-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Faustine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >From: Michael Motyka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I agree; fascinating stuff. Here's a paragraph on deviousness and psychopathy >as an adaptive trait you might find interesting: (snip paragraph) >Looks like some people around here are ahead of the curve. >"subspecimens of humanity", now there's a thought... >>Nonsense. It sounds more like a play to a political audience than to a >>scientific one. To an audience of research psychiatrists: the former playing at the latter... >>Part of an engine for classifying dissenters and sending >>them to the gulags rather than a scholarly work. It's still hilarious though. Offered for your consideration as a counterpart to the recently-offered news story on the study that "proves" humans had very good reasons to evolve into vindictive conformist sheep. (insert spherical chicken parable here) >I've seen plucking machines that worked very efficiently and the >chickens were conventional, not spherical. I bet the guys who made them >work were better at solving problems than those who tried and failed to >bring a machine to market. True, one would hope no spherical chicken pluckers made it to market. Unless the DoD put out a RFP for one, that is. Wouldn't put it past em. There could be a whole warehouse of Defense Department spherical chicken pluckers piled to the ceiling somewhere for all I know... LOL >Though you're right that it's vitally important to find an elegant solution to >your problem, gotta watch out for those spherical chickens. I would have >thought the thing to do next is choose a range of actual drill bits capable of >drilling plutonium, note their properties and create a table of values by >working through the equation that way. Oh well. >>It's a geometry problem not a metal shop problem. Geometry first, sure. Without the fundamentals you're lost...but I realized that for no good reason at all I decided to take your answer and turn it into a decision analysis problem--hence the table of values and need for a range of drill bit specs. Showing my bias, I guess. ~Faustine. *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPFWrk/g5Tuca7bfvEQJN1ACg5iZN0RtHu18VW0li0zu2v9O6uUAAn1nj PfVpFLK1POrIklQ2SBMoATar =BSUe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
