From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #758 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, October 23 2008 Volume 16 : Number 758 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Interesting science article of the day... ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: just for fun ["Benjamin Lukoff" ] Re: just for fun... ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: just for fun... [Rex ] Re: Interesting science article of the day... [Marc Alberts ] Breaking news ["kevin studyvin" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:12:07 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Interesting science article of the day... On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:23 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 10/21/08, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > > http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/california-comp.html > > > > > That's not science - that's African witchcraft! > Naw, it's genius - why, if this technology works we can power a car with its own exhaust! Everybody wins! It's like...perpetual motion! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:22:00 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: "edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk" Subject: Re: just for fun... fsthomas@ochremedia.com said: >James Dignan wrote: > >> Would be interesting to see all of these graphed. Currently FS is the >> outlier, not that that's really that surprising given who's responded - >> and even he's below the horizontal boundary over towards Friedman. >> >> The whole thing may well reflect our national upbringing as much as our >> politics, per se... Scotland is generally more left-wing that "Social >> democratic" Germany and NZ, with the US generally further to the right >> than that. > >Ask and ye shall receive: > >http://ochremedia.com/political_compass_map/fegGraph.html > >Paste the URL to your compass-thingy and submit it, or skip to go >directly to the results map. > >I've already added the following results listed in the email: Jeffrey, >Kevin, Steve, Sebastian, myself, Stewart, Maximilian, and James. > >Y'all look clumpy to me. > >-f. Thanks for doing that! I've added mine (http://www.politicalcompass. org/printablegraph?ec=-6.25&soc=-6.56). And it makes a neat little Mickey head with Jeffrey and Michael S! peace, Edward Free Games for all the family - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/play ________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:10:34 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Henry's Back . i once read about chomsky that he writes books faster than most people read them. i don't think henry's output is as prodigious as chomsky's, but, the mofo sure cranks out the words. now spinning the new of montreal for the first time. not bad. pretty cool piece about their latest stage-show at . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:44:22 -0700 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: Re: just for fun > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:41:55 -0400 > From: "David Stovall" > > Economic Left/Right: -6.38 > Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18 > Boy, I sometimes revisit my personal policy of just *never* talking > about politics at work. I'm sure some of my colleagues of various > conservative stripes who consider themselves libertarian would slam > way up against the authoritarian peg in this exercise. I actually > expected to come in closer to the middle economically,... > > I think you're right, actually. My economic score of 0.38 and my social score of -4.72 both surprised me: I actually thought I might come in slightly more to the right economically, and I definitely thought I'd come in more libertarian socially. I suppose I'm more centrist than I think! I was talking about my social score with a friend and he pointed out it might have been because of the element of the questionnaire that asked me to rate how important certain issues were to me. The World's Smallest Political Quiz doesn't get that granular, which is why I scored a 90% on the social-libertarian scale there (though I still got 50% on economic issues, so I guess 0.38 is about right). - -- Benjamin D. Lukoff profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukoff | blog: http://www.examiner.com/x-479-Seattle-History-Examiner | articles: http://crosscut.com/account/BenjaminSPACELukoff/ | photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukobe/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:52:59 -0700 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: just for fun... Though my politics aren't inherited or representative of my home area. It was a very conservative area I grew up in. Only once I got through university I thought about ethics and politics. Stewart On 10/22/08, edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk wrote: > fsthomas@ochremedia.com said: >>James Dignan wrote: >> >>> Would be interesting to see all of these graphed. Currently FS is > the >>> outlier, not that that's really that surprising given who's > responded - >>> and even he's below the horizontal boundary over towards Friedman. >>> >>> The whole thing may well reflect our national upbringing as much as > our >>> politics, per se... Scotland is generally more left-wing that > "Social >>> democratic" Germany and NZ, with the US generally further to the > right >>> than that. >> >>Ask and ye shall receive: >> >>http://ochremedia.com/political_compass_map/fegGraph.html >> >>Paste the URL to your compass-thingy and submit it, or skip to go >>directly to the results map. >> >>I've already added the following results listed in the email: > Jeffrey, >>Kevin, Steve, Sebastian, myself, Stewart, Maximilian, and James. >> >>Y'all look clumpy to me. >> >>-f. > > Thanks for doing that! I've added mine (http://www.politicalcompass. > org/printablegraph?ec=-6.25&soc=-6.56). And it makes a neat little > Mickey head with Jeffrey and Michael S! > > peace, > Edward > > > > Free Games for all the family - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/play > > ________________________________________________ > - -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:46:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: just for fun... On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:22 AM, edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk < edwardofsim@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > > Thanks for doing that! I've added mine (http://www.politicalcompass. > org/printablegraph?ec=-6.25&soc=-6.56). And it makes a neat little > Mickey head with Jeffrey and Michael S! Me: Economic Left/Right: -7.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85 I screwed up and didn't save my URL, but I imagine I'm in the clump there, too. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:58:39 -0400 From: Marc Alberts Subject: Re: Interesting science article of the day... kevin studyvin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:23 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On 10/21/08, Marc Alberts wrote: >>> http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/california-comp.html >>> >>> >> That's not science - that's African witchcraft! >> > > Naw, it's genius - why, if this technology works we can power a car with its > own exhaust! Everybody wins! It's like...perpetual motion! > Except not like perpetual motion even in the slightest since nothing in this suggests a closed system, and nothing suggests matter isn't being conserved. Quite the opposite--they're counting on matter being conserved for this to work! ;) Marc Marc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:03:03 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Bumbershoot 2005 I've been seeing a lot of references lately to the video "A Bloody Show: John Wesley Harding & Friends Live at Bumbershoot 2005" -- anybody seen that to recommend or warn me off it? J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:18:18 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Breaking news This just in: *http://tinyurl.com/5ch8ob* Also, water seems to be wet. And apparently fire can burn you. But if you fall off a building you don't need to get too concerned, except maybe for the landing part. np Lewis Taylor: Stoned ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #758 ********************************