Week 15 is a difficult one for the benchmark -- 4 abstains. If JDG is
really skilled at picking winners, he should have a good chance against
the benchmark this week (but JDG hasn't posted his picks yet despite 3
Saturday games this time...)
Week 15 Benchmark favorites:
Atlanta+3 (Carolina)
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:18:31 -0500, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 08:02 AM 12/17/2004 -0800 Damon Agretto wrote:
I believe John was referring to both the Bush
assasination plot as well as the occasional saber
rattling with regards to the No-fly Zones.
I would not describe live ammunition
yawn
The game was more fun when it was white boards and wire, and WHL instead of
NHL and tickets to get in for a student were only seventy-five cents and the
State Fairgrounds were less than a mile away.
William Taylor
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JDG wrote:
So, you would disagree that firing shots with the intent of bringing down a
country's aircraft ordinarily constitutes an act of war against said
country?
Of course not. Hypothetical situation: an USA aircraft in Colombia,
waging war against some insurgents or cocaleros, violates
Another respectable 12-4 last week, to go to 123-85 for the year, although
it was a week with only one major upset - the Saints over Dallas, and so
the Upset Special dropped to 6-8 on the year as the Bears fell flat on
their face against Dallas.
Pittsburgh at New York Giants - Statistical gurus
At 11:47 PM 12/17/2004 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
So, you would disagree that firing shots with the intent of bringing down a
country's aircraft ordinarily constitutes an act of war against said
country?
It now seems inescapable that you are saying the very thing I imagined:
We invaded Iraq.
I
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
(b) map the _logical_ partition to it by inserting a line
in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb5 /windows2 vfatdefaults,uid=albmont 0 0
I just learned another wrinkle to editing fstabs the other day,
while trying to get a Linux machine set up at work. On newer
Linux distros
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At 01:00 PM 12/10/2004 -0800 David Brin wrote:
What's bizarre, Dave - and so bizarre that you can't
see it - is that these kneejerk, relfexive neocon
dopes will do anything to hide SA complicity. Notice
that it's all right to claim the Saudi PEOPLE are at
war with us... but it's an OUTRAGE to
At 06:20 PM 12/10/2004 -0600 Gary Denton wrote:
Winning Democrats and their messages - It's no Da Vinci Code. Economic
populism presented in American values form seems the common thread for
winning campaigns in red states.
Well, Al Gore ran on the most explicitly populist message in a long time,
At 12:28 AM 12/18/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
Lots of stuff about Nariyah
She didn't see it. It doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Dave is a good orthodox leftist and an apologist for
totalitarian dictators, Rob, but I thought better of you.
That's what I fail to understand about
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/What-made-Gollum-mad/2004/12/18/1103312773657.html?oneclick=true
What made Gollum mad?
December 18, 2004
The Lord of the Rings character Gollum was paranoid and had a split
personality but this was because he probably suffered from vitamin
deficiency, anaemia,
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1202-33.htm
Scalia To Synagogue - Jews Are Safer With Christians In Charge
by Thom Hartmann
Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox
synagogue
JDG wrote:
I don't think that I would describe Gulf War I as an instance when we
invaded Iraq.
I think the label is appropriate any time one nation's military enters
the other's territory uninvited, destroys stuff and kills people.
Refusing this ordinary way of talking strikes me as less than
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:03:18AM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
At the present, due to the growing imbalance, the jobs we might expect
from free trade are not materializing,
Sorry it took me so long to respond. Most of what you said I agree with,
but the comment you made above seemed to come out
At 11:04 AM 12/18/2004 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
I don't think that I would describe Gulf War I as an instance when we
invaded Iraq.
I think the label is appropriate any time one nation's military enters
the other's territory uninvited, destroys stuff and kills people.
Refusing this
JDG wrote:
Later in this post, you make a distinction between tactical and
strategic language.Do you agree that while US actions in Iraq in Gulf
War I could be called an invasion in the tactical sense, they would not
be described as an invasion in the strategic sense?
