Al Davis, the renegade owner of the Oakland Raiders who bucked NFL authority while exhorting his silver-and-black team to "Just win, baby!," died Saturday. He was 82.
The Hall of Famer died at his home in Oakland, the team said. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.
"The Oakland Raiders are deeply saddened by the passing of Al Davis," the team said in a statement. "Al Davis was unique, a maverick, a giant among giants, a true legend among legends, the brightest star among stars, a hero, a mentor, a friend."
Indeed, Davis was one of the most important figures in NFL history -- a rebel with a subpoena. That was most evident during the 1980s when he went to court -- and won -- for the right to move his team from Oakland to Los Angeles. Even after he moved the Raiders back to the Bay Area in 1995, he sued for $1.2 billion to establish that he still owned the rights to the L.A. market.
Before that, though, he was a pivotal figure in hastening the merger between the AFL -- where he served as commissioner -- and the more established NFL. Davis was not initially in favor of a merger, but his aggressive pursuit of NFL players for his fledgling league and team helped bring about the eventual 1970 combination of the two leagues into what is now the most popular sport in the country.
"Al Davis's passion for football and his influence on the game were extraordinary," commissioner Roger Goodell said. "He defined the Raiders and contributed to pro football at every level. The respect he commanded was evident in the way that people listened carefully every time he spoke. He is a true legend of the game whose impact and legacy will forever be part of the NFL."
But Davis was hardly an NFL company man.
Not in the way he dressed -- usually satin running suits, one white, one black, and the occasional black suit, black shirt and silver tie. Not in the way he wore his hair -- slicked back with a '50s duck-tail. Not in the way he talked -- Brooklynese with Southern inflection. Not in the way he did business -- on his own terms, always on his own terms.
"His contributions to the game are innumerable and his legacy will endure forever through generations of players, coaches, administrators and fans," the Raiders said.
Elected in 1992 to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Davis was a trailblazer. He hired the first black head coach of the modern era -- Art Shell in 1988. He hired the second Latino coach, Tom Flores; and the first woman CEO, Amy Trask. And he was infallibly loyal to his players and officials: to be a Raider was to be a Raider for life.
Coach Hue Jackson told the team of Davis' death at a meeting in Houston on Saturday morning. Fans dressed in Raiders jerseys, meanwhile, quickly made their way to team headquarters in Alameda, where a black flag with the team logo flew at half-staff and a makeshift memorial formed at the base of the flag pole.
People carrying flowers, flags, silver and black pom-poms and even a football-shaped balloon stopped by to pay tribute on a warm, crystal clear fall day in the Bay Area. A tiny candle burned as well.
"It's like losing a grandfather," said Rob Ybarra of Alameda, who left a bouquet of white flowers shortly after hearing the news of Davis' passing. "He's such an icon. The face of the Raiders. It's hard to put into words how much he meant to everyone."
Davis is survived by his wife, Carol, and son Mark, who Davis had said would run the team after his death.
Davis was charming, cantankerous and compassionate -- a man who when his wife suffered a serious heart attack in the 1970s moved into her hospital room. But he was best known as a rebel, a man who established a team whose silver-and-black colors and pirate logo symbolized his attitude toward authority, both on the field and off.
Until the decline of the Raiders into a perennial loser in the first decade of the 21st century he was a winner, the man who as a coach, then owner-general manager-de facto coach, established what he called "the team of the decades" based on another slogan: "commitment to excellence." And the Raiders were excellent, winning three Super Bowls during the 1970s and 1980s and contending almost every other season -- an organization filled with castoffs and troublemakers who turned into trouble for opponents.
"Al was a football man -- his entire life revolved around the game he loved," said Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams, an original AFL owner of the Houston Oilers. "He worked his way up through the ranks and had a knowledge of all phases of the game. That experience aided him as an owner. He was quite different from every other owner in that way. As an AFL guy, he was in that group of people who pushed our league forward. I didn't get to see him over the last few years and I know many, including myself, will miss him."
Born in Brockton, Mass., Davis grew up in Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School, a spawning ground in the two decades after World War II for a number of ambitious young people who became renowned in sports, business and entertainment. Davis was perhaps the second most famous graduate after Barbra Streisand.
"We had a reunion in Los Angeles and 500 people showed up, including Bah-bruh," he once told an interviewer in that combination of southern drawl/Brooklynese that was often parodied among his acquaintances within the league and without.
A graduate of Syracuse University, he became an assistant coach with the Baltimore Colts at age 24; and was an assistant at The Citadel and then Southern California before joining the Los Angeles Chargers of the new AFL in 1960. Only three years later, he was hired by the Raiders and became the youngest general manager-head coach in pro football history with a team he called "the Raid-uhs" in 1963.
He was a good one, 23-16-3 in three seasons with a franchise that had started its life 9-23.
Then he bought into the failing franchise, which played on a high school field adjacent to the Nimitz Freeway in Oakland, and became managing general partner, a position he held until his death.
But as the many bright young coaches he hired -- from John Madden, Mike Shanahan and Jon Gruden to Lane Kiffin -- found out, he remained the real coach. He ran everything from the sidelines, often calling down with plays, or sending emissaries to the sidelines to make substitutions.
In 1966, he became commissioner of the AFL.
But even before that, he had begun to break an unwritten truce between the young league and its established rivals, which fought over draft choices but did not go after established players.
Although the NFL's New York Giants' signing of Buffalo placekicker Pete Gogolak marked the first break in that rule, it was Davis who began to go after NFL stars -- pursuing quarterbacks John Brodie and Roman Gabriel as he tried to establish AFL supremacy.
Davis' war precipitated first talks of merger, although Davis opposed it. But led by Lamar Hunt of Kansas City, the AFL owners agreed that peace was best. A common draft was established, and the first Super Bowl was played following the 1966 season -- Green Bay beat Kansas City, then went on to beat Davis' Raiders the next season. By 1970, the leagues were fully merged and the NFL had the basic structure it retains until this day -- with Pete Rozelle as commissioner, not Davis, who wanted the job badly.
