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Herb
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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"Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On 2005-09-23, Herb <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote:
Please. By responding (and inflicting it on the rest of us) you are
just
giving this psychotic what he craves.
Good point. I'll just killfile him.
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Thank you. When he morphs into another one of his many personalities to get
around your filter just killfile him again. Trust me, the only thing that
bothers him is being ignored.
-herb
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Elle
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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"Herb" <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote
| Quote: | "Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote
On 2005-09-23, Herb <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote:
Please. By responding (and inflicting it on the rest of us) you are
just
giving this psychotic what he craves.
Good point. I'll just killfile him.
Thank you. When he morphs into another one of his many personalities to
get
around your filter just killfile him again. Trust me, the only thing that
bothers him is being ignored.
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Greg, FWIW, I hope you remember again that this Ed guy (a.k.a. Samantha,
Marjorie, Jim (sic), among others) is an equal opportunity insulter. I
suggest no one here take his insults personally, as his wide target range is
indicative that _he_ has a problem. I remain glad that certain folks who
left this NG for awhile have since returned and figured out how to put a
damper on his efforts to, let's face it, destroy this newsgroup. I don't
always agree with these folks, but there's more civility among them than
with Eddie.
You use a Hewlett Packard graphing calculator these days, right? The only
reason I gave up my HP RPN calculator c. 2000 is because the TI graphing
calculators were all the rage, with plenty of info about operating them
available, and I really liked that big ol' screen showing prior
calculations, full tables of numbers, etc. |
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Ed
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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"Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote
| Quote: | Good point. I'll just killfile him.
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Thank you. If you do you'll make mimf a better place.
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Ed
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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"Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote
| Quote: | On 2005-09-23, Ed <friday@fishinthe.net> wrote:
I really thought is was the other way around, I'm not kidding.
Yea, I had the temerity to have a different opinion than you, and
posted it, so you think I'm an asshole. *shrug* Not my problem.
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I think you're an asshole? Not likely.
| Quote: | Anything anyone says here is unverifiable.
That is false. I can post what the Dow Jones average was on Jan 1st,
and that is completely verifiable. I can post "Ed said x, y, and z"
and you can use the google archive to verify its truth.
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This is BS.
| Quote: | You have in the past said I claimed certain things, when I never
did. And when you did so I said those were lies.
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You were wrong then and you are wrong now.
| Quote: | or point out your public picks to beat the index didn't,
both of which are appropriate discussions on
misc.invest.mutual-funds.
That was buy and hold and it was for fun.
And my posting that they didn't beat the index was for fun.
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I don't think so.
| Quote: | So, where did you get your degree in science? How far did you go? PhD?
I've answered all those questions in the past. If you want to find
out, visit the google archives.
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You're a liar, and an asshole. |
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Greg Hennessy
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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On 2005-09-23, Herb <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote:
| Quote: | Please. By responding (and inflicting it on the rest of us) you are just
giving this psychotic what he craves.
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Good point. I'll just killfile him. |
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Herb
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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"Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Jumping into a post about calculators to post nothing but insults to
me show what a bitter man you are.
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Greg:
Please. By responding (and inflicting it on the rest of us) you are just
giving this psychotic what he craves.
If you can't ignore it, use your killfile.
-herb |
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Jim
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
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"Herb" <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote
| Quote: | Please. By responding (and inflicting it on the rest of us) you are just
giving this psychotic what he craves.
If you can't ignore it, use your killfile.
-herb
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I've already suggested that, at least I think I have.
Can you tell me, how come you're so stupid? |
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Jim
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
Father Herb.... |
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....explaining the obvious to ears that are turned away. Greg loves me, I can
tell. He won't put me in his killfile because I help him to understand his
shortcomings. He needs me.
You put me in your killfile because you insist on being Herb, the Master
Baiter from Bates. Too bad for you. You need to get out of your room. |
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Jim
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 am Post subject:
My apology. |
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| Quote: | You put me in your killfile because you insist on being Herb, the Master
Baiter from Bates. Too bad for you. You need to get out of your room.
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That should be Maturbater, not Master Baiter. Oh, you get the idea. |
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Greg Hennessy
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:02 am Post subject:
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On 2005-09-23, Ed <friday@fishinthe.net> wrote:
| Quote: | I really thought is was the other way around, I'm not kidding.
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Yea, I had the temerity to have a different opinion than you, and
posted it, so you think I'm an asshole. *shrug* Not my problem.
| Quote: | Yes, you called me a liar.
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Only when I absolutely necessary, such as when you would make a false
claim, saying I said a certain thing, when I hadn't.
| Quote: | Anything anyone says here is unverifiable.
