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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 10:52:41 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <59065@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >>I take it, then, that Greenhype, true to form, neglected to mention the
- >>time-frame appropriate to their estimate.
- >
- >Tell me, Carl, do you divine the contents of Greenpeace reports by staring
- >at the entrails of a VAX? Do you have some other basis, other than reading
- >the report, of course, for your assumption?
-
- No, Yackadamn, I base it on experience with GreenHype press releases and with
- my experience with, in this case, Jeremy's past postings.
-
- >>For the innumerates like Jym Dyer among you, if I get to pick the timeframe, I
- >
- >Voltaire or Diderot pointed out some time ago that the ignorance of a
- >person who has read *one* book far exceeds that of someone who has read
- >none. Similarly, for those who confuse their mastery of elementary
- >mathematics with "numeracy".
-
- And, we can then compare that with your technophobic ravings, right,
- Yackadamn??
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-