Posted by David Cox on 10/29/07 11:22

"Ed Mullen" <ed@edmullen.net> wrote in message
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> Neredbojias wrote:
>> Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:46:17
>> GMT still me scribed:
>>>> Overall, you're specifically the type of guy who slow down the
>>>> standardization of browsers, increase the number of patches and hacks
>>>> in browsers, destroy the Web's openness by preventing alternative
>>>> browsers from having any chance of displaying your cr*p, breaks the
>>>> Web from
>>>> user point of view by displaying stupid messages
>>>
>>> Wow, he had all that effect just by posting a web page with misplaced
>>> form tags? That's some serious power!
>> e = mc� (error = meaning x context x content)
>>
>
> I'm no mathematician but I think you got the translation wrong (much as I
> like it!). c(squared) would mean that "c" is the same value in each
> version. Whereas, you've assigned "c" two different values in the second
> equation and simply multiplied them, not multiplied the same value by
> itself. The variables "context" and "content" could have different
> values, and, by the gist of your suggestion, probably would.
>
> Still, the whimsy in your answer struck a chord here. I think I'll use
> this as an excuse to write an old friend who IS a mathematician and ask
> for a suggested transmutation of the original. ;-)
>
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> Ed Mullen
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> If toast always lands butter-side-down, and a cats always land on their
> feet, what would happen if you strapped a piece of toast on the back of a
> cat & dropped it?

Odd, I thought of it more like text abv.

error = messy squared ?

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