Another Microsoft flaw
Shouldn't using Windows to run anything other than games constitute culpable negligence? It is quite obvious that Windows security is fundamentally broken and that Microsoft is incapable of fixing it. So using Windows to store or process any kind of sensitive information (banking, medical or whatever) is knowingly irresponsible and negligent. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3477899.stm Microsoft 'critical' flaw warning Microsoft has warned that a critical flaw in the latest versions of its Windows operating system could leave computers vulnerable to hackers. The flaw affects systems running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 software. It has urged all home users and firms to download a software repairing patch free from its website to fix it. The flaw was found by a net security firm in July 2003. Microsoft announced it in its monthly security bulletin. 'Extremely deep problem' Experts have warned that if home users and companies with these operating systems do not download the fix, hackers could, in theory, break into computers and take files, delete or steal valuable data, or snoop on what that user is doing. It could also leave systems open to worm and virus threats. It does affect all [current] versions of Windows, said Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for Microsoft's Security Response Center. He added the problem was an extremely deep and pervasive technology in Windows which affects the language standard that computers use to communicate with each other. Marc Maiffret of US company eEye Digital Security, who informed Microsoft of the vulnerability over six months ago, has criticised Microsoft for taking so long to come up with a patch to fix it. This is one of the most serious Microsoft vulnerabilities ever released, said Mr Maiffret. The breadth of systems affected is probably the largest ever. He added that, unusually, even the most secure Windows networks would be vulnerable. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Our products just aren't engineered for security. - Brian Valentine, senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Interesting interview
with Greg Edmondson, the composer on _Firefly_. http://www.tracksounds.com/specialfeatures/Interviews/ interview_greg_edmonson.htm -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Scouted: Love across the lines
A touching story. I'm surprised and disappointed by the apparent intolerance of the Army to the marriage, though. It seems like too harsh a reaction to it; I'm wondering if there's a bit more to the story than the article states. Is there some standard Army regulation against soldiers getting involved with/marrying locals? I wouldn't have thought so: my grandfather remained stationed in Germany after WWII, where he met and married my grandmother, and I don't recall him mentioning having any problems with the Army. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1145462,00.html Wednesday February 11, 2004 The Guardian Love across the lines It was never going to be easy for the American sergeant and the Iraqi doctor who fell in love in Baghdad - he was kicked out of the army and the country and she was threatened in the street. But now the couple, who married last August and haven't seen each other since, are to be reunited. They talk to Julian Borger Saddam Hussein is reputed to be a big Shakespeare fan. He particularly likes The Taming of the Shrew and, more oddly, Romeo and Juliet. For some reason, the ex-dictator believes the tale of the star-crossed lovers teaches children obedience to nation and family. In that case, Saddam must deplore Sean Blackwell and his wife Ehda'a's version of the love story, about which he may even have read before his capture. For a while, they were all over the press - the American sergeant and the Iraqi doctor whose impulsive love affair and speedy marriage briefly united the US army and the nationalist resistance in sheer irritation. Following their wedding, the US army confined Blackwell to base, stopped him seeing his bride and kicked him out of the military and all the way back home to Florida. Meanwhile in Baghdad, Ehda'a's life was threatened and she still fears for her family, whose name we consequently may not use. But this particular story of love across the divide looks like it may have a happy outcome. The pair - who have not seen each other since a 20-minute wedding ceremony last August - are due to be reunited this weekend in the Jordanian capital, Amman. After a long struggle with prejudice and military bureaucracy, they will at last be together - bride, groom and the American television documentary team that has been recording every step of their travails. Yet without the aggressive but sentimental glare of network television, the army might not have let Blackwell go so easily. At one point he even came close to being court-martialled - for falling in love, as Vickie McKee, Blackwell's mother back in the Florida panhandle, always puts it. It was only after McKee and a local lawyer, Richard Alvoid, made the story world news that the army backed down on the threat of a court martial and dishonourable discharge. Blackwell was given a written reprimand - which he now paraphrases as: You did this. We told you not to. Bad you - and given an early ticket out of Iraq. The story made headlines not just because