Aren't they about seven years early?

2003-09-15 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
The latest Internet rumor: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/jupiter_galileo.html -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Aren't they about seven years early?

2003-09-15 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Aren't they about seven years early? Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:51:38 -0500 The latest Internet rumor: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/jupiter_galileo.html Ha!

Re: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: You should never make such assumptions. I do not make typographical errors. I make spelling errors becouse I am Dyslexic. This topic has been beat to death but if you want to learn more about dyslexia or why spell checkers

RE: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread Jan Coffey
--- ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: I was angry becouse as more and more H1's were at work the culture shifted to be ~their~ culture. It became difficult to get anything done at work in English, and although I do speak a bit of Chinese, it's not enough to get

Re: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just my point. Historically, upper-echelon IT workers have been very liberterian and anti-union. Serves 'em right. Well with all the laws the way they are, and with section 7 being practicaly ignored maybe it isn't about the polotics of

Re: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread Reggie Bautista
Trent wrote: Historically, upper-echelon IT workers have been very liberterian and anti-union. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive, of course. One can be both libertarian and pro-union. Unions can be (and have been) a great tool for preserving and promoting the rights of individuals

Re: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jan Coffey wrote: I was once reprimanded for stacking books on the ground to be able to reach a mouse on a high shelf. It seams that stepping on a book is somehow taboo in the Indean culture. I was told that I was being offensive and recieved a reprimand which excluded me from promotion. FOR

Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread Bryon Daly
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030913/DOUG/TPComment/Columnists or http://makeashorterlink.com/?L2E4119E5 Fables of the reconstruction, from Berlin to Baghdad By DOUG SAUNDERS Saturday, September 13, 2003 Six months before, the world had cheered as the statues of

Re: FW: How do we read?

2003-09-15 Thread Julia Thompson
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: Received through a co-worker subscribed to a tech writer's list. --- Instructions: Just read the sentence straight through without really thinking about it. Acocdrnig to an elgnsih unviesitry sutdy the oredr of letetrs in a wrod

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread David Hobby
Bryon Daly wrote: ... History never really does fully repeat itself. An American president has just announced almost a Marshall Plan's worth of spending on a country far poorer than Germany, two years earlier than Harry Truman did. But Iraq is far less stable and far more menacing, and the

Re: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread John Garcia
On Sunday, Sep 14, 2003, at 06:46 America/New_York, The Fool wrote: From: Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah? So join a union or quit whining. Where are these so-called IT unions. I haven't seen one. ___

Re: No Americans Need Apply

2003-09-15 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: I was once reprimanded for stacking books on the ground to be able to reach a mouse on a high shelf. It seams that stepping on a book is somehow taboo in the Indean culture. I was told that I was being offensive and

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread TomFODW
Nice find!  Germany did have long democratic traditions to work with, though.  It had just momentarily forgotten them. Not that long. Not really. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last. -

Link: Gaffe casts doubts on electronic voting

2003-09-15 Thread Reggie Bautista
This one's for The Fool: From http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/09/15/electronic.voting.ap/index.html or http://makeashorterlink.com/?V559139E5 SAN JOSE, California (AP) -- The strange case of an election tally that appears to have popped up on the Internet hours before polls closed is

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread David Hobby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. Not that long. Not really. What, 1848 doesn't count? Well, longer than Iraq, anyway. : ) ---David

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. : ) Not that that could happen any place else. Uh? Long democratic traditions??? Germany was a democracy from some time after WW1 to 1933+ [Hitler was

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:40:08AM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Uh? Long democratic traditions??? Germany was a democracy from some time after WW1 to 1933+ [Hitler was elected democratically, and remained a democratic ruler until he could blame the Commies for putting fire to the Reischstag