From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 12 10:38:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25574 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:38:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.5.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25567 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:38:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA13059; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:37:58 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd013035; Wed Nov 12 11:37:48 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA01889; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 11:37:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199711121837.LAA01889@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Newest Pentium bug (fatal) To: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 18:37:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, perhaps@yes.no, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19971112164245.26982@bitbox.follo.net> from "Eivind Eklund" at Nov 12, 97 04:42:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > My claim is that some aspects of human behaviour (possibly all) are > statistically predictable. I don't think an attempt at denying this > will get you anywhere. I predict that this statement has a high probability of describing your future behaviour. 8-). > Telepathy: Unknown mode of communication between human beings. > God: Unknown mode of communication between human beings, AND > omni-powered, omni-present sentinent being. > > Having a christian God that respond to prayer would involve having > some form of communication to Him, and that communcation is as far as > I've understood not limited to the presently known forms of > communication. It also involve some form of intervention with the > patients; that is another form of communication. The minimal size of > this involve an extra form of communication AND a God, while telepathy > involve only an extra form of communication. Actually... Telepathy: Unknown mode of communication between beings God: Unknown mode of communication between beings, AND an as yet undiscovered being, AND unknown mow of presenting action at a distance (God doesn't require an unknown mode of communication between human beings; just because he can "hear" doesn't mean your neighbor Zelda can "hear" you. 8-) 8-)). Maybe God is a 5ESS switch in Trenton, New Jersey... ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.