User talk:KarlHallowell

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Hi Karl. I guess the Wikipedia being in the news has interested you in editing Wikipedia a bit more. Ran into some of your comments on Jimbo Wales. --C S (Talk) 10:47, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Indeed. I believe a slashdot article on woot was the tipping point. I have found Wikipedia to be relatively useful for an internet source. -- KarlHallowell 14:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

209.244.42.15 20:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)== Purge "greater or lesser" ==

"Greater or lesser" connotes change, so, "variously,"

or "variably" might have been a better word choice.

Good point. I decided to hold off on that to get some comment (and because I didn't feel like it at the time :-). The examples were in cases where there was already a lot of indefiniteness in the quantity. For example, "bulk" is an indefinite quantity which just means "large quantities" in the context of the granary wikipedia article. If I buy "in bulk", I could be buying 50 of an item or 50 million. Both are "large" quantities though one is much larger than the other. So "greater or lesser bulk" as mentioned, doesn't add anything. -- KarlHallowell 00:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Karl. I made added a section entitled "corruption" to House of Saud's page. I need your help with editing the section. PeaceLL 04:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi karl i think on the basis that people use “greater or lesser" in some areas like your quote “from ancient times grain has been stored in greater or lesser bulk.” Is because if you use the sentence “from ancient times grain has been stored in bulk.” Then the reader may get the impression that all grain was stored in the same quantity where that would be incorrect i think a better phrase to put in place of "grater or lesser" is of Various sized, so "from ancient times grain has been stored in greater or lesser bulk.” changes to "from ancient times grain has been stored in Various sized bulk.

So I do agree with you in some extent.

Andy831 03:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Era categories

Hi KarlHallowell. Thank you for contacting me. As you requested, see my response at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Time#era categories..... I will be happy to discuss any issues you may have in detail. Thank you so much, IZAK 08:18, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kardashev Scale

Hi recently I've been trying to get people together who are interested in expanding Kardashev scale. I read on the Talk:Kardashev scale page where you mentioned that if we could have harnessed the energy from the Tsar bomb Human civilization could have jumped up into the Type I range (1.8) and possibly Type II if you combined the 5.4×10²⁴W of energy with the energy we already produce. But as far as sources I can't find where the explosion last for 40ns and everything I would need to add it to the article. What do you think?--Sparkygravity (talk) 13:49, 1 January 2008 (UTC)