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woodb...@gmail.com

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Apr 12, 2016, 11:00:07 PM4/12/16
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I'd like to start a C++ meeting in the St. Paul, Minnesota area.
By the grace of G-d, I'm able to provide a meeting area in a
conference room in the office building where Ebenezer Enterprises
is, and I would be happy to give a talk or two. If you are
interested in this, please let me know.

Brian
Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust.
http://webEbenezer.net

Juha Nieminen

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Apr 13, 2016, 2:08:12 AM4/13/16
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woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'd like to start a C++ meeting in the St. Paul, Minnesota area.
> By the grace of G-d, I'm able to provide a meeting area in a
> conference room in the office building where Ebenezer Enterprises
> is, and I would be happy to give a talk or two. If you are
> interested in this, please let me know.

I don't think anybody will be interested in your proselytizing.

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David Brown

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Apr 13, 2016, 3:26:25 AM4/13/16
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On 13/04/16 04:59, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I'd like to start a C++ meeting in the St. Paul, Minnesota area.
> By the grace of G-d, I'm able to provide a meeting area in a
> conference room in the office building where Ebenezer Enterprises
> is, and I would be happy to give a talk or two. If you are
> interested in this, please let me know.
>

Surely booking a conference room in your office building is standard
procedure and part of the services offered by the building management -
and it is provided by the grace of an email and a small booking fee,
rather than requiring divine intervention?

Or was your plan to make sure that only religious fanatics come to the
meeting?

Your religious beliefs are your own business - don't try to press them
onto others.

woodb...@gmail.com

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Apr 13, 2016, 12:00:35 PM4/13/16
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On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 2:26:25 AM UTC-5, David Brown wrote:
>
> Surely booking a conference room in your office building is standard
> procedure and part of the services offered by the building management -
> and it is provided by the grace of an email and a small booking fee,
> rather than requiring divine intervention?

G-d gives me the strength and ability to make a living.

>
> Or was your plan to make sure that only religious fanatics come to the
> meeting?
>

I welcome anyone that is interested.

Brian
Ebenezer Enterprises - "For two whole years Paul stayed there
in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him." Acts 28:30

http://webEbenezer.net

Mr Flibble

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Apr 13, 2016, 1:56:43 PM4/13/16
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Brian, initially I thought you might have been a follower of Judaism
however as you are quoting a book from the New Testament it might
interest you to know, Christian, that as we know evolution is a fact we
know that Jesus Christ never existed which is a good thing too because
if he did exist he would be the biggest cunt in the universe.

/Flibble

Alf P. Steinbach

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Apr 13, 2016, 3:25:56 PM4/13/16
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On 13.04.2016 19:56, Mr Flibble wrote:
> we know evolution is a fact we
> know that Jesus Christ never existed which is a good thing too because
> if he did exist he would be the biggest cunt in the universe.

Now now.

- Alf


Daniel

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Apr 13, 2016, 3:56:44 PM4/13/16
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On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 1:56:43 PM UTC-4, Mr Flibble wrote:

A.

> as we know evolution is a fact we know that Jesus Christ never existed

B.

> if he did exist he would be the biggest cunt in the universe.

If I recall my logic classes correctly, B is true if A is true (any
inference can be made from a false postulate.)

The difficulty is A.

Daniel

woodb...@gmail.com

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Apr 13, 2016, 3:56:59 PM4/13/16
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On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 12:56:43 PM UTC-5, Mr Flibble wrote:

> Brian, initially I thought you might have been a follower of Judaism

Hi, Leigh. I'm not the greatest apologist. I hope you
will leave off with the bad words.

Öö Tiib

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Apr 13, 2016, 5:46:38 PM4/13/16
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On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:00:35 UTC+3, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:

Seems that you did chose wrong forum to announce it. Here are only dozen
or so regulars and maybe twice more casual posters and lurkers. That is
perhaps why there are only such sarcastic feedback.

> "For two whole years Paul stayed there
> in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him." Acts 28:30

Does that puzzle mean that the C++ meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota
that you organize will last two whole years? I always assumed organizers
of such things post the invitations directly to people and organizations
that they would like to see participating. Such invitations typically
include times, dates and agendas. Sometimes they also phone personally
or contact over Skype and ask for opinion or advice and the like.

Mr Flibble

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Apr 13, 2016, 6:01:10 PM4/13/16
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Apologists are fucktards that like to stick carrots up their arses
before they start regurgitating the same old bullshit arguments they
have regurgitated many times before.

/Flibble


Daniel

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Apr 13, 2016, 10:30:48 PM4/13/16
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On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 5:46:38 PM UTC-4, Öö Tiib wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:00:35 UTC+3, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Seems that you did chose wrong forum to announce it. Here are only dozen
> or so regulars and maybe twice more casual posters and lurkers.

Just so.

It remains the most active of the usenet forums I used to follow, though.
Not much happening on comp.lang.c++.moderated or comp.std.c++. Nothing on
comp.lang.functional. comp.object has been dead since Robert Martin left it,
and that was years (decades?) ago. The last post in comp.databases.theory is
"Is this group dead?" comp.software.extreme-programming is all spam. The
most depressing of all is sci.math.num-analysis, which appears to have
become a sales channel for solutions manuals.

I recently subscribed to object-composition, it's fun to watch James Coplien
condescend and pontificate to his followers.

Daniel

woodb...@gmail.com

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May 4, 2016, 1:32:10 PM5/4/16
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On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 4:46:38 PM UTC-5, Öö Tiib wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:00:35 UTC+3, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Seems that you did chose wrong forum to announce it. Here are only dozen
> or so regulars and maybe twice more casual posters and lurkers. That is
> perhaps why there are only such sarcastic feedback.
>
> > "For two whole years Paul stayed there
> > in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him." Acts 28:30
>
> Does that puzzle mean that the C++ meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota
> that you organize will last two whole years?

No. Long term I'll probably move to a more conservative
state.

> I always assumed organizers
> of such things post the invitations directly to people and organizations
> that they would like to see participating. Such invitations typically
> include times, dates and agendas. Sometimes they also phone personally
> or contact over Skype and ask for opinion or advice and the like.

Maybe I'll do some of that in the future. For now I just
"cast my bread upon the waters."

Brian
Ebenezer Enterprises - Making programming fun again.
http://webEbenezer.net

woodb...@gmail.com

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Aug 15, 2016, 2:40:40 PM8/15/16
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On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 11:00:35 AM UTC-5, woodb...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 2:26:25 AM UTC-5, David Brown wrote:
> >
> > Surely booking a conference room in your office building is standard
> > procedure and part of the services offered by the building management -
> > and it is provided by the grace of an email and a small booking fee,
> > rather than requiring divine intervention?
>
> G-d gives me the strength and ability to make a living.
>
> >
> > Or was your plan to make sure that only religious fanatics come to the
> > meeting?
> >
>
> I welcome anyone that is interested.
>

Is anyone interested in a C++ meeting in the St. Paul,
Minnesota area?

Brian
Ebenezer Enterprises - Usain Bolt's middle name? St. Leo.

http://webEbenezer.net
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