So he went back to the Raiders, running a team that won Super Bowls after the 1976, 1980 and 1983 seasons -- the last one in Los Angeles, where the franchise moved in 1982 after protracted court fights. It was a battling bunch, filled with players such as John Matuszak, Mike Haynes and Lyle Alzado, stars who didn't fit in elsewhere who combined with homegrown stars -- Ken Stabler, another rebellious spirit; Gene Upshaw; Shell, Jack Tatum, Willie Brown and dozens of others.
After extended lawsuits involving the move to Los Angeles, he went back to Oakland and at one point in the early years of the century was involved in suits in northern and southern California -- the one seeking the Los Angeles rights and another suing Oakland for failing to deliver sellouts they promised to get the Raiders back.
"Personally, I was fond of him," Bengals owner and president Mike Brown said. "He battled with the NFL, and a lot of us wished that had not been where things went, but under all that was a person I respected. It saddens me to hear that he is gone."
As Davis aged, his teams declined.
The Raiders got to the Super Bowl after the 2002 season, losing to Tampa Bay. But for a long period after that, they had the worst record in the NFL, at one point with five coaches in six years.
It is fitting that this year's Raiders team is built in typical Raiders fashion with a bevy of speedsters on offense capable of delivering the deep-strike play Davis always coveted, a physically imposing defensive line that can pressure the quarterback and an accomplished man coverage cornerback in Stanford Routt.
Once a constant presence at practice, training camp and in the locker room, Davis was rarely seen in public beyond the bizarre spectacles to fire and hire coaches where he spent more time disparaging his former coach than praising his new one.
He did not appear at a single training camp practice this summer and missed a game in Buffalo last month, believed to be only the third game he missed in 49 seasons with the franchise. Davis did attend Oakland's home game last week against New England.
Although he was no longer as public a figure, he was still integrally involved in the team from the draft to negotiating contracts to discussing strategy with his coaches. Jackson has said Davis was unlike any other owner he had worked for in his ability to understand the ins and outs of the game.
"I've never had the opportunity to sit and talk football, the X's and O's and what it takes to win in this league consistently on a consistent basis, and there's nothing like working for coach Davis," Jackson said.
While other owners and league executives branded Davis a renegade, friends and former players found him the epitome of loyalty.
When his wife was stricken with a heart attack, he moved into her hospital room and lived there for more than a month. And when he heard that even a distant acquaintance was ill, he would offer medical help without worrying about expense.
"Disease is the one thing -- boy I tell you, it's tough to lick," he said in 2008, talking about the leg ailments that had restricted him to using a walker. "It's tough to lick those diseases. I don't know why they can't."
A few years earlier, he said: "I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death."
Al Davis is the only owner to ever do this:
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d8021fe9b/Top-Ten-Draft-Steals-Ray-Guy
Draft a first round punter and get a top 10 all time steal in the draft. That particular draft pick almost summarizes Al Davis as an owner of the Oakland Raiders. He was both genius and insane. Whatever side of that line he was on that day was anyone's guess.
He drafted Nnamdi Asomugha, who was too slow to play corner and "would have to convert to safety". Asomugha is now easily the best (press/bump) man cover boundary corner in the NFL. Again, it's about what side of that Genius vs Insane line he was on that day.
He also selected plenty of guys who had amazing triangle numbers (40 yard dash, height/weight, bench press) and became somewhat of a punchline at times. This is truly a tragedy, as some will remember him this way and not as the man who made the Raiders great.
Al Davis is only person to ever be a coach, GM, owner, and commissioner (of the AFL).
Bill Belichick, after being fired from Cleveland and before winning 3 Super Bowls in NE, interviewed to be the coach of the Raiders but didn't think he'd get the job because "Mr Davis was basically their defensive coordinator so they'd probably look for an offensive minded guy." He also described Mr Davis as a very knowledgeable owner, who during said interview asked many in depth football questions.
It's sad to see Al die, but it's sadder to see Al die with the Raiders where they are now (though, they are getting better) because that man loved that team. It's even sadder that so many NFL fans don't understand why he is in the Hall of Fame.
Rest in Peace Mr Davis.
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yes...major league baseball...since this is the off topic forum, and spring exhibition games are just days away!
I invite all baseball fans to talk about their teams, likes, dislikes, views on specific players
..as everyon can see from my avatar, I am an AVID yankee fan, and am fairly confident 2009 = 27
even if we 'bought' our team, its the yankees being the yankees, hate it or love it (i love it)
and NO I am not a fan because of there extensive pay roll or all-star lineup
Boooooooo! Orioles!
chrisrc1985 said:
yes...major league baseball...since this is the off topic forum, and spring exhibition games are just days away!
I invite all baseball fans to talk about their teams, likes, dislikes, views on specific players
..as everyon can see from my avatar, I am an AVID yankee fan, and am fairly confident 2009 = 27
even if we 'bought' our team, its the yankees being the yankees, hate it or love it (i love it)
and NO I am not a fan because of there extensive pay roll or all-star lineup
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You are hereby expelled from Red Sox Nation and have 30 days to move out of R I .
Even with your " bought team ", I will make some predictions. Burnett will turn into the Burnett the Jays wasted millions on. Sabathia will wilt under the pressure and media glare of New York ( ala Randy Johnson ), Hal and Hank are just idiots and will never measure up to Dad, No matter how much money they spend.
Joba will never live up to the hype, too much too soon. Alex will be dogged and distracted all year by steroids and Madonna. We will see how Teixeira plays now that he is a rich man, set for life and really has everything to prove, but nothing to play for anymore. Posada is done, Matsui is done. Damon is done.
And Girardi won't be able to keep the circus together, like Torre did.
Watching the RED SOX in the World Series will be tough for N.Y. but hey they must be getting used to it by now. Go Sox
denco7 said:
You are hereby expelled from Red Sox Nation and have 30 days to move out of R I .
