Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
theist (or deist or pantheist even) Try Marxist and Objectivists for two. And that if it has a special leader and teachings and the sacred writings and the cult-like devotion (as the above) then in fact it is a religion. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/9/02 3:09 am, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's no wonder very few outside the high end corporate world use them. There are about 6 million desktop computers running some version of Unix What exactly is your point? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Anyone watch Firefly?

2002-09-26 Thread William T Goodall
on 26/9/02 8:56 pm, Deborah Harrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- William T Goodall wrote: Remember: 'just because' is always the best reason for an opinion. Oooh goody! You mean that I don't have to keep posting links to back up my opinions on things?! I get to say whatever I want

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-10-02 Thread William T Goodall
term then? That is because the term anti-semite has a specific definition that is derived, not from dictionary use, but from language use over a very long period of time. You just dont see the term used in any other way. I already quoted a dictionary. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-10-02 Thread William T Goodall
to the argument. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-10-02 Thread William T Goodall
of anti-Semitism from the same dictionary you got your definition of Semite. ? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Definitions, Hey Julia

2002-10-04 Thread William T Goodall
on 4/10/02 3:21 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BRIN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:46 PM Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World on 3/10/02 4:29 am, Dan

Re: rc5-64 brute forced

2002-10-05 Thread William T Goodall
-party numbers demonstrating how much faster Macs are than PCs :) -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The T-word . . .

2002-10-07 Thread William T Goodall
on 7/10/02 1:04 pm, Gary Nunn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fool wrote. Buy Windows NT 4.0. or better yet, get a stable and powerful O/S and buy Windows 2000 Professional. Why would you need to buy Windows 2000 Professional as well? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: brin: war

2002-10-18 Thread William T Goodall
' he was released to become a minor celebrity. (Chat shows etc. What do French women taste like?, Chicken, laugh track...) -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Religion

2002-10-18 Thread William T Goodall
of California, Santa Barbara. Author of The Religious Experience and many others. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

ADSL and 802.11b

2002-11-18 Thread William T Goodall
supermarket-special multi-region DVD player. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: ADSL and 802.11b

2002-11-18 Thread William T Goodall
on 19/11/02 2:02 am, Russell Chapman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T Goodall wrote: So now that is working I am waiting for my Airport card so I can move the Vigor beside a phone socket and have fun configuring the wireless LAN. And get rid of the phone extensions. Make sure you

Re: ADSL and 802.11b

2002-11-18 Thread William T Goodall
environment there could be around 20 households in range [guess] so I suppose that could be an issue. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: ADSL and 802.11b

2002-11-18 Thread William T Goodall
on 19/11/02 2:53 am, Erik Reuter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 02:41:45AM +, William T Goodall wrote: I don't think drive-by bandwidth thieves are at all common around here yet either. Although in my urban environment there could be around 20 households in range

Re: ADSL and 802.11b

2002-11-18 Thread William T Goodall
be a better option - he has few enough computers to make it viable and it doesn't have the performance downside of WEP. That's what I thought, but I'm not sure I know enough about it. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-24 Thread William T Goodall
that religion is evil, but his belief isn't itself a religion because those are different senses of the word. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Prefixes for binary multiples

2002-11-24 Thread William T Goodall
they are in accord with the IEC units - and the RAM makers are all giving us a bit extra free... -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-24 Thread William T Goodall
remember a fair bit about it. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: stereotyping is evil, and why it must be eradicated

2002-11-24 Thread William T Goodall
. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/11/02 1:36 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BRIN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:53 PM Subject: Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated on 24/11/02 8:20 pm, Dan

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-25 Thread William T Goodall
of Durham, England, 1966-72. Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of Christian Religion, University of Oxford, 1951-66. Author of Religious Language; Christian Discourse. In Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

General characteristics of religion L3 (was Re: stereotyping isevil, and why it must be eradicated)

