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| Title | Electric Sheep One |
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| Registered | Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 27 2005 13:17
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No iron quest, sell 'em all. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 27 2005 13:11
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quote:Yup. My scientific field is one that has had a resurgence after recent experimental progress, but has a long theoretical history. So sometimes I have to cite papers from as long ago as the 1940s. This is horrible, to have to trudge over to another building and pore through ancient tomes of bound journals, to track down an old reference. Fortunately many scientific journals are now enlightened enough to have scanned all their old volumes into their online archives. Physics journals will be entirely electronic very soon. Already, it is the electronic form of Physical Review that is authoritative, with paper versions issued periodically for no good reason. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 27 2005 13:04
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Well, you weren't very clear on what is supposed to be done with the two papers in the hat, or what options the peasant might have. I bet the principle involved is the same, namely that the king won't be able to admit, in front of everybody, that he made two EXILEs, so that if one EXILE is revealed without being applied to the peasant, the king can be forced to declare that the other one was a MARRIAGE. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 27 2005 09:55
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Take a paper and destroy it before anyone can read it, then cite the other one as evidence that the one taken must have said 'MARRIAGE'. There are lots of variants of this one around. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 09:53
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If you squint hard enough you can probably make all technologies related to the world wars, because (a) anything that was coming online anyway was exploited, if not accelerated, during the war years, (b) the people and institutions that did war-related research in the 1940's constituted practically the whole population of inventors for the following decades, and (c) it is the nature of practically all technology to be connected, however tenuously, to practically everything else. But if you don't count all these kinds of trivial connections, I think you'd have to count the following major technologies as essentially unrelated to the world wars: lasers; nuclear magnetic resonance; liquid crystals; anything involving semiconductors; television; anything remotely genetics-related; personal computing (as opposed to giant mainframes for a few specialized tasks) ... -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 09:21
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Can you turn around and destroy the creator after killing it? Or does it become invincible then? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 09:18
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Hawk King thinks I'm an unsellable trowel. :( Hey, it works! :) -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 09:15
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Actually, he was just playing 'Mordorian rules Blood Bowl'. It's a faster, more free-flowing version of the game, with very few actual rules. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 27 2005 09:11
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Here, Kelandon: . (A very small violin, playing sad music just for you.) -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 07:01
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Hmmm. Thuryl and Slp006 have actually swayed me, or maybe just made me realize that my own feelings have shifted more than I realized. (That's not to discount their influence; I think this is about the only way that people do influence each other with brief communications.) More than ten years ago now, I was an officer in the Canadian army reserve, and regularly had to attend or participate in Remembrance Day activities (where of course McRae's poem about the dead in Flanders fields was always read). And I also usually got dinged by my church to stand up front on the nearest Sunday, and somehow represent a lot of people who had given far more than I had, a very long time before. I always hated the whole thing, because it seemed so false. I never remotely knew any of the people we kept saying that we would remember, and no-one would ever remember their grandchildren, whom I might have known. Since then, though, I guess I've grown older, and begun to recognize the limitations of my own life. Though the lives of those ancient young soldiers were short, perhaps they did have at least as much lasting impact as anyone can expect. And they are not cut off from posterity by the uniqueness of their grief, for (and this is perhaps what I realized less ten years ago) such grief is with us still. I expect to spend my next November 11 in Germany. That will be different, and I expect, even sadder. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 06:11
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It has to have that agot rhythm (who could ask for anything more?). -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, June 27 2005 04:25
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Hmmm; does the number of war dead in Flanders really amount to a large fraction of the peace dead? I mean, Flanders has been densely populated for ages, and by now essentially everyone who lived through WWI is dead, so right there you've probably got the war dead badly outnumbered. It's the thing I find saddest about WWI, and its great commemoration on Nov 11, is that all our talk of remembrance is utterly vain. All those young dead guys are long gone now, and their impact has long faded even in death statistics. They themselves would mostly have been dead by now anyway. The enduring and enormous loss is all that they might have done, had they lived; but what that might have been, we will never know. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 19:07
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We have nowhere else to talk about Homeland. Doesn't this mean something? Why do people keep talking about it? I've only ever looked at its screenshots, and they were wretched enough. But I've suffered a lot more vicariously, through reading others complain about it. Why not just let it go, put the past behind us, and walk on into the bright, Homeland-free future? I guess the fear lingers. At least in the US there is a federal department to protect us from Homeland. Perhaps once the rest of the world catches up in this respect, the human race will be able to move on together. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 18:58
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Yes, 'the sun' was the answer I intended for the second one. I used it as as a sphinx's riddle in another ancient D&D game, and doggone it if a 'sleeper' player, who hardly ever did anything except roll dice when told to, didn't pipe up with the answer immediately. Grrr. Lighthouse is creative, but wouldn't fit the 'doesn't have a fellow', since there are lots of lighthouses. And lighthouses cast shadows by day. I suppose the sun might cast a shadow if the earth were illuminated by a nearby supernova, but that is not an ongoing phenomenon. [ Sunday, June 26, 2005 19:01: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 09:50
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If flesh were grass, what bone would be; If tears were rain, what moan would be; If clot were ice, what gore would be; Would tell the tale, if four were three. This is a bit unfair in that it doesn't really tell you what the question is -- you have to kind of connect the dots for that. As a compromise between rhyme and riddle, though, I was proud of it. A bit easier, in my opinion: Walks on the water, sinks in the sea. Doesn't have a fellow; doesn't have a shadow. Shadows run away from him. Who is he? [ Sunday, June 26, 2005 09:52: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 09:34
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'Bragot' sounds like I'd actually want to use it sometimes. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 09:24
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Unless Homeland actually was orchestrated by the master in secret, and contains NOTHING OF ANY INTEREST. NOPE. It's just a lousy game. That's all. [ Sunday, June 26, 2005 14:24: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, June 26 2005 09:06
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Playing card, king of spades. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 18:17
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Only the lucky member #7 could absorb the awful curse of member #13 and live. And before Drakefyre did it, it was by no means clear that the power of 7 would be sufficient to beat 13. After all, 13 is bigger. So it was a heroic act of courage to take on member #13, but unless someone did it, the boards would have died with only a dozen people involved. For that valiant deed which saved the boards from dying thus in their infancy, Drakefyre was rewarded with the administratorship. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 18:00
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Anyone who masters this peculiar idiom is clearly an idiot. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 16:20
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Okay, maybe I don't mind being an Imponderable Archon so much. There are some things I'm better off not knowing. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 16:04
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quote::eek: The T-bomb! JOO MUS B BAND! -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 14:12
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Getting even less specific, I have observed that everything is all the same, except for nuances. 1 - There's some stuff. :P -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 14:02
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I think I detect an argot. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, June 25 2005 05:14
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Now you got me doing it. How about that becomes the new insult, replacing the too-controversial 'lagot'? "You unsellable trowel!" is pretty crushing. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |