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From: jmfbahciv on 28 Oct 2006 07:38 In article <kOq0h.17025$TV3.9936(a)newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >news:ehsmvn$8qk_001(a)s834.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... >> >>>Reminds me of a professor I had, a psychologist in the Army Air Force >>>in WWII. He discovered that graduates of the cooks and bakers school >>>were better aerial gunners than graduates of the aerial gunnery >>>school. >> >> OK. I've thought about this one and cannot deduce why. I have >> a disadvantage because I have no idea what kind of work is required >> to be an aerial gunner. >> >> Did it have to do with following the recipe in the properly ordered >> steps? > >You think *that's* what good cooking is about??? Definitely. Cooking is chem lab products you have to eat. /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 28 Oct 2006 07:47 In article <45421734.8588CE01(a)earthlink.net>, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >> In article <Dg80h.5$e06.363(a)news.uchicago.edu>, <snip> >> >Sure, Newtonian physics is not exact. It is an approximation, and a >> >damn good one over a broad range of physical parameters. Calling it >> >"wrong" is stupid. >> >> Thanks for the clarification. I'm not only hip deep in allygaters, >> I think they're raining down. > Just wait till gator mating season when they make so much noise that >you can't sleep. :( Oh, I plan to be far away from the swamp when that happens :-). /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 28 Oct 2006 07:49 In article <tfc4k2lto01vciorhravmijrogukndldh5(a)4ax.com>, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:30:37 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" ><mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > > >>> Thanks for the clarification. I'm not only hip deep in allygaters, >>> I think they're raining down. >>> >>> /BAH >> >> >> Just wait till gator mating season when they make so much noise that >>you can't sleep. :( > >I designed a subsonic acoustic monitoring system for the static tests >of the S1B rocket engines at the Mississippi Test Facility. We mounted >boxes on poles all over the countryside and FM'd the sounds back over >dedicated phone lines. They accused my amps of having intermittent >motorboating oscillations until they finally figured out that they >were picking up the sound of bull alligator mating calls. Kewl! How did you debug that one? > >The real reliability problem was locals shooting holes into our >Hoffmann boxes. Oh, hon, you should have put the target paper on the empty box next to it. :-) You didn't have trouble with squirrels? /BAH
From: jmfbahciv on 28 Oct 2006 07:52 In article <45433F9F.F6808F39(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote: >> >> [Clinton] >> >(C) >> >Pressed the Saudi government to reduce support for the Wahhabis. This >> >I remember because it was a near perfect failure. >> >> I don't call asking a government to reduce support for its brand >> of religion an effective action. > >It's not *its brand of religion* at all ! >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahabbi > >> That's spitting into a gale >> force wind with expectations that you'll hit the sidewalk >> a hundred miles away. > >How would you deal with it then ? I'd establish a nation with a capitalistic, representative democracy with a secular education system mandatory for all residents smack dab in the middle of that mess. /BAH
From: Eeyore on 28 Oct 2006 09:00
jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "MooseFET" <kensmith(a)rahul.net> wrote: > >> > >> [Clinton] > >> >(C) > >> >Pressed the Saudi government to reduce support for the Wahhabis. This > >> >I remember because it was a near perfect failure. > >> > >> I don't call asking a government to reduce support for its brand > >> of religion an effective action. > > > >It's not *its brand of religion* at all ! > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahabbi > > > >> That's spitting into a gale > >> force wind with expectations that you'll hit the sidewalk > >> a hundred miles away. > > > >How would you deal with it then ? > > I'd establish a nation with a capitalistic, representative democracy > with a secular education system mandatory for all residents > smack dab in the middle of that mess. That's a bit glib. How would you acheive this ? Graham |