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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Speaking of smart people, can anyone tell me how every insurance company can be cheaper than the others? When I worked in England for a bit, there was this woman that would pop into my office, ignore me and clean the hand piece of my telephone and just as quickly as she appeared, she was gone. I suppose she was a "telephone sanitizer". I did think of telling her that I did nothing with the telephone that required it to be sanitized but doubted that she would see the humor. While I admire the English sense of humor, often they did not feel the same about mine. Here is one bit that I really like (if you click here *, you will need to have your sound turned up).*From the Monty Python Movie "The Meaning of Life" -- I believe that within reason, the statistics quoted are correct. EDIT> To see the words click here If you wish to see it, it is here. They do the same sort of thing department stores do with their prices. When was the last time you found a full-price rack in a department store? Actually, your answer is probably buried in the fine print you can't see and don't have time to read.  Thank you Dave "YouTube" Bell. The man can link YouTube faster that a televangalist can ask for money!  DM, never got much into Ann Rand but it would probably be more like Ben Bova's Mars trilogy. Unfortunately, the various groups brought along all their various "ologies" and messed things up. Now with warp drive, you can give each of them their own planet. Of course, with warp drive, that just takes the scrumming to a new dimension and doesn't really change things at all. Seems like our hope lies in the extremes. Either we're fighting for our survival ala Independence Day or we suddenly evolve into a bunch of Talosians/Metrons/etc. Thanks to the standard bell curve normal distribution, we're stuck with mediocrity instead. Where are all the little green men when you need them (but not until we destroy all the Slim Whitman records)?  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by keithhenry at Jul 18, 2009 2:48:24 AM] |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Speaking of smart people, can anyone tell me how every insurance company can be cheaper than the others? When I worked in England for a bit, there was this woman that would pop into my office, ignore me and clean the hand piece of my telephone and just as quickly as she appeared, she was gone. I suppose she was a "telephone sanitizer". I did think of telling her that I did nothing with the telephone that required it to be sanitized but doubted that she would see the humor. While I admire the English sense of humor, often they did not feel the same about mine. Here is one bit that I really like (if you click here *, you will need to have your sound turned up).*From the Monty Python Movie "The Meaning of Life" -- I believe that within reason, the statistics quoted are correct. EDIT> To see the words click here Good one RT! That is why I don't crunch SETI ... I'm still searching for intelligent life down here.  After further contemplation of Keith's idea ... I like it better all the time. If we sent the world’s criminals, misfits and socially unacceptable off to Mars there would be a much higher probability of success. After all, at one time Western Europe sent theirs off to “the colonies” and they formed a great nation. Britain sent theirs to Australia and they colonized an entire continent and formed a great nation. Although in both cases the results were disastrous for the indigenous population, there does not seem to be an indigenous population to conquer on Mars. Although if we find microbial life we probably will find a “valid reason” to kill it all, stuff it in jars and display it in all the museums of the world. I am being silly of course but it is hard to argue with history. Oh and RT the answer to your question is the same as why every car dealer has the best car for the lowest price.  |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Speaking of smart people, can anyone tell me how every insurance company can be cheaper than the others? When I worked in England for a bit, there was this woman that would pop into my office, ignore me and clean the hand piece of my telephone and just as quickly as she appeared, she was gone. I suppose she was a "telephone sanitizer". I did think of telling her that I did nothing with the telephone that required it to be sanitized but doubted that she would see the humor. While I admire the English sense of humor, often they did not feel the same about mine. Here is one bit that I really like (if you click here *, you will need to have your sound turned up).*From the Monty Python Movie "The Meaning of Life" -- I believe that within reason, the statistics quoted are correct. EDIT> To see the words click here Good one RT! That is why I don't crunch SETI ... I'm still searching for intelligent life down here. After further contemplation of Keith's idea ... I like it better all the time. If we sent the world’s criminals, misfits and socially unacceptable off to Mars there would be a much higher probability of success. After all, at one time Western Europe sent theirs off to “the colonies” and they formed a great nation. Britain sent theirs to Australia and they colonized an entire continent and formed a great nation. Although in both cases the results were disastrous for the indigenous population, there does not seem to be an indigenous population to conquer on Mars. Although if we find microbial life we probably will find a “valid reason” to kill it all, stuff