date:20080819

 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxsPrVa7yv0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArvrYw50X4

"...but mountain doesn't move!"

--- On Wed, 8/20/08, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Hear an angel sing
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 12:43 AM

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"
 
> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sE1L2laCc
> >
> 
> Nah, that's total sugary cliche American predicatable shite.
> 
> This is way betta:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf4Ea59Uods
> 
> OffWorld
>

*

Coloratura soprano Yma Sumac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQM7Cd6pABg&feature=related




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[FairfieldLife] The Beginning and Ending of Knowledge "Everything Should Be Vedic" MAHARISHI

2008-08-19 Thread yuva4spiritofsuccess


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[FairfieldLife] The Beginning and Ending of Knowledge "Everything Should Be Vedic" MAHARISHI

2008-08-19 Thread yuva4spiritofsuccess


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[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

2008-08-19 Thread lurkernomore20002000

What a second.  I can think of many people who would deserve such an 
obituary.  There are many selfish, mean people.  Why not tell it 
like it is.  


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Certainly better than Dolores Aguilar's recent obit:
> 
> And it seems to be real!
> http://sfist.com/2008/08/18/update_dolores_aguilar_obit_is_dead.php
> 
> 
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
>  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:46 PM, bob_brigante wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Obit in FF Ledger:
> > > >
> > > > http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t
> > > 
> > > Best one I've read in a long time!
> > > 
> > > Way to go, Mitch, with true class.
> > > 
> > > Sal
> > 
> > Certainly better than Dolores Aguilar's recent obit:
> 
> And it seems to be real!
> http://sfist.com/2008/08/18/update_dolores_aguilar_obit_is_dead.php
> 
> 
> > 
> >
> http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/17/1757371-obituaries-
dolores-aguilar
> > 
> > http://tinyurl.com/58oo3m
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hear an angel sing

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"  
> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sE1L2laCc
> >
> 
> Nah, that's total sugary cliche American predicatable shite.
> 
> This is way betta:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf4Ea59Uods
> 
> OffWorld
>

*

Coloratura soprano Yma Sumac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQM7Cd6pABg&feature=related

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

> Certainly better than Dolores Aguilar's recent obit:

And it seems to be real!
http://sfist.com/2008/08/18/update_dolores_aguilar_obit_is_dead.php


--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:46 PM, bob_brigante wrote:
> > 
> > > Obit in FF Ledger:
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t
> > 
> > Best one I've read in a long time!
> > 
> > Way to go, Mitch, with true class.
> > 
> > Sal
> 
> Certainly better than Dolores Aguilar's recent obit:

And it seems to be real!
http://sfist.com/2008/08/18/update_dolores_aguilar_obit_is_dead.php


> 
>
http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/17/1757371-obituaries-dolores-aguilar
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/58oo3m
>

[FairfieldLife] Birds - Kate Nash

2008-08-19 Thread off_world_beings

Birds - Kate Nash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2GYLZjyZ3I&feature=related


OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: Hear an angel sing

2008-08-19 Thread off_world_beings

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sE1L2laCc
>

Nah, that's total sugary cliche American predicatable shite.

This is way betta:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf4Ea59Uods

OffWorld

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

2008-08-19 Thread Alex Stanley

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:46 PM, bob_brigante wrote:
> 
> > Obit in FF Ledger:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t
> 
> Best one I've read in a long time!
> 
> Way to go, Mitch, with true class.
> 
> Sal

Certainly better than Dolores Aguilar's recent obit:

http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/17/1757371-obituaries-dolores-aguilar

http://tinyurl.com/58oo3m

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paraguayan javelin thrower

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero"  wrote:
> >
> > at http://www.tinyurl.com/57czmm
> 
> What a find!  Just to be thorough:
>
http://bittenandbound.com/2008/08/13/leryn-franco-is-paraguays-sexy-javel
in-thrower/

Uh...I'm like... just really into javelin OK!

http://www.pbase.com/crespoide/personal_2007_calendar





> 
> 
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Paraguayan javelin thrower

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "yifuxero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> at http://www.tinyurl.com/57czmm

What a find!  Just to be thorough:
http://bittenandbound.com/2008/08/13/leryn-franco-is-paraguays-sexy-javelin-thrower/


>

[FairfieldLife] Paraguayan javelin thrower

2008-08-19 Thread yifuxero

at http://www.tinyurl.com/57czmm

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2008-08-19 Thread FFL PostCount

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[FairfieldLife] Busting Karl Rove

Information on Karl Rove's right hand IT guy Stephen Spoonamore blowing 
the whistle on the bastard:
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prosecute_rove/

Wouldn't you love to see that smug pig Rove behind bars for the rest of 
his life?

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

2008-08-19 Thread Sal Sunshine


On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:05 PM, pranamoocher wrote:

Did anyone notice that the obit stated he was survived by family  
and "Bob Dylan"?

Was this a joke someone inserted into his obituary?

" Mitch is survived by his mother, Lenore Mazur, his brother,  
Richard Mazur, and Bob Dylan."


I took it as a tribute to his sense of humor, as well as
the fact that he loved Dylan.

Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Obit in FF Ledger:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t

Very nice. Leave 'em laughing.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

2008-08-19 Thread pranamoocher

Did anyone notice that the obit stated he was survived by family and
"Bob Dylan"?
Was this a joke someone inserted into his obituary?

" Mitch is survived by his mother, Lenore Mazur, his brother, Richard
Mazur, and Bob Dylan."



--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:46 PM, bob_brigante wrote:
>
> > Obit in FF Ledger:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t
>
> Best one I've read in a long time!
>
> Way to go, Mitch, with true class.
>
> Sal
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

2008-08-19 Thread sparaig

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer"  wrote:
> >
> > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of shempmcgurk
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:40 AM
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'
> 
> > ...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
> > political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
> > with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.
> > 
> > Did you actually watch the "debate"? I thought Obama did pretty well,
> > considering that his audience was very conservative, and therefore, by
> > definition, nuance-impaired. They applauded on many points.
> 
> Actually the Democrats had the same amount of tickets as the
> Republicans, so the fact that it was Orange County was only marginally
> relevant. As many Democrats were in the audience as
> Republicansunless, of course you're suggesting that Orange County
> Democrats are "nuance-impaired",  as well?  :-)
>

People that attend 20,000 member churches, by definition, are
"nuance-impaired."


Lawson

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

2008-08-19 Thread sparaig

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[...]
> ...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
> political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
> with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.
> 
> Can you imagine the uproar if some right wingnut referred to John 
> McCain as "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."
>

It wouldn't make a ripple in the media. 

A fox news commentator suggested that Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama
both should be assassinated and the media ignored it almost completely.



Lawson

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

2008-08-19 Thread Sal Sunshine


On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:46 PM, bob_brigante wrote:


Obit in FF Ledger:

http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t


Best one I've read in a long time!

Way to go, Mitch, with true class.

Sal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Dick Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear Friends,
> 
> Most of you already know that Mitch Mazur passed peacefully in his 
> sleep Sunday night. Some suggestions regarding his memorial at Beth 
> Shalom Synagogue at 7:00pm Wednesday evening: 308 S. B Street.
> 
> It is a vegetarian pot luck. Also, there will be a place for you to 
> write out your memories of Mitch for family members to cherish 
after 
> the memorial. It will be a simple tablet and pen. For those of you 
> who have some time to collect your thoughts beforehand, it would be 
a 
> good idea to have them written and printed so you can drop them off 
> without competing for the tablet. 
> 
> Mitch is survived by his younger brother and his mother. They are 
> flying into Fairfield this afternoon to authorize his cremation 
which 
> will take place around program time. If you are so inclined you 
could 
> send Mitch and his family your love and prayers during your evening 
> meditation. They were very close, so this is a terrible time for 
> them. Needless to say, your memories of Mitch will be a sweet 
comfort 
> the family in the days to come.
> 
> All love,
> 
> Dana Brekke
>

***

Obit in FF Ledger:

http://tinyurl.com/6hvw3t

[FairfieldLife] Re: Are You Ready For Nuclear War?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Paul Craig Roberts may be a conservative but I think he has one of 
the 
> more cogent views around having seen things "from the top" as a 
member 
> of the Reagan administration. He is no fan of BushCo:
> 
> Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan 
in the 
> interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. 
Karl 
> Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to 
control 
> the result of the last election in Pakistan, the result of which 
gave 
> Pakistanis a bigger voice in their government than America's.
> 
> It was obvious to anyone with any sensewhich excludes the entire 
Bush 
> Regime and almost all of the "foreign policy community"that the 
illegal 
> and gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel's 
2006 
> bombing of Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the 
> overthrow of America's Pakistani puppet.
> 
> The imbecilic Bush Regime ensured Musharraf's overthrow by 
pressuring 
> their puppet to conduct military operations against tribesmen in 
> Pakistani border areas, whose loyalties were to fellow Muslims and 
not 
> to American hegemony. When Musharraf's military operations didn't 
> produce the desired result, the idiotic Americans began conducting 
their 
> own military operations within Pakistan with bombs and missiles. 
This 
> finished off Musharraf.
> 
> When the Bush Regime began its wars in the Middle East, I 
predicted, 
> correctly, that Musharraf would be one victim. The American puppets 
in 
> Egypt and Jordan may be the next to go.
> 
> More here:
> http://vdare.com/roberts/080818_you.htm
>



I don't see nuclear "war" as a threat, but certainly somebody other 
than a state could lob a couple. One thing for sure, Mush's departure 
is a very bad thing for stability in Pakistan, which was already 
chaotic:

http://tinyurl.com/5tyzfz

[FairfieldLife] Are You Ready For Nuclear War?

