Topic: A welcome back (Read 3729 times)

JimH · « **on:** February 09, 2002, 07:14:25 pm »

Two people who left for a while are back. [former member] and glennn.

There were some harsh words spoken all around, but I want to say "welcome back".

In the future, I ask for a little reserve when things are said with which you don't agree.

I'll try to be first. Feel free to remind me when I'm not.

(Going back to my Euclidian Geometry now.)

IQ10 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 09, 2002, 07:38:29 pm »

Thanks for the welcome. Euclidean geometry??

The Euclidean nature of our imagination led Kant to say that although the denial of the axioms of Euclid could be conceived without contradiction, our intuition is limited by the form of space imposed by our own minds on the world.

[former member]
"All the fish of the same color are supposed to be the same shape size and shape"

IQ10 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 09, 2002, 07:40:30 pm »

Broken link from above is:
www.friesian.com/curved-1.htm

Scronch · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2002, 08:55:06 pm »

http://www.friesian.com/curved-1.htm
Copyright (c) 1996, 1998, 1999

Funny, I thought Einstein-bashing and Hawking-glorification had run its course. Something about who was more right than wrong. It never ceases to amaze me how many physics nobodies get their jollies by bashing someone like Einstein.

Oh, wait, this isn't a physics nobody, it's a philosophy nobody. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But then, he did have his cousin's daughter introduce herself on TV during a Miss America pageant. (?!)

Scronch

KingSparta · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2002, 03:01:57 am »

Dragyn, played this on my server last night (Now in my KingSparta's Top Pick List)

Firehouse - Don't Treat Me Bad.mp3

KingSparta · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2002, 05:52:35 am »

IQ maybe you shange your handle to

Morris The Cat (9 Lives)

IQ10 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2002, 06:43:28 am »

The cat half-died on Morris. It now belongs to Schrödinger's. Have a look/read.

Schrodinger developed his theory after years of JRiver computer programmer and coming to realize that bugs are never more than half-fixed.
Exterminators have a lot to fear. In the new world, they will only be half-paid.

[former member]
9 lives is an exterminators worst nightmare.

IQ10 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2002, 06:45:55 am »

The cat half-died on Morris. It now belongs to Schrödinger's. Have a look/read.
www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/SchrodCat/cat.gif

www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/SchrodCat/SchrodCat.html

Schrodinger developed his theory after years of JRiver computer programmer and coming to realize that bugs are never more than half-fixed.
Exterminators have a lot to fear. In the new world, they will only be half-paid.

[former member]
9 lives is an exterminators worst nightmare.

IQ10 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2002, 06:50:25 am »

Interact links do not seem to be working. Well actually the link to the .gif worked, the link to the .htlm did NOT. Proves the point. Half-working.

[former member]

leonidas · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2002, 09:33:35 am »

Scronch

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Oh, wait, this isn't a physics nobody, it's a philosophy nobody.

Was that in reference to Hume?

From what I remember of my history of science course, didn't Einstein himself give credit for his own theory of relativity to ideas derived from two of Hume's essays--On Human Understanding and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion? I remember reading the latter work in a Philosophy of Religion course and having come to that same conclusion (that it must have been a major influence on Einstein) prior to having had it pointed out for me in the history/science course. But maybe it was Einstein that influenced Hume. Next Page

Lise?

Michael

KingSparta · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2002, 09:40:50 am »

[former member]

>>9 lives is an exterminators worst nightmare.
this is mostly true with roaches if you spray chemicals, and do not use bait

because:

Roaches have become almost immune to chemical sprays

leonidas · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2002, 09:47:47 am »

KingSparta

>>>>Roaches have become almost immune to chemical sprays

Now see what you've caused with all that playing around!

Leo

IQ10 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2002, 03:19:20 pm »

KingSparta
>this is mostly true with roaches if you spray chemicals, and do not use bait
Yep. That's why I always use bait.. Works evertime, first time.

[former member]
The introduction of a new kind of programming must be shunned as imperiling the whole state, for styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions. ... The new style, gradually gaining a lodgement, quietly insinuates itself into manners and customs, and from it ... goes on to attack laws and constitutions, displaying the utmost impudence, until it ends by overturning everything.
- Plato, Republic, 370 B.C.

Scronch · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2002, 03:21:26 pm »

>> Was that in reference to Hume?

No, the self-aggrandizing guy that IQ was referencing
http://www.friesian.com/ross

leonidas · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2002, 04:10:05 pm »

Scronch

OK, thanks for the explanation--I feel better now that the tranquilizer’s kickin' in. I should've known better anyway, 'cause other than the whole Packers thing, I've never known you to say anything absurd. Next Page

[former member]
Interesting quote. Do you think that the interpreter of the text, in translating from Greek to English, meant "programming" as in indoctrination, or did Plato foresee the invention of the computer, or does the answer lie in some combination of the these two possibilities?
Leo

IQ10 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2002, 04:15:23 pm »

Leo
>Do you think that the interpreter of the text, in translating from Greek to English, meant "programming" as in indoctrination, or did Plato foresee the invention of the computer, or does the answer lie in some combination of the these two possibilities?

