Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-16 Thread Pete Capelli
If they do it under threat, then it is not voluntary. They may have come here voluntarily, but that was probably due to the false advertising that America is a Land of Opportunity(tm) and other such rot that our country has used to sucker people to come here. Oh please. So the streets aren't

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-16 Thread Alan
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 22:20, bgt wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 10:48, cubic-dog wrote: in force, because, we finally get slave, indentured servants who will either take the 90 cents and hour or be deported. This kind of rhetoric is extremely irritating. If they can be deported, they are

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-16 Thread Pete Capelli
If they do it under threat, then it is not voluntary. They may have come here voluntarily, but that was probably due to the false advertising that America is a Land of Opportunity(tm) and other such rot that our country has used to sucker people to come here. Oh please. So the streets aren't

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-14 Thread bgt
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 10:48, cubic-dog wrote: in force, because, we finally get slave, indentured servants who will either take the 90 cents and hour or be deported. This kind of rhetoric is extremely irritating. If they can be deported, they are neither slaves or indentured servants. If

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-14 Thread cubic-dog
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:20, bgt wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 10:48, cubic-dog wrote: in force, because, we finally get slave, indentured servants who will either take the 90 cents and hour or be deported. This kind of rhetoric is extremely

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-14 Thread bgt
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:15, cubic-dog wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote: ... Anyway... be productive or be deported does not constitute I don't think I said that, you put it in quotes, implying I did. It's an okay paraphrase though, so we'll take it like that. Yes, it was intended as

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-14 Thread Tim May
On Jan 14, 2004, at 3:51 PM, bgt wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 14:15, cubic-dog wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote: ... Anyway... be productive or be deported does not constitute I don't think I said that, you put it in quotes, implying I did. It's an okay paraphrase though, so we'll take it

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-14 Thread cubic-dog
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, bgt wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 00:20, bgt wrote: On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 10:48, cubic-dog wrote: in force, because, we finally get slave, indentured servants who will either take the 90 cents and hour or be deported. This kind of rhetoric is extremely

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-13 Thread cubic-dog
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tim May wrote: On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: I'll tell you a story. Back in the late 1980s I taught at a notorious HS in Bedford snip snip Second, we are fast-moving toward a society and economy where only those who _wanted_ to study math and

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-05 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:20 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: Tim May wrote... In conclusion, your Bedford-Stuy student who doesn't see the point to studying math will never be a math researcher, or a physicist, or a chemist, or anything else of that sort. So no point in trying to convince him to study his

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:14 AM 1/1/04 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Of course, they still need one to determine who gets the shit-hauling jobs, and the usual method of doing this is to hide the class system in the education system. Now you don't get the shit-hauling job because you are an untouchable. You get it

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-05 Thread Tim May
On Jan 2, 2004, at 12:03 AM, Tim May wrote: So Kennedy's liberals scratched their heads and came up with a new plan. Relief would be converted to a series of state and national programs, no longer handled locally. And the bad connotations of relief would be changed by the new and positive name

RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-05 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Stay In School! In other words, schools keep the crime rates down, as is a well-known statistic. They are basically storage facilities. For real schools we white folks with $$$ can move out to the suburbs or send our kids to private school. Right.

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tim May wrote: A few moments of thought will show the connection between replicators and general assemblers. A general assembler can make another general assembler, hence all general assemblers are replicators. And in fact this is necessary to make mechanosynthesis

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tim May wrote: A few moments of thought will show the connection between replicators and general assemblers. A general assembler can make another general assembler, hence all general assemblers are replicators. And in fact

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Mikko Särelä
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Eric Cordian wrote: In the real world, a society can not consist 100% of chip designers. It also requires cooks, toilet and floor scrubbers, and people who lug concrete in wheelbarrows up stairs. Sure, those are still needed. Though I wouldn't be so sure that toilet and

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Because the Jews and negroes have demanded that all students be taught stuff they obviously will never use. Most inner city mutants should be taught practical skills, not abstract stuff their previous education has been bereft of. Well, I don't know who's responsible, but

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... First, please stop including the full text of the message you are replying to. Learn to use an editor, whether you ultimately top-post or bottom-post to edited fragments. I actually do this for a reason. If I'm not doing a