Paul Craig Roberts may be a conservative but I think he has one of the 
more cogent views around having seen things "from the top" as a member 
of the Reagan administration. He is no fan of BushCo:

Pervez Musharraf, the puppet installed by the US to rule Pakistan in the 
interest of US hegemony, resigned August 18 to avoid impeachment. Karl 
Rove and the Diebold electronic voting machines were unable to control 
the result of the last election in Pakistan, the result of which gave 
Pakistanis a bigger voice in their government than America's.

It was obvious to anyone with any sense—which excludes the entire Bush 
Regime and almost all of the "foreign policy community"—that the illegal 
and gratuitous US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Israel's 2006 
bombing of Lebanon civilians with US blessing, would result in the 
overthrow of America's Pakistani puppet.

The imbecilic Bush Regime ensured Musharraf's overthrow by pressuring 
their puppet to conduct military operations against tribesmen in 
Pakistani border areas, whose loyalties were to fellow Muslims and not 
to American hegemony. When Musharraf's military operations didn't 
produce the desired result, the idiotic Americans began conducting their 
own military operations within Pakistan with bombs and missiles. This 
finished off Musharraf.

When the Bush Regime began its wars in the Middle East, I predicted, 
correctly, that Musharraf would be one victim. The American puppets in 
Egypt and Jordan may be the next to go.

More here:
http://vdare.com/roberts/080818_you.htm




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[FairfieldLife] Re: Olympic Medals

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> To All:
> 
> How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
> only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
> 
> On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
> most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China 
is 
> winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
> rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in 
athletics?  
> Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
>

*

The government of India is not interested in any notions of prestige 
associated with sporting medals -- India has less money to spend than 
China, and what they do have, they'll spend trying trying to catch up 
to the Chinese military, who trounced India in their last war. The 
Chinese, on the other hand, find it validating to collect a lot of 
sports fame, and are willing to spend large sums of money on that. 

Film critic Roger Ebert has a interesting piece on China's beautiful 
opening show. The filmmaker who produced it had a $300 million budget, 
and it certainly showed -- it was gorgeous:

http://tinyurl.com/6y36dp

Re: [FairfieldLife] A new business model for media (was Re: True Blood)

Patrick Gillam wrote:
> In the *plus ca change* department, wasn't 
> there a day when a record store would permit 
> customers to play a demonstration copy of a 
> record in the store before purchasing? I recall  
> as much in a old TV movie about the Beatles, so
> I associate the practice with British stores
> of old. Such a thing was not available at 
> Smith Music in Marshalltown when I was growing
> up.
Yup, the stores used to have booths where you could listen to a 7" 45 or 
even a 12" LP.  Because 45s were popular and the store might only have 3 
booths they also added a bar maybe about five 45 players with 
headphones.  And this was in a small town.  Up until recently places 
like Tower (now defunct) had listening kiosks where you could hear cuts 
from a CD.

We see two business models during this recession:  1) where the 
companies find a way to sell cheaper products that people can afford and 
sell by volume and 2) companies charging more to extract as much as 
possible from the public to get theirs before everything crashes.  Not 
sure the latter model works that well.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - Interview with Carolyn Jones


He concludes that there is little or no evidence of 
any spiritual system offering a sure road to awakening. 
 
He obviously did not do a completely thorough job of investigating

"...but mountain doesn't move!"

--- On Tue, 8/19/08, yifuxero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: yifuxero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - Interview 
with Carolyn Jones
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 4:28 PM

--right.  Other people have reported an "Awakening" after out of body 
experiences, such as Sathya Sai Baba (says he was bitten by a 
scorpion nesting in his shoe. Ouch!). Others: John-Roger Hinkins 
(surgery) and a few more.  The problem (in view of the involuntary 
NDE) is duplicating the NDE without getting poisoned or going through 
surgery.  That's the goal of Sant Mat. Adi Da states that after his 
NDE of 1986, he was catapaulted into a new, higher level of Unity 
(even though in terms of Self-Identity, it wasn't a "higher"
level; 
since his realization of "That" was unchanged since his Vedanta 
Temple experience of 1970.
 So what changes, or occurs in such experiences, and why would 
already Enlightened Yogis desire to have this additional Siddhi?  
Apparently the experience results in a type of Glorification of 
relative existence, if the Self has already been Realized.  If the 
Self has not been realized, such NDE's (perhaps induced by lightening 
strikes, childhood traumas, or injuries to the brain in the case of 
Peter Hurkos); may lead to the acquisition of psychic powers.  Of 
course, on the downside to such NDE, there are many instances of 
pathological disturbances including of course, permanent death until 
the next "incarnation".  We've heard of cases of thrill seeking
teens 
hyperventilating in a paper bag to get a type of brain rush; only to 
push the experience beyond the limits of physiology, to wide up on 
the "other side".   
  Perhaps one could commission a robber to poison one's self then 
hope for the best. Here's a quote:
"
The circumstances of Wren-Lewis' enlightenment are equally unique. 
While travelling in Thailand, he was poisoned by a would-be robber. 
Upon awakening in the hospital, he became conscious of the "dazzling 
darkness" from which he has lived ever since. Now, he devotes himself 
to discovering how to pass this experience on to others. With no 
vested interest in any traditions, he is free to honestly evaluate 
their efficacy. He concludes that there is little or no evidence of 
any spiritual system offering a sure road to awakening. John Wren-
Lewis calls upon all spiritual teachers to share their findings in 
the spirit of scientific inquiry to help uncover the factors that 
bring about awakening. To this task, he has dedicated the rest of his 
life. 






- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Rick Archer
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:26 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - 
Interview
> with Carolyn Jones
> 
>  
> 
> 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/links/Chanting_00111513435
1/John
> _Wren_Lewis_001219166683/ 
> 
> This is the guy who had a near death experience that resulted in a 
permanent
> awakening after eating a poisoned candy on a bus in Thailand. 
Interesting
> interview.
>





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[FairfieldLife] Re: John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - Interview with Carolyn Jones

2008-08-19 Thread yifuxero

--right.  Other people have reported an "Awakening" after out of body 
experiences, such as Sathya Sai Baba (says he was bitten by a 
scorpion nesting in his shoe. Ouch!). Others: John-Roger Hinkins 
(surgery) and a few more.  The problem (in view of the involuntary 
NDE) is duplicating the NDE without getting poisoned or going through 
surgery.  That's the goal of Sant Mat. Adi Da states that after his 
NDE of 1986, he was catapaulted into a new, higher level of Unity 
(even though in terms of Self-Identity, it wasn't a "higher" level; 
since his realization of "That" was unchanged since his Vedanta 
Temple experience of 1970.
 So what changes, or occurs in such experiences, and why would 
already Enlightened Yogis desire to have this additional Siddhi?  
Apparently the experience results in a type of Glorification of 
relative existence, if the Self has already been Realized.  If the 
Self has not been realized, such NDE's (perhaps induced by lightening 
strikes, childhood traumas, or injuries to the brain in the case of 
Peter Hurkos); may lead to the acquisition of psychic powers.  Of 
course, on the downside to such NDE, there are many instances of 
pathological disturbances including of course, permanent death until 
the next "incarnation".  We've heard of cases of thrill seeking teens 
hyperventilating in a paper bag to get a type of brain rush; only to 
push the experience beyond the limits of physiology, to wide up on 
the "other side".   
  Perhaps one could commission a robber to poison one's self then 
hope for the best. Here's a quote:
"
The circumstances of Wren-Lewis' enlightenment are equally unique. 
While travelling in Thailand, he was poisoned by a would-be robber. 
Upon awakening in the hospital, he became conscious of the "dazzling 
darkness" from which he has lived ever since. Now, he devotes himself 
to discovering how to pass this experience on to others. With no 
vested interest in any traditions, he is free to honestly evaluate 
their efficacy. He concludes that there is little or no evidence of 
any spiritual system offering a sure road to awakening. John Wren-
Lewis calls upon all spiritual teachers to share their findings in 
the spirit of scientific inquiry to help uncover the factors that 
bring about awakening. To this task, he has dedicated the rest of his 
life. 






- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Rick Archer
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:26 PM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - 
Interview
> with Carolyn Jones
> 
>  
> 
> 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/links/Chanting_00111513435
1/John
> _Wren_Lewis_001219166683/ 
> 
> This is the guy who had a near death experience that resulted in a 
permanent
> awakening after eating a poisoned candy on a bus in Thailand. 
Interesting
> interview.
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] New iPhone sucks?

2008-08-19 Thread Vaj

On Aug 19, 2008, at 5:12 AM, cardemaister wrote:

>
> Based on some comments I've read got the impression
> that the new iPhone is more unreliable than the previous
> model, especially as to 3g connections.

There has been a lot of negative press, but in my experience, it's  
been a fine phone--no actually the best I've ever owned. That's not to  
say it's perfect, some of the earlier apps could be buggy sometimes,  
but with three iPhone OS upgrades now and numerous updates to my apps,  
it's working great. Service is stronger than my Nokia with it's  
antenna booster. Coverage, since they're using "partners" (other cell  
carriers in my area) in addition to just AT&T towers, is broader than  
my previous coverage. All in all, I'd say it was one of the best  
purchases I've ever made, esp. given the easy accessibility of  
applications and it's excellent use of the web and web technologies,  
esp. Google Maps, NOAA radars and it's excellent built-in GPS. It's  
simply amazing what can be done with this phone, easily and  
effortlessly.

