Profile for Student of Trinity
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| Displayed name | Student of Trinity |
| Member number | 3431 |
| Title | Electric Sheep One |
| Postcount | 3335 |
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| Registered | Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 14:18
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I am back to IE here at work because Firefox made the hamster go crazy. It just took too much memory to operate, so I had to choose between Firefox and Thunderbird. I hate Outlook even more than IE, so Firefox is gone from here. I use Safari 2.0 at home, and it seems fine, though I miss the nice RSS button from Firefox. Maybe I'll switch. I'm pretty sure you can open PDFs in the browser with Safari, but I forget how. -------------------- 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 |
| Oh My! A New Topic! in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 14:08
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Hmmm; if Drakefyre is a mere Viceroy ... who is the Roy? Clearly this must be one of our mysteries. But our laundry problems are easy to solve. We just hold all our secret conclaves in Amsterdam. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Oh My! A New Topic! in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 13:57
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Hey, can we have many dozens of elaborate degrees of initiation? If so, I want to be the Imponderable Archon of Imponderable Archons. I think that would look nice on a business card. Ahh, trouble is, I think that if you have to ask whether you can be Imponderable Archon of Imponderable Archons, then you just aren't cut out to be one. Real Imponderable Archons are Imponderable Archons already. Maybe I should settle for being a Ponderable Archon. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Debate #1 for Moderator Election in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 13:41
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Problem with all these reassuring professions of responsible moderation in all things is that they are immoderately boring. After a few candidates have dutifully posted here, others may feel compelled to follow suit just to show willing. Perhaps someone could lock this thread, before all this common sense and responsibility gets out of hand. -------------------- 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 |
| Oh My! A New Topic! in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 12:51
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All the more need for good laundromats. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Old physics question in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 12:44
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I foolishly tried to find out what 'lagot' means, and Google just sent me back to a thread about a pulley problem that apparently went unsolved last fall. It was posed in this thread. M1 has mass 80 kg, and M2 has mass 6kg. What is the acceleration of M1?  I don't suppose anyone cares now, but since electrons are cheap: Assuming the strings don't stretch, and pulleys and strings are weightless, we have that the tension in the top string must be twice the tension in the bottom string (or else the lower pulley would accelerate infinitely, being massless). If the strings don't stretch, we also have the speed (and hence acceleration) of M1 must be -(1/2) those of M2. With string tensions opposing gravity for each mass, we apply F = ma to each mass. Having a total of four equations involving the two accelerations and two tensions, we solve for everything and find a1 = (-9.8 m/s^2) (M1-2M2)/(M1+4M2) = -6.4 m/s^2. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:45: 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 |
| The Official Electioneering Topic in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:37
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1. Rmv vwls. 2. Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem. ps frgt m nt rnnng. [DT: Mssplld 'frgt' nd 'rnnng'. Srry.] [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:52: 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 |
| RWG in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:28
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You can't help respecting anybody who can spell 'onomatopoeiae', even if he doesn't spell it right. [As far as I can tell Drakefyre did spell it right, but this line adapted from the Philosopher seemed appropriate anyway.] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| RWG in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:12
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And the reason this is all on topic is that people choking on pretzels, people eating relatives who have turned into pretzels, and people who are being eaten by relatives after having turned into pretzels, they all make noises that sound like "RWG!" -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Official Electioneering Topic in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:44
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What we could do is hold an election to settle what the equation should be. I won't run, but I'll endorse Einstein. -------------------- 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 |
| The Official Electioneering Topic in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:12
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Google turns up a nice article on Seneca, but the article ends with an invitation to Search eBay! for Seneca collectibles. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:15: 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 |
| forgiveness (SPOILERS) in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:59
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They seem to go hostile if you just enter the brood chamber, even if you don't touch anything. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Official Electioneering Topic in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:51
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As a theoretical physicist I can't resist pointing out (in this thread on moderator electioneering) that we measure masses in units of energy anyway, or sometimes length, and we routinely set h, c, G and pi all equal to one by choice of units. This makes everything simpler, and we need all the help we can get. -------------------- 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 |
