From: Jan Panteltje on
On a sunny day (Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:48:23 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in
<8rpih51nt20mugqo9617kr9spekrkus13e(a)4ax.com>:

>
>It's snowing in Houston:
>
>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//6750042.html
>
>
>John
>

Ha, I just saw the captain being melted by a sun flare :-)
(Movie 'sunshine', spaceship goes to the sun to re-ignite it, to
save humanity, makes a wrong course correction...)
Have stopped it, no time, movie sucks, will view the end later.

From: Joerg on
Jon Kirwan wrote:

[umlauts]

> Oh, just insert the 'e'. I think the key shortcuts are something like
> (not all of these are used in German, are they?):
>
>> : alt+0228 �
>> : alt+0196 �
>> : alt+0235 �
>> : alt+0203 �
>> : alt+0239 �
>> : alt+0207 �
>> : alt+0246 �
>> : alt+0214 �
>> : alt+0252 �
>> : alt+0220 �
>> : alt+0255 �
>> : alt+0223 �
>

Umlaut e, i and y would AFAIK only be used in Turkish, plus probably a
few other languages (Hungarian?), not in German.


> and the umlaut itself is just:
>
>> : alt+0168 �
>
> I keep a shorter list of the more useful seven on a piece of tyvek
> near the screen. I think there is also free software that will do
> this stuff, fancier, on an English keyboard. But it is just another
> tool you have to drag around onto other machines, so I don't bother
> with the stuff.
>

I don't do that too often anymore. Once I did it inside some database
entry form, IIRC for an address. It shot the application to smittereens.
Shouldn't have happened, was probably sloppily programmed but outside my
influence.

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From: ChrisQ on
Joerg wrote:

>
> You it can be, the whole sentence would sound like this: Es wird fuer
> einige interessant und lehrreich, vielleicht ein wenig unangenehm sein,
> wenn zuviel unterlassen als mehr von dem getan wird, was haette getan
> werden sollen.
>
> Ok, can't do the umlauts on this here computation machine. Sounds almost
> like an IEEE publication where complicated sentence structures are often
> "en vogue". More often than not ... :-)
>

I don't speak german, so put it through google language tools:

"It is for some interesting and instructive, perhaps, be a little
uncomfortable when too much is being done more than to refrain from what
should have been done"

original:

It's going to be interesting and educational, if perhaps a bit
unpleasant to some if enough less is done than more of what should have
been.

Throw the baby out of the window an orange, or what :-)...

Regards,

Chris
From: Joerg on
ChrisQ wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
>
>>
>> You it can be, the whole sentence would sound like this: Es wird fuer
>> einige interessant und lehrreich, vielleicht ein wenig unangenehm
>> sein, wenn zuviel unterlassen als mehr von dem getan wird, was haette
>> getan werden sollen.
>>
>> Ok, can't do the umlauts on this here computation machine. Sounds
>> almost like an IEEE publication where complicated sentence structures
>> are often "en vogue". More often than not ... :-)
>>
>
> I don't speak german, so put it through google language tools:
>
> "It is for some interesting and instructive, perhaps, be a little
> uncomfortable when too much is being done more than to refrain from what
> should have been done"
>
> original:
>
> It's going to be interesting and educational, if perhaps a bit
> unpleasant to some if enough less is done than more of what should have
> been.
>
> Throw the baby out of the window an orange, or what :-)...
>

You should see some of the catalogs that were obviously just chucked
into a cyber translator to get them from English to German. They often
contain phrases that are completely unintelligible. Can make your toe
nails curl ;-)

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From: Rich Grise on
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:54:05 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> The global warming hoax revealed:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
>
> <Quote from that article>
> This shows these are people willing to bend rules and go after other
> people's reputations in very serious ways,' he said. Spencer R. Weart, a
> physicist and historian who is charting the course of research on global
> warming, said the hacked material would serve as 'great material for
> historians.'
> <end quote>
>
> LOL.
> Some science!
>
> And that in a leftist newspaper!

This is sweet:
http://www.infowars.com/al-gore-admits-co2-does-not-cause-majority-of-global-warming/

Cheers!
Rich