RE: [registrars] Diversity & the new Proposed Constituency bylaws

["Robert F. Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>]

At 01:06 PM 3/19/03 -0800, Paul Stahura wrote:
>Ken,
>Are you saying that you believe people have less of a tendency to 
>participate (or have an ambivalence) because they live in a certain region?
>Regardless, I do not think that the solution to the ambivalence problem is 
>to mandate that excom be constrained to people from certain geographical areas.

Dear Paul:  I'm not sure, but I think that Ken was thinking of such issues 
as the requirements that registrars in certain legal jurisdictions comply 
with stringent privacy laws.  Regards, BobC



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"One test is worth three expert opinions!"
U.B. Bray

In a case in which I'd made an assertion that he didn't think was correct,
Doctor Bray would come out to my lab and say, "Let's have a meeting
of the Skeptics' Committee".  He'd then take a clean beaker and graduated
cylinder off the rack and start to experiment.

The results may have confirmed my assertion -- or disproved it -- or sent
me out for further confirmation.  But the fact is that "One test *really is*
worth three or more expert opinions.

Doctor Bray was the most brilliant industrial chemist I have ever known.

Here's another opinion:

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Albert Einstein
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In light of the above, I cannot understand why NASA management
did not call for a space walk by the crew of the Columbia *prior_to*
the ill fated return flight.  Certainly there could have been another
way to return the crew to Earth.