Re: Topicality: James Harris and surrogate factoring (vote)

From: Angus Rodgers (angus_prune_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 04/09/05 

Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:31:20 +0100

On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:12:58 -0500, David C. Ullrich
<ullrich@math.okstate.edu> wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:34:41 +0300, Juuso Hukkanen
><juuso929@tele3d.net> wrote:
>
>>Try Universal Declaration of Human Rights
>>
>>[...]
>I'm not certain whether you're serious - you certainly seemed
>serious in your original post, but this is just too much.
>
>Whether you're serious or not, your current post is simply
>obscene. Disgusting, and no, I'm not trying to be funny here.
>There _are_ people around the world who _are_ held in _actual_
>involuntary servitude, and that's an evil thing. Harris
>_voluntarily_ spends a lot of time answering posts on sci.math -
>suggesting that this somehow falls under the scope of that
>article, even jokingly, trivializes the plight of the people
>it's actually meant to protect.
>[...]
>>Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
>>inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
>> (Christopher Heckman already admitted using cruel
>>expressions)
>
>Ditto.

Oh dear. I'm not usually a cruel person, honestly, but I've
just had a really cruel thought: let's christen the number 0
"Harris's Constant", in honour of his contribution to number
theory (which, I hasten to add, equals my own - so I can
hardly complain if one day 0 gets named after me instead). 

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Angus Rodgers
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