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Old May 20th 2005, 4:44 pm
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Mxsmanic
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Deep Foiled Malls writes:

    > How should I know?

That's what I was wondering.

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Old May 20th 2005, 4:44 pm
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Deep Foiled Malls writes:

    > No it's not. You cannot have a 'casual debate' for instance.

When ever two or more people discussion a topic on which they disagree,
it's a debate. It can still be very casual.

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Old May 20th 2005, 6:00 pm
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"Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Miss L. Toe writes:
    > > But supposedly it is global warming that is melting the ice cap that is
    > > causing the gulf stream to slow/stop, and that will prevent North-West
    > > Europe being protected from the extremes of the weather
    > We shall see.
    > Global weather is extremely poorly understood. Observations are much
    > more reliable than predictions. A global warming has been observed;
    > predictions about how the Gulf Stream or anything else will behave must
    > be taken with very large grains of salt, as scientists really don't
    > know.

The slowing down of the gulf stream has also been observed

    > Weather is a great example of applied chaos theory. It _should_ be
    > possible to predict the weather with perfect accuracy--the equations are
    > quite simple--but in practice it is impossible to do so beyond very
    > small areas for very short periods. No amount of computer horsepower
    > can change this.

I'm not sure I'd agree with the equations being simple.

I think medium sized areas for medium periods would be a lot easier than
very small ones
 
Old May 20th 2005, 6:29 pm
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Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:

    > chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco
    > writes:
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    > > That he thinks you're being a dumb ****.
    >
    > Why does he think that?

Because you're certainly playing one on Usenet.

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Old May 20th 2005, 6:59 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:38:44 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
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    >Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >> If you are right, and appear so, then you are right.
    >If I'm right, and do not appear so, I'm still right.

Not if you only think so.
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Old May 20th 2005, 7:03 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:39:35 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
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    >Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >> You are saying that as a defence mechanism because USENET is something
    >> that is important to you.
    >No, I'm saying it because it's true. USENET is entertainment to me.

What is true?
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Old May 20th 2005, 7:05 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:44:34 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
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    >Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >> No it's not. You cannot have a 'casual debate' for instance.
    >When ever two or more people discussion a topic on which they disagree,
    >it's a debate. It can still be very casual.

No. A debate is by definition more formal than a discussion.
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Old May 20th 2005, 7:06 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:41:05 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
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    >Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >> Scientific means in a controlled environment. Simply placing it under
    >> an awning cannot guarantee this.
    >It can, however, provide a reading much closer to the reality of the
    >uncontrolled environment in which most people live.

So it is not scientific.
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Old May 20th 2005, 7:07 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:39:01 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
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    >Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:
    >> You're a good-doer to humanity and yet we did not notice...
    >Who is "we"?

The ones who are not you.
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Old May 20th 2005, 7:36 pm
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On Fri, 20 May 2005 23:03:38 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Fri, 20 May 2005 22:39:58 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    >wrote:
    >>Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >>> If they did, they would have stepped in by now to support
    >>> you.
    >>This is a USENET newsgroup, which is only one step removed from a school
    >>playground. I don't worry too much about discussions here.
    >You are saying that as a defence mechanism because USENET is something
    >that is important to you.

or he is fed up with school playground bullying
 
Old May 20th 2005, 7:40 pm
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On Fri, 20 May 2005 23:33:15 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Fri, 20 May 2005 20:49:49 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    >wrote:
    >>nitram writes:
    >>> but it is scientifically recorded figures we discuss not how high a
    >>> thermometer with a black painted bulb exposed to the sun will read
    >>> before it bursts.
    >>There's nothing unscientific about a thermometer in a home or office, or
    >>under an awning.
    >Scientific means in a controlled environment. Simply placing it under
    >an awning cannot guarantee this.

up his back passage gives the sort of constant readings he has been
quoting.
 
Old May 20th 2005, 7:40 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:59:01 GMT, Deep Foiled Malls
<deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:

    >On Sat, 21 May 2005 06:38:44 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    >wrote:
    >>Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >>> If you are right, and appear so, then you are right.
    >>If I'm right, and do not appear so, I'm still right.
    >Not if you only think so.

and not when we know he is wrong.
 
Old May 20th 2005, 7:53 pm
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On Fri, 20 May 2005 21:24:11 -0400, "Miss L. Toe"
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >"Mxsmanic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected].. .
    >> Miss L. Toe writes:
    >> > But I though that the gulf stream was stopping and the UK and much of
    >> > Northern Europe was about to be embedded in ice.
    >> We shall see. The evidence for global warming is very strong; the
    >> evidence for a drop in temperature in Europe is extremely weak.
    >But supposedly it is global warming that is melting the ice cap that is
    >causing the gulf stream to slow/stop, and that will prevent North-West
    >Europe being protected from the extremes of the weather

Suppose it's a load of bollocks?
 
Old May 20th 2005, 7:55 pm
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On Fri, 20 May 2005 21:42:31 +0100, [email protected]
(chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco)
wrote:

    >Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> Deep Foiled Malls writes:
    >>
    >> > To communicate something YOU DUMB ****.
    >>
    >> What were you trying to communicate?
    >That he thinks you're being a dumb ****. Are you still teaching English?

He hasn't got past A is for Arsehole yet.
 
Old May 20th 2005, 7:57 pm
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 05:04:37 +0200, [email protected]
(Stanislas de Kertanguy) wrote:

    >Mxsmanic <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> No, I wish to make people think, and I sometimes will go to considerable
    >> lengths to achieve this goal.
    >You're a good-doer to humanity and yet we did not notice...

He doesn't have the looks of Diana.
 


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