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RIP Fangle. Travel well and say hi to Dullbog for us. Will raise a glass to you and your family and reflect on over two decades of banter.

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Dublin trip with my son and other yoots from Gonzaga College High School in town june 20 and again 25th to 27th. Suggestions? Any games on? Hi pal, how are you doing? Long time since I saw you post. I've moved to Florida by the way, so no more RWC watches. Hope all is well. GOOD M8. which town? I v...

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might be a bit late to it, but the tickets for sunday All Ireland Football seem limited to the Hill only?

Would that still be OK?

Are they sold out?

also, Quays fish and chips was Stellar, and the Dublin Coddle. My kid was over the moon!!!

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what about Galway....

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awesome mates.... good suggestions.

keep 'em coming!

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Dublin trip with my son and other yoots from Gonzaga College High School

in town june 20 and again 25th to 27th.

Suggestions? Any games on?

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KARRRRNTS!

As you were.

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Taking my kids to Seth Effrica march 30 to april 7. Probably going to Waratahs Stormers match april 4. Need some local guides to help me around... Anyone of you motley lot prepared to host a barbie or a Quiet Little Drink! Or just come along to a game. Will advise when we have a full tour schedule....

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tour cancelled. Shit. they are feckin'g with us regarding refunds. talking about credits!!!

might have to do a redux.

will let you all know.

Turk, will try to look you up next time I go to Orlando! I know it is a long way, but hell, Orlando is the ass end of the earth,

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Sards, we will catch for a beer, Boet?

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still hotmail?

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PS you know the Beast is coming to DC. Come up and I will take you to a game.

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Taking my kids to Seth Effrica march 30 to april 7. Probably going to Waratahs Stormers match april 4. Need some local guides to help me around... Anyone of you motley lot prepared to host a barbie or a Quiet Little Drink! Or just come along to a game. Will advise when we have a full tour schedule....

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Taking my kids to Seth Effrica march 30 to april 7. Probably going to Waratahs Stormers match april 4. Need some local guides to help me around... Anyone of you motley lot prepared to host a barbie or a Quiet Little Drink! Or just come along to a game. Will advise when we have a full tour schedule....

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Taking my kids to Seth Effrica march 30 to april 7. Probably going to Waratahs Stormers match april 4. Need some local guides to help me around... Anyone of you motley lot prepared to host a barbie or a Quiet Little Drink! Or just come along to a game. Will advise when we have a full tour schedule.

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jebus.... guys, chin up. My thoughts are with you all.

takes this sort of tragedy to get me back.

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I know they operated across multiple channels. This discussion originated with a map of twitter accounts implicated in Russian bot activity. It sorts of widened to include Facebook where the same issues arise although the data on people contacted is likely much better. It is worthless trying to mea...

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I know they operated across multiple channels. This discussion originated with a map of twitter accounts implicated in Russian bot activity. It sorts of widened to include Facebook where the same issues arise although the data on people contacted is likely much better. It is worthless trying to mea...

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In summary: while Russia's Twitter activity may have had one or more impacts, it doesn't necessarily follow that any of it changed voter behaviour and thereby affected the outcome of the election. Moreover, there is no evidence of any such impact )defined as changed voter behaviour). That is not to...

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but where is the data that supports your hypothesis that they are wrong? why is it baseless? why do you think they are flapping their arms or whatever other claim it was that you made to suggest they were being crazy thinking there was an impact. for the record, I think you are crazy thinking there...

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:roll: you will be hung on your own petard. My consistent position has been about the lack of evidence. I have made no claim about the the impact itself only that nobody knows if it had an impact (defined as actually influencing voter behaviour) or that if it had an impact how bog that impact was. ...

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You don't have to have a control group. And the measure would obviously be number of voters whose votes were influenced by the Twitter campaign. The point of measurement is to assess impact. If Russia spent $1m and influenced 15 people then that would have been a waste of money and you could say th...

