Re: Reason and eloquence

GIGO, innit. "J.V.Ashby" <J.V.Ashby@xxxxxxxx> fed this in:

Ray Haddad wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:01:54 +0100, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and "J.V.Ashby" <J.V.Ashby@xxxxxxxx> instead replied:


*** that. You posted at 23.46 my time, at which time I was enjoying a
pleasant shiraz and a good conversation about the purpose of the
education system. Zen posts for himself, I post for myself. Which I
did when I got to your post this morning. That others, in other time
zones, posted before me is none of my business.

Nonsense. You came back and attempted to rub it in my face that he
did read your mind.


What? Oh, here it is. "(and Zen has correctly read my mind)" following
you going off on one with him. If that parenthetical is rubbing it in
your face, you need to consider your relationship with Usenet.


Except that you did defend Zen's making statements on your behalf.


Not defend, I merely noted that he had correctly divined the intent of
my question. I have been, and will remain, silent on whether he was
entitled to express the results of his divination publicly.


Mate, my "quantum leaps and all" was partly a joke because many
people don't know that quantum mechanics makes it all work.


I find it hard to believe that any educated person with enough
understanding of semiconductors to know about the existence of holes
and electrons would not be aware that QM makes it all work. I don't
expect them to know all the details, I wouldn't expect them to be able
to quote the formula for effective mass of the carriers, but just to
know that QM is behind it all, that's not much to expect.

That's what Hawking Radiation is. His first explanation was in terms
of particle-antiparticle creation by vacuum fluctuations. Then one of
the pair would be sucked into the hole and the other escape. The
question then was where did the mass/energy come from, and it was soon
discovered that the BH lost mass in the process.

Yes, indeed. Let me ask you a question which I often ponder. Had
Stephen Hawking not been an unwilling prisoner to his thoughts, do
you believe he would have achieved as much as he has?


Yes. But probably no more.

john (of course, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean we
*aren't out to get you)

We? Would that be your new gangmate and yourself?

You don't remember mingoes, do you?

LOL. Sure I do. I was waiting for you to proclaim it was the Royal
"we" you were representing. Jack never came to my mind. Do you miss
him?

I wasn't referring to Jack.


john (there was a time, which now is long since past...)

Thankfully. I miss some of the past denizens but not all.

I should have quoted the original: In einer Zeit, die nun vergangen
ist...



*** no. Ray struggles enough with English.
--

Dr Zen

Usenet is, of course, a *** black hole.
No *** can come within its event horizon
(more accurately I suppose I should call it
the total nonevent horizon) without being sucked in.
Some people like to kid themselves that
it is not a total waste of their time
to hang out in newsgroups but
unless you truly do think that
being called a fucking idiot
by some arsehole like Dr Zen is self-improving,
it's as useless as it's possible to be
in a world that has made useless an artform.
http://gollyg.blogspot.com
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