2002-11-25 Thread William T Goodall
and many others. In Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002. [2] John MacQuarrie. Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford University, Oxford, England. In Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia 1997. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-25 Thread William T Goodall
, and writer was devoted to this task with single-minded energy. [1] [1] Arne Unhjem Professor of Philosophy, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York. Author of Dynamics of Doubt: A Preface to Tillich. In Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-26 Thread William T Goodall
. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
on 27/11/02 3:53 am, Marvin Long, Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If religion is a lie, what is evil? Evil is whatever I'm pointing at when I say 'that is evil' :) -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http

Re: Lies Aren't Evil Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
on 27/11/02 5:06 am, John D. Giorgis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, William T Goodall wrote: [a] Lies are evil [1] If you were living in Belgium circa 1943, and had a Jewish family in your basement, and two guys in tacky uniforms ask you Wo sind die Juden? and you say

Re: New thread Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
on 27/11/02 2:39 am, Julia Thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T Goodall wrote: [2] If you want to argue that religion is not a lie start a thread. A lot of religion has myth. Myth is stories that, while not literally true, may contain truths. The best ones contain truths about

Re: Lies Aren't Evil Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
. You've only given a counterexample to the statement no lies are evil. We're left, therefore, with some but not all lies are evil. No, all lies are still evil. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http

Re: Lies Aren't Evil

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
on 27/11/02 2:04 pm, Alberto Monteiro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T Goodall wrote: Or it could be the lesser of two evils. When there are only two choices, then the lesser of the two evils is _not_ evil. Unless it is. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [LINK] AAAIIIIEEEE!!!!! The horror! The horror!

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
? Gautam He probably exceeded his bandwidth quota and had to remove it. Just for you I have recreated it at http://homepage.mac.com/williamgoodall/iMovieTheater8.html And will take it down tomorrow. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: Lies Aren't Evil Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
on 27/11/02 5:58 pm, Reggie Bautista at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T Goodall wrote: No, all lies are still evil. I replied: Fiction is a form of creative lying (fictional stories are, by definition, not true, and anything not true must be a lie, right?). So is fiction evil

Re: Lies Aren't Evil Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-27 Thread William T Goodall
. Now what's evil? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: king james translation is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-28 Thread William T Goodall
. That was before I got on the case :) -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Lies Aren't Evil Re: Religion is evil (proof)

2002-11-28 Thread William T Goodall
on 27/11/02 7:33 pm, Reggie Bautista at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T. Goodall wrote: Some Anglican clergy in England (or so I have heard) have the position that the Bible is parable and metaphor, that some of the historical events *may* have taken place (although that doesn't really

Re: Alberto, give it a rest please!

2002-11-28 Thread William T Goodall
Get Me Started On The Resident Brin-L Mail-Bomber Better not to start then! -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: ADSL and 802.11b

2002-11-28 Thread William T Goodall
on 19/11/02 1:40 am, William T Goodall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So today (yesterday) I got the Airport card (ordered from the Apple UK website which is based in the Republic of Ireland, and then the card was shipped from France (although made in Taiwan of course)). 1) I still didn't shove

Re: Robert Kagan on Europe and the US

2002-12-02 Thread William T Goodall
that's all right then. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Open question to the list

2002-12-05 Thread William T Goodall
on 5/12/02 4:14 pm, Reggie Bautista at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does a truly democratic society need police, or is there some other, better way to handle disruptive behavior and those who behave disruptively? Slap drone them. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Admin: Server Access Blocked

2002-12-06 Thread William T Goodall
on 6/12/02 4:34 am, Deborah Harrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But her post _does_ express the 'prairie chicken effect' nicely... What is the 'prairie chicken effect' ? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Pratchett compared to Chaucer

2002-12-07 Thread William T Goodall
. No kidding. -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Starship Trooper

2002-12-08 Thread William T Goodall
Jewels of Aptor_ was published in 1962, when he was 20. (He won his first Nebula for Babel-17 in 1966.) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs

Re: Starship Trooper

2002-12-08 Thread William T Goodall
in a Strange Land_ (1961) - and I haven't read the unexpurgated version of (1990) ? (I thought it was bollocks, and I can't see the longer version being better.) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting