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And your need for measurable effects isn't what the issue really is. Without a control group it's going to be pretty damn hard to put a number on what occurred, or how much influence it had. What unit of measurement would you like to establish the level of influence? I declare the Russian influence...

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:roll: you will be hung on your own petard. My consistent position has been about the lack of evidence. I have made no claim about the the impact itself only that nobody knows if it had an impact (defined as actually influencing voter behaviour) or that if it had an impact how bog that impact was. ...

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Nope. I'm saying nobody knows whether it was effective or if it was effective how effective it was. On that basis I'm skeptical of any claims about its effectiveness. that's not quite how you posit your arguments. but glad we have it clear. :lol: I reckon I was clear but have no evidence that I was...

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what's the thinking on that Argie try where Creevy was offside, held back Hanigan, and the scrummie ran into him while scoring.

isn't that like 3 strikes?

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I understand all that. so you seem to be postulating that it was ineffective, but you cannot prove it. or are you arguing something else? Nope. I'm saying nobody knows whether it was effective or if it was effective how effective it was. On that basis I'm skeptical of any claims about its effective...

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and where you have things that can only be supported by argument and opinion, you look to experts. :thumbup: I fear you are being a bit lazy about this. Scientists don't tend to make shit up (a la Nate Silver above) in the absence of evidence. They tend to say "I don't know, we don't have the evide...

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I understand all that. so you seem to be postulating that it was ineffective, but you cannot prove it. or are you arguing something else? Nope. I'm saying nobody knows whether it was effective or if it was effective how effective it was. On that basis I'm skeptical of any claims about its effective...

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and where you have things that can only be supported by argument and opinion, you look to experts. :thumbup: I fear you are being a bit lazy about this. Scientists don't tend to make shit up (a la Nate Silver above) in the absence of evidence. They tend to say "I don't know, we don't have the evide...

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pardon. It seems I inferred... And it has other effects other than influencing voting like f**king up the public debate, distracting people, spreading rumours etc. had a bearing? or not? An easy thing to do. But the whole way through I have been speaking about changing voting behaviour, which is th...

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pardon. It seems I inferred... And it has other effects other than influencing voting like f**king up the public debate, distracting people, spreading rumours etc. had a bearing? or not? An easy thing to do. But the whole way through I have been speaking about changing voting behaviour, which is th...

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No. The prolonged lull in this thread was because CNN was preoccupied with first Harvey and then Irma, and so without the guidance of the puppet master all of youse on the other side were left stranded and bereft of any 'opinion' to offer the forum. But I imagine CNN will be back shortly to feed th...

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here is Nate Silver's take on it. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-hillary-clinton-right-about-why-she-lost/ Looks like a bunch of people pulling numbers out if their arses in the absence of evidence. :roll: you mean the opinions of people who observed it closely don't count. chuckle. Donger...

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Whose behaviour did it change? :roll: Roll your eyes all you want. Online to offline behaviour is part of my world. So is social research. There is no evidence that it influenced a single vote. That doesn't mean that it didn't influence a single vote just that nobody knows how many. The possible ra...

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so, it had a bearing.... Whose behaviour did it change? :roll: Roll your eyes all you want. Online to offline behaviour is part of my world. So is social research. There is no evidence that it influenced a single vote. That doesn't mean that it didn't influence a single vote just that nobody knows ...

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here is Nate Silver's take on it. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-hillary-clinton-right-about-why-she-lost/ Looks like a bunch of people pulling numbers out if their arses in the absence of evidence. :roll: you mean the opinions of people who observed it closely don't count. chuckle. Donger...

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They are starting to realise that Don J bubblefart will debunk the Lincoln myth, will become the Real Deal, become the Greatest POTUS this world has seen . He's certainly the funniest so far. Speaking of funny https://youtu.be/THZjygDVMQ0 how did those Comet ping pong rumours work out for you? apar...

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Santa wrote:
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so, it had a bearing....
Whose behaviour did it change?

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