Hey Fanta-

RE: "You are the only one who got my title. Thats what I was insinuating. Our Government poses more of a threat to our internal security than any muslim group out there."

Well I used to live in Oklahoma City and work for a governmental agency there. The building where I worked remained primarily intact but the windows and doors were all blown out by the impact. And the building next door was decimated.

We used to have bomb drills and once a Ryder truck was parked in the parking lot and some of my co-workers freaked out. So I'm used to looking closer to home for terrorism.... and I'm sick of the arabic or even "foreign" stereotyping of terrorists or danger in general.

Please people, if you must fear, fear cancer, aids, car accidents or falling down in your own bathtub... those fears are so much more rational...

Fanta-

I miss school but not physics... theorhetical was fun but no more 3 dimentional equations please... x and y are fine for me but "z" nope, can't wrap my mind around where Z will be...

oh no flashbacks...

Do you like it?

Invisible, your country is not a goose.

You're correct here 'invisible'...

You wrote:
"... I don't want you to take a right when it's on the left, you could fall into the toilet..."

... the toilet is definitely on the 'right'. And I think we can trust Fanta to remain the free-thinking 'independent' he is, and keep making the just choice every time!!!

:)

'philosopher',

You wrote:
"... Invisible, your country is not a goose.'

That's a good one 'phil'!!!

Hey invisible, got to admit that's pretty funny!!!

Its interesting, and necessary, but in no way fun!!!

The instructor is an adjundant, and although he has a masters in Physics he also has an affliction that causes him to shake a lot. Its distracting and when he writes on the board you cant read it.

I find my study time increasing, and feel like I am having to teach myself! I thought about dropping it this semester and taking it next, but at 4 credits that would drop me to ten.

Right now I am taking 14 credits and the government requires 12 per semester. Im kinda stuck with it, and trying to make the best of the situation!

How are you with Boolean algebra Voil?

Yes 12 credits is usually the min to maintain full time student status... physics was the worst part about being a science major for me, I had friends who majored in lit. or philosophy and they got to take "physics for poets' where they talked about stuff like, "isn't gravity cool- you throw something up and it comes back down"...

I had a similar problem in Calc. 3- I had a german professor who pronounced all of the mathematical terms completely differently from anything any of us had ever heard before... none of us knew what he was talking about and then we'd go to the library after class and look through our books and say, "oh! that's what he was talking about!!"

4 credits must mean it has a lab though, yes? Hopefully the lab is fun...

Good luck...

Fanta, I learned all that stuff when I was a teenager. You'll never catch up. Voil, I don't even go to fast food places to eat. I like the vegetables too much. Fanta, I am not a nuclear head. How many times do I have to tell you. I am not interested in nuclear bombing at all, by anyone. I'm much more euro-centric in my thinking than any of you imagine here. All I am trying to point out is that you have to keep your eyes open and be aware of your neighbors if they are making threatening motions towards you.

If you hate that your country is an oil consuming nation, go away and don't help consume any. Otherwise your comments are just hollow. How are you going to put all those amps and ohms to work without using some energy?

In my opinion 3,000 killed at the world trade center was significant. How can you say it is unimportant? What if it were your son or father killed there? Would you still be so forgiving?

Anoasis, one bomber group blew up the OKC courthouse, but in Iraq there are bombs every day. In Israel, the Palestinians have made a national sport of it. It does not have to be a stereotype for it to be considered a problem. There are more middle eastern bombers than locals.

I don't have a self-righteous attitude about any of this. I do not want the world to go down the path of anarchy. If terrorists and zealots control the huge stocks of weapons and educate their offspring to be hateful and to destroy civilization at any cost for the purposes of ushering in some 7th century idealism the world will head towards anarchy. That is what is being done by Iran and countries of their ilk.

I personally do not think nuking Iran to the stone age is the answer. Lots of people do, but I am not one of them. I simply want to see some more moderate people run the country and I want them to stop supporting terrorist groups in Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine and other places.

Voil I have the understanding that you consider Israel to be illegal and that they are usurpers of the Palestinian lands and people. There may be some truth in that and the Palestinians have some historical claim to the land. However you can't throw all the Jews out of Jerusalem any more than the US can throw all the Hispanics out of the United States. At some point we all have to learn to get along with our neighbors.

