Re: [silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:03:19PM +0530, Alok G. Singh wrote: I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: being Warnocked [1]. Footnotes: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_Dilemma Cool. There's probably also a name for things that don't yet have names, too. I'm

Re: [silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-02 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 3/2/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:03:19PM +0530, Alok G. Singh wrote: I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: being Warnocked [1]. Cool. There's probably also a name for things that don't yet have names, too. Interestingly, the theme of

Re: [silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-02 Thread Deepa Mohan
There's a word for it, there's an organization for that...and probably you can google and get a support group for addicts too... I generally tend to run foul of the name-for-it Nazi when I post the name of a bird (as it might be, the red-billed blue magpie) and get strident corrections (NO! it

Re: [silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-03-02 16:01:37 +0430, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I generally tend to run foul of the name-for-it Nazi when I post the name of a bird (as it might be, the red-billed blue magpie) and get strident corrections (NO! it is the ORANGE-billed blue magpie). There's a little bird that everyone

Re: [silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-02 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 05:36 AM 3/3/2007 ] There's a little bird that everyone calls the Orange-Flanked Bush Robin. In a recent book (The Ripley Guide), it's named Red-Flanked Bush Robin instead, but the description starts with Note orange flanks. Sounds like the set of standard trick

[silk] One hand clapping (was: contracts vs. copyright)

2007-03-01 Thread Alok G. Singh
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:32:23AM -0800, Thaths wrote: So, am I left alone in an echo-y silklist chanber listening to the sound of one hand clapping? On 27 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happens to me all the time. I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: being Warnocked