Re: Electronic interface options

2011-09-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
Funny. Having seen this, I just searched you on g+ and added you to my Brin circle! I wonder if there's a way to streamline or transparentize the process. • Warren • off console • w azkrmc.com • h nightwares.com • On Sep 19, 2011, at 21:58, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com wrote: I have a

Re: Still here (Re: Br¡n: On Fracking and Earthquakes)

2011-09-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
Yup. More seriously, why don't we set up circles on google plus? Then we'd still have that interaction via means like this one, with about the same openness, and the ability to choose correspondents ourselves? That is, if each of us were to create a 'brin' circle in g+, and add each other to

Re: Solar Bankrupcy

2011-09-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 15, 2011, at 8:14, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: Is someone now foreclosing on the Sun?! Yes, with newspaper readership down, ad rates are down, and the Sun is being foreclosed on. Even the Grey Lady is at risk. Dan M. Ah. It's a Sun of the Times, then. • Warren •

Re: Br¡n: On Fracking and Earthquakes

2011-08-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 26, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 06:57 AM Friday 8/26/2011, KZK wrote: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/human-activity-can-cause-earthquakes/ I really like the instructions given for those who want to leave comments. That's just beautiful. -- Warren

Re: The Taliban Fight Like Che.

2010-01-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
not be able to win in Central Asia ... unless the Taliban keep helping us by alienating their own base. Actually, the Taliban fight like Cheney. We made a decades-long empire of intimidating others into siding with us. We were the first to alienate. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http

Re: Gravity wells

2009-12-31 Thread Warren Ockrassa
+ Luna would equal Venus in mass. At least I know it's not as deep as your mom, but still. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http

Re: Recursion in C, as told by Kernigan, Ritchie, and Lovecraft

2009-12-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 17, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Max Battcher wrote: Beyond that, it doesn't seem like proper Kernigan and Ritchie code because it is not formatted properly in the KR style... It almost looks more like GNU code. Well, the sign did declare that the place was called GCC... -- Warren Ockrassa

Recursion in C, as told by Kernigan, Ritchie, and Lovecraft

2009-12-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
I really enjoyed this, but can't share it with my colleagues, since they wouldn't get either reference. Sometimes it's really a pain in the ass to be a programmer and English major working in a PR department as the graphics guy. http://www.bobhobbs.com/files/kr_lovecraft.html -- Warren

Re: Recursion in C, as told by Kernigan, Ritchie, and Lovecraft

2009-12-16 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Bryon Daly wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Warren Ockrassa war...@nightwares.com wrote: I really enjoyed this, but can't share it with my colleagues, since they wouldn't get either reference. Sometimes it's really a pain in the ass to be a programmer

Re: Google vs Bing

2009-11-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Nov 25, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Trent Shipley wrote: Google? Bing? I don't care. Neither do I, which makes me wonder why you bothered to write anything else. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: Knowledge of Complex Systems and Spellcheckers

2009-09-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: At least he didn't compare apples to oranges. Or to Ubuntu. -- W ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: On the Occasion of a Seventeenth Birthday

2009-07-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
your kink. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: On the Occasion of a Seventeenth Birthday

2009-07-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to be a bit upscale in maturity, sort of man-to-mannish but also ironic, and they wouldn't probably work with a lot of seventeen-year-olds. But for him I think they're just about right. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web

On the Occasion of a Seventeenth Birthday

2009-07-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
until after you come. Anyone got anything else to pass along? -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Re: Why not discuss the topic?

2009-07-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
haven't taken over yet, and I really hope they never do, because if it happens, we're doomed as a society. Obviously. Since the Libs and AR folks don't seem to know what society actually means. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

Re: In case you're feeling bored this weekend...

2009-07-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
Last Friday I began serializing _The Beasts of Delphos_ online. Chapter 2 is up now for anyone wanting to continue the read. http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2009/07/17/the-beasts-of-delphos-2-the-freeman/ -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

Re: Why not discuss the topic?

2009-07-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
matters. Your congressman probably lacks it now, and likely he never had it. The Invisible Hand is smothering people in their beds. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Why not discuss the topic?

2009-07-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Government, by insisting on evidence-based standards before approving treatments, is no more interfering than it is when it says you have to build highways out of tarmacadam as opposed to construction paper. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

Re: Why not discuss the topic?

2009-07-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
it is when it says you have to build highways out of tarmacadam as opposed to construction paper. Both are interfering. The same goals could be accomplished non- coercively. That has never been true in ten thousand years of human history. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http

Re: Whatcha reading? (was Re: In despair for the state of SF)

2009-07-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Drinking Water From Air Humidity

2009-07-11 Thread Warren Ockrassa
binary load lifters. Very similar to your vaporators in most respects... -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman

In case you're feeling bored this weekend...

