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From: Jennifer Usher on 6 May 2010 15:46 "Charles Richmond" <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote in message news:hruvjg$bvo$7(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:26:34 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer >> <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >> >>> Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> writes: >>>> Pessimist: Looks at the glass as half empty. >>>> >>>> Optimist: Looks at the glass as half full. >>>> >>>> Optometrist: Says "Does the glass look better this way, or this >>>> way... this way, or this way..." >>> Engineer: you know, that glass is twice as big as it needs to be.... >> >> Real Engineer: "That glass is 1.9 times bigger than it needs to >> be." (allowing for a tolerance) >> > > Two plus two equals five... for very large values of two. Or very small values of five. -- Jennifer Usher
From: Patrick Scheible on 6 May 2010 15:59 Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> writes: > Tom Harrington wrote: > > In article <sehix-5388C3.11023105052010(a)5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com>, > > Steve Hix <sehix(a)NOSPAMmac.comINVALID> wrote: > > > >> In article <slrnhu29n6.2eu.gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com>, > >> "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com> wrote: > >> > >>> Thomas R. Kettler wrote: > >>>> That explains why honeybees have been dying by the millions. People > >>>> having been telling them they can't fly! > >>>> > >>>> <http://www.greenearthfriend.com/2009/01/colony-collapse-disorder-ccd-hon > >>>> eybees-dying-by-the-millions/> > >>> They have been dying by the millions because of a disease they had > >>> no immunity to. There is now a vaccine for it, > >> How in the world do you administer the vaccine to the little honeys? > > > > Tiny little syringes and a whole lot of patience. > > > > ISTM that the vaccine would only have to be administered to the > queen. Then every egg she laid and every bee produced would > "inherit" the vaccine. I have no idea about insects. But my mom had all the usual vaccinations, but I still had to have them. -- Patrick
From: Joe Pfeiffer on 6 May 2010 16:02 Patrick Scheible <kkt(a)zipcon.net> writes: > Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> writes: > >> Walter Bushell <proto(a)panix.com> writes: >> >> > In article <758.813T1744T5065541(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, >> > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> > >> >> In article >> >> <michelle-AE88DE.19010405052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, >> >> michelle(a)michelle.org (Michelle Steiner) writes: >> >> >> >> > In article <1068.812T2159T10235148(a)kltpzyxm.invalid>, >> >> > "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >>>>>> That's pretty good, considering that he will probably die before >> >> >>>>>> Cochrane will be born. Time travel, anyone? >> >> >>>>> >> >> >>>>> Maybe he is friends with the Doctor. >> >> >>>> >> >> >>>> Doctor Who? >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Of course. >> >> >> >> >> >> No, he's on first. >> >> > >> >> > Who's on first? >> >> >> >> That's right. >> > >> > No Wright's on third. >> >> No, I Don't Know is on third. > > I don't give a darn. Shortstop. (I once played the manager in this routine) -- As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. (Benjamin Franklin)
From: Joe Pfeiffer on 6 May 2010 16:03 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > In article <hruvjg$bvo$7(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> wrote: > >> Two plus two equals five... for very large values of two. > > No, for *sufficiently* large values of two. 2.251 is sufficiently large (in > applescript at least). > > round (2.251) + round (2.251) = 4 > round (2.251 + 2.251) = 5 > > (Applescript rounds numbers ending in .5 to the nearest even number unless > specified otherwise.) I would regard 2.251 as a *huge* value of two. -- As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. (Benjamin Franklin)
From: Peter Flass on 6 May 2010 17:35
Tim Streater wrote: > Newtons Laws can be derived from Einstein anyway, as a special case > where gravity is weak (i.e. not near a body the mass of the Sun or > greater). > Exactly, and I fully expect that relativity will be determined to be a special case of something else someday. |