Re: ADMIN: List weirdness

2003-09-24 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 9/23/2003 10:43:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The server acted up again today... I tried getting some help from the Mailman user list, but no answers there, so it'll be on to the developer list now. It seems to be some kind of problem with

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread TomFODW
It makes sense: the Old Testiment was anti-Semetic. If you want to make a movie about, say, the latter days of the Northern Kingdom, and if you want to base it in the Bible, it will be a _very_ anti-semetic movie, showing israelites with all kinds of sins. How is the Old Testament (a term

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread The Fool
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It makes sense: the Old Testiment was anti-Semetic. If you want to make a movie about, say, the latter days of the Northern Kingdom, and if you want to base it in the Bible, it will be a _very_ anti-semetic movie, showing israelites with all kinds of sins.

Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun

2003-09-24 Thread The Fool
-- From: Norm Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i21/21b02001.htm: I have identified seven indicators that a scientific claim lies well outside the bounds of rational scientific discourse. Of course, they are only warning signs -- even a claim with several of

Republican national Commitee: Gay rights = Religious bigotry

2003-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=156-09232003 WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie has served notice that the GOP will likely defend marriage in the party's 2004 platform. Further, Mr. Gillespie correctly pointed out in a

Re: ADMIN: List weirdness

2003-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
Thanks for the update. How straightforward is the procedure you use to restart it when it gets stuck? Would it be possible to write a shell script that does it, and then make that a cron job that runs the script, say, every hour? Obviously this isn't a solution, but it would help until the real

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Tom Beck wrote: It makes sense: the Old Testiment was anti-Semetic. If you want to make a movie about, say, the latter days of the Northern Kingdom, and if you want to base it in the Bible, it will be a _very_ anti-semetic movie, showing israelites with all kinds of sins. How is the Old

Re: ADMIN: List weirdness

2003-09-24 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: Thanks for the update. How straightforward is the procedure you use to restart it when it gets stuck? Would it be possible to write a shell script that does it, and then make that a cron job that runs the script, say, every hour? Obviously this isn't a solution, but it would

Re: Republican national Commitee: Gay rights = Religious bigotry

2003-09-24 Thread Nick Arnett
The Fool wrote: Gillespie said, I accept people for who they are - and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or turn my back on the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality. I think when people say, 'Well, no. That's not enough that you accept me for who I am, you have to agree

Information Request

2003-09-24 Thread garynunn
What is the best way to determine the IP address of someone sending you instant messages via Yahoo Messenger? I used to have a utility that would show the IP address of every person attached to my PC (including via IM), but I can't remember what that was. Suggestions would be greatly

Re: Information Request

2003-09-24 Thread Ray Ludenia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best way to Synchronicity strikes again! Three seconds before reading this post, I had typed in a message I just sent What is the best way to do this. Earlier while reading Bova's Moonwar and listening to The Who, as I was reading the phrase deaf, dumb and

RE: Information Request

2003-09-24 Thread Chad Cooper
At a DOS prompt type Netstat You will see a table of all of the network connections to your computer. From there you should be able to figure out which ones are IM sessions. Nerd From Hell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:26 AM Subject: Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold How is the Old Testament (a term Jews never use) anti-Semitic? I realize that the Old Testament is a Christian term, and that the

Re: [Janelle]Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun

2003-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Norm Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Antimatter Factory On Sun [Monstrous Snip] In the Janelle Timeline, our friend Norm was killed at a Alternative Energy

Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun

2003-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: -- From: Norm Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i21/21b02001.htm: Most snipped; just one thing I want to respond to. As a whole, very good. (And I hope I'm making sense this morning.) 5. The discoverer says a belief is credible

Incoherence

2003-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
If I post something before Friday that doesn't quite make sense, please ask for a clarification and I'll see what I can do. In the past couple of nights, my sleep has gotten *really* bad; it used to be that I could go for 2 whole hours without waking up, especially near the beginning of the

Re: Ti-Pou is now 22 and 1/2 hours old

2003-09-24 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: His full name is Léopold Claude Michel Couturier-Otis. We'll call him Léo. He weighs 9 pounds and measures 20 3/4 inches. That's 4105 grams and 53 cm. He was born yesterday, September 17th at 4:15 PM. His mother is still at the hospital and is doing well.

live Brin: webcast Oct 2.

