On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:27:28 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Who said history is the *only* thing I suck at? I'm quite there's quite
> a long list there... :-/

Don't focus on what you suck at, focus on what you're GOOD at.

We all suck at a long laundry list of things.  I suck as a comedian.  I 
suck at building nuclear reactors.  I suck at history.  I suck at talking 
about old-time films with my wife.  I suck at remembering names of people 
I've met.  I suck at freehand drawing.  I suck at playing the accordion.  
I suck at poker.  I suck at keeping my desk uncluttered.  I suck at 
finishing a job I've started (go on, ask me how long we've been working 
on this damned addition on our house, I *dare* you).  I suck at 
medicine.  I suck at doing the laundry.  I suck at washing the dishes.  I 
suck at scooping the cat poop out of the litter boxes.  I suck at being 
patient with our mean cat.  I suck at wicker repair.  I suck at masonry.  
I suck at chemistry.  I suck at physics.  I suck at integral calculus.

I also apparently suck at giving advice.  THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WILL STOP 
TRYING!

(This list is not all-inclusive, by any means)

Jim

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Jim Henderson escribió:
> I suck at building nuclear reactors.

How can you say that if you never tried?

(or did you??)

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:11:31 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> I suck at building nuclear reactors.
> 
> How can you say that if you never tried?
> 
> (or did you??)

I've got three friends who are PhD's in Nuclear Physics.  But I wouldn't 
even know where to begin in building a reactor (my point being that Andy 
thinks he sucks at things he's never tried, and if that's the criteria, 
then we all suck at even more things <g>)

Jim

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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
> Jim Henderson escribió:
> > I suck at building nuclear reactors.
>
> How can you say that if you never tried?
>
> (or did you??)

ever heard of Chernobyl? ;)

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:06:54 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
>> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> > I suck at building nuclear reactors.
>>
>> How can you say that if you never tried?
>>
>> (or did you??)
> 
> ever heard of Chernobyl? ;)

Shhh!  That's supposed to be a SECRET! ;-)

(Arguably, I've been in Kiev, but that was after Chernobyl happened)

Jim

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andrel wrote:
> There will always be statements that can not be proven within a 
> set of axioms and theories.

The one part of this I've never figured out is...


How can you say something is unprovable if you can give a constructive 
proof of how to generate that which you claim your formal system can't 
generate?

It seems either you have to step outside the system to generate the 
unprovable string, or the string really isn't unprovable within the 
system and you're relying on intuition to "prove" it's unprovable.

Can someone clear that bit up for me?




[1] Yes, I bothered to fire up the non-English-character utility this 
time. :-)
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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> and none of the numerous variants in English :-)


with "May" in English (altho of course without the long trailing off "y" 

had to cheat to get D's in French class. Altho, surprisingly, I did 
fairly well when I spent a month in Paris. Overall strange.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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andrel wrote:
> You mean that there are no dialects in France?

This is France, where they have government departments to outlaw saying 
things like "le weekend". ;-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I'm pretty sure we've had this conversation before... It basically
> amounts to "I don't know where to start".

	Cheap way: Read the news (while trying to gain the skill of what news
to read and what not to).

	Expensive way: Travel.


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>> I'm pretty sure we've had this conversation before... It basically
>> amounts to "I don't know where to start".
> 
> 	Cheap way: Read the news (while trying to gain the skill of what news
> to read and what not to).

I never do this. The news is far too damn depressing.

> 	Expensive way: Travel.

I never did understand how travel is supposed to teach you anything. 
(Other than how to feel lost and afraid - which I already know how to do.)

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