Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (24573)	1/3/2005 2:24:03 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Which half loves the Packers? :-) Here's something interesting. ism.ws I'm sure you know what the PMI index is. Notice when it hit it's lowest point in the last 20 years? January 2001 at 41.3- -the very month Bush first took office in his first term. But the recession was his fault. Right. Just in case you think all Irish are drunken sots like one poster we won't specifically name who has already confessed, some Irishmen who WEREN'T living in the pubs: William Rowan Hamilton, mathematician and physicist, inventor of the Hamiltonian operator widely used in theoretical physics George Boole, mathematician, inventor of symbolic logic, the basis of computers George Gabriel Stokes, physicist, discoverer of Stoke's Law, the basis of fluid mechanics William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, physicist, best known for his formulation of the absolute temperature scale, b ut a polymath in the physical sciences Osborne Reynolds, physicist, aerodynamicist, best known for formulation of Reynold's number in fluid mechanics George Francis Fitzgerald, physicist, best known for the formulation of the Lorenz-fitzgerald contraction, an early attempt to explain the anomalies later covered by special relativity theory Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, 1951 Nobel Prize winner in physics, first to split the atom. Back to your Guiness, boy!