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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:36 PM Author: fluffy address factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31246971) |
Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:43 PM Author: razzmatazz box office keepsake machete and free speech dies with it ljl
jk ofc
weird/funny to see ppl like glenn greenwald trolling for gawker now |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:46 PM Author: fluffy address factory reset button i mean im no fan of pete thiel but it seems to me that everyone misses the point that just because the suit didn't make headway before doesn't mean that it wasn't legit
unless they really think that thiel bought off the judge and jury? |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:58 PM Author: razzmatazz box office keepsake machete nobody actually defends gawker or explains where exactly the money truly entered into the process (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247139) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:00 PM Author: fluffy address factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247155) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:48 PM Author: up-to-no-good narrow-minded pocket flask I never understood this whole thing where exposing private media obtained under questionable means is protected by the 1st amendment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247050) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:00 PM Author: Fishy base can you sue because someone gossiped about you?
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:10 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria You can make out a viable claim for defamation in some cases (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247692) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:35 AM Author: Amber beady-eyed mental disorder double fault (not a lawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249308) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:46 PM Author: yellow meetinghouse Your next, HUFFPO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247037) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 10:47 PM Author: fluffy address factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247042) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:26 AM Author: misanthropic stirring indian lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248933) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:08 PM Author: pearly school cafeteria "The greatest compliment one could ever pay to a Gawker writer is fearlessness—the willingness to say what needed to be said irrespective of the consequences."
*shows a girl raped in a bar*
*plays a leaked cuckold sex tape*
*outs a private gay dude with a family to the world - twice*
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:10 PM Author: razzmatazz box office keepsake machete it needed to be said. powerful people needed to be taken down a notch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247241) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:11 PM Author: pearly school cafeteria Pretty close.
"We believed that broader access to confidential information, to the real story, would constrain the powerful and liberate the oppressed." |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:53 AM Author: Blathering dysfunction pistol presumably none of denton's ch 11 docs will be filed under seal, then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248979) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:25 AM Author: mustard aphrodisiac half-breed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249247) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:51 PM Author: fluffy address factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247563) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2016 11:55 PM Author: kink-friendly property Peter Thiel is the biggest piece of shit in the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247588) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:08 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria Don't ever fight back kids! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247674) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:11 AM Author: kink-friendly property That's right -- starting a passive-aggressive war with someone who told the truth shows great character. Money helps. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247698) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:13 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria A business model built on invading privacy and humiliating others. Tell me about character. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247715) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:15 AM Author: opaque alpha parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247732) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:18 AM Author: kink-friendly property This is not an either/or.
Gawker and Thiel both suck and have slimy, self-serving ethics. Thiel just sucks worse. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:26 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria i have no idea what value you think it's serving to invade privacy at that level. There is no value in having the freedom to do that and our society has correctly determined that maybe his victims have some rights after all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247806) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:28 AM Author: kink-friendly property You're really going off the rails here.
No one, including myself, thinks a Hulk Hogan sex tape adds value to society. That is totally and ridiculously beside the point. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:30 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria Spoken like a guy without a good defense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247846) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:41 AM Author: kink-friendly property What am I supposed to be defending? The outrageous claim that it's possible Thiel and Gawker are *both* morally bankrupt? I suppose you can chalk that up to a matter of opinion.
Other than that, whatever words you're trying to put in my mouth don't warrant a defense from me. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:53 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria It's not that difficult to grasp.
There is a first amendment that protects press freedom. There are limits. One of those limits is privacy, because it's widely considered to be an indignity to show someone in vulnerable and intimate moments without their consent, like when they are taking a shit, getting their dick sucked, or getting fucked in the ass in a pile of piss on a bathroom floor.
Gawker decided that it was going to ignore those limits anyway and laughed at a court when it told it to stop. And your problem is not with the bully humiliating others for ad revenue, it's with a guy who paid one of his victims legal bills.
It would be different if you took issue with Thiel because he had financed a bunch of frivolous litigation to tie up gawkers legal department and silence it from reporting news that is protected by the first amendment. But what he did was made it possible for someone who had viable claims to bring them in court. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:58 AM Author: kink-friendly property Two federal courts ruled that the Hogan story was newsworthy, dumdum.
"And your problem is not with the bully humiliating others for ad revenue, it's with a guy who paid one of his victims legal bills."
I have no idea where you got the idea that I think cyberbullying is ok., See what I mean about putting words in my mouth? (PROTIP: That is actually a sign that you don't have an argument).
In any event, why did Thiel pay Hogan's legal bills? Are they old Stanford drinking buddies? Cousins? Was Thiel taking a courageous moral stand for decency? No. He was getting back at gawker in a petty and cowardly vendetta which was totally personal and devoid of any larger principles. The fact that what Gawker said about him was true, and widely known, makes this 1000x worse. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:02 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria Which of those two courts did the gawker trial take place in, dum dum? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248115) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:14 AM Author: kink-friendly property This isn't the first time Hogan sued gawker over the sex tape. The latest (Thiel-financed) version took place in a sympathetic local court where Hogan is a hometown hero, and it was carefully planned to increase the odds that Hogan would prevail in a way that would maximize damage to Gawker. Hogan bankrupting gawker wasn't some great victory for justice. In fact, justice had nothing to do with it in either Thiel's motives or the ultimate outcome of the case (in which the damages were astronomically, unjustly high). It was a calculated move by Thiel to use Hogan as a pawn in his vendetta against Gawker. I never said Thiel wasn't smart. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248196) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:10 AM Author: pearly school cafeteria So fucking what that he had a smart litigation strategy??. Thiel is now an American hero. Denton and Daulerio deserve an even worse fate. Burn this motherfuckng "journalism" straight to the ground. What a fucked up pervers society we live in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249005) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:12 AM Author: Provocative Pink Crackhouse sorry, no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247706) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:17 AM Author: kink-friendly property I'm generaly not in favor of outting people, but I am not categorically against it.