I think that anything
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At 12:28 AM 12/18/2004 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
Lots of stuff about Nariyah
She didn't see it. It doesn't
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:24:19PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Given, however, that I've had to defend on this list the validity
of the splended work Indict did on human rights under Iraq, but Our
Distinguished Namesake (irony very much intended) will routinely
accuse the President, and
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'll add that when you said I was being
sanctimonious, I felt a bit
pissed off. You don't know what I'm feeling unless
I tell you.
I hope this all doesn't seem hopelessly pedantic. I
believe that
language is one of the most important tools for
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can only see it as strategic to Iraq if their
purpose was to pull the
West into the region in order to touch off a larger
conflict. If it was
to actually try to expand their borders, they were
nuts, a possibility
that cannot be discounted!
--- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why should we bat an eye when we have Gautam and JDG
to defend and
rationalize everything Bush does?
Gee, Erik, if someone came in and read this list,
whose criticisms of Bush do you think they'd take
seriously, mine or yours? Calling the occupation
You've a good point there. I think Hussein has been widely under-rated;
I've been hearing things about
how he made preparations to aid the insurgency while the US was building
up to an invasion (but obviously
its been more successful than Hitler's plans along those lines). Also,
I remember
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:40:18PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Gee, Erik, if someone came in and read this list, whose criticisms of
Bush do you think they'd take seriously, mine or yours?
Gee, Gautam, whose do you think they'd see?
--
Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda
something along the lines of
(I'm not using quotation marks because I don't have
the exact words):
Don't misunderstand me, I was in Kuwait during the
Iraqi invasion and I saw the hospital where the Iraqis
stole incubators for premature babies. Saddam Hussein
Behalf Of JDG
Also, I would include Iraqi Scud missile strikes on US
barracks in Saudi
Arabia before Gulf War I as attacks on our country.
Um, John, I'm fairly certain this was *after* the air war started
against Iraq. Remember the phrase the liberation of Kuwait has
begun. I do. I
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something along the lines of
(I'm not using quotation marks because I don't have
the
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
I hope this all doesn't seem hopelessly pedantic. I
believe that
language is one of the most important tools for
peacemaking.
Geez, Nick, then stop using it as a tool to hinder
communication.
What's the antecedent of it in that sentence? Are you saying that it
appears
On Dec 18, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
If you don't
want to be seen as sanctimonious, stop being such a
jerk every time someone disagrees with you. You're
heading for Brin levels, for God's sake, and he may be
the most obnoxious human being I've ever communicated
with for any period
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Jesus Howard Christ.
I think it's spectacularly poor form to insult the person whose list a
given group nominally is. If you really feel that Nick is
sanctimonious and arrogant or behaves like a jerk with those who
disagree with him (pot/kettle if ever I saw it) and
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We keep our own house clean, do we not?
xponent
No
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Wait- Stalin's government was not overthrown?
Unless you count the Politburo taking over when Stalin died
Dan, my point was that eventually a concatenance of factors led to the
fall of the USSR- the economy
being perhaps only the straw that broke the camel's back- that was
possible because the camel's spine had
been nearly snapped through under the weights of oppression, of which
Stalin's reign was
In a rather mystifying turn of events, Harlan Ellison's screenplay for
an I, Robot
movie (completely rejected by the producer) is being included in a Costco-only
special edition of the I, Robot movie DVD.
I've avoided the movie, because I knew I'd be disappointed by its utter lack of
adherence
I was disappointed I missed the Earthsea movie, but not so much, anymore:
http://trashotron.com/agony/columns/2004/12-15-04.htm
Earthsea in Clorox
by Ursula K. Le Guin
1. Background: my (non)involvement with this production.
For people
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:11:26 -0500, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:48:13PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
If SS were privatized, limiting investments to fairly conservative
funds doesn't seem like a bad idea. IIRC, a general investment in an
SP fund has
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