Patting the wrists, rolling the eyes.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Was there a morale value to the british population from our beginning to bomb Germany?

If your military tells you, incorrectly, that they're doing something effective and good, is there a moral value to that?

If I ever find myself in a room with your bloggers I'm heading for the bar- I wouldn't argue with them

He's not a blogger, you dope. He's a famous physicist. Per Wikipedia:

• Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. He worked as an analyst for the British Bomber Command during World War II; after the war, he moved to Princeton. In 1957, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
  
  In the years following the war, Dyson was responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two formulations of quantum electrodynamics which existed at the time - Richard Feynman's path integral formulation and the variational methods developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (Dyson operator).
  
  From 1957 to 1961 he worked on the Orion Project, which proposed the possibility of space-flight using nuclear propulsion: a prototype was demonstrated using conventional explosives, but a treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons in space caused the project to be abandoned.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
Okay, so I whiffed. How is this day any different?

You're posting, for one. Welcome back.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Per Wikipedia . . .

Are you quoting Wikpedia as a primary source these days?

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I thought your point was that guys like bilmore shouldn't make fun of women's looks- glass houses- still someone like Sidd should yell at you and bilmore

No, no Hank. I feel your pain. I don't know why you shouldn't be able to say how some groups of people have slanty eyes, or big noses, or how they smell bad.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Dyson was responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two formulations of quantum electrodynamics which existed at the time - Richard Feynman's path integral formulation and the variational methods developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (Dyson operator).

There are huge gaps between these two formulations. And if you think string theory leaves any of Dyson's work as important, maybe you'd like to buy my old lps?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Bill Clinton's entire anti-terrorism push was to try and kill Osama with a few missiles.

It's so hard to tell sometimes whether you are trying to mislead, or merely ignorant.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
So, when will our Iraq invasion quagmire end?

Good question.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
He's not a blogger, you dope. He's a famous physicist. Per Wikipedia:

• Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. He worked as an analyst for the British Bomber Command during World War II; after the war, he moved to Princeton. In 1957, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
  
  In the years following the war, Dyson was responsible for demonstrating the equivalence of the two formulations of quantum electrodynamics which existed at the time - Richard Feynman's path integral formulation and the variational methods developed by Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (Dyson operator).
  
  From 1957 to 1961 he worked on the Orion Project, which proposed the possibility of space-flight using nuclear propulsion: a prototype was demonstrated using conventional explosives, but a treaty banning the use of nuclear weapons in space caused the project to be abandoned.

So then he's not the vacuum cleaner guy?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's so hard to tell sometimes whether you are trying to mislead, or merely ignorant.

to post here, do I have to accept the strained fantasies in the books you quote, or can I keep my views?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by bilmore
Are you quoting Wikpedia as a primary source these days?

For things like Freeman Dyson's bio. If you run a Google search, that's the first result.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by bilmore
All those hours sitting in subways listening to buzz bombs was worth quite a few "let's take it to 'em" votes.

You still have the memories, huh?

I knew you were old, but didn't realize you were a Brit.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Good question.

It's so hard to tell sometimes whether you are trying to mislead, or merely ignorant. The fact that recruitment centers are still good targets show who is winning. Hint- if them, there would be so many people to kill lined up to sign up.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by taxwonk
You're posting, for one. Welcome back.

Thanks. Hi!. (Starbucks wifi, working vpn tunnel, laptop battery up - seldom do all things converge so!)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
There are huge gaps between these two formulations. And if you think string theory leaves any of Dyson's work as important, maybe you'd like to buy my old lps?

Your refutation of Dyson's work would be more credible if you had been showing any sign over the last day that you knew who he was.

Originally posted by Wonk
So then he's not the vacuum cleaner guy?

Or the boxer.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
You still have the memories, huh?

I knew you were old, but didn't realize you were a Brit.

German, sonny. And I learned from those early mistakes . . .