Re: world-mart: how wal-mart is destroying the economy andremaking the world

2002-12-09 Thread William T Goodall
/mailman/listinfo/brin-l Perhaps Wal-Mart is a religion? -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life

Re: world-mart: how wal-mart is destroying the economy andremaking the world

2002-12-09 Thread William T Goodall
on 9/12/02 5:27 pm, Erik Reuter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:57:28PM +, William T Goodall wrote: Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life Good one! Are you the originator of that line

Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court

2002-12-11 Thread William T Goodall
? No. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time. Just look at Windows

Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court

2002-12-11 Thread William T Goodall
on 11/12/02 5:43 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BRIN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:41 AM Subject: Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court on 11/12/02 12

Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court

2002-12-12 Thread William T Goodall
that's freedom of the press and leave it at that? Because I'm pedantic? -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm

Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court

2002-12-12 Thread William T Goodall
have a 120GB FireWire drive all as one volume. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time

Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court

2002-12-13 Thread William T Goodall
on 13/12/02 1:36 am, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The *only* application I see regularly crash is Internet Explorer, which will 'unexpectedly quit' after it has been running for a week or two. That's what you get for running java

Re: Internet Free Speech struck down by Australian court

2002-12-13 Thread William T Goodall
on 13/12/02 12:55 pm, Ronn! Blankenship at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:59 AM 12/13/02 +, William T Goodall wrote: Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 Look around you at all the essential

Re: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-14 Thread William T Goodall
with technological action stories and progressing to epics with religious overtones, this take-no-prisoners writer racked up some huge sales numbers. Frank Herbert His style is often stilted, but he created what some consider the greatest SF novel of all time. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL

Re: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-14 Thread William T Goodall
suggest _Mission of Gravity_ - it's his best-known work. I'd go along with that. And apart from being his best known, it is also typical of his oeuvre, which best-known works sometimes aren't. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Cutest Couple

2002-12-17 Thread William T Goodall
. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work of all time. Just look at Windows

Re: Br!n: feudalism is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-12-17 Thread William T Goodall
pickles. I bought a huge- I mean HUGE - jar of pickled cucumbers from the UK subsidiary of Walmart (ASDA) and they were horrible. Turkish. I remember to buy branded German pickled cucumbers now. They were so bad. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: Scouted: Race not reflected in the genes

2002-12-18 Thread William T Goodall
on 18/12/02 1:05 am, Ronn! Blankenship at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:06 PM 12/17/02 +, William T Goodall wrote: Genetically it makes more sense to lump people together by invisible features like (say) blood group than by visible ones like skin/eye/hair colour. Perhaps

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-18 Thread William T Goodall
the details. (The MUSH is actually running on Mac OS X.) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of keyboards will _not_ result in the greatest work

Re: What IRCs you about MUDS?

2002-12-19 Thread William T Goodall
to. Me too, apparently. :-) I've seen some good arguments for IRC since I sent my email, so it sounds like we should seriously consider using IRC on a smaller server, either William's private machine, or one of the ones suggested here. What about Hotline? -- William T Goodall Mail

Re: What IRCs you about MUDS?

2002-12-19 Thread William T Goodall
on 20/12/02 3:54 am, Steve Sloan II at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William T Goodall wrote: What about Hotline? I didn't know anything about it until I looked around for its home page: http://www.hotspringsinc.com/ It looks pretty interesting, but it excludes people on Linux machines

Re: What IRCs you about MUDS?

2002-12-20 Thread William T Goodall
://ftp.uni-bremen.de/aminet/dirs/comm_net.html -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

Re: Brin-L Chat No More?

