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From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 09:28 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: > >> >> > > >> >> >> There are people who like to think. That's one way to do so. > >> >> > > >> >> >There's plenty of others more useful and rewarding. > >> >> > >> >> Not if you enjoy coding, debugging, and making the iron > >> >> run through your hoops. > >> > > >> >I'm used to doing that too. > >> > > >> >Assembler isn't the only way you know. > >> > >> Ah, but with assembler, you know exactly what you get to > >> tell the machine exactly what to do. With HLLs, somebody > >> else's code interprets yours and then they get to tell > >> the machine what you may have written. > > > >This is pefectly true of course but I'm entirely happy with the results I've > >had. > > I know. That's not a sin :-). However, you depend on people like > me. OTOH, the kind coding you enjoy would bore us to tears. Coding in assembler would bore *me* to tears. Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 09:31 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > lparker(a)emory.edu (Lloyd Parker) wrote: > > > >Bush has made the messes; arguably the worst since ... > > And then you say this. Why aren't you blaming the extremists > instead of the politicians who are trying to deal with the > messes the extremists have made? Why would one praise politicians for throwing fuel on the fire ? Graham
From: Ken Smith on 5 Dec 2006 09:31 In article <a7cb2$457320fa$49ecf36$29810(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: >> In article <3affd$457312fb$4fe70d7$29554(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: > >>>Think also about parts of the middle east that actually produce >>>nothing, only pump oil out of the ground and sell it abroad. > >> They are getting poorer with time. Basically they are spending their >> savings. When the savings/oil runs out, they will be in trouble. > >The oil in the ground isn't wealth. Agreed while it merely sits there. Today it has a use and method by which it can be recovered. Its status today is more like the equity in a house. It is wealth in as much as it can be exchanged for other things that you would agree are wealth. [....] >Oil in the ground isn't savings. I was make an analogy. Known oil in the ground is basically the same as having some the same as gold etc. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 09:32 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > >Talking of insane have you heard about the bunch of god-believers who think > >humans and dinosaurs once co-existed ? > > Sure. I even know some who think the heavens and the earth have > were created 10,000 years ago...IIRC, that's the number. > <snip> > > >There are many things I find deeply disturbing about the USA ! > > That was the problem I was working on before 9/11. Perhaps you'd like to elaborate ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 5 Dec 2006 09:35
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >> > > >> >Now given that I know this about you, why should I take your word on > >> >Hillary's actions? > >> > >> You might try to find the Business Week article. You might observe > >> her history where, given a choice of a simple legal action vs. > >> a complicated illegal action, she picks the latter. You might > >> review how she tried to skirt around Congress when she was given > >> the power to run the US' medical business. > >> > >> 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. > > > >That might be no bad thing although after GWB, almost 'anyone' would be an > >improvement. > > IOW, you cede. Absolutely not. The lowest common denominator is not good enough. Graahm |