I would like to see the camera have around 5 MP and video capability,  
although that will likely eventually be available thru a software  
upgrade. Also it would be nice to have the ability to completely erase  
the flash drive and restore the OS from scratch. I think this  
capability, along with a iPhone Disk Tool would allow better recovery  
from immature applications. But things seem pretty stable now with all  
the upgrades since it was released. I've had no dropped calls.

[FairfieldLife] A new business model for media (was Re: True Blood)

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam

--- TurquoiseB wrote:
>
> In a way, media piracy gives lovers of good TV 
> and movies something they haven't had before, a
> real chance to see what they're paying for before
> they pay for it.
> 
> The business model is from the world of software.
> Think of the number of successful products that
> started by giving their software away (or by giving
> away a less-than-full-featured version of their 
> software), allowing you to test and use it, and
> *then* pay for the full product if you find it 
> valuable. 

Interesting analogy. 

In the *plus ca change* department, wasn't 
there a day when a record store would permit 
customers to play a demonstration copy of a 
record in the store before purchasing? I recall  
as much in a old TV movie about the Beatles, so
I associate the practice with British stores
of old. Such a thing was not available at 
Smith Music in Marshalltown when I was growing
up.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is it possible? A better version than the one done by the Beatles?

2008-08-19 Thread Patrick Gillam

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4
>

It's the rare Beatles cover I'll prefer 
over the original. One exception would be 
Rufus Wainwright's cover of "Across the 
Universe." Can't say the same for this 
Fiona Apple version. Sorry, Shemp.

[FairfieldLife] Is it possible? A better version than the one done by the Beatles?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gLWTtlMwo4

[FairfieldLife] Hear an angel sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6sE1L2laCc

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Samskaras Work 101 -- Lesson 1

2008-08-19 Thread nablusoss1008

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Richard J. Williams" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > How I learned to ignore my own issues and 
> > project them on to Judy."
> > 
> "Uncle Tantra (UT) is suffering from acute 
> Narcissism. Because he dropped-out of both 
> TM and Rama's program he needs to "rewrite" 
> history and trash religious groups that he 
> once belonged to.  Yet at the same time he 
> needs to "show-off" to current "followers" 
> and write spiritual essays of the same 
> teachers he trashes in private.  
> 
> By engaging in this neurotic contradiction 
> any personal failures are covered-up by UT's 
> dual positions.  Uncle Tantra's ego can 
> instead present to others the image he clings 
> to: a great writer, an advanced spiritual 
> seeker that has gone into "Samadhi", and the 
> hip 60's Jungian wise-old man persona that 
> he so pathetically attempts to cultivate in 
> his ramblings and even through his name 
> "Uncle Tantra"." 

BINGO

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

BillyG. wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>> 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>   
>> On Behalf Of shempmcgurk
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:40 AM
>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'
>> 
>
>   
>> ...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
>> political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
>> with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.
>>
>> Did you actually watch the "debate"? I thought Obama did pretty well,
>> considering that his audience was very conservative, and therefore, by
>> definition, nuance-impaired. They applauded on many points.
>> 
>
> Actually the Democrats had the same amount of tickets as the
> Republicans, so the fact that it was Orange County was only marginally
> relevant. As many Democrats were in the audience as
> Republicansunless, of course you're suggesting that Orange County
> Democrats are "nuance-impaired",  as well?  :-)
Mainly "limousine liberals."

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

Rick Archer wrote:
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of shempmcgurk
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:40 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'
>
>  
>
> ...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
> political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
> with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.
>
> Did you actually watch the "debate"? I thought Obama did pretty well,
> considering that his audience was very conservative, and therefore, by
> definition, nuance-impaired. They applauded on many points.
I can't remember the exact price but a ticket to the event was $2000 if 
not $5000.  Though the audience applauded Obama at points they went 
goofy over McCain.  Can we say at that ticket price the audience was 
mainly Republicans?   Analysts have pointed out that though Obama was 
cool and grounded in his answers McCain was "Mr. Bumpkin" with slogans 
and jingoism.  That plays well with the American stupid.  If the stupid 
elect McCain I don't know what I'm going to do, probably leave this 
stupid country of idiots behind and publish books and documentaries 
bashing the place.  As far as I'm concerned the US died on January 20th, 
2001.

[FairfieldLife] Nature versus nurture


Two sisters.

Brought up separately.

Same father, different mothers.  But the father is a world-class
musician.

Both sisters become world renowned musicians in their own right.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Media Mafia wants to watch you

TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Music, movie lobbyists push to spy on your Net traffic
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10019622-38.html
>>
>> Slimly looking bunch aren't they?  Would you buy a car 
>> from any of them (let alone a CD or DVD)?
>> 
>
> They're fighting a losing battle. They're busy
> trying to find new ways to lock up the barn
> but the horse is out of the barn and has been 
> out and running free for some time.
>
> One thing I find amusing in Sitges is the CD 
> and DVD piraters selling on the streets. It is
> obviously a large commercial effort, with the
> kids doing the selling merely being fronts for
> whoever is running the operation. They spread
> a plastic sheet out on the sidewalk and display
> the latest CDs and DVDs (with covers) for 2 Euros
> a CD, 3 Euros a DVD. I've never bought one because
> I'm not into much modern music and the DVDs are
> always in Spanish or Catalan, with no subtitles,
> but I find their act amusing.
>
> They just stand there and sell their stuff to
> tourists and then, if they spot a cop coming up
> the street (a rare occurrence in Sitges), they
> just grab the corners of the plastic sheet, throw
> it over their shoulders and (you have to imagine
> the putting one's fingers together and blowing 
> gesture from the end of "The Usual Suspects" here) 
> "Like that...they're gone."
>
> I have some sympathy for the music providers when 
> dealing with these organized commercial pirates,
> but not very much, because I've been inside the
> industry and seen how they treated the artists
> and the songwriters. Now THAT is piracy. What is
> happening to the people in the photo you posted 
> is just karmic payback for years of being greedy
> assholes.
>
> The horse is out of the barn. In Spain, the real
> versions of CDs and DVDs sell in most stores for 
> about half the price they do in France. IMO, 
> that's because of the prevalence of the pirates. 
> But the companies are *still* making a profit 
> selling their products for half the price they 
> do in other countries. Shows that there's one 
> helluva lotta markup, doesn't it?
It gets funnier if you consider the way Hollywood got started.   It was 
started by a bunch of nickelodeon entrepreneurs on the  East Coast who 
moved to the West Coast to avoid paying the Edison Company royalties.  :)

The movie studios are focusing on that 2% missing from their 98% full 
glass.  They are offending their customers in the process.  I remember 
the early days of DVD when WB would have the good taste to put the FBI 
warning AFTER the film and not at the beginning.  No more.  Of course 
the sharks (lawyers) tell them it needs to be in front of someone will 
use the excuse in court that they didn't see it because it was at the 
end of the film.

Here's some more Hollywood stupidity.  You can't buy an upscaling DVD 
player that upscales over component because Hollywood executives were 
sold a bill of good (probably by Macrovision to sell more of their 
services) that people could pirate that way.  They failed to mention 
that required a $5K+ digital video recorder and the result would be a 
second generation copy anyway.  They at least woke up and you CAN play a 
BluRay disc via component in hi-def THOUGH crazy enough the player won't 
upscale a regular DVD via component.

BTW, some studios aren't going along with the Hollywood mafia 
initiative.  Lionsgate protested such an idea. But they're a more 
progressive studio with a large youth market.  They also embrace 
different methods of delivery including the Internet for their product line.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why the former Soviet Union used to do so well at the Olympics


clearer version (to better discern the naughty bits):

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

TurquoiseB wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
>> 
>>> Ok, it's just a silly musical, but it was the
>>> *heart* and the *intent* behind the project that
>>> got me. Basically, Joss said, "If the conglomerates
>>> won't let us play in their sandpile because they're
>>> being greedy, we'll find another sandpile to play
>>> in." And they did. Others will, too.
>>>   
>> Meanwhile my friend Lisa Lassek cut  Dr. Horrible. 
>> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0489809/  You have enjoyed 
>> her work on Firefly.
>>
>> She didn't get paid a dime for Dr. Horrible.  
>> 
>
> As I understand it, neither did anyone else.
> Joss fronted the money, and people will get
> paid from the DVD royalties, if they happen.
>
>   
>> Basically the producers are forced into non-union 
>> situations.  Some business model.
>> 
>
> Or, as in this case, into media in which the
> unions don't have exclusive contracts and
> rights. I think that unions are a good idea
> until they start interfering with the artform.
> A film friend in Santa Fe once told me that
> the main reason he shoots in Canada and Mexico
> is that the Teamsters contract *alone* accounts
> for a million dollars per film. That's a million
> bucks he could pay to other people if he shoots
> outside of the US, so he shoots outside the US,
> using people from less greedy unions.
>   
I've heard that story a number of times listening to commentaries on 
DVDs.  Lynch railed off in his "Inland Empire" commentary about "the 
rules" in Hollywood and why he would never shoot there again.  Another 
newbie director was horrified when he found that after he shot the film 
the union came after him for additional benefit payments.  He's going to 
avoid shooting the US.

I experienced a similar situation being a member of the American 
Federation of Musicians.  That union had outlived its time and was 
working more against its members than with them.   In the first part of 
the 20th century that union made sense because there were lots of 
theater and big band orchestras and the union also served as a clearing 
house for finding musicians to staff those orchestras.

