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| cnkay1@gmail.com: Sep 30 05:57PM -0700 Looking for one myself. Free PDF preferred but if I have to pay a small amount so be it. Please post any leads here thanks |
| N_Cook <diverse@tcp.co.uk>: Oct 01 11:37AM +0100 > Looking for one myself. Free PDF preferred but if I have to pay a small amount so be it. > Please post any leads here thanks Have you misread an inventory label as a maker's label? |
| Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net>: Sep 30 08:47PM On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:43:03 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: > The supply of white space is limited and in danger of extinction. > When we run out of white space, allthewordswillruntogether. Entropy's effect would seem to create just the opposite -- whitespace ever expanding until e v e n l e t t e r s w i l l b e t o o f a r a p a r t t o r e l a t e t o e a c h o t h e r . Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ.net | linux 38.238N 104.547W | @ jonz.net | Jonesy | FreeBSD * Killfiling google & XXXXbanter.com: jonz.net/ng.htm |
| Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Sep 30 02:13PM -0700 On 30 Sep 2017 20:47:43 GMT, Allodoxaphobia >r e l a t e t o e a c h >o t h e r . >Jonesy That's not entropy, which is the tendency for all attempts to organize this newsgroup to turn into randomized rubbish. It's also not the expansion of the universe, which would increase the font size along with the inter-character spacing. After all the great ideas are eliminated, whatever is left, no matter how dumb, must be the cause. In this case, it's caused by authors being paid by the page. In the distant past, authors were paid by the word. This resulted in numerous abrevs, contractions, and hypenations to increase the word count. However, it was tedious to count words. So, publishers changed to counting pages instead. That changed the style sheet to gigantic fonts, absurdly wide margins, margin notes, double and triple spaced lines, two spaces between sentences, a heading on every page, and footnotes that nobody reads. What's important is that the tool to make all this happen is the white space character. Prior to these changes, the worlds supply of white space was adequate for all forms of publication. Afterwards, the supply of white space began to diminish. That happened to me, when I pressed the space bar, and nothing happened. I quickly inserted a flash drive full of empty space, which allowed me to continue writing. However, that's only temporary as AGW alarmists are already proclaiming impending doom. Little wonder that NASA is trying to resurrect the space program, so that we can replenish our supply of white space from outer space. Unfortunately, I do not have an answer to the white space depletion problem. Conservation is only a temporary measure. Eventually, we will run out of white space resulting in the implosion of all written text and the rationing of white space. It might be possible to use black paper and white printing because unlike the supply of white space, there's plenty of black space available inside the nearest black hole. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
| Mike Coon <gravity@mjcoon.plus.com>: Oct 01 12:11AM +0100 In article <8u00tctv79ojubncfvg902lfdqmrjts1nq@4ax.com>, jeffl@cruzio.com says... > distant past, authors were paid by the word. This resulted in > numerous abrevs, contractions, and hypenations to increase the word > count. That reminds me of my invention of logarithmically-lined paper because there is always just a few extra lines of writing which (when we used to do long-hand) just needed to be fitted in to that last page... Mike. |
| rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>: Sep 30 08:38PM -0400 Mike Coon wrote on 9/30/2017 7:11 PM: > That reminds me of my invention of logarithmically-lined paper because > there is always just a few extra lines of writing which (when we used to > do long-hand) just needed to be fitted in to that last page... That one was pretty good! You should get that patented. lol -- Rick C Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, on the centerline of totality since 1998 |
| Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Sep 30 07:22PM -0700 >>> a food storage container with a seal ring commonly available in stores. >>> Just a data point for what it is worth. >> Nothing sticks to polythene. That should be poly-mumble-ene. >Are you in the UK? Is that what we call polyethylene? How does it happen >that we end up with different names for things like common plastic? There are naming standards for chemicals and compounds which I believe includes plastics. Chemists are amazingly human (and childish) in their naming of various compounds. There are enough examples to fill a Wikipedia article: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names> Should you ever be in a position to assign a name, please resist the temptation to be excessively clever. I didn't. Because I had one foot in engineering and the other in marketing, I was honored with the task of assigning a model number of a marine radio that I helped design. Most of the other radios followed the pattern COM1, COM3, COM21, etc (this was before the IBM PC serial ports used the same designation). Without the slightest hesitation, I proclaimed that COM1C will be the next model number. It was about a week before anyone noticed the obvious. I soon became a candidate for immediate execution by those who had to rewrite the product releases and hastily retrieve those had been mailed. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
| Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>: Sep 30 07:37PM -0700 On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 19:22:29 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote: >There are naming standards for chemicals and compounds which I believe >includes plastics. Polyethylene isn't the only plastic with some naming confusion. See table 2: <https://books.google.com/books?id=wmohBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR26> -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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