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That is false. I can post what the Dow Jones average was on Jan 1st,
and that is completely verifiable. I can post "Ed said x, y, and z"
and you can use the google archive to verify its truth.
You have in the past said I claimed certain things, when I never
did. And when you did so I said those were lies.
| Quote: | or point out your public picks to beat the index didn't,
both of which are appropriate discussions on
misc.invest.mutual-funds.
That was buy and hold and it was for fun.
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And my posting that they didn't beat the index was for fun.
| Quote: | So, where did you get your degree in science? How far did you go? PhD?
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I've answered all those questions in the past. If you want to find
out, visit the google archives. |
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Gregory L. Hansen
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:54 am Post subject:
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In article <slrndj6u29.st7.greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org>,
Greg Hennessy <greg.hennessy@cox.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On 2005-09-23, Gregory L. Hansen <glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
I can understand RPN if you're programming a primitive parser that pushes
numbers on to a stack and pops them off.
As a scientist, I find it much easier to do complicated chains of
calculations with RPN than with a "normal" calculator.
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I have a PhD in physics, and I've never seen the attraction.
--
"Yes, I revere you much, honored ones, and wish to fart in response." --
Aristophanes, Clouds |
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Marlowe
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:23 am Post subject:
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I do admit that after awhile I did get use to RPN but then I would screw up
when I was confronted with a conventional calculator. Maybe it is just me.
Back in 1975 I started one of the first personal computer clubs in the USA
and I invited a rep from HP to tell us about what HP was doing in the small
computer arena. Someone asked him about PRN on their calculators and he
tried to defend it. He said that it was HP's most common criticism of their
calculators but HP was adamant that it was most superior. It sounded rather
arrogant to me and more like "HP knows what's best, more than our customers
do."
"larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:1127471312.929629.275540@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
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Marlowe wrote:
One thing that I discovered when I spent my short stint as a financial
planner was that the "old heads" cut their teeth on the HP financial
calculators and are very adamant the HPs are the only way to go. Despite
having to use RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) which to me is a very clumsy
way
to use a calculator.
Why is it clumsy? It takes the fewest number of keystrokes, and it
took me, a slow learner, only a few minutes to get used to it.
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Flasherly
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:
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I have most, if not the entire HP RPN series of 80XXX code emulators.
They're semi-ancient programs from national file centers found on
boards, such as yours, as commerically pressed CD distributions existed
before writers (x1 CD media). Couldn't be worse than the last
calculator I bought, a Radio Shack product. Damn thing didn't seem, at
all, to calculate. A hand-held, fold-open, two-sided touchpad for a
logic chip engineered to recognize BASIC. Disconcerting to have
stumbled upon a language so candidly, but, given a will, BASIC served
well enough after a month on it to move along to an IBM MPU.
Marlowe wrote:
| Quote: | I do admit that after awhile I did get use to RPN but then I would screw up
when I was confronted with a conventional calculator. Maybe it is just me.
Back in 1975 I started one of the first personal computer clubs in the USA
and I invited a rep from HP to tell us about what HP was doing in the small
computer arena. Someone asked him about PRN on their calculators and he
tried to defend it. He said that it was HP's most common criticism of their
calculators but HP was adamant that it was most superior. It sounded rather
arrogant to me and more like "HP knows what's best, more than our customers
do." |
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Sudsy
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:
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"Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote
| Quote: | On 2005-09-23, Herb <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote:
Thank you. When he morphs into another one of his many personalities to
get
around your filter just killfile him again.
What else does he use? I've just seen ed@fishin the net, which is the
address I killfiled.
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It doesn't matter. If you elect not to read my posts you won't see them
under friday@..... if that is the e-mail address that you have kill filed.
If you make inflammatory remarks aimed at me or, like Herb, practice
trolling aimed at me, you will get a response. Just forget that I'm here at
all and we'll get along just fine. |
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Herb
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:
Re: Business Calculators |
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"Greg Hennessy" <greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org> wrote in message
news:slrndj9hg2.q83.greg.hennessy@tantalus.no-ip.org...
| Quote: | On 2005-09-23, Herb <XXX@YYY.COM> wrote:
Thank you. When he morphs into another one of his many personalities to
get
around your filter just killfile him again.
What else does he use? I've just seen ed@fishin the net, which is the
address I killfiled.
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He seems to think it makes him look clever to forge fake names. He will
probably create one just for you. In OE you can simply pull down the
"message" menu and choose "block sender." When it asks you if you want to
delete all messages from this sender say 'yes' and it's over.
Other newsreaders may vary.
-herb |
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