2002-12-20 Thread William T Goodall
in my old beige G3 and it runs Mac OS X quite reliably too, although rather slower. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread William T Goodall
looking at a couple of new or extended scenes at the start, and they were good. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting

2002 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

2002-12-26 Thread William T Goodall
popular search terms as they occurred throughout 2002. Check out the year's top gaining and declining search terms as well as the most popular brands, music, movies and women on the web as seen by Google users. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: Data indicates Trekkies not weird

2003-01-01 Thread William T Goodall
in alt.binaries.multimedia.scifi. :) That would be VCD / mpeg 1. But SVCD / mpeg 2 gives *much* better quality at around 800MB per ep, and can still be fitted on a single CD for watching on the DVD player. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
channel, but I suspect whichever religious channel Cox cable carries in my area, which I'm not going to look up right this minute.) The poor dears! Someone should have told them that God doesn't exist before they wasted all that effort! -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http

Re: Nightmare fish in Brazil.....

2003-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
of the family Trichomycteridae is strictly prohibited. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. Cocoa Programming

Re: Nightmare fish in Brazil.....

2003-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
, hemorrhage, and even death to the victim. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. Cocoa Programming

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
on 7/1/03 12:20 am, Reggie Bautista at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: Of *course* God exists. Haven't you ever heard of Mulder's Razor? William T. Goodall replied: It was proved otherwise last year on this list. As I recall, that proof was refuted. O Jeroen, master of the archives

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
on 7/1/03 2:52 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BRIN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:24 PM Subject: Re: A Problem For Conservatives It wasn't refuted. It was objected

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-06 Thread William T Goodall
think 2% is the projected figure for 2020 - the current figure is about 8%. Even better, the projected figure for 2040 is 0.5%. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ How long a minute is depends on which side

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-08 Thread William T Goodall
on 8/1/03 12:23 am, Deborah Harrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reggie Bautista wrote: Of *course* God exists. Haven't you ever heard of Mulder's Razor? William T. Goodall replied: It was proved otherwise last year on this list. As I

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-09 Thread William T Goodall
on 8/1/03 8:45 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BRIN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:18 AM Subject: Re: A Problem For Conservatives In the real world nobody refuted

Female or Shemale?

2003-01-10 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.mazafaka.ru/lol/ctest/# Well, I got 16/16 right, and once again I have no idea what that might mean... -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-11 Thread William T Goodall
on 11/1/03 5:00 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one goes over the top with a proof, then it is easy to refute the proof. If it is so easy, why haven't you managed to do it? -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-11 Thread William T Goodall
it. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 ___ http

Re: Windows help

2003-01-12 Thread William T Goodall
:-) Alberto Monteiro Or why to buy a Mac. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

Re: 'Raped' French woman tried for adultery in DUBAI

2003-01-13 Thread William T Goodall
on 13/1/03 9:30 pm, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.expatica.com/francemain.asp?pad=278,313,item_id=27942 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l Is there any limit to the evils of religion? -- William T Goodall Mail

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread William T Goodall
there? -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-15 Thread William T Goodall
on 13/1/03 10:18 pm, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] So do you accept the mind as real, without any empirical evidence for its existence? I think Marvin already addressed this in his post, so 'what he said

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-15 Thread William T Goodall
on 15/1/03 8:23 pm, Richard Baker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's only heterophenomenological evidence for consciousness It's easy for you to say that... :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Putting

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-17 Thread William T Goodall
. It is :) [1] Of the thing to be explained. [2] And the planet Pluto may stop existing again in the future since there is some debate over its status as a planetary body. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Beware

Re: Scouted: How Moral Are You?

2003-01-17 Thread William T Goodall
. -- This morality is immoral! -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. Cocoa Programming

Re: Spammers with no shame

2003-01-25 Thread William T Goodall
, recommend one of her books to me if you'd like, OK? The Witch World series is her best known work (Witch World, Web of the Witch World, Year of the Unicorn, ... and a dozen or so more). _Beast Master_ has the title and some cute animals in common with the film, and not much else. -- William T

Colleges Offer Students Privacy

2003-01-27 Thread William T Goodall
had their own hifis and tvs. The university had started building these halls in the mid 60's. The idea of sharing a room at university would seem pretty odd at most British universities for the last 30 years. What next from the USA - indoor plumbing ? :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Beware new Nigerian Bush spam scam

