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From: Alan Baker on 28 Apr 2010 04:31 In article <hr81ts$637$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Mark Subtlework <MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: > On 04/27/2010 02:01 PM, Lewis wrote: > > In article<hr77gv$25n$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > Mark Subtlework<MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: > > > >> On 04/27/2010 12:45 PM, Kurt Ullman wrote: > >>> In article<hr721o$rop$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > >>> Mark Subtlework<MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Right. So, you clear the streets in NY and you shoot at the last minute. > >>> > >>> Good luck with that. And don't forget about inertia, those planes don't > >>> just stop and drop straight down. Unless you splash them into the water > >>> or on farm land before they get near the cities, you don't really gain > >>> that much. Assuming you can clear out a few hundred square blocks of NYC > >>> after you know where they are going. > >> > >> You clear all the streets. You put TV, radio, police and firemen with > >> megaphones to contribution. > > > > In 20 minutes? > > I suppose you've never been to NY? When you walk in NY and you look at > the buildings, they're usually higher than their front on the sidewalk. > Much higher! They also are usually much deeper than the sidewalks. And > they're sometimes also deep in the ground too! From which you can > conclude that there's much more people in the buildings than on the > sidewalk. > > Still, around 5pm, pretty much everybody gets to the Tube in less than > 20 minutes. > > Why would it be impossible to evacuate sidewalks in less than 20 minutes? > > Back to how Steve Jobs hijacked Apple. You are truly clueless. -- "The iPhone doesn't have a speaker phone" -- "I checked very carefully" -- "I checked Apple's web pages" -- Edwin on the iPhone "It is Mac OS X, not BSD.' -- 'From Mac OS to BSD Unix." -- "It's BSD Unix with Apple's APIs and GUI on top of it' -- 'nothing but BSD Unix' (Edwin on Mac OS X) '[The IBM PC] could boot multiple OS, such as DOS, C/PM, GEM, etc.' -- 'I claimed nothing about GEM other than it was available software for the IBM PC. (Edwin on GEM) 'Solaris is just a marketing rename of Sun OS.' -- 'Sun OS is not included on the timeline of Solaris because it's a different OS.' (Edwin on Sun)
From: Warren Oates on 28 Apr 2010 08:01 In article <0001HW.C7FD2499002FED7FF01846D8(a)news.giganews.com>, Fa-groon <fa-groon(a)mad.com> wrote: > Jezus are you nerds SICK. Star Wars ARE KIDS' MOVIES! What are adults doing > actually having a SERIOUS discussion about movies made for 10-year > olds???!!!! You guys'll be discussing "Sesame Street" characters next! It could be worse: there was a religion founded around Stranger in a Strange Land. And you should have heard some of the crapola surrounding The Matrix. Anyway, we have a lot to learn from Miss Piggie, and Kermit is probably more famous than Jesus or even John Lennon. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Fa-groon on 28 Apr 2010 13:47 On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:20:07 -0700, Rupert Bear wrote (in article <rupert-C69E93.02200728042010(a)news.giganews.com>): > In article <0001HW.C7FD2499002FED7FF01846D8(a)news.giganews.com>, > Fa-groon <fa-groon(a)mad.com> wrote: > >> Jesus, are you nerds sick? Star Wars are kids' movies! What are adults >> doing >> actually having a serious discussion about movies made for 10 year >> olds? You guys'll be discussing "Sesame Street" characters next! > > If you want, we could discuss kids' anthropomorphic cartoons like > "Arthur," "SWAT Kats" and "Rupert Bear." I'm sure you could. My question is why any adult would want to?
From: Fa-groon on 28 Apr 2010 13:50 On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:49:08 -0700, Lewis wrote (in article <g.kreme-6DBB37.01490828042010(a)news.iad.newshosting.com>): > In article <0001HW.C7FD2499002FED7FF01846D8(a)news.giganews.com>, > Fa-groon <fa-groon(a)mad.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:03:14 -0700, JF Mezei wrote >> (in article <4bd7b384$0$5329$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>): >> >>> Matthew Russotto wrote: >>> >>>> Vader was not a member of the Imperial Government at all, as far as I >>>> can tell. He was just the Emperor's personal enforcer. >>> >>> Remember that Vader made senator Amadella pregnant illegally and that he >>> then killed her. While the emperor knew about this, he didn't tell >>> others. While this information was revealed to us in the documentary, >>> the empire troopers and generals were not aware of this. >>> >>> In terms of job title, wasn't Vader given a high ranking job within the >>> military portion of the empire ? Technically a government employee :-) >>> >> >> Jezus are you nerds SICK. Star Wars ARE KIDS' MOVIES! What are adults doing >> actually having a SERIOUS discussion about movies made for 10-year >> olds???!!!! > > Some of use were 10 when the movie came out. I was 10 when 'Ol' Yeller' came out. but I don't see any reason to discuss that on CSMA either. >> You guys'll be discussing "Sesame Street" characters next! > > Sesame Street jumped the shark when they made Snuffleupagus real. I don't know what a Snuffleupagus is, thankfully.
From: D.F. Manno on 28 Apr 2010 18:15
In article <hr73a7$4qc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Mark Subtlework <MSW(a)khkhhkhkhkhk.com> wrote: > You send police and firemen on the streets, you shut electricity down on > the metro rails and you shout "Highjacked plane heading for NY: head for > the metro fast. You'll be safe there." Voila! Instant panic and instant gridlock. More people die on the streets than in the Towers. Any more bright ideas, Einstein? -- D.F. Manno dfmanno(a)mail.com "Quid lucrum istic mihi est?" |