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From: Winfield Hill on 22 Mar 2007 08:34 Eeyore wrote: > Rich Grise wrote: >> Winfield Hill wrote: >>> Eeyore wrote: >>>> Winfield Hill wrote: >>>>> Winfield Hill wrote: >>>>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote: >>>>>>> h...(a)rowland.org wrote: >>>>>>>> h...(a)rowland.org wrote: >>>>>>>>> h...(a)rowland.org wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Michael A. Terrell wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Winfield Hill wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4200 postings and still going strong. Amazing. > >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wow, now 7200 posts and still going strong. And most >>>>>>>>>>>>>> of the posts were under the original subject title. This >>>>>>>>>>>>>> must be some kind of a record. Certainly it's a stress >>>>>>>>>>>>>> test for the Google Groups web-page display code, etc. > >>>>>>>>>>>>> Never have so many, said so much, about so little! ;-) > >>>>>>>>>>>>> I heard of one long flame war that passed 10K posts, >>>>>>>>>>>>> but I never found out which newsgroup. > >>>>>>>>>>>> We passed 9000 on the 14th, and are now within 100 posts >>>>>>>>>>>> of 10,000. Keep up the good work guys, you can do it! > >>>>>>>>>>> Good job guys and gals, over 10,000 posts, and still >>>>>>>>>>> going strong. And still on topic more or less. I've only >>>>>>>>>>> read a smattering of the posts here and there, and there's >>>>>>>>>>> a minimum of flaming SFAICS. Nice to see. > >>>>>>>>>> Still going strong, over 11,300 posts, no sign of slowing. > >>>>>>>>> Impressive, zoomed right past 12,000 without slowing, now >>>>>>>>> at 12130 posts and climbing towards 13000, going strong. > >>>>>>>> Hmm, we're slowing down a bit folks! We're now at 12480 >>>>>>>> posts with 12500 in sight, but not so sure about 13000. > >>>>>>> Merry Christmas, Win. :) > >>>>>> Happy New Year Michael :) > >>>>>> With this post we're only three away from breaking the >>>>>> 12500 post BARRIER. I know we can do it! > >>>>> Now at 13950, still going strong! > >>>> Past the 14000 barrier now ! > >>> Past the 16,000 barrier, good going! >>> Did I miss when y'all zoomed past 15,000? > >> Howcome it's the stupidest threads that go on the longest? ;-) > > Are you calling this thread STUPID ? Sorry I missed the breaking of the 17000 barrier, but 17500 is just 10 posts away! This thread also started Sept 30 last year, so in 10 days it'll have been 6 months. Good show!
From: MooseFET on 22 Mar 2007 09:47 On Mar 21, 9:04 pm, "nonse...(a)unsettled.com" <nonse...(a)unsettled.com> wrote: [....] > > A quick > > bit of figuring would have shown that it is best not to it at -86C. > > In the band it is intended for, it works well enough. > > You're getting even further afield because you've failed > to understand all the facets of this "experiment" as you > yourself have proposed it. No, you didn't understand it. > > google "vapor pressure" ice 378,000 hits > > Is this where I suggest you might have had a few? > > Nope, that's not my style. I was going to let you off the hook for the obviously wrong posting on that basis. I guess you just want to stay on the hook. > >>>>>You can get under 50Tor with water as the working material. A steam > >>>>>filled container placed in the freezer would get down to quite low > >>>>>pressures: > > >>>>> P = ( (T-Tmelt)/(Tboil-Tmelt) )^4 >
From: nonsense on 22 Mar 2007 10:38 MooseFET wrote: > On Mar 21, 9:04 pm, "nonse...(a)unsettled.com" <nonse...(a)unsettled.com> > I was going to let you off the hook for the obviously wrong posting on > that basis. I guess you just want to stay on the hook. The issues have been solved. Now you're clearly trolling. Bye.