Even with your " bought team ", I will make some predictions. Burnett will turn into the Burnett the Jays wasted millions on. Sabathia will wilt under the pressure and media glare of New York ( ala Randy Johnson ), Hal and Hank are just idiots and will never measure up to Dad, No matter how much money they spend.
Joba will never live up to the hype, too much too soon. Alex will be dogged and distracted all year by steroids and Madonna. We will see how Teixeira plays now that he is a rich man, set for life and really has everything to prove, but nothing to play for anymore. Posada is done, Matsui is done. Damon is done.
And Girardi won't be able to keep the circus together, like Torre did.
Watching the RED SOX in the World Series will be tough for N.Y. but hey they must be getting used to it by now. Go Sox
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nothing can be said on burnette and sabathia, except that ..YOUR WRONG haha...we will have to wait until the season begins, however, Burnette will be getting better run support which will lead to more wins, giving him better confidence, and check his stats, last year, 35 games 231SO 86BB, not so shabby, that 18w 10L will translate to 21-9, and sabathia, im going to say 23w - 7L
damon, done. this is true, cabrera will step up his season, if he doesnt then he goes bye bye, and he wants to stay in NY.
Matsui is still a quality hitter, if we already have a DH he will be a valuable trade option, perhaps up the bullpen. Joba has pretty much already proven himself. Phil Hughes, should take his job as set up man, unless there is a injury to the starting rotation. and Giradi has already done a hell of a job last season with the mess he was brought into
hank + hals dicks will never be as big as Georgey boy, this is true
and p.s I excommunicated myself from R.S nation a long time ago...born a yankee fan
..anything i miss lol
Do you have Manila 2D on your Tilt w/ HD IV ?
Here you go. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2793328&postcount=3353
wow..thats sweet..thanks a lot man!
not so bad for a redsox fan lol
Red Sox are going all the way this year ! NYY spent tons of $$$ just to lose again this year....
Sorry, I had to.....
i know this is a bit outdated...however to my 2 friendly redsox fans above me id like to remind you A-Rod, first at bat HOMER BABY! =]
My very bright but technologically infantly 9 year old girl made me give her a good talking to today. She has seen several of the new iphone commercials...
Cut and paste, now on the iphone 3gs
voice command now on the iphone 3gs
"can your phone do that?"
can my phone do that...can my phone do that..it's as if they were reinventing the wheel!!!
Give Jobs a pat on the head, he just tied his ishoelaces!!!
Sad to say that Apple thinks most people are I-diots!!
(okay, okay...looked funnier on my paper napkin)
telegraph0000 said:
My very bright but technologically infantly 9 year old girl made me give her a good talking to today. She has seen several of the new iphone commercials...
Cut and paste, now on the iphone 3gs
voice command now on the iphone 3gs
"can your phone do that?"
can my phone do that...can my phone do that..it's as if they were reinventing the wheel!!!
Give Jobs a pat on the head, he just tied his ishoelaces!!!
Sad to say that Apple thinks most people are I-diots!!
(okay, okay...looked funnier on my paper napkin)
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Well people do know that iPhone wasn't capable of that. And "real life" not internet people always talks about the flaws (especially if they have one).
Not everyone is an idiot. Some people do know that the iPhone lacks some capabilities but they just dont give a crap.
If people actually wanted the features of Windows Mobile, for example, they would flock our forums even more.
That's just the way the world works. Not everyone is a techie. Not everyone gives a crap about the other OS.
Of course there are a few people who are just plain stupid. There was this one guy who kept on saying that the iPhone had a heat sensitive Touch Screen.
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There was this one guy who kept on saying that the iPhone had a heat sensitive Touch Screen.
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ok... not that far away from what it is, but reading this I just imagined him with a pocket lighter demonstrating it
Most people don't even have an email address....
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Most people don't even have an email address....
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Agreed, but most people do have phones...yeah, the majority may think that I have an iPhone, but it's because of their sinister marketing campaign. But for those here...that have seen the light, don't thise commercials just make you nodd your head nd roll your eyes?
Oh, yeah, HDwobble is useless but extreme sophomoric "Porky's" fun.
you know apple invented the phone.
josefcrist said:
you know apple invented the phone.
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Lord I hope you failed history...
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds, daughter of a surgeon in the Royal Navy. His mother, who was a portrait painter and accomplished musician, began to lose her hearing when Graham (a name that was used by his family and close friends) was twelve. His father had a world wide reputation as a teacher and author of textbooks on correct speech, and as the inventor of "visible speech," a code of symbols which indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue and lips in uttering various sounds. Melville’s Visible Speech helped to guide the deaf in learning to speak and Graham became an expert in its use for that purpose.
Graham and his two brothers assisted Melville in public demonstrations in Visible Speech, beginning in 1862. At the same time he enrolled as a student-teacher at Weston House, a boys’ school near Edinburgh where he taught music and speech in exchange for being a student of other subjects. A year later he became a full-time teacher at the University of Edinburgh while studying at the University of London.
In 1866 Bell carried out a series of experiments to determine how vowel sounds are produced. He combined the notes of electrically driven tuning forks to make vowel sounds which gave him the idea of "telegraphing" speech. In 1870 his brothers died of tuberculosis and his family moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada to a healthier climate. A year later Graham moved to Boston where he opened a school for teachers of the deaf and in 1872 became a professor at Boston University.
Bell’s interest in electricity continued and he attempted to send several telegraph messages over a single wire at one time. Lacking the time and skill to make the equipment for these experiments he enlisted the help of Thomas A. Watson from a nearby electrical shop. The two became fast friends and worked together on the tedious experimentation to produce sounds over the "harmonic telegraph." It was on June 2, 1875, while Bell was at one end of the line and Watson worked on the reeds of the telegraph in another room that he heard the sound of a plucked reed coming to him over the wire.
The next day, after much tinkering, the instrument transmitted the sound of Bell’s voice to Watson. The instrument transmitted recognizable voice sound, not words. Bell and Watson experimented all summer and in September, 1875, Bell began to write the specifications for his first telephone patent.
