OT: Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth

[Pig Bladder]

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:00:13 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

*peer-reviewed*. But a spell-check? Come on! What's your opinion of an
author who apparently expects his work to be taken seriously, yet
doesn't even check it before publication?

Not great.
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.

 

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:30:46 GMT, Pig Bladder <pigbladder@neodruid.net> wrote:

Well, apply them, and preach your dogma after it's been exposed.

There is no dogma, no preaching. The problem here was in publishing a result
and trying to explain it to reporters looking mostly for the sound bite.

Jon

 

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:22:07 GMT, Pig Bladder <pigbladder@neodruid.net> wrote:

Global warming might be twice as catastrophic as previously thought,

OK, Jonathan, we're all going to die, unless we ...

That's a grab line from a news report about a first phase of an experimental
model that demonstrated a possible approach to using distributed computing
power.

You are over-reacting.

Jon

 

[Active8]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:44:32 GMT, Pig Bladder wrote:

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:02:51 -0500, Active8 wrote:
...
I could go on, but you all are sharp enough to see the danger.

Which danger?

The danger that if we don't all "do something", we're all going to die
of "global warming"?

Or the danger of appointing some authoritarian dictator who says, "To
solve the global warming problem, you now must all ..."

The latter.


--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Active8]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:36:07 GMT, Pig Bladder wrote:

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 04:50:19 -0500, Active8 wrote:

Win: "Horsepucky! Cite!"

Active-eight, you MUST show this in quoted form, or be dismissed
as a liar and scoundrel.

What part of "paraphrase" do you not understand? Should it be
punctuated differently?
--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Active8 wrote:

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:44:32 GMT, Pig Bladder wrote:


On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:02:51 -0500, Active8 wrote:
...

I could go on, but you all are sharp enough to see the danger.

Which danger?

The danger that if we don't all "do something", we're all going to die
of "global warming"?

Or the danger of appointing some authoritarian dictator who says, "To
solve the global warming problem, you now must all ..."



The latter.

Pig Bladder is that retarded Grise- a total waste of time.

 

[Rich Grise]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:23:55 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote (in <4n88xu4stkt0$.dlg@ID-222894.news.individual.net&gt about 'OT:
Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth', on Tue, 1 Feb 2005:
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:01:43 +0000, John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote (in <6jfmfuuf7o88$.dlg@ID-222894.news.individual.net&gt about 'OT:
Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth', on Tue, 1 Feb 2005:

Anyone know how to pronounce Mesenne?

'Mersenne' doesn't seem to present much difficulty. In modern French,
the final 'e' is not sounded, but maybe in early 17th century it was. If
so, it would just be the 'uh', or 'schwa', sound: 'mersen-uh'.
^^ that
would have been my guess, but would the beginning be mer-sen as in
"mercenary" or "mare-sen" as in "merci beaucoup poo-poo'.

Well, I wouldn't put the full neuf metres of French pronunciation on the
name when speaking English. Yes, the 'er' is the same as in 'merci'. I
do pronounce that with the French open 'e', not schwa (as in 'mercy').

The difficult French names are those like 'Bailly' (bay-ee) and 'de
Broglie' (de broy as in 'toy').

Hey, the French got nothin' on the Brits when it comes to unpronounceable
names! Like, for example, Cholmondely (chumley) or Worcester (wooster).
;-)

And then, of course, there's the Welsh, for example:
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Keith Williams]

In article <1spot3k5xmtt2$.dlg@ID-222894.news.individual.net>,
reply2group@ndbbm.net says...

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:19:07 GMT, Rich Grise wrote:

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:00:07 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:10:38 -0500, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote:

[snip]
[...] when I have a perfectly good one right here.

That would be Linux, of course.


That might be a redeeming factor. Now if you start putting the
proper hypenation ( "--")
^^^^ "-- " (need the space too)
above your sig block so our readers snip it out of the reply...
^^^ reply ;-)

I was 1/2 thinking about a Mac Mini for web surfing. If I hadn't been
so short-sighted and bought 4-way instead of 2-way KVM switches I might
have.

--
Keith

 

[Chaos Master]

This is Active8 for forever:

I tried LiteStep. That's a pretty nice shell, but I haven't put the
time into getting it just the way I want. IIRC, it hogged mem or f'd
with something else, too.

My problem was excessive resources usage (I'm using Win98) or the fact
that most themes are rather big.

--
Chaos MasterŽ, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W / GMT-
2h / 15m

"He [Babya] is like the Energizer Bunny of hopeless newsgroup
posting....or should that be Energizer bBunny"
- "ceed" on alt.comp.freeware, 24/1/2005

(to some groups: Yes, I use Windows and MS Office. So what?)

 

[Keith Wootten]

In message <pkm401t4ul92grrsekfv1952261fbaajc1@4ax.com>, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> writes

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:37:14 GMT, the renowned Fred Bloggs
nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

Snipped

Pig Bladder is that retarded Grise- a total waste of time.

Good catch.

Yeah, nice one Robert.

Cheers
--
Keith Wootten