bad! bad meme! (was Re: [extropy-chat] NEO deflection)

[Bret Kulakovich]

"Virus Removed."

That site at pinyin makes some great points, thanks!

I thought it was worth writing to the list since this is the kind of  
thing we are dealing with as we move forward - I learned this  
ideathing about 20 years ago, and it gets fixed, cited, notarized  
etc. in 15 person-minutes effort. Of course it is on top of a  
developed infrastructure (pinyin) and I had to access the fix from  
Adrian manually (click, go to website) and then process it  
(understand and read language)

But how soon to skipping those other bits? I don't know if I'd trust  
my e-brain to Norton Utilities, but, Wikipedia and NPOV? maybe.

]3ret



On Aug 10, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001103.html
> http://www.pinyin.info/chinese/crisis.html
>
> As urban legends go, this one is kind of true...but misleading.  It's
> based on inexact translations of the symbols in questions - they
> *could* be read to mean "danger" and "opportunity", but not quite in
> the same meaning as "crisis = danger + opportunity" implies.
>
> --- Bret Kulakovich <bret at bonfireproductions.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Does this say "ice cream waffle dog" or something, then? =)
>>
>> http://pw1.netcom.com/~spritex/crisis.gif
>>
>>
>> /hates when that happens.
>>
>> //especially with a tattoo.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> That's Chinese, and an urban legend (though one that they happily
>>> relay
>>> to tourists).
>>>
>>
>>
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