• (Tears) The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    From James Nicoll@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Nov 26 00:56:42 2024

    The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    Who can be trusted with protecting the secret of the potentially
    apocalyptic Daleth Effect? Only plucky Demark!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/solutions-unsatisfactory

    This is late because someone sabotaged the infrastructure on which
    my access to the internet depends.
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  • From William Hyde@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Nov 26 06:30:57 2024
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    Who can be trusted with protecting the secret of the potentially
    apocalyptic Daleth Effect? Only plucky Demark!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/solutions-unsatisfactory

    This is late because someone sabotaged the infrastructure on which
    my access to the internet depends.

    Harrison actually lived in Denmark for seven years, and knew the country fairly well for a foreigner. Somewhere he said that he left because if
    he stayed one more year he'd never leave.

    Ah footnote two. The "Anti Imperialist Alliance" and their fanatical
    devotion to Albania, once they had to give up on China.

    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania, fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won
    that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    I wonder how many of the AIA people I talked to are now on the far right?


    William Hyde

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  • From James Nicoll@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Nov 26 07:05:34 2024
    In article <vi2jaa$2v3lb$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    Who can be trusted with protecting the secret of the potentially
    apocalyptic Daleth Effect? Only plucky Demark!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/solutions-unsatisfactory

    This is late because someone sabotaged the infrastructure on which
    my access to the internet depends.

    Harrison actually lived in Denmark for seven years, and knew the country >fairly well for a foreigner. Somewhere he said that he left because if
    he stayed one more year he'd never leave.

    Ah footnote two. The "Anti Imperialist Alliance" and their fanatical >devotion to Albania, once they had to give up on China.

    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania, >fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won >that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    I wonder how many of the AIA people I talked to are now on the far right?

    I tracked down their prof mentor, whose name escapes me. He is using
    his twilight years to hammer away at Alberta's eugenics laws, pointing
    out the ways in which those were based on crap science. There are worse
    uses of time.
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  • From William Hyde@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Nov 26 08:18:38 2024
    James Nicoll wrote:
    In article <vi2jaa$2v3lb$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    Who can be trusted with protecting the secret of the potentially
    apocalyptic Daleth Effect? Only plucky Demark!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/solutions-unsatisfactory

    This is late because someone sabotaged the infrastructure on which
    my access to the internet depends.

    Harrison actually lived in Denmark for seven years, and knew the country
    fairly well for a foreigner. Somewhere he said that he left because if
    he stayed one more year he'd never leave.

    Ah footnote two. The "Anti Imperialist Alliance" and their fanatical
    devotion to Albania, once they had to give up on China.

    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania,
    fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won
    that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    I wonder how many of the AIA people I talked to are now on the far right?

    I tracked down their prof mentor, whose name escapes me. He is using
    his twilight years to hammer away at Alberta's eugenics laws, pointing
    out the ways in which those were based on crap science. There are worse
    uses of time.

    Given that they were completely insane on genetics (see Lysenko above)
    this is a far more rational activity than I would have expected.

    Their letters column was a foretaste of usenet flame wars, not as
    stylish as the flame wars of Thomas More and Erasmus (not with each
    other, of course) but mercifully shorter.

    William Hyde

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  • From Mike Van Pelt@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Nov 27 09:50:46 2024
    In article <vi2jaa$2v3lb$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania, >fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won >that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    Huh. I guess they define "Nazi" as "Anyone to the right of Enver Hoxa".


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  • From William Hyde@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Nov 27 10:36:21 2024
    Mike Van Pelt wrote:
    In article <vi2jaa$2v3lb$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania,
    fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won
    that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    Huh. I guess they define "Nazi" as "Anyone to the right of Enver Hoxa".

    Basically anybody who scored a point against them in debate.

    Essentially everyone, that is.

    William Hyde


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