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flamewars vs. spikey

to beat spikey, you have to use clever semantics, not hardware stats

stats quoted in small shots never prove anything and they are like the bible, you can take any isolated fact or stat out of context as me (a protestant) and my employee (a jehovah witness) do going around and around about the minutae of religious apologetics and who said what and when and if they had long hair or not, etc...

it is also like politics as i being a democrat go around and around with my mac client, who is a republican, about the details of the florida results...but now i am happy my man gore wasn't in the hot seat when 9/11 happened...i hope there is a peacful resolution to the reported surrender and that we get food out to all the starving people on both sides, or all 30 sides!

better yet, do you wanna make afganistan our friends for life...send them macs!

ignorance is never bliss

 
Re: flamewars vs. spikey

>to beat spikey, you have to use clever semantics,

As I found out. I turned the eloquence way up, just for him. :p


>not hardware stats

The 200 Mhz bus thing was a balls up. He kept going on and on about this
400 MHz bus. I'm just sitting here thinking `what 400 mhz bus?'. Turns out
the vaunted 750FX FSB was 200 mhz. Probably some DDR confusion here; I
don't know what else.


>stats quoted in small shots never prove anything and they are like the
bible, you can take any isolated fact or stat out of context as me (a
protestant) and my employee (a jehovah witness)

JWs annoy me intensely. Ask them about their predictions which were all
wrong. Britain falling to the Nazis, man will never leave earth's
atmosphere... etc. Worked [note past tense ;)] wonders on the JWs that
came around my place.

As a Catholic I don't care [ex ecclesiam nulla salus -- "i'm going to
heaven and you're not! Narf!" and other odd condemnations go here]; notice
also that Catholic apologetics websites are more factual and tactful than
rabblerousers like Jack Chick. [no not all American Protestants are bad...
e.g. you ;) ] Why the JWs came around so many times I don't know. Can't
they tell my entire neighbourhood is happy being catholic/orthodox?


> do going around and around about the minutae of religious apologetics
and who said what and when and if they had long hair or not, etc...

The whole was-jesus-a-long-haired-hippie thing is big to them. Apparently
the bible prohibits long hair for men. Then again, they hardly count as
christians, paying deference more to the old than new testament.


>it is also like politics as i being a democrat go around and around with
my mac client, who is a republican, about the details of the florida
results...but now i am happy my man gore wasn't in the hot seat when 9/11
happened...i hope there is a peacful resolution to the reported surrender
and that we get food out to all the starving people on both sides, or all
30 sides!

Food and infrastructure. If the US gives Afghanistan a hand up and in 50
years they're some wealthy first-world country, the US can notch that up
in their book as another Props-To-Us(tm) Moment ;) They need electricity
(sustainable -- afghanistan has a lot of natural gas, use that), reliable
(clean) water, schools, the basic stuff. As long as a few jobs can be
created that should be enough to get the ball rolling. And of course...
democracy... and separation of church and state (mosque and state? :p)...
And a constitution which guards civil liberties... a lot hrmm?


>better yet, do you wanna make afganistan our friends for life...send them
macs!

Agreed! Next century belongs to Asia, remember :p [according to the
Inquirer (or the Reg, i forget), Apple's opening a head office in China.
The article's not there anymore, damn...)

Make sure they have infrastructure first though! Was it the US (not
flaming you, or your country, i'm just not certain as to the country in
question) who sent PCs to some part of some poor country... that didn't
have electricity? :p
 
And i have only been away a couple of days.

BTW congrats jef, first to the 400 run mark.
 
barry mcguigan???
.........dunno about him, but Brian Lara got to 501.

Are we talking cricket?
 
he might have gotten to 501, but that was only in county cricket, not a test, so it's not as impressive as it sounds. Still, a record is a record...
 
Getting to 501 is actually very impressive.
The amount of mental concentration to get to 100 never mind 501 is incredible. Once you get past 100 you go into a careless mind set, so to get to 501 is hellishly impressive at county level or not.
also the physical drain of getting to 501 is huge, the amount of body fluids lost doing that would be a hell of alot.

Agrred at test level it would have been a greater achievement, but not as much as you would think. Test cricket isnt just a higher level of cricket but its a completely different style of the game which nees completely different mind set and a completely different style of play. Which is why many Test match players dont make it at county level, they cant get used to a new style of play.
many parts of county cricket isnt much harder its just different to test match cricket.
BTW not all the credit should go to Lara, he had a great Warwickshire side behind him, with Dermot Reeve as his captain.

Well done spg, funny joke.


 
but just the way we like it

look at how many posts you and i have, we must be the wicky wicky culprits
 
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