Back in the early '70, I used to play the game quite a lot. Nowadays following games in various publications/books poses problems to me as over the years I'd encountered quite different notation systems and so sometimes I really got completely stuck. What is the real official notation system?
The collected works of Oskar45 - Page 5
One year after...
What were the changes so far?
What were the changes so far?
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And as luck would have it, the entire ISP goes down a few hours later
Are you sure you don't live in China ?
Vol. 5 finally out in pb!
We have 3000+ members and therefore 3000+ different tastes when it comes to music. Here is a list of some of my current favourites [in no particular order, though] Please state yours!
- Dire Straits, Private Investigations
- Jim Reid, The Wild Geese/Norland Wind
- Papermoon, Dancing Again
- Richard Harris, Mac Arthur Park
- Randy Crawford, One Day I'll Fly Away
- Flimm & the BBs, Tricycle
- Maire Brennan, The Days of the Dancing
- Luke Kelly, The Sun is Burning [the perfect song for all of you who believe in 21/12/2012]
- Maria Bethania, Eu preciso de voce
- Constance Demby, Novus Magnificat
- Robin Laing, More than just a dram [from one of best albums I know, "The Angels' Share"]
- David Carradine, Around
- Dire Straits, Private Investigations
- Jim Reid, The Wild Geese/Norland Wind
- Papermoon, Dancing Again
- Richard Harris, Mac Arthur Park
- Randy Crawford, One Day I'll Fly Away
- Flimm & the BBs, Tricycle
- Maire Brennan, The Days of the Dancing
- Luke Kelly, The Sun is Burning [the perfect song for all of you who believe in 21/12/2012]
- Maria Bethania, Eu preciso de voce
- Constance Demby, Novus Magnificat
- Robin Laing, More than just a dram [from one of best albums I know, "The Angels' Share"]
- David Carradine, Around
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Yes, I know they are posers.
Actually, ELP's "Pictures at an exhibition" [on the MFSL label; original recorded live on March 26, 1971 at Newcastle City Hall] is not so bad. In fact, MFSL had some of the best sounding vinyls there were [I have about 40 of them].
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
fu wrote: "köln concert"
Sure. Was there in January '75. One of the greatest concerts I've ever attended [part1/ second half is simply gorgeous]. Have it on my iPod for listening on the road. Like his solo stuff more than others, though - his Scala concert was a bit of a let-down, however...
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
fu wrote: "jasmine"
Despite "I'm gonna laugh you right out of my life", the perfect love-making background. Also, his "The Melody At Night, With You" is rather suitable as well
About 40% of Americans deny evolution. Sad.
Our "Everything else" forum rule just stipulates "No politics, please". Could you possibly change that to "No politics or religion, please", or some such?
My reason for such a request is that for quite a long time I'd fight the urge to comment on nonsense like Creationism, Creation Science, Intelligent Design etc. Of course, by our present rule, I'd have been allowed to submit completely nasty posts at my whimsy on these subjects. But, while I think most of our members are quite open-minded, others might be totally offended. So, please ban religion in addition to politics on the "Everything else" forum.
My reason for such a request is that for quite a long time I'd fight the urge to comment on nonsense like Creationism, Creation Science, Intelligent Design etc. Of course, by our present rule, I'd have been allowed to submit completely nasty posts at my whimsy on these subjects. But, while I think most of our members are quite open-minded, others might be totally offended. So, please ban religion in addition to politics on the "Everything else" forum.
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fu wrote: i'd join a discussion on religion started by you oskar
Hey pal, a few gins first
Ok, I think Intelligent Design stuff is completetly demented.
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YES, I can. Have a secret weapon, thoughfu wrote: uhmmm can you handle the gin today? i can only find ice cubes around an ancient theatre, nearest bar is 10km away
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If that's so, just why was it necessary to give the explicit forum rule, "No politics, please"? You might as well remove that rule as superflous. When things in said area go out of hand, someone of you will come as a son of God and lock us anyhowHakimoto wrote: Self-moderation is the buzzword indeed. When things go out of hand, be sure that one of us will come and lock y'all down.
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Apparently, China still peruses Bible translations aimed at pre-school kids. Farting? No way! The NRSV says "[...] whose emission was like that of stallions". Just duplicate thathamei wrote:mgtremaine wrote: Ezekiel 23:20 <- !!;)
What I can't understand is, why would anyone want a boyfriend who farted like a horse ?