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: a whole lot of really good points elided As you can probably tell, I've never read many secondary or tertiary sources. I have a very hard time believeing that anyone would consider VN a secondary or tertiary source. (ie, as a physicist I've always

RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-04 Thread Tyler Durden
Well I be darned if Mr May hasn't inspired a major burst of eloquence, between this response and Mr Young's. As for this comment: Schools don't educate, but merely serve as a filter for employers to locate those individuals who aren't going to make trouble at the factory. At best. In the inner

RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:51 AM 1/1/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Stay In School! In other words, schools keep the crime rates down, as is a well-known statistic. They are basically storage facilities. For real schools we white folks with $$$ can move out to the suburbs or send our kids to private school. Right.

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 12:14 AM 1/1/04 -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Of course, they still need one to determine who gets the shit-hauling jobs, and the usual method of doing this is to hide the class system in the education system. Now you don't get the shit-hauling job because you are an untouchable. You get it

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-02 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:20 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: Tim May wrote... In conclusion, your Bedford-Stuy student who doesn't see the point to studying math will never be a math researcher, or a physicist, or a chemist, or anything else of that sort. So no point in trying to convince him to study his

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-02 Thread Tim May
On Jan 2, 2004, at 12:03 AM, Tim May wrote: So Kennedy's liberals scratched their heads and came up with a new plan. Relief would be converted to a series of state and national programs, no longer handled locally. And the bad connotations of relief would be changed by the new and positive name

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Mikko Särelä
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Eric Cordian wrote: In the real world, a society can not consist 100% of chip designers. It also requires cooks, toilet and floor scrubbers, and people who lug concrete in wheelbarrows up stairs. Sure, those are still needed. Though I wouldn't be so sure that toilet and

RE: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Well I be darned if Mr May hasn't inspired a major burst of eloquence, between this response and Mr Young's. As for this comment: Schools don't educate, but merely serve as a filter for employers to locate those individuals who aren't going to make trouble at the factory. At best. In the inner

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Tyler Durden wrote: I'll tell you a story. Back in the late 1980s I taught at a notorious HS in Bedford Stuyvesant. 90% of my students were black. I regarded few of them as stupid, but almost none of them saw the point of studying math...they just didn't see how it

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... First, please stop including the full text of the message you are replying to. Learn to use an editor, whether you ultimately top-post or bottom-post to edited fragments. I actually do this for a reason. If I'm not doing a line-by-line response (or sometimes even if I am), I

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... First, please stop including the full text of the message you are replying to. Learn to use an editor, whether you ultimately top-post or bottom-post to edited fragments. I actually do this for a reason. If I'm not doing a

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tyler Durden
Tim May wrote... Because the Jews and negroes have demanded that all students be taught stuff they obviously will never use. Most inner city mutants should be taught practical skills, not abstract stuff their previous education has been bereft of. Well, I don't know who's responsible, but

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: a whole lot of really good points elided As you can probably tell, I've never read many secondary or tertiary sources. I have a very hard time believeing that anyone would consider VN a secondary or tertiary source. (ie, as a physicist I've always

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread J.A. Terranson
Tim May wrote... In conclusion, your Bedford-Stuy student who doesn't see the point to studying math will never be a math researcher, or a physicist, or a chemist, or anything else of that sort. So no point in trying to convince him to study his math. Why the BedSty student Tim? This is

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Riad S. Wahby
J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why the BedSty student Tim? Uhh, read more carefully. He was responding to a specific point from Tyler Durden. You have some incredible moments of lucidity and insight, and occasionally, we are the lucky recipients of these fleeting events - but then,

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tim May
I'll comment on the sociology after commenting on the physics: (actually, looking over your sociology, I see it's just more of the liberal whine and sleaze, so I won't bother commenting on it again) On Jan 1, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Tyler Durden wrote: Tim May wrote... Then your education in

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tim May wrote: A few moments of thought will show the connection between replicators and general assemblers. A general assembler can make another general assembler, hence all general assemblers are replicators. And in fact this is necessary to make mechanosynthesis

Re: Quantum Loop Gravity Be For Whitey

2004-01-01 Thread Tim May
On Jan 1, 2004, at 7:44 PM, Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Tim May wrote: A few moments of thought will show the connection between replicators and general assemblers. A general assembler can make another general assembler, hence all general assemblers are replicators. And in fact