Five full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope were
revealed yesterday. (The colors are translated from different
bands of infrared.)
Does anyone know of a website where these images fill one's screen?
My screen isn't large, and my eyesight isn't great. If I wanted to
squint at blurry images the size of postage stamps, I would have
become a philatelist.
On Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 9:22:27 PM UTC-4, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Five full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope were
revealed yesterday. (The colors are translated from different
bands of infrared.)
Does anyone know of a website where these images fill one's screen?
My screen isn't large, and my eyesight isn't great. If I wanted to
squint at blurry images the size of postage stamps, I would have
become a philatelist.
Keith won't see this unless someone quotes it (he killfiled me), but try
the source:
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Pt
Peter Trei wrote:
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Does anyone know of a website where these images fill one's
screen? My screen isn't large, and my eyesight isn't great.
If I wanted to squint at blurry images the size of postage
stamps, I would have become a philatelist.
Keith won't see this unless someone quotes it (he killfiled me),
but try the source:
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html
Bumped
As an aside, fandom is increasingly intolerant of even the slightest
hint of abusive behavior, as witness what happened to Mercedes Lackey
at the latest Nebula awards, to Stephanie Burke at the latest Balticon,
and Gregory Benford at the 2018 Loscon. By contrast, I'm extremely
tolerant, but not infinitely so.
I've always been open to email from Peter, and would be glad to remove
him from my Usenet killfile if he sends me an email apologizing for his
years of abusive behavior and promising not to do it again.
Being in his killfile is a badge of honor. It makes me take you
*more* seriously.
Literally every bad thing that as ever happened to Keith is the
result of his own bad decisions, including his not being take
seriously here.
On Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 3:24:38 PM UTC-4, Keith F. Lynch
wrote:
I've always been open to email from Peter, and would be glad to
remove him from my Usenet killfile if he sends me an email
apologizing for his years of abusive behavior and promising not
to do it again.
Not going to happen. Keith deliberately misquoted me, changing
the meaning to make me look like an idiot. I called him on it,
telling him not to lie. That was a berserk button for Keith, and
after a series of warnings insisting that I unconditionally
surrender to his righteousness or he'd killfile me, he did so.
I haven't suffered. This far on, I'd be happy to simply drop the
issue, and let bygones be bygones, but he wants me to publicly
beg for his forgiveness.
This is one of those ancient frozen fannish feuds that means
nothing to anyone except the people involved. Resolving it
matters very little.
Keith remains the biggest fish in the very small rasff pond.
He's welcome to it.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:26:05 GMT, Ninapenda Jibini
<taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
Being in his killfile is a badge of honor. It makes me take you
*more* seriously.
I hope that doesn't mean you take -me- too seriously! :-)
Literally every bad thing that as ever happened to Keith is the
result of his own bad decisions, including his not being take
seriously here.
Yep.
He does post some interesting stuff,
but there is so much "Woe
is me, government/businesses/other people are so mean to me",
that I do sometimes wonder if it is worth the effort of wading
through...
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
As an aside, fandom is increasingly intolerant of even the slightest
hint of abusive behavior, as witness what happened to Mercedes Lackey
at the latest Nebula awards, to Stephanie Burke at the latest Balticon,
and Gregory Benford at the 2018 Loscon. By contrast, I'm extremely
tolerant, but not infinitely so.
I had to look up the one about Benford. Disgusting, yet not
surprising.
SFWA fanatically polices every little use of words, yet when it
changed its name to Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association,
it didn't add a second "F" to its abbreviated name. Surely so
horribly marginalizing fantasy writers by not giving them their own
letter is worthy of marching the SFWA board out of a convention and
expelling them forever.
Similarly, Wikipedia says, of the 33rd US president, "His middle
initial, 'S', is not an abbreviation of one particular name, but
rather honors both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and
Solomon Young, ...."
Hence he should properly be called Harry S Truman, not Harry S. Truman.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
As an aside, fandom is increasingly intolerant of even the slightest
hint of abusive behavior, as witness what happened to Mercedes Lackey
at the latest Nebula awards, to Stephanie Burke at the latest Balticon,
and Gregory Benford at the 2018 Loscon. By contrast, I'm extremely
tolerant, but not infinitely so.
I had to look up the one about Benford. Disgusting, yet not
surprising.
Is there a complete list anywhere? I'm also aware of the 2011 WisCon withdrawing their Elizabath Moon GoH invitation and last year's
Worldcon withdrawing their Toni Weisskopf GoH invitation.
On 7/25/22 9:15 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
As an aside, fandom is increasingly intolerant of even the slightest
hint of abusive behavior, as witness what happened to Mercedes Lackey
at the latest Nebula awards, to Stephanie Burke at the latest Balticon, >>>> and Gregory Benford at the 2018 Loscon. By contrast, I'm extremely
tolerant, but not infinitely so.
