On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
Does the common man read his Hawking's book? Did Hawking even write it?
Second, I don't know about Hawking's books, but Lee Smolin is one of
I especially like his 300 Years of Gravitation and his '73 work on large
scale structure in time/space.
stuff.
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:36 PM, Andri Esteves wrote:
On Thursday, 13 de February de 2003 02:02, you wrote:
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Andri Esteves wrote:
Everything that could go wrong in academia and science is in
Portugal.
That is the background Magueijo
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
You still read science popularizers ?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading popularizers.
Other than an clear block of time that could be better spent looking in
the horses mouth ;)
--
You fucking creep. I dredged through my Trash folder to find out what
our Portugese friend was replying to and discovered this bit of
deception:
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Jim Choate wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote:
Does the common man read his Hawking's book?
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:30:12 -0500, Declan wrote:
Note by broad conservative community I do not include
politically-active gun owners, who would like an actual principled
stand on the 2A. Fat chance.
People who look for principled stands by a government, any
government, aren't paying
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George W. Bush's admirers often describe his stand against Saddam Hussein
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Short, rude, drunk? As far as that goes, sure, he's Churchillian.
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same as the old Bush, fool me...ummm...can't get fooled again;
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, jet wrote:
At 16:18 -0500 2003/02/12, cubic-dog wrote:
The NRA is openly hostile towards the embarrasing 2nd Amendment.
The NRA is mostly all about allowing the weathly wingshooters to
be the last to fall. The rest of us, like the armed citizens, get
bartered off
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:31:28 -0500
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From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] Researchers Work on Anti - Terror Program
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[for IP if you like]
At 10:23 AM 2/13/2003 -0500, Dave Farber wrote:
So terrorists can but
Here's a post I sent out to a hackers list I'm on. Address and name I'm
responding to have been obscured to prevent cross-replies.
From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:25:03 AM US/Pacific
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hacking the Bush War Machine
Date: 13 Feb 2003
Example: From the Declaration of Independence to the Sedition
Act took only 22 years, and that was when the founding fathers
still actively dominated political life. Today, a USA Patriot
Act takes only minutes to enact, with neither debate nor
hearings, and members of Congress don't even
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 01:21 PM, Blanc wrote:
From Tim May:
It's our duty as hackers to hack this war machine and shut it down.
Well, I'd like to see *that*.
But you know, if N.Korea throws a nucular at us, a gun will be as
useful as
ducked ape.
(and how long are people
At 1:21 PM -0800 2/13/03, Blanc wrote:
(and how long are people supposed to stay taped up in their room, they
haven't said, either. And where would the bad gas go - over to somebody
else's neighborhood?)
I guess beans are officially off the American diet.
Cheers - Bill
On 13 Feb 2003 at 9:50, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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Ten banks have reached agreement with N.Y. Attorney General
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Attorney
Janis Jagars, known to many people on the Internet by his handle Disastry,
was a prolific programmer who made numerous valuable contributions to the
Internet. I am afraid I cannot do his memory justice, having known him
only a short number of years and only through his work on privacy
enhancing
Tyler Durden opines:
Yo! Superstring theory is only continuous math because the proper
mathematical theory describing strings didn't exist. In the past, physics
has sometimes lagged (ca 1900) sometimes led (Newton) the development of the
needed mathematics. If Superstrings ends up
Tim May wrote...
Hawking writes about fairly established stuff, the usual black hole stuff.
This was mostly old hat 30 years ago (which is when I took Jim Hartle's
class on general relativity). Hawking doesn't get much into the newer
theories, at least not in any of the books of his I've
Jim Choate wrote...
I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler).
Maybe in Quantum Gravity. But Wheeler's work spans a huge array of fields
that Hawking is unable to match (although likely due to his disability).
Wheeler is also every bit as iconoclastic a thinker as Hawking,
Jim Choate wrote...
I think he kicks Wheelers ass (nothing personal to Wheeler).
(Where he == Hawking.)
And don't forget folks, about Hawking's _other_ career:
http://www.mchawking.com/
Enjoy,
Dan
Eric Cordian wrote...
Continuous math is a dead end. So are strings.
Yo! Superstring theory is only continuous math because the proper
mathematical theory describing strings didn't exist. In the past, physics
has sometimes lagged (ca 1900) sometimes led (Newton) the development of the
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
The M in M-Theory stands for Moron.
I always thought it stood for Mescaline. ]:
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