RE: RealPlayer
"RealOne/RealPlayer... is intrusive and annoying beyond belief and I am not willing to reinstall it on my machine (it was hard enough to get rid of it completely in the first place) nor do I want to encourage others to have it."
Eszter Hargittai ('The Small Print' section, near bottom)
RE: Some people say that the sky is not blue, it only
appears blue...
"If I look at a gas and see blue, then the color of the gas is blue. That's what the word 'color means."
Bill Beaty
RE: Godwin's Law
"Godwin's Law is more for things like discussions on whether coffee or tea is better, with the tea lover calling the coffee lover a Nazi since Hitler liked coffee. Discussions on, say, comparing a certain president - who invades countries on false pretenses, tries to establish a police state in his own country, calls people who disagrees with him 'traitors', kills hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and calls it 'collateral damage', and so on - with Hitler would not invoke Godwin's Law since there is a reasonable basis for a comparison."
Evilest Doer (969227), July 04 2007)
RE: God Loves Abortion?
"Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up."
Hosea 13:16
RE: God sends a gang to rape your wife?
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity...
. . .
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Isaiah 13:11-16
RE: "Blinded By The Light" (song) by Bruce Springsteen et cover by Manfred Mann
"This song is about Paul's conversion, as told in the Acts of the Apostles. The verses retell the story as a present-day singer trying to get a gig. It uses several metaphores in a stream-of-conscienceness style."
Andrew, Apex, NC, comment on songfacts.com
RE: Leaving me speechless
"...the Thermodynamics laws were bent over like a pig in a redneck's barn... "
Needs source, Joe
RE: Australian news article,
Pope declares Mary MacKillop's second 'miracle'"
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof"
Comment written by BK of Flagstaff Hill 6:10pm December 21, 2009
RE: The August 2007
Draft Ivory-billed Woodpecker Recovery Plan published by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
" ...ten cups of weak coffee do not make a pot of strong coffee. "
David Sibley
RE: Freedom
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams
RE: Website programmers who don't know their trash from a hole in the ground
"...when the user clicked to go back... the options she had picked on the forms had been erased and she had to start over. Talk about a frustrating experience."
Eszter Hargittai (HERE)
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Full Quote:
[Nope. Color has many causes: absorption as with dyes, interference as with interference filters, and scattering as with smoke and aerogel. But further, color is a property perceived by humans and created by human retinas and minds response to incoming light. Regardless of the physical mechanism, if blue light comes from an object illuminated with white light, then we say that the object is 'colored blue'. Aerogel is blue/white in color. So are opals. So are thick layers of gas. If I look at a gas and see blue, then the color of the gas is blue. That's what the word 'color' means. The spectral distribution of the light striking the retina is critical, while the details of the physics which produced that distribution are irrelevant, because if it looks blue, it really is blue. Your reasoning is also wrong because, in order to be consistent, we'd have to say that interference coatings and blue-jay feathers and Morpho butterfly wings are NOT COLORED. After all, interference coatings and morpho wings and bluejay feathers are entirely made of transparent materials, and their perceived colors are created by wave interference rather than by dyes. Bluejays are blue, yet there are no blue dyes in their feathers at all. Air is analogous: when air is lit from the side, the air is colored blue, even though the color is created by wave mechanics rather than by selective absorbtion. (And of course air is also red/orange, as during a sunset. The color of air varies with viewing angle. Hmmm. Perhaps you would say that, if the color of an object will change in proportion to angle, then the color is not real?) -billb ]