From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wes Kussmaul To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20111013171959.GA3814@polynum.com> <20111013172210.GD1976@vicerveza.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:02:50 -0400 Message-ID: <1318536170.1860.52.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37bee346-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 15:30 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Thu Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2011, viriketo@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote: > > > And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer > > > science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap. > > > > Or there are shameful "Nobel" prizes, like the economics, started by the Bank of > > Sweden taking profit of Nobel's name, and with very strong political biases, > > denounced even by those receiving the award. And presented by the press usually > > neglecting these details. > > i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too. > alfred just had the money to do something about it. Supposedly that's an urban legend, as he - again supposedly - was never married. Come to think of it that would explain why the prizes exist! Wes