it was a tale of romantic love on the front line. It also said a lot about Iraq's new occupiers and how they viewed the people they had declared liberated. It was last May, about a month after the fall of Baghdad, that Edhaa, 25, presented herself at the ministry of health, offering her services as a trained doctor at a time when the hospitals were on the point of collapse. She wanted to get out of Qut, the Baghdad satellite town where she was working and where educated, western-dressed women were under threat from resurgent Islamic militants. The American administrators at the ministry did not want to know. But the sergeant in charge of security at the gate seemed pleasant and helpful. His name, as it turned out, was Sean Blackwell. He was 27 years old and in Iraq pretty much by accident. He had left the army in late 2002, and signed up with the Florida National Guard (the equivalent of the Territorial Army) thinking it would be a question of barbecue and beers a couple of times a month, and free tuition. He had planned to get a degree in nutrition rather than go to war. But a month after he signed up with the guard he received his deployment orders and found himself manning the gates of the Iraqi ministry of health four months later. He was the first American I had the chance to meet, says Ehda'a in a telephone interview from Baghdad. He was very handsome with very nice eyes. He was trying his best to help. Blackwell had an idea about how she might find a job. There was some money set aside for clinics run jointly by army medics and local doctors, and there was a shortage of women doctors to examine women patients. In the end, the job did not work out - the army surgeon apparently did not want to work with an Iraqi - but at least it got the couple talking. It was kind of funny, I kind of flustered her, says Blackwell, at home outside Pensacola, Florida. She was telling me [a story], like:
More Eudora Chili Pepper Nonsense
I just wrote a message in which I mentioned that Midnight was sitting in my lap licking my other hand. Eudora decided that licking my deserved one chili pepper . . . This Message Gets Two Because I Repeated It Maru -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: More Eudora Chili Pepper Nonsense
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just wrote a message in which I mentioned that Midnight was sitting in my lap licking my other hand. Eudora decided that licking my deserved one chili pepper . . . lap may have factored in also... (ie: lap dance, etc). Wierdest filtering I've seen is at my mother's workplace, which apparently filters *outgoing* mail, sending the intended recipient a warning! I got an email from her work saying an email from her had been filtered for content and to contact their MIS guy if I needed more info. As it turns out, her email happened to mention that she had gotten some free medicine samples (ie: Tylenol) from a friend and was going to send me some. Thank goodness her work email prevented me from receiving that! -bryon _ Find great local high-speed Internet access value at the MSN High-Speed Marketplace. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200360ave/direct/01/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Scouted: Love across the lines
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A touching story. I'm surprised and disappointed by the apparent intolerance of the Army to the marriage, though. It seems like too harsh a reaction to it; I'm wondering if there's a bit more to the story than the article states. I think one thing to keep in mind is that the Army is not like the civilian world...IIRC our Bn Sgt Major described it as a Benevolent Dictatorship or somesuch. When you join the armed forces you voluntarily give up some of the rights you have as a civilian in order to perform your job. I think what this guy did was definitely over the line. He was essentially fraternizing with the locals in a still potentially hostile combat zone. His flirting with a muslim local was definitely cavalier and reckless...the situation could have been completely different and he wouldn't have known at the time she would be receptive. Although it turned out well for him, it could have been different. WRT WWII, however, one thing you have to consider is that the situation was completely different. Both Germany and Japan were utterly defeated -- the Germans having absolutely no appetite to resistance after the Allies levelled their country, and the Japanese wanting to obey their Emperor (culture of Obedience) and military discipline in the immediate post-war period was much more lax than it was in the Cold War period, FREX. I think punishing this soldier is entirely appropriate, and I also think this is another example of pressure from civilians that don't really understand the military interfering with affairs they have no practical knowledge of... Damon. = Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. http://www.geocities.com/garrand.geo/index.html Now Building: __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: More Eudora Chili Pepper Nonsense
