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>>> Do you know who the lead singer of Space is?
>> If he is a professional musician one could perhaps expect him to know,
>> but since he probably isn't, then no such expectation is fair.
>
> I could be a classical pianist and still have no clue of some obscure rock
> band... Bertrand Russel is far from being obscure. The examples don't match.
True story: A friend of mine left the cinema after watching Titanic, and
overheard a couple of people talking.
"Did you know it's based on a real story?"
"Don't be stupid!"
"No, seriously. There REALLY WAS a ship called Titanic and it sank."
"Yeah, well, I bet they've exaggerated it a bit..."
Draw your own conclusions.
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
I'll let Gilles handle that... but I spell it quite like "Monsieur"...
> I'll admit I have often wondered why all the best stuff was invented by
> people who weren't British. Presumably because the cardinality of the
> set of all British people is far smaller than that of the complement set...
oh, please! You're a friggin' geek of the best kind! How can a geek not get
interested in small irrelevant details?! Like origins and authors of major
breakthrough theories...
it's an aberration! That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
From now on, you're a freak! :P
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> True story: A friend of mine left the cinema after watching Titanic, and
> overheard a couple of people talking.
>
> "Did you know it's based on a real story?"
>
> "Don't be stupid!"
>
> Draw your own conclusions.
people are becoming like Andrew?! Ignorance is a fast spreading disease...
BTW, again it's not a good example. You're comparing one of the major naval
catastrophes in history, well documented in countless of Hollywood movies, to
one obscure rock band, perhaps local to UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(band)
I understand you're from UK, so I guess it's not the electronic band... it's
really just an obscure, irrelevant rock band.
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:41:29 +0100, "Gilles Tran"
<gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
>I like geeks, but sometimes they should be forcefully dragged out of their
>cubicles/basements/hobbitholes and sent to work in some paddy fields for a
>while.
Is this a reference to Pol Pot or the Cultural Revolution? :)
Regards
Stephen
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web.47a05d77821471c47b614c6a0@news.povray.org...
> you could start by developing an interest into knowing the why of certain
> paradoxes and techniques having funky names, like: Russel's paradox,
BTW, until recently, there was absolutely *** nothing *** on the web about
Phong, who died at 33 from leukemia right after inventing the shading
method. Being called either Phong Bui Tuong or Bui Tuong Phong didn't help
researching his name either.
Fortunately, last year someone interviewed his teacher and friends at
Standford and put the material in Wikipedia, and now the article is tagged
for lacking sources and being Original Research :(
Grumble grumble
G.
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"Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote:
> Fortunately, last year someone interviewed his teacher and friends at
> Standford and put the material in Wikipedia, and now the article is tagged
> for lacking sources and being Original Research :(
BTW, it sounds like "BEH zee ay", according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier
no final R sound?
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nemesis wrote:
> That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
> From now on, you're a freak! :P
...again. *sigh*
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>
> > That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
> > From now on, you're a freak! :P
>
> ...again. *sigh*
it's a joke. Don't blow an artery...
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>>> That's it: I'm demoding you from your geek privileges!
>>> From now on, you're a freak! :P
>> ...again. *sigh*
>
> it's a joke. Don't blow an artery...
So was my responce. ;-)
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>
> BTW, it sounds like "BEH zee ay", according to wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_B%C3%A9zier
>
> no final R sound?
>
Nope, in French the letters "er" at the end of words are generally
exception at the moment, but I'm putting a "generally" in there just in
case :-)
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