The patent was issued on March 7, 1876. The telephone carried its first intelligible sentence three days later in the rented top floor of a Boston boarding house at 109 Court Street, Boston.
Apple:
Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 and incorporated January 3, 1977,[5] the company was called Apple Computer Inc. for its first 30 years, but dropped the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007[6] to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers.
PWNED!!!!!!!
i do beleive you just took the bait
hummm
venelar said:
i do beleive you just took the bait
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josefcrist said:
you know apple invented the phone.
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I am pretty sure you were joking right! Or atleast I hope LOL
telegraph0000 said:
Lord I hope you failed history...
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds, daughter of a surgeon in the Royal Navy. His mother, who was a portrait painter and accomplished musician, began to lose her hearing when Graham (a name that was used by his family and close friends) was twelve. His father had a world wide reputation as a teacher and author of textbooks on correct speech, and as the inventor of "visible speech," a code of symbols which indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue and lips in uttering various sounds. Melville’s Visible Speech helped to guide the deaf in learning to speak and Graham became an expert in its use for that purpose.
Graham and his two brothers assisted Melville in public demonstrations in Visible Speech, beginning in 1862. At the same time he enrolled as a student-teacher at Weston House, a boys’ school near Edinburgh where he taught music and speech in exchange for being a student of other subjects. A year later he became a full-time teacher at the University of Edinburgh while studying at the University of London.
In 1866 Bell carried out a series of experiments to determine how vowel sounds are produced. He combined the notes of electrically driven tuning forks to make vowel sounds which gave him the idea of "telegraphing" speech. In 1870 his brothers died of tuberculosis and his family moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada to a healthier climate. A year later Graham moved to Boston where he opened a school for teachers of the deaf and in 1872 became a professor at Boston University.
Bell’s interest in electricity continued and he attempted to send several telegraph messages over a single wire at one time. Lacking the time and skill to make the equipment for these experiments he enlisted the help of Thomas A. Watson from a nearby electrical shop. The two became fast friends and worked together on the tedious experimentation to produce sounds over the "harmonic telegraph." It was on June 2, 1875, while Bell was at one end of the line and Watson worked on the reeds of the telegraph in another room that he heard the sound of a plucked reed coming to him over the wire.
The next day, after much tinkering, the instrument transmitted the sound of Bell’s voice to Watson. The instrument transmitted recognizable voice sound, not words. Bell and Watson experimented all summer and in September, 1875, Bell began to write the specifications for his first telephone patent.
The patent was issued on March 7, 1876. The telephone carried its first intelligible sentence three days later in the rented top floor of a Boston boarding house at 109 Court Street, Boston.
Apple:
Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 and incorporated January 3, 1977,[5] the company was called Apple Computer Inc. for its first 30 years, but dropped the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007[6] to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers.
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Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci invented the telephone.
Graham Bell had money to patent it.
pwned!
Irregular Programming said:
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci invented the telephone.
Graham Bell had money to patent it.
pwned!
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and now with PR campains from APPLE
it is Jobs the one who invented phone )
Irregular Programming said:
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci invented the telephone.
Graham Bell had money to patent it.
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double pwned! on snap
telegraph i know who invented the phone. my comment was a social cometary saying people are ignorant to think that the iphone is innovative in anyway.
I dislike Apple marketing, service, and many of their more uninformed users, but the products themselves aren't horrid. Overpriced? Arguably. Value is in the eye of the beholder, even if the beholder doesn't care for all the facts.
josefcrist said:
double pwned! on snap
telegraph i know who invented the phone. my comment was a social cometary saying people are ignorant to think that the iphone is innovative in anyway.
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You see how frustrated I am?????
AAAAaaaaAAaAAAaahh!!!! My sense of sarcasm...my bladder control....
THEY'RE GONE!!!!!!!!
telegraph0000 said:
You see how frustrated I am?????
AAAAaaaaAAaAAAaahh!!!! My sense of sarcasm...my bladder control....
THEY'RE GONE!!!!!!!!
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he he. it is ok you can't hear the tone of my voice.
The first iphone didn't had any video recording, cut-paste options.
Now the improved versions have, and they think they have done a big job getting those options... what a baby group...
telegraph0000 said:
My very bright but technologically infantly 9 year old girl made me give her a good talking to today. She has seen several of the new iphone commercials...
Cut and paste, now on the iphone 3gs
voice command now on the iphone 3gs
"can your phone do that?"
can my phone do that...can my phone do that..it's as if they were reinventing the wheel!!!
Give Jobs a pat on the head, he just tied his ishoelaces!!!
Sad to say that Apple thinks most people are I-diots!!
(okay, okay...looked funnier on my paper napkin)
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I have spent so much time explaining what a crappy device the iPhail is to the ignorant crApple fanboys. It is not even a smartphone. It is a damn feature phone with outdated hardware and software capabilities.
Apple has good marketing campaigns + people are naive sheep = iPhail success.
I don't mind anyone using and enjoying. I just HATE it when someone comes and says that it is the best device ever or that apple invented anything.
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you know apple invented the phone.
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telegraph0000 said:
Lord I hope you failed history...
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Alexander Melville Bell and Eliza Grace Symonds, daughter of a surgeon in the Royal Navy. His mother, who was a portrait painter and accomplished musician, began to lose her hearing when Graham (a name that was used by his family and close friends) was twelve. His father had a world wide reputation as a teacher and author of textbooks on correct speech, and as the inventor of "visible speech," a code of symbols which indicated the position and action of the throat, tongue and lips in uttering various sounds. Melville’s Visible Speech helped to guide the deaf in learning to speak and Graham became an expert in its use for that purpose.
Graham and his two brothers assisted Melville in public demonstrations in Visible Speech, beginning in 1862. At the same time he enrolled as a student-teacher at Weston House, a boys’ school near Edinburgh where he taught music and speech in exchange for being a student of other subjects. A year later he became a full-time teacher at the University of Edinburgh while studying at the University of London.