At 01:08 PM 2/11/04, Bryon Daly wrote: From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just wrote a message in which I mentioned that Midnight was sitting in my lap licking my other hand. Eudora decided that licking my deserved one chili pepper . . . lap may have factored in also... (ie: lap dance, etc). It wasn't marked with a green underline. L** m* was. Though indeed the mention that this morning he licked my face until I got up was not flagged as potentially offensive to the recipient (someone from Church who sent me something about cats that I was replying to) . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Weekly Chat Reminder
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about forty minutes ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction page for help getting there: http://www.brin-l.org/brinmud.html __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .. http://www.brin-l.org Science Fiction-themed online store . http://www.sloan3d.com/store Chmeee's 3D Objects http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .. http://www.sloansteady.com Software Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans . http://www.sloan3d.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Another Microsoft flaw
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't using Linux to run anything other than games constitute culpable negligence? It is quite obvious that Linux security is fundamentally broken and that Open-Source communities are incapable of fixing it. So using Linux to store or process any kind of sensitive information (banking, medical or whatever) is knowingly irresponsible and negligent. Whenever you see a Linux box with uptime of 6 months or more you know 2 things. It is either already owned, or it will be now. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:02:16 -0600 - Original Message - From: Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Please understand that I am not criticising you, but the position you espouse. I understand completely. Do I think you are an egomaniac? Not really. I think you seem to be self-centered within normal parameters for an earlytwentysomething and not significantly self-absorbed at least AFAIK about these things. That is such a generalization. And what it says, is that regardless of what discussion I'm involved in, my opinion is clouded due to my age; I cannot escape the generic disposition of creatures my age. In other words, that's a convenient argument against me for present and future use. In any case, I also refuse to be dissuaded on this concept of good and evil being an inherent part of our environment. No one is really making that claim. What *is* being claimed is that good and evil are part of the human social landscape. Well of course!! I'm not just claiming that God doesn't exist, and looking towards the heavens and screaming my lungs out here. I'm not transfixed with trying to prove the non-existence of God. Good heavens man! What I'm actually saying, in this particular context, is that regardless of what one says, believes, thinks etc... the concept of good and evil hearkens back to some fundamental belief in God. Does it matter where a concept originates? Does that make it any less valid? It matters when people hide behind the origin of a particular concept. That's what obscures everything. And many a time, it's religion. And what does the existence/nonexistence of God have to do with the existence/nonexistence of good and evil? You seem to filter the entire concept through a distinctly Judeo-Christian filter. Bhuddists seem to deal with the issue without relying on God as a fallback position or originating element. Do you honestly think that I cannot see past the Judeo-Christian religious view? In any case I filter this concept through that view, because that's how this discussion started. As for your above question, I think it was answered in my previous reply to your previous question. Indubitably, good evil are part of our social landscape. As is the concept of God. But no matter how one looks at it, good evil in whatever variant may be dreamed up, has at the very least some fundamental premise, planted firmly in the belief of God. Can you prove that? I'll leave that question till the end of this post. You wouldn't try to claim that Dean Corril was a really nice guy when he wasn't killing and raping little boys would you? He may have been. I don't know. How about Hitler? Bad man, sure. But being Human, do you think he didn't have the capacity for love? For compassion? Lets look at what's backstage, behind the curtain. Too often we are content to stare at the stage. I'd advise you not to commisserate with serial killers or mass murderers. You will find them a disappointment. Well, we certainly wouldn't be birds of a feather. Or that Bob Hope was a complete bastard except when he was entertaining the troops? I had no idea that Bob was born out of wedlock. That bastard... Groan! :) lol So I hope you can forgive us old folks for our impatience with your anti-authoritarianism.G Especially since we do not offer authority. We offer our experience, which I don't expect you to have any more appreciation for than we did when we were young. (It pains me to find myself preaching like an old fart)G There is nothing to forgive, friend. And quite apart from your expectations, I do appreciate your experience. More so perhaps, than you may know. I simply don't agree with you. And as for my anti-authoritarianism, I think you have it all wrong. It's just a by-product of me making the argument that I make. Of course I come at this list with all the angst that is only proper in a hooligan of my age, but I don't think it interferes with my ability to think rationally. I agree. But I disagree with your hypothesis. What? Huh? Could you explain I agree. But I disagree with your hypothesis. a little more clearly? But one thing that stands out when religion is embedded in ANY discussion, is some abstract concept of God. Regardless of the circumstances, God factors in. Now I understand where you are coming from, but due to the fact of divine presence being present in any semblance of religion, and you saying what you are saying...well it renders the very use of the word religion a complete joke. I have to reject that. It
