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From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:30 unsettled wrote: > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >>>MassivePong <MassivePong(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: > >>> > >>>> If he is on a modem, he is hardly anything even close to a "bit god". > >>> > >>>Then you've never met one. > >> > >>His assesment sounds spot on to me. > > > > If you dismiss the minimalists in the computing biz, you will always > > overlook the real bit gods. They are dying off and we don't seem > > to be breeding enough replaements. > > > > /BAH > > I was told that > > http://www.ts1000.us/ > > had a coding contest in 2006. That's using the old Sinclair > "doorstop" computers with 1K memory which also held the OS > and a basic interpreter. I don't know how much space was > left for programs, but it wasn't very much. > > A contest puts one in mind of the period when these were > new and such contests were common. Structured programming makes far more sense than minimalism. Graham
From: T Wake on 4 Feb 2007 19:23 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45C67588.F5C05B31(a)hotmail.com... > > > jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> > >> >I am not sure where this mini-rant is going, but I think you are (once >> >more) >> >either missing the point or trying to re-direct. >> > >> >*You* said that the existence of Israel prevented the nations in the >> >middle >> >east from attacking each other. We now have two examples of when they >> >did >> >attack each other and Israel was certainly in existence at the time. >> >> Let try to do a rewrite so you understand...If there was no Israel, >> the Muslim countries would be spending all their time and resources >> fighting each other. > > On what basis do you allege that ? > Same basis she alleges everything else..... I found this quite amusing today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoweasel/376433351/in/set-72157594427855410/
From: T Wake on 4 Feb 2007 19:24 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:45C677E0.7242EC60(a)hotmail.com... > > > T Wake wrote: > >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> > >> > It would only take one action to cause all of Islam to join >> > those extremists. >> >> This is an interesting line of reasoning to explore. >> >> What sort of action do you think would be the sufficient trigger for >> *all* >> of Islam (and this, I assume, includes the secular states like Tunisa as >> well as the Taleban) to unite and side with the extremists? >> >> I think it would have to be big. It would have to be able to be spun into >> something like a war. Maybe spun into something like a war on a way of >> life. > > Invading Iran ? Well, that would do it from what I can see. It seems BAH is arguing herself into this same line of thinking.
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:37 unsettled wrote: > Islam is now ~1400 years old. We can look at what > Christianity was doing about the year 1400. Much of > what was going on wasn't very pretty. You may to be interested to know that I concur with the view that the behaviour of religions is related to their age too. > Luther was born in 1483. If the evolution of Islam tracks that of > Christianity at all, their great reformer should be coming along any time now. > The conditions happen to be ripe. Funny how that works. Yes. I've been thinking that it's time for some kind of 'reform Islam' that takes them into a modern forward-thinking technological era instead of a regressive agrarian tribal/fuedal one. Graham
From: Eeyore on 4 Feb 2007 19:39
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >I think you should read up about rationing during WW2. > >> > >> I have. It is significant that England couldn't figure out how > >> to stop war rations until 3 decades after the warring stopped. > > > >3 decades ! Where on earth did you get that figure from ? What was being > >rationed in 1975 ? > > I found it. whew! > > Reference: _The Downing Street Years_; Margaret Thatcher, Harper-Collins; > 1993; page 44. > > "But I took greatest personal pleasure in the removal of exchange > controls -- that is the abolition of the elaborate statuatory > restrictions on the amount of foreign exchange British citizens > could acquire. These had been introduced as an 'emergency measure' > at the start of the Second World War and maintained by successive > governments, largely in the hope of increasing industrial > investment in Britain and of resisting pressure on sterling." That's not rationing sweetie ! Many countries still have such controls to this day even without wars being involved. Graham |