In 1866 Bell carried out a series of experiments to determine how vowel sounds are produced. He combined the notes of electrically driven tuning forks to make vowel sounds which gave him the idea of "telegraphing" speech. In 1870 his brothers died of tuberculosis and his family moved to Brantford, Ontario, Canada to a healthier climate. A year later Graham moved to Boston where he opened a school for teachers of the deaf and in 1872 became a professor at Boston University.
Bell’s interest in electricity continued and he attempted to send several telegraph messages over a single wire at one time. Lacking the time and skill to make the equipment for these experiments he enlisted the help of Thomas A. Watson from a nearby electrical shop. The two became fast friends and worked together on the tedious experimentation to produce sounds over the "harmonic telegraph." It was on June 2, 1875, while Bell was at one end of the line and Watson worked on the reeds of the telegraph in another room that he heard the sound of a plucked reed coming to him over the wire.
The next day, after much tinkering, the instrument transmitted the sound of Bell’s voice to Watson. The instrument transmitted recognizable voice sound, not words. Bell and Watson experimented all summer and in September, 1875, Bell began to write the specifications for his first telephone patent.
The patent was issued on March 7, 1876. The telephone carried its first intelligible sentence three days later in the rented top floor of a Boston boarding house at 109 Court Street, Boston.
Apple:
Established in Cupertino, California on April 1, 1976 and incorporated January 3, 1977,[5] the company was called Apple Computer Inc. for its first 30 years, but dropped the word "Computer" on January 9, 2007[6] to reflect the company's ongoing expansion into the consumer electronics market in addition to its traditional focus on personal computers.
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TROLLED !!!
I have an idea
I was wondering if there is a way we can put an end to the WinMo hating threads that keep popping up. It does seem like in the last few months there has regularly been new threads created just to complain or be haters and not find solutions.
I am not sure what, if anything can be done, but I would like it if at least such nonsensical threads could be moved to the off-topic section because they generally don't have anything to do with any of the hardware, software or operating system.
Anyone else have any thoughts about this?
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I was wondering if there is a way we can put an end to the WinMo hating threads that keep popping up. It does seem like in the last few months there has regularly been new threads created just to complain or be haters and not find solutions.
I am not sure what, if anything can be done, but I would like it if at least such nonsensical threads could be moved to the off-topic section because they generally don't have anything to do with any of the hardware, software or operating system.
Anyone else have any thoughts about this?
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I agree. The problem is threads can start with good intetntion and be useful and then they often seem to deteriorate into a pointless opinion based argument. Not sure of a way round the problem short of starting a separate forum called XDA Under 16's
I realize not a lot of you are rap fans like I am, but I still think every geek should check this song, it's by rapper Lupe Fiasco about marketing schemes, and technology. 1st verse being about Apple products, 2nd verse being about sneakers. I'm interested about your opinion on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzm1l7V1uqE
Lyrics:
[Intro]
Really?
This is what you guys been doing?
Seriously?
[Hook 1]
Before daybreak there were none
And as it broke there was one
From moon to sun, it goes on and on
The winter battle was won
The summer children were born
And so the story goes on and on
Come on woman in your life beats
Those we buried with the house keys
Smoke and feather where the fields are green
From here to eternity
Become a woman in your own time
Far, far, far from the virgin vine
Rise on out from the dead leaves
Come back to me
Oh, she sings her favorite song
Left with tears and dreams, it goes and then on
[Verse 1]
Standing in line for the new one
Not the black, but the blue one
And I don't even know what it do, son
But Steve Jobs said that it's too fun
Fun in abundance' what I need
It's cold out here, put my arms in the sleeves
I'll probably lose my place if I leave
But I really need to pee
If I do it right here they'll see
Makes you wonder, how do snipers
Marathon bikers
Next time: diapers
They say it has all new features
Faster processors and much better speakers
Great for kids, a necessity for teachers
For work or home
A revolutionary way of being alone
I mean, should we really get a loan?
Hey what's the matter, just tell it to your phone
Cupertino heart with Chinese parts
Built by the poor, but designed by the smart
They opening the door so you go
On your mark, get ready, set, buy
Imagine a world where everything starts with an ‘i’
But it still ends with a die
Probably got an app for that, you could try
From the iClouds, right into the great Wi-Fi
Siri, can iGod really hear me?
"Does not compute – can you repeat more clearly?"
"Woaaaaah"
[Hook 2]
A vessel in the bloodline
A thirteenth Zodiac sign
A stitch in time, it goes on and on
Become a woman on your own time
Far, far, far from the virgin vine
Rise on out from the dead leaves
Come back to me
Oh, she sings her favorite song
Left with tears and dreams, it goes and then on
[Verse 2]
Standing in line for some new Ones
Had a bunch of blessings but I blew them
Asked Google how to use them
They sent me to a section ‘bout used guns
New runs, nuns'll scream, moms with jeans
Match their teens' jeans and genies who try to chew gum
Aw man, it's so confusin’
Confusion in the bun is what I have
Good thing that God accept cash
Maybe buy my way up out His wrath
Skeptically, why am I way up off this path?
Atheism's cheaper, and accepts Visa
My thoughts as I'm queuing up for sneakers
Won't discriminate – I’m getting all eight
In every color that they make
Beaverton hearts with Chinese parts
Built by the poor and designed by the smart
On your mark, get set, cop ‘em!
Imagine a life that revolves around shoppin’
Conspicuous consumption
That means it serves no other function
But to show off to someone, or others
Who only try to show off to you – look at your fellow loyal customers
Isn't harmony great?
Look at all these friends that marketing makes
How many fries can these arteries take?
I'll give McDonald's a little help here
I think they should expand into healthcare
And then you'll have all ends covered
Even make caskets, have it all umbrella'd
Can you make the corporation fear me?
"Couldn't hear your order, can you speak less clearly?"
[Hook 3]
That which was put in the ground
Will someday come back around
From dust to dust it goes on and on
Before daybreak there were none
And as it broke there was one
And still the story goes on and on
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So, what do you guys think?