Many entertainment unions face the same problem these days.  I saw it 
early on in the 1970s when everyone wanted their kid to be the next 
Michael Jackson and the market was flooded with young musicians (now 
everyone wants their kid to be the next multimillion dollar sports star 
which is SO unrealistic).  Then kids wanted to work in film later on and 
nowadays the market is flooded with film school grads. 

How did Hollywood get around the writers strike?  They signed first time 
writers and directors who didn't need a union card and greenlit some 
movies that probably would have been turned down had the strike not 
happened.  When supply exceeds the demand the studio owners can call the 
shots and unions can go away.  In fact it's been said that the studios 
wanted to bust the unions with some of these strikes.  Trouble is the 
studio heads are greedy assholes and they need to be busted first.  
Believe me the entertainment industry would do just fine without big 
studios.  Sure you wouldn't get those big expensive blockbusters but its 
the story that counts but we have such a dumbed down populace that wants 
to be dazzled not necessarily entertained.  For them though even a 
dressed up talent show works.

>   
>> It costs a lot of money to make a show and pay people 
>> a living salary. Currently our budget for Pushing Daisies 
>> is about 3 million an episode. It would not be possible 
>> with out the resources of Time-Warner.  
>> 
>
> For an ongoing TV show this might be true, although 
> shows been done for the Web on a pittance, such as
> The Guild. I'm not convinced that it's true of film
> at all. Did you enjoy Rodriquez' El Mariachi? It 
> was shot on a budget of $7000.
>
> Sometimes doing something as a labor of love wins
> out. That was the Firefly story, and now it's the
> Dr. Horrible story. I wouldn't be surprised if Joss
> and the others end up not only being paid for their 
> time but making money out of the whole thing. But
> that wasn't an issue for them at the time, because
> they couldn't work elsewhere, and they loved the
> whole idea. They signed on because it was FUN. I'd 
> like to see that fun succeed, because it can present 
> an *alternative* to the "you've got to have a high 
> budget to create something that looks as if it was 
> shot on a high budget" idea. 
>
> Call me a dreamer, but check out the list about 
> halfway down on this web page:
>
> http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php
>
> There are some pretty good films on that list.
I think the model for the future is just like software "open source 
movies."  You won't get rich off of it but you can probably put food on 
the table, afford some transportation and have a roof over your head.   
Hangin

[FairfieldLife] Why the former Soviet Union used to do so well at the Olympics

[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Messages from the Pleiadian's

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool  wrote:
> >
> >  
> > Peter didn't say his Saturn was exalted or retrograde, only that 
it
> was in the 12th house, so I figured you were referring to me. 
> >  
> > I became aware of the different viewpoints on what retrograde does
> when I first looked into jyotish. It's just another thing to be
> uncertain about, unfortunately. 
> 
> Or something to "calibrate" to modern life an your life. Jyotish 
texts
> make reference to a whole different society and time. And from 
various
> angles -- classically whats "good" for moksha is bad for material
> wealth -- in some cases -- but thats more of a 
renunciate/householder
> model. Or it may refer to non-attachment (and thus loss) while 
engaged
> in the world. Many interpretations possible -- which ultimately is 
of
> little use -- if everything is OTOH... 
> 
> However, on can see effects in ones life in the modern world. It may
> be hard to isolate effects in ones life to retrograde or "normal"
> saturn -- though a lot can be figured our looking at the context of
> ones life. Better if 10, 20, 100 people make a similar discernment,
> then the "true" meaning of the jytotish texts can be uncovered when
> appleid to modern life.

You are right in saying that the 12th house is considered a moksha 
house, or the field of renunciation.  In the modern context, however, 
we to recognize the role of moksha in relationship to the other 
facets of a person's life.  

Aside from renunciation, the 12th house surprisingly has beneficial 
effects for the other areas of a person's life.  Among astrologers, 
meditation is considered to be one of the significations for the 12th 
house.  By using the argala principle, one can understand why 
meditation benefits the 

-- 2nd house, the field of knowledge, family, appetite and money.

-- 11th house, the field of friends, kama, unearned profits.

-- 9th house, the field of dharma, higher knowledge, religion, and 
visions during samadhi.

In effect, the field of the 12th house does not necessarily pertain 
to renunciation only.  










>

RE: [FairfieldLife] John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - Interview with Carolyn Jones

2008-08-19 Thread Rick Archer

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Rick Archer
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:26 PM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - Interview
with Carolyn Jones

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/links/Chanting_001115134351/John
_Wren_Lewis_001219166683/ 

This is the guy who had a near death experience that resulted in a permanent
awakening after eating a poisoned candy on a bus in Thailand. Interesting
interview.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Canada whipping USA's ass in medal count

> But Canada has 1/10th the population of the US.  Therefore, on a per 
> capita basis, Canada has 130 medals to the US's 79.

They should do especially well in the next winter Olympics, you'd think.

Which, to their advantage, will be held in Vancouver. 

"...but mountain doesn't move!"

--- On Tue, 8/19/08, curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Canada whipping USA's ass in medal count
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 1:56 PM

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> As of 5 minutes ago, Canada has 13 medals versus the US's 79.
> 
> But Canada has 1/10th the population of the US.  Therefore, on a per 
> capita basis, Canada has 130 medals to the US's 79.

Well Canadians have to cut down their own trees to build their log
cabins, as well as outrun bears, and get their drinking water by
sucking the sap out of maple trees in the Winter, so it doesn't
surprise me at all that they excel in physical activities!

Plus they are funded by all the telemarketing and mail order scams
that they inflict on the US outside our legal jurisdictions.  OTOH
they do grow some kind bud.

Oh yeah, and they don't have to spend a dime on defense cuz they are
riding on our backs.

USA USA USA! 

> 
> Of course, if we were to extrapolate the per capita medal count to 
> other countries using the USA as the basis, Bahrain would be on top of 
> the heap. With one medal so far, Bahrain would have the equivalent of 
> 300 medals, by far the best of any country.
>

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[FairfieldLife] Re: Canada whipping USA's ass in medal count

2008-08-19 Thread satvadude108

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As of 5 minutes ago, Canada has 13 medals versus the US's 79.
> 
> But Canada has 1/10th the population of the US.  Therefore, on a per 
> capita basis, Canada has 130 medals to the US's 79.
> 
> Of course, if we were to extrapolate the per capita medal count to 
> other countries using the USA as the basis, Bahrain would be on top of 
> the heap. With one medal so far, Bahrain would have the equivalent of 
> 300 medals, by far the best of any country.
>

Shemp you ignorant insipid gonad. 

The many months living in fear of being caught in one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 
illegal immigrant sweeps has finally caught up with you and pushed you into
complete insanity. Of course the women's freestyle wrestlers excel. They grow
up knowing they need self-protection skills.  ;-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olympic Medals

> 
> The Chinese are cheating, and the Indians are too busy
> procreating and trying to find justifications for the increasing
> weirdness of their religious practices.
> 
> Sal
>

You should also take a look at the gender distribution of the gold 
medals won by China.  It appears that there are more women who have won 
the gold medals for China.  Is there a hidden meaning behind these 
results?

As far as India's population is concerned, it's generally thought that 
the reason for their apparent fecundity is due to being an agrarian 
society.  In that environment, a farmer needs to have more children in 
order to run his household and work the fields for his livelihood.  

Further, having children is a form of life insurance or retirement 
income for farmers when they get old.

[FairfieldLife] Fwd: 4 Mitch Mazur's Friends

2008-08-19 Thread Dick Mays


Dear Friends,

Most of you already know that Mitch Mazur passed peacefully in his 
sleep Sunday night. Some suggestions regarding his memorial at Beth 
Shalom Synagogue at 7:00pm Wednesday evening: 308 S. B Street.


It is a vegetarian pot luck. Also, there will be a place for you to 
write out your memories of Mitch for family members to cherish after 
the memorial. It will be a simple tablet and pen. For those of you 
who have some time to collect your thoughts beforehand, it would be a 
good idea to have them written and printed so you can drop them off 
without competing for the tablet. 

Mitch is survived by his younger brother and his mother. They are 
flying into Fairfield this afternoon to authorize his cremation which 
will take place around program time. If you are so inclined you could 
send Mitch and his family your love and prayers during your evening 
meditation. They were very close, so this is a terrible time for 
them. Needless to say, your memories of Mitch will be a sweet comfort 
the family in the days to come.


All love,

Dana Brekke

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olympic Medals

It appears that the Olympic Games are a luxury for most countries in 
the world.  Countries that are well off or have government funded 
athletic programs tend to do better during these games.

For third world countries, it would be practical for their citizens 
to emphasize the development of their society and economy rather than 
concentrating on athletic games.




