(SI) Suggestion to change mandates around for effect

I was thinking... why don't we have the night shots due Dec 19 instead of Nov
21, that way we can have xmas light displays as well.

And make the panorama shots for Nov 21.

Just a thought...

Bob

* Bowser wrote :
"Robert Coe" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:50:24 -0400, "Bowser" wrote:
: wrote in message
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: I was thinking... why don't we have the night shots due Dec 19
: instead of Nov 21, that way we can have xmas light displays as
: well.
:
: And make the panorama shots for Nov 21.
:
: Just a thought...
snip /
OK, I'll swap them, and post the changes later on today.
Away we go...

Now I'm confused. What if I wanted to do a night time panorama
of some Christmas lights?

--
Troy Piggins

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:44:25 +1000, Troy Piggins
wrote:
: * Bowser wrote :
: "Robert Coe" wrote in message
: ...
:
: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:50:24 -0400, "Bowser" wrote:
: : wrote in message
: ...
: :
: :
: : I was thinking... why don't we have the night shots due Dec 19
: : instead of Nov 21, that way we can have xmas light displays as
: : well.
: :
: : And make the panorama shots for Nov 21.
: :
: : Just a thought...
: snip /
: OK, I'll swap them, and post the changes later on today.
: Away we go...
:
: Now I'm confused. What if I wanted to do a night time panorama
: of some Christmas lights?

Well, for one thing, you'll have to stay up later to get the shot than we in
the Northern Hemisphere would. ;^)

Bob

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:43:06 -0400, tony cooper
wrote:



I could have done a panorama last week. Some idiot neighbor of mine
is Tea Party fruitcake and did a Halloween yard scene with gravestones
for Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, and several other Democratic pols. It
was really offensive as far as I'm concerned.

I don't have any objections to anyone having whatever addle-pated
political opinions they want, but to make Halloween a political
statement exceeds the bounds of propriety. How do you explain to
small children why the guy thinks the President of the US should be
ridiculed in this manner?

I should have hung an effigy of Christine O'Donnell in witch regalia
in his tree.

We have a local nutcase up here, too, who posted these signs in his
front yard during the 2008 presidential campaign:

http://www.manzi.org/pix/nobama4.jpg

http://www.manzi.org/pix/nobama5.jpg


Bill Hudak, the nutjob who posted the signs later ran for congress in
the MA 6th district. He took a beating. I know the guy, and we
"discussed" these signs and he said that he had every right to post
them. So I ginned up a mock sign of my own. I snapped a pic of him
waving (it really looked like a "sig heil" salute) to a crowd at one
of his rallies, and then PS'd him into a Nazi uniform with the words
"vote for facism" on the sign. He went ballistic. I told him that if
he had the right to make Obama look like Bin Laden, I had the right to
make him look like Hitler. He disagreed. And he didn't get the point,
either.

I didn't post the sign. I refused to sink to his level.

"Savageduck" wrote in message
news:2010110319570811272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom...
On 2010-11-03 19:50:08 -0700, tony cooper
said:
The real blow was the election of Rick Scott as Governor. He was CEO
of a company that committed a series of the largest Medicare frauds in
history. He claims that he was not aware of the frauds. (Took the
5th 75 times in court appearances) That means either he is a
bald-faced liar or an incompetent CEO unaware of what his company was
up to.

I'd go with "bald-faced liar."


"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize Physicist

On 2010-11-04 18:16:13 -0700, "Bill Graham" said:


"Savageduck" wrote in message
news:2010110319570811272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom...
On 2010-11-03 19:50:08 -0700, tony cooper said:
The real blow was the election of Rick Scott as Governor. He was CEO
of a company that committed a series of the largest Medicare frauds in
history. He claims that he was not aware of the frauds. (Took the
5th 75 times in court appearances) That means either he is a
bald-faced liar or an incompetent CEO unaware of what his company was
up to.

I'd go with "bald-faced liar."


