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I'm not mistaken, Katherine Houghton was involved only with a Connecticut organization that later became part of Planned Parenthood. She didn't actually meet Sanger until 1928, and she was not on the board of the ABCL or an officer in the organization. Any other information you have is appreciated, but we should probably put it on the discussion page for the article, not here.

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meant GPUs (from context in the discussion about GPGPUs). Feel free to have another go - but please take care that your addition doesn't repeat information already in the article. It has too many redundancies as it is (we should probably condense the "History" and "Current GPU capabilities" sections). -

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Hey, I was wondering what happened to Midori too. I was looking to see if shes "Big" enough to have her own article on Knowledge, but I didnt see any links for her on the KBZT article. I do know that you can hear her voice as the call letter announcer for an internet radio station called chilled on

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preserve desirable changes while allowing undesirable changes to be removed or replaced. This is intended to serve as an analogy to natural selection's action on randomly mutating genomes, with the "desirability" (or fitness) of any given change being determined by the organism's interaction with its

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I am looking for support to the idea that religion should not be listed on the biographical entries for every American politician. In federal politicians. To me it's personal information that is irrelevant to our elected officials. There seem to be some users here who have taken it upon themselves to

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Hi, thanks for your comments. Feel free to sign them with four tildes (~). I understand Houghton's role in the movement, but technically Margaret Sanger didn't create Planned Parenthood either. There were a number of organizations which continued to change, split, and merge, and at the time (1922) if

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IMO, the first of the links above ought to be sufficient proof since it points to the band's official website. User:BGC seems to believe that the liner notes for the 1976-82 box set are more accurate, yet anyone who knew anything about Genesis would spot straightaway that they are absolutely riddled

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is a sockpuppet and was just identified as such, leaving me free to reinstate the correct information. B) Where is the proof for a 1976 release? The liner notes for the 1976-1982 box set clearly state a UK release date of January 7, 1977. The album didn't enter the US charts until January 22, 1977

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Hi Alistair! Thanks for your diligence. At the time, Apple had already been using music-themed code names for the OS strategy (Copland, Gershwin, Sonata, etc.) and hadn't released anything under its code name. The biggest change was from "System 7.x" to "MacOS 7.6." Also "Rhapsody" sounds to me like

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Hi MFNickster. You've re-added "Linzmayer 1999" to Copland (operating system), but not such work is defined in the article. All short form references must have a full cite to link with, so if you wish to use "Linzmayer 1999" you will need to create a full cite for it in the Bibliography section. --

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Hello! I am just wondering on if you would be interested in joining a Genesis Wikiproject, if I were to make one. I am currently thinking about starting one, as I think it would be nice to get all Genesis fans to work together and collaborate. If you would be interested in the idea of having such a

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You quickly removed the reference to Katharine Houghton, who also had Corning, NY connections. You might want to check out and you might realize your error. Katharine Houghton was the mother of actress Katherine Hepburn, a suffragette, and birth control advocate, who, along with Margaret Sanger,

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I saw you edited out my comment about GPUs being parallel. You say some are not, and I ask which? Every chip since 1999 or so has contained superscalar pipelines, while those were integer only. Today every mainstream graphics processor I know of is floating point-based with many parallel pipelines,

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Hi, thanks for your comments. You didn't actually specify GPUs, you wrote "graphics chips" which could include things like the VGA controller and even the old Atari and Amiga chips. You also didn't specify "today", so rather than try to guess what you meant, I reverted it. I did think you probably

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Query about Sanger page: That page is so contentious I don't want to get involved over there... but the final sentence of the starting/summary paragraph : "However, her racist ideology and advocacy for eugenics are positions which have not survived her." I honestly don't know what it means. Is

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I understand where your coming from, however when you start a seperate debate with in someones statement it can become unreadable. Not only that, the argument/debate can last so long as you wont be able to know who made the original statement; as their signature was at the end, now no where to be

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Superficial influence of Multics on Unix is evident in many areas, including the naming of commands (such as "ls" to "list segments" or files). But the design philosophy was quite different, focusing on keeping the system small and simple, and so correcting some perceived deficiencies of Multics

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I think it should be clear that the stated reason for the revert is unjustified. 1. The section in question is not specifically about "weasel"; it is about biology as well, and there is no "identification" of beneficial parts. 2. Even in "weasel", there is no "identification" of the part that

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Thanks, Jerry. It's difficult to keep the factual information without cites, but it's also difficult to find cites sometimes because so little is written about her objectively. Especially regarding the quote situation - the 'anti-Sanger' sites tend to feed on each other without giving primary

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I did try to keep that in the article, as I think it was already implied by the information on Darwin OS. It doesn't really belong in the introduction, which should be as concise and non-confusing as possible. Anyway, I've made another revision to include that perspective explicitly in the

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The guy is obviously taking the piss. He objects to Unix in the Mac OS X article but then suggests Multics because he alleges it is the parent of Unix? If there is no link between Unix and Mac OS X as he argues, then how can there be a link between Multics and Mac OS X through Unix?

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I do that to address a point without having to follow text that goes beyond the point I'm addressing. As long as it's indented properly, I don't think there's anything wrong with it - but feel free to move my comments around as you please (just leave them intact).