Now one thing we are doing different here is we are not educating our children to hate and bomb and destroy the Mexicans who come here trying to get a better life. Instead, for the most part we welcome them, give them jobs, sell them houses and cars and then we complain when some of them are criminals, rightfully so. Maybe the Palestinians could take a lesson from that. Maybe the Iranians could take a lesson from that.

Funny you should ask 'fanta',

And remember I am of the 'punchcard' and lightbulb computing age!!! Semi-Conductors were Star-trek material, and dear old Geaoge B. was almost still alive. Anyhow, his brand of calculus was the only raw material, pen and paper driven, to land on our punchcards. The good 'ol days!

A bit rusted today though, I must admit.

Philosopher

RE: "Anoasis, one bomber group blew up the OKC courthouse, but in Iraq there are bombs every day. In Israel, the Palestinians have made a national sport of it. It does not have to be a stereotype for it to be considered a problem. There are more middle eastern bombers than locals. "

When you talk about how there are more bombings committed by middle easterners than locals don't you think you are comparing apples and oranges? Of course more bombings are taking place in the war torn countrys... that's what it means to be at war in ones own country... and we have certainly set off plenty of bombs in the middle east as well...

I wonder who has actually set off the most bombs in the middle east? It might just be the USA...

'philosopher',

I don't have an issue to settle with you personally.

But you are taking an uncomfortable measure of editorial liberties with some unfounded and wild interpretations of what my positions might or might not be on the International front.
This from a man who asked recently what the current Iranian question had to do with Israel!!!

You wrote:
''... Voil I have the understanding that you consider Israel to be illegal and that they are usurpers of the Palestinian lands and people. There may be some truth in that and the Palestinians have some historical claim to the land. However you can't throw all the Jews out of Jerusalem any more than the US can throw all the Hispanics out of the United States. At some point we all have to learn to get along with our neighbors...''

Either you grossly mix me up with someone else, or you need to re-examine your notes. Either way, this kind of short-cut, lose cannon, slapstik editorial must be removed. If you are referring to my positions, your comments are a gross mischaracterization.

If you aren't clear about my positions, and you're interested in finding out, ask me direct questions. I'll always give you straight and clear answers. No need for fuzzy, unfounded, and misleading interpretations!!!


With all due respect to you personally 'philosopher'.

Congratulations Philosopher!!!

I didn't know it was a race though!!!

Man, do you have a self-esteem problem or what?
I didnt mean to intimidate you!!!

I bet there has been more people in my family die while in service to this country than you've had leave you money, and Ive probably appreciated it more.

Your conceited, self-righteous attitude is kinda a bore dude. Go away!! I hear they are looking for a dictator in the Anartic!!!

Voil, I was careful to not state that your opinion was this or that, just that it was my understanding. I got that from some opinions you had stated regarding Israel in the past. I might not have it quite right. What I was trying to do was address a concern I thought you most likely held about the Israeli position and to give my related opinion. So if you will, please, overlook that part and consider the rest of what I have tried to say.

I am giving a very moderate view here and I am getting the failing grade as if I were an extremist. It hardly seems reasonable.

Fanta, to say that with proper English you should say " I bet there HAVE been more people in my family..." not HAS.

I'm curious as to why you would be concerned with whether any family member has left me money. I don't concern myself much with it.

Voil, I was careful to not state that your opinion was this or that, just that it was my understanding. I got that from some opinions you had stated regarding Israel in the past. I might not have it quite right. What I was trying to do was address a concern I thought you most likely held about the Israeli position and to give my related opinion. So if you will, please, overlook that part and consider the rest of what I have tried to say.

I am giving a very moderate view here and I am getting the failing grade as if I were an extremist. It hardly seems reasonable.

Fanta, to say that with proper English you should say " I bet there HAVE been more people in my family..." not HAS.

I'm curious as to why you would be concerned with whether any family member has left me money. I don't concern myself much with it.

Sorry for the double there. I walked away and when I came back it looked like it had not posted.

Thanks for the correction. I tend to use HAS incorrectly a lot. It must come from growing up in the South. I fear lazy typing is another cause. Although neither of those are very good excuses those are what I will blame it on. I will try to improve but I hate typing!!