cars, air

2002-09-27 Thread The Fool
Lets see how long it takes the oil cartel to crush this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/988265.stm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brain, brain, what is brain? Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 09:36 26-09-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Thanks, found it. Ah. Much better. Did you look in behind the radiator? Tom's favourite place to hide things Radiator? I haven't lived in a place with a radiator since I was 8 years old. I have a friend who doesn't ever remember

Re: Extremely bad smells

2002-09-27 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 17:40 26-09-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Skunk bothers me mainly for its strength, so I'll go along with that. But, I'd also rank pig scat right up there too. Maybe a dog that rolled in that and then chased a skunk would be the worst. :-) Well, so much for the attempt to attract new

RE: Tequila Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-27 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 19:06 26-09-2002 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: My cat's name is cat. His breath smells like cat food. Better his breath than yours... :-) Jeroen Silly Mode van Baardwijk __ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website:

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: Julia? I think that what we have near us are still real zebras. 1) There are a number of other animals on the same property that look like specific African species. (Some kind of gazelle? Anyway, it has a very distinctive kind of horn, and I never see that except

Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-27 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 08:31 27-09-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: So, if I'm going to write a 1-line reply, all I have to do is create a disclaimer admitting to the fact, and that has me covered? :) Technically speaking -- yes. Of course, we might then scold you for wasting bandwidth... :-) Jeroen Life

Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-27 Thread Marvin Long, Jr.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Julia Thompson wrote: Ooo! Ooo! Do you take VISA? :) I can only accept payment in charbroiled chicken-hearts. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) Two bits, four bits, six bits, a peso. If you're for Zorro, stand up

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-27 Thread Marvin Long, Jr.
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Deborah Harrell wrote: ROTFLOL! Just picturing Barnaby (or was it Barnabus? That was a _long_ time ago!) and Spike having a conversation... I never watched 'Blossom' but I presume it's about a cute/spunky-yet-innocent girl? Typical teen-age coming-of-age sitcom, yeah.

Re: Brain, brain, what is brain? Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread Julia Thompson
J. van Baardwijk wrote: At 09:36 26-09-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Thanks, found it. Ah. Much better. Did you look in behind the radiator? Tom's favourite place to hide things Radiator? I haven't lived in a place with a radiator since I was 8 years old. I have a

Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Julia Thompson wrote: Ooo! Ooo! Do you take VISA? :) I can only accept payment in charbroiled chicken-hearts. Darn, they're so small they fall through the grill rack. Ah, well (Plus there's the little issue of the grill being

Re: venus de milo

2002-09-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Robert J. Chassell asked: Does an otherwise isolated planetary/stellar system give off gravity waves? In other words, must such gravity waves be counted as part of the system? Yes, I think you must count them. I have heard it said that the measurements of the changing orbits

Re: [Brin-l] Re: Attack Iraq, Alone If We Must

2002-09-27 Thread Jim Sharkey
J. van Baardwijk wrote: Ahem. Care to give your opinion about which members (names please, not descriptions) of this community fall in the bad apple category? (On the old list there were some 300 subscribers, so that would mean some 25-30 people on this list would fall in that category.)

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-27 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
-Original Message- From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 06:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly? From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: Julia, can I ding Jeffrey

Re: cars, air

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:19 PM Subject: Re: cars, air From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lets see how long it takes the oil cartel to crush this:

stealware

2002-09-27 Thread The Fool
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/technology/27FREE.html If someone could send me this article, that would be good. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Robert Seeberger wrote: http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TODate=20020923Category=NEWS21ArtNo=109230066Ref=AR If you notice something that's not quite a donkey, not quite a zebra, and definitely not a horse grazing at the University of Findlay's farm, stop and

Re: Evil Empire: the World leader in executions

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Reggie Bautista wrote: So who exactly is a child, and who is an adult? What magically happens that makes a person a child the day before they turn 18, and an adult the next day *after* they have turned 18 (or 16 or 12 or whatever age defined by their culture)? A parent is legally no longer

Re: Boston Scientists Grow Teeth In Lab

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Erik Reuter wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: [thread combo] How many of the 'Gothies' will want to get vampire-type canines inserted? (although maybe they'll have gotten real lives by then, so it won't be an issue...) for vampires, wouldn't real dead ones be better? G Very

Re: venus de milo

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Erik Reuter wrote: snip By the way, I think the evidence that there is global warming is convincing. The evidence that human activity is solely or even mostly responsible is much LESS convincing. But the thing is, as far as deciding what to do about global warming right now, IT DOES

Re: Horses, was Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: (The Friesian team had both elegance and biggerness; that's the breed of (usually black) horse popularized in America by the movie 'Ladyhawke.') nitpick If it ain't black it ain't as black

