From: Eeyore on 1 Feb 2007 19:43 unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > > >>No, not the very least. These peoples' culture has no value > >>of human life and killing is admired and rewarded in their > >>Heaven. > > > > > > Massive generalisation. For example, "killing" is not admired and rewarded. > > If the west stopped pandering to the extremists and giving them a war to > > fight it may be easier to stigmatise the terrorists. > > > > I also, based on this and other posts, get the feeling when you say "they" > > have no value on human life, you mean they have no value on "westerners' > > lives." It seems both westerners and arabs treat arab lives the same. > > At the end of the Iranian hostage crisis, one of the > militant students to emerge from the embassy was a > young women who was met by her brother who was going > to walk her home. > > She came out of the building obviously pregnant. > > There, in front of the assembled masses, the brother > killed her for bringing disgrace on the family. Despite > numerous witnesses, he was never arrested or tried > for this act. > > Don't talk this sort of nonsense, please. Life is instantly > devalued by Muslims for any of a large variety of reasons. > Among those anger at the US and/or Israel play a very small, > though highly publicized, role. I have no idea if you're right about that, you could have totally invented the story for all I know but how about the Christian abortion doctor killers in the USA ? That's no better. Graham
From: Eeyore on 1 Feb 2007 19:56 T Wake wrote: > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message > > 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: > >>> >> >> 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' ? > > > > You could not buy what you wanted nor what you needed without > > government permission. > > Another blinding misrepresentation of reality. The "freedom" to buy what you > want is always controlled by the market forces. > > Rationing was not a limit on the freedom to buy what you wanted (choice > wise) but a control to ensure that everyone had a fair share of what was > available. A curious fact btw is that meals in restaurants were never rationed and I think beer and other alcoholic drinks avoided being rationed too. You could of course eat all you grew. Graham
From: Eeyore on 1 Feb 2007 19:59 unsettled wrote: > T Wake wrote: > > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message > >>Eeyore wrote: > > > >>>The big problem is making enough fissile material. A huge effort was > >>>required to make enough for the 3 bombs the USA exploded before the end of > >>>WW2. > >> > >>Less material is needed today. > > > > Makes you wonder why more countries don't do it then. > > > > > Very very tricky triggers So not really suitable for beginners then. Graham
From: unsettled on 1 Feb 2007 20:26 T Wake wrote: > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message > news:c088c$45c12d64$4fe7458$13416(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... I don't know if the comic strip Garfield is syndicated in the UK or not, but yesterday's product seemed to suit your understanding of much of what I write, so I'll just let a comic strip explain it to you since a picture is worth a lot of words. http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2007/01/31/
From: krw on 1 Feb 2007 20:46
In article <45C20FE6.BA64EFD5(a)hotmail.com>, rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > > krw wrote: > > > rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says... > > > unsettled wrote: > > > > Eeyore wrote: > > > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > > > >>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>>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 ? > > > > >> > > > > >>The device has to be unplugged to get the baseline reading. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That's what "device off" MEANS ! > > > > > > > > > > Good Lord ! How daft are you ? > > > > > > > > LOL > > > > > > > > These days "device off" isn't really off. > > > > > > It is when the power cord isn't plugged in you cretin. > > > > Dumb donkey, that's what "unplugged" means. Wow, you are dense! > > The standards do not use the word 'unplugged'. > Ok dumb donkey, exactly what is the difference between "unsettled"'s "unplugged" and the dumb donkey's "power cord isn't plugged in"? Wow, what a DUMB donkey! -- Keith |