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From: Eeyore on 31 Jan 2007 09:27 unsettled wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > T Wake wrote: > >>"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > >>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>>>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>>>>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>No. If you go around opening the cage door on rabid pitbulls, you > >>>>>>>are responsible for people getting bitten. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>I'm glad you agree with me about keeping these types locked up. > >>>>> > >>>>>It doesn't have to mean physically locked up. > >>>> > >>>>With today's transportation technology, it does. There is no > >>>>Australia-type piece of land to keep them from making messes > >>>>in other peoples' backyards. > >>> > >>>It's a shame there isn't a suitable island somewhere really. > >>> > >>>I'd prefer to see Islamist trouble makers deported to a Muslim country > >>>rather than locked up. > >> > >>I doubt the Muslim country that was on the receiving end of these nutjobs > >>would be too happy. > > > > Tricky one isn't it ? > > > > I wonder if there are any suitable unoccupied Hebridean islands ? > > Why do you suppose Gitmo? Since when was Cuba an unoccupied Island ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 31 Jan 2007 09:28 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > > > >>> You don't need an anechoic chamber btw. > >> > >>How do you measure the EMF in "noisy" environments? > >>Or don't you need numbers anymore? > > > > Device off, sensors read baseline noise reading. > > > > Device on, sensors read local differential. Extrapolations get > >made, figures get arrived at. Task complete. > > Your test has a big huge unfixable flaw. Perhaps you'd like to elaborate on that assertion ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 31 Jan 2007 09:29 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > >j mfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > > > >>If you make each system you sell by hand, that, by definition, > >>is extremely expensive. > > > > All PCs are made "by hand". > > > > Dell makes EACH custom PC by hand, ON an ASSENBLY LINE. It is STILL > >THEIR product, even though they buy their motherboards and graphics > >cards, etc. from other VENDORS, the final product they sell is THEIR > >PRODUCT. > > > >Now GTFU. > > When I said "by hand", I meant physically knitted by women's > hands. No machines involved. Relatively few printed circuit boards are populated or soldered by hand these days BAH. Graham
From: Eeyore on 31 Jan 2007 09:31 unsettled wrote: > Eeyore 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: > >>>>>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: > >>>>>>><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>Even a representative democracy needs to have some way to deal > >>>>>>>>with the people who go after little kids, and make other kinds > >>>>>>>>of messes. A democracy does not, and never has, meant that > >>>>>>>>all people can do anything they want without punishment. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>Democracies create laws and enforce them to deal with such issues. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>Those laws apply to the citizens of that country during peace time. > >>>>> > >>>>>And in wartime too. > >>>> > >>>>No. You need to learn about your country's war powers and how > >>>>much of your peacetime freedoms were suspended during WWII. > >>> > >>>Nonsense. > >>> > >>>How about an example ? > >> > >>Food coupons. > > > > > > In exactly what meaningful way is that a loss of 'freedom' ? > > > > Rationing continued after the war btw. > > We provided lots of Care Packages to "starving Europe." And that aid was gratefully received. Now please tell me what 'freedoms' were suspended. Graham
From: Ken Smith on 31 Jan 2007 09:53
In article <hdSdnf9Cup4xNyLYRVnyugA(a)pipex.net>, T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: > >"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message >news:epnlvs$df5$3(a)blue.rahul.net... [....] >> If they knew better, they wouldn't get a lot from me. If they are simply >> insane they would still get some. > >Fair one and I dont mean to dismiss or belittle your compassion towards >people who (IMHO) are underserving of that compassion. I hadn't expected you would. Expect that you would even uderstand why I feel a little sorry for Bush. He is after all a "post turtle". [.....] >> This would be a less mainstream religion so many people would have less >> sympathy. If fact it really places you among the insane which don't know >> better. > >Which, I suppose is the argument for "forgiving" those who do it to curry >favour in their invisible friend. Little do they know that God is actually a 14 year old boy playing Simuniverse. They would do better at getting favor is they learned to jump their bike over cars. >> Now you have moved to imposing your priorities on them and not some super >> natural being's. You have inched your way to the line where evil begins. >> I think you have crossed it but I can still see an argument against. > >I think it was crossed a fair while before that point, but I can see your >argument. If the statement was modified to include the phrase "and my deity >will condem ugly children to hell" would that stop being evil? If if they really believe that and that is their only reason for the actions then yes. They have simply moving into the "insane area". >>>It is common practice for each denomination of each religion to decry the >>>others as not being proper believers. The way I see it is, if someone >>>calls >>>them selves "Christian" then they are. >> >> Well I call my self the most handsome man in the universe. :) > >I falsify that each time I have a shave.... :-) I solved that by one point by growing a beard. Then someone said "that beard makes you look ugly". [....] >Very true. I still think it is interesting that certain religious trigger >words will generate more of a response than non-religious offensive >language. In some cases it is because there is more to talk about with regard to the religious term. If you said "they should have the hind foot of a lamb shoved up their nose until you hear swans sing", there may not have been as much to discuss. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |