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Aug-10-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> that's the best <vacuum poem> I ever read. The fact it's the only <vaccuum poem I ever read in NO WAY takes away from its brilliance. |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Ed>, you can't begin with the <it can't possibly be here> argument about life if life is already here, big fella. That's the same argument as this: <the Pyramids could not possibly have been built by humans, so Aliens must have helped>. The inital premise of such arguments is <Onotologically unsound> in a <de facto> sense. |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: However, <Ed>, I recommend the exquisite <Errol Morris> documentary on <Stephen Hawking>, <A Brief History of Time> for an intriguing portrait of a man tempted by faith in a <sentient creator>, yet unwilling to waver from the standards of rigorous science. As Hawking puts it in the film, "The state of <physics> as we "know" it today does not preclude the possibility of a Creator (he means sentient creator here), but it DOES place limits on what he could have done." Hawking says in the film that he is <devoid of faith>, and yet he knows the <Bible> inside out and his <graduate assistant> is a devout Christian with whom he engages in many hours of theological/scientific debate. |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Joe> Where do <Mancurians> come from? I need to know, as I'll be in <Asia> soon. |
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Aug-10-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> Brilliant exposition of just about everything, back there. Wild applause. Gosh, you're sentient. Not many people are. |
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Aug-10-07
| | Domdaniel: PS. Singapore is Lion City. They don't have lions. Maybe they have interesting lampreys, though. The Zig must know. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | Ed Trice: <jessicafischerqueen> Quo usque tandem abuteris patientia nostra? Although Cicero originally said "abutere" as a flowery form of speech, you might have a hard time googling a Latin translator to find that perfectly correct grammar would have been to use 2nd person, singular, future tense. :) |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ah <Singapore>, the <mecca> of <buskers>. GEt it?
"poor" singers.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAH
sigh |
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| Aug-10-07 | | Ed Trice: <jessicafischerqueen> Please note: I did not mention anything about a sentient creator. I just demonstrated that RANDOM fluctuations in the evolution of the species cannot explain the ORIGIN of the species. Darwin was unaware of the work of Gregory Mendel, who understood genes and could map the passing of inheritance traits with precision. I can't argue for nor against portions of my statements that were not there. So stick to what I did actually write, don't fill in what is not there :) |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Ed> good lord!
Latin too?
You are truly a <Renaissance Man>. I urge you to open your own <Forum>, and also to frequent the Forum of <DomDaniel>. <Dom's> forum attracts the <best and the brightest> of this website, both in <chessic> and <non-chessic> affairs. LOL do you remember <John Cleese> correcting the <Christian Graffito Rebel> in <The Life of Brian>? Cleese, holding him by the ear:
<How many Romans???> Heh |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Ed> then it sounds like we are not at <cross purposes> here. <Evolutionary Science> does not claim that it has proven the <origin of life>. Check out <Stephen Jay Gould (RIP)> on this point if you already haven't. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | Ed Trice: There is also a famous mathematical "proof" that 1 = 0. Kinda goes like this. 0 = 0
1 - 1 = 0
1 + (-1) = 0
Now since I have addition, I can switch the places of the numbers. (-1) + 1 = 0
Nothing wrong there, so I change it back...
1 + (-1) = 0
...and build on it...
1 + (-1) + 1 + (-1) = 0
...and build on it...
1 + (-1) + 1 + (-1) + 1 + (-1) = 0
...which can be rewritten as...
(1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) = 0
...which can be built on...
(1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) = 0
...and this can be done ad infinitum, creating such a chain of cancellations. Rewriting (1 - 1) as (1 + -1) we have...
(1 + -1) + (1 + -1) + (1 + -1) + (1 + -1) + (1 + -1) = 0 And now, since the inner terms are connected by addition, we can switch their places. This would have the "-1" guy appearing first in the infinite list, which would be like just regrouping the parenthesis: 1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) = 0 But this causes them all to cancel to 0, except the first one, leaving 1 = 0 Of course, there is a flaw in this logic, but it can have some people scratching their heads. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | Ed Trice: <jessicafischerqueen> "They the Romans are home? What are you trying to say here?" "Ummm. Go home... ummm... Romans"
"EITE! is needed here, good God man, it's IMPERATIVE mood, not INDICATIVE." That scene had me laughing my <anatomical reference filtered by chessgames.com> off! |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL that's an excellent trick <Ed>. I dare you to copy and paste it into <Dom's> forum. he's crazy about such <calculations>, he's a bit of a <math buff>. In fact, he's a bit of an <everything buff>. A <Renaissance Man> as well. I'm aspiring to be a <Renaissance Young Woman>, but I've yet to Joust at any of the Fairs yet. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | Ed Trice: I put a card suffling trick on his forum. Try it yourself. It has a mathematical basis, see if he can figure out why it always works. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | JoeWms: <Jessica: Where do Mancurians come from?> As I remember from "The Mancurian Candidate," a Mancurian is sometimes called a Manchesterian. |
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| Aug-10-07 | | JoeWms: This old fart is still an old farther, Jess: Go to your room and study your Korean. |
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Aug-10-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: I tried <Joe> but they have a different word for everything. And a different alphabet.
HELP |
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| Aug-10-07 | | Ed Trice: A puzzle for <jessicafischerqueen> It's December, 1956. A murder happens at the stroke of midnight. An eye witness to the murder was unable to see the killer because there was only a thin sliver of moon in the cloudless sky that night. It was learned that the murdered man lived in that town his whole life, as did his father. Did the murdered man vote for Eisenhower?
You have enough information to solve this puzzle.
:) |
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| Aug-11-07 | | Dr.Lecter: <jess> A Korean, at your service. <Ed Trice> I've seen that 1=0 logic before. I was never able to just put a finger to the flaw in the logic. What is the flaw? Is it that -1 has to end the pair? And your new puzzle for <JFQ> makes no sense. I'm not too good at history. Eisenhower was president during 1950s, no? Then the murdered man couldn't have voted for Eisenhower's second term, cuz he's dead. But that answer's wrong, I just know it... |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ah I know!
Not one person <Voted for Eisenhower>. He was made president by <Royal Decree>? Hi DOCTOR I"m almost in your homeland.
I'm practicing bowing 90 degrees to strangers, bosses, and older people. |
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| Aug-11-07 | | Ragh: <Jess> A helpful tip. It helps if you carry a protractor along with you to carry out perfect right-angled bows. Because bows under 90 degrees are considered diabolic and over 90 degrees means you are alcoholic. |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: <jessicafischerqueen: I tried <Joe> but they have a different word for everything.
And a different alphabet.
HELP>
Sounds very tough indeed...
And I was thinking how you will learn to "speak" Korean? I mean the pronounciation.. Do you have AUDIO material ( CDs ) to help you in that regard? And <Jess>, I will send you an EMU and it will reach you Saturday morning, your time. Thanks again for your kind words and offer at my place. |
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Aug-11-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: No problem <Niels>. I have zero Audio material.
I was just planning on buying a TV and watching <Frasier> re-runs in <Korean>. Do they show <Frasier> in <Daegu>? |
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| Aug-11-07 | | achieve: <Do they show <Frasier> in <Daegu>?> LOL I don't know why they wouldn't/shouldn't..
Aren't there DVDs with Korean movies available or Movies subtitled in Korean? The <Doctor> might have a few answers.. Maybe you should GOOGLE (ouch) "Korean broadcasting" or something like that.. |
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