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Re: Scientific illiteracy at CNN

yb...@panix.com (Ben Yalow) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:01:15 UT

It isn't the latest. But, since I use nn, not trn, then I don't bother
them about obsolete trn. I prefer nn (or, more accurately, my fingers are
usd enough to nn that I use if for almost all of my text Usenet work,
although I have/use Agent for handling binaries).
And I know that nn isn't going to be updated anytime soon, so I avoid

Re: Scientific illiteracy at CNN

yb...@panix.com (Ben Yalow) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:55:48 UT

Support for non-ASCII character sets are in chaos because, since Usenet is
a dying backwater, nobody is putting effort into ensring that their
posting software is standards-compliant. The only thing that gets real
support are either GG, or clients like Agent -- where are of the advances
in the last several major releases have been improving the ability to

Re: >^..^< The cats on 11 March 2010 A.D.

p...@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:44:00 UT

In article <KzJK8F.1...@kithrup.com>, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
It opens on a discord and resolves into the "wrong" key - F major, when
the symphony is in C major. The opening discord is the dominant seventh
of the key of F major, as far as I can tell - the notes C, E, G and B
flat - resolving to a triad on F, A and C, which is the tonic chord for F

Re: How about some deflation? ??

mh...@verizon.net (Martha Adams) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:27:56 UT

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:10:05 -0000, Keith F. Lynch <k...@keithlynch.net>
wrote:
============================== ====================
Very easy at this point to get into one-up word games. I don't
want to do that.
I've seen it said, Democracy is a terrible form of government,
all the other forms are worse.

Re: The Doomsday Ships

al...@bortas.demon.co.uk (Alan Woodford) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:15:33 UT

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:55:24 +0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
I hope so :-) I got fairly close when taking pictures.
And as part of the same Cold War display, there is a cabinet with an
AK-47, an SLR and an M-16.
Schoolkid runs up to cabinet, turns to his mates and yells "Look, an
AK-47, Is it real?"
It was a good day out, if rather depressing at the amount of

Re: How about some deflation? ??

d...@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com (David Friedman) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:36:34 UT

In article <ho0bav$qh...@news.eternal-sep tember.org>,
If prices are not falling, but interest rates are positive, why wouldn't
people put their money into banks so as to buy stuff later when, having
accumulated interest, the money will buy more?
Because people want stuff now, and are willing to make some tradeoff

Re: The Doomsday Ships

k...@rochester.rr.com (Kip Williams) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:05:46 UT

They do that to discourage shoplifting, like in video stores. Probably
the plutonium is kept behind the counter.
Kip W
I figure somewhere, there was a loser who used to shoplift VHS boxes
with the styrofoam inside, back in the 70s.

Re: Alternate history and time travel

jbee...@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:49:11 UT

I regard the many-worlds hypothesis as too horrible to contemplate
because it implies that there are an infinite number of worlds in
which everything went wrong.
Joy Beeson

Re: Do I need to say more than...

mkee...@post.harvard.edu (Morris Keesan) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:36:05 UT

But "Sucharitkul" is the spelling that Somtow chose to use.

Re: Scientific illiteracy at CNN

k...@keithlynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:20:39 UT

Why should I have to? That's what I pay them for -- to know what
the latest version of trn and other software is, and to install and
maintain it. In their space.
If you think their trn isn't the latest, why don't you ask them?
Thanks. I'll look into that tomorrow or Sunday.
It's "Wickstr" followed by two garbage chacters when I view it within

Re: CNN biased?

k...@keithlynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:12:26 UT

You can never get rid of *all* bias, but there's a big difference
between something subtle that inadvertently sneaks in and something
this blatant.

Re: How about some deflation? ??

k...@keithlynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:10:05 UT

Who are the barbarian invaders?
Indeed. After *centuries* of reform after reform, of repeatedly
throwing the bastards out and switching to the "other" party, things
are probably more screwed up than they've been for at least 75 years,
perhaps much longer. Government is a problem masquerading as its

Re: typical Sunday morning

k...@keithlynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:02:35 UT

As do all vegetables, grains, nuts, meats, milk, cheese, eggs,
fish, etc.
No, bananas have more than oranges, both per gram and per fruit.
Per gram, dried fruits probably have the most.

Re: Pi day?

dreit...@spiritone.com (Daniel R. Reitman) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:50:12 UT

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:18:18 +0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"
This is getting a bit transcendental.
Dan, ad nauseam

Re: The Doomsday Ships

k...@keithlynch.net (Keith F. Lynch) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:55:24 UT

I saw mockups of Fat Man and Little Boy in a museum. A sign clarified
that these were mockups, and not the original weapons. Duh! It also
said they were just hollow shells, and didn't actually contain any
uranium or plutonium.

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