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I do not even want to sit next to someone like this, for fear of them making be dumber via osmosis.<\/p>\n<p>I can only <strong>hope<\/strong> that the GUI developers are not the same ones that implement the underlying libraries or the RDBMS itself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version: 12.5.0.3\/EBF 10752 IR\/P\/NT (IX86)\/OS 4.0\/Wed Jan 15 12:59:30 2003 Why? 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