Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
Rob said: Prison should be either a punishment appropriate to a crime or a barrier that keeps violent types seperated from potential victims. Just out of interest, why is murdering a person or two so much worse than, say, firing 800 cruise missiles at a Middle Eastern country? For that matter,

Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
John said: Unfortunately, I guess that since this isn't science, you can pose your political posturing as a logical conclusion, right? Mathematics isn't science and yet has logical conclusions. Rich GCU Just One Example ___

Re: The EU is utterly godless. Let's keep it that way

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
John said: Ahem, you can't *keep* the EU godless, let alone religionless, until you change its flag. How is a circle of yellow stars on a blue background religious? Rich GCU Genuinely Puzzled ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Ticia
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] My daughter watches the pet Psychic and last week she had a Cockatoo that would not breed. The Pet Psychic's reading was that the Cockatoo wanted it's owner to know that it (the Cockatoo) was gay. The Pet Psychic had that look on her face of

Re: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
Ticia said: Actually, the 'homo' refers to 'same' (as in same sex), not to homo as in Homo Sapiens (man). There are lots of other homo- words in which the root means same too: homogeneous, homoeopathic, homonym, homomorphism, homologue Not sure where *that* 'homo' comes from... From the

RE: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:26:35 -0800 (PST) --- Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:28:06AM +, Richard Baker wrote: Just out of interest, why is murdering a person or two so much worse than, say, firing 800 cruise missiles at a Middle Eastern country? Sometimes it is, sometime it isn't. You have way oversimplified. If a man with a machine gun,

Re: The Day the Protest Music Died

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:21PM -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote: Listening to an oldies station a month or two ago, I heard a Beach Boys tune and (no doubt after reading list posts ;} ) thought of how Weird Al might do something with it... Bush Baby, Bush Baby, gimme Iran Gimme somethin'

Re: Another American trick

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:46:52AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote: What a start for yet another of those vicious campaigns we continue to face! This time the targets are children. The aim is to make children hate those who boycott American products. I am not here to discuss the logic behind

Re: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Ticia
Richard Baker wrote: Ticia said: Actually, the 'homo' refers to 'same' (as in same sex), not to homo as in Homo Sapiens (man). There are lots of other homo- words in which the root means same too: homogeneous, homoeopathic, homonym, homomorphism, homologue Not sure where *that* 'homo'

Re: The EU is utterly godless. Let's keep it that way

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:35 AM 2/22/2003 + Richard Baker wrote: John said: Ahem, you can't *keep* the EU godless, let alone religionless, until you change its flag. How is a circle of yellow stars on a blue background religious? A circle of 12 stars is the Catholic symbol for Mary, Queen of Heaven.

Re: The EU is utterly godless. Let's keep it that way

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] John said: Ahem, you can't *keep* the EU godless, let alone religionless, until you change its flag. How is a circle of yellow stars on a blue background religious? Yet another homage to the twelve signs of the zodiac.

Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts

2003-02-22 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts At 01:20 PM 1/26/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: So, Bush unvails a plan to focus tax cuts on dividends, thus

Re: Banning the French . . .

2003-02-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn Blankenship wrote: (...) but at least so far no one has suggested a ban on French kissing . . . What is French kissing? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Death Penalty [was: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance']

2003-02-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Deborah Harrell wrote: My personal opinion is that it is justifiable for the state to execute persons who have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt to have committed heinous crimes; the (past?) problem with the death penalty is that it has fallen disproportionately on the poor/non-white, with

Re: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ticia wrote: Actually, the 'homo' refers to 'same' (as in same sex), not to homo as in Homo Sapiens (man). Not sure where *that* 'homo' comes from... _Homo_ for same is Greek, _Homo_ for Human is Latin. Probably _homosexual_ is a barbarism, mixing Greek and Latin. Does anyone know how to

Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Deborah Harrell wrote: I love Asimov's Foundation series, but in the original trilogy Seldon is little more than a glyph; and I'd be hard-pressed to remember the name of the rest of the characters (aside from The Mule). Actually, I think that was Marvin; Marvin is from _The

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:31:27PM +, Richard Baker wrote: Your reply seems to suggest that the way to view these things is in terms of utilitarianism, but whose utility counts most: do we do things that benefit the US/UK/wherever, that benefit the developed world, that benefit humanity

Re: Banning the French . . .

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:45:14PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn Blankenship wrote: (...) but at least so far no one has suggested a ban on French kissing . . . What is French kissing? Lots of tongue contact. -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 3:28 AM Subject: Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance') Rob said: Prison should be either a punishment appropriate to a

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 6:31 AM Subject: Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance') Rich, who was suddenly struck with the idea that presidents or

RE: The Beatles Are Coming.. The Beatles Are Coming...

2003-02-22 Thread Horn, John
From: Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo Wow. I'd heard about some of these but not all of them. Thanks so much for the information! 'Ed Sullivan Show' Performances On DVD Tue Feb 18, 4:57 PM ET I saw a commercial for this on TV. Looks interesting. I wonder how much of it is actually Beatles and how

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
Erik said: Human lives should count equally, unless it is a 1 for 1 conflict, in which case (if it were up to me) I would make the decision based on favoritism rather than random selection. Do you think that presidents and prime ministers should also count lives equally? After all, the US

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
Rob said: Who's prison? What prison? Imagine Saddams prison that he designs for himself. I can't imagine Saddam agreeing to this in the first place. I was, instead, imagining a Western democracy coming up with a system like this. Or rather, I was imagining a state with such a system as an

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:55 AM Subject: Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance') Rob said: Who's prison? What prison? Imagine Saddams prison

Re: Aftermath of a war with Iraq

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 12:35 PM 2/15/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: As a result, I see two possibilities, based on whether the US is sucessful or unsucessful in managing the peace. I see a third possibility. Next week, after another report of Iraqi non-compliance from Hans Blix, France and Russia belatedly

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
I said: Suppose that there's an unpleasant totalitarian regime that is trying to prevent people from leaving. Roughly one in ten people who try to cross the border will be caught and shot. Despite this, many people still try to cross the border. Surely they wouldn't do that unless they

RE