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From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: Defeat in Victory
Robert wrote:
It is not something substantiated.
The quote comes from an unnamed source who purportedly
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
On 12/21/05, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That it drives out
I'll save the obvious wisecracks like it was probably a female fish, etc
:-)
(just kidding ladies!!)
Seriously though, this is the stuff that myths are made of. Too bad this guy
is so much of a Redneck that he's going to eat it. Personally, I would be
afraid to eat it.
Link to
On 22 Dec 2005, at 3:07 am, Russell Chapman wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
Microsoft attained its dominant position in the personal computer
software business through
1) Luck
2) Illegal business practices
3) The mistakes of its competitors
and since
a) Luck eventually runs out
b)
At 09:39 PM Wednesday 12/21/2005, The Fool wrote:
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool
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From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And no, I don't want us to be communist or something else,
I just don't want my economy destroyed by rapacity.
Since most
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:30:07 -0600, Robert Seeberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But only reported through one source (AFAICT), hence the disclaimer.
It would bear a lot more credence if the same story were being told
via at least one other independent source.
xponent
Carefully Maru
rob
Don't
How were numbers, such as 45, spoken in Italy, Germany, and Spain in
1200 AD?
I am curious, because of my fury that in the Middle Ages, Christian
Europe adopted an Indian/Arabic base 10 numerical system rather than
the better base 12 system. Base 12 fits the number of Christian
Apostles. It
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But, the efficiency improvement from Wal-Mart is documented. It is really
efficiency.
That's only one measurement. Surely you don't think that prices and profits
are all there is to evaluating Wal-Mart? Are you unwilling to consider
other
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/21/05, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That it drives out small businesses that create qualitative and
hard-to-quantify benefits?
Sure, it drives out small businesses. Small businesses are rather
On Dec 22, 2005, at 3:50 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Small businesses offer less in the way of health insurance than big
businesses.
And Wal-Mart offers even less than most small businesses. Are you
sure you're helping your case?
Dave
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On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And cutting unnecessary costs. Wal-Mart has driven up
_productivity_.
Again, by one measure. Who is measuring the productivity of the
families
and communities that are impacted by
On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:30:07 -0600, Robert Seeberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But only reported through one source (AFAICT), hence the disclaimer.
It would bear a lot more credence if the same story were being told
via at least one other
Dave Land wrote:
The story about how George Washington chopped down a cherry tree
and did not tell a lie is a _founder's_myth_ that is accepted as
_true_, even if it is probably not factual. It tells us something
about George Washington and what we like to think about ourselves
as a
On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
The story about how George Washington chopped down a cherry tree
and did not tell a lie is a _founder's_myth_ that is accepted as
_true_, even if it is probably not factual. It tells us something
about George
On 22 Dec 2005, at 7:07 pm, Dave Land wrote:
This brings to mind the relationship between factuality and truth.
I've been thinking about it in the context of Christianity and
Biblical interpretation, but it obviously applies well beyond that
narrow context.
Western cultures equate
Dave Land wrote:
Whereas Oil-polluting, Amazon-destroying Brazil is a model for
the rest of the world :-b.
Yes! Why keep the useless Amazon if we don't get paid for it?
Let's burn it all and make a huge parking lot!
But I deny the accusation of oil-polluting! Oil is Good, all other
energy
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I am curious, because of my fury that in the Middle Ages, Christian
Europe adopted an Indian/Arabic base 10 numerical system rather than
the better base 12 system. Base 12 fits the number of Christian
Apostles. It fits the number of eggs in dozen. In base 12, you can
On Dec 22, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Max Battcher wrote:
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I am curious, because of my fury that in the Middle Ages, Christian
Europe adopted an Indian/Arabic base 10 numerical system rather than
the better base 12 system. Base 12 fits the number of Christian
Apostles. It
At 01:21 PM Thursday 12/22/2005, Max Battcher wrote:
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
I am curious, because of my fury that in the Middle Ages, Christian
Europe adopted an Indian/Arabic base 10 numerical system rather than
the better base 12 system. Base 12 fits the number of Christian
Apostles. It
Dec. 22, 2005
Dwayne Brown/George Deutsch
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-1726/1324
Ray Villard
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
(410) 338-4514
RELEASE: 05-590
NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS NEW RINGS AND MOONS AROUND URANUS
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed a new pair of
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
NASA'S HUBBLE DISCOVERS NEW RINGS AND MOONS AROUND URANUS
Does it make me a bad person that my first thought was that this
was going to be a gag post? :-)
Jim
Debris around my conscience Maru
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In a message dated 12/22/2005 6:43:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does it make me a bad person that my first thought was that this
was going to be a gag post? :-)
Groove Tube lives!
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Max Battcher wrote:
As a person who has had to work across radixes it is much
easier to deal with radixes that are powers of two (binary,
base 4, octal, hexadecimal) than any other arbitrary base.
There's a reason computers use binary or unary.
They make significantly more sense than base
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
--Ronn! :)
Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our
country and two words have been added to the pledge of
Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone
said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from
schools too?
-- Red
On 22 Dec 2005, at 6:01 pm, Dave Land wrote:
On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And cutting unnecessary costs. Wal-Mart has driven up
_productivity_.
Again, by one measure. Who is measuring the productivity of the
- Original Message -
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Defeat in Victory
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:30:07 -0600, Robert Seeberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But only reported through
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a song, They'll Know We are Christians by
Our Love.
whiplash Whew, just got jolted back to Vacation
Bible School -- is that a Lutheran song, or generic
Protestant? :)
Well, I learned it as an Episcopalian, and my
Robert wrote:
All quotes of the CHB article unfortunately.
That is a problem with blogs. The way they quote each other
constantly, while often handy as helps to find news, is a bit
incestuous.
So when Woodward and Bernstien broke the Watergate stuff and all the other
newspapers printed
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