Stretching the domain of life

[Jonathan Lighter]

 Indeed.


On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Spanbock/Svoboda-Spanbock <
spanbocks at verizon.net> wrote:

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> That's Bob Ross. :)
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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
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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.
> >>
> >> 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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