Posts by HintOfLime

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ASYMPTOTE tower to be completed in the United Arab Emirates

by Terry in

construction has begun on strata tower by new york-based architects asymptote in abu dhabi, uae.. due to be completed in 2011, the tower will have 40 stories and be 160 metres high.. .

the strata tower, a forty-story, luxury residential building designed by architects hani rashid and lise anne couture of asymptote, has broken ground on al raha beach and is now under construction.

the tower is scheduled for completion in early 2011 and, at a height of 160 meters, will be the tallest building in the al dana precinct, the centerpiece of aldar properties pjscs prestigious al raha beach development.

HintOfLime

Reminds me of a TED talk, regarding suburbia and "designing places worth caring about". I'm very jelous of the other countries I see that have interesting and amazing buildings and cities. Too much of America now is just not worth giving a damn about - an endless sea of cookie-cutter Walmarts and Starbucks. I swear, the city I live in just repeats over and over every 10 square miles or so.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html

Visionaries are a dying breed in America - or at least American businesses are not interested in taking risks anymore. (And when that happens, all that's left is a slow lingering death.)

- Lime

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Pick up those Laundry Mat/Hospital Magazines and Mark them with SEE JWFACTS.COM!!!

by Lady Liberty in

good morning everyone..."happy monday" to you!!.

so for some time now, in attempt to help prevent the dubs from spreading their lies in the magazines, my parents (rock hound and little bo peep) have been stopping by the local laundry mats and taking out all the watchtower and awakes that are left behind and with a pen they write on the magazine, see jwfacts.com, and then they highlight it, and put it back in the laundry mat!

they have been doing this for some time now, and guess what??

HintOfLime

Sticky labels could work too (Make sure they are the super-tacky kind that are impossible to pull off paper), you could print out a page of them, put a set in your pocket, and quickly hit each cover with one. (Depending on the label size, you could include a question, fact, image, etc. on each one as well without any added effort.)

- Lime

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Stump the expert.

by John Doe in

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i dare you.

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HintOfLime

Yup, you found the vulnerability. :) If I had done a simple trick like reversing the letters, how long would it have taken you to discover the pattern?

Longer for sure, but I think I could have spotted it. Just looking at the new set of words (even before I set to catalog them) I had a 'gut feeling' that there was a corrolation between codeword and plaintext. I certainly would have started moving letters around.

On my whiteboard with the original messages, I added in some 'rough limits' where I can expect the word to fall in the alphabet for each word.. but at this point I can still more-less make the sentence say anything I want, as the ranges are so broad. I now know CS.Σ is probably a plural noun, or a current-tense verb. HUL I can throw out a few supicions, and my current favorites would be 'is', 'it', or 'its' - but HUL appears between HBV and IFQ, which represents a huge multi-letter gap in plaintext. I can throw out a lot of words, but it still leaves a lot of words. AMY could be 'at'... or something completely different. AOR doesn't appear to be one of the common conjunctions, but you said it was a 'functional' word so I'm still thinking on that.

Still more-less impossible to solve this and know you've got it right.

- Lime

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Stump the expert.

by John Doe in

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i dare you.

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HintOfLime

Yes, I see the vulnerability in your code now:

Alphabetical by Cipher	Alphabetical by Plaintext
AGB - after AGJ – against AHZ - all AJZ – and AKA - another ALL - are AWG – be AYM - beginning B – a DQA - distress EG - Earthquakes FDB - food FDL – for HBV - in IFQ – nation IXC - of INZ - one JTW – kingdom LNW - pangs MJC - place PAT – rise ROT - shortages UYL – there UYT – these UZI - things VWQ - will	A - B After - AGB Against – AGJ All - AHZ And – AJZ Another – AKA Are - ALL be – AWG beginning – AYM distress - DQA earthquakes - EG food - FDB for – FDL in - HBV kingdom - JTW nation – IFQ of - IXC one – INZ pangs - LNW place - MJC rise – PAT shortages - ROT there – UYL these – UYT things - UZI will - VWQ

I was wondering earlier if you kept a codebook with two seperate alphabetical lists, if it was only intended for encodeing, or there was a handy trick for looking up the words for decoding - guess that answers that question.

Cool! The riddle still is pretty neat: significance, blue Truth book, p. 86, the quoted verse occurring between the superscript 8 beginning the paragraph and the word "armies", etc.

Ironically even though I guessed 1986 based on the "Year of Peace" - like an idiot I didn't go straight to page '86' but kept thinking it had some textual or biblical meaning (I literally 'paged through' looking for a sub-title that included that phrase, or mention of the return of the 'prince of peace').. and basically my eye hit "nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom" and it jumped out at me as a possibility. Then when I saw the page number I felt pretty dang stupid.

- Lime

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Stump the expert.

by John Doe in

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HintOfLime

Ah.. there you are. And to think, I was brute-forcing the book of Mathew (I had already done all of John, 1&2 Peter, Revelation, and parts of genesis.. and a few other 'common quotable books') and got as far as chapter 23 before getting distracted by your riddle. How frustrating is that? I had the WT site open to one page before the solution that whole time! (There was the chance that my pattern-matcher wouldn't detect the passage properly anyway, but when I tried it found it immediately. And for all I knew, I still had nothing to go on, just scanning books randomly.)

Finally, onto more interesting stuff.

(EDIT: Oh, and it's Mathew 24:7 for anyone else doing this.)

- Lime

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by John Doe in

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HintOfLime

Oh, ok.. I'm getting parts of it now. Somehow I doubt the book has 1,986 pages though... (Man, I suck at this. I'm almost ready to try cheating.)

I think I can get a pdf.

- Lime

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Guys answer me this: what dos all the beeping mean????

by highdose in

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being an ex cult member i don't understand this... i walk into town and back and on my way theres always these men driving past in cars who honk their horns at me.

is it some form of comunication?

am i supposed to respond in some way???.

HintOfLime

- Lime

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by John Doe in

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HintOfLime

I hope that riddle doesn't require owning a physical copy of the NWT...

- Lime

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by John Doe in

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HintOfLime

FDL IFQ VWQ PAT AGJ IFQ AJZJTW AGJ JTW, AJZ UYL VWQ AWG FDB ROT.Σ AJZ EG.Σ HBU IZN MJC AGB AKA. AHZ UYT.2 UZI.Σ ALL B AYM IXC LNW.Σ IXC DQA.

Heh heh, yeah, that's the first thing I did. Definitely a clear pattern, but I didn't memorize more than a couple scriptures.. which leaves me.. digging through google looking for frequently quoted scriptures to test (icky! Watchtower pages!). I wrote a simple regular-expression for scaning pages of text searching for simularities to that pattern... but short of dropping book after book from the bible into it (which funny thing... nobody is seeding the 3-gig New World Translation torrent), I'm not really any closer. Yeah... I was considering letting my machine brute-force it overnight. :P

There's a dang lot of scriptures out there to try... and the few I knew of the top of my head clearly weren't it. Maybe someone more bible-versed can crack that clue. Kinda disappointing.

- Lime

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Stump the expert.

by John Doe in

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HintOfLime

Here is an oft-quoted passage from the NWT:

If only I hadn't done such a good job over the past 4 years forgetting all those oft-quoted scriptures...

- Lime