In Thiel's case, he was not only out to anyone who cared to know, but he had billions of dollars worth of fuck you money that would protect him from the consequences (if any) that a normal gay guy would experience being involuntarily outted. Was it shitty of Gawker to out him? Yes. Did Thiel turn around and react in a way that exposed him as being even shittier? Unfortunately, yes. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:19 AM Author: opaque alpha parlor O what a rigorous ethical defense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247753) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:22 AM Author: kink-friendly property O what a pointless post. Get lost. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247773) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:23 AM Author: excitant indirect expression Uh no, not at all. You just sound like a butthurt bitch.
Thiel didn't force Gawker to act atrociously, in instance after instance. He didn't force them to thumb their noses at the court, after receiving a court order to take down the Hogan sex tape. They had a massive amount of hubris and brought all their problems on themselves. Thiel simply provided the means to finance justice.
Funny how the ACLU routinely does what Thiel did (fund causes they believe in), yet I doubt you feel the same towards them. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:25 AM Author: kink-friendly property "Thiel simply provided the means to finance justice."
Hmmmm....and who asked Thiel to do that?
Did you really just compare Thiel to the ACLU? |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:27 AM Author: excitant indirect expression OMG did I really do that? In 2016?
Yes I did, and the comparison is apt. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:29 AM Author: kink-friendly property Grow up. You sound like a 12 year old girl in both style and "substance". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247843) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:31 AM Author: excitant indirect expression Says the butthurt bitch, angrily lashing out at those ITT who applaud Thiel, and pretending there are logical reasons behind his pained emotional anger.
Maybe when you grow up you'll realize how he is a lot closer to the ACLU than you'd like to admit. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:42 AM Author: kink-friendly property Maybe I'll grow up when I call people "butthurt bitch" every few minutes. Who can say? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247953) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:01 AM Author: Salmon aggressive principal's office Stfu you low IQ child molester (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248105) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:14 AM Author: kink-friendly property no u (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248200) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:15 AM Author: excitant indirect expression You don't need to call "people" that; only use the description when richly deserved. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248209) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:19 AM Author: kink-friendly property You're just stroking your little clit now. Not interested. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248239) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:47 AM Author: Floppy smoky striped hyena fat ankles You are really getting pwnd here worse than usual (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248973) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:04 AM Author: yellow meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248993) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:42 AM Author: Purple submissive gas station stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249096) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:11 AM Author: cyan turdskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249188) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:36 AM Author: razzmatazz box office keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249313) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:36 AM Author: Amber beady-eyed mental disorder double fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249320) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 10:24 AM Author: excitant indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249603) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:09 PM Author: kink-friendly property Yeah, no. Look at the cast of tards in this thread. Uh oh...someone called me "butthurt" pwnpwn pwn!!1! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31250254) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 12:24 AM Author: talking menage potus long live the King (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31247786) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:00 AM Author: Nighttime crotch sry hella, but Gwaker perverted whatever little moral high ground journalism had left, turned it into a fucking hack-a-thon click-bait, gay-outing- bizarrely socially conservative at times shit show, it needed to die in a fire, and thank god it did
they became what they hated, they deserve this fate. |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 1:19 AM Author: kink-friendly property Does only Gawker deserve this fate or do other tabloids? How about media outlets in general, all of which have perennial ethical problems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248235) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:28 AM Author: misanthropic stirring indian lodge All media must be annihilated. They have lost their moorings (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248937) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:04 AM Author: yellow meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248994) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:25 AM Author: fluffy address factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248929) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 7:28 AM Author: misanthropic stirring indian lodge Social conservative? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31248936) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 8:43 AM Author: Racy gaped sweet tailpipe Link to when Gawker went socially conservative. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249102) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 4:53 PM Author: multi-colored voyeur when they started to out gay men who had a reasonable (very reasonable, extremely reasonable is more like it) right to privacy
when they started to become media gatekeepers of the elite--they were not fighting for the "little guy" anymore--they were basically a clique in a large MFH media orgy and reveled in gossip and drama, the kind of way Politico sometimes acts in DC
they were at some point pioneers, they were also very publicly interest focused at a time, but like everything, it crumbled under the weight of their own self-righteousness and self-interest
this doesn't even get to the histrionics they exhibited whenever challenged for legitimate ethical lapses; they put themselves as teh moral arbiters of truth and justice in the universe which is a bunch of horse shit
also fuck Jezebel |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:23 AM Author: Canary Bull Headed Den Idiot Npr coverage didn't even mention they outted Theil, just that it was coverage he didn't like. Fucking frauds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249241) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:38 AM Author: Amber beady-eyed mental disorder double fault outting gays is, like most things, only wrong when it comes from the right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249328) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 4:22 PM Author: opaque alpha parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31251969) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 9:27 AM Author: Massive kitchen yarmulke Thiel and Hulk Hogan - American heroes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249263) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 10:42 AM Author: obsidian mediation abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249708) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 10:44 AM Author: excitant indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249719) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 11:19 AM Author: Translucent Gaming Laptop House Still, the Times reporter asked, what were my own regrets? I told him, finally, that I had worked at Gawker Media for five years, and that all I could say was that nothing in that time was as shameful to me as a story the Times had put on its front page the month before, slanting the results of a study to argue that police weren’t really disproportionately killing black people. I would have been ashamed, I said, if we had run that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31249959) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2016 4:22 PM Author: opaque alpha parlor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3329881&forum_id=2#31251971) |