Larry Niven Wikipedia Article
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Here.[^] "One of his suggestions as a member of SIGMA was that hospitals stem financial losses by spreading rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants, in order to reduce illegal immigrants' use of emergency rooms." Discussing illegal immigration problem is beyond me, this just seems like a silly thing to advise anybody.
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Anonimista wrote:
this just seems like a silly thing to advise anybody.
It was a joke told to a bunch of his sf author friends and a direct reference to something that does happen in his future timeline. Like most humor it ended up offending someone - in this case, you. :rolleyes: I strongly urge you never to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public
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Anonimista wrote:
this just seems like a silly thing to advise anybody.
It was a joke told to a bunch of his sf author friends and a direct reference to something that does happen in his future timeline. Like most humor it ended up offending someone - in this case, you. :rolleyes: I strongly urge you never to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
No reason to get mad, it just seemed a silly thing to advise somebody.
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No reason to get mad, it just seemed a silly thing to advise somebody.
They have changed us.
He wasn't "advising" anyone. The context, unreported by your source, is that he was part of a group invited by the Department of Defense to come up with "unthinkable scenarios." (Look up brainstorming.) and said something to make the rest of the group laugh.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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He wasn't "advising" anyone. The context, unreported by your source, is that he was part of a group invited by the Department of Defense to come up with "unthinkable scenarios." (Look up brainstorming.) and said something to make the rest of the group laugh.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
Why get excited over a Wikipedia article? His words may heve been misquoted or taken out of context, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
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Why get excited over a Wikipedia article? His words may heve been misquoted or taken out of context, it doesn't seem like a big deal.
They have changed us.
A fallacy should never be left unchallenged because that way it gets repeated. You posted something wrong, possibly through misunderstanding, possibly because your source misunderstood, I have no need or desire to check. Oakman attempted to put you straight. You continued to get it wrong. Oakman made another attempt to put you straight. I really cannot understand why you object to being corrected so much.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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A fallacy should never be left unchallenged because that way it gets repeated. You posted something wrong, possibly through misunderstanding, possibly because your source misunderstood, I have no need or desire to check. Oakman attempted to put you straight. You continued to get it wrong. Oakman made another attempt to put you straight. I really cannot understand why you object to being corrected so much.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Man you are tense!
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Man you are tense!
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Yeah, watching you repeatedly act like an idiot is really stressing me out.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Should I care about what stresses you out?
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Should I care about what stresses you out?
They have changed us.
I would just like to point out that this thread gave me a pang of nostalgia for hanging out on usenet 15 years ago or so. Sniff. Thank you. Now, by all means, continue.
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on And your friends they sing along and they love you But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap And it teases you for weeks in its absence Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
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Should I care about what stresses you out?
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Anonimista wrote:
this just seems like a silly thing to advise anybody.
It was a joke told to a bunch of his sf author friends and a direct reference to something that does happen in his future timeline. Like most humor it ended up offending someone - in this case, you. :rolleyes: I strongly urge you never to read Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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I would just like to point out that this thread gave me a pang of nostalgia for hanging out on usenet 15 years ago or so. Sniff. Thank you. Now, by all means, continue.
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on And your friends they sing along and they love you But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap And it teases you for weeks in its absence Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
If it'll really cheer you up, I should imagine that Godwin will be trotting through the doors pretty soon now.
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Well, I think it would be polite if you at least pretended to.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
ChrisElston wrote:
Well, I think it would be polite if you at least pretended to.
I care, Chris. I am giving you the afternoon off - go have a beer.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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I like my orphans broiled.
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wizardzz wrote:
I like my orphans broiled.
Ewwww. What a tasteless thing to say! I like mine fried in butter and then salted.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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I would just like to point out that this thread gave me a pang of nostalgia for hanging out on usenet 15 years ago or so. Sniff. Thank you. Now, by all means, continue.
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on And your friends they sing along and they love you But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap And it teases you for weeks in its absence Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
alt.fan.heinlein?
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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wizardzz wrote:
I like my orphans broiled.
Ewwww. What a tasteless thing to say! I like mine fried in butter and then salted.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
Oakman wrote:
fried in butter and then salted.
presumably after they have been tenderised by repeated bashing with a baby seal?
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Oakman wrote:
fried in butter and then salted.
presumably after they have been tenderised by repeated bashing with a baby seal?
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
presumably after they have been tenderised by repeated bashing with a baby seal?
Hell no. Seals are sweet gentle creatures, not food stock.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
presumably after they have been tenderised by repeated bashing with a baby seal?
Hell no. Seals are sweet gentle creatures, not food stock.
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.
Oakman wrote:
not food stock
I'm shocked that you even THINK I MIGHT be suggestion eating a baby seal! But their density makes them great for bashing with
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