it in jars and display it in all the museums of the world. I am being silly of course but it is hard to argue with history. Oh and RT the answer to your question is the same as why every car dealer has the best car for the lowest price. Nope, don't send them! Send us intelligent folks! Think "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest". Perspective is such a wonderful thing.Always reminds me of one of Asimov's stories of the guys in a bar. This one has them in a bar on the moon discussing someone who was being exiled for doing something that could have gotten most of the folks there killed. They talk about the horrible temperature extremes, the strong winds and dangerous storms, the oppressive openess of the place, the intense gravity and so on. Seems the guy was being exiled to Earth. Of course, the one about the drunk who claimed to have invented a time machine and had found out why all the dinosaurs disappeared was a good one too. |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Personally I think Ayn Rand’s views were and are a steaming pile of dingo dung (can we say that here?) She once lectured at the college I attended and I suffered through it. But the story line of “Atlas Shrugged”, taken only a piece of fiction, does present some interesting questions. What does happen to the non-producers when the producers stop producing?
----------------------------------------One of my heroes died today ... Walter Cronkite.  Perhaps the last of the news journalists before they became news personalities.  |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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One of my heroes died today ... Walter Cronkite. Perhaps the last of the news journalists before they became news personalities. Okay, now I'm starting to get scared. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite..... don't drink the water...I grew up on Walter Cronkite though my folks were more inclined to Huntley and Brinkley. Funny, I always remember him when I remember the space shots. He had two things you don't find in the media today - class and backbone. Either I'm showing my age or class has gone the way of chivalry and integrity. Sigh. |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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One of my heroes died today ... Walter Cronkite. Perhaps the last of the news journalists before they became news personalities. Okay, now I'm starting to get scared. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite..... don't drink the water...I grew up on Walter Cronkite though my folks were more inclined to Huntley and Brinkley. Funny, I always remember him when I remember the space shots. He had two things you don't find in the media today - class and backbone. Either I'm showing my age or class has gone the way of chivalry and integrity. Sigh. I agree. And his reation to the Kennedy assignation. And when Johnson lost him he lost the war. He was all about factuality, honesty and integrity. However he was 92 ... he certainly beat the odds. Sadly his own profession will probably not give his life 1% of the coverage they just gave the narcissistic little pedophile. Now I am showing my age not to mention my bias. Good night. |
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Weather forecast here:
Today - Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of light showers in the afternoon. Unseasonably cool. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds around 10 mph. Wish I could share it with some of you that have had to cut back on crunching because of heat.Tonight - Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s...except in the lower 60s downtown. Northeast winds around 10 mph early in the evening becoming light and variable in the late evening and overnight. |
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NiceMedTexMD
Veteran Cruncher United States Joined: Aug 17, 2006 Post Count: 929 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Weather forecast here: Today - Mostly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of light showers in the afternoon. Unseasonably cool. Highs in the upper 60s. North winds around 10 mph. Wish I could share it with some of you that have had to cut back on crunching because of heat.Tonight - Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 50s...except in the lower 60s downtown. Northeast winds around 10 mph early in the evening becoming light and variable in the late evening and overnight. we will share the joy with you once it does cool off... Dr. Mike  |
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Dataman
Ace Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 4865 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It will not stop here. Strong high pressure will continue to bring above normal temperatures to northern California this weekend. Daytime highs today will peak around 108 degrees in Redding and Red Bluff... and range from 103 to 107 degrees at other locations throughout the Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys. Some high and mid level cloudiness tonight will keep overnight temperatures very warm. Low temperatures in the foothills of the northern Sacramento Valley will only drop into the mid 70s to lower 80s. Many valley locations will only drop into the 70s. |
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spikey_richie
Senior Cruncher International Joined: Oct 28, 2005 Post Count: 392 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Just passing through to say hi to all my old crunching buddies.
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