HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: crossgl@infonode.ingr.com (Gordon Cross)
Subject: Re: Which is the Best RG? (Was: Re: A Truly International Gathering)
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 21:00:56 GMT

In article <TERRYK.92Apr15190641@headroom.encore.com> terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher) writes:

>No.  Manchester, MA is on the Massachusetts north shore, between
>Glouchester and Salem.
>
>Of course, I wasn't there, so I am assuming this is the Manchester
>Phil was refering to.

No, I'm positive that it is in Manchester, NH (New Hampshire) because I came
this close -->|  |<-- to going there in '91.  The problem was that no single
airline could get me from Huntsville, AL (or environs) to Manchester, NH
without taking two days for connections (ridiculous) or using two different
airlines (expensive!).  Perhaps things have changed now; we'll see...
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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: /T/T/ What is the purpose of this newsgroup and Mensa?
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:36:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Apr5.212813.13206@ncsu.edu>, tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes...
<phil%miracle@merk.com (Phil Hill) writes:
< 
<< Or paraphrased for those of you who can't decypher nested threads:

<< Monty:  Is this newsgroup typical of Mensa?
<< Tai:    Sadly enough, it is.
<< Peter:  Mr. Tai is not a member of Mensa can't answer Monty's question.
<< Tai:    I know what Mensa is like because I read this newsgroup.

<< I want to see you worm your way out of this one!
< 
<Wrong, I said:
< 
<By keeping up with this newsgroup since its inception, I tend to disagree.
<If the posters to this group are representative of MENSA as a whole, than
<I have undoubtedly gained some insight into this organization.

In other words, "I know what Mensa is like because I read this newsgroup."

-Mike
From: Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: Isaac Asimov
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:51:12 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:143/207.1 - Sunnyvale Fido Conn, Sunnyvale CA


Sue Miller writes about "Re: Isaac Asimov" to All  [11 Apr 92 13:14]

SM> Hmmm, sometimes we all behave this way. Anyway I like to have 
SM> a few pompous plonkers around, it's fun to take the piss out 
SM> of them. And vice versa...

Yes, it is sometimes fun to do that.  But, sometimes they are so pompus that
they don't even get it that they're the buts of the plonking.
 
/207 143/207
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"The views expressed above are those of Mike Steiner only."
From: Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: A Truly International Gathering
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:27:31 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:143/207.1 - Sunnyvale Fido Conn, Sunnyvale CA


"didi Pancake" writes about "Re: A Truly International Gathering" to All  [15
Apr 92 23:53]

"P> If I ever win the lottery (guess I'd better start buying tickets 
"P> if I expect that to happen, eh?) I'd like to take off and see 
"P> how many RGs I could go to in a row before I just couldn't stand 
"P> it any more and had to go home. Bet it would be a _bunch_! Wonder 
"P> who presently holds the record for consecutive RGs attended?

There was a guy (from Florida, if I recall correctly) at the 1991 Phoenix RG
who said that in 1990, he attended 23 RGs.  In 91, he had to cut back, and made
it to only 13 or 14.  My "personal best" was 4 in five months:  Sacramento in
October, Phoenix in November, Vegas in December, and Highland Springs (LA) in
February. (1991-92)  I would have gone to Mid Winter Madness in January, but
personal problems kept me from attending.
 
/207 143/207
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Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
From: terryk@encore.com (Terence M. Kelleher)
Subject: Re: /T/T/ The 2% Rule
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:47:42

In article <1992Apr6.181350.26912@ncsu.edu> tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes:

   phil%miracle@merk.com (Phil Hill) writes:

   >Yes. There are many.  What makes you think there are not.  There are active
   >Hispanics and African-Americans in my chapter.

   How many?  

Odd question, Scott, coming from one who is so certain that our
minority membership is so low as to be considered disriminitory
against minorities.  You really should know this kind of thing before
you make accusations?

   In any event, I've yet to see any post to this newsgroup...

You can tell from posts someones ethnic background?  That's
astounding.  What color is my skin?  How about my mothers?

   ---------
   Scott Tai


I started replying to your posts and trying to get some more
background into the facts you base your accusations on.  You have
continually ignored requests for specific facts, such as statistics
relating to the tests, statistics relating to Mensa's demagraphics and
Mensa's stated attitudes towards minorities.    I have to now believe
that you are completely baseless on all your accusations.  You offer
no possible alternative.

I agree with Phil.  You are a waste of time and bandwidth.  

