date:20080825

[FairfieldLife] Re: Certain ethnic/race groups are better at some things than others

2008-08-25 Thread TurquoiseB

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
 mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
 wrote:
 
  Blacks are better at basketball;
  Chinese are better at math and engineering;
  Italians are better cooks.
 
  What other groups can you think of in this manner?
 
 The Scots are known to be the best lovers. In one survey, women in
 Europe put the Scots as number one best lovers, and in an other 
 study, the Scottish men were found to have the longest average 
 lovemaking times with women, half again as much than the average 
 American, who was low on the list. These studies therefore support 
 each other.
 
 Yes, all this in peer-reviewed journals.
 
 My own skills stand as an anecdotal support to these studies, 
 although my staying time is WAY longer than any that were found 
 in the studies :-)
 
 OffWorld
 (Scottish born and bred)

For once Off is telling the truth. There WAS such
a study, it DID appear in peer-reviewed journals,
and the Scots DID have longer lovemaking times
than Americans or men from other countries.

Some feel that the study was biased, however, and
that the Scots would not have scored as high if
their lovemaking partners in the study had been
women. The non-Scots found it more challenging
to keep their...uh...interest up for a sheep.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Certain ethnic/race groups are better at some things than others

2008-08-25 Thread gullible fool



And I believe it has been documented among your partners that they score much 
lower on math aptitude having come to believe that what they have been told is 
6, in actually  2
 
And the lady can forget about ever getting cab fair home.

 
...but mountain doesn't move!

--- On Mon, 8/25/08, lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

From: lurkernomore20002000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Certain ethnic/race groups are better at some 
things than others
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 12:36 AM








And I believe it has been documented among your partners that they score much 
lower on math aptitude having come to believe that what they have been told is 
6, in actually  2
 
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

 
 Maybe so Peter, but only the Scots are clearly documented in
 peer-reviewed journals to be rated as the best lovers in the world.
 
 The Scots are known to be the best lovers. In one survey, women in
 Europe put the Scots as number one best lovers, and in an other study,
 the Scottish men were found to have the longest average lovemaking times
 with women, half again as much than the average American, who was low on
 the list. These studies therefore support each other.
 
 Yes, all this in peer-reviewed journals.
 
 My own skills stand as an anecdotal support to these studies, although
 my staying time is WAY longer than any that were found in the studies 
 :-)
 
 OffWorld
 (Scottish born and bred)
 
 PS. Why are you the only person in the world that still posts at the top
 of a thread?
 
 
 
 
 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
 
  Here's the complete and total FACT that will put to rest this
 ridiculous discussion regarding superiority/inferiority off different
 ethnic groups. Do you know statistics? If not, sorry, you may not
 understand this. There are different means (averages) for normally
 distributed traits in different ethnic populations. For example
 European-Americans as a group have an average IQ 10 to 15 points higher
 than the average group IQ for African-Americans, 5 to 7 points higher
 than Hispanic-Americans and 3 to 6 points lower than Asian Americans. If
 you control for income the European-American, Hispanic-American and
 African-American difference disappears, but the Asian still remains. But
 the important point here is that within group differences are much, much
 larger than between group differences. WHAT THIS MEANS IS THAT YOU CAN
 HAVE A EUROPEAN AMERICAN THAT CAN JUMP AND AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WHO GETS
 A FULL ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP TO MIT. Again within group differences
  are much, much larger than between group differences.
 
 
  --- On Sun, 8/24/08, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  From: off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Certain ethnic/race groups are better at
 some things than others
  To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
  Date: Sunday, August 24, 2008, 10:27 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_esq@ wrote:
  
   Hey Off,
  
   Don't toot your horn so loudly. Our hearing is fairly normal,
 thanks
  What's your problem?
  OffWorld
  
  
   --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@
   wrote:
   
   
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , shempmcgurk
   shempmcgurk@
wrote:

 Blacks are better at basketball;
 Chinese are better at math and engineering;
 Italians are better cooks.

 What other groups can you think of in this manner?
   
The Scots are known to be the best lovers. In one survey, women in
Europe put the Scots as number one best lovers, and in an other
   study,
the Scottish men were found to have the longest average lovemaking
   times
with women, half again as much than the average American, who was
   low on
the list. These studies therefore support each other.
   
Yes, all this in peer-reviewed journals.
   
My own skills stand as an anecdotal support to these studies,
   although
my staying time is WAY longer than any that were found in the
   studies
:-)
   
OffWorld
(Scottish born and bred)

[FairfieldLife] Everything that's wrong with American politics, in one photo

2008-08-25 Thread TurquoiseB


http://tinyurl.com/6nbfnx

All that's missing is Bob Barker.

It makes Leni Riefenstahl's iconic images
of Hitler's Germany look classy.

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'More on AUM'

2008-08-25 Thread cardemaister

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 So, 'OM' is a recent invention - it's not even an esoteric 
 mantra, except by courtesy. 'OM or 'AUM' isn't a bija
 mantra used in genuine tantric practice.


