Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 8/23/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: Didja like how I threw in some legitimate scholarship like Freud's anal fixation theories of sexual maturation, and the Great mother religious motif, and Jung's shadow, just to

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:02 AM Tuesday 8/23/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An example of the true value of a Harvard education, drawn from a recent post on the Harvard Boston recent grads email list, as part of a request for a roommate: Looking for someone

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:29 PM Monday 8/22/2005, Gautam Mukunda wrote: An example of the true value of a Harvard education, drawn from a recent post on the Harvard Boston recent grads email list, as part of a request for a roommate: Looking for someone similar to the two of us already in the house: mid-20's young

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:41 PM Monday 8/22/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: But you know the question hints at whole new regions of possible activism, starting with PETtp. Pet t.p.? That's why I have a cat: he does not have to be walked at all hours of the day and night by someone armed with a pooper-scooper

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:31 AM Tuesday 8/23/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive youngster, a shining example of the further march of liberty: this wimmin, or persun, is

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:09 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: Thusly, we must change the role which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such as the nostrils, or the mouth, other bodily orifices. Oh, I see, so its proper role, according to

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Dave Land wrote: Finally, Wipe OUT (the activist toilet paper liberation organization) prefers to co-opt the term Toilet Paper to eliminate its power to marginalize this most humble of paper products. Sure, but you can't actually say TP unless you *are* TP.

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 23, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Dave Land wrote: Finally, Wipe OUT (the activist toilet paper liberation organization) prefers to co-opt the term Toilet Paper to eliminate its power to marginalize this most humble of paper products.

RE: Intelligent Design

2005-08-23 Thread Horn, John
Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa This site has lots of interesting rebuttals to those who promote ID, as well as claim global warming's a crock and so on. Cute. http://www.venganza.org/ I've been meaning to post a link to this site for a week now and haven't seem to have been able to get

Re: Physics question

2005-08-23 Thread Richard Baker
On 23 Aug 2005, at 06:14, Maru Dubshinki wrote: A minor point: why are you representing the cartesian distance formula in squared form? I've always elsewhere seen it as sqrt(x^2+y^2+z^2). If you look at the relativistic formula d^2 = t^2 - x^2 - y^2 - z^2 (which uses my preferred sign

Re: Physics question

2005-08-23 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Physics question On 23 Aug 2005, at 06:14, Maru Dubshinki wrote: A minor point: why are you representing the cartesian

Re: Physics question

2005-08-23 Thread Richard Baker
Dan said: For those of you who don't know, I'm just a humble plumber, who's dissertation was on 300 Gev proton-Neon interactions in Fermilab's bubble chamber. Rich is the one who does fancy-pants theoretic stuff. :-) I'm just a humble programmer now, and even back when I was a physicist

Re: USA bashing is fun

2005-08-23 Thread William T Goodall
On 23 Aug 2005, at 4:11 am, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In part, it is because there are well-organized, well-funded groups behind the USA's anti-evolution

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam: well-spotted, and thanks for the laugh. Gautam does a half-bow in Dave's direction... I actually got the email while at the office and just started laughing like mad in a meeting. My advisor who, despite having twice as many Harvard degrees as I

New Physics Question

2005-08-23 Thread The Fool
Gravity and mass seem to be related. Both have theoretical but not yet 'discovered' particles to explain why they exist. What if instead of their being two particles ('Gravotrons' and 'Higgs Bosons') their was actually only one particle that is the cause of both gravity and mass?

RE: Intelligent Design

2005-08-23 Thread Leonard Matusik
Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:28:16 -0500Horn, John : Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa This site has lots of interesting rebuttals to those who promote ID, as well as claim global warming's a crock and so on. Cute. I've been meaning to post a link to this site for a week now and haven't seem to have

Re: Mindless and Heartless

2005-08-23 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 8/22/2005 11:59:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, the issue I have with your contentions (to the extent they refer to me) is that you seem to be suggesting I have insensitivity to subtle bigotries as suffered by a particular group, which (to

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

2005-08-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:19 PM Tuesday 8/23/2005, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 23, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 23, 2005, at 9:55 AM, Dave Land wrote: Finally, Wipe OUT (the activist toilet paper liberation organization) prefers to co-opt the term Toilet Paper to eliminate its power to