Re: Voodoo Economics
In a message dated 2/10/2004 10:57:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: should be? After the abuse I put up with while you lacked the common civility to put in a word? Look in a mirror and tell me that one again. You might be a great Doctor, Bob, but sure as hell that doesn't put you in any position to tell me that. Displacement sound familiar to you, Doctor Z? You don't have to answer something but to mock someone is incorrect. To laugh about it is just plain rude. You got into it with Brin and you both acted like children. I agreed with the content of his arguements not the style. I disagreed with the content of your arguements and the style of arguement. Your ad homminum attack on Kennedy represented the lowest form of arguement. It was irrelevant to the discussion. It was meant to deflect discussion not advance it. If you want to be taken seriously grow up. Just because Brin hasn't doesn't mean you can't. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Amazon study finds natural brake on global warming
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_864774.html?menu=news.latestheadlines; Global warming may be slowing as trees in the tropical forests of the Amazon are growing and dying much more quickly, new British research suggests. The growth rate of trees in the Amazon Basin has nearly doubled in recent decades, which may have helped slow the earth from heating up, according to the research published by The Royal Society. But the death rate of the trees has also accelerated, scientists warned. They said the death rate was slower than the growth rate, apparently causing an increased biomass - or mass of living vegetation. And the change in these areas - making up more than half of the Amazon rainforests - may have acted as a brake on global warming. The increased biomass helps clean carbon dioxide from the air and slow its buildup in the atmosphere. The most likely causes of the growth changes are identified as increases in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and surface air temperatures, and possible continent-wide changes in sunshine. But researchers also warned the change cannot be taken for granted and could be reversed by deforestation. Logging may also be leading to more forest fires because it lets in more sunlight, which dries up the forest floor. Saving the world's remaining rainforests also requires a committed effort to move away from burning fossil fuels, the scientists said. In an issue devoted to tropical rainforests, The Royal Society's publication, Philosophical Transactions B, carries 17 reports from scientists across the globe. Yadvinder Malhi of the University of Edinburgh, a contributing scientist and one of the publication's editors, said: In the 21st century, we are moving into a human-made atmospheric and climatic situation that has not been experienced on Earth for at least 20 million years. We are deeply concerned with how the Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems will respond to these changes. The journal will be available in March from the Royal Society and at http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk. xponent Pflash Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Intel Says Chip Speed Breakthrough Will Alter Cyberworld
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/technology/11CND-CHIP.html?ei=5062en=1b6aaeff0746d271ex=1077166800partner=GOOGLEpagewanted=printposition= Intel scientists say that they have made silicon chips that can switch light like electricity, blurring the line between computing and communications and presenting a vision of the digital future that will allow computers themselves to span cities or even the entire globe. The invention demonstrates for the first time, Intel researchers said, that ultrahigh-speed fiberoptic equipment can be produced at personal computer industry prices. As the costs of communicating between computers and chips falls, the barrier to building fundamentally new kinds of computers not limited by physical distance should become a reality, experts said. The advance, described in a paper to be published on Thursday in the scientific journal Nature, also suggests that Intel, as the world's largest chipmaker, may be able to develop the technology to move into new telecommunications markets. It will free computer designers to think about the systems they create in new ways, making it possible to conceive of machines that are not located in a single physical place, according to scientists and industry executives. It will also make possible a new class of computing applications based on the possibility of transmitting high-definition video and images hundreds or even thousands of times faster than possible on today's