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From: kalberi@vipunen.hut.fi (Kalle Kaukonen)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: decimal prefix
Date: 11 Apr 92 18:00:17 GMT
Reply-To: kalberi@vipunen.hut.fi (Kalle Kaukonen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology

In article <1992Apr10.010054.26497@Cadence.COM> phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
>In article <702507541.F00005@blkcat.UUCP> Dave.Aronson@f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Aronson) writes:
>> Power  USA name        UK name
>> -----  --------        -------
>> 27     octillion       thousand quadrillion
>> 30     ?               quintillion
>> 33     decillion       thousand quintillion
>
>30 zeroes is "nonillion" (I used to assume it was "novillion" since the others
>match the month name prefixes for months that used to be seven through ten).
>
>Beyond "decillion" (yes -- the British system names parallel the American
>system names other than changing every 6th power of ten rather than every
>3rd power of ten) are:
>
>				American power		UK power
>
>	undecillion		    36			   66
>	duodecillion		    39			   72
>	tredicillion		    42			   78
>	quattuordecillion	    45			   84
>	quindecillion		    48			   90
>	sexdecillion		    51			   96
>	septendecillion		    54			  102
>	octodecillion		    57			  108
>	novemdecillion		    60			  114
>	vigintillion		    63			  120
>
>	centillion		   303			  600
>
>-Pete Zakel

Knowing little latin it is quite easy to see that those names derive from
latin numbers. E.g. duodecim (12) -> duodecillion. Let Y be a name of number,
derived from a latin number X. (I think) in (British) English and German Y
is 1 000 000^X and in American English and French Y is 1000^(Y+1). There 
are some exceptions, for example 18 is in latin duodeviginti (20-2) not 
octodecim, but I guess that is only some sort of medieval latin or something
like that.

BTW there has been some conversation about Mr. Asimov. Is his name _really_
written "Issac" in English?? When I first saw it I thought it was just an 
unfortunate error, but everyone (appr. 6?) who has written about him has 
spelled "Issac". I have dozens of his books, which all have Isaac in the 
cover and also my encyclopaedia agrees with it, so I'm pretty conviced
it is Isaac in Finnish. The name seems to be of a Russian origin (?) and 
the only rational explanation I could find, was that the name is 
transliterated from cyrilic letters to Arabic differently to Finnish than
to English... Although I think this is _more than highly_ improbable....

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Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
From: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz)
Subject: SAT scores and Mensa
Organization: Computer Based Education Research Lab - University of Illinois
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:16:42 GMT

Ok, if y'all can leave off your stupidity for a bit, I'd like to ask a
question.

An earlier comment implied that Mensa will accept the result of the SAT
for qualifying for membership. Is that correct? How recent does it need
to be? And what are the cutoff limits?

I've heard good and bad about Mensa, and would be interested in hearing
anecdotal evidence both ways.
-- 
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Internet: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu	PLATO/NovaNET: peltz/s/cerl
From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: /T/T/T/ mrmrks and beating a dead horse ...
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:39:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Apr5.215401.14606@ncsu.edu>, tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes...
>Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Steiner) writes:
>>Are you saying that Mensans have a hatred of certain groups of people
>and engages
>>in terrorist activities against them?

>No, I was referring to the Ku Klux Klan.  (Do you have a reading comprehension
>problem?)

"We're not discussing the Ku Klux Klan here, we're discussing Mensa."
(Do you have a reading comprehension problem?)

-Mike
From: tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: /T/T/ What we say and what we do
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:52:11 GMT
Reply-To: tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai)
Organization: NCSU Artificial Intelligence Systems Laboratory

> Scott Tai writes about "/T/ What we say and what we do" to All  [06
Apr 92 21:46]

> ST> This from a man who has had no less than 31 posts to my articles 
> ST> over the past couple of days...

> Are you so egocentric that you count the number of posts that you garner?

I have a good memory.

---------
Scott Tai
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: This week's heat insulator
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:38:35 GMT
Organization: The Cat Factory


/\/T\//:j

I'll bet you thought this couldn't be done (-:.  The back slashes escape
the forward slashes in the search string, so it's actually killing any
article with /T/ on the Subject: line.  Bye-bye, Mr. Tai.

/mrmrks/:j

has also proven useful.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@soldev.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405 {rutgers|pyramid|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe
From: smw@alcor.concordia.ca ( Steven Winikoff )
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: IQ and religious belief
Date: 8 Apr 92 14:21:24 GMT

In <1992Apr7.210109.23512@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> hall@orion.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Philip Hall 283-4031) writes:

>>Steiner:

>>Why does it make sense that there is a "highest" being?  Why not turtles all
>>the way up, so to speak?  It has been said that the only logical numbers are
>>zero and one; either something is or isn't--once you allow for two, then the
>>concepts become zero, one, more than one--with all non-zero or one numbers being
>>grouped together.
>...
>>As suggested above, once you allow for a higher form of existence, you logically
>>have no upper limit.

>I didn't suggest an upper limit - 
>I suggested a "highest" form - At any point in time, there is always
>a "highest" point in any hierarchy.

>PH

Maybe I'm totally missing the point, but this seems so easy it's like
<insert favourite cliche here>...