"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize Physicist

If you are going to quote anybody, Feynman is a fine choice.

The best, being the letter he wrote to his draft board to obtain a 4F
deferment;

"Dear Sirs,
I do not think I should be drafted because I am teaching science
students and it is partly in the strength of our future scientists that
the national welfare lies. Nevertheless, you may decide that I should
be deferred because of the result of my medical report, namely, that I
am psychiatrically unfit. I feel that no weight whatsoever should be
attached to this report because I consider it to be a gross error.
I am calling this error to your attention because I am insane enough
not to wish to take advantage of it.

Sincerely,
R. P. Feynman"

Result: "Deferred, 4F, Medical Reasons."

--
Regards,

Savageduck

Bowser wrote:
He disagreed. And he didn't get the point,

Oh man.

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:16:13 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote:
:
: "Savageduck" wrote in message
: news:2010110319570811272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom...
: On 2010-11-03 19:50:08 -0700, tony cooper
: said:
: The real blow was the election of Rick Scott as Governor. He was CEO
: of a company that committed a series of the largest Medicare frauds in
: history. He claims that he was not aware of the frauds. (Took the
: 5th 75 times in court appearances) That means either he is a
: bald-faced liar or an incompetent CEO unaware of what his company was
: up to.
:
: I'd go with "bald-faced liar."
:
:
: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
: Richard Feynman
: Nobel Prize Physicist

There's much truth in Feynman's words. But there are those for whom only
malice has explanatory value. Case in point: Stupidity is (arguably) a
sufficient explanation for George W. Bush, but not for Richard Cheney.

Bob

"Savageduck" wrote in message
news:2010110419540878840-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom...
On 2010-11-04 18:16:13 -0700, "Bill Graham" said:


"Savageduck" wrote in message
news:2010110319570811272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom...
On 2010-11-03 19:50:08 -0700, tony cooper
said:
The real blow was the election of Rick Scott as Governor. He was CEO
of a company that committed a series of the largest Medicare frauds in
history. He claims that he was not aware of the frauds. (Took the
5th 75 times in court appearances) That means either he is a
bald-faced liar or an incompetent CEO unaware of what his company was
up to.

I'd go with "bald-faced liar."


"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity"
Richard Feynman
Nobel Prize Physicist

If you are going to quote anybody, Feynman is a fine choice.

The best, being the letter he wrote to his draft board to obtain a 4F
deferment;

"Dear Sirs,
I do not think I should be drafted because I am teaching science students
and it is partly in the strength of our future scientists that the
national welfare lies. Nevertheless, you may decide that I should be
deferred because of the result of my medical report, namely, that I am
psychiatrically unfit. I feel that no weight whatsoever should be attached
to this report because I consider it to be a gross error.
I am calling this error to your attention because I am insane enough not
to wish to take advantage of it.

Sincerely,
R. P. Feynman"

Result: "Deferred, 4F, Medical Reasons."

--
Regards,

Savageduck



Ha! I have read all of Feynman's books, and I don't remember that. -
Thanks!

"Robert Coe" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 18:16:13 -0700, "Bill Graham" wrote:
:
: "Savageduck" wrote in message
: news:2010110319570811272-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom...
: On 2010-11-03 19:50:08 -0700, tony cooper

: said:
: The real blow was the election of Rick Scott as Governor. He was CEO
: of a company that committed a series of the largest Medicare frauds
in
: history. He claims that he was not aware of the frauds. (Took the
: 5th 75 times in court appearances) That means either he is a
: bald-faced liar or an incompetent CEO unaware of what his company was
: up to.
:
: I'd go with "bald-faced liar."
:
:
: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity"
: Richard Feynman
: Nobel Prize Physicist

There's much truth in Feynman's words. But there are those for whom only
malice has explanatory value. Case in point: Stupidity is (arguably) a
sufficient explanation for George W. Bush, but not for Richard Cheney.

Bob

Yes. There are some things that are not, "adequately explained" by
stupidity.