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Gee Jane, I wonder why Independents and most non-machine Democrats believe that Hillary doesn't really care about what they think or feel about issues.
Independents Expected To Go Heavily Into The Dem Caucus 2009
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So if a non-machine would automatically feel compelled to kill itself if it though it WAS a machine, the fact that I think I'm a machine and don't want to kill myself proves I'm right.
What if you knew that to be human was nothing more than to be a machine? Ann Althouse 2009
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We get to vote for an anti-war, non-machine, no-blue-dog candidate, Steve Harrison, who can win the primary and the general.
Top Republican Concedes They Are Likely To Lose Key House Seat 2009
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But for normal non-machine people who don't see Lowell Weicker's 1988 loss through the same earth-shattering lens, it doesn't make any sense.
Matt Stoller: Carter Eskew and Democratic K-Street Culture 2008
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Update: BB reader Pedro Pinheiro in Portugal offers a "non-machine translation" of the comic here: Link.
Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives 2006
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Gun manufacturers are subject to a separate set of regulations, but yes, in your fully equipped metal-working shop you could build your own non-machine gun with a minimum of government regulation.
A bomb-making factory is discovered in a Columbia professor's house — 3 blocks from where I live. Ann Althouse 2008
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Although the FWA test is no longer considered particularly probative in the context of computer-implemented process inventions in view of Diehr . . . the erosion of FWA provides no support for the position that a non-machine implemented process, not involving any transformation, might be patentable.
Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Zura 2007
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"Instead of only using machines when I exercise on my own I have a greater range of potential non-machine based exercises."
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Although the FWA test is no longer considered particularly probative in the context of computer-implemented process inventions in view of Diehr . . . the erosion of FWA provides no support for the position that a non-machine implemented process, not involving any transformation, might be patentable.
"Waiting for Nuijten" - 101 Rejections at the BAPI (Part 2) Peter Zura 2007
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We all think about politics and that's what we have in common, but my mother and my sister -- my mother's a-- formerly a professional Democrat, what in Illinois is known as an independent Democrat, which is a non-machine Democrat, a non -- not -- not the sort who was allied with the old mayor, Richard
The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy & What to do About it 1999
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