...but, okay, if there's a "highest point in any hierarchy", what's the
highest point in the hierarchy of the integers?

   - Steven

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From: tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: /T/T/T/T/ Tai and Lack of Fraud
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:11:12 GMT
Reply-To: tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai)
Organization: NCSU Artificial Intelligence Systems Laboratory

roger@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) writes:

>  -- Or perhaps you need professional help.  Anyone who posts dozens of
> things in a row, most of them with NO content other than a smart-aleck
> remark or an insult, very likely has a screw loose.

Hmm... anyone want to volunteer to help Mike Steiner? :)

---------
Scott Tai
From: phil%miracle@merk.com (Phil Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: /T/T/T/ Tai and Lack of Fraud
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 92 22:30:22 EST
Organization: Miracle Computer Consultants

tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes:
>phil%miracle@merk.com (Phil Hill) writes:
>
>> Nonsense!  Mensa discriminates on test scores ONLY.  There are many tests
>> that are fair to race.  Most of them in fact!  There have even been many
>> developed SPECIFICALLY for different races.  Mensa will accept these test
>> scores.
>
>Like?

Like the Cattell Culture Fair test to name one.

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From: kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Subject: minorites in rec.org.mensa
         (was Re: /T/T/ The 2% Rule)
Organization: UUNET Communications Services
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:49:02 GMT

tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes:
 > Any African-American or Hispanic US MENSA members out there?

phil%miracle@merk.com (Phil Hill) writes:
 > Yes. There are many.  What makes you think there are not.
 > There are active Hispanics and African-Americans in my
 > chapter.

tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes:
 > How many?  In any event, I've yet to see any post to this
 > newsgroup...

How can you tell?  One of the wonderful things about USENET is
that no one can really tell if you're black, white, red, blue,
woman, man, Turing machine, Japanese or Jew.  If you know a way
of positively identifying minorities from their postings, without
them identifying themsleves as such, I would like to hear it.
From: jc@sppip7.lkg.dec.com (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: Brain teaser
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:00:02 GMT
Reply-To: jc@sppip7.lkg.dec.com (John Chambers)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

>>Suppose you make $10,000 a year. Your boss offers you a choice: You can
>>have a $1000 raise (not a bonus) at the end of each year, or you can have
>>a $300 raise at the end of each six months. Which do you choose?
>> 
>$10000 a year with $1000 raise  | $5000 every 1/2 yr, $300 inc.
>
> Yrs 1/2_Yr_pay Cumulative      | 1/2_Yr_pay Cumulative
> 0.5    5000       5000         |    5000     5000
> 1.0    5000      10000         |    5300    10300
> 1.5    5500      15500         |    5600    15900
> 2.0    5500      21000         |    5900    21800
> 2.5    6000      27000         |    6200    28000
> 3.0    6000      33000         |    6500    34500
> 3.5    6500      39500         |    6800    41300

[Some editing to make things line up better]

Well, now, I note that in  the  left  column,  the  pay  for  the  1.0
half-year is 5000 and the pay for the 3.0 half-year is 6000.  They are
two years apart, yet the pay differs by only 1000.  The only way I can
think  to  explain  this is by using half-year pay periods as the time
unit.  Then this isn't a raise of $1000 every year; it is a  raise  of
$500 every other half-year pay period.  The alternative was a raise of
$300 every half-year pay period, which is clearly $400 per year more.

I'm still trying to figure out how a $500 raise every other  half-year
can be called a raise of $1000 every year. This strikes me as a rather
fractured mis-use of the English  language.   (But  then,  I'm  not  a
financial lawyer, so what do I know about the English language?  ;-)

This is along the same lines  as  the  wordplay  that  used  to  allow
American  banks  to  lend money for things like mortgages and claim an
interest rate of roughly half what they were really  charging.   Let's
see  now,  if I loan you money for a year at 5%, but make you agree to
pay me back in half a year, you would see through  it  and  understand
that the true interest rate is 10%.  But if I ask you to pay back 1/12
of it each month, you might not notice that I've tricked  you  in  the
same  way.  Such dishonesty was what led to the truth-in-lending laws.
I'd consider the above table to be the same sort of dishonesty.

I've noticed that Marylin's puzzles tend to be based on  obscure  ways
of  (mis-)interpreting  the  English  phrasing.  This is probably good
exercise for lawyers, since their job depends on finding  all  obscure
interpretations of the wording of laws, contracts, etc. As puzzles for
the general public, it's not very satisfying.   I've  learned  to  not
bother with most of them.

(I've also learned to happily split my infinitives at just about every
opportunity.  ;-)
From: grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re^2: The 2% Rule
Date: 9 Apr 92 12:15:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: novavax.3609
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai) writes:

>> Like many physical attributes, intelligence is not something that
>> an individual has a lot of control over.  Studies have shown that
>> intelligence is based primarily on hereditary and genetic factors.
>> To have a group solely for people with a certain IQ or test score is
>> nothing less than blatant discrimination.

