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reACTIONary

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42. Oh well...

Reply to guyton (Reply #31)

Sat Feb 8, 2014, 12:47 PM

Feb 2014

...the alternative? The police officer says "he was going faster than I was". If you think hardware / software is hard to challenge, try going through the "wet-ware" owners manual.

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