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Offline raven

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #90 on: June 19, 2012, 03:36:00 PM »
Quote from: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2012, 03:26:46 PM
Oddly enough, the university I went to chose not to make a straight acronym out of the school of Cognitive Research And Psychology Studies....
*missing the point* 'And' is rarely part of acronym. For example NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Offline nomuse

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #91 on: June 19, 2012, 03:39:54 PM »
You have IDW to blame for my presence here (the poster, not the comic book company).  Ah, acronyms.  I've been hacking together a budget robot on an R/C car chassis and yesterday I spent buying a new motor controller.  And had a heck of a time understanding why "ESC" kept appearing in the descriptions.  Apparently stands for "Electronic Speed Controller."  Give me the friendly H-Bridge any time!  (Which doesn't stand for anything...the circuit diagram kinda LOOKS like an "H.")

Now to connect my ISP (not Internet Service Provider, but In-System Programmer) to USB so I can stick some C in another AVR...

(I know; I know those aren't all acronyms. )
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Offline Laurel

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #92 on: June 19, 2012, 03:41:28 PM »
Quote from: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2012, 03:26:46 PM
Oddly enough, the university I went to chose not to make a straight acronym out of the school of Cognitive Research And Psychology Studies....
Which reminds me, the Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party didn't keep that name for long.
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Offline nomuse

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #93 on: June 19, 2012, 03:41:56 PM »
Quote from: raven on June 19, 2012, 03:36:00 PM
Quote from: Jason Thompson on June 19, 2012, 03:26:46 PM
Oddly enough, the university I went to chose not to make a straight acronym out of the school of Cognitive Research And Psychology Studies....
*missing the point* 'And' is rarely part of acronym. For example NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

I'm not sure "Crips" is any better (that's sure to be the default pronunciation.)  On the gripping hand, "SCRAPS" is kinda cool.  Sounds like  Keith Laumer acronym.
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Offline Jason Thompson

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #94 on: June 19, 2012, 03:43:08 PM »
I know, but the University wanted acronyms in the truest sense, i.e., as was pointed out earlier on this thread, words that could be properly pronounced. That required a vowel. Eventually they gave up and just shortened the words, so it became COGS, and the school of biological sciences became BIOLS.

Another course that was offered absolutely did have to include the 'A' from the 'and': Computer Literacy And Information Technology....
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Offline Noldi400

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #95 on: June 19, 2012, 09:56:48 PM »
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Peripheral Motor & Sensory.  Check the patient before and after applying splints, bandages, backboards, etc.  Good PMS * 4 is what you want.

I had actually forgotten that one. Although we used it for Pulse, Motor & Sensory.
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Offline Mr Gorsky

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #96 on: June 20, 2012, 07:25:52 PM »
For several years in the mid-late 1980s, one of the UK's largest, best known and most respected financial institutions offered a pension contract called the Castle Retirement Annuity Plan.
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Offline AtomicDog

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #97 on: June 20, 2012, 07:38:06 PM »
Meh. My wife went to Furman University.  It gets old after a while.
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Offline Al Johnston

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #98 on: June 21, 2012, 05:10:04 AM »
Apparently the Cambridge University New Theatre Society lasted two years before anyone noticed...
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Offline ChrLz

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #99 on: June 21, 2012, 08:05:44 AM »
In a similar vein to Atomic.. I used to work for Flinders University (in South Oz), and I gather the cricket club was asked to cease and desist selling a very popular line of shirts..
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #100 on: June 21, 2012, 08:29:27 AM »
The students at a nearby university that began as a teachers college and named after one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas have been known to where shirts that say; Sam Houston Institute of Teaching.  The real and boring former name of the school is the less than inspiring; Sam Houston Normal Institute.
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Offline mako88sb

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #101 on: June 30, 2012, 07:23:59 PM »
Now hunchbacked is claiming Spirit & Opportunity are fakes seeing as somebody pointed out laser returns sent back from the Spirit rover on Mars were many, many times weaker then those reflected from the retro-reflectors but still detectable. I guess anything that might corroborate the Apollo landings is got to be bogus. Hard to believe that this clown compares himself to Galileo and is supposedly a huge fan of science. 
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Offline Trebor

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #102 on: June 30, 2012, 08:47:40 PM »
Quote from: mako88sb on June 30, 2012, 07:23:59 PM
... laser returns sent back from the Spirit rover on Mars ...

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Laser returns?
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Offline carpediem

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #103 on: June 30, 2012, 09:09:45 PM »
Quote from: mako88sb on June 30, 2012, 07:23:59 PM
Now hunchbacked is claiming Spirit & Opportunity are fakes seeing as somebody pointed out laser returns sent back from the Spirit rover on Mars were many, many times weaker then those reflected from the retro-reflectors but still detectable. I guess anything that might corroborate the Apollo landings is got to be bogus. Hard to believe that this clown compares himself to Galileo and is supposedly a huge fan of science.
Where is he saying this?
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Offline ka9q

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Re: Hunchback aka inquisitivemind.
« Reply #104 on: June 30, 2012, 09:47:56 PM »
His frequent self-comparisons to Galileo, besides being a crackpot cliché, are especially ironic because Galileo wrote so eloquently about the vital importance of mathematics in science. And Hunchbacked, despite his claim to be an engineer, is virtually innumerate. I have seen him use a mathematical formula only once, for the angular size of an object seen at a distance.

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