Internet. Before, there were two worlds computing and communications, said Alan Huang, a former Bell Labs physicist, who has founded the Terabit Corporation, an optical networking company in Menlo Park, Calif. Now they will be the same and we will have powerful computers everywhere. One potential application, he said, would be an interactive digital television system allowing viewers to watch a sporting event from multiple angles, moving the point of view at will while the game is being played. With only a limited number of digital cameras, it might be possible to synthesize a virtual moveable seat any place in the stadium. Such a feature exists currently in video games, but it is far beyond the capacity of today's digital television transmission systems. Intel said the technical advance, in which the researchers use a component made from pure silicon to send data at speeds as much as 50 times faster than the previous switching record, is the first step toward building low-cost networks that will move data seamlessly between computers and within large computer systems. This opens up whole new areas for Intel, said Mario Paniccia, a an Intel physicist, who started the previously secret Intel research program to explore the possibility of using standard semiconductor parts to build optical networks. We're trying to siliconize photonics. The device Intel has built is the prototype of a high-speed silicon optical modulator that the company has now pushed above two billion bits per second at a lab near its headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. The modulator makes it possible to switch off and on a tiny laser beam and direct it into an ultrathin glass fiber. Although the technical report in Nature focuses on the modulator, which is only one component of a networking system, Intel plans on demonstrating a working system transmitting a movie in high-definition television over a five-mile coil of fiberoptic cable next week at its annual Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. If Intel and other semiconductor technology companies can develop silicon optically as successfully as they have electronically, then silicon is certainly set to grow in stature as an optical material, Graham Reed, a physicist at the University of Surrey, wrote in a commentary on the Intel paper in Nature. Dr. Reed is the holder of the previous 20-megabit silicon optical switching speed record that Intel shattered. With this breakthrough, Intel researchers said, they have shown that it should be possible to build optical fiber communications systems using Intel's conventional chipmaking process without resorting to either the exotic materials or hand-assembly techniques that are now the standard in the fiberoptics networking industry. xponent Photon Finish Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Travis Edmunds Pictures
I've added two new pictures of Travis Edmunds to the Brin-L Memberpix pages. To see them, go to my main picture page: http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi Or go directly to: http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi?person=travis __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .. http://www.brin-l.org Science Fiction-themed online store . http://www.sloan3d.com/store Chmeee's 3D Objects http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .. http://www.sloansteady.com Software Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans . http://www.sloan3d.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
No, really . . . here a couple of articles on the film that have been forwarded to me recently, so I'm passing them along . . . Jews OK Mel's film 07feb04 MEL Gibson's controversial film about the last hours of Jesus's life is unlikely to incite hostility against Jews, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry said yesterday. http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8603505%255E2902,00.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = - Original Message - From: NewsMax.com To: NewsMax.com News Alert Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:45 PM Subject: Mel Gibson: My Sinfulness Led to 'Passion' Mel Gibson: My Sinfulness Led to 'Passion' Mel Gibson says he was inspired to make his controversial film The Passion of the Christ after finding that he needed to take a good look at himself and did not like what he saw when he did. You get to a place where, you know, you have to re-evaluate your insides and like, change, because, you know, I'm a monster. I mean I can be, he said, according to the Los Angeles Times. It's like, you know, I've been offered every kind of excess that money and fame brings and it's not good enough. Gibson made his remarks during a 40-minute live QA before 3,800 invited guests at the evangelical Azusa Pacific University on Saturday. As he has from the very beginning of the controversy, Gibson emphatically denied that the film, which depicts in exceedingly graphic scenes the suffering of Jesus during the last 12 hours of his life, is anti-Semitic. The Times reported that when Gibson was asked whether the film will foster anti-Semitism, he said I'm not anti-Semitic. My Gospels are not anti-Semitic. ... I've shown it to many Jews and they're like, it's not anti-Semitic. It's interesting that the people who say it's anti-Semitic say that before they saw the film, and they said the same thing after they saw the film. One critic of the heavy marketing of the film, Kenneth L. Waters Sr., assistant professor of the New Testament at Azusa Pacific University, said that while he thinks the marketing aspect is a little bit too heavy-handed, personally, he called the film gripping and very captivating ... and pretty much held the line as far as the biblical story was concerned. He told the Times he did not think the film was anti-Semitic. