Stretching the domain of life

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On Dec 8, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> I distinctly recall a local TV show of the mid to late '70s in which an
> incredibly soft-spoken and laid-back artist taught rudimentary landscape
> painting. As he daubed, he would habitually say things like, "And let's say
> a nice little pond lives up here" and "There should be a barn. Where does
> *he* live? Ahhh!"
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> JL
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> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
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>> Although you still hear and read "data" as a count noun on occasion, it
>> has pretty much changed to a non-count noun. (See
>> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/data).
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>> I think by the early 1980s, this was becoming widespread with the spread
>> of computing.
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>> Benjamin Barrett
>> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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>> Learn Ainu! https://sites.google.com/site/aynuitak1/videos
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>> On Dec 7, 2013, at 6:04 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>> WB:  Shouldn't it be, "My data *live* in a cloud"?
>>> <<Without a full grasp of where data **lives**, an organization can=92t
>> be
>>> completely sure of what privacy laws it may or may not be required to
>>> follow.>>
>>> <<How about your organization? Do you know exactly where your data
>>> **lives**? Are you sure you know?>>
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>> http://www.improvedatarecovery.com/302/why-are-companies-avoiding-cloud-sto=
>>> rage
>>> And you thought Data only lives on the Starship Enterprise. (It is
>> alive?)
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