--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:16:38 -0800 (PST), kerri miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never been prouder to be a libertarian, see below:
That's not something I knew about you. Would you care to
--- kerri miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm biased against the Lib. party, because my
exposure to them has been in the form of kooky nutters, not well-spoken
people who have well-thunk positions; c'mon, their presidential
candidate
this year vowed to bomb the UN on the 8th day of his
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:44:19 -0800 (PST), kerri miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- kerri miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm biased against the Lib. party, because my
exposure to them has been in the form of kooky nutters, not well-spoken
people who have well-thunk positions; c'mon,
Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa
On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
much snippage
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years. The last
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Br!n: Civil War II
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:21:15 -0600 (CST)
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Travis Edmunds wrote:
-Travis expecting no reply/not expecting a
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Brin: Yu-Gi-Oh is evil, why it must be eradicated
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:15:49 -0700
On Nov 15, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Travis
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Subject: RE: Yu-Gi-Oh is evil, why it must be eradicated
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:35:55 -0500 (EST)
Travis Edmunds wrote:
Anyone familiar with the Star Wars thingy?
Only vaguely. I picked
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Yu-Gi-Oh is evil, why it must be eradicated
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:37:20 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Travis Edmunds wrote:
I recieved 2 starter packs for the SWCCG, but never
played. That's because CCGs are
VVVLLL
Alberto, you have been warned. These things are
money-pits from which there is no escape! Repent, and
be saved! I play
On Nov 16, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Travis Edmunds wrote:
Couplets are a lot of work, no doubt.
Do you dress 'em in a baby sonnet when they go out?
Couplets come from mental storks
not the likes of Brin-L dorks.
{:D
(The above being an emoticon of a happy baby in a bonnet, of course.)
--
Warren
On Nov 16, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Damon Agretto wrote:
I recieved 2 starter packs for the SWCCG, but never
played. That's because CCGs are
VVVLLL!
!!!
That you were able to escape proves that the SW CCG is not evil.
Magic, OTOH,
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3765462
Looking Out for Your Vision
By Emma Pomfret, PA Features
When work deadlines loom or the pressure of office life is turned up a notch
itÂ’s not uncommon for many of us to sit at our desks and stare at our
computer screens for hours at a time without
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/11/15/Arts/Hanks041115.html
Last Updated Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:56:32 EST
LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Tom Hanks is in talks to star in the big-screen
adaptation of the Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code.
Hanks, who won back-to-back Oscars in 1994 and 1995,
On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years.
It's the jargon. The game hasn't changed radically. Of
I wonder what effect using backlit LCD monitors have
on this...?
Damon.
=
Damon Agretto
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
http://www.geocities.com/garrand.geo/index.html
Now Building: Legends Aussie
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, it seems Badnarik's a bit of a nutter. I remember seeing that
he refused to get a driver's license (but drove anyway), and I also
think that he refused to pay income tax at one point at least.
He's also vehemently opposed to Zip Code. *boggle*
--- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years.
Damon Agretto wrote:
I wonder what effect using backlit LCD monitors have
on this...?
They are much lighter, so it should help, I would think, since
apparently it is the heavy computers that cause the problem.
Nick (flailing around for any humor I can find)
On Nov 16, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Damon Agretto wrote:
I wonder what effect using backlit LCD monitors have
on this...?
They are much lighter, so it should help, I would think, since
apparently it is the heavy computers that cause the problem.
I thought it was heavy users. So you'd
On Nov 16, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Nov 16, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Damon Agretto wrote:
I wonder what effect using backlit LCD monitors have
on this...?
They are much lighter, so it should help, I would think, since
apparently it is the heavy computers that
On Nov 16, 2004, at 12:33 PM, kerri miller wrote:
It's the jargon. The game hasn't changed radically. Of course
expansions have been adding to the card pool over the years...
Its like that in poker right now - many of the Old Timers don't get the
statistical concepts that are driving poker theory
Not on my computer. Shift is a little button below
Caps Lock on one
side and Enter/Return on the other. I can't
imagine that it weighs
more than a gram or two, so I don't see how they'd
do much for anything
but my pinkies.
Man, I just thought of a comeback for that, but if I
say it I
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:50:41 -0600, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sheesh. I used to play Magic and most of what you guys just wrote
was completely unintelligible to me. The game must have changed a
lot (or gained a lot more jargon) in the past few years. The last
expansion I played
Nick Arnett wrote:
The Pentagon has made the official announcement:
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20041114-1530.html
I don't know why it took so long to come
out, since he died Wednesday, but war is
war and who knows...
Nick
My condolences to you and your family. I don't
Damon Agretto wrote:
Get them a DD book instead;
I got mine in 1983 and still am playing...the gift
that keeps on giving (or is that VD???).
I have tried to introduce RPG to them, with variable rate
of success. I hope Bernardo(5) may become a RPGer very
soon.
Alberto Monteiro
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:30:01 -0400, Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:01:23 +0900, G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good luck!
WOW them.
