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United Airlines, the NYSE, and Wall Street Journal are all mysteriously down the same morning.  Bad luck, or something more coordinated?
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Afraid to check.  Is the WH or ISIS or Hillary down?

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Tyler wrote: United Airlines, the NYSE, and Wall Street Journal are all mysteriously down the same morning.  Bad luck, or something more coordinated?
Tyler, forgot to ask earlier, is that avatar Hal 9000?

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Mountaineer wrote: Tyler, forgot to ask earlier, is that avatar Hal 9000?
Yep!  And... umm... Any relation to the possibility of AI being a factor in the news today is purely coincidental.

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Tyler wrote:
Mountaineer wrote: Tyler, forgot to ask earlier, is that avatar Hal 9000?
Yep!  And... umm... Any relation to the possibility of AI being a factor in the news today is purely coincidental.

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Tyler wrote:
Mountaineer wrote: Tyler, forgot to ask earlier, is that avatar Hal 9000?
Yep!  And... umm... Any relation to the possibility of AI being a factor in the news today is purely coincidental.

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From Futurama:
Fry: Bender, what is it?
Bender: Whoa, what an awful dream. Ones and zeros everywhere. And I thought I saw a two.
Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as two.
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Tyler wrote: United Airlines, the NYSE, and Wall Street Journal are all mysteriously down the same morning.  Bad luck, or something more coordinated?
I didn't know the WSJ was down but I was online long enough to notice the other two. I'd assumed it was a coincidence, but you never know.
Too bad the confusion didn't send gold or bonds to the moon, though they did well enough.
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