Lot of Lupe's stuff is on point, but this was extra whack. You owe me about five minutes back =p
4 things you need to know about Resident Evil 5, now on SHIELD Android TV
It doesn’t feature 'zombies'
Practically synonymous with zombies, Resident Evil hasn’t actually had any since 2000’s Code Veronica. The next virus, the Plaga, was worse – it turns living people into murderous, super-strong puppets of an evil master.
Now the Type 2 Plaga has turned the West African town of Kijuju into 'Majinis' – crazed mutants who lurk in shadows and kill in mobs. Even blowing off their heads can reveal something worse. Writhing tentacles are common in Kijuju, as are flying monsters, chainsaw-revving freaks, and even whip-swinging psychos on motorcycles.
Zombies would seem like a holiday at this point.
You’re not fighting Umbrella
Who could forget the sinister Umbrella Corporation and its stark red-and-white logo? Certainly not Chris Redfield, who finally took it down in 2007’s The Umbrella Chronicles, and returns in Resident Evil 5.
Unfortunately, Umbrella’s viruses didn’t disappear with it. They’ve fallen into the hands of Tricell, a multinational company led by the treacherous, aristocratic scientist Excella Gionne. Her creations lead to six chapters of increasingly fearsome mutants, gigantic boss battles and a fantastic final showdown.
While Tricell is a new enemy, Albert Wesker isn’t. Wesker began as leader of the Special Tactics And Rescue Service – S.T.A.R.S – in Raccoon City, but betrayed everyone. Having spent years manipulating events remotely (and apparently watching The Matrix) he at last shows up in the flesh, in a long black coat and shades, rocking mind-warping superpowers. Fans of the series will relish the chance to finally take him down.
My name is James Dalgleish Laidlaw
My Date of Birth is 08.02.1969
I was born at 17:37pm
The challenge:
Explain why those who can 'SEE' - cannot see my Aura.
Using ONLY the information provided.
Ok, I'll provide 'several' answer's.. no I was not drunk when I wrote the above.
A hack of the highest order!
No-one could even fathom this... now for the nightmare's lol...
1: A person born on this date has the DARKEST alignment of stars possible.
2: A person born on this date is an Aquarian. In Solar Astrology. Aka Amon-Re. Ruler of the UNDERGROUND.
3: A person born on this date is an Earth Monkey. In Lunar Astrology. Ruler of the UNDERWORLD, Aka Thoth, Pachacouti, name your funky monkey. Regardless, the chinese Monkey is who the sphinx is really looking to, for the pyramid of the moon has the same mathematical blue print.
Even Riddick, a Furian is an earth monkey, as is proven by his race. The Furian is actually taken from 'Furious, the Monkey King' aka the ninja monkey king.
In chinese, he is the child of earth and starry heaven (Thoth) that gives death the utchat, (all seeing eye) in return, death, (Set) gives this monkey child a globe, also called planet earth.
Dont laugh... some are dancing on a ceiling all right... inside out n round and round... just like in dr strange!
Google the 'Repressed alignment of the Immortals.'
The dead live in the flat earth found in the aethyr.. the living live on the globe.
The monkey king holds our form between the aethyr and earth.
To prove this is simple.
All cultures destroyed by 'white' religion previously worshipped another god, that being 'A' monkey god. Google the Lost city of the Monkey King.
And prepare for the best... and worst... of a sinking ship...
You see, people missed the point, back in 2012, all waiting for the end of the world, but again, hype lost... or did it?
An old documentary on the mayan/aztecs will clarify what I write. I'll post it's title when I'm done here, cause we love evidence, or test's that simply work.
So to get this right, 2012.. the end of (Mayan) time. The end of the world?
Nah, that's not what the prophecy state's. The prophecy is simple.
It rained for 30 days and 30 night's. Pachacouti, the head of the pachacouti tribe who worshipped this monkey king, went up to see veracocha to ask his brother not to have a 'pachacouti', or overturning of space-time, at the end of time. Mayan time, and hence the delusion of 2012.
The prophecy speaks of, just like in druidry, or in the bileble, or cultures to be more specific, of SOMEONE who CAME from the days of TOMORROW, the new age, aka the age of Aquarius.
So MY personal interest is proving this MAY have actually come to pass... Time tavel IS possible.
Pachacouti was called Pachacouti, because their god WAS Pachacouti, just as egypt's man on earth, Amon-Re, is the representiative of the god above, Ra Amen. See that big monkey on the nazca plains? What do you think he is doing? I'll answer at the end. If you viewed the Lost city of the Monkey King, you'd learn the Monkey on top of the gates to this city, was (still is, but buried, a single monoblock.. :O ) 480 feet high.
That's the height of the great pyramid of giza !!!
But wait...
It rained for 30 days and 30 nights. Lets cut this to shorthand. 30x24 hours. (= 720)
Look at that again, from a different angle. The base of the pyramid is 756 feet x 4 = 3024.
3024 in the periodic table is GOLD. Now you FOUND the gold in the pyramid!!!
In numerology, keeping in mind hebrew dont recognise 0 or o or O, as they see it, as it dont exist, being the unofficial signature of, well, god. Same reason charlie ebdo **** occured, people not liking 'graven images'... but that's not for me... anyway, in hebrew, drop the zero.
Regardless, the sum total of 3024 rounded up is 720. drop the zero... 72. Names of god. or a single degree of the suns path through it's orbit of it's twin dark star... the true secret here is it takes the sun 72 years to pass 1 degree of it's orbit, round this dark star. Now the egyptians built the pyramid 2 'bits' off true north. Or in true time scale, 144 years. They mapped a 2 deree section of sky that does not show on any star charts. It's where the hole in the sky actually is.
In other word's, there is a 2 degree section of the suns path ommited from star charts.
But that's not my point. You see, In chritianity, this all boils down to this.