Thanks guys! I'm not sure if I wow'ed 'em, but it went pretty well, I
think. I should hear back sometime next week,
On Nov 16, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Bryon Daly wrote:
But anyway, it looks like I'll be packing the family and heading south
in the next few months. Woot!
That's pretty nifty!
(Insert witticism here about Mickey Mouse operations. ;)
Congrats!
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
No matter where we each stand on the war in Iraq, we need to
remember that
there's a group of people who have paid a very high price for it.
Here's a
way to help them out a bit. Not that it's any real compensation of
course.
Just a way of making a bad situation a bit better for them.
It's
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/energy-tech-04zzzh.html
When the non-profit organisation IdeeVerte Competition decided to
create a 'green' racing car, they turned to space technology to make
it safer. Running on liquefied petroleum gas, one of the least
polluting fuels, and lubricated with
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Legacy weapons? Weapons? Plural? Ooo, you're Spikey.
Spikey?
My curent favorite casual deck is a B/G/U remove all your cards
from the game deck.
Blarf. You'd be pariah'd in moments out here... ;)
Why? It's not *that* killer, though maybe the metagame
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Damon Agretto wrote:
Get them a DD book instead; I got mine in 1983 and still am
playing...the gift that keeps on giving (or is that VD???).
Depending on their ages DD might be a bit advanced. A CCG can be a good
introduction.
If you want a card game that's also sort of
I just donated a stack of boxes of hardcovers taller
than myself to the San Diego Naval Base to go on
shipboard libraries. Over a thousand dollars' worth,
and I've done this yearly for many years.
I'll send to Walter Reed.
But yes, sending us to war without making provisions
to pay for it is
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Horn, John wrote:
The deck was designed around not allowing my opponent to every
block or have a creature on the board.
Mm. Around here we usually don't play direct player burn (hit the
creatures instead; direct player assault is considered
unsportsmanlike), but we make
kerri miller wrote:
...and dual color cards, and those silly cards that were /either/
red or black, and kicker costs, and phasing, and...
A couple of the split cards are pretty good, and kicker is actually
a nifty ability. It gives you some more options which is always
nice.
I still can't
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Or threshold: 7+ cards in your graveyard and the card you're
playing gets punched up somehow.
Kamigawa has a lot of graveyard tricks, but it seems they learned a
little something from Odyssey and Kamigawa has a bunch of anti-
graveyard cards.
There's also echo, where
The next installment of my axioms took a bit longer. :-)
The development of the next set of axioms that I will use is less certain
than those I have developed. They involve the analysis of historical
events. By definition, one cannot do experiments to test the validity of
statements concerning
On Nov 16, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Legacy weapons? Weapons? Plural? Ooo, you're Spikey.
Spikey?
Yes, Spikelike. Even one of those things is a pain. Having more than
one would be a very Spike thing to do.
My curent favorite casual deck is a B/G/U remove all your cards
from the game
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Spikey?
Yes, Spikelike. Even one of those things is a pain. Having more
than one would be a very Spike thing to do.
That wasn't my question. I haven't heard the expression Spike
before, and I'm not sure what it means. And since Legacy Weapon is
a
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:36:25 -0600 (CST), Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Running on liquefied petroleum gas, one of the least
polluting fuels,
:-))
Ah! Ignorance is Bliss! LGP is widely known in
David wrote:
Though it is tempting to say that rural boys are at
the front - helping to make up for the fact that we
urbanites are the chief terror targets - that would
simply be churlish. Brave fellows deserve our
support, even if they are betrayed at the top.
Every few months my company matches
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From personal experience I
can tell you that it is
very cool to get a package from back home when
you've been deployed for
many months.
Doug, if you still have contacts on some ships, ask em
if they want books for the ship library.
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:00:24 -0800 (PST), Matt Grimaldi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
The Pentagon has made the official announcement:
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20041114-1530.html
I don't know why it took so long to come
out, since he died Wednesday,
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:46:05 -0800, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Damon Agretto wrote:
I wonder what effect using backlit LCD monitors have
on this...?
They are much lighter, so it should help, I would think, since
apparently it is the heavy computers that cause the problem.
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:27:41 -0800 (PST), kerri miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, it seems Badnarik's a bit of a nutter. I remember seeing that
he refused to get a driver's license (but drove anyway), and I also
think that he refused to pay
I may be wrong about there being little evidence of massive fraud in
Florida - Black Box Voting pulls up with a film crew and a lawyer in
Volusia County, which had strange results in 2000, and finds panicking
officials, dumped poll tapes in a garbage bag, and poll tapes which do
not match official
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:01:42 -0700, Warren Ockrassa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 14, 2004, at 5:36 PM, d.brin wrote:
While working on my new essay, I find I must cite the confederacy map
comparison.
The old one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/rundgren/FREESTATES.jpg
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:46:06 -0800, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 12, 2004, at 8:14 PM, JDG wrote:
At 07:02 PM 11/11/2004 -0800 Dave Land wrote:
We've compared the red-blue divide against population denisty, college
degrees, IQ, and hoary old slavery maps.
Here's
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