From: nonsense on 22 Mar 2007 13:38 jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > In article <54b9f$46016a49$49ecfdb$3436(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, > "nonsense(a)unsettled.com" <nonsense(a)unsettled.com> wrote: > >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>>In article <MPG.2069abdf39337b7f98a1a5(a)news.individual.net>, >>> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>In article <etohvn$8ss_003(a)s920.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >>>>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com says... >>>> >>>> >>>>>In article <MPG.20686614150361ab98a183(a)news.individual.net>, >>>>> krw <krw(a)att.bizzzz> wrote: >>> >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>>>>P.S. I don't advise playing with gunpowder in the kitchen. ;-) >>>>> >>>>>Oh, I don't intend to do this one. I just got curious and couldn't >>>>>figure out how. What's wrong with gunpowder in the kitchen? >>>> >>>>Fire and explosions are frowned upon in my house. Gunpowder must >>>>remain in the bullets. >>> >>> >>>What if one of your guns is a powder musket? >>> >>> >>> >>>>>What table do you think my Dad used when he worked on his guns? >>>> >>>>My bet is that he didn't fire them in the house. Much noise, stink, >>>>and things get broken. >>> >>> >>>He fired through the window. (He opened it before he fired.) >> >>I expect to do the same next fall. > > > What's going to be dinner? Dinner? Quite a few dinners. White tail. Locally they get about $100 to butcher and pack the whole thing. I'm not up for all that when experts do it faster and better.
From: mmeron on 22 Mar 2007 13:38
In article <2a614$460283f9$4fe7109$10420(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, "nonsense(a)unsettled.com" <nonsense(a)unsettled.com> writes: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> In article <1ae0f$45f817db$4fe71d4$28690(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, >> "nonsense(a)unsettled.com" <nonsense(a)unsettled.com> wrote: > >>>The answers we've seen over the months seem to me in >>>retrospect to have been rather linear with a lot of >>>semi-concealed "they're just like us" worldview. With >>>that premise being wrong, all that follows is as well. > >> hmmm...I don't think that is the key but it is an important >> ingredient. > >It is the starting point for understanding. IMO if >someone doesn't "get" this, they don't have any chance >at all. > >>>Dammit, we don't even appreciate the difference between >>>the Russian mind (semi-oriental) and ours. The US and the >>>CIA have, for many decades, been accused of all sorts of >>>underhanded stuff. Still, no one has tied together >>>anything like the recent anti-leader dieoffs we can >>>clearly see happening. Factually we consider the Russians >>>"just like us" and clearly they're not. > >> I've done some reading to try to figure out their mindset because >> part of the Middle East mess invoved that mindset. I'm currently >> reading a book about a kibbutz; I was floored because I did not >> know that USSR was used as a model and admired very much in >> the beginnings of the social experiment. I had not figured out >> the ramifications of USSR "supporting" Israel in the beginning. > >Until Israel became part of the cold war gambits. > >>>The middle eastern >>>mindset is still another sort of critter yet. > >> So far it seems like there is a mish-mash of cultures >> there. Nazism is still an influence, too. > >The operative word is primitive. Consider the importance >of symbolism and ritual in German Nazism in its day. > >>>I've personally known some Russians, and they were very >>>nice. But where power, money, and their natural habitat >>>are concerned, things are rather different. > >> In my small observances, it was an honorable thing to do > > cheating. > >When you get a chance, read Gogol's "Dead Souls" which >is precisely on point. > I'll second this recommendation. Can add to it Gogol's "Revisor" (translated to English as "Inspector General", I think). > > I'm not going to explain this one very well. I suspect > > this kind of behavior is a result of totalitarianism. > >There's a popular line of reasoning that holds that there's >nothing wrong with violating laws and morality so long as >you don't get caught. It is universal across all cultural >systems. It could be that totalitarianism fosters more of >this conduct than other systems. The greater the risk the >greater the rewards? It is rather "no risk, no chance of reward". These are systems where the general sense is that honest work will get you precisely nowhere. Advancement is only possible by playing the system (knowing connected people or people who know such people) or tricking it. The Poles had, for hundreds of year, a folk saying to the effect that "with patience and diligence, people acquire wealth" (it rhymes in Polish, couldn't make it happen in English). But, after just few years of Communist rule, in the 50s, a new version of the saying appeared, as "with patience and diligence, people lose their health". that pretty much says it. > Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool, meron(a)cars.uchicago.edu | chances are he is doing just the same" |