... Well, Ludi keeps drawing conclusions for future "innate" human social behaviour, based on studies of apes. The experiments are random, personalised full...
Eva Durant
Eva.Durant@...
Oct 1, 1999 8:54 am
30152
... Do the following. If you hear from a lawyer, either French or American, get a lawyer versed in cyber law. You probably won't even have to pay him/her....
Paul Bernhardt
pbern10@...
Oct 1, 1999 10:00 am
30153
... Yes, but I'd recommend a retreat only after she shows if she has a real lawyer really willing to engage in correspondence with your lawyer. This level of...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern10@...
Oct 1, 1999 10:12 am
30154
... Not quite. I draw conclusions about humans from behaviours observed in humans: hierarquies, competition for resources, favouring kin, sexual differences in...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
Oct 1, 1999 10:53 am
30155
... I have a sample for the US of approx 16.000 births spanning roughly from 1850 to 1950. The seasonal variation in this sample is too small to be significant...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
Oct 1, 1999 10:54 am
30156
... Does that mean the the Kooky Kristian Koalition (aka: Kooky Koathanger Koalition) are a bunch of commie plants?? John...
John Stone
jstone@...
Oct 1, 1999 11:32 am
30157
... Who assumed "no limits"? I am constantly re-stating the limits - they are based on the physical and social conditions, which won't "go away". I also think...
Eva Durant
Eva.Durant@...
Oct 1, 1999 11:54 am
30158
... Since the problem, apparently, was the lack of conversion from imperial *to* metric, the nasty comments should (more logically) be about "think imperial"....
Hans Havermann
haver@...
Oct 1, 1999 12:55 pm
30159
Even if I'd accept some self-awareness on the part of animals, that is qualitatively different from human linked self- and surrounding- awareness. No other...
Eva Durant
Eva.Durant@...
Oct 1, 1999 12:56 pm
30160
... Given that the "there's a 50% chance that some two people in a group of 23 share a birthday" rule involves a bit of rounding off anyway, I wouldn't be...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Oct 1, 1999 1:00 pm
30161
... ...but, as I recall, they don't work very well for rocketry, where you commonly build fabulously complicated things that only get used once. It can be...
Daniel Rutter
drutter@...
Oct 1, 1999 1:02 pm
30162
... They have to a certain degree. IIRC, staff per mission has been cut, with more emphasis put on computer monitoring than before, and less middle...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Oct 1, 1999 1:06 pm
30163
... Well true Eva.... Beavers alter their environement, they build dams. Ants alter their environment, they build huge anthills. But for sure, humans are...
Steve Kolb
skolb@...
Oct 1, 1999 1:33 pm
30164
... In the USA, maybe. Not everywhere. Certainly not here in Australia, where the defendant in a defamation action has to prove truth AND public interest, and...
Daniel Rutter
drutter@...
Oct 1, 1999 1:33 pm
30165
... There is also the intangible question of public confidence, which relates into funding, and the loss of time, in this case, several years. I assume that...
John Stone
jstone@...
Oct 1, 1999 1:43 pm
30166
... If you do, most likely you won't get the answer you expect. I was sitting in the lobby of a doctor yesterday waiting for an appointment. I picked up Good...
Ron Ebert
ebert@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:00 pm
30167
... Sent you to the books twice on this one;-) Thanks for the sharp eyes, I didn't know that. Are they native or introduced in those parts? We have introduced...
Marc Tyler
mtyler@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:13 pm
30168
... I am curious, but rather idly so. I wouldn't want you to break a sweat over it :-) -Marc T....
Marc Tyler
mtyler@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:13 pm
30169
... True, it's Chimp-linked self-and surrounding awareness. ... Could you rephrase this, please? Are you saying we build stuff and make plans? -Marc T....
Marc Tyler
mtyler@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:13 pm
30170
... We've seen mention of people looking for results following an anomolous event (blackout, sports championship) But has anyone, *without presumptions*...
Marc Tyler
mtyler@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:15 pm
30171
... I agree. Hurray! :) We can alter stuff to a greater extent than anyone else. But the big question is: can we do it right? I guess we'll have to wait and...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:24 pm
30172
Jesse Ventura airs views in Playboy Governor knocks religion, defends Tailhook, talks of JFK conspiracy Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 29 — In...
Ron Ebert
ebert@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:49 pm
30173
... Actually, I'm pretty sure the Harrison Ford reference is to Han Solo's line "This ship made the Kessel Run in under twelve parsecs" from Star Wars -- an...
James Redekop
tzoq@...
Oct 1, 1999 2:51 pm
30174
"Dean A. Batha" <dabatha@...> ... *sigh* Well, it *wouldn't be super-reliable then, WOULD it? The SRV I picture, however, would have the smarts, the...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:00 pm
30175
... Yeah and people in the ER ward will tell you that there are more incidents during a full moon. Kimba Spencer Justice & Associates kimba@... ...
Kimba Spencer
kimba@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:06 pm
30176
... Alerting ground controllers is not a practical option for anything except in the near-earth environment. Signal travel time would be too long. But I agree...
Ron Ebert
ebert@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:20 pm
30177
... I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter how "reliable" the vehicle is if the people responsible for it's operation are acting foolishly. ... ...
Dean A. Batha
dabatha@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:40 pm
30178
Ron Ebert <ebert@...> ... Sure it is, providing the craft recognizes the problem soon enough. Surely the MCO was in the wrong trajectory for a long,...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:44 pm
30179
... the error and insist that the script be corrected. But it might be that either he wasn't "science literate" in the 1970s and/or he didn't then/never picked...
Ron Ebert
ebert@...
Oct 1, 1999 3:50 pm
30180
... The problem was that the deviation was too small to measure properly: even three days before the orbital insertion, the ground measurements of MCO's...
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