Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.144 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.72; '*S*': 0.01; 'mentions': 0.09; 'received:209.85.219': 0.09; 'works.': 0.09; 'jan': 0.12; 'believes': 0.16; 'emacs,': 0.16; 'quoted': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'rsi': 0.16; 'stallman': 0.16; 'subject:?)': 0.16; 'supported.': 0.16; 'sat,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '(but': 0.19; 'to:name:python- list@python.org': 0.22; 'lets': 0.24; 'skip': 0.24; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'anonymous': 0.31; 'context.': 0.31; 'subject: (': 0.35; 'received:209.85': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'sequence': 0.36; 'wrong': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'project': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.37; 'richard': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'space': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'read': 0.60; 'company': 0.60; 'lower': 0.61; 'medical': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'companies': 0.62; 'personal': 0.63; 'stand': 0.64; 'sound': 0.68; 'physical': 0.72; 'jul': 0.74; 'subject:your': 0.76; 'case?': 0.84; 'condition.': 0.84; 'chronic': 0.91; 'good,': 0.91; 'choice.': 0.93; '2013': 0.98 X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=tTEvsWv4fN0iggYLY3ftMxWsNzLwjGXP3aow00GDfXM=; b=edROgyX65KkMR3KJ0E7wEuCGx58QGXzNVx3U4WxqYznodOCxKTdg+WlWo/ugtToMOJ E42TlNT5eo7Nvn6d7CPQejQSHsSqMTxYhV9ZAB7pysfP7uwlFaWXiNUoE07vhhVfkkiw KemdsjmjO0tIi93DzoUu44ZDjgEJwzHrjzT1UVJKW1Rm4F4iOAJjO8S81NbJBk+dztIv jhuI8g8ZlvJwd4CX5XFcz8Aa0zdNCE5H1aWF5Pcm7PUJjBhi3NAM1Q/M+dbOgEwcDnhw N7HO7c6O/8Op1V51uf03ma7PbsFxEYoTu9cujRvv7PCdkZtd6uTJv2C+P/yDrAbjSOOU hxSQ== X-Received: by 10.182.130.228 with SMTP id oh4mr15971065obb.38.1373140119935; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:48:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.130.228 with SMTP id oh4mr15971061obb.38.1373140119843; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:48:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Benjamin Kaplan Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 12:48:19 -0700 Subject: Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) To: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmjuBe4nQPTSD9n4MM9GESMtalA184QxuDRMkrflIsXLQcqkSWl5oktEevZl3Mv/AQCYtUnzH+uYpp2JJJgV8gn1tm+EPwcSB122lCfqSRDjCSQq7jqP9jTlBe68iRnOE6rJF3awp2Aq1kZwav8beKMBmjfkA== X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1.tis.cwru.edu) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1373140130 news.xs4all.nl 15986 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:59159 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:50077 On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: > "rms has crippling RSI" (anonymous, as quoted by Skip). > > I suspect that 'rms' = Richard M Stallman (but why lower case? to insult > him?). I 'know' that RSI = Roberts Space Industries, a game company whose > Kickstarter project I supported. Whoops, wrong context. How about 'Richard > Stallman Insanity' (his personal form of megalomania)? That makes the phrase > is a claim I have read others making. > > Lets continue and see if that interpretation works. "should indicate that > emacs' ergonomics is not right". Aha! Anonymous believes that using his own > invention, emacs, is what drove Richard crazy. He would not be the first > self invention victim. > > But Skip mentions 'worse for wrists'. So RSI must be a physical rather than > mental condition. Does 'I' instead stand for Inoperability?, Instability?, > or what? > > Let us try Google. Type in RSI and it offers 'RSI medications' as a choice. > Sound good, as it will eliminate all the companies with those initials. The > two standard medical meanings of RSI seem to be Rapid Sequence Intubation > and Rapid Sequence Induction. But those are procedures, not chronic > syndromes. So I still do not know what the original poster, as quoted by > Skip, meant. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy RSI is a repetitive stress injury.