2003-09-24 Thread d.brin
Hi folks! Oh, tune in on October 2 (noon) to a webcast of my speech at http://calspace.ucsd.edu/seminars_Fall_2003.htm Anyone set up to record it? They hope to archive these things but aren't ready yet. See y'all online. db ___

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Sloan II
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 half an hour ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction

Re: Incoherence

2003-09-24 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the bright side, I figure I'll no longer be pregnant in, say 50-some-odd hours or so. :) Julia just get them *out* already! Have you seen that friends eppisode where? = _

Re: Incoherence

2003-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Jan Coffey wrote: --- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the bright side, I figure I'll no longer be pregnant in, say 50-some-odd hours or so. :) Julia just get them *out* already! Have you seen that friends eppisode where? No. I don't tend to watch

Re: [Janelle]Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Janelle]Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Norm Hansen [EMAIL

Re: Incoherence

2003-09-24 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:07 PM 9/24/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: --- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the bright side, I figure I'll no longer be pregnant in, say 50-some-odd hours or so. :) Julia just get them *out* already! Have you seen that friends

Re: Incoherence

2003-09-24 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: --- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the bright side, I figure I'll no longer be pregnant in, say 50-some-odd hours or so. :) Julia just get them *out* already! Have you seen that

RE: Ti-Pou is now 22 and 1/2 hours old

2003-09-24 Thread Chad Cooper
Congrats! Due to time differences, my infant son was born only 13 hours before. It is a boom. Gestation from time of conception is 266 days. Our baby was delivered 6 days early from first predicted. At 9 lbs for Leo and 9.3 for Collin - the babies were both ready. Now the question comes,

Re: [Janelle]Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun

2003-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [Janelle]Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message

Re: Ti-Pou is now 22 and 1/2 hours old

2003-09-24 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:56 AM 9/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: His full name is Léopold Claude Michel Couturier-Otis. We'll call him Léo. He weighs 9 pounds and measures 20 3/4 inches. That's 4105 grams and 53 cm. He was born yesterday, September 17th at 4:15 PM. His mother is still

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread TomFODW
I realize that the Old Testament is a Christian term, and that the Hebrew Scriptures are the more common used term when these scriptures are discussed in forums that include people of many beliefs.  However, the professor who taught the Persian and Hellenistic Judaism seminar I took pointed

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread TomFODW
Turn to any random passage and it will very likely be 'you people are evil and deserve to be killed' paraphrased. For one thing, those are translations. And not necessarily good ones. (The King James Bible may be beautiful English, but it is not a very good translation of the Hebrew Bible.)

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
The term observant Jews use is Tanakh, which is an acronym of Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (writings). And they were all written in Hebrew before being translated into Greek and then back into Hebrew. OK, lets look at Tobit, for example. What evidence exists that it was first written

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread TomFODW
In a message dated 9/24/03 10:04:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, lets look at Tobit, for example.  What evidence exists that it was first written in Hebrew? Sorry, at what? Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:08 PM Subject: Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold In a message dated 9/24/03 10:04:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, lets look at Tobit, for example. What evidence exists that

Re: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

2003-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/24/03 10:04:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, lets look at Tobit, for example. What evidence exists that it was first written in Hebrew? Sorry, at what? Tobit. That doesn't fall under Old Testament, strictly speaking -- it's one of

Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org

2003-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11743 Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org US election fraud? Perish the thought! By Egan Orion: Wednesday 24 September 2003, 11:27 DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS has brandished lawyers' threats to take down that pesky citizens activist website

Re: Antimatter Factory On Sun

2003-09-24 Thread Doug Pensinger
The Fool wrote: I began this list of warning signs to help federal judges detect scientific nonsense. But as I finished the list, I realized that in our increasingly technological society, spotting voodoo science is a skill that every citizen should develop. Hmmm, shades of Oromus (how many

Google Gagged

2003-09-24 Thread Doug Pensinger
All right, experts, when I try to go to Google I get a web page that reads in part: Are you trying to get to Google? Your computer is running software that doesnt allow you to use Google. Youre seeing this page because your computer is trying to send you to a website that is pretending to be