Brin Shipley, Jones, et al: Horst. Added details re GURPS

2004-03-14 Thread Medievalbk
I want to use Horst as the location for the short story, The Kidding Stays in the Tytlal. Timeframe: First tentative Terragens Council exploration party prior to accepting a lease to the planet. 300 years prior to Streaker/Jijo books. Either due to the economics of the situation, or as an

RE: Stargate SG-1

2004-03-14 Thread Gary Nunn
Jan wrote... I agree, I do not hold much hope for atlantis. It appears that hamond will be taking over command of the intersteller ship. It also looks like the story line will move from current time to the future. I read this yesterday and didn't really catch h what you were saying until

Re: Request for Admin Action (Was: Re: Fascist Censorship spreading like Cancer)

2004-03-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Can we change the name of the list to something more descriptive, like Children-L? Nah, children actually know when to STFU. I've yet to see anyone here demonstrate that ability. :) Jim ___ Join Excite! -

DVR: Gadget of the year.

2004-03-14 Thread Gary Nunn
I'm not really a gadget person, but I just acquired a digital cable box with an integrated Digital Video Recorder (DVR) from my cable company, for less than I was paying for the digital converter by itself, and I have to say that it is nothing short of awesome (yes, I am easy to please this

NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object

2004-03-14 Thread Gary Nunn
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_n04040_solar_object.html Jane Platt Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone: 818/354-0880) March 12, 2004 NOTE TO EDITORS : N04-040 NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object The discovery of a mysterious object in

RE: Shrub: I don't understand how poor people think.

2004-03-14 Thread Mike Lee
Once again, you prove the right has a better sense of humor than the Left. I'd pay good money to see Margaret Cho mud wrestle Ann Coulter. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Clutch Hitting

2004-03-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Baseball Prospectus just published a freely-available article on the state of what we know about clutch hitting. Given the occasional discussions on the topic on list, I thought people might find it interesting. http://premium.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2656 = Gautam

Re: The Dangers of Buy American

2004-03-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 05:12 PM 3/13/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: One poorly stood conclusion of economics is that Buy American campaigns (or as Doug recently suggested, Loyalty Polcies) are actually highly counterproductive. We were discussing the relationship between employers and employees. Why is

Curious Mars pics

2004-03-14 Thread Robert Seeberger
Almost looks like an artifact. http://tinyurl.com/3fy8f On the microscopic imager http://tinyurl.com/3435r xponent Weirdness Abounds Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Curious Mars pics

2004-03-14 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Curious Mars pics Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:53:01 -0600 Almost looks like an artifact. Looks like someone was eating sliced peaches and dropped one. Who could that be now?

Re: NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object

2004-03-14 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: NASA Schedules News Briefing About Unusual Solar Object http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_n04040_solar_object.html Jane Platt Jet

RE: Curious Mars pics

2004-03-14 Thread Gary Nunn
Almost looks like an artifact. http://tinyurl.com/3fy8f On the microscopic imager http://tinyurl.com/3435r xponent Weirdness Abounds Maru rob I immediately thought that it might be Lander debris, but the close-up shows that it has definitely been there for a while. Another observation, in

Re: DVR: Gadget of the year.

2004-03-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:44 AM 3/14/2004, you wrote: I'm not really a gadget person, but I just acquired a digital cable box with an integrated Digital Video Recorder (DVR) from my cable company, for less than I was paying for the digital converter by itself, and I have to say that it is nothing short of awesome

Re: DVR: Gadget of the year.

2004-03-14 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:44 AM 3/14/04, Gary Nunn wrote: I'm not really a gadget person, but I just acquired a digital cable box with an integrated Digital Video Recorder (DVR) from my cable company, for less than I was paying for the digital converter by itself, and I have to say that it is nothing short of

RE: Curious Mars pics

2004-03-14 Thread Horn, John
From: Gary Nunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I immediately thought that it might be Lander debris, but the close-up shows that it has definitely been there for a while. Another observation, in the larger image, the rock and the object both look like they were recently moved. The dust around

Re: Curious Mars pics

2004-03-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 3/14/2004 2:21:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The dust around the rock and the object has sharp breaks instead of the wind worn dusty look. Compare the dust around the large rock with the dust surrounding the smaller rocks. At first glance, I

Re: DVR: Gadget of the year.

2004-03-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
Here's a question: If you tell it to record, frex, _The Simpsons_ (since _Futurama_ is no longer on) and the whole show starts 20 minutes late because some blasted football game on the same station runs overtime yet again (or you want to record a show during the week but the President makes

highway bill and other unfunded mandates

2004-03-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
I know the response I'll get from some people but I want some reasoned answers. I'm not saying opinions about unfunded mandates are false. There is a study that shows federal mandates and funding are above the projected costs to local and state governments. To me the problem is, even with

Re: Fascist Censorship spreading like Cancer thruout Gov't

2004-03-14 Thread Reggie Bautista
Julia wrote: I think what Reggie means is the word you get if you remove ire tr from fire truck. Erik replied: I don't follow. Reggie has a problem with people typing the character sequence f^?^?^? ^?^?uck? Or is it the sequence f^H^H^H ^H^Huck that he decides to get worked up about? What

Re: Fascist Censorship spreading like Cancer thruout Gov't

2004-03-14 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 04:44:35PM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote: But there is not a single idea that I can't express without using those words. Wrong. I just pointed one out. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___

Terrorists Win in Spain

2004-03-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
Incredible, Al Qaeda attacks Spain just three days before the election, and suddenly the voters plump for the opposition http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/14/spain.blasts.election/index.html A very sad day in the War on Terror. In other news, Iran has kicked IAEA inspectors out of

Re: Curious Mars pics

2004-03-14 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Amanda Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 6:18 PM Subject: Re: Curious Mars pics I'm told it's the impression made by the Mossbauer spectrometer. Apparently the spectrometer needs to press up

Re: Race to the Bottom

2004-03-14 Thread Erik Reuter
I've generated graphs of some relevant economic indicators and put them on my website. I haven't had time yet to write up an interpretation of the data, but I will post one soon so we can discuss. In the meantime, if anyone has any interpretation they'd like to post, please do! It will be

Re: Brin Shipley, Jones, et al: Horst. Added details re GURPS

2004-03-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 3/14/2004 7:43:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 2004-03-14 06:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to use Horst as the location for the short story, The Kidding Stays in the Tytlal. Timeframe: First tentative Terragens Council

Re: Race to the Bottom

2004-03-14 Thread Julia Thompson
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:14:44 -0600 Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:14:26 -0600 I brought

Re: Race to the Bottom

2004-03-14 Thread Jan Coffey
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom At 04:41 PM 3/13/2004 -0600 Dan

Re: Stargate SG-1

2004-03-14 Thread Jan Coffey
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan wrote... I agree, I do not hold much hope for atlantis. It appears that hamond will be taking over command of the intersteller ship. It also looks like the story line will move from current time to the future. I

Re: The Dangers of Buy American

2004-03-14 Thread Jan Coffey
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:12 PM 3/13/2004 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote: One poorly stood conclusion of economics is that Buy American campaigns (or as Doug recently suggested, Loyalty Polcies) are actually highly counterproductive. We

Re: Terrorists Win in Spain

2004-03-14 Thread Doug Pensinger
John wrote: Incredible, Al Qaeda attacks Spain just three days before the election, and suddenly the voters plump for the opposition I wouldn't place all the blame (for the election results) on the terrorists - or is my recollection that there was little popular support for the Spanish