
>> > 
>> > I prefer to think that it just took him this long to do it.
> Probably what happened is some computer somewhere was finally rebooted
> after 15 years of uptime, and this messages finally was processed after
> years stuck in the queue.

It's posted from @gmail account, and Gmail started near 2004

r. m.

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#96864

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:27:47 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:

> I read once of a university that, upon decomissioning a mainframe, found
> a job that had been in the queue for many years but had never run.
> Probably some poor grad student's job.

Somewhere there's a computer sitting in the corner of a Pentagon office 
that makes an unanswered modem call to a telephone somewhere once a week.

One day, someone will realise they have no idea why, and shut the 
computer off.

When the doomsday silo on the other end stops receiving it's weekly 
"everything is ok" message, it's going to nuke Beijing and Moscow .....

(I really really really hope that this is indeed fiction!)

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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