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@our admins: the current thread might be become quite interesting, but out of Nekochan.net. Can you please move it to "Everything else" under, say, "Pro & Con religion" or whatever you think would be ok?
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@PymbleSoftware...
Come to think of it - maybe he wants to annoy YOU? In either case, it wouldn't been overly mature...
And yes - before they flock to Schoenbrunn to see them kangaroos in the zoo, tourists from down under love to get T-shirts with such a logo...
Come to think of it - maybe he wants to annoy YOU? In either case, it wouldn't been overly mature...
And yes - before they flock to Schoenbrunn to see them kangaroos in the zoo, tourists from down under love to get T-shirts with such a logo...
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After a couple of wild nights, back to topic
Regarding Christianity...
Despite of what you wrote before, Scientific Creationism/Creation Science/Intelligent Design are most certainly not trends to hystericize the new millenia at all [contrary to them New Age people who believe that, according to the Maya calendar, the world will go down in less than six months]. In fact, they have their roots in the 1870's, right after Darwin's "The descent of man" - beginning the war between creation and evolution. But why anyone could gloss over evolution so easily and hold on to an intelligent creation of our world escapes me totally...
Can't comment on scientology [or Jehova's witnesses, for that matter] - when they ring at my front door, I just tell them to go to hell.
fu wrote: i wasn't talking about religion in general but rather about the late trends to wrap everything in "scientific" paper. certain types of religion always had a tendency to update their wrapping paper. intelligent design, scientology etc, are just another trend of our days, grab some basic issues/axioms of theology, stick a few graphs & equations and call it "intelligent/scientific".
Regarding Christianity...
And Christopher Hitchens in "God is not great" quite clearly points out that all religions are simply man-fabrications and poison everything. Well, I consider myself as an agnostic anyhow. I most surely am not inclined to embrace any religion whatsoever on face value. In fact, I don't believe in religions at all. Grimm's Fairy Tales are much more entertaining, for sure...Bart Ehrman wrote: And so, just as I came to see the Bible as a very human book, I came to see Christianity as a very human religion. It did not descend from on high. It was created, down here on earth, among the followers of Jesus in the decades and centuries after his death. But none of this made me an agnostic.
Despite of what you wrote before, Scientific Creationism/Creation Science/Intelligent Design are most certainly not trends to hystericize the new millenia at all [contrary to them New Age people who believe that, according to the Maya calendar, the world will go down in less than six months]. In fact, they have their roots in the 1870's, right after Darwin's "The descent of man" - beginning the war between creation and evolution. But why anyone could gloss over evolution so easily and hold on to an intelligent creation of our world escapes me totally...
Can't comment on scientology [or Jehova's witnesses, for that matter] - when they ring at my front door, I just tell them to go to hell.
My signature doesn't refer to any odor at all. Quite to the contrary, it's surely the most pornographic verse in the biblefu wrote: i saw Ariadne yesterday, she never managed to (totaly) get rid of that Dionysus/Minotaur odor
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hamei wrote:Oskar45 wrote: Regarding Christianity...
Beating up on Christians is cheap, like shooting fish in a barrel or sending the Dream Team to represent you in the Olympics. How about taking on a few more stoopid religions ? Such as Business, the Invisible Hand, Free Markets, finance insurance and real estate, Pareto mathematics, entrepreneurs and innovators and all the rest of the braindead ignorant stinking crap that the US and Europe slavishly worships today ? It's no different than the retarded garbage in the bible but a hell of a lot more popular nowadays.
According to various polls, about 85+% of Chinese do believe in God. Apparently, however, that doesn't distract them from worshipping another golden calf - Business - and burn stinking offers world-wide to it. Looks like China is quite happy with that, though. But maybe only 15-% of Chinese are to be blamed for this, and China, overall, is not into any stoopid religion as the US and Europe are at all. Oh, promised land
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?
Oh, you really have contradictory poll results? How interesting. In any case you've obviously completely missed the point of my previous post. Let me help you. What I was trying to suggest is that China - whether it believes in God or not - most certainly slavishly worships quite the *same* stoopid religions or braindead ignorant stinking crap that you, as usual, accuse US and Europe do worship. Read John 8:7 and you will know what I meant...hamei wrote:Oskar45 wrote: According to various polls, about 85+% of Chinese do believe in God.