--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> > How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people 
and 
> > only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
> 
> I was also thinking that without state sponsorship like China's,
> sport's training is a luxury.  Here in the US families give up
> everything to support their kids with Olympic dreams.  In India, 
I'll
> bet sports is not the occupation desired by middle to upper class
> Indians.  If you look at their film industry you see the same actors
> rotated in different movies.  The group of actors is small and I 
think
> it is because actors are not revered.  Seeing acting and sports as
> kind of low class would prohibit families from supporting their kids
> in their training and competitions that are necessary.  If they have
> the money, they probably want their kids to become professionals in 
a
> more realistically lucrative field.
> 
> If I think about it rationally, the idea of training like a fiend 
for
> an event 4 years away, where the only monetary benefit goes to the
> gold medal winners, in an event that may take a few minutes... does
> seem kind of nuts.  I hope their fixity of purpose helps them in
> whatever chosen field they go into afterwards. I guess some 
athletics
> are like art for art's sake.  It just takes their personality over 
and
> they chase their own  dreams no matter how impractical.  I can
> understand that.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Beauce this is not the yogic flying olympics?
> >  
> >
> http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=yogic+flying+olympics&sp
ell=1
> >  
> > Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
> >  
> > On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting 
the 
> > most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that 
China is 
> > winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and 
the 
> > rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in 
athletics?  
> > Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
> >  
> > Myabe the home field advantage and being used to the pollution is
> making a dfference. China did finish second in 2004:
> >  
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics_medal_count
> >  
> > "...but mountain doesn't move!"
> > 
> > --- On Tue, 8/19/08, John  wrote:
> > 
> > From: John 
> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Olympic Medals
> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 3:15 AM
> > 
> > To All:
> > 
> > How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people 
and 
> > only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
> > 
> > On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting 
the 
> > most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that 
China is 
> > winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and 
the 
> > rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in 
athletics?  
> > Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > To subscribe, send a message to:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > Or go to: 
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/
> > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: Canada whipping USA's ass in medal count

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> As of 5 minutes ago, Canada has 13 medals versus the US's 79.
> 
> But Canada has 1/10th the population of the US.  Therefore, on a per 
> capita basis, Canada has 130 medals to the US's 79.

Well Canadians have to cut down their own trees to build their log
cabins, as well as outrun bears, and get their drinking water by
sucking the sap out of maple trees in the Winter, so it doesn't
surprise me at all that they excel in physical activities!

Plus they are funded by all the telemarketing and mail order scams
that they inflict on the US outside our legal jurisdictions.  OTOH
they do grow some kind bud.

Oh yeah, and they don't have to spend a dime on defense cuz they are
riding on our backs.

USA USA USA! 

> 
> Of course, if we were to extrapolate the per capita medal count to 
> other countries using the USA as the basis, Bahrain would be on top of 
> the heap. With one medal so far, Bahrain would have the equivalent of 
> 300 medals, by far the best of any country.
>

[FairfieldLife] Re: New iPhone sucks?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> Based on some comments I've read got the impression
> that the new iPhone is more unreliable than the previous
> model, especially as to 3g connections.
>

Compare iPhone with, say, this:

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i8510_innov8-review-269p4.php

[FairfieldLife] Canada whipping USA's ass in medal count

As of 5 minutes ago, Canada has 13 medals versus the US's 79.

But Canada has 1/10th the population of the US.  Therefore, on a per 
capita basis, Canada has 130 medals to the US's 79.

Of course, if we were to extrapolate the per capita medal count to 
other countries using the USA as the basis, Bahrain would be on top of 
the heap. With one medal so far, Bahrain would have the equivalent of 
300 medals, by far the best of any country.

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > Ok, it's just a silly musical, but it was the
> > *heart* and the *intent* behind the project that
> > got me. Basically, Joss said, "If the conglomerates
> > won't let us play in their sandpile because they're
> > being greedy, we'll find another sandpile to play
> > in." And they did. Others will, too.
> 
> Meanwhile my friend Lisa Lassek cut  Dr. Horrible. 
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0489809/  You have enjoyed 
> her work on Firefly.
> 
> She didn't get paid a dime for Dr. Horrible.  

As I understand it, neither did anyone else.
Joss fronted the money, and people will get
paid from the DVD royalties, if they happen.

> Basically the producers are forced into non-union 
> situations.  Some business model.

Or, as in this case, into media in which the
unions don't have exclusive contracts and
rights. I think that unions are a good idea
until they start interfering with the artform.
A film friend in Santa Fe once told me that
the main reason he shoots in Canada and Mexico
is that the Teamsters contract *alone* accounts
for a million dollars per film. That's a million
bucks he could pay to other people if he shoots
outside of the US, so he shoots outside the US,
using people from less greedy unions.

> It costs a lot of money to make a show and pay people 
> a living salary. Currently our budget for Pushing Daisies 
> is about 3 million an episode. It would not be possible 
> with out the resources of Time-Warner.  

For an ongoing TV show this might be true, although 
shows been done for the Web on a pittance, such as
The Guild. I'm not convinced that it's true of film
at all. Did you enjoy Rodriquez' El Mariachi? It 
was shot on a budget of $7000.

Sometimes doing something as a labor of love wins
out. That was the Firefly story, and now it's the
Dr. Horrible story. I wouldn't be surprised if Joss
and the others end up not only being paid for their 
time but making money out of the whole thing. But
that wasn't an issue for them at the time, because
they couldn't work elsewhere, and they loved the
whole idea. They signed on because it was FUN. I'd 
like to see that fun succeed, because it can present 
an *alternative* to the "you've got to have a high 
budget to create something that looks as if it was 
shot on a high budget" idea. 

Call me a dreamer, but check out the list about 
halfway down on this web page:

http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/records/budgets.php

There are some pretty good films on that list.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olympic Medals

2008-08-19 Thread Richard M

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:15 AM, John wrote:
> 
> > To All:
> >
> > How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and
> > only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
> >
> > On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the
> > most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is
> > winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the
> > rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?
> > Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
> 
> The Chinese are cheating, and the Indians are too busy
> procreating and trying to find justifications for the increasing
> weirdness of their religious practices.
> 
> Sal
>

Meanwhile our lottery-funded GB Olympians are coming up on the inside
and are going to beat the lot of you!

[FairfieldLife] John Wren-Lewis Awakening experience - Interview with Carolyn Jones

2008-08-19 Thread Rick Archer

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/links/Chanting_001115134351/John
_Wren_Lewis_001219166683/

[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

2008-08-19 Thread BillyG.

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of shempmcgurk
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:40 AM
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

> ...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
> political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
> with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.
> 
> Did you actually watch the "debate"? I thought Obama did pretty well,
> considering that his audience was very conservative, and therefore, by
> definition, nuance-impaired. They applauded on many points.

Actually the Democrats had the same amount of tickets as the
Republicans, so the fact that it was Orange County was only marginally
relevant. As many Democrats were in the audience as
Republicansunless, of course you're suggesting that Orange County
Democrats are "nuance-impaired",  as well?  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

2008-08-19 Thread Stu

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" buttsplicer@ wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
> > >
> > > TurquoiseB wrote:
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" buttsplicer@ wrote:
> >
> > > > It might not appeal to you because you're in
> > > > the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> > > > of free software called Miro.
> >
> > Wow!  Very Cool. Now I will have something to occupy my
> > coming free-time when the conglomerates won't be able to
> > pay me to make TV shows.
>
>
> Ok, it's just a silly musical, but it was the
> *heart* and the *intent* behind the project that
> got me. Basically, Joss said, "If the conglomerates
> won't let us play in their sandpile because they're
> being greedy, we'll find another sandpile to play
> in." And they did. Others will, too.
>

Meanwhile my friend Lisa Lassek cut  Dr. Horrible. 
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0489809/  You have enjoyed her work on
Firefly.

She didn't get paid a dime for Dr. Horrible.  Basically the producers
are forced into non-union situations.  Some business model.

It costs a lot of money to make a show and pay people a living salary. 
Currently our budget for Pushing Daisies is about 3 million an episode. 
It would not be possible with out the resources of Time-Warner.  Seems
they have a right to get a return on their investment.

s.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Olympic Medals

2008-08-19 Thread Sal Sunshine


On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:15 AM, John wrote:


To All:

How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and
only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.

On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the
most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is
winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the
rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?
Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?


The Chinese are cheating, and the Indians are too busy
procreating and trying to find justifications for the increasing
weirdness of their religious practices.

Sal

RE: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

2008-08-19 Thread Rick Archer

From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of shempmcgurk
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:40 AM
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.

Did you actually watch the "debate"? I thought Obama did pretty well,
considering that his audience was very conservative, and therefore, by
definition, nuance-impaired. They applauded on many points.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olympic Medals

> How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
> only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.

I was also thinking that without state sponsorship like China's,
sport's training is a luxury.  Here in the US families give up
everything to support their kids with Olympic dreams.  In India, I'll
bet sports is not the occupation desired by middle to upper class
Indians.  If you look at their film industry you see the same actors
rotated in different movies.  The group of actors is small and I think
it is because actors are not revered.  Seeing acting and sports as
kind of low class would prohibit families from supporting their kids
in their training and competitions that are necessary.  If they have
the money, they probably want their kids to become professionals in a
more realistically lucrative field.

If I think about it rationally, the idea of training like a fiend for
an event 4 years away, where the only monetary benefit goes to the
gold medal winners, in an event that may take a few minutes... does
seem kind of nuts.  I hope their fixity of purpose helps them in
whatever chosen field they go into afterwards. I guess some athletics
are like art for art's sake.  It just takes their personality over and
they chase their own  dreams no matter how impractical.  I can
understand that.

> 
> Beauce this is not the yogic flying olympics?
>  
>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=yogic+flying+olympics&spell=1
>  
> Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
>  
> On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
> most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is 
> winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
> rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?  
> Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
>  
> Myabe the home field advantage and being used to the pollution is
making a dfference. China did finish second in 2004:
>  
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics_medal_count
>  
> "...but mountain doesn't move!"
> 
> --- On Tue, 8/19/08, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Olympic Medals
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 3:15 AM
> 
> To All:
> 
> How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
> only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
> 
> On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
> most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is 
> winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
> rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?  
> Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> To subscribe, send a message to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Or go to: 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/
> and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
>

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

> I think it may be .com not .org. The latter doesn't link to any site
> (for me). 