2009-07-10 Thread Warren Ockrassa
...I've begun serializing my _Beasts of Delphos_ online or its fifth anniversary in publication. Chapter 1 lieth here: http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2009/07/10/beasts-of-delphos-1-barris/ Enjoy, or don't. At least it's not another goddamned KJA book. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog

Re: In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-07 Thread Warren Ockrassa
*quality*. -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:48 PM, xponentrob wrote: Uh..why aren't you reading something good? Well, yeah, that was kinda the point. :\ All I can say is I didn't know better at the time... -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
-machines, what the hell do we have left? -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Quiet

2009-03-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
*TOO* quiet... -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Help with Gmail

2009-03-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
question to the gmail folks and see if they can point out in a less- painful direction. HTH... -- Warren Ockrassa | @waxis Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http

Re: Incoming!

2008-12-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Shoe-fly pie. Your fly is open. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: Incoming!

2008-12-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 17, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Possibly TMI Maru Possibly? My imagination is suffering from hysterical blindness... -- WO ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: peace offering on the brinlist

2008-11-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
much for labels such as unpatriotic. There's been far too much polarization, and the part that saddens me the most is that the sore winners of 2004 are now, apparently, the sore losers of 2008. It saddens me, but it doesn't surprise me. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http

Re: Irregulars question: Second Life?

2008-11-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
and graphics. In what capacity would you be hiring on with them? Full-time, part, freelance, work-for-hire? I might or might not be able to offer insight on broader terms. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: Irregulars question: Second Life?

2008-11-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Nov 12, 2008, at 8:19 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: The brief description is that I do social network analytics. Whoah, OK, well outside my purview. -- Warren ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: polarization

2008-11-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
that means). Maybe together we can all rediscover what it means for the GOP to be the party of Lincoln. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http

Re: Sore losers

2008-08-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 26, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Rceeberger wrote: On 8/27/2008 12:10:37 AM, Warren Ockrassa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Rceeberger wrote: You have a weird perspective. It isn't that America is moving down, it is that so many are moving up into our realm. Beg

Re: Sore losers

2008-08-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 26, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: Americans can not accept that they are on their way down, and no longer first in everything. Some might not be able to. Some of us have been saying so for years. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

Re: Sore losers

2008-08-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
disbelieve that things bode well. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Gates without Microsoft

2008-06-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, and we goddamn sure don't need more like him. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Gates without Microsoft

2008-06-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Consult a text on the meaning of hyperbole. Just as Bush is not the personification of everything wrong in the world, Gates is not the digital satan. He's just a handy, and very large, target. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com

Re: Battlestar Galactica

2008-04-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
a much tighter story in fewer shows. More = less = more. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Mail help needed . . .

2008-04-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:25 AM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 01/04/2008, at 10:55 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: OSX's Mail is a tolerable client but doesn't have the refinements of Eudora, at least not out of the box; I don't know if there are third party apps that approach it. Mail 3 is better

Re: Mail help needed . . .

2008-03-31 Thread Warren Ockrassa
but doesn't have the refinements of Eudora, at least not out of the box; I don't know if there are third party apps that approach it. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Schneier vs. Brin

2008-03-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think we were talking about holy underwear with holes in it (holey). As in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment but I see from the article that

Re: Let us all pause for 2d8 seconds

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
related. Go fig.] -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to concede that both Moses and Shanon are equally brimful of shit. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Re: Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
covering a larger, more bizarre reality. That's just not parsimonious. Impossible? no. Unlikely? extremely. What contradictions, by the way, can you enumerate which make it a shitload simpler to believe we're brains in a jar? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books

Re: Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 9, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: must prove *their* livers are not the illusion. By consuming, of course, vast amounts of ethanol-based fluids. (Thought I'd get it before Ronn! did.) -- \/\/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

Re: Maybe they should try Wisk . . . ?

2008-03-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
If Wisk worked, there would be much sadness in the community at the passing of the rings of Rhea, on par with the mourning of Pluto's passing as a planet -- one can imagine the headlines now: With a Brisk Wisky Rub: Gone, O Rhea! So be glad some things just aren't feasible. -- Warren

Re: Godliness

2008-02-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm - that would be Stones of Significance by our esteemed Dr Brin... Sorry for straying on-topic maru How DARE you! :-) Yeah. Next time change the subject

Re: On Godliness

2008-02-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 24, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! You are well over a century late with that conjecture ;): http://lds.org/hf/art/display/1,16842,4218-1-5-143,00.html I made no claim concerning originality. from the website: As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be

Re: On Godliness

2008-02-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. But those advanced civilizations still don't qualify as the gods of the old testament, the Koran or the Vedas. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http

Re: On Godliness

2008-02-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
* in the LDS faith.) * Expert homosexuals, on the other hand, are welcome. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

Re: Topics (was Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?)

