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  EMOTIONS; DO WE UNDERSTAND THEM?

  by Terry in

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  cause and effect 101. .

  obi wan kenobe tells luke skywalker: "trust your feelings, luke".

  listen to people say they will: "go with my gut feeling".

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  Pole

  Terry

  Are you assuming that everybody's born with exactly the same "tabula rasa" and it's only later experiences that shape our emotions, whether they are volitional or not?
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  U.S. death toll in Iraq at 1,000

  by Simon in

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  what a sad 'milestone' ... and for what?.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5911852/

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  Pole

  fleaman,

  thanks for acknowledging these facts.

  For your freedom and ours!!!

  That's our slogan. It's a pity we Poles, aren't that heroic in the time of peace, so we'd only have to fight for other countries' freedom :).
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  U.S. death toll in Iraq at 1,000

  by Simon in

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  what a sad 'milestone' ... and for what?.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5911852/

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  Pole

  The poles claimed to have deciphered the enigma machine as did the british (Mathematician Alan Turing / Bletchley park) and it was the latter centre that was regularly used to decode intercepted messages.

  I don't think anywhere in the links you've provided a claim is made that the British were first to break the code. The centre you mentioned used a "technology" which had been first researched by the Poles ten years before.

  Honestly I don't think what you said does justice to the history of deciphering the Enigma machine. ("It depends on who you ask, so we don't know.."), but I realize no single statement can do justice to the problem.

  If it matters anything, historically it was the Poles who started work on deciphering Enigma, developed the first efficient methodology and achieved considerable success. They shared those secrets with the British, who continued their work for two reasons.

  First: Poland considered France and Britain allies (not sure if it was a mutual feeling ).

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  The Poles, realizing time was running out before the Germans invaded, and unable to extend their techniques with available resources, decided in mid-1939 to share their work, and passed to the French and the British some of their ersatz 'Enigmas', information on Rejewski's breakthrough, and on the other techniques they had developed. The information was shipped to France in diplomatic baggage; the British share went on to Bletchley Park.

  I think all of resources you've given are very fair about the subject. I just felt your conclusion wasn't representative of what you can find there. So if anyone's interested, let them read it and draw their wn conclusions.
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  U.S. death toll in Iraq at 1,000

  by Simon in

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  what a sad 'milestone' ... and for what?.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5911852/

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  Pole

  fleaman,
  

  so, talking about the enigma machine, :))), what's your version of the story? I'm very very curious..... Just one or two sentences answering the following questions:

  1) how it was found

  2)who decoded it

  Edited to add: just to avoid hijacking the thread, here are the answers: http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/virtualbp/poles/poles.htm
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  Woohooooooo WE Won !!!!!!

  by observer in

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  2. friends

  woohooooooo we won !!!!!!

  world cup of hockey semifinal!!

  finland - usa 2-1 .

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  Pole

  observer,

  HYVÄ SUOMI!

  Which part of Finland are you from?

  I once lived in Tampere for a few months
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  U.S. death toll in Iraq at 1,000

  by Simon in

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  what a sad 'milestone' ... and for what?.

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5911852/

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  Pole

  Mac,

  Christ, I'm tired...been a long night...I'm not ignorant of Greek history...was not intentionally inferring that we were the originators of democratic process...just pointing out that we left when you sucked and sucked mightily!.

  How about French History? Sleepy may have meant that rather than Greece (when talking about "getting rid of Kings and Queens "). Although I can only speak for myself...
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  God and the Concept of Time

  by ezekiel3 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  put your waders on, we?re going in the deep end?.

  jw premise: god created jesus, and then together they created everything else.. fact: time and space require at least two points to exist.

  you cannot reference time or space with only one thing.. so before god created jesus, there was no way to measure time.

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  Pole

  Zen made a fine observation:

  everything about any time we discuss is always in relation to some means of measuring actual properties of space and objects in it, namely changes of relationships compared and contrasted with other changes and relationships.

  There's linguistc evidence which confirms the above. Can anyone (including Stephen Hawking) give me an example of an expression used to talk about time which (expression) is not a spacial metaphor? Give me a word/phrase you use to talk about time other than "time", and make sure this word was not originally used to talk about the only 3 dimensions we can directly conceive of.

  long time, short time, before 5 o'clock,between Tuesday and Wednesday, deadline, "march toward entropy" - they're all metaphors

  Even all the prepositions used to talk about time are or used to be spacial prepositions.

  The trouble is time is a mere concept just like love is concept. It may be a practical concept in our every day lives, but one should never hope to be able to come up with "the real definition of time". Any attempts to define the ontological status of time are doomed to fail as metaphysical bu***sh**t.
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  "Crisis of Conscience" text available on the Internet?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  2. friends

  i'm not cheap, i'm not trying to scam ray's estate out of $15, i just want to download the book to my palm so i can read it when i get a chance.

  i'd grab it from the library, but it's not the sort of coffee-table book i need lying around the house at this point in my life!.

  thanks for any links!

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  Pole

  Satanus,

  It's none of my business, but since you've asked, I meant posts rather than topics:

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/77948/1262148/post.ashx#1262148

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/77862/1260484/post.ashx#1260484
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  "Crisis of Conscience" text available on the Internet?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm not cheap, i'm not trying to scam ray's estate out of $15, i just want to download the book to my palm so i can read it when i get a chance.

  i'd grab it from the library, but it's not the sort of coffee-table book i need lying around the house at this point in my life!.

  thanks for any links!

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  Pole

  Dave,

  I really don't know what made Farkel describe you as a "sucker". I guess he didn't read your first post carefully enough (the part about your family situation). Anyway, check out Farkel's recent post history and you'll find company.

  Pole - definitely a small fish here
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  Is anyone watching the Poland-England match tonight?

  by Pole in

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  what's your bet?

  i'd say england 1:0 poland.. .

  (much as i'd like it to be the other way round...) .

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  Pole

  I,d say it will be 2-1 to England....you owe me a tenner!

  Lol, fleaman. You're an expert! ---- My impressions: Ours is a rather poor and unstable team, everybody knows that. We may come at second in the group and qualify, but it's not that certain. But many people here had said before the match that England plays world-class football. I really didn't see too much of it yesterday. Yes, you were a better team, but winning thanks to a Polish own-goal shouldn't give Eriksson's boys too much confidence when they get to the finals. You'll get punished by other "world-class" teams, much to my sick satisfaction I'm just bitter. We've only beaten England once in the known history....