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From: lucasea on 18 Oct 2006 11:54 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eh4va9$8ss_004(a)s847.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <OziZg.13931$GR.6652(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>, > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > >>Still, there is a far more important (non-violent) sense in which >>religious >>(mostly Christian) radicals are a danger to the US. > > Then start choosing Democrats who are willing to deal with reality. You mean the reality that the current administration is assaulting the Constitution, all based on the vastly exaggerated fears that you keep parroting? I have. Why haven't you? Eric Lucas
From: John Larkin on 18 Oct 2006 11:59 On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:40:55 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:52:59 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:55:17 GMT, Jonathan Kirwan >><jkirwan(a)easystreet.com> wrote: >> >>>>>John, I've never seen a list for liberals to vote towards. Not ever. >>>>Now you have: >>>> >>>>http://www.emilyslist.org/ >>>> >>>>There are lots more... just look. >>> >>>Please show me the list there. >> >>Good grief, do I have to do all your web work for you? >> >>https://secure1.emilyslist.org/Donation/index.cfm?event=initiative_showOne&initiativeID=12&mt=146 > >No, you just have to do YOUR OWN WORK. It was your point, after all. > >I am beginning to put two and two together over this discussion to >gradually wonder that you may be the kind of boss who overly depends >upon people smarter than you to make good on your hand waving ideas. >I'm sure it isn't the case, but sometimes it seems that way. I'm plenty smart about some things, less so about others. I'm rotten at "business" stuff, the financial side of things, so I do have much better people run that for me. And my serious math skills, in the sense of doing calculus and heavy circuit analysis, are rusty from disuse, and weren't stellar to start with, so if I need that sort of analysis done, I have one of the kids do it. But I have a lot of ideas, good ideas, and implement them well... about half the products on my web site were designed by me, all the way from concept to firmware and parts lists; I do get help with PCB layout and driving the FPGA software. I have ideas because I like ideas and am bored by routine, and because I give even outlandish concepts a chance before rejecting them. I've designed about $200 million worth of electronics so far, and I'm just getting good at it. I want to teach other people to be good at it too. My particular interest is understanding where ideas come from, and why some of them get squashed. When Townes was trying to get his first maser to work, his department head was convinced it was a waste of time. Townes broke the idea to a Nobel laureat who promptly told him that the maser couldn't work because it violated the rules of thermodynamics. He later reconsidered. John
From: lucasea on 18 Oct 2006 12:47 "Lloyd Parker" <lparker(a)emory.edu> wrote in message news:eh5es8$8b4$6(a)leto.cc.emory.edu... > > Why then would a designer make every life form use almost the same DNA? > Why > have a flower have the same basic DNA as a human? OK, so we know God was lazy. Eric Lucas
From: Eeyore on 18 Oct 2006 12:54 Lloyd Parker wrote: > Why then would a designer make every life form use almost the same DNA? Why > have a flower have the same basic DNA as a human? That would suggest to me that all life on earth has a common origin. Graham
From: lucasea on 18 Oct 2006 12:57
<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eh51sb$8qk_001(a)s847.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <vku9j29bus4nvqo1b6qoiks95vt03f88e2(a)4ax.com>, > John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>On Tue, 17 Oct 06 11:32:56 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> >>> >>>I'm still trying to figure out how people keep track of >>>all these kinds of details when they're having things >>>we call summit meetings. >>> >> >>And if the world were run by historians, would it work any better? > > I don't know. In my pre-9/11 days, I thought that businessmen > would make the world work better. I had a rude awakening and > was forced to examine thousands of assumptions I didn't even > know I had. From unbelievably naive (I've been in industry for 15 years, and I've never had the delusion that "businessmen would make the world work better) to paranoid delusional. Here's a hint. You've only just begun to scratch the surface on the assumptions you don't even know you have, and even I suspect you've created some new assumptions that you aren't aware of. Eric Lucas |