Re: Infinities large and small (was Re: The Assumption Re: 9/11 conspiracies)

2006-09-30 Thread Ronn!Blankenship

At 10:49 PM Friday 9/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Infinity - (Infinity -1) = Infinity

My brain hurts.

Can I have a cookie?



Visit any number of web sites and you can have a pop-up, too.


-- Ronn!  :)



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Re: Shiny

2006-09-30 Thread Reggie Bautista
Back on Sept. 06, 2006, William T Goodall wrote:

 Ooh!

 New 24 screen iMac with 1920 x 1200 resolution.

 Rattles piggybank Maru

I *was* going to say feh, and provide this link which includes the 30
Apple Cinema HD Display: http://www.apple.com/displays/

But then I realized you said iMac, not Mac.  Shiny indeed.  Apple is even
bragging about increased brightness at http://www.apple.com/imac/ :  it's a
full 40% brighter than the 20-inch model.

Reggie
Trying To Catch Up Maru

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Re: FW RE: Fly The Flag

2006-09-30 Thread Reggie Bautista
rob wrote:

 Earlier today I was informed that I would be working at Chase Tower on
 Monday and Tuesday.
 Later it dawned upon me that on 9/11 (Monday) I would be working in
 the tallest building west of the Mississippi.


 Tha..rilling!


 Ah well...I'm a child of the Cold War, I was well schooled in how
 to put my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye. We called it
 Duck and Cover.
 It all likelihood 9/11 will pass just like any other day and the only
 trouble I will find will be for not kissing the boss' ass. (I'm a
 firm believer that ones own hind end leaves less of a crappy
 aftertaste and fewer emotional scars)
[snippage here]
 xponent
 Kissassins Maru
 rob

I did a double-take, and nearly a spit-take, at Kiss-assins.  Thanks for
brightening my Saturday morning!

Reggie
Still Trying To Catch Up Maru

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Re: What plans???

2006-09-30 Thread Reggie Bautista
Warren wrote:

 On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
 
  In one of the Democratic party's regular mass mailings, from Howard
  Dean today, I read this:
 
  You know that Democrats have a real plan for destroying Osama bin
  Laden and al Qaeda, fixing the mess in Iraq, and really securing us at
  home.
 
  WTF?
 
  I don't know that at all. Where is this plan?  Anybody seen it?
 
 Yes, it's on page 15, right after the Homosexual Agenda. Did you not 
 receive your packet?

I *knew* I should have sent in that change of address form...

Reggie
Nearly Caught Up For Now Maru

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Re: Infinities large and small (was Re: The Assumption Re: 9/11 conspiracies)

2006-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Infinity - (Infinity -1) = Infinity
 
My brain hurts.
 
Can I have a cookie?


You can have a cookie.  :)

And if I'd done my little project of photographing several kinds of 
cookies, I'd send you a .jpg of one


Julia


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Re: Amusing photo

2006-09-30 Thread Reggie Bautista
Julia wrote:

 First photo on http://www.conjecturer.com/weblog/?p=3045 will amuse some
 folks here.

I thought it was very funny.  I mean, who names a street Lime Kiln Road?
;-)

Reggie
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Re: Infinities large and small (was Re: The Assumption Re: 9/11 conspiracies)

2006-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson

Charlie Bell wrote:


On 30/09/2006, at 1:43 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:


Nick Arnett wrote:

On 9/29/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


No, it's the SAME SIZE as each of the first two.  THAT'S the one that
took me a week or two to wrap my head around.  :)

No, they're not the same size.  I'm sure of it.  I counted them.


Well, hey, they are a COUNTABLE number.  :)

(I heard a bit of a GWB speech where he said something about 
uncountable numbers of people or something like that, and my first 
reaction was, Geez, it's a *finite* number, so it's certainly 
*countable*, sheesh!)


Uncountable for him, possibly? One, two, three, four, many, uncountable...

Charlie
Watership Bush Maru


Oh, man, just the other night we were talking about how cool Dandelion 
was!  :)


Julia
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Re: What plans???

2006-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson

Ronn!Blankenship wrote:

At 10:45 PM Friday 9/29/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:


Dang, mine got cut off halfway through the Homosexual Agenda



Sounds painful . . .


It tore off around 1PM -- everything looked absolutely reasonable so far

Julia
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Re: Shiny

2006-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson

Reggie Bautista wrote:

Back on Sept. 06, 2006, William T Goodall wrote:


Ooh!

New 24 screen iMac with 1920 x 1200 resolution.

Rattles piggybank Maru


I *was* going to say feh, and provide this link which includes the 30
Apple Cinema HD Display: http://www.apple.com/displays/

But then I realized you said iMac, not Mac.  Shiny indeed.  Apple is even
bragging about increased brightness at http://www.apple.com/imac/ :  it's a
full 40% brighter than the 20-inch model.