2008-02-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 23, 2008, at 9:50 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 23 Feb 2008, at 06:10, Warren Ockrassa wrote: I'd like to see you go for a week's worth of posts without once mentioning religion. Think you could manage that kind of a challenge? Religion is probably the most innocuous topic for me

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 23, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but fairly traditional on Brin-L, some of the thread creep here has been pretty impressive over the years. Hey! No name-calling. I am NOT a thread creep!

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
more than if you were out tracting houses with the rest of the JWs at 7 AM on Saturday. I'd like to see you go for a week's worth of posts without once mentioning religion. Think you could manage that kind of a challenge? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books

Re: Wal-Mart and more

2008-02-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to run a business, but it is an absolutely unacceptable way to structure a society. And in a society that is increasingly privatizing, that's something of grave concern. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: Wal-Mart and more

2008-02-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Dan M wrote: You posted to state that a significant fraction of my posts are rude because they are long. And you wonder why few people seem to want to engage you in intelligent, polite discourse? Seriously, Dan -- arguing in good faith, avoiding strawmanning

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
them to high solid ground, help the remaining citizens relocate and get established in new locations, and let the sea in. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Wal-Mart and more

2008-02-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 18, 2008, at 6:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, historically, the extra money the first half has is spent on things that employ the second half. That is _the_ process that created an American middle class out of dirt poor farmers who could barely feed their families. Okay

Re: In case I go silent . . .

2008-02-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
use CRTs at work for the higher quality images.) You'll need to replace your display, probably -- my experience is that voltage shorts aren't in the practice of healing themselves. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: Fundamentalist Wisdom

2008-01-24 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 24, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Dave Land wrote: On Jan 23, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Jan 23, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Okay, I got a stack dump at the above link. Too much of an in-joke for me. Could you explain what is so funny about the error

Re: Fundamentalist Wisdom

2008-01-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:08 AM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 23/01/2008, at 11:46 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Really? Huh. So why baptism? And ... and why are there PYGMIES + DWARFS? *chuckle* That's become one of my favourite injokes. Used sparingly, it's a fun reference -- but like Don't tase me

Re: Fundamentalist Wisdom

2008-01-23 Thread Warren Ockrassa
/the_pinkoski_files.php Specific reference: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/08/if_you_doubt_this_is_possible.php The joke sort of spun off from there and recurs cyclically, generally when some religidiot makes an inane argument about evolution or biology. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http

Re: Fundamentalist Wisdom

2008-01-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 19, 2008, at 6:59 AM, William T Goodall wrote: http://www.fstdt.com/fundies/top100.aspx?archive=1 No, everyone is born Christian. Really? Huh. So why baptism? And ... and why are there PYGMIES + DWARFS? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

2008-01-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of regulars over the years, but the chat goes on... and we want more recruits! I dropped by, and nobody was home. How sad :-( It's religion's fault. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http

Re: Young Earth Math?

2008-01-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
into heterosexuality; or (3) perverted youth pastors trying to figure out what percentage of their summer-camp flock might be amenable to a little late-night hike down by the riverside, if you know what I mean. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http

Re: Young Earth Math?

2008-01-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 17, 2008, at 8:01 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: (I find abject denial to be funny, does that make me a bad person?) No. NO. NO, DAMMIT, NO! -- \/\/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: US Doomed

2008-01-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to close the border pretty fast. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ * No suggestion about correspondents here is express or implied. ___ http

Re: What are you doing here?: man asks wife at brothel

2008-01-10 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 10, 2008, at 6:06 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 10 Jan 2008, at 05:02, Warren Ockrassa wrote: If you're going to be pathologically insulting to religion, at least put some effort into it next time. I'm sorry, I'll try harder in future. Please do; it's the least you can do

Re: On the American Standard front.....

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Some funny toilets and environs... http://madhattannights.com/the-worlds-funniest-bathrooms/ That first one is not funny at all. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web

Re: On the American Standard front.....