I had to look up the one about Benford. Disgusting, yet not
surprising.
Is there a complete list anywhere? I'm also aware of the 2011 WisCon
withdrawing their Elizabath Moon GoH invitation and last year's
Worldcon withdrawing their Toni Weisskopf GoH invitation.
Dave Weingart was kicked off his position as head of filk for the
Finnish Worldcon for posting a comment to the same forum as someone he
had been told not to communicate with (not a response to that person).
Not in the same league (as either venue or prominence of names), but DunDraCon (I run ConReg) has two people marked as not to be sold
memberships due to bad behavior.
Hal Heydt wrote:
Not in the same league (as either venue or prominence of
names), but DunDraCon (I run ConReg) has two people marked as
not to be sold memberships due to bad behavior.
My understanding is that this thread is about people who were
banned, expelled, or revoked unjustly, or for an utterly trivial
offense.
In article <tc3l9o$3thkv$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
On 7/25/22 9:15 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
As an aside, fandom is increasingly intolerant of even the slightest >>>>> hint of abusive behavior, as witness what happened to Mercedes Lackey >>>>> at the latest Nebula awards, to Stephanie Burke at the latest Balticon, >>>>> and Gregory Benford at the 2018 Loscon. By contrast, I'm extremely
tolerant, but not infinitely so.
I had to look up the one about Benford. Disgusting, yet not
surprising.
Is there a complete list anywhere? I'm also aware of the 2011 WisCon
withdrawing their Elizabath Moon GoH invitation and last year's
Worldcon withdrawing their Toni Weisskopf GoH invitation.
Dave Weingart was kicked off his position as head of filk for the
Finnish Worldcon for posting a comment to the same forum as someone he
had been told not to communicate with (not a response to that person).
(Hal Heydt)
Not in the same league (as either venue or prominence of names),
but DunDraCon (I run ConReg) has two people marked as not to be
sold memberships due to bad behavior.
On 7/30/22 1:34 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
In article <tc3l9o$3thkv$1@dont-email.me>,
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
On 7/25/22 9:15 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Keith F. Lynch wrote:
As an aside, fandom is increasingly intolerant of even the slightest >>>>>> hint of abusive behavior, as witness what happened to Mercedes Lackey >>>>>> at the latest Nebula awards, to Stephanie Burke at the latest Balticon, >>>>>> and Gregory Benford at the 2018 Loscon. By contrast, I'm extremely >>>>>> tolerant, but not infinitely so.
I had to look up the one about Benford. Disgusting, yet not
surprising.
Is there a complete list anywhere? I'm also aware of the 2011 WisCon
withdrawing their Elizabath Moon GoH invitation and last year's
Worldcon withdrawing their Toni Weisskopf GoH invitation.
Dave Weingart was kicked off his position as head of filk for the
Finnish Worldcon for posting a comment to the same forum as someone he
had been told not to communicate with (not a response to that person).
(Hal Heydt)
Not in the same league (as either venue or prominence of names),
but DunDraCon (I run ConReg) has two people marked as not to be
sold memberships due to bad behavior.
What was the alleged bad behavior? Some people are banned for legitimate >reasons. Arisia once had a problem with a regularly returning member
with a habit of soliciting small children. They had to go to court to
uphold their ban, but it was entirely reasonable.
Arisia once had a problem with a regularly returning member with
a habit of soliciting small children. They had to go to court to
uphold their ban, but it was entirely reasonable.
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Arisia once had a problem with a regularly returning member with
a habit of soliciting small children. They had to go to court to
uphold their ban, but it was entirely reasonable.
Why did they have to go to court? Don't they have the right to ban
anyone they want for any reason, or even for no reason at all?
As far as I know Walter Breen didn't attempt to sue Pacificon.
On 7/30/22 11:08 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:
Arisia once had a problem with a regularly returning member with
a habit of soliciting small children. They had to go to court to
uphold their ban, but it was entirely reasonable.
Why did they have to go to court? Don't they have the right to ban
anyone they want for any reason, or even for no reason at all?
As far as I know Walter Breen didn't attempt to sue Pacificon.
The person in question sued Arisia. That requires at least filing a
motion to dismiss, which should have been the end of it, but I'm told it
went on long enough to cost Arisia significant bucks. I don't know why.
US patent lawsuits are often similar, it's not uncommon to see
*obviously* invalid patents that doesn't in any way, shape or form
apply to what the sued entity is actually doing (even if they had
been valid!) being leveraged to extract $50-100k settlements, simply
because "defending to dismissal" will cost a minimum of $1-3M and
you'll have about 5-10% chance of getting the court to allow cost
recovery when you win (*not* if!), and that's assuming the patent
troll has anything to recover from which is unlikely.
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