EITHER, wether your good or bad, Jesus or Lucifer is supposed to be reborn. Dont they share the same birthday? Allow me. What about their REBIRTH date? hence the 12 days before and after the 25th.
They died on the 22nd of december. No. The Sun reached it's lowest point and sits there waiting to come up watching all these tiny dots run around, celebrating it's birthday, not even knowing it's name. Now instead of counting your birthdate, from the 1st of January, count the days till your birthday from the 22nd of december!
For my birthday, counting from the 22nd, exactly 48 days to my birthday. Here if we had a zero, is the height of the same pyramid.
And a great medical secret... The origional, if it can be called that, cadacus used by the medical profession, is found in egypt, not far from the circle of life image, and has well, a monkey on top, just like the papyrus of ani... and this is why. The egyptians knew that if they ever messed up the dna, they simply modified a monkey.
you see, take a monkey male, modify it's genetic code, let it get laid, become a parent, test his child, his child has the dna of his father, the dna the father had before he was genetically modified! the modification does NOT affect the monkey child, and hence the monkey is the height of mans inyelligence, as is proven by the egyptians. The medical profession today, well, there is a psychological term for their sir pentium fear of the monkey
Three days later, The sun starts to rise again, shining light on Jesus and Lucifer's REBIRTH day!!!
They say jesus was reborn on the 6th of january. I guess this is true for lucifer too.
So it simply cant be true, all those numpty bro's calling me lucifer in the street, typing it on facebook, only taking the micky obviously, until you find out why they do. You see, This age of Aquarius is also known as the age of Lucifer, NOT jesus.
I am the new human, the child of earth and starry heaven, predicted by the pachacouti tribe.
I heard the childrens plea's.
You see, the pachacouti sent 2 children from 250 villages, 500 in all, to be sacrificed to the god pachacouti to ask him, not to have an overturning of space-time... at the end of their time. 2012.
Now if you know gematria, you'd know my date of birth adds up to ZERO!
And it's bad enough the bro m8's calling me lucifer in the street, only to be saved by children shouting 'angel man, angel man.... mummy there's an angel.... yup, kids can see who we are, up until a certain age...
But the best of all of this is simple. If you know your Gematria (magic squares, you'd know I'm jesus christ.
As the judge said, your claiming to be jesus christ? would you like me to remand you? Obviously not I reply, but I cannot arguue with the science, can I?
Hidden by the bro's own maths. And the best way to keep this secret from the bro's that the monkey king is ALIVE writing this, would in fact be to let them find jesus, instead of lucifer... puts them off ****in it up for themselves...
You see, the monkey king of the nazca plains is clearly seen Pushing down on something.
YOU!!! The spiral is the void in your dreams, that black hole...
Now take da-vinci's man on the cross of tesyracts, and picture a monkey on top of him, while he lives. When he dies the monkey sets him free or throws him into hell.
So when I say I'm an extra-ordinary hacker, I'm not kidding...
I hacked DEATH. YOU now know what awaits.
Bill Sulivan's Secrets of the Incas is where you will learn.. what you just read.
I am the first monkey aquarian at the end of the sinking ship full of fishy people called pisces, leading you into your new world order.
Or disorder, depends on your preference, but to the pachacouti tribe I say this...
I got the message not to have an overturning of space-time, or masonic initiation, that would show me their flat earth, turning over the time-space in my mind.
Now you know... now what?
The male in me is jesus christ. The female is lucifer, and the monkey king is boss.
I hope some join in here positivly now, ask away...
No answer I provide will be googled.
I've lived it.
Try this.
My mother's date of birth =2 2
My date of birth = 8 2
My daughters birthday is 22 2
Do the math...
6 days, or 144.000 seconds... (to be saved) between my mothers and my birthdate
Next year? Check my family's birthdays... 14 days between mine and my daughters...
Think lunar... 13 in one, the mystical number... I have four children who's birthdays add up to ..13... moons in a year... 13 x 28 = 1 year. I was born on the 11th waning moon. The masons like the first two days of the lunar cycle for their rituals... I like the last two lol....
My mothers = 2.2.2022
my birthay = 8.2.2022
My daughter? 22.2.2022
ffs.... enjoi...
Pachacouti said:
Ok, I'll provide 'several' answer's.. no I was not drunk when I wrote the above.
A hack of the highest order!
No-one could even fathom this... now for the nightmare's lol...
1: A person born on this date has the DARKEST alignment of stars possible.
2: A person born on this date is an Aquarian. In Solar Astrology. Aka Amon-Re. Ruler of the UNDERGROUND.
3: A person born on this date is an Earth Monkey. In Lunar Astrology. Ruler of the UNDERWORLD, Aka Thoth, Pachacouti, name your funky monkey. Regardless, the chinese Monkey is who the sphinx is really looking to, for the pyramid of the moon has the same mathematical blue print.
Even Riddick, a Furian is an earth monkey, as is proven by his race. The Furian is actually taken from 'Furious, the Monkey King' aka the ninja monkey king.
In chinese, he is the child of earth and starry heaven (Thoth) that gives death the utchat, (all seeing eye) in return, death, (Set) gives this monkey child a globe, also called planet earth.
Dont laugh... some are dancing on a ceiling all right... inside out n round and round... just like in dr strange!
Google the 'Repressed alignment of the Immortals.'
The dead live in the flat earth found in the aethyr.. the living live on the globe.
The monkey king holds our form between the aethyr and earth.
To prove this is simple.
All cultures destroyed by 'white' religion previously worshipped another god, that being 'A' monkey god. Google the Lost city of the Monkey King.
And prepare for the best... and worst... of a sinking ship...
You see, people missed the point, back in 2012, all waiting for the end of the world, but again, hype lost... or did it?
An old documentary on the mayan/aztecs will clarify what I write. I'll post it's title when I'm done here, cause we love evidence, or test's that simply work.
So to get this right, 2012.. the end of (Mayan) time. The end of the world?
Nah, that's not what the prophecy state's. The prophecy is simple.