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, has seen the film twice and repeated his widely reported charge that the movie is the work of Mel Gibson and not a story from the New Testament, a criticism denied by scores of biblical experts who have seen it and testified that it faithfully follows the Gospels. As someone who has dealt with the issue of anti-Semitism professionally since 1977, I know about what it is more than Mel Gibson, Hier said. Every Jew who appears in this film, except for the disciples of Christ, are portrayed cruelly and portrayed as a people with an almost sinister look in their eyes. ... Jews who see this film, I believe, will be overwhelmingly horrified. Gibson supporters, however, stress the fact that many of those who have seen the film are themselves Jewish, and deny they saw anything anti-Semitic about it. Speaking of the film's R-rating, Gibson said it is justified given that the scenes of the crucifixion are brutal and relentless. Part of what I was endeavoring to do was to kind of push it to the edge a little bit, he said. When it was suggested that he could have toned the film down, Gibson responded, Dude, I did tone it down. The film premiers in over 2,000 theaters on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25. Experts say it could recover the $30 million Gibson spent making it in as little as five days. Read more of the latest on The Passion of The Christ... Click Here: L.A. Times: 'Huge' Turnout Expected for Gibson Film TO SUBSCRIBE If this News Alert has been forwarded to you and you would like a subscription, please click here. Sign up for free e-mail alerts today! For a NewsMax magazine subscription, Click Here. This e-mail brought to you by: NewsMax Media, Inc. 7950 Central Industrial Drive Riviera Beach, FL 33404 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Jews OK Mel's film MEL Gibson's controversial film about the last hours of Jesus's life is unlikely to incite hostility against Jews, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Isn't that what they call bracelets, rings, etc. in Alabama? ;-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .. http://www.brin-l.org Science Fiction-themed online store . http://www.sloan3d.com/store Chmeee's 3D Objects http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .. http://www.sloansteady.com Software Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans . http://www.sloan3d.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ
Steve Sloan II wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Jews OK Mel's film MEL Gibson's controversial film about the last hours of Jesus's life is unlikely to incite hostility against Jews, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Isn't that what they call bracelets, rings, etc. in Alabama? ;-) Groan. Reminds me of this kid in my first grade class, Freddy. For some reason he couldn't manage Julie. Called me Jewlery. I decided it was more touching than annoying. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
SCOUTED: Swiss will jail for life incurable criminals
The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Swiss will jail for life incurable criminals Published February 9, 2004 GENEVA (Reuters) -- Switzerland will jail for life sex offenders and violent criminals who are deemed incapable of reform under a change to the law Swiss voters approved in a referendum yesterday. The measure, which was opposed by the country's coalition government, was approved by about 54 percent of voters in a referendum called after supporters gathered the needed 100,000 signatures to stage the ballot. Critics fear the new law, which will take the form of a constitutional amendment to be prepared by parliament, could contravene international human rights treaties. Under the proposal, violent criminals or sex offenders who are considered very dangerous to society will be examined on conviction by two independent psychiatrists. If the two doctors agree that an offender is incurable, then he must be jailed for the rest of his life. He can only be released on the basis of new scientific evidence that a cure is possible. The government, which includes all the leading Swiss parties across the political spectrum, already was preparing a reform to allow for tougher sentences for sex offenders and violent criminals. It had urged Swiss voters to reject the plan because, it said, it made no allowance for the fact that people can change. But under Swiss rules of direct democracy, the voter has the last word. Copyright © 2004 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Return to the article http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040209-122512-1873r.htm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Disturbing 9-11 infomation
http://www.observer.com/pages/frontpage1.asp Very long, has some partial transcripts and new information. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