You are correct. http://www.getmiro.com/

When I click on the getmiro.org link, I get the getmiro.com website. Typing 
getmiro.org into the address bar also gives me getmiro.com. So it looks like 
getmiro owns both domains and has it set up to redirect to com. What browser 
are you are using, new? I use IE7.

"...but mountain doesn't move!"

--- On Tue, 8/19/08, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 10:40 AM

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > It might not appeal to you because you're in
> > the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> > of free software called Miro. You download it from
> > http://www.getmiro.org, and then you go to a site
> 
> I think it may be .com not .org. The latter doesn't link to any site
> (for me). 

You are correct. http://www.getmiro.com/

> Also, curious, is ILog the company you work for?

ILOG. We're all nitpicky-French about the capitalization. :-)

Although, technically, come January I will be working
for IBM. They have announced their intention to buy
ILOG for 236 million. This has things in somewhat of
a flutter around ILOG. We consultants are used to 
such things, but French employees are a tad panicky, 
even though they're going to be the last to go if 
IBM decides to downsize (they won't...we're a pretty
lean machine). Go figure.

Just in case it's relevant, I don't ever use Miro on 
their computers or over their networks, and don't
recommend that anyone else does on a company's com-
puters, either. System admins often take a dim view
of BitTorrent clients.

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Re: [FairfieldLife] Olympic Medals



How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.

Beauce this is not the yogic flying olympics?
 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=yogic+flying+olympics&spell=1
 
Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
 
On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is 
winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?  
Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?
 
Myabe the home field advantage and being used to the pollution is making 
a dfference. China did finish second in 2004:
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics_medal_count
 
"...but mountain doesn't move!"

--- On Tue, 8/19/08, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Olympic Medals
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 3:15 AM

To All:

How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.

On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is 
winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?  
Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?








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[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Obama: 'I will win'
> 
> A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million 
Sunday at three California fundraisers, most of it in large checks to 
a Democratic Party committee.
> 
> "I will win. Don't worry about that," he said to the crowd of about 
1,300 at his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.
> 
> He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called 
him "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."
> 
> Obama echoed some of the themes he discussed when he described 
Pennsylvanians as "bitter" and stoked controversy three months ago, 
but did so much more adroitly.
> 
> "Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn't make it so," he told 
the crowd. "It would be nice to think that after eight years of 
economic disaster, after eight years of bungled foreign policy, of 
being engaged in a war that should never have been authorized and 
should never have been waged, that cost us a trillion dollars and 
thousands of lives, that people would say, let's toss the bums out. 
Toss the bums out, we're starting from scratch, we're starting over. 
This is not working."
> 
> "So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just 
happen. Why are we having to run all these television commercials? 
Why do we have to raise all this money? Just read the papers. These 
are the knuckleheads who have been in charge. Throw `em out. But 
American politics aren't that simple," he said.
> 
> "The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has 
not been serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They 
tune out. And they start saying to themselves, a plague on both your 
houses. They are willing to consume negative information more 
frequently than positive information, for good reason. They've seen 
how promises haven't been kept," he said.
> Full pool report after the jump.
>


...yet one of these knuckleheaded bums, according to every single 
political pundit I've heard that has commented on it, wiped the floor 
with the One Annointed by God in the debate the other night.

Can you imagine the uproar if some right wingnut referred to John 
McCain as "a leader that God has blessed us with at this time."

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning  wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Also, curious, is ILog the company you work for?
> > > 
> > > ILOG. We're all nitpicky-French about the capitalization. :-)
> > 
> > They have some cool stuff. Do you focus on a particular subset of
> > their products? 
> 
> I have worked in the Business Rules side of ILOG,
> but currently I focus on Optimization products,
> notably OPL and ODM.
>

I assume you worked on a Rules-based dating / pick-up application.

> 
> It's not the network capacity that most sysadmins
> have issues with, but the potential for peer-to-
> peer file sharing. That's not an issue with 
> Rhapsody, but is with any BitTorrent client.
> 
> > Funny you mentioned Miro. This weekend I literally put on 
> > my todo list "Bit Torrent". Nature supports even grey area 
> > desires. :) 
> > 
> > I notice the custom option is FAR richer than the standard option.

I fooled aroun with log-me-in as a test, tho not for use on my work
PC, Did not erase it. PC tech saw it and went mildly ballistic.


 
> Don't know about that. I've only used the free one
> that I downloaded at first. I like it a lot. It's
> got a very clean and very clever interface, and
> a very innovative way of doing its documentation.
> Because you're going to use it to download and 
> view video, all of the doc is in video format.
> If you start to play with it and need any assist-
> tance, contact me offline and I'll be happy to
> help. Your eyepatch is in the mail.  :-)
>


Thanks. And the bottle of rum?

[FairfieldLife] Re: How Samskaras Work 101 -- Lesson 1

2008-08-19 Thread Richard J. Williams

> How I learned to ignore my own issues and 
> project them on to Judy."
> 
"Uncle Tantra (UT) is suffering from acute 
Narcissism. Because he dropped-out of both 
TM and Rama's program he needs to "rewrite" 
history and trash religious groups that he 
once belonged to.  Yet at the same time he 
needs to "show-off" to current "followers" 
and write spiritual essays of the same 
teachers he trashes in private.  

By engaging in this neurotic contradiction 
any personal failures are covered-up by UT's 
dual positions.  Uncle Tantra's ego can 
instead present to others the image he clings 
to: a great writer, an advanced spiritual 
seeker that has gone into "Samadhi", and the 
hip 60's Jungian wise-old man persona that 
he so pathetically attempts to cultivate in 
his ramblings and even through his name 
"Uncle Tantra"." 

Read more:

Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental
Subject: Trashing Rama - An analysis
From: Garuda
Date: Wed, May 7 2003
http://tinyurl.com/2edw8k

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning  wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, curious, is ILog the company you work for?
> > 
> > ILOG. We're all nitpicky-French about the capitalization. :-)
> 
> They have some cool stuff. Do you focus on a particular subset of
> their products? 

I have worked in the Business Rules side of ILOG,
but currently I focus on Optimization products,
notably OPL and ODM.

> > Although, technically, come January I will be working
> > for IBM. They have announced their intention to buy
> > ILOG for 236 million. This has things in somewhat of
> > a flutter around ILOG. We consultants are used to 
> > such things, but French employees are a tad panicky, 
> > even though they're going to be the last to go if 
> > IBM decides to downsize (they won't...we're a pretty
> > lean machine). Go figure.
> 
> Will ILOG fold in to the IBM Consulting group (one of the largest
> consulting "firms" out there -- though often "unkwown" as distinct
> from the hardware side of IBM. 

No one knows. The Business Rules side of ILOG
will definitely be part of the Websphere group,
because that's where it integrates best. We 
suspect that Optimization will go into the
Consulting group, but no one knows because due
to the nature of international mergers no one
in either company is allowed to talk to anyone
in the other company until everything is 
settled and approved by the SEC and its French
counterpart. For now it's business as usual.

> I had a friend who works for the
> former. Very smart, great guy. Turns out he is a closet Buddhist --
> which was entertaining when I revelaed my closet pseudo-hindoo
> proclivities. 

>From all we hear, the new IBM is not "your
father's IBM." Gone are the days of barging
in and reconfiguring everything just because
they can. Their approach now to acquisitions
is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

> > Just in case it's relevant, I don't ever use Miro on 
> > their computers or over their networks, and don't
> > recommend that anyone else does on a company's com-
> > puters, either. System admins often take a dim view
> > of BitTorrent clients.
> 
> I would never do that. Though at times, when working late, 
> I do plug into Rhapsody and download so me new tunes to 
> pump me up for the late hours. I figure at night, the 
> network is far from capacity.

It's not the network capacity that most sysadmins
have issues with, but the potential for peer-to-
peer file sharing. That's not an issue with 
Rhapsody, but is with any BitTorrent client.

> Funny you mentioned Miro. This weekend I literally put on 
> my todo list "Bit Torrent". Nature supports even grey area 
> desires. :) 
> 
> I notice the custom option is FAR richer than the standard option.

Don't know about that. I've only used the free one
that I downloaded at first. I like it a lot. It's
got a very clean and very clever interface, and
a very innovative way of doing its documentation.
Because you're going to use it to download and 
view video, all of the doc is in video format.
If you start to play with it and need any assist-
tance, contact me offline and I'll be happy to
help. Your eyepatch is in the mail.  :-)

[FairfieldLife] Re: Olympic Medals

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> To All:
> 
> How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
> only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
> 
> On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
> most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is 
> winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
> rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?  
> Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?

Considering the numbers they have to work with in population,and the
fact that their system gets kids at age 3 who show genetic promise and
train them like professional athletes from then on in training camps,
and that some of the gymnasts were reported in the Chinese press as
being 13 and not the required 16 just a month before the games and
their government-issued passport proof of their age...

I think it is amazing that our athletes have been so close to them in
medals.  There has been some weird judging moves but the judges are
multinational.  Unless there is a payoff conspiracy going on...(it
already happened in figure skating at the last Olympics)

But I am not surprised that their child pro athletes are great at what
they have done every day since they were toddlers.  I grew up with the
Russian cold war athletes competing against our amateur athletes. At
least they have changed that crazy rule so we can send our Basketball
team over with some real pros.   