PLEASE CITE YOUR STUDIES if you insist on this line of reasoning.
I have seen no such "final" evidence that intelligence is
"based primarily on hereditary and genetic factors." This
is pure myth begin propagated by yourself. This is certainly
not a way to conduct a useful discussion into the matter,
when you argue from opinions and not accepted facts.

The accepted facts about intelligence is that it is likely
a 50/50 relationship between environment and hereditary factors.

-- 
 "And everybody used to hang around him.  ::  John M. Grohol, M.S.
  And I know why. They said:              ::  Cntr for Psychological Studies
  There but for the grace of the angels   ::  Nova Univ, Ft. Lauderdale, FL  
  go I." -- Laurie Anderson               ::  grohol@novavax.nova.edu
From: tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: /T/T/T/T/T/ mrmrks and beating a dead horse ...
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:54:15 GMT
Reply-To: tai@ailab.ncsu.edu (Scott Tai)
Organization: NCSU Artificial Intelligence Systems Laboratory

Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Steiner) writes:

> Actually, we were discussing Scott Tai--the moral degenerate
sonofabitch motherfucking
> bastard hypocritical lair who lacks any vestige of ethics.  I.e.,
you!
 
You have me confused with Mike Steiner.

---------
Scott Tai
From: Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: MCAT scores?
Date: 14 Apr 92 04:56:28 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:143/207.1 - Sunnyvale Fido Conn, Sunnyvale CA


mcbeanb@brandonu.ca writes about "Re: MCAT scores?" to All  [13 Apr 92 12:44]

M> Correlation correlshmation :)  

You mean "correlation shmorelation," durn it.  If you're gonna type Yiddish,
please get it right. :-)
 
/207 143/207
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Xref: sparky rec.org.mensa:3022 alt.atheism:8287 sci.bio:1751
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,alt.atheism,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Evolving eyes (Re: Bombardier Beetles)
From: kmagnacca@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 12 Apr 92 03:45:39 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <10169@inews.intel.com>, bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> In article <1992Mar31.211404.12936@Cadence.COM> phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel) writes:
> -In article <10057@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> ->Bilateral symmetry is more likely a result of the
> ->development of bilateral ocules than the other way around.
> ->And precious little on an internal level occurs in pairs.
> ->Kidneys do; nothing else does.
> -
> -	lungs (and associated pathways)
> -	brain (not exactly two brains -- but there are left and right lobes)
> -	testes (and associated pathways)
> -	ovaries (and associated pathways)
> -	adenoids
> -	tonsils
> 
> Every single one of these (and probably kidneys as well)
> followed the development of sight, which I still maintain
> is more likely to have been the source of bilateral
> symmetry, rather than a consequence of it.
> 
   But the development of sight was preceded by the development of parallel
nerve cords, which ended up each having an eye at the end (planaria et al).
Eventually they combined, forming the two hemispheres of the brain and a single
spinal cord.  Given that bilateral symmetry is determined so early on in
development, I find it hard to believe that it would have developed out of
having two eyes.

Karl Magnacca
From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: Fermat's flunkeys (was Re: A Real Challenge)
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:44:35 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department

In article <702965029.F00003@blkcat.UUCP> Dave.Aronson@f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Aronson) writes:
>Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG replies:

> MS> I can't understand how someone who can read
> MS> only at the second-grade level can get a HS diploma.

> I can't understand how a nation can let its schools, the very people in
> charge of its most precious resource for nearly half of said resource's
> waking hours, get away with such waste of said resources!

This has been heavily discussed on other newsgroups, in particular
sci.edu and misc.education.  As long as those in charge of the schools
consider being with one's age group more important than learning, which
they do, nothing will be done.

The reading level can be somewhat raised, but without a total reform,
only multiple-choice and short-answer material, requiring no thinking,
will be covered in the other subjects.  I would rather teach mathematical
concepts to a small child than to a college student who has been through
the present schools.  There is no smiley attached to this.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)  
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From: Mike.Steiner@p1.f207.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Steiner)
Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa
Subject: Re: Fermat's flunkeys (was Re: A Real Challenge)
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:30:37 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:143/207.1 - Sunnyvale Fido Conn, Sunnyvale CA


Glen Raphael writes about "Re: Fermat's flunkeys (was Re: A Real Challenge)"
to All  [15 Apr 92 23:53]

GR> /207 143/207
GR> (^^^^^^^^^^^^--- what do these numbers mean?)

They are part of my Fidonet address.  The software used by the node that gates
the messages between Fidonet and usenet doesn't strip them out properly.  It
is something that I have no control over.
 
/207 143/207
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