It rained for 30 days and 30 night's. Pachacouti, the head of the pachacouti tribe who worshipped this monkey king, went up to see veracocha to ask his brother not to have a 'pachacouti', or overturning of space-time, at the end of time. Mayan time, and hence the delusion of 2012.
The prophecy speaks of, just like in druidry, or in the bileble, or cultures to be more specific, of SOMEONE who CAME from the days of TOMORROW, the new age, aka the age of Aquarius.
So MY personal interest is proving this MAY have actually come to pass... Time tavel IS possible.
Pachacouti was called Pachacouti, because their god WAS Pachacouti, just as egypt's man on earth, Amon-Re, is the representiative of the god above, Ra Amen. See that big monkey on the nazca plains? What do you think he is doing? I'll answer at the end. If you viewed the Lost city of the Monkey King, you'd learn the Monkey on top of the gates to this city, was (still is, but buried, a single monoblock.. :O ) 480 feet high.
That's the height of the great pyramid of giza !!!
But wait...
It rained for 30 days and 30 nights. Lets cut this to shorthand. 30x24 hours. (= 720)
Look at that again, from a different angle. The base of the pyramid is 756 feet x 4 = 3024.
3024 in the periodic table is GOLD. Now you FOUND the gold in the pyramid!!!
In numerology, keeping in mind hebrew dont recognise 0 or o or O, as they see it, as it dont exist, being the unofficial signature of, well, god. Same reason charlie ebdo **** occured, people not liking 'graven images'... but that's not for me... anyway, in hebrew, drop the zero.
Regardless, the sum total of 3024 rounded up is 720. drop the zero... 72. Names of god. or a single degree of the suns path through it's orbit of it's twin dark star... the true secret here is it takes the sun 72 years to pass 1 degree of it's orbit, round this dark star. Now the egyptians built the pyramid 2 'bits' off true north. Or in true time scale, 144 years. They mapped a 2 deree section of sky that does not show on any star charts. It's where the hole in the sky actually is.
In other word's, there is a 2 degree section of the suns path ommited from star charts.
But that's not my point. You see, In chritianity, this all boils down to this.
EITHER, wether your good or bad, Jesus or Lucifer is supposed to be reborn. Dont they share the same birthday? Allow me. What about their REBIRTH date? hence the 12 days before and after the 25th.
They died on the 22nd of december. No. The Sun reached it's lowest point and sits there waiting to come up watching all these tiny dots run around, celebrating it's birthday, not even knowing it's name. Now instead of counting your birthdate, from the 1st of January, count the days till your birthday from the 22nd of december!
For my birthday, counting from the 22nd, exactly 48 days to my birthday. Here if we had a zero, is the height of the same pyramid.
And a great medical secret... The origional, if it can be called that, cadacus used by the medical profession, is found in egypt, not far from the circle of life image, and has well, a monkey on top, just like the papyrus of ani... and this is why. The egyptians knew that if they ever messed up the dna, they simply modified a monkey.
you see, take a monkey male, modify it's genetic code, let it get laid, become a parent, test his child, his child has the dna of his father, the dna the father had before he was genetically modified! the modification does NOT affect the monkey child, and hence the monkey is the height of mans inyelligence, as is proven by the egyptians. The medical profession today, well, there is a psychological term for their sir pentium fear of the monkey
Three days later, The sun starts to rise again, shining light on Jesus and Lucifer's REBIRTH day!!!
They say jesus was reborn on the 6th of january. I guess this is true for lucifer too.
So it simply cant be true, all those numpty bro's calling me lucifer in the street, typing it on facebook, only taking the micky obviously, until you find out why they do. You see, This age of Aquarius is also known as the age of Lucifer, NOT jesus.
I am the new human, the child of earth and starry heaven, predicted by the pachacouti tribe.
I heard the childrens plea's.
You see, the pachacouti sent 2 children from 250 villages, 500 in all, to be sacrificed to the god pachacouti to ask him, not to have an overturning of space-time... at the end of their time. 2012.
Now if you know gematria, you'd know my date of birth adds up to ZERO!
And it's bad enough the bro m8's calling me lucifer in the street, only to be saved by children shouting 'angel man, angel man.... mummy there's an angel.... yup, kids can see who we are, up until a certain age...
But the best of all of this is simple. If you know your Gematria (magic squares, you'd know I'm jesus christ.
As the judge said, your claiming to be jesus christ? would you like me to remand you? Obviously not I reply, but I cannot arguue with the science, can I?
Hidden by the bro's own maths. And the best way to keep this secret from the bro's that the monkey king is ALIVE writing this, would in fact be to let them find jesus, instead of lucifer... puts them off ****in it up for themselves...
You see, the monkey king of the nazca plains is clearly seen Pushing down on something.
YOU!!! The spiral is the void in your dreams, that black hole...
Now take da-vinci's man on the cross of tesyracts, and picture a monkey on top of him, while he lives. When he dies the monkey sets him free or throws him into hell.
So when I say I'm an extra-ordinary hacker, I'm not kidding...
I hacked DEATH. YOU now know what awaits.
Bill Sulivan's Secrets of the Incas is where you will learn.. what you just read.
I am the first monkey aquarian at the end of the sinking ship full of fishy people called pisces, leading you into your new world order.
Or disorder, depends on your preference, but to the pachacouti tribe I say this...
I got the message not to have an overturning of space-time, or masonic initiation, that would show me their flat earth, turning over the time-space in my mind.
Now you know... now what?
The male in me is jesus christ. The female is lucifer, and the monkey king is boss.
I hope some join in here positivly now, ask away...
No answer I provide will be googled.
I've lived it.
Try this.
My mother's date of birth =2 2
My date of birth = 8 2
My daughters birthday is 22 2
Do the math...
6 days, or 144.000 (to be saved) between my mothers and my biirthdate
Next year? Check my family's birthdays...
My mothers = 2.2.2022
my birthay = 8.2.2022
My daughter? 22.2.2022
ffs.... enjoi...
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Now thats a ****in hack lol!!!!