Originally posted by lemon lime Time stamps do not determine the order in which messages appear. There is no time machine at work here, messages appear in the order they are posted.
You didn't get it either then, despite it being so blatant. I think both you are Suzianne are engaged in an ecstasy of fumbling for your gas masks. 😉
Originally posted by FMF You're just not getting what my comment about different time zones is all about.
The point is that it is irrelevant for this contest how the clocks in your personal world tick. I declare myself the authority over it. So you can feel that you were predicting, but for the purpose of the contest the numbers given on the posts are relevant.
Originally posted by FMF You didn't get it either then, despite it being so blatant. I think both you are Suzianne are engaged in an ecstasy of fumbling for your gas masks. 😉
What is there to get?
...ptobler had posted the endresult before you did post your "prediction"
You predicted a result after the result was posted. Your time machine was supposed to take you back to before the endresult was known, not after.
Originally posted by lemon lime You predicted a result after the result was posted. Your time machine was supposed to take you back to before the endresult was known, not after.
Originally posted by Ponderable The point is that it is irrelevant for this contest how the clocks in your personal world tick. I declare myself the authority over it. So you can feel that you were predicting, but for the purpose of the contest the numbers given on the posts are relevant.
I am always about 6 hours 'into the future' compared to you folks in Europe. As a result, you and the events you engage in are always playing catch up relative to me. I celebrate New Year's Day before you. I wake up before you. And so on. Your football also lags behind. I made my prediction during this time lag while the momentous football event had not yet caught up with us,here. I nipped into that ever present "gap" and made my brilliant prediction. And so I think my prediction stands. Surely? 😉
Originally posted by lemon lime It doesn't matter how well Bernie does because the fix is in for Hillary. Bernie is a loyal party man, so I doubt he will go the third party candidate route... he has a lot more to gain (politically) by staying in the game, and then encouraging his followers to vote for Clinton when she becomes the nominee.
But Bernie and Trump are both perceived as es ...[text shortened]... Bernie supporters regard their candidate as being outside the Washington establishment as well.
Originally posted by Handy Andy Don't count Bernie out.
It doesn't matter how well Bernie does because the fix is in for Hillary. Bernie is a loyal party man, so I doubt he will go the third party candidate route... he has a lot more to gain (politically) by staying in the game, and then encouraging his followers to vote for Clinton when she becomes the nominee.
Originally posted by NoEarthlyReason Novak Djokovic will win all 4 Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
There will be a new global financial crisis.
Apple will release a compact version of the iPhone.
DeepMind's AI will beat the world's top Go player.
I will gain a distinction in the first module of my Computing & IT BSc degree.
If a vaccine for the Zika virus isn't discovered ...[text shortened]... on to symbolically affording human rights to objects such as eggcups and bottles of moisturiser.
The Zika vaccine did not come, but can the Olympiad be counted as disaster??
Originally posted by lemon lime Originally posted by Handy Andy Don't count Bernie out.
[b]It doesn't matter how well Bernie does because the fix is in for Hillary. Bernie is a loyal party man, so I doubt he will go the third party candidate route... he has a lot more to gain (politically) by staying in the game, and then encouraging his followers to vote for Clinton when she becomes the nominee.
Does this count as a prediction?[/b]
No, neither does "The moon will continue to orbit the earth and the earth will continue to orbit the sun."
07 Jun '16 04:23
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