Using single-letter names for programming languages is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:58 AM Saturday 9/23/2006, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > So we now have R which comes from S, and C which comes from > B. Anyone starting to miss the good old days when the name of a > programming language actually stood for something? > It makes it ver

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread Charlie Bell
On 24/09/2006, at 3:12 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Oh good. Soon we'll be able to "cure" blackness as well as homosexuality. Let's hear it for progress! If the destruction of the ozone layer is not a myth, maybe it's time to seriously consider curing _

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?)

2006-09-23 Thread Charlie Bell
On 24/09/2006, at 2:58 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 19, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On 9/18/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...'cause there's no such thing as something that is so well supported it can be considered a fact. Like gravity. Just a theory. I'm fairly

Re: Strange New Planet Baffles Astronomers

2006-09-23 Thread Medievalbk
I say it's a dyson sphere and to hell with calling it a planet. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brïn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Ronn Blankenship wrote: > >> R is so simple that any computer geek that knows C can get >> the basics in 10 minutes - after reading a quick tutorial. Unfortunately, >> I didn't have this quick tutorial, so - in the spirit of Wikipedia - I >> wrote one :-) > > Is it available? (I downloaded R last

Re: Strange New Planet Baffles Astronomers

2006-09-23 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: The scientists will continue observing HAT-P-1 to see if such an explanation could hold in this case, but "until we can find an explanation for both of these swollen planets, they remain a great mystery," Sasselov said. I hear "swollen planet" and I'm thinking bruisin

Re: Whose Ox is Gored?

2006-09-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:03 AM Saturday 9/23/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:05 AM, jdiebremse wrote: ... With that being said, I don't understand how the pastor can imagine Jesus saying that the State has no right to impose its view of when human life begins on other people, that there "can n

Re: Brïn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:00 AM Saturday 9/23/2006, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Ronn Blankenship wrote: > >> I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, but it's >>actually at [[R (programming language)]] (...) > > Oh, boy, a whole new language to learn . . . :):):) > R is so simple that

Re: Brïn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:58 AM Saturday 9/23/2006, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > So we now have R which comes from S, and C which comes from > B. Anyone starting to miss the good old days when the name of a > programming language actually stood for something? > It makes it ver

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 23, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Richard Baker wrote: William said: Little parasols. Why don't we just put a big parasol at the Earth-Sun L1 point? Or do as Mr. Burns tried to do! Woot! He's not a rapacious money-grubbing monster -- he's an environmentalist! -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread Richard Baker
William said: Little parasols. Why don't we just put a big parasol at the Earth-Sun L1 point? Rich ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread William T Goodall
On 23 Sep 2006, at 6:23PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 23, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Oh good. Soon we'll be able to "cure" blackness as well as homosexuality. Let's hear it for progress! If the destruction of the ozone layer is not

Re: The Fertility Gap

2006-09-23 Thread jdiebremse
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "J.D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A thought-provoking article about the implications of > differing fertility rates based on political ideology > in the US: > > http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008831 > > JDG Here's a similarly intere

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 23, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Oh good. Soon we'll be able to "cure" blackness as well as homosexuality. Let's hear it for progress! If the destruction of the ozone layer is not a myth, It's not. maybe it's time to seriously c

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > Oh good. Soon we'll be able to "cure" blackness as well as > homosexuality. Let's hear it for progress! > If the destruction of the ozone layer is not a myth, maybe it's time to seriously consider curing _whiteness_. Here in the tropics, just going for lunch at noon is en

Re: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?

2006-09-23 Thread Julia Thompson
John W Redelfs wrote: On 9/13/06, Gibson Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Dan, I guess I missed that message in the bustle of my life. As another after word, every single one of my Archt schoolmates contacted in no way buys the official story. Every one of them cited the pile-up of

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 21, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Old, but found while looking up something else: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0002E7CA-F27B-13A1- AFAA83414B7FFE9F Oh good. Soon we'll be able to "cure" blackness as well as homosexuality. Let's hear it for progress! -- Wa

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 19, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: Charlie Bell wrote: On 08/09/2006, at 7:16 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Probably you haven't asked the right person. I base my ethical decisions on my ability to empathize. If I know a given action would cause me misery, I know that it's an a

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?)

2006-09-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 19, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On 9/18/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...'cause there's no such thing as something that is so well supported it can be considered a fact. Like gravity. Just a theory. I'm fairly certain that gravity is a fact. I occasionally say

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?)

2006-09-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 16, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Dave Land wrote: After watching the "Pyroclastic" video that WTG pointed to, I realized that I'd been giving way too much credence to "Just-So Stories" about what might possibly have happened. It's not that this particular video was all that bad (it was utterly uncon

Re: Whose Ox is Gored?

2006-09-23 Thread Gibson Jonathan
On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:05 AM, jdiebremse wrote: ... With that being said, I don't understand how the pastor can imagine Jesus saying that the State has no right to impose its view of when human life begins on other people, that there "can never be a just law requiring uniformity of behavior on t

Re: Brïn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Ronn Blankenship wrote: > >> I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, but it's >>actually at [[R (programming language)]] (...) > > Oh, boy, a whole new language to learn . . . :):):) > R is so simple that any computer geek that knows C can get the basics in 10 minutes - after re

Re: Bïrn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > So we now have R which comes from S, and C which comes from > B. Anyone starting to miss the good old days when the name of a > programming language actually stood for something? > It makes it very hard to google search for help in anything. For example, if I want to kn

Re: Brin: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Maru wrote: > >> The Wikipedia entry for R is under "GNU-S" :-) > > > I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, > marudubinski, I presume :-) > but it's > actually at [[R (programming language)]] > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29), like it > should (s

Re: Whose Ox is Gored?

2006-09-23 Thread jdiebremse
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the eve of the 2004 election, a liberal Christian pastor in Pasadena > > preached (what is reportedly) a highly political anti-war and > > anti-poverty sermon with the result that the IRS is threatening to take > > away the

Week 3 NFL Picks

2006-09-23 Thread John D. Giorgis
I'm a halfway decent 21-11 so far this year, but when my Dad is 24-8, halfway decent just isn't good enough. ;-)Here's my attempt to close the gap this week, and keep the 2-0 upset special on track: Chicago at Minnesota - Its hard to believe that Minnesota is 2-0 with Brad Johnson and Chest

Re: Brïn: basic is evil, why it must be eradicated

2006-09-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:01 PM Friday 9/22/2006, maru dubshinki wrote: On 9/22/06, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . The Wikipedia entry for R is under "GNU-S" :-) Alberto Monteiro I hate to play the pedantic resident Wikipedia expert here, but it's actually at [[R (programming language)]] (http