Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
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> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
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>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ernest Schaal wrote:
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>>>>>>> in article apjb111jq9usblq1742go3h6duj9ihfj19@4ax.com, Michael 
>>>>>>> Cash at
>>>>>>> mikecash@buggerallspammers.com wrote on 2/18/05 8:20 PM:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:11:53 +0900, Ernest Schaal
>>>>>>>> <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
>>>>>>>> inscribed:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Frankly, when I read your message about why you stay in Japan, 
>>>>>>>>> I felt sorry
>>>>>>>>> for you. Stasis is not a fun reason to stay here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I meant it as an answer as to why Rev. Ed is still here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But when you come right down to it, being settled in any location
>>>>>>>> involves stasis. So what does it matter whether stasis has 
>>>>>>>> overtaken
>>>>>>>> me here or elsewhere? I'm just as content right where I am right 
>>>>>>>> now
>>>>>>>> as I imagine I would be anywhere else.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry if I read too much into your answer. Stasis involves 
>>>>>>> conflicting
>>>>>>> forces, and I took it to mean that you were caught in the middle 
>>>>>>> of those
>>>>>>> conflicting forces.
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are in stasis most of the time. As you sit in your chair, it 
>>>>>> is pushing up against you with the exact same force with which 
>>>>>> gravity pulls you down.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you a good or even moderately competent lawyer? I certainly 
>>>>> hope so.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Sorry that I can't write a longer reply, but my chair is pushing up 
>>>> against me with a force greater than that of gravity's pull upon me, 
>>>> so I am slowly drifting away from my keyboard into the strato.......
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>>> I'M SHOUTING SO YOU CAN HEAR ME.
>>>
>>> AS THE CHAIR WAS PUSHING WITH A FORCE THEN IT HAS PROBABLY NOW EXPLODED. 
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>> No, the chair is remarkably intact and continues to push up against me 
>> with a force that is a function of my mass times the acceleration of 
>> gravity.
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> 
> Can you measure this "force" with a forcographer?

I have no idea what a "forcographer" is, but this force could be 
measured with a bathroom scale that can be purchased in any number of 
retail outlets. Such devices measure forces, you see.

> (I would hate to multuply your mass by *anything*)

Thou shalt not multuply extra entities unnecessarily.

- Kevin