Re: primes as far as the eye can see, discrete continua

2004-12-08 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > Saw in a recent _Science_ that Ben Green of Cambridge proved that for > any N, there are an infinite number of evenly spaced progressions of > primes that are N numbers long. He got a prize for that. Damn > straight. Where N is a natural nu

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: > I also tried to get my wife to agree to a heroic name for our son. In > the tradition of Pericles and Sophocles, I present ... Testicles. Similarly I preferred Falopia, and alas my wife was equally reticent. -Chuck -- http://www.quantumlinux.com Qu

Re: Unintended Consequences

2004-12-05 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Chuck Wolber wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: > > > I also tried to get my wife to agree to a heroic name for our son. In > > the tradition of Pericles and Sophocles, I present ... Testicles. > > Similarly I preferred Falopia, and

Re: Patriot Insurance

2004-11-29 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Steve Furlong wrote: > It's been a while since I was in the US Army, but I'm sure that the life > insurance we had didn't cover parachute-related deaths and I vaguely > recall it didn't cover combat deaths. Kinda serious omissions, from the > soldier's point of view. If I'

Re: Fallujah: Marine Eye-Witness Report

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 8:26 PM -0800 11/21/04, John Young wrote: %< SNIP %< > By the way, John, did you know that Bush Is Going To Revive The Draft??? Troll -1 > Or was it that Bush Lied and People Died??? True +1 > Or maybe, it was that John Kerry Was In Viet Nam??

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-10 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 7:11 PM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: > >"&cet" is an HTMl element > > Wrong again. Mere hyperlatinate British public school affectation, & = > et, and, um, all that... Strange, you called that a rudimen

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-08 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > At 9:41 AM -0800 11/8/04, Chuck Wolber wrote: > >*SIGH* Is it really so hard for people to remember that George W. Bush was > >born and educated in Massachusetts? > > Give me a child until the age of 7, &cet. 'er huh? &

Re: Faith in democracy, not government

2004-11-08 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, R.A. Hettinga wrote: %< SNIP %< > More disturbing still for liberal Democrats is that George W. Bush is > the first Republican Southerner ever elected to the presidency, another > indicator that a majority of the citizenry no longer finds conservatism > and Texas such a sc

Re: So Who Won?

2004-11-03 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Eric Cordian wrote: > So who won the US election? The turd sandwich, or the giant douche? Which witch is which... Ohio is still in play, all the rest are pretty much decided. Ohio has 120,000-ish provisional ballots and about 300,000 regular votes yet to be counted. The spr

Re: Flying with Libertarian Hawks

2004-09-13 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > Damn right. 'Conservative' means agreeing with the most vocal proponents > of the current right wing apparatchiks. It seems to have little or no > relationship to fiscally conservative ideas. "Left wing" now refers to > anyone who disagrees with the 'C

RE: Gilmore case...Who can make laws?

2004-09-07 Thread Chuck Wolber
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: > This describes the "Government" as creating secret laws. But, > theoretically, only the congress and the Senate can create new laws, > correct? The Executive branch has never been empowered to create laws, > and I'm thinking these travel laws did not go