That would actually *not* be a selling point with a minority of the 
population


Julia
Light Sensitivity Maru

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Re: Amusing photo

2006-09-30 Thread Julia Thompson

Reggie Bautista wrote:

Julia wrote:


First photo on http://www.conjecturer.com/weblog/?p=3045 will amuse some
folks here.


I thought it was very funny.  I mean, who names a street Lime Kiln Road?
;-)

Reggie
Closing In On Caught Up Maru


Well, the problem with living on the cross-street is that if you can't 
spell, you get your mail only once every 7 years.  :)


Julia
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Re: Infinities large and small (was Re: The Assumption Re: 9/11conspiracies)

2006-09-30 Thread Reggie Bautista

Nick wrote

 On 9/29/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  No, it's the SAME SIZE as each of the first two.  THAT'S the one that
  took me a week or two to wrap my head around.  :)


 No, they're not the same size.  I'm sure of it.  I counted them.






 Okay, I didn't count ALL of them.  But I counted enough to feel good about
 my answer.  And feeling good about answers is what mathematics is all
about,
 isn't it?

There's a certain truthiness to that...

Reggie
No Other Comment Maru

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Re: Amusing photo

2006-09-30 Thread Reggie Bautista
Julia wrote

 Reggie Bautista wrote:
  Julia wrote:
 
  First photo on http://www.conjecturer.com/weblog/?p=3045 will amuse
some
  folks here.
 
  I thought it was very funny.  I mean, who names a street Lime Kiln
Road?
  ;-)
 
  Reggie
  Closing In On Caught Up Maru

 Well, the problem with living on the cross-street is that if you can't
 spell, you get your mail only once every 7 years.  :)

Now that's funny; I received your reply before I received back a copy of my
original!

Reggie
Let's Do The Time Warp Again Maru

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RE: Someone Must Tell Them

2006-09-30 Thread Ritu

Warren Ockrassa wrote:

 With the signing into law of Bush's pet tur'rist project, 
 we've given 
 to the Executive branch two things it should never, ever have: The 
 ability to interpret internationally-significant law to suit current 
 fashion; and the ability to define anyone - including 
 American citizens 
 - as an enemy combatant to be held indefinitely, without charges or 
 evidence being presented.

Well, look at the bright side - at least Abu Ghraib isn't a scandal
anymore. It is now the law...

Ritu

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Re: Infinities large and small

2006-09-30 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
William Taylor wrote:

 Infinity - (Infinity -1) = Infinity

No. Infinity - (Infinity - 1) = Undefined

  To the infinity and beyond

Alberto Monteiro
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Re: Infinities large and small

2006-09-30 Thread Medievalbk
 
In a message dated 9/30/2006 9:02:31 AM US Mountain Standard Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

William Taylor wrote:

 Infinity - (Infinity -1) =  Infinity

No. Infinity - (Infinity - 1) = Undefined

To the infinity and beyond

Alberto Monteiro
 
Sorry, I must have been chewing on 
the square root of negative Juan Valdez.
 
But I still say that an infinite number of
monkeys typing on an infinite number of
typewriters is going to produce an 
infinite amount of poop on the floor.
 
 


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Re: Shiny

2006-09-30 Thread Ronn!Blankenship

At 09:24 AM Saturday 9/30/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:

Reggie Bautista wrote:

Back on Sept. 06, 2006, William T Goodall wrote:


Ooh!

New 24 screen iMac with 1920 x 1200 resolution.

Rattles piggybank Maru

I *was* going to say feh, and provide this link which includes the 30
Apple Cinema HD Display: http://www.apple.com/displays/
But then I realized you said iMac, not Mac.  Shiny indeed.  Apple is even
bragging about increased brightness at http://www.apple.com/imac/ :  it's a
full 40% brighter than the 20-inch model.


That would actually *not* be a selling point with a minority of the 
population


Julia
Light Sensitivity Maru



Or else the picture being displayed on the 20-inch model is invisible 
to all but cats and owls . . .



-- Ronn!  :)



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Re: Someone Must Tell Them

2006-09-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa

On Sep 30, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Ritu wrote:


Well, look at the bright side - at least Abu Ghraib isn't a scandal
anymore. It is now the law...


Which is of course the point. Bush wants to keep his ass from being 
impeached under an opposition congress.


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Re: Shiny

2006-09-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa

On Sep 30, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Reggie Bautista wrote:


it's a full 40% brighter than the 20-inch model.


So you're suggesting there's a correlation between waist size and IQ?

[Obscurity 'R' Us]

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RE: Someone Must Tell Them

2006-09-30 Thread Ritu

Warren Ockrassa wrote:

  Well, look at the bright side - at least Abu Ghraib isn't a scandal 
  anymore. It is now the law...
 
 Which is of course the point. Bush wants to keep his ass from being 
 impeached under an opposition congress.

I've seen plenty of people, theoretically working for public good,
subvert laws and institutions of a country. But this is the first time
I've ever seen a near complete subversion of a constitution. Bush  Co
make the BJP look good, and I never thought I'd ever say that about
anybody.

Ritu
GCU Alien  Glad About It


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