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From: jmfbahciv on 5 Dec 2006 07:45 In article <el27qb$6qf$4(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: >In article <el13vm$8qk_001(a)s787.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >>In article <ekv27j$l5r$3(a)blue.rahul.net>, >> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: <snip> >>You really should do all that; she's now doing the preliminary >>running for 2008 Presidency. The Liberals in this state want >>her for President so that Bill can take over again. > >Yeah, we long for those days of peace YOu have a very odd definition of peace. > and prosperity, of balanced budgets, Budgets were not balanced. > of >actually being respected and admired the world over... We weren't respected and we weren't admired. We were envied and hated and dismissed as rubes; despite all of this, we were still expected to fix everybody else's problems especially if the fixing involved shooting other people. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Dec 2006 07:46 In article <45742FA7.C06E5C8B(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> > >> >To keep the comparison fair, the machinery of that age was much >> >better designed and wasn't on a short replacement cycle. Well >> >after WW2 my mother didn't replace the washing machine till >> >my parenst decided to buy a fancy new automatic washer. Even then >> >the wringer washer was held as a spare in case the fancy one broke >> >down. Eventually I pulled it apart for the motor which saw >> >various uses for more than a decade afterwards. >> >> And the backup to the wringer was the washboard, which invariably >> ate one's knuckles. > >One of my neighbours to this day still doesn't even have a washing machine. I didn't until JMF got sick the first time. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Dec 2006 07:48 In article <45743048.557F2E70(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> When everybody gets everything equally, nobody is >> >> >> >> allowed to be wealthy. Thus, all are poor, equally poor, but >> >> >> >> poor. >> >> >> > >> >> >> >Even communist Russia wasn't run like that ! >> >> >> >> >> >> Of course it was. Only the viscious of the managers got the >> >> >> power. >> >> > >> >> >We were talking about wealth, albeit rather limited wealth in that era. >> >> >> >> And look how their agriculture suffered. How people get food is a clue >> >> to their economy, social structure, trade and power. >> > >> >This has absolutely nothing to do with degress of wealth under communism. >> >> If that is true then I've been wasting all of my studying time. >> However, I haven't wasted my time; you can tell a lot from >> old grocery lists. > >The 'wealth' of the favoured few wasn't perhaps so obvious. You don't think the unfavored didn't know who was favored? If you didn't know who was the political power, you became dead. Russia put no value on human life. <snip> /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Dec 2006 07:50 In article <45743493.E9039E1A(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >unsettled wrote: > >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >> >>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... >> >>>>> 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." > >CP/M was written in my favourite language ( PL/M ). > > >> >>>>>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. > >Ha ! Log tables. It's all coming back to me now. > >How did we ever manage ! ? One man spent his lifetime creating the tables. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 5 Dec 2006 07:52
In article <e5457$45745c67$4fe733a$4734(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >mmeron(a)cars3.uchicago.edu wrote: >> In article <33475$45740fba$4fe70a2$2686(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> writes: <snip> >>>>>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. >>> >> >> I was tempted, but passed on this one:-) > >She recovered well enough. [emoticon removes tap-dancing shoes] Once in a great while, I grow up a little bit. :-) /BAH |