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ok, ok. it seemed obvious to me but i guess it wasn't. i concede.

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

> Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>>Rahul Jain wrote:
>>
>>>You probably mean "why does this not do X?" but you never tell us what X
>>>is, so we don't know how to help you achieve that.
>>
>>What I meant was why does this not do the obvoious thing I want it to do...
> 
> 
> Perhaps because telepathic computers have not been invented yet?
> 
> Erase that. Perhaps because telepathic computers are not on the shelf items 
> yet, and you don't work for the US Air Force, therefore you don't have one?
> 
>