>

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> > >
> > > 
> > > It might not appeal to you because you're in
> > > the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> > > of free software called Miro. You download it from
> > > http://www.getmiro.org, and then you go to a site
> > 
> > I think it may be .com not .org. The latter doesn't link to any site
> > (for me). 
> 
> You are correct. http://www.getmiro.com/
> 
> > Also, curious, is ILog the company you work for?
> 
> ILOG. We're all nitpicky-French about the capitalization. :-)

They have some cool stuff. Do you focus on a particular subset of
their products? 

> Although, technically, come January I will be working
> for IBM. They have announced their intention to buy
> ILOG for 236 million. This has things in somewhat of
> a flutter around ILOG. We consultants are used to 
> such things, but French employees are a tad panicky, 
> even though they're going to be the last to go if 
> IBM decides to downsize (they won't...we're a pretty
> lean machine). Go figure.

Will ILOG fold in to the IBM Consulting group (one of the largest
consulting "firms" out there -- though often "unkwown" as distinct
from the hardware side of IBM. I had a friend who works for the
former. Very smart, great guy. Turns out he is a closet Buddhist --
which was entertaining when I revelaed my closet pseudo-hindoo
proclivities. 

> Just in case it's relevant, I don't ever use Miro on 
> their computers or over their networks, and don't
> recommend that anyone else does on a company's com-
> puters, either. System admins often take a dim view
> of BitTorrent clients.

I would never do that. Though at times, when working late, I do plug
into Rhapsody and download so me new tunes to pump me up for the late
hours. I figure at night, the network is far from capacity.

Funny you mentioned Miro. This weekend I literally put on my todo list
"Bit Torrent". Nature supports even grey area desires. :) 

I notice the custom option is FAR richer than the standard option.

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB  wrote:
> >
> > 
> > It might not appeal to you because you're in
> > the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> > of free software called Miro. You download it from
> > http://www.getmiro.org, and then you go to a site
> 
> I think it may be .com not .org. The latter doesn't link to any site
> (for me). 

You are correct. http://www.getmiro.com/

> Also, curious, is ILog the company you work for?

ILOG. We're all nitpicky-French about the capitalization. :-)

Although, technically, come January I will be working
for IBM. They have announced their intention to buy
ILOG for 236 million. This has things in somewhat of
a flutter around ILOG. We consultants are used to 
such things, but French employees are a tad panicky, 
even though they're going to be the last to go if 
IBM decides to downsize (they won't...we're a pretty
lean machine). Go figure.

Just in case it's relevant, I don't ever use Miro on 
their computers or over their networks, and don't
recommend that anyone else does on a company's com-
puters, either. System admins often take a dim view
of BitTorrent clients.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Messages from the Pleiadian's

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, gullible fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  
> Peter didn't say his Saturn was exalted or retrograde, only that it
was in the 12th house, so I figured you were referring to me. 
>  
> I became aware of the different viewpoints on what retrograde does
when I first looked into jyotish. It's just another thing to be
uncertain about, unfortunately. 

Or something to "calibrate" to modern life an your life. Jyotish texts
make reference to a whole different society and time. And from various
angles -- classically whats "good" for moksha is bad for material
wealth -- in some cases -- but thats more of a renunciate/householder
model. Or it may refer to non-attachment (and thus loss) while engaged
in the world. Many interpretations possible -- which ultimately is of
little use -- if everything is OTOH... 

However, on can see effects in ones life in the modern world. It may
be hard to isolate effects in ones life to retrograde or "normal"
saturn -- though a lot can be figured our looking at the context of
ones life. Better if 10, 20, 100 people make a similar discernment,
then the "true" meaning of the jytotish texts can be uncovered when
appleid to modern life.

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> It might not appeal to you because you're in
> the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> of free software called Miro. You download it from
> http://www.getmiro.org, and then you go to a site

I think it may be .com not .org. The latter doesn't link to any site
(for me). 

Also, curious, is ILog the company you work for?

[FairfieldLife] Re: Anchal's answer to Tyra

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister  wrote:
> > 
> > That in turn seems to suggest that the Vedic culture
> > was originally a creation of some Siberian shamans,
> > or some other weirdos in the area that nowadays is
> > Russia.
> > 
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnnEQ0Vzv0k
> 
> Not Finnish weirdos ??
>

Not eggzactly, but perhaps Finno-Ugric weirdos (Maris, Mordvians, etc):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Muromian-map.png

[FairfieldLife] 'Christian Prayer for Mother Divine'

Shri Mariam, Fullness of Grace...
The Lord is with Thee...always,
Blessed are Thee among women.
Blessed is the conception of the one called,
Yeshuam.

[FairfieldLife] 'We must enter another dimension?'

To be able to 'Float'...
This is the only way.
There has to be some kind of 'Worm-hole;
Some quirk of nature...
Some tea party, where you all are just a bunch of cards.
All is illusion, Maya, as they say.
It's all one, you See?
You see, you decided to make pretend you were seperate,
>From the Whole.
What a joke, on you!
R.G.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Anchal's answer to Tyra

2008-08-19 Thread nablusoss1008

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> That in turn seems to suggest that the Vedic culture
> was originally a creation of some Siberian shamans,
> or some other weirdos in the area that nowadays is
> Russia.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnnEQ0Vzv0k

Not Finnish weirdos ??

[FairfieldLife] Fw: Germany Loves Obama-Cause it hates WAr'

Subject: Germany Loves Obama-Cause it hates WAr'
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Obama Campaign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Adrianna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 5:24 AM

That is why the crowds came...
To see a different version of America.
A hopeful, hamonious America.
Not an America that is feared and hated.
Grow up, and smell the coffee:'
'The Macho network= Fox mews...meow!

R.G.   Verona, Wisconsin

R.G.  Madison, Wisconsin

[FairfieldLife] Fw: 'PoW America...

Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Holy See" <[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 5:32 AM

I am so tired of heaing about the POW story.
John McCain is not the only one who has suffered in a senseless war.
Stop using this war-monger as a glorification of killing...
Let's get beyond killing to peace.
Think we can work on that, folks?
Think we can at least considering peace as a real goal.
And stop the war on everything...
Just say no to all this Bull.

R.G.  Verona, Wisconsin

[FairfieldLife] Fw: 'Republicans=Numbed-Out War-Mongers'


To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Obama Campaign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Wolf Blitzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 5:42 AM








Staight Up!
Alcoholics, and so on, and so forth.
Time for a real change!
 
R.G.  Verona, WI

[FairfieldLife] 'The Spore on The Grassy Knoll'

F.B.I. Presents Anthrax Details, but Doubts Remain

WASHINGTON — Federal Bureau of Investigation officials on Monday laid out their
most detailed scientific case to date against Bruce E. Ivins, the military
scientist accused of being the anthrax killer, but they acknowledged that the
many mysteries of the case meant an air of uncertainty would always surround it.

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“I don’t think we’re ever going to put the suspicions to bed,” said Vahid
Majidi, head of the F.B.I.’s weapons of mass destruction division. “There’s
always going to be a spore on a grassy knoll.”
At a two-hour briefing for reporters, Dr. Majidi was joined by seven other
leading scientists from inside and outside the bureau. They discussed in
intricate detail the halting scientific path that led them from two main
samples of anthrax used in the 2001 attacks, to four genetic mutations unique
to the samples, to 100 scientists in the United States who had access to that
particular strain, and ultimately to Dr. Ivins.
Dr. Ivins, a longtime anthrax researcher at the Army Medical Research Institute
of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland, killed himself last month
as the Justice Department was preparing an indictment against him. Since his
death, a number of scientists have said that the limited forensic evidence that
the F.B.I. made public in linking the attacks to Dr. Ivins is inconclusive.
The unusual presentation by the bureau on Monday was intended to quell those
doubts, but some scientists remained skeptical. They said it would be months
before they were able to evaluate fully the strength of the forensic evidence,
and the new process used, in an independent setting.
At the briefing, F.B.I. officials disclosed that they first obtained a sample
of a unique strain of anthrax from Dr. Ivins in 2002, one that could have led
them back to the strain used in the 2001 attacks. But the bureau destroyed the
sample because Dr. Ivins did not follow protocol in the way it was submitted,
making it more difficult to use in court.
It was not until 2006, after a backup copy of Dr. Ivins’s sample was found by
another scientist working with the F.B.I., that the bureau’s scientists
realized it was the same strain used in the anthrax mailings. That crucial
finding helped confirm other evidence pointing to Dr. Ivins.
“Looking at it in hindsight,” Dr. Majidi said of the misstep in 2002, “we would
do things differently today.”
But Dr. Majidi and the other scientists who worked on the case said the new
forensic techniques they developed to trace the genetic makeup of the anthrax
samples were groundbreaking and could have wider implications for the
identification of other harmful agents that could be carried by water or air.
The 2001 mailings, sent to two senators and several prominent media figures,
killed five people and sickened 17. F.B.I. officials said on Monday that they
were still uncertain of the paths by which some of the victims came into
contact with the anthrax.
But they said they believed that the anthrax was naturally fine enough to seep
through the envelopes used in the attacks and that mail sorting equipment
dispersed it into the air at several postal processing facilities. Two postal
workers in Washington, D.C., were among those killed.
Investigators said a number of circumstantial factors, like Dr. Ivins’s unusual
nighttime hours at his laboratory in the days before the anthrax letters were
mailed, pointed to him as the killer. But the case relied largely on the
scientific evidence that officials said had led them back to two one-liter
flasks in his lab.
F.B.I. scientists on Monday laid out the development of the new science, known
as microbial forensics, that enabled them to match the attack strain to its
source.
They also countered a principal scientific criticism of the investigation: that
the spores had been weaponized with a special coating and therefore could not
have been made by Dr. Ivins because he did not have the necessary equipment.
This criticism is based on the presence of silica in the anthrax-laced attack
letters. However, the F.B.I. scientists said that the silica had been imported
naturally by the anthrax spores from their environment and that there was no
evidence of weaponization.
By June 2002, the Institute for Genomic Research had decoded the full DNA of
several strains of anthrax, showing that it might be possible to link the
attack strain to its source through diagnostic change

[FairfieldLife] Pyrabang

2008-08-19 Thread pc93

http://tekgnosis.typepad.com/tekgnosis/2008/08/new-member-in-y.html

[FairfieldLife] New iPhone sucks?