Re: Extremely bad smells

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- J. van Baardwijk wrote: Dan Minette wrote: Skunk bothers me mainly for its strength, so I'll go along with that. But, I'd also rank pig scat right up there too. Maybe a dog that rolled in that and then chased a skunk would be the worst. :-) Well, so much for the attempt to

Re: Gene therapy, was Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm pretty sure that the University (Pennsylvania?) that was involved in the gene therapy death of recent note had its permit to conduct such research pulled; I do remember reading some debate in the journals about tighter regulations. The leader of said institute

Re: [Brin-l] Re: Attack Iraq, Alone If We Must

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- J. van Baardwijk wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: I can't think of any big group that doesn't have it's fair share of jerks and/or idiots; last time I recall seeing it, wasn't the bad apple proportion of any population about 8-10%? Ahem. Care to give your opinion about which members

Re: Zonkeys, striped like zebras, built like donkeys

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson wrote: 2) If they're crossbreeds like that, presumably they can't mate. I'm guessing the female wouldn't go into heat or otherwise put out signals to the male that he ought to, um, go for a horsey ride. And I saw him chasing one of the hers down yesterday and trying

Acronyms (was: Firefly)

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: I can only accept payment in charbroiled chicken-hearts. Marvin Long Austin, Texas Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, LLP (Formerly the USA) Did I miss the explanation of 'LLP?' And why not grilled Rocky Mountain oysters? evil grin GSV Voodoo

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: To plagiarize my favorite haggis commercial: You're a wicked, wicked man! I wish I got haggis commercials where I live. Actually, it was a commercial for the Qwest Dex Yellow Pages, but in it these two little Scottish ladies who had

Re: Acronyms (was: Firefly)

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: Acronyms (was: Firefly) --- Marvin Long, Jr. wrote: I can only accept payment in charbroiled chicken-hearts. Marvin Long Austin, Texas

Re: Brain, brain, what is brain? Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: The real problem was that Sammy woke up after less than an hour, cried, and his daddy picked him up and brought him downstairs. Ah, that kind of problem. Yeah I found a solution for that too. I go out shopping, leaving Tom with daddy. evil grin Unfortunatly I'm more

Access To On-line NY Times Articles

2002-09-27 Thread J. van Baardwijk
I know some people object to having to register in order to read on-line NY Times articles, so I took the liberty of getting a registration for all of us. Member ID = brinlist Password = brinlist Jeroen Service with a smile van Baardwijk

Re: Horses, was Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Sonja wrote: Deborah wrote: snip this particular team was _very dark_ chocolate brown - they told me purebred, but perhaps they were crossbreds. The latter are becoming more popular with the dressage and sporthorse set. Here are a couple of pix (the show looks a bit over the

Re: Access To On-line NY Times Articles

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- J. van Baardwijk wrote: I know some people object to having to register in order to read on-line NY Times articles, so I took the liberty of getting a registration for all of us. Member ID = brinlist Password = brinlist Jeroen Service with a smile van Baardwijk Thanks, Jeroen!

Re: [Brin-l] Re: Attack Iraq, Alone If We Must

2002-09-27 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Sonja wrote: My motto, Vertrouwen is goed, controle is beter. translates something like this: Trust is good, but checking is better. That works on so many levels! Not that I, personally, have _any_ control issues... g _How_ Many Weeks To Turn Coal To Diamond!? Maru

Re: Brain, brain, what is brain? Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: The real problem was that Sammy woke up after less than an hour, cried, and his daddy picked him up and brought him downstairs. Ah, that kind of problem. Yeah I found a solution for that too. I go out shopping, leaving Tom with

Re: VPN

2002-09-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
There is a serious flaw in (...) Windows (...) Yawn Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Access To On-line NY Times Articles

2002-09-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jeroen wrote: I know some people object to having to register in order to read on-line NY Times articles, so I took the liberty of getting a registration for all of us. Member ID = brinlist Password = brinlist :-)) I like to register with name sunda and password aqcatb. This

Re: Access To On-line NY Times Articles

2002-09-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jeroen wrote: I know some people object to having to register in order to read on-line NY Times articles, so I took the liberty of getting a registration for all of us. Member ID = brinlist Password = brinlist :-)) I like to register with

bush, bc weapons

2002-09-27 Thread The Fool
http://www.sfbg.com/36/51/x_news_war.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: [Brin-l] Re: Attack Iraq, Alone If We Must

2002-09-27 Thread Doug
Kevin Tarr wrote: Rightbut Bush wants a vote NOW, so if Dems got off their horse and did something other than cry, then they would have a full month to discuss the economy and whatever other phantom issues they can come up with. How is the vote going to take the focus off of