Re: OFF TOPIC N.Y. Times offers bad advice to HP

2005-02-12 Thread orionworks
From: John Steck It's already a great day in the professional graphics world... http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3505972 -john Yes, the day is approaching. Nice resolution specs! They still need to shave about a thousand dollars off the current price tag. It will

off topic economics

2005-02-12 Thread Edmund Storms
In case some of you are still not too bored about economic discussion, here is a very good article about how we got into the mess we are in. The combination of low interest rates, outsourcing, and deficit spending both in government and industry has created a witches brew that is expected to

Re: off topic economics

2005-02-12 Thread RC Macaulay
Thanks Ed for posting the Bill Bonner writing on Greenspan. Don Rumsfield recently commented on the US Govt debt.. saying.. " deficits don't matter". He is correct.. they don't matter anymore! Anybody that don't see the huge chasm in the middle of the road about June of this year

Re: OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations?

2005-02-12 Thread Terry Blanton
--- William Beaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMASCI.COM TIP JAR http://amasci.com/tipjar.html Now *that* is a kewl concept. I was able to pay throught my Amazon account. What's in it for Amazon? A fee? Terry __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of

Re: OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations?

2005-02-12 Thread Terry Blanton
--- Steven Krivit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, do you find the 3 bucks to be an ideal choice? I think we were giving $10 per year previously. I was a bit behind; so, I just highlighted the $3.00 and changed it to my desired amount. __ Do

Re: OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations?

2005-02-12 Thread Colin Quinney
And it's good for me because I live in Canada and I have a Paypal account :-) Colin - Original Message - From: Grimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 6:17 PM Subject: Re: OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations? At 12:59 pm 12-02-05

Re: OOPS, WRONG ADDR Thanks V Bill B Donations?

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Palmer
Terry Blanton wrote What's in it for Amazon? A fee? From the small print... Does it cost me anything to use the Amazon Honor System? No. There are no fees for making a payment to a participating Web site. To cover our administrative and processing costs, Web sites collecting money with the

Re: Mars in a Month - Reactive Sails

2005-02-12 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:14:08 -0800: Hi, [snip] http://www.physics.uci.edu/faculty/Acceleration_of_Sails.pdf Excerpt from PDF file: The major points in this report are: (a) Beamed power can drive thermal desorption from LEO sails, giving high initial

RE: More on liquid air engines

2005-02-12 Thread Michael Foster
I like it. In fact, I like almost anything better than that policy wonk's paradise, the hydrogen economy. M. = --- On Sat 02/12, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jones Beene [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: off topic economics

2005-02-12 Thread Michael Foster
I find it particularly disturbing whenever I read something like this: Our own Fed chairman, guardian of the nation's money...custodian of its economy...night watchman of its wealth... How could he do such a thing? And yet he has done it. He turned a financial bubble into an economic