I took a four-day vacation... and our server was apparently watching,
for after working fine for weeks, it went south. Seems to be happy
again. There was a power failure here (Silicon Valley Power apparently
also was watching), so perhaps that was the problem.
Sorry for the long downtime.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(and ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... and I've already agreed that extremists of
all religious flavors are misogynists (or treat
women as srcond-class).
Well, I know what *second-class* means, but I'm not
sure what a srcond is!
Scrond-class: Red neck
In a message dated 8/3/2004 4:59:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
?
The only classic to be listed among the moderns?
Who goofed?
Vilyehm
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In a message dated 8/3/2004 5:00:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are we up or down?? It's verrry quiet here...
Of course it's very quiet. I'm humming Rabbis.
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Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
Actual but non-moral consequences also occur in
the 'sins of the fathers (and mothers)' realm:
congenital syphilis and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
come to my mind.
Good point. I wonder whether Fetal
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
Actual but non-moral consequences also occur in
the 'sins of the fathers (and mothers)' realm:
congenital syphilis and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
come to my mind.
Good point. I wonder whether Fetal
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars_microorganisms_040803.html
Those twin robots hard at work on Mars have transmitted teasing views
that reinforce the prospect that microbial life may exist on the red
planet.
Results from NASAs Spirit and Opportunity rovers are being looked
over by a
G. D. Akin wrote:
Well, I've signed up for a DE course with The University of Maryland,
European Division. The course is ENGL476, Modern Fantasy and Science
Fiction.
The course runs from August 23rd to Dec 18th. The works to be covered are:
1. Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
2.
Here's a link that appeared on LarryNiven-L, and I thought it was
pretty interesting. It gives a little history of how US political
parties have gained and lost stature, split up, formed different
coalitions, took each other's names, etc.
Origin of the Species
Up from the ooze, into the mud -- a
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
Actual but non-moral consequences also occur in
the 'sins of the fathers (and mothers)' realm:
congenital syphilis and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
come to my mind.
Good point. I wonder whether Fetal
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
Actual but non-moral consequences also occur
in the 'sins of the fathers (and mothers)' realm:
congenital syphilis and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome come to
my mind. ...
Good point. I wonder whether Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
I took a similar class at Penn State as an undergrad
to fulfill one of my GenEd requirements, though my
class was SF ONLY. Very interesting, though I found I
liked perhaps half the books (some I thought were
prety aweful, like Burrough's _The Ticket that
Exploded_ or somesuch, and I realized that
Julia Thompson wrote:
As I said about my Artificial Intelligences in Literature course, any
class where Neuromancer is required reading has to be good. :)
Uh? A course about Artificial Intelligences in Literature without
any Asimov robot book nor any Heinlein? This can't be serious :-/
Well, I've signed up for a DE course with The University of Maryland,
European Division. The course is ENGL476, Modern Fantasy and Science
Fiction.
The course runs from August 23rd to Dec 18th. The works to be covered are:
1. Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
2. Connie Willis and Sheila
ech echo echoo
Gary Nunn wrote:
Are we up or down?? It's verrry quiet here...
It's becoming rather normal that the list is down around, on or after
the week-end. Unfortunatly it's also the most effective way to kill
conversation imo. I know *I'm* not inclined to send
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 20:34:02 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/3/2004 4:59:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
?
The only classic to be listed among the moderns?
Who goofed?
Well, the
As Steve said,
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of
Weeks the Patriot Act allowed the government this year to delay the
ACLU's announcement of a suit over the Act itself : 3 [ACLU (N.Y.C.) ]
~odd, when you copy/paste it adds the source
Seconds it took a Maryland consultant last winter to pick a Diebold
voting machine's lock and remove its memory
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:50:05 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
snip
(This brings up another question: to what extent is
the claim that
rich and powerful Romans liked wine with lead
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:47:51 -0500, Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a link that appeared on LarryNiven-L, and I thought it was
pretty interesting. It gives a little history of how US political
parties have gained and lost stature, split up, formed different
coalitions, took each
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/opinion/27krug.html?ex=1248667200en=3
9daafa740cce0cdei=5090partner=rssuserland
Fear of Fraud By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: July 27, 2004
It's election night, and early returns suggest trouble for the incumbent.
Then, mysteriously, the vote count stops and
http://www.local6.com/money/3614199/detail.html
A Central Florida woman was fired from her job after eating unclean
meat and violating a reported company policy that pork and pork products
are not permissible on company premises, according to Local 6 News.
--
Religious bondage shackles and
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040731_701.html
The drive for equality, the Vatican said, makes homosexuality and
heterosexuality virtually equivalent, in a new model of polymorphous
sexuality.
--
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the
mind and unfits it for every noble
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