You believe that?
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hamei wrote:Oskar45 wrote: What I was trying to suggest is that China - whether it believes in God or not - most certainly slavishly worships quite the *same* stoopid religions ...
... he says, sitting in his rocking chair half the globe away with no knowledge whatsoever of Chinese people, Chinese culture, or Chinese history. But hey, he's got a poll !
Who is "he"?
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And who are these "chosen people"?mgtremaine wrote: As evidenced by how many "chosen people" there are
-Mike
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?
While it wasn't translated from German into English, Adolf Holl [internationally renowned author of "Jesus in Bad Company"] had written a book named "Wie gründe ich eine Religion?" [something like "How do I found a religion?", in English] - it would help you for surePymbleSoftware wrote: He said I should start my own religion [...]
If man would have been created out of the rib of a woman - how different would the world be?
Maybe he believes in false monsters...miod wrote:PymbleSoftware wrote: I think the flying spaghetti monster has already been discussed here...
You might not believe in It, but that's no reason not to use capital letters, blasphemer!
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Actually, while today "Intelligent Design" is considered a more modern movement, arguments against it can already be found in certain documents discovered in the Nag Hammadi library: this creation was not good, not in the least, and it was the result of a cosmic catastrophe, brought into being by an inferior and ignorant deity who erroneously imagined he was God Almighty [what a lovely paradox!]. Consult Mohammed Ali.fu wrote: i'm aware of creation sciences, but the title of "intelligent design" brought out an allergy in me since most things today are labeled "easy" "intelligent" "creative" etc.
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HP, of course! And the oil pressed out of its seeds is the perfect anointment for saladsmiod wrote: I've always known the only deity worth worshipping was the Holy Pumpkin.
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What I don't understand: since the OT is full of contradictions, how do fundamentalists [who take the Bible as the inspired words of God] decide the only correct way?
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I noticed yesterday that Irix and VMS are listed as 'Obsolete' operating systems and as such has been dropped from Emacs.
Emacs ? People still use that thing ?
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I'm a big fan of Inventor [and the source of OpenInventor is a delight for me]. However, it is now rather outdated [despite the fact that Jamsa's "VRML Programmer's Library" is a gold-mine for Inventor stuff as well].
Do you know of any more modern comparable open-source toolkit running under IRIX 6 and being able to be compiled under MipsPro?
Do you know of any more modern comparable open-source toolkit running under IRIX 6 and being able to be compiled under MipsPro?
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While I'm still running on iPad 1, do you think it's worth to get one of these latest gadgets?
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For the last 30 years I was Senior System Administrator in one of the best-hated international organizations of the world (with a decent salary, I admit). Anyhow, I'm retired now but, believe me, I certainly enjoy I DON'T have to get up at 7:30 in the morning anymore
...do you think it's the right one?
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Joe, please kill me now before I feed the trolls anything more.
Joe, please kill sky now before he feeds us anymore nonsense. And hamei as well...
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Had a chance to handle the iPad Mini. Not bad at all! Am tempted to get me one...
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As carnival is again over us in full swing and before the World ends in about one month from now [:-):-):-)], something light to ponder for you.
Imagine a huge warehouse full of SGI boxes [everyone on here would love that, for sure]. Ok, I make you two offers:
Offer One: I ask you to make a statement and promise you to let you choose *exactly* ten boxes if the statement is *true*. If the statement is *false*, then you will get either more or less than ten boxes, I'm not saying which, but *not* exactly ten.
Offer Two: I ask you to make a statement and let you choose *twenty* boxes as you wish if the statement is *true*, but none if the statement is *false*.
Which of my offers would you accept?
Imagine a huge warehouse full of SGI boxes [everyone on here would love that, for sure]. Ok, I make you two offers:
Offer One: I ask you to make a statement and promise you to let you choose *exactly* ten boxes if the statement is *true*. If the statement is *false*, then you will get either more or less than ten boxes, I'm not saying which, but *not* exactly ten.
Offer Two: I ask you to make a statement and let you choose *twenty* boxes as you wish if the statement is *true*, but none if the statement is *false*.
Which of my offers would you accept?
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BetXen wrote:
I'd say "offer one", but my wife would say "number two" because there is more "chance" (or risk, depending on the point of view) that I will not bring anything more at home...
Ok, but which statement would your wife deliver? Which statement would you yourself peruse?
