Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-27 Thread eckinator
2010/1/26 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Perhaps Gerlich and Tscheuschner could prove it hasn't got its thermodynamics right and thus is just a plot to harm the economy =P -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-27 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/27/2010 8:06 AM, eckinator wrote: 2010/1/26 P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com: I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Perhaps Gerlich and Tscheuschner could prove it hasn't got its thermodynamics right and thus is just a plot to harm the economy

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-27 Thread eckinator
2010/1/27 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: Hey believe what you want I for one don't want my neighbors to freeze in the dark for no particular gain.  What the authors of that particular paper seem to want is good science.  If they made mistakes they can be called on it, there's

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-27 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/27/2010 3:48 PM, eckinator wrote: 2010/1/27 P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com: Hey believe what you want I for one don't want my neighbors to freeze in the dark for no particular gain. What the authors of that particular paper seem to want is good science. If they made mistakes

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-27 Thread eckinator
that's the spirit =) 2010/1/27 P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com: On 1/27/2010 3:48 PM, eckinator wrote: 2010/1/27 P. J. Allingwebstertwenty...@gmail.com: Hey believe what you want I for one don't want my neighbors to freeze in the dark for no particular gain.  What the authors of

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/24/2010 9:44 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Tom C wrote: More importantly laws are not justice -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Mark! The problem is, I disagree about laws not being justice - take the law of gravity, for example... ;-) I think that the law of

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling On 1/24/2010 9:44 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Tom C wrote: More importantly laws are not justice -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Mark! The problem is, I disagree about laws not being justice - take the law of gravity, for example... ;-)

RE: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread Bob W
I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Alan Sokal apparently agrees with you ... http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_s inglefile.html One of my favourite stories of recent years. So beautifully conceived and carried out. Bob

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Roberts
John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Alan Sokal apparently agrees with you ... http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Alan Sokal apparently agrees with you ... http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo The sad

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
You didn't really think you were supposed to learn something, did you? On 1/26/2010 3:48 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: Mark Roberts John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Alan Sokal apparently agrees with you ...

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread Graydon
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:14:39AM -0500, John Sessoms scripsit: From: P. J. Alling I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Alan Sokal apparently agrees with you ... http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html Trying to start a mass

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/26/2010 7:02 PM, Graydon wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:14:39AM -0500, John Sessoms scripsit: From: P. J. Alling I think that the law of gravity is unfair and should be repealed. Alan Sokal apparently agrees with you ...

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling You didn't really think you were supposed to learn something, did you? Well, yes, I did. What's the point of requiring me to take a class if I'm not supposed to learn something in it? And I did learn some things in that course - quite a few things actually. I just can't

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I find that a lot of courses I've been required to take were just to check a box on somebody's form. Learning seemed to be completely incidental, and possibly counter productive. On 1/26/2010 10:46 PM, John Sessoms wrote: From: P. J. Alling You didn't really think you were supposed to learn

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-25 Thread Tom C
The bigger they are the harder they fall. That seems to be just to me. Pound for pound, ounce for ounce, eye for eye. Tom C. If you were 40 pounds overweight, you wouldn't think the law of gravity was especially just. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread P. J. Alling
On 1/20/2010 3:48 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 20/01/2010, Tom Ccaka...@gmail.com wrote: Our laws are only words written on paper. More importantly laws are not justice A working lawyer once explained it to me. We can't guarantee justice, the best we can guarantee is a fair

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Please Ignore Me (too) On 1/20/2010 3:48 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 20/01/2010, Tom Ccaka...@gmail.com wrote: Our laws are only words written

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread John Sessoms
From: P. J. Alling On 1/20/2010 3:48 AM, Rob Studdert wrote: On 20/01/2010, Tom Ccaka...@gmail.com wrote: Our laws are only words written on paper. More importantly laws are not justice A working lawyer once explained it to me. We can't guarantee justice, the best we

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread Tom C
More importantly laws are not justice -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Mark! On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/01/2010, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: Our laws are only words written on paper. More importantly laws are not justice

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Roberts
Tom C wrote: More importantly laws are not justice -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Mark! The problem is, I disagree about laws not being justice - take the law of gravity, for example... ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread Ken Waller
Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Mark Roberts m...@robertstech.com Subject: Re: Please Ignore Me (too) Tom C wrote: More importantly laws are not justice -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Mark! The problem is, I disagree about

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: Mark Roberts Subject: Re: Please Ignore Me (too) The problem is, I disagree about laws not being justice - take the law of gravity, for example... If you were 40 pounds overweight, you wouldn't think the law of gravity was especially just. William

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-20 Thread Rob Studdert
On 20/01/2010, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: Our laws are only words written on paper. More importantly laws are not justice -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread Jack Davis
Whew! Glad I missed whatever happened? Jack --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com wrote: From: Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Please Ignore Me (too) To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:13 PM On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Whew! Glad I missed whatever happened? Some people have their heads in the sand and live in a fantasy world, and others want to impose their views on others and refuse to respect the rights of the majority. In fact, that's

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread Jack Davis
Oh, that!(?) Human diversity will forever be split by fishers of ego. One of my favorite truisms. Jack --- On Tue, 1/19/10, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Please Ignore Me (too) To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread eckinator
2010/1/19 frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com: Some people have their heads in the sand and live in a fantasy world, and others want to impose their views on others and refuse to respect the rights of the majority. In fact, that's pretty much what each side said about the other! As

RE: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread Bob W
Some people have their heads in the sand and live in a fantasy world, and others want to impose their views on others and refuse to respect the rights of the majority. The rights of the majority are usually well looked after. It's the rights of minorities that usually get stomped and

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: The rights of the majority are usually well looked after. It's the rights of minorities that usually get stomped and which we need to watch out for. My post to which you're responding was, of course, tongue-in-cheek. I have to

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-19 Thread Tom C
Yes and even then the rights of the minority are often trampled on because as noble as we, or our society views itself, when there's a crisis, or when the majority view becomes so overwhelming, or when those in power become so blind to the needs of the lesser, rights are essentially foregone. Our

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-18 Thread steve harley
On 2010-01-18 21:21 , frank theriault wrote: I just responded to several posts in the Squirrel-turned-into-the-degrading-environment thread. I shouldn't have done so. well, i could stop myself from responding, but i could not fail to have a response until you said forget it, i was so happy

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-18 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: steve harley Subject: Re: Please Ignore Me (too) well, i could stop myself from responding, but i could not fail to have a response I on the other hand, remain unrepentant and unapologetic. It's what's expected of me. William Robb -- PDML Pentax

Re: Please Ignore Me (too)

2010-01-18 Thread Subash
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:22 AM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2010-01-18 21:21 , frank theriault wrote: I just responded to several posts in the Squirrel-turned-into-the-degrading-environment thread. I shouldn't have done so. well, i could stop myself from responding, but i