| The Official Electioneering Topic in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:33
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I'd still vote for Einstein if I could. -------------------- 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 |
| Your gift or talent in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:23
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Ever castled queenside? Whew! The pain. Most of the old chess injuries that still bother me come from that. They don't abbreviate it 'O-O-O' for nothing. Really, it's just not right that chess doctors simply stitch you up, pump you with novocaine, and send you right back in to enfilade your bishops. Chess careers are short, and to see all the ex-grandmasters crippled at 30, I don't know how those quacks can reconcile it with their Hippocratic oaths, I really don't. -------------------- 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 |
| What is yours favuorite in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:02
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I refuse to answer, on the grounds that it might weaken my claim to superiority if I admitted I hadn't. -------------------- 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 |
| Elections: The Registration Thread in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 08:58
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But who gets into the runoff? The goal in the first round will simply be to ensure that the right people get into the runoff. I will most want my first choice to be there, but if that seems assured, then I will try to get as many of my other preferred candidates in too, so that they will enjoy the prestige of having made the runoff. Or I might deliberately throw all my first round votes to a candidate I don't want at all, in an effort to keep a stronger candidate out of the runoff so that my first choice will win the second round. But then if everybody else is thinking this way, we'll end up electing a yellow caterpillar. Perhaps we could make things even more inscrutable, for instance by having separate WBC, WBA and IBC elections, and then arguing about which is real? -------------------- 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 Wednesday, June 22 2005 08:48
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Wait, you need special boots for that? Dang. No wonder my inferiors never seem to know their places. And here I was just putting it down to their inferiority. -------------------- 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 |
| Elections: The Registration Thread in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 08:34
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Just how will the runoff work? This would affect how I voted, since there is a lot to think about in assigning so many votes. I can see this process being a lot more interesting than the result will be important. Can we get some opinion polls circulating before the actual election? Another layer or two of feedback should make voting even more incomprehensible. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, June 22 2005 08:26
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Questions for Alorael about shooting: How much shooting do you do? Do you do it competitively? What caliber? I'm quite a mediocre shot, but sometimes I have good days. Or had, back in my army reserve days. I don't know if it is right to call shooting a sport, but it is definitely a skill. Small targets at 300 yards are not easy, even without the scribbane. -------------------- 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 |
| I AM 1337 in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 08:00
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I'm sorry, but you people are all just little collections of letters that come up on my computer screen. I think it's cute that the letters are having a vote. What will they do next? -------------------- 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 |
| The Official Electioneering Topic in General | |
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 07:53
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As one of the few registered voters who are not also candidates, I feel like a rotten borough elector. Until this is over I shall have to hold the axe extra carefully when I shave. I endorse Thuryl. His arguments seem very strong. Kelandon is already a moderator of some other active boards here. I agree that Dolphin has a good case too, but seniority should also be worth something. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 07:57: 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 |
| Oh My! A New Topic! in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 07:42
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Do not mail jars. And for wine bottles, it's carry on, especially if your bags are soft-sided. Which leads to a new topic: how come some laundromats are so much better than others? The little one in the middle of Amsterdam's red light district can get oloroso sherry out of white shirts and a duffel bag. Do they use some kind of radioactive detergent that civilians can't buy, or what? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Elections: The Registration Thread in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 07:21
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Register. You get busy for a few days, turn around, and suddenly there's an outbreak of democracy. Yikes. -------------------- 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 |
| Omen Eye in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 06:47
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Hmmm; I never really noticed this big jump in difficulty on Gull. A jump, yes, but just enough to be interesting. From the landing on, it was clear that the stakes would be higher; but I was ready. But I was hitting Gull at level 30 as a lone Agent or a melee Guardian with Alwan, and I wasn't too far behind that as a Shaper with a pair of good Glaahks and four Vlish. A pair of Battle Alphas and a Searing Artila really does not sound like much of a crew for Gull, to me. I can well believe Omen Eye was tough! -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |