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Human Rights

Ayn Rand writes in The Virtue of Selfishness that there is only one basic human right, viz. the right to life; other rights, insofar as they are real, are consequences or corollaries of the right to life. The German bill of rights...

Tags: Ayn Rand, john.a.wills@..., dignity, human dignity, liberty

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

Three Platonic Caves

If there are 10 political questions and each admits of only 2 answers there are 1024 possible opinion collections. However, in practice there is quite a lot of clustering of opinions, so we can cover a lot of political ground reasonably systematically. I use economic opinion as the basis. ...

Tags: john.a.wills@..., cave, corporatism, liberalism, socialism, triangle

Discussion threads 2007-04-23

interest on checking

Sterling Bank and Trust, all of whose branches are in or near SF, is paying 5% APY on checking. And when I deposit a cheque by mail I get a stamped envelope back for the next deposit. The only drawback is that the first time you use your ATM card...

Tags: ATM, john.a.wills@...

Discussion threads 2007-04-18

Repeal the Second Amendment

Some nut has gone on a rampage in Virginia Tech today, murdering 22 people. Dubya says he's still in favor of the right to bear arms. Dubya is not the only one who's a bit loopy on this issue, and there are of course other reasons for the high murder...

Tags: john.a.wills@..., Second Amendment, basic right, liberty

Discussion threads 2007-04-16

What religion was Adolph Hitler?

Born and brought up an Austrian, one would expect him to be Catholic. But the church he inspired as Leader was a transformed United Evangelical. I have read the first volume of Mein Kampf, the autobiographical part, and noticed no reference to his own

Tags: hitler religion, off-topic, john.a.wills@..., religion, Catholic, Adolph Hitler, church, Nazi

Discussion threads 2006-11-27

Eichmann as a liar

At his trial in Jerusalem, Adolf Eichmann said that a main purpose of his 1937 Palestine Trip had been to visit the Mufti of Jerusalem. In his trip report, which I have read, there is no mention of the Mufti. He didn't get into Palestine, but when he g

Tags: john.a.wills@..., Mufti

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

These United States

In 1776 Great Britain had 27 American dependencies, of which I cannot list all off-hand. 13 of the dependencies revolted and formed the U.S. Why those 13? What did Georgia and NH have in common that they did not have in common with Jamaica, Trinidad, Newfoundland, Ohio, etc.? It is...

Tags: colonies, colony, great britain, john.a.wills@..., New Hampshire Province, Nova Scotia, off-topic, revolution, us

Discussion threads 2006-10-06

Israeli society

Rabbi Avraham Kuk, first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel, was a Zionist. He believed in culturing a just, virtuous society. It was pointed out to him that many Zionists active in Eretz Israel were far from holy, and he was asked how they fitted into his dream. He repied...

Tags: john.a.wills@..., Palestinian, Israelis

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

xls to csv

I have an Excel file whose data I need in a comma-delimited text file. I have tried Save As and got only tab-delimited or various other kinds of nonsense I cannot convert to csv. I am focussing on Access as an intermediary, but, if I link to the file and...

Tags: Microsoft Office, csv, Microsoft Excel

Q&A 2006-09-19

papal quotations

Benedict XVI quoted a Byzantine emperor as saying something unkind about Muhammed's teaching; great offence is taken from Morocco to Indonesia. In the same speech the Pope quoted someone else as saying that God does not exist; no-one seems to care. From the context it is obvious that he did...

Tags: God, Islam, john.a.wills@..., off-topic, Pope, religion, religion islam

Discussion threads 2006-09-18

Technical-Answer Status Change

When I look at a question I have posed I can add comments or change the points value but I cannot change the status of the answers. Please get this fixed soon.JohnTR is undergoing a Upgrade so I don't think that this will be looked at before the Upgrade happens.ColIt...

Tags: Upgrade

Discussion threads 2006-09-08

invisible to Google

My website home.mindspring.com/~johnawills seems invisible to Google. When I type in "mindspring" and "johnawills" I get only references from other sites. When I type in "Begg-Lorimer", about which crooked family I wish to warn people, I get other references to the family, but not my story. What can I do...

Tags: Google Inc.

Q&A 2006-08-21

website

Since I have had a website (home.mindspring.com/~johnawills in case you care to look) I have been getting about two virus-bearing emails a day, whereas I had previously not had any for over a year. I presume there are automated searches for email addresses in websites, but one would think my...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Web site development, Web technology, virus, Web site, e-mail

Discussion threads 2006-08-14

Palestine with patience

http://home.mindspring.com/~johnawills/id15.htmlFor those with the patience to read rather a long essay, this may provide some hope regarding the Levant.

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Discussion threads 2006-08-07

converting OLE in Access to Word

I have an Access database with embedded in a report an OLE derived from a Word file. The Word file is no longer available, and I would like to recreate it from the database. I have tried exporting the file after Print to an rtf file, but got only an...

Tags: john.a.wills@..., Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, OLE, software

Q&A 2006-07-26

SQL retrieving only rows of a size

I want to examine the grades of students only if there are at least 10 students in the class. I think I should be able to write something like this, but I get all classes. What am I doing wrong?selectshrtckn_subj_code,shrtckn_crse_numb,shrtckg_grde_code_finalFROM shrtckn LEFT JOIN shrtckg ON shrtckg_pidm = shrtckn_pidmWHERE (SELECT count(b.shrtckn_pidm)...

Tags: Banner, SELECT, SELECT COUNT, john.a.wills@..., programming, SQL

Q&A 2006-07-18

SQR output on same line

I have this code, and it works, except that the grades start a line below the other information, whereas I want them in a column starting in the same line as the other info. If I uncomment the on-break and delete the +1 I get only one grade printed. What...

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Q&A 2006-07-18

Albatross

blog rootmy bookAlbatross is available on-line, but on-line books are not much fun. It is published by the Writers Club Press of iUniverse.com, an associate of Barnes & Noble, who therefore sell it for $0.15 less than the cover price of $15.95 - although they may charge correspondingly more for...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, john.a.wills@..., AlbatrOSS, job, http://harpend.dsl.xmission.com/harpending/1201/cochran.homosexu

Discussion threads 2005-05-21

give a book to New Orleans

http://www.alibris.com/wish/donate-a-book.cfm?cm_re=home_page*sidebar1*arrow_dab

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Discussion threads 2006-05-03

foot-dragging

When I try to do something with my XP on Axus hardware after a time of dong nothing all reactions are at first very slow, then things get as fast as I would like. This is particularly noticeable with Internet matters. It is as though the machine needs to warm...

Tags: RAM, john.a.wills@..., mouse

Q&A 2006-04-04