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Thanks for doing this. I have contributed to the discussion, and the correct information has been restored on the various Genesis pages. However, don't be surprised if User:BGC undoes these (even though he's been warned against doing so) as soon as his ban is

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Hi! I have chatted with Midori online in the last couple months. She says the station decided not to renew her contract because they "wanted to take the show in a different direction." As far as I know, she hasn't found further full-time work in radio yet.

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article, it is considered poor etiquette to mark reversions as minor. Even though you felt it was a clear correction, others may have felt otherwise. I personally would only mark reverts as minor if I was correcting vandalism. See

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I'm sorry, but you trimmed out a fundamental information about Mac OSX, being that OSX cannot be considered an operating system on its own. That has to be specified. Please refer to the discussion page of MAC OSX and Darwin OS.

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The program is a vivid demonstration that the preservation of small changes in an evolving string of characters (or genes) can produce meaningful combinations in a relatively short time, as long as there is some mechanism to

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That's OK, we'll certainly be looking for any contributions we can get! Research/citations/references are the first priority for most of the articles, at this point! At any rate, thank you for responding!

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policy. You can have hundreds of abbreviations in wikrionary, which is the proper place for them. I am not at all a censor here. For example, I have been working hard to keep the picture of poop in the

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We started ignoring him last time and he lost interest. The worst thing he can do is force his edits into the article which will result in his being banned. Either way works for me.

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This change was reverted by MFNickster with this comment: "(rv - in the case of the Weasel program, yes, comparing the phrase to a target amounts to identifying such improvements)"

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it might be more suitable for an application, not system software - so I guess while it's possible they had intended it as a release name, it seemed pretty unlikely to me.

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The struck-out words correspond to an edit I made on the article, with this comment: "No necessity for identification of beneficial change, therefore removed."

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Hey mate I completely agree, but I think it's a case of not feeding the trolls at this point as my warning about bad faith was completely ignored. Oh well..

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certainly all that are being used for GPGPU work. The inherent ability to parallize graphics functions is what has gotten the tech to where it is today. --

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OK I apologize if I flamed in the discussion/editing. You are a good guy, you did a very good work. You included my claims in the description good night

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to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

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Ah, thank you! It's sometimes hard to get the essence of the article into the intro without removing good information. I hope it was an improvement!

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I understand your plyth, however please refrain from "interjecting" your comments with-in the statement I made. This would be greatly appreciated.

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of the "genome" to be preserved, contra the article's statement. This constitutes an error in the article, and should be removed expeditiously. --

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I would say that I have nothing better to do...but I have lots of better things to do, which must be why I'm wasting time jousting here!

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consensus, I believe that would put a stop to it more quickly than simply arguing on the talk page or reverting/blocking him endlessly.

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to Knowledge. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Don't "call his bluff" again, then. It merely increases the amount of time that is wasted on this particular piece of nonsense.

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Look, if he insists that all "Unix-like" systems should be lumped under the "Multics" family, and we can point to a resounding

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Point taken - sorry about that. In my experience, ignoring them does not make them go away, it only makes them shout louder.

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However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher then their copyright should also be acknowledged.

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lists it as a December 1976 release in the discography (however, the text on page 98 says it was released in January 1977).

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Yeah I can see where you're coming from. I was a bit too general. Perhaps I will write up something a bit more specific. --

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Don't know what your opinion on this might be, but looking for some support to try to take religion out of politics.--

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Hi Mark. I don't have the box set myself, so I haven't compared it to any other sources. I started a discussion on

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article. That is exactly what that article needs: a more NPOV tone and better citation. I appreciate the effort! --

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identify the religion of most federal office holders. One place this is evident is on the infoboxes, for example

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181.FM, which is basically the same mix as BSC. Perhaps she is running this project, in my wishfull thinking.

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Because I don't want to put anything on my user page, but I also don't want the links to it to appear red. :)

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I am good with that. It sounds like you have more information about this matter than others. Thank you.

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You had your chance to discuss this on the Talk page, and you declined. It's far too late to undo your

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Obviously, he was taking the counter-argument to a logical extreme. All I did was call his bluff.

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No, I don't think this is a good idea. UNIX is only tangentially related to MULTICS; to quote the

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Hi, what is your basis for reverting my edit? Do you have some suggestions to improve it? Thanks.

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No worries. I was afraid I might have reverted someone's ant-vandalism edit with my edit!

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Thanks for the warning! I don't think he's trolling, though. Still, you may be right. :)

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If it is the same person, he went quiet for months because we stopped entertaining him.

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there not racism today? Is eugenics not a real position (unpopular, discredited, yes)

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That makes a certain amount of sense, but then why did you not remove the entries for

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Well feel free to carry on then as it's an interesting discussion regardless, lol ;)

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I did remove some, on a quick glance. The first two may go as well, you are right.`'

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Hi, thanks for clarifying. Apologies for getting it wrong and taking up your time!

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Perhaps; if it is indeed the same person, he obviously has not lost interest.

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project, please respond to me on my talkpage. Thank you, and have a nice day!

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I apologize, I meant plight; obviously I rarely use the word.

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