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:18 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: On 1/9/2008 7:45:00 PM, Warren Ockrassa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Some funny toilets and environs... http://madhattannights.com/the-worlds-funniest-bathrooms/ That first one

Re: Zen Time Travel

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: On 1/9/2008 7:40:25 PM, Warren Ockrassa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The idling mind is seen in Buddhist psychology to be absolutely packed full of discursive thought, virtually all of which is concerned either with reliving the past

Re: What are you doing here?: man asks wife at brothel

2008-01-09 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to be pathologically insulting to religion, at least put some effort into it next time. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: Yet another sort of problem with Wal-Mart

2008-01-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
and some gum: http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2007/03/24/why-does-apple-hate- fags/ I didn't need a lawyer and wonder why this man is getting one, apart from the obvious reason.* -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: A Family Tragedy

2007-12-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
Sympathies and condolences, for what they're worth. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: What is the Monkeysphere?

2007-12-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
and thought it raised some interesting points, despite its author's being well outside my own monkeysphere and therefore worthy of little more than flung poo. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Pratchett has Alzheimer's

2007-12-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 12, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Jim Sharkey wrote: http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html So which part of this is the intelligence, and which the design? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Turning religion on and off

2007-12-12 Thread Warren Ockrassa
that needs to be cured, according to someone -- anyone -- possibly even something as facile and malleable as social whim. Funny how the history of the DSM seems to be so relevant all of a sudden. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 6, 2007, at 3:40 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: Most people is stupid _and_ most stupid people have an instinctive drive to mindlessly obey the orders of those that they believe are more intelligent - and this is what prevents extinction

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
evangelical persecution. There appears to have been a little too much zealotry in his pursuit to make it seem entirely like a cover story. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Warren Ockrassa wrote: If you're thinking of stupid as meaning inclined to mental laziness, I'd probably agree, but my personal working definition of stupid is (more or less) totally incapable of comprehending something

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
with Satan's pr0n. I'm not sure what that would be, and I'm quite confident I don't want to know. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:36 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:30 PM Thursday 12/6/2007, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:24 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:06 PM Thursday 12/6/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: The datum can't

Re: Correlation v. causality (was Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin)

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
poisons to all individuals. It's just not true. Agreed. What, no Satan's prawn reference here? Or was that just too obvious? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Dave Land wrote: They're Santa Claws, with which he holds the reins of his magical sleigh! Slay. SLAY! Sheesh indeed! -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Correlation v. causality (was Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin)

2007-12-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:39 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 5 Dec 2007, at 00:55, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:56 AM, William T Goodall wrote: And people who think like that are dangerous to themselves and others. Hence religion is evil. No more nor less so than any other

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:45 AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: (2) Most people are stupid, and forced to think for themselves will opt for the most stupid and evil choices No. It's a mischaracterization -- and unfair -- to assert that most people are stupid

Re: Correlation v. causality (was Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin)

2007-12-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
posted earlier. It's not an argument, and as declarations go, it's not even particularly valid. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
is when we try to take the latter type of declarations and behave as though they are incontrovertible, bedrock Truths. That's the part that can lead to evil behavior. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 4, 2007, at 4:10 PM, hkhenson wrote: [long snip] Is this model logical enough for you? Can't speak for anyone else, but I think it's interesting as hell. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of the brain. So, alas, size might matter after all. BTW, are you referring to the strong or weak anthropic model? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin

2007-12-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Probably because they watch the evening news where most of the people they see in the stories behave like they follow the devil or like non-GEICO cavemen . . . Or possibly they don't believe there's a difference. -- Warren Ockrassa

Re: Correlation v. causality (was Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin)

2007-12-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
a convenient handle to grab if you're after power and control, because so many are trained to respond unthinkingly to it. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Correlation v. causality (was Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin)

2007-12-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
action (good or evil) goes deeper than the existence of those institutions. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

Re: Correlation v. causality (was Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin)

2007-12-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:29 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Dec 2007, at 01:12, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 3, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: In hopes of going somewhere more interesting with this topic, let me offer this challenge -- can you (or anybody else who can stomach

Re: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

2007-12-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to individual living people in terms of the rights and powers held by the institution. http://www.thomhartmann.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=183Itemid=38mosmsg=Thanks%20for%20your%20vote ! http://tinyurl.com/28xduw -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com

Ahh. Mira.

2007-08-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
girl. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: After Midnight

2007-08-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Barack Obama

2007-08-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of traitor, coward, bully, opportunist and deluded cowboy freak? -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Barack Obama

2007-08-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, that is, not the Dark Lord of the current infestation) wants to remain in a position to say I used to be the next President of the United States. He may not have a choice. If he is not on the ballot in November, I think I might just write him in. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com

Re: Barack Obama

2007-08-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 2, 2007, at 1:35 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: He may not have a choice. If he is not on the ballot in November, I think I might just write him in. In fact, I've done it: http://www.gore_cucinich.start-a-petition.com/ -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books

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