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@guard: you are free to replace the warehouse full of SGI boxes with truckloads of pies [I myself like apple-pie {Apfelstrudel} but afterwards my stomach would probably be out of order] or porsches [how many could you drive at the same time anyways?], and rephrase the puzzle accordingly...
Well, since this thread is strictly for amusement, carnival is here and you only need to ponder something light, I must confess to having been a bit underhanded - I would *never* make you Offer One!
Why not? Because you could have said that I will neither give you exactly ten boxes nor exactly all of the warehouse's boxes [or, if suitably phrased, truckloads of pies or all the porsches in the world, or - for that matter - 100 million dollars] - and so you could win whatever you want and I would be completely bankrupt...
Well, since this thread is strictly for amusement, carnival is here and you only need to ponder something light, I must confess to having been a bit underhanded - I would *never* make you Offer One!
Why not? Because you could have said that I will neither give you exactly ten boxes nor exactly all of the warehouse's boxes [or, if suitably phrased, truckloads of pies or all the porsches in the world, or - for that matter - 100 million dollars] - and so you could win whatever you want and I would be completely bankrupt...
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Over here, there's a lot of fuzz (hype?) regarding Samsung's Galaxy SIII and Galaxy Note II. As I don't own an Android device yet, I'm tempted to get me one or the other of these two. Any recommendations?
Only for the record - I peruse just an iPhone 4, and I like it. Of course, in terms of sold units Samsung is way ahead of Apple - but then again, Apple all the time had only one model [the iPhone in up to now in its 5th generation] whereas Samsung has myriads of different models, coming out on a monthly basis [check http://www.gsmarena.com ]. Also, while Android runs on a few other devices as well, iOS runs only on Apple. Which reminds me, while I do have friends who swear on Blackberry - next to dead by all accounts -, it's the same with Irix - not too many of us are really so seriously into it anymore, or are you [I am]?
And, a bit OT - would you think the recent marriage between Nokia and Windows will be a prosperous one?
Only for the record - I peruse just an iPhone 4, and I like it. Of course, in terms of sold units Samsung is way ahead of Apple - but then again, Apple all the time had only one model [the iPhone in up to now in its 5th generation] whereas Samsung has myriads of different models, coming out on a monthly basis [check http://www.gsmarena.com ]. Also, while Android runs on a few other devices as well, iOS runs only on Apple. Which reminds me, while I do have friends who swear on Blackberry - next to dead by all accounts -, it's the same with Irix - not too many of us are really so seriously into it anymore, or are you [I am]?
And, a bit OT - would you think the recent marriage between Nokia and Windows will be a prosperous one?
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hamei wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
... something light to ponder for you.
Oskar, when you're not puzzling out the secrets of the universe, have you ever been to the Spanish Riding School ?
Yes.
BTW, I trust your precious collection of Chinese ceramic puzzle vessels is growing.
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hamei wrote:
Oskar45 wrote:
hamei wrote:
Oskar, when you're not puzzling out the secrets of the universe, have you ever been to the Spanish Riding School ?
Yes.
Cool. That's on my "before I die" list. Is it as spectacular as it should be ?
Them tourists think it is.
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Prompted by a recent amicable exchange with hamei in an other thread, I thought it'd be fun to learn what your most desirable but *not yet* visited destinations are.
To get the ball rolling, I'd love to go to the Galapagos Islands, and see Machu Picchu. I'd like to visit Palenque, and go to a good place for whale/orca watching [while I've done that at Kaikoura, I'd enjoy to do that somewhere else again]. The Antarctica and (bi)cycling around Iceland are high on my list as well. Just a few of my wishes...
Unfortunately, one of my youth desires had died long time ago - I always wanted to climb one of El Capitan's big walls but, alas, I've never managed to proceed beyond the 7th degree. Oh well...
To get the ball rolling, I'd love to go to the Galapagos Islands, and see Machu Picchu. I'd like to visit Palenque, and go to a good place for whale/orca watching [while I've done that at Kaikoura, I'd enjoy to do that somewhere else again]. The Antarctica and (bi)cycling around Iceland are high on my list as well. Just a few of my wishes...
Unfortunately, one of my youth desires had died long time ago - I always wanted to climb one of El Capitan's big walls but, alas, I've never managed to proceed beyond the 7th degree. Oh well...
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