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From: unsettled on 4 Dec 2006 06:56 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <3affd$457312fb$4fe70d7$29554(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>In fact you might say that a good part Michigan's unemployment >>problem today is a consequence of WW2. > Nope. Unions. They kept all factories from retooling and > going robotic in time to be competitive. > Some of the industry that went overseas is coming back but only > in trickles. > <snip--I'll leave it to you to try> NOP
From: jmfbahciv on 4 Dec 2006 06:52 In article <ekv2pp$l5r$4(a)blue.rahul.net>, kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <26e4$45722fd5$4fe757d$18514(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>Ken Smith wrote: <snip> >>> This assumes that the US doesn't meddle and make it take a lot longer. >>> The yonger generation in Iran want their freedom. They still are muslim. >>> Christians of today would not be infavor of the Spanish Inquisition[1]. >> >>Well now that's not necessarily true. The Inquisition was pretty >>much against families of former Jews who had converted but had >>held on to some or many of their old practices. > >Which part isn't true? I don't think many christians want another >inquisition. Are you kidding? I haven't met a bornagain that doesn't preach for another one. Take a good look at what Southern Baptists are doing in the northern states. Listen to some of the Falwell-like preachers that show up on cable. Look at their eyes; most contain glints of insanity. > >> >> > I >>> think that we are seeing the beginnings of a changed muslim faith. Once >>> that is consistant with liberty may be emerging. >> >>A few rotten apples..... > >Those "rotten apples" are in the barrel. > > >>> [1]They would not expect it either but that is another matter. >> >>There is that. LOL >> >>> The world government I see forming will be a very strictly secular one. >>> The US has the seperation of church and state because the founders saw the >>> horrors that results when you mix the two. A world government would have >>> the seperation for different and very practical reasons. Even within >>> Islam, there is a great deal of disagreement about what the rules really >>> are. >> >>They remain in a medieval tribal mindset. Nothing else matters. > >Actually a great deal else matters. The fact that they can't agree among >themselves makes them weak. They won't all follow any given leader. They >will fight among themselves. This will happen after the West is destroyed. > >So long as nothing unites them, the odds of them forming a world >government are zero. They don't have to form a government to destroy Western civilization. They don't have to cooperate with each other after the trade routes are interrupted. You keep assuming that all Western civilization trappings will exist after the religious zealots are finished making messes. That is your number one incorrect assumption. /BAH
From: unsettled on 4 Dec 2006 07:08 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <83aa4$457305a4$4fe70d7$29287(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>>In article <MPG.1fdb63e0b29518b4989d88(a)news.individual.net>, >>> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>In article <ekrvkr$8qk_002(a)s1015.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... >>>> >>>> >>>>>In article <b59c2$4570f18a$4fe7357$10170(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>>>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>For me hex and hex were the same thing. I worked for year in >>>>>>>an octal environment. I'd never be able to convert to hex. >>>>>> >>>>>>In a different world it was said of one bit god, >>>>>>the patron saint of cpm, that "For him, assembler >>>>>>is a high level language." >>>>> >>>>>If you want to dabble in machine lanugage and not have to struggle >>>>>with binary arithmetic, play with IBM's 1620. >>>> >>>>Ah, the CADET (Can't Add, Didn't Even Try). Addressing was still >>>>binary, no? (long before my time) >>> >>> >>>I don't think it was. I never knew about binary until I met >>>a PDP-10. I had no idea about bases other than 10. There >>>were a few math problems that dealt with converting logs >>>in my past, but nothing was tied to reality. They were just >>>logic problems that were fun to do but never used. >> >>Yet you're old enough to have used a slide rule. > > > Yup. I used it for a few physics problems but did the > arithmetic by hand instead. I got "better" answers. Then possibly you used logs without realizing it. You might have an interesting conversation with Meron about your better answers.
From: jmfbahciv on 4 Dec 2006 07:06 In article <a5a47$45740cf6$4fe70a2$2619(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> In article <3affd$457312fb$4fe70d7$29554(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>>In fact you might say that a good part Michigan's unemployment >>>problem today is a consequence of WW2. > >> Nope. Unions. They kept all factories from retooling and >> going robotic in time to be competitive. > >> Some of the industry that went overseas is coming back but only >> in trickles. >> <snip--I'll leave it to you to try> > >NOP Aw, shoot. I wanted to learn another method of explaining :-). Economy, finance, and money supplies are not easy to explain since most of us are only exposed to our checkbook balances. /BAH
From: unsettled on 4 Dec 2006 07:18
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <a5a47$45740cf6$4fe70a2$2619(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>In article <3affd$457312fb$4fe70d7$29554(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >>> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >>>>In fact you might say that a good part Michigan's unemployment >>>>problem today is a consequence of WW2. >> >>>Nope. Unions. They kept all factories from retooling and >>>going robotic in time to be competitive. >> >>>Some of the industry that went overseas is coming back but only >>>in trickles. >>><snip--I'll leave it to you to try> >> >>NOP > > > Aw, shoot. I wanted to learn another method of explaining :-). > > Economy, finance, and money supplies are not easy to explain > since most of us are only exposed to our checkbook balances. Thank you. It may come around in other ways, but I've come to appreciate the hopelessness of the particular discussion. |