Based on some comments I've read got the impression
that the new iPhone is more unreliable than the previous
model, especially as to 3g connections.

[FairfieldLife] A new business model for media (was Re: True Blood)

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu"  wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
> > >
> > > TurquoiseB wrote:
> > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" buttsplicer@ wrote:
> > 
> > > > It might not appeal to you because you're in
> > > > the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> > > > of free software called Miro.
> > 
> > Wow!  Very Cool. Now I will have something to occupy my 
> > coming free-time when the conglomerates won't be able to 
> > pay me to make TV shows.
> 
> While I understand and sympathize (especially
> coming off of a long workless strike), my personal
> sympathies lie with those who are busy trying to
> find some way to no longer *work* for the conglom-
> erates. Or at least no longer have to be dependent
> on them.
> 
> I don't know how you feel about Joss Whedon's 
> recent "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" project,
> but I find it really exciting and encouraging. 
> I watched it for free on the Web, I downloaded 
> it for $3.99 from iTunes, and I have pre-ordered 
> 30 copies of the DVD, even though it has not been 
> released yet. I plan to give them away as Christmas 
> and birthday presents this year.
> 
> Ok, it's just a silly musical, but it was the 
> *heart* and the *intent* behind the project that
> got me. Basically, Joss said, "If the conglomerates
> won't let us play in their sandpile because they're 
> being greedy, we'll find another sandpile to play
> in." And they did. Others will, too.

Still thinking about this, I think that part
of my comfort level with media piracy is based
on familiarity with what I believe is a better
business model.

If you think about it, the prevalent business
model for TV and movies is, "Trust us. Pay your
money up front and we'll give you a good time."

But sadly, much of the time, they don't. You pay
up front for a "premium" TV channel, based on its
rep, and about half the time it delivers (if you
are lucky), and the other half it doesn't. If 
you rely on broadcast TV, you agree to subject
yourself to constant interruptions from sponsors
who are trying to sell you something. If you shell
out big bucks to see a movie, more than half the
time you are disappointed. At least I am.

In a way, media piracy gives lovers of good TV 
and movies something they haven't had before, a
real chance to see what they're paying for before
they pay for it.

The business model is from the world of software.
Think of the number of successful products that
started by giving their software away (or by giving
away a less-than-full-featured version of their 
software), allowing you to test and use it, and
*then* pay for the full product if you find it 
valuable. This strategy has worked well for lots 
and lots of products that sell in the $19-$50 range. 

Hell, I work on software that costs in the $200,000-
$1,000,000 range, and that's how *we* sell it. If 
a customer thinks they have an application for our
optimization software, we not only give them a copy
to work with, we supply OR experts to help them 
with their proof of concept to make sure that they
know how to use it. In most cases, this results in
a sale, for the simple reason that our software 
works and is testably better and faster than any-
thing else on the market. 

As I'm rambling and thinking about this issue,
that is how downloading movies and TV works for me
as well. I'm a total movie and TV freak; I own at
this point probably 1000 DVDs. I would say that
about half of them I downloaded first, *before* I
bought the DVD.

Now this might not be true for the Average Joe on
the street, who has no interest in the "Making Of" 
and "Extras" one gets on a good DVD, but it sure as
hell works for me. I've been known to download one
or two episodes of a past TV series and then immed-
iately order the DVD, based on my "preview."

The big media conglomerates (on the whole) don't 
WANT me to have a "preview." They want me to pony
up my bucks at the box office or subscribe to their
premium TV service sight unseen. Not gonna happen.

The smartest of these conglomerates, rather than
throwing herds of rabid lawyers at the problem, are
climbing on board with this new marketing approach.
They're offering free downloads of their TV series
and extended previews of their movies on their own
websites. Only the "old and in the way" conglomerates 
are trying to go the lawyer route and trying to intimi-
date downloaders through fear.

I *understand* the tradeoffs, and the fact that the
artists want to get compensated for what they do.
It's just that I've worked closely enough with the
industry to realize that they get pennies on the
dollar, and that all the rest goes to the leeches
who profit from the artists' hard work. 

As I mentioned by bringing up the "Dr. Horrible" 
experiment, I think that there are independent mar-
kets out there that are going to start stealing
more and more viewers aw

[FairfieldLife] 'Sen.Obama Appears Confident, Grounded...'

Obama: 'I will win'

A confident Barack Obama raised an extraordinary $7.8 million Sunday at three 
California fundraisers, most of it in large checks to a Democratic Party 
committee.

“I will win. Don’t worry about that,” he said to the crowd of about 1,300 at 
his third event of the evening, according to the pool report.

He was warmly received by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who called him "a leader 
that God has blessed us with at this time."

Obama echoed some of the themes he discussed when he described Pennsylvanians 
as "bitter" and stoked controversy three months ago, but did so much more 
adroitly.

"Now, you want to win. And saying it doesn’t make it so," he told the crowd. 
"It would be nice to think that after eight years of economic disaster, after 
eight years of bungled foreign policy, of being engaged in a war that should 
never have been authorized and should never have been waged, that cost us a 
trillion dollars and thousands of lives, that people would say, let’s toss the 
bums out. Toss the bums out, we’re starting from scratch, we’re starting over. 
This is not working."

“So I understand why a lot of folks are saying, this should just happen. Why 
are we having to run all these television commercials? Why do we have to raise 
all this money? Just read the papers. These are the knuckleheads who have been 
in charge. Throw ‘em out. But American politics aren’t that simple," he said.

"The fact of the matter is, at a certain point, when government has not been 
serving the people for this long, people get cynical. They tune out. And they 
start saying to themselves, a plague on both your houses. They are willing to 
consume negative information more frequently than positive information, for 
good reason. They’ve seen how promises haven’t been kept," he said.
Full pool report after the jump.

[FairfieldLife] Anchal's answer to Tyra


Just saw the first episode of America's Next Top Model,
with Anchal Joseph. When Tyra asked her something like:
"Why do you have blue contact lenses?", Anchal's answer,
which I can't remember accurately, seemed to imply, that
blue eyes are held in high esteem in India.

That in turn seems to suggest that the Vedic culture
was originally a creation of some Siberian shamans,
or some other weirdos in the area that nowadays is
Russia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnnEQ0Vzv0k

[FairfieldLife] Re: True Blood

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu  wrote:
> >
> > TurquoiseB wrote:
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Stu" buttsplicer@ wrote:
> 
> > > It might not appeal to you because you're in
> > > the industry, Stu, but there is this nifty piece
> > > of free software called Miro.
> 
> Wow!  Very Cool. Now I will have something to occupy my 
> coming free-time when the conglomerates won't be able to 
> pay me to make TV shows.

While I understand and sympathize (especially
coming off of a long workless strike), my personal
sympathies lie with those who are busy trying to
find some way to no longer *work* for the conglom-
erates. Or at least no longer have to be dependent
on them.

I don't know how you feel about Joss Whedon's 
recent "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" project,
but I find it really exciting and encouraging. 
I watched it for free on the Web, I downloaded 
it for $3.99 from iTunes, and I have pre-ordered 
30 copies of the DVD, even though it has not been 
released yet. I plan to give them away as Christmas 
and birthday presents this year.

Ok, it's just a silly musical, but it was the 
*heart* and the *intent* behind the project that
got me. Basically, Joss said, "If the conglomerates
won't let us play in their sandpile because they're 
being greedy, we'll find another sandpile to play
in." And they did. Others will, too.

I do appreciate the rare movie and TV series that
manages to fight through all the crap and turns out 
to be art. When I find one, I try to reward it in 
the only way possible to me from over here in Spain, 
which is to buy the DVD version when it comes out,
even though I already have all of the episodes in
downloaded form. I have done that with Deadwood,
with John From Cincinnati, with Charlie Jade, with
Dexter, with Lost and Battlestar Galactica, and I
will undoubtedly do it with Pushing Daisies.

But in buying these things I'm trying to reward
the *artists* involved, not the conglomerates who
are making the lion's share of the profits. They 
are old and in the way in my opinion, and I for one
just can't wait until the artists themselves discover
new ways to make money without them, so I can pay
them directly instead of having to pay some company
that is going to skim 98% off the top.

[FairfieldLife] Olympic Medals

To All:

How come India only has one gold medal?  It has a billion people and 
only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.

On the other hand, China is giving the USA a good run for getting the 
most medals during the games.  However, it appears to me that China is 
winning a disproportionate amount of gold medals than the USA and the 
rest of the participating countries.  Are they that good in athletics?  
Or is it hometown politics or favoritism at work here?

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