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With three weeks to go until the election, John Howard made the mistake of allowing himself to unwind in public.

He set out well enough, striding from Kirribilli in the early hours of the day resplendent in green and gold. Here, it seemed, was a man to lead the nation, a go-getter, one who had well and truly carped the diem. Here was Howard, the early bird set to wrest the worm of high office from a Labor party prone to parroting the PM on matters of policy. The sun had risen on a glorious Saturday and interest rates were yet to, so Howard had every reason to be happy. The latest polls had him just twelve percent behind on a two-party preferred basis, so he was claiming that as a victory as well. The new day held promise. His cheerful mood trickled down through his entourage of minders and media, like some benevolent pyramid scheme of happiness and good humour.

But as he barrelled past the solitary protester stationed outside his property, bleating plaintively for a halt to the live export trade, it was cle

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import random, time

dice_superlatives = ['laughable','shoddy','poor','pretty weak','below average','mediocre','reasonable','pretty good','handsome','superlative','outstanding']
result_list = []
player_count = 0

# TO DO - handle negative or 0 players

def preroll(player_num): # Handles selecting number of players
	player_num = raw_input("Choose number of players:")

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Sub TypeAndStrike()
'
' Converts tracked revisions in the active document into "type and Strike " format."
' It removes all tracked revisions.
'
' written by Chip Orange.
'
Dim chgAdd As Word.Revision

' disable tracked revisions.

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2014-08-11T02:41:03.707266+00:00 heroku[api]: Scale to worker=1 by tully@tullyhansen.com
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Okay so here's the thing I'm going to try and clearly and unselfconsciously narrates through my deck of slides in the hopes that I'll end up with the bones of the speech that I can present tomorrow morning so thank you to the emerging writers Festival and two, for inviting me along to speak on what is a niche of a niche in the very small section of the literary and online community that thinks that comprises the people who are a on twitter be interested in robots and see you intend on doing something about so her 

about year or so I've been pursuing an interest in what generally has become known as twitter bot our this my contribution to the field has been to set up an account under the name of boss Ally and over the months but Ally has followed sort out and follow a large number of automated accounts on now but allied himself or herself is relatively rudimentary box and it will retweet at intervals from bots that follows takes its name from

If you had any experience with twitter bots often most people thei

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# Towards a Taxonomy of Twitter Bots

## Intro

- towards a definition - autonomous non-human agents on Twitter
- critical thinking - MECE, rabbit rule, holding hands
- patterns of behaviour, rather than content
- Twitter largely a textual medium
- crossover between two broadest categories (automated/event-driven), but largely one or the other (maybe?)
- some bots will exhibit both behaviours (active/reactive), but tend to favour one (most commonly, tweeters will also exhibit conversationalist behaviours)

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@1000_quotes
@101atron
@10PRINT_ebooks
@2edStatBot
@420PR0GAMERXx
@_KeyboardMonkey
@_nothingtohide
@_The_Count
@_yourDM
@abby_ebooks

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on chooseItem(listToChooseFrom)
  set littleRandomNumber to random number from 1 to (count items in listToChooseFrom)
	return item littleRandomNumber of listToChooseFrom
end chooseItem

on videoGameNameMe()
	-- 16 chars: attribution (RT @MelbGameCo: )
	-- 43 chars: gamename (max: Walk Through The Unbelievable Entertainment)
	-- 81 chars: extra matter
	set columnX to ["3 ", "Angry ", "Barrel of ", "Bomba", "Braw", "Comicorp ", "Current ", "Fire", "Fraktal", "Gamers ", "Klick", "League of ", "Ludo ", "Lycette ", "Mesmer ", "Milli", "Ninth ", "Pixel ", "Play", "Play", "Red ", "Robot ", "Space ", "Straight ", "Synthetic ", "Touch My ", "True ", "Two ", "Walk Through The ", "Wicked ", "Wizzle ", "Big ", "Blup Blup ", "Electric ", "Iron", "Kingdom ", "Screw", "Space ", "Dancing ", "Drop ", "Cup", "Fool", "Grapple ", "Pixel", "Sector", "Third ", "Tin ", "Three ", "Twisted ", "Play", "Good ", "Many ", "Mind ", "Shadow ", "The ", "League of ", "Fire"]