The expert in these matters is MHorton.

leonidas · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2002, 04:27:00 pm »

MHorton. I remember him. I think that he forgot his password once, and the one emailed from JRiver didn't work for some reason, but when he signed up for a new profile, he discovered that MHorton had already been taken. Soon after he fell out of the back of a turnip truck, or so I hear.

Leo

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 11, 2002, 04:45:10 pm »

King Sparta,

>> Roaches have become almost immune to chemical sprays <<

I won't presume to think I can tell the expert anything to do with his field so I'll just relate a personal experience.

When I moved into this old farmhouse 15 years ago, I treated for roaches in the way that had worked twice previously ... boric acid. I treated once before moving anything in and I have yet to see ANY roaches in the past 15 years. I realize that there probably are some unseen but they are certainly not the pests that I have seen them be in the past. I know that there WERE roaches because when I open up a wall (I'm big on remodelling), the roach "carcasses" are about 2 feet thick.

This has worked on two other occasions with more than satisfactory results. Why is method relatively unknown? I say that because whoever I tell looks at me as if I'm nuts.

CVIII

Scronch · « **Reply #18 on:** February 11, 2002, 05:09:00 pm »

No, using boric acid for roaches is not new.
My folks had a neighbor who used to do that.
Nice woman. Used to spray boric acid once a
week to keep down the roaches. Had a baby,
as I recall. Wait--I think I still have a
picture. Ah, here it is...

Scronch

IQ10 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 11, 2002, 06:39:13 pm »

NOT FUNNY

Scronch · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2002, 07:26:28 pm »

I, I searched the dark, dank corners of my closet.
And, I came upon, upon a drawing of the beast.
His hideousness had outpaced the growth of his lumpy,
crooked stature. And, the, the memories began to flow,
a full-fledged torrent of pain: the horrors his
baseless philosophies turned loose on a sleepy
neighborhood; the illicit formation of his every
thought. Oh, the humanity, the humanity... and
then, then... oh, Lord, help me... I recalled the
ogre's name, nay, moniker--perhaps even alias.
The utter despair that has washed over my very
soul wretches at my physical and spiritual being.
Oh, to sleep, to be wrought unconscious. Anything,
any... thing... to forget that vile mark, that
horrid, unforgettable, unforgivable word. My soul
to attain cerebral vacuity in place of--dare I utter
the creature's name? yeah, but I must--in place of...

IQ !!

.

KingSparta · « **Reply #21 on:** February 12, 2002, 01:23:56 am »

Charlemagne 8

So true

Note: what I said, "spray chemicals"

Roaches will never become immune to Boric acid, and what is bait made of? Boric acid or a form of boric acid.

Boric acid that attacks the nervous system

used correctly boric acid can be the cheepest and the best thing to use with roaches (and other pests).

pest control companies would rather sell you $500|PLS| contract for pest control rather then you deal with the problem yourself for $1.98

JimH · « **Reply #22 on:** February 12, 2002, 04:16:02 am »

I'm thinking...we have to start charging admission to this place. It beats going to the zoo.

IQ10 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 12, 2002, 04:51:18 am »

Scronch
You searched your closet.
You found a mirror. It happens.
Resist.
Better to look elsewhere.
Efforts to disfigure children or adults are not for me.

It was said a lot better by a poet laureate: http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/heaney/sound/personal.ram

[former member]
http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/heaney/personal.html

Doof · « **Reply #24 on:** February 12, 2002, 04:58:13 am »

Scronch> That was hysterical. That was even better than "Yesterday". Next Page

[former member]> If you really want to get him back, just start chanting "I am rubber and you are glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!"

IQ10 · « **Reply #25 on:** February 12, 2002, 05:33:30 am »

Doof
I think the poem above says it a lot better. But you apparently got the meaning.

Scronch · « **Reply #26 on:** February 12, 2002, 11:47:39 am »

Ah, yes, to set the darkness echoing.
But I could not see to see.
Or is it "see to see..."?
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/dickn21c.html

Scronch

IQ10 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 12, 2002, 06:16:53 pm »

Sconchy

[former member]

Scronch · « **Reply #28 on:** February 12, 2002, 06:34:48 pm »

Thankfully
I could not see
to see
Kinky
Pinky

(go ahead, identify that poetic form!)

Scronch

JimH · « **Reply #29 on:** February 13, 2002, 08:25:43 am »

Haikinku?

Scronch · « **Reply #30 on:** February 13, 2002, 08:51:01 am »

Close.

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Scronchinku.

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