P.J. I 27:


tasya ( = iishvara'sya) vaacakaH praNavaH

Bhoja-deva:

[...] nauti stautiiti vaa **praNava oMkaaraH** [...]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Certain ethnic/race groups are better at some things than others

2008-08-25 Thread cardemaister

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


  
  My own skills stand as an anecdotal support to these studies, 
 although
  my staying time is WAY longer than any that were found in the 
 studies 
  :-)
  
  OffWorld
  (Scottish born and bred)
 


Ain't no Norwegian Wood even harder?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Everything that's wrong with American politics, in one photo

2008-08-25 Thread bob_brigante



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 http://tinyurl.com/6nbfnx

 All that's missing is Bob Barker.

 It makes Leni Riefenstahl's iconic images
 of Hitler's Germany look classy.



***

LR's Olympia is classy, which is why Time in 2005 called it one of the
greatest 100 films of the last 80 years.:

http://listing-index.ebay.com/movies/Olympia_(film).html
http://listing-index.ebay.com/movies/Olympia_(film).html

As far as the backdrop at the Denver confab,   at first the election
campaigns were pretty sedate affairs, but all American elections have
been a circus since the 1800 election fiasco, which resembled modern
contests in every way. So Bob Barker or some other carny obviously suits
the American group consciousness (Mencken: Nobody ever went broke
underestimating the taste of the American public).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1800
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1800

[FairfieldLife] Kapil Sharma on GPS!

2008-08-25 Thread cardemaister


From Kapil Sharma's GeoBlog on www.gypsii.com
(start reading from to bottom, if at all...)


Posted by View Person Kapil Sharma at 09:16 AM GyPSii for Apple iPhone:

GyPSii is a geo-location and social networking service.
The application puts several different services onto the iPhone and is
used by going to the GyPSii site on the iPhone web browser.

Features GyPSii offers include geo-location services offering the
ability for users to navigate to the location their favorite people
are at. Location based searches for people and places are offered as well.


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Aug 25
The UTM Grid (Universal Transverse Mercator) in GPS:

Posted by View Person Kapil Sharma at 09:11 AM The UTM Grid (Universal
Transverse Mercator) :

The UTM grid is a metric grid system based on 60 grid zones around the
globe and a set of values in meters from reference points of the grid.

Often your GPS receiver will not reference the Band Letter only Zone,
and Meters Easting and Meters Northing.

A typical coordinate that you might see on a GPS receiver would look
like the one below:

12 59095E

3785889N

This means that the location is in Zone 12 and is 59,095 meters
Easting, and 3,785,899 meters Northing.

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Aug 25
GPS Accuracy

Posted by View Person Kapil Sharma at 09:09 AM Accuracy:

The accuracy of the receivers is dependent on the number and quality
of the signals it is getting from the satellites and from a factor
called Selected Availability.

Selected Availability is an intentional error that is introduced into
the signals coming from the Satellites that create readings that can
be off as much as 300 feet. Even so, the accuracy levels with Selected
Availability turned on, is usually within 100 ft. or better.

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Aug 25
Operating Principles of GPS:

Posted by View Person Kapil Sharma at 09:09 AM Operating Principles:

The basis of the GPS technology is a set of 24 satellites that are
continuously orbiting the earth. These satellites are equipped with
atomic clocks and send out radio signals as to the exact time and
their location. These radio signals from the satellites are picked up
by the GPS receiver. Once the GPS receiver locks on to four or more of
these satellites, it can triangulate its location from the known
positions of the satellites. This is a very simple explanation, but
unless you are a surveyor or engineer who needs to understand how to
use GPS to locate within fractions of an inch, this is all you really
need to know.

0 Comments  

Aug 25
Global Positioning System (GPS) technology intro.

Posted by View Person Kapil Sharma at 09:08 AM Global Positioning
System (GPS) technology is a great boon to anyone who has the need to
navigate either great or small distances. This wonderful navigation
technology was actually first available for government use back in the
late 1970s. In the past ten or so years, It has been made available to
the general public in the form of handheld receivers that use this
satellite technology provided by the U.S. government.

[FairfieldLife] 'Hope Leads POW'

2008-08-25 Thread Robert

Obama Leads McCain by 49% to 43% in Post-ABC Poll

Nadine Elsibai Sun Aug 24, 11:53 AM ET

Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads
Republican rival John McCain by 49 percent to 43 percent nationwide among
registered voters, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released today.

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The results were little changed from a similar survey in mid-July, the Post
said. The latest survey was conducted Aug. 19-22, before Obama announced he had
chosen Senator Joe Biden of Delaware to be his vice presidential running mate.
Three- quarters of registered voters, in answer to a hypothetical question,
said choosing Biden wouldn't influence their vote either way, the Post
reported.
The poll also showed that 20 percent of those who supported Senator Hillary
Clinton of New York for the Democratic presidential nomination now support
Arizona Senator McCain, while 70 percent of her supporters back Obama, the
highest level since she suspended her campaign in June, the Post said.
The latest nationwide poll of 1,108 adults included interviews with 916
registered voters. The poll, and the results among registered voters, have a
margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
To contact the reporter on this story: Nadine Elsibai in Washington at [EMAIL
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