OK, I _think_ i know why my post didn't get to the list, my "To" header doesn't match the registered email address. arrrrrrrgh! at one point the "to" field was my lucent handle, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at another point it was my local account, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know where it is set. is there something _I_ can add to the .mailrc file to control that? Cindy Sergent [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netwalk.com/~ccs/ The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying. -- Paul C. Roud ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- > > >Teaching Math in 1950: > >A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is >4/5th of the price. What is his profit? > >Teaching Math in 1960: > >A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is >4/5th of the price, or $80. What is his profit? > >Teaching Math in 1970: > >A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M" of money. The >cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Take 100 >dots representing the elements of the set "M". The set "C", the cost of >production, contains 20 fewer points than the set "M". Represent the set >"C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following question: What is the >cardinality of the set "P" for profit? > >Teaching Math in 1980: > >A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her cost of production is >$80 > and her profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20. > >Teaching Math in 1990: > >By cutting down beautiful trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think >of >this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after >answering >the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger >cut >down the trees? There are no wrong answers. > >Teaching Math in 1996: > >By laying off 40 percent of its loggers, a company improves its stock >price >from $80 to $100. How much capital gains per share does the CEO make by >exercising his stock options at $80? Assume capital gains are no longer >taxed because this encourages investment. > >Teaching Math in 1997: > >A company outsourced all its loggers. The firm saves on benefits, and >when >demand for its product is down, the logging work force can be easily cut >back. The average logger employed earned $50,000, had three weeks >vacation, a nice retirement plan and medical insurance. The contracted >logger charges $50 an hour. Was outsourcing a good move? > >Teaching Math in 1998: > >A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a ridiculous alimony from >his >first failed marriage comes into the logging company corporate offices >and >goes postal, mowing down 16 executives and a couple of secretaries. He >also >gets lucky when he nails a politician named Beck with who was on the >premises collecting his "soft money" campaign contribution. Was >outsourcing >a good move for the company? > >Teaching Math in 1999: > >A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom for violating the newly enacted >Beck with Law is being trained as a COBOL programmer in order to work on >Y2K projects. What is the probability that the computer-controlled cell >doors will open on their own at 00:01 hours on 01/01/00? > > > ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- ____________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Join The Web Consultants Association : Register on our web site Now Web Consultants Web Site : http://just4u.com/webconsultants If you lose the instructions All subscription/unsubscribing can be done directly from our website for all our lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