2003-01-27 Thread William T Goodall
NOR BY CORRESPONDENCE. I CAME TO KNOW OF YOU IN MY SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE A VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS TRANSACTION, WHICH INVOLVES THE TRANSFER OF A HUGE SUM OF MONEY TO AN ACCOUNT REQUIRING MAXIMUM CONFIDENCE. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: Favorites

2003-01-28 Thread William T Goodall
Vinge: _A Deepness in the Sky_ _A Fire Across the Deep_ Banks: _The Bridge_ _The Player of Games_ Egan:_Permutation City_ _Diaspora_ -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com

Re: Top 10 SF Characters

2003-01-29 Thread William T Goodall
the science fiction end of the science fantasy scale. Science fantasy with a hard-sf attitude, like John Campbell published in _Unknown_. Less fantasy than Star Wars despite the trappings of space ships and robots. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog

Re: Top 10 SF Characters

2003-01-29 Thread William T Goodall
to see it rewritten and reinterpreted by others with very bad results. A few years later, after Whedon had more clout, he got to do it again, the right way, as the tv series. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221

Re: We Want Your Online Dating Stories...

2003-01-29 Thread William T Goodall
it up, Alberto :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's why so few people slap their political opponents. That, and because slapping looks so silly

Re: upstream censorship: AOL

2003-01-29 Thread William T Goodall
more successful than cable in the UK compared to the US. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C? ___ http

Re: upstream censorship: AOL

2003-01-30 Thread William T Goodall
on 29/1/03 7:46 pm, Andrew Crystall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Jan 2003 at 18:41, William T Goodall wrote: In the UK most people who have a phone line can use any dialup ISP from anywhere. And if you are in range of an ADSL enabled exchange [1] you can use any broadband ISP

Re: upstream censorship: AOL

2003-01-30 Thread William T Goodall
on 30/1/03 11:27 pm, Andrew Crystall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Jan 2003 at 22:24, William T Goodall wrote: And let me restate - all the home deals for dial-up access in the UK kick you off every 2 hours, and they kick you off the *ISP entirely* if in any 24 hour rolling period you're

Re: Professor's refusal to recommend creationist students drawsinvestigation

2003-01-31 Thread William T Goodall
claiming that PI = 3, and if refusing to write letter of recommendation for those that believe that PI = 3 would be considered a religious discrimination... Pi *is* 3 according to the bible though isn't it ? :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: Irregulars question: Apache

2003-02-05 Thread William T Goodall
. If you just want to experiment on an intranet you should be fine... -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C? ___ http

Re: ATL: X-Windows

2003-02-13 Thread William T Goodall
://mrcla.com/XonX/ XFree86 for MacOS X Or http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/ for Apple's official version, with Quartz graphics acceleration. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ If you listen to a UNIX shell

Re: Scouted: Dell follows Apple: Eliminates Floppies

2003-02-13 Thread William T Goodall
of UI implementation. Compiled, not interpreted Use platform-specific code in your application Conditional compilation Native interface widgets on all platforms -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ A computer

Drat.

2003-02-15 Thread William T Goodall
Mail program is pretty nice, and basically switching over seems to be fairly trouble free so far. Except that I have about 400,000+ messages, using about a gigabyte of disk space, to salvage from Entourage. Which may take some time :) -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http

Minor MUD server downtime.

2003-02-17 Thread William T Goodall
in case... The Wednesday chat will not be affected in any way. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's why so few people slap their political opponents

Salon on Gollum's Failed Oscar Nomination

2003-02-18 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/02/18/gollum/index.html?x -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Misuse of IMPs leads to strange, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. - Anguish et al. Cocoa Programming

Re: Minor MUD server downtime.

2003-02-18 Thread William T Goodall
On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 10:11 pm, William T Goodall wrote: I'll be shutting down the computer running the MUD for a few hours in the PM GMT on the 18th (Tuesday) since I need to borrow some parts from it for troubleshooting another computer... It should be back up in the early

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