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Surely the Peace Prize will be shared by Chirac and Schroeder.
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JM Coetzee:
If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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Indeed. Or Arafat, for that matter.Originally posted by paiktis22
Inconceivably better than Kissinger"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Time to get Physics prize to Stephen Hawking.Solver, WePlayCiv Co-Administrator
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Economics: Engle & Granger for their studies on the volatility of financial markets.
Peace: not assigned
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Winners of this years Nobel Prizes will be announced this week. The Literature winner was was announced today: John Maxwell Coetzee, a South African born, American educated (U Texas) writer currently living in Australia.
Y'all know Sloww is going to brag on this shiite for years, don't ya?
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Personally, I dislike the idea of prizes given for 'journeyman' science. It was envisioned as a prize for innovative discovery not for 30 years of small incremental steps(even if good science).We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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Coetzee is well-known. He's won the Booker prize-Britain's top literary award.Originally posted by Agathon
And the usual response to a NP announcement is:
Who?
He's a little dry for my tastes, but he's certainly good at his job.The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil FinlandComment
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Re: Nobel Prizes
Wait!?! Where are the usual suspects complaining that the Nobel committee hates Western Civilization and is alsway promoting inferior literature . . . oh, yeah, he's white. (BTW, only four Africans have won the Nobel prize in literature.)Originally posted by Adam Smith
Winners of this years Nobel Prizes will be announced this week. The Literature winner was was announced today: John Maxwell Coetzee, a South African born, American educated (U Texas) writer currently living in Australia.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Sometimes the smallest of ideas have the greatest of a/effects...It was envisioned as a prize for innovative discovery not for 30 years of small incremental steps
Besides Nobel had no "Peace" prize...Comment
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That would be cool.For Peace, possibly Pope John Paul II for his role in Eastern Europe in the 1980's.
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Yeah, without JP2 the Gdansk labor action might have met another bloody reprisal.(\__/) Save a bunny, eat more Smurf!
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Almost certainly yet another experimentalist.
Damn anti-theory bias...12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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