Re: Suspected 9/11 Mastermind Caught
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2445121,00.html Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source told The Associated Press. Yay! Yay! Yay! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Benford on space exploration
On Brad's site... http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001554.html Discussion of the article on Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/02/07/2131241.shtml?tid=160 -- Hmmm. I didn't notice anything odd about my server yesterday... Maybe slashdotting is not what it used to be? Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Benford on space exploration
On Brad's site... http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001554.html Discussion of the article on Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/02/07/2131241.shtml?tid=160 -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l I take it back. Slashdot gets you an extra 2 pageviews. Fortunately, the page just has a (small) style sheet and no graphics... Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Catholics Could Lose Seal of Confession
Bradford DeLong wrote: But when the Knights Templar were suppressed by Philip the Fair of France and Pope Clement V in 1307, one of the charges was that the Templars confessed only to each other and not to other priests--so that nobody outside the order knew what horrible and foul things were going on within the order. I refuse to listen to any further slander against my people. En garde, sirrah! ;-) Jim Templar Sharkey Are you suggesting Pope Clement V lied? :-) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Catholics Could Lose Seal of Confession
But when the Knights Templar were suppressed by Philip the Fair of France and Pope Clement V in 1307, one of the charges was that the Templars confessed only to each other and not to other priests--so that nobody outside the order knew what horrible and foul things were going on within the order. So it would seem that the not under any circumstances be divulged is less than seven centuries old... :-) Brad DeLong http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/1/25/141548 The seal of confessional, which guarantees that whatever a penitent confesses may not under any circumstances be divulged by the confessor, is under attack... xponent Theories Of God Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Twins and Clones are soulless [was: Child abuse]
Brad said: More interesting is what happens if your embryo absorbs your embryonic twin. Then you have two souls... A few years ago, I read a story in New Scientist about a boy whose blood had no father, because the ova that became him had divided and then one of the two cells had been fertilised but both began morphogenesis. That must do interesting things to souls. Rich GCU Let Us Not Speak Of Virgin Births So are you maintaining that his blood has no soul? Or are you maintaining that he has two souls--one soul being his body, the other being his blood? ROU Does This Mean Morganti Weapons Would Have No Effect on Him? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Twins and Clones are soulless [was: Child abuse]
It seems clear that conception in human can occur both sexually and asexually. Thus, it would seem that the second soul would logically arrive at the moment of the second conception. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Have you watched any movies recently? It's obvious that, in any pair of twins, one is born evil. So, we can use Occam's razor, and conclude that there is just one soul in each pair. Ergo, clones will also be soulless. Alberto Monteiro More interesting is what happens if your embryo absorbs your embryonic twin. Then you have two souls... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?
Excluding the 1/3 or so of conceptions that are `aborted by God' God aborts 1/3 of all conceptions Doesn't He realize that each one is a human life!?!? He's going to go to HELL for this!! Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: A Problem For Conservatives
William said: Since there is empirical evidence for consciousness, your argument fails. There's only heterophenomenological evidence for consciousness - some people say they experience it. There's exactly the same kind of evidence for God. Rich GCU Entirely Serious There's only heterophenomenological evidence for *your* consciousness. The evidence for my consciousness is of a different order entirely! GSV Solopsist ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Admin: Server access blocked
At 11:31 06-12-2002 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: I'm disturbed by his being blocked at chello.nl, but I'm more disturbed that the list server was attacked from that isp. The nature and extent of this attack is being grossly exaggerated. Arnett immediately assumed the worst, but the truth is that the alleged hacking was very limited. In fact, I doubt it even qualifies as hacking. All I did was go to the page where we all can go to log in and change our subscription settings; there I made a few attempts to login using the e-mail addresses of the list censors, and take a few guesses at the corresponding passwords. That is all. That is more than enough... Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: jesus genealogy is evil, why it must be eradicated
Nick Arnett wrote: It's really only a minority that believes wacko ideas such as dinosaur bones being a trick of the devil. But we live in a time when the more wacky an idea is, the more media attention it gets. I had thought that the dinosaur bones is a trick of the devil line was utter and rank heresy: it attributes creative capabilities to the devil--which is expressly forbidden. Where is the Inquisition when you really need it? :-) Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: jesus genealogy is evil, why it must be eradicated
I imagine that the fact that Mary was mentioned in this sentence might be interpreted as Jacob being _her_ father and not Joseph. You know, translation errors from Aramaic to Greek, etc. Were I an omnipotent omniscient omnibenevolent God, such translation errors are things that I would be sure were *not* made. But maybe he has a really weird sense of humor. Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: heading towards a singularity
Brad asked: Now any suggestions on what I should tell the cybermasses? That they should give me their money. Or I destroy Tokyo. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Silence. I am watching television. - Spider Jerusalem A surprisingly small proportion of _Wired's_ readers live in Tokyo. Hmmm... Uplifting Gojiru. That *is* a thought... Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: heading towards a singularity
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:49 AM Subject: heading towards a singularity http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/view.html?pg=4 I started reading this and felt that I had read it before. I read a bit further, skimming, and knew I had read it recently. Oh Hell Its that article by Brad Delong. Been posted recently on the Culture list, where Bradford can be seen with a bit more frequency than here. That's because the BRIN-L list has flame wars, while the Culture list has parodies of Charlie Stross's work that involve wombats, and also has discussions of the effect of different planetary/lunary environments on the transformations of werecreatures. Not to mention sentences like, They were making plaintive sounds of the type penguins tend to make when they are forced to participate in an art exhibit against their will. Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Market caps v. economy (was RE: Well, This Is Fun...)
Who is the economics professor here? Nick Me! Me! Me! And it's spelled ekonomics perfesser! Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Market caps v. economy (was RE: Well, This Is Fun...)
In a message dated 11/5/2002 4:18:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who is the economics professor here? Nick Me! Me! Me! And it's spelled ekonomics perfesser! Brad DeLong You mean he didn't see the tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, the shoes with a hole in the bottom, and the battered tin cup? William Taylor Liar! The tweed jacket does *not* have leather elbow patches (yet)! (It has, however, been relined twice.) The shoes do not have holes in their bottoms! (The left sole has, however, separated from the upper at the toe.) Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Well, This Is Fun...
I've scored (though how long it will last I don't know) a monthly column in _Wired_: Change. What do people think that _Wired's_ subscriber base and other readers need to be told? Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
