Horn, John wrote:
From: Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But look at the appendixes. Who rules the Shire after Frodo leaves?
The servant, the son of the gardener.
Isn't rules a bit strong? Will Whitfoot was kind of a joke
wasn't he?
His chief task being to preside
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http://www.newmars.com/firstwords//A
Saw this on alt.sf. written
It must have just gone up. I instantly filled in all five categories. Guess
which one I think is the most likely to actually happen.
Brin has a few zingers up. But I'm rechecking the
At 18:25 04-10-2002 -0500, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
I'm not asking for an L3 post - just a simple explanation as to why
you insist your position is the correct one.
I have already explained that a few times now. I see no reason to keep
repeating myself.
And the reasoning you give is
At 00:10 05-10-2002 -0500, The Fool foolishly blated:
I am not at all confused. Rather, it is quite clear to me that many
people attribute a certain meaning to the word anti-Semite that
differs from what I believe to be its meaning.
This is the same kind of logic, quacks, holocaust
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 12:57:11 +0200
At 00:32 04-10-2002 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
sophistry
n : a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in
the hope of deceiving someone
Jeroen wrote:
I could write my own reply to that, but William Goodall already
wrote
something that qualifies as an excellent response to what you are
saying,
so I will just quote it here:
Dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive: that is they
describe
how words *are* used not
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
I am not at all confused. Rather, it is quite clear to me that many people
attribute a certain meaning to the word anti-Semite that differs from what
I believe to be its meaning.
I stand corrected - you're not confused, you're deliberately acting
Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Definitiions (was Intellectual output from the Arab World)
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 11:46:30 +0200
At 00:10 05-10-2002 -0500, The Fool foolishly blated:
The word I believe you were looking for is 'blatted'? It
Cool site, already placed my first words in.
Thanks for pointing it out!
Mike V.
PS - First non-human words, like 'meow, meow, meow-meow, hisss, meow'?
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Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
When we are discussing meaning of words, it is imperative that we rely
upon dictionaries, because they are THE sources that tell us HOW A
WORD IS USED. If I decide that blue ought to mean green, I can
with justification be called wrong on that, because the *commonly
- Original Message -
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: BRIN-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: Definitions, Hey Julia
OK, so you did, sorry I missed it.
You wouldn't need to be apologising if you just read a little more
carefully
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:54:47PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Large scale use of wind power also suffers from the fact that
there are few places with high sustained winds. After those are
harvested, it will be hard to find other good sites. Remember, wind
power goes as v^3.
Maybe
Sonja wrote:
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
When we are discussing meaning of words, it is imperative that we
rely
upon dictionaries, because they are THE sources that tell us HOW A
WORD IS USED. If I decide that blue ought to mean green, I
can
with justification be called wrong on that,
In a message dated 10/5/2002 7:25:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Cool site, already placed my first words in.
Thanks for pointing it out!
Mike V.
PS - First non-human words, like 'meow, meow, meow-meow, hisss, meow'?
I was thinking of something like **At
--- Julia wrote:
Deborah wrote:
--- Julia wrote:
Just got this from another mailing list. Should
be OK to view at work if
it's OK to look at political cartoons at work.
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/iraqevite/
Julia
p.s. I'd like to hear what your favorite detail
At 23:31 05-10-2002 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote about me:
Not ONCE has he ever admitted to being wrong about ANYTHING.
Do you know what the problem is with that blanket statement? I need to find
only *one* message in which I admit to being wrong, in order to prove your
statement false.
And
--- Doug wrote:
I haven't seen or used any of the fingerprint stuff
yet, but I can't say
as it would bother me a whole lot. In fact, if it
would protect me
against identity theft I would say that the benefits
far outweigh the
drawbacks. Of course maybe it's because my
fingerprints
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Saw this on alt.sf. written
It must have just gone up. I instantly filled in all five categories. Guess
which one I think is the most likely to actually happen.
Brin has a few zingers
Deborah Harrell wrote:
But as I also stated, while the Jeffco sheriff's
office says that 'print info won't be used unless
fraud is involved, the example of the misuse of
information-gathering by a nearby law enforcement
agency (Denver City Police) does not engender my
confidence. I must add
In a message dated 10/5/02 5:25:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brin has a few zingers up. But I'm rechecking the site to see if it
specifies
first human words.
William Taylor
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The federal minimum wage is 5.15
in 1980 dollars that is (5.15*.465)=~ 2.395 dollars.
The federal minumum wage in 1980 was 3.10 dollars. (77%)
in 1975 dollars that is (5.15*.317)=~ 1.633 dollars.
The federal minumum wage in 1975 was 1.80 dollars. (90%)
in 1970 dollars that is
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/10/03/iraq.leaflets/index.html
The U.S. military has dropped leaflets over southern Iraq in a promised
psychological campaign to undercut support for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein,
U.S. officials told CNN on Thursday.
The propaganda is being dropped over southern Iraq,
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/04/1033538725909.html
Ayman al-Zawahiri, considered Osama bin Laden's top aide, has been killed in
Afghanistan, Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency reported yesterday, citing
informed sources.
In a report from Islamabad, the agency cited sources as saying that
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/smerconish/4201780.ht
m
I'M NOT A conspiracy guy. I think Oswald killed Kennedy, and that he acted
alone. And, like all Americans, I figured that the tragic bombing of the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was the work of two sick ex-Army
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1003asteriod-ON.html
In the 1998 science-fiction film Armageddon, a heroic Bruce Willis saved
Earth from a marauding asteroid by detonating a nuclear device at the last
possible second.
The explosion vaporized Willis' character and split the killer space
on 28/9/02 11:24 am, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple
PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines or (to use some
rc5-56 numbers) nearly a half million Pentium Pro 200s.
Nice to see some
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