From: BT Humble on
Marty H wrote:
> BT Humble wrote:
> > From that first link, check out the $7.2M pair of goggles. These days you
> > can buy an auto-darkening welding helmet that does the same job for $100.
>
> and here I was pissed that my first DVD player was worth $1600

I waited to buy a DVD player until they were $200 (and it was a hella long
wait, too!) I'm still using it, and now you can buy pretty much the same
model new for $20.


BTH

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From: George W Frost on

"BT Humble" <YnRAaHVtYmxldG93bi5vcmc=(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au> wrote
in message news:hpgn2f$to5$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> Marty H wrote:
>> BT Humble wrote:
>> > From that first link, check out the $7.2M pair of goggles. These days
>> > you
>> > can buy an auto-darkening welding helmet that does the same job for
>> > $100.
>>
>> and here I was pissed that my first DVD player was worth $1600
>
> I waited to buy a DVD player until they were $200 (and it was a hella long
> wait, too!) I'm still using it, and now you can buy pretty much the same
> model new for $20.
>
>
> BTH
>
>

This was probably because Hella ( sic) globes do not transmit data as well
as lasers


From: George W Frost on

"JohnO" <varcs45(a)msn.com> wrote in message
news:prjnr51dg505864sal70ekgvnl18pivdui(a)4ax.com...
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:07:16 GMT, "George W Frost"
> <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> snip some...
>
>
>>
>>
>>I am a realist Nev, I have to see the benefits before I can believe in
>>something
>>You tell me that your bike will go as fast as 275 kph
>>I will believe you when I see the specification sheet that someone has
>>gone
>>that fast on it
>>Or it has been on a dyno
>>
>>Otherwise, you can tell me or anyone else, that your bike can go 475 kph
>>But, without specific proof, there is no credibility
>>
>>Same as this Hadron Collider,
>>Show me what it does,
>>That is SHOW me, NOT tell me
>>, then I will believe it
>>otherwise, it is jobs for the boys and a big money waster.
>
> What about the roads, sewerage... and don't forget the aqueducts!
>
> JohnO <the historian>
>
> Beer?
>

Ta, but Hadron didn't build the aqueducts, he rode his elephants across them
and broke them

Cuppa tea Darls ??


From: Nev.. on
Diogenes wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:07:16 GMT, "George W Frost"
> <georgewfrost(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am a realist Nev, I have to see the benefits before I can believe in
>> something
>
> Thats's not being a realist, that's being an ignoramus.
>
>> Same as this Hadron Collider,
>> Show me what it does,
>> That is SHOW me, NOT tell me
>> , then I will believe it
>> otherwise, it is jobs for the boys and a big money waster.
>
> I fear that they cannot show you because your are too stupid to see.
>
>> Do I detect a bit of anti-war activist in that?
>
> You've still not given us the facts necessary to verify that you are
> the might killer of sarong-wearing Vietcong you claim to be.
>
> Using your own logic, I'd have to say "I am a realist George, I have
> to see the your Discharge Certificate before I can believe you. Show
> me the certificate. That is SHOW me, NOT tell me, then I will believe
> it otherwise, you're just a pathetic imposter."
>
> Retards at twenty paces anyone?

Fixed that up for ya :)

Nev..
'08 DL1000K8
From: Andrew on
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:40:51 +0000, Kevin Gleeson wrote:

>
> But that can't be the case! Why would you spend that amount of money to
> come up with something that would save a lot of peoples' eyesight or
> ummm, not, or something. I dunno, this research thing is really pie in
> the sky innit?
>
> Kev
>
> BTW - can someone tell me (with a bit of research) why the hell the
> latest version of Forte won't accept my Signature. When it is just "Kev"
> and I have been using it for a decade or more now. I wonder if the LHC
> might be able to answer that fundamental question of the universe.

Forte Agent 6.0? When you say it won't accept your sig, do you mean
you've set it in the correct Persona but it won't append it? Or that when
you compose it in the Persona it refuses to save it?

If you use the 'Insert Signature' button, what happens? Does your sig
start with a pair of hyphens?

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Regards

Andrew
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