Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 01:40 PM 6/23/03 +0530 ] ... Read it at one stretch last week, on the flight back from Seoul. It was an enjoyable book, but...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jul 2, 2003 3:12 am
8647
... Not necessarily. Someone who manages to look like an uglier version of Madeline Albright will do very well indeed. ... There have been several such jokes...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Jul 2, 2003 3:34 am
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... The 'Uranus' line is rather more coy than the one I noted. However, I guess that most USian readers won't follow this bit of Brit slang? ... Heh. Do as ye...
Or, as I have said before, e.g, here [1], the language you *think* in determines the *way* you think. Udhay ...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jul 2, 2003 7:22 am
8651
Dear Silk, I've recently been receiving a lot of forwarded e-mails containing speeches that are attributed to President APJ Abdul Kalam. The one at the end of...
Vishal Doshi
Vishal.Doshi@...
Jul 2, 2003 11:14 am
8652
... http://presidentofindia.nic.in/ And maybe a .sig that says "If you receive mail that asks you to forward it to all your friends, please forget that I am...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Jul 2, 2003 1:37 pm
8653
you actually have to _read_ the page... ... For a little morning silliness, visit http://www.google.com , enter "weapons of mass destruction" as the search...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
rishab@...
Jul 2, 2003 4:38 pm
8654
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030630.html...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Jul 3, 2003 10:00 am
8655
About time ... yahoo messenger had this since ages. ... Subject: [IP] sms from Ichat and AIM Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:39:30 -0400 From: Dave Farber...
Suresh Ramasubramanian
suresh@...
Jul 3, 2003 5:53 pm
8656
... Suresh> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030630.html From the caption : "... This Carina sub-cloud is particularly striking partly because its clear...
K. Arun
karbak@...
Jul 3, 2003 9:16 pm
8657
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 11:21 PM 7/3/03 +0530 ] ... Er...yes. :) Udhay, currently of Yahoo and formerly of Unimobile, who had the world's first web...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jul 4, 2003 1:59 am
8658
Hmm. For some reason, this reminds me of the argument for the existence of a prime mover that goes as follows: "If there is a meal, there must be a cook. So,...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jul 4, 2003 8:53 am
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Proofs by analogy are the weakest form of logical entailment. -Frank ... For some reason, this reminds me of the ... ...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Jul 4, 2003 9:01 am
8660
... I'm an atheist, so I don't buy that argument. I could keep going with "if there is such a powerful being who created everything, then there must be an even...
Madhu Menon
webguru@...
Jul 4, 2003 10:31 am
8661
... Not sure about that one. Although I am not a Theist, I would not accept that there is an "ever greater" power required to create the previous one. The...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Jul 4, 2003 10:45 am
8662
Correction: Arguments by analogy are the weakest form of logical entailment. ... wrote: > Proofs by analogy are the weakest form of logical ... ...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Jul 4, 2003 10:46 am
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... I don't buy the argument either. Why can't the meal just exist? Like in spontaneous alignment of trillions of atoms in just the right configuration? I...
Vishal Doshi
Vishal.Doshi@...
Jul 4, 2003 10:58 am
8664
... also depends what you mean by "meal". you definitely need a cook for a gujju farsaan, but there are many "meals" which i would strongly argue don't ...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
rishab@...
Jul 4, 2003 11:04 am
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... Interesting point. Design can happen by accident:) Sorry, I missed that in my previous posts. -Frank ... ...
Frank T. Pohlmann
polar_beauty@...
Jul 4, 2003 11:06 am
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... Unless you have teenagers. - Joe...
Joseph S. Barrera III
joe@...
Jul 4, 2003 3:54 pm
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... Must.... keep off... theology... AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH.... If this were true, then it would take an infinite amount of time for the universe to be...
Arsalan Zaidi
arsalan_zaidi@...
Jul 5, 2003 3:05 am
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... I agree. It usually gets ugly. Hence this will be my last post (and only because you mentioned Occam's razor.) ... Then you are misunderstanding evolution....
Madhu Menon
webguru@...
Jul 5, 2003 5:17 am
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arsalan_zaidi@... wrote ... Good idea. I think we've had this particular discussion several times already. I'm surprised Eugen hasn't said anything...
biju_chacko@...
Jul 5, 2003 5:53 am
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Arsalan Zaidi wrote: [ on 11:00 AM 7/5/03 +0800 ] ... This is not true. Consider the following case: Let the first domino knock over the second domino in some...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jul 5, 2003 6:41 am
8671
... Taking this as a purely mental excersise. No theology here! :-) Lemme see now... 1. The chain is infinite. There is no 'first domino'. There is always a ...
Arsalan Zaidi
arsalan_zaidi@...
Jul 5, 2003 7:15 am
8672
biju_chacko@... wrote: [ on 11:25 AM 7/5/03 +0500 ] ... Eugen unsubscribed a little while ago. Per our last conversation, he is off *all* of his mailing...
Udhay Shankar N
udhay@...
Jul 5, 2003 7:29 am
8673
Arsalan Zaidi wrote: [ on 03:13 PM 7/5/03 +0800 ] ... Not true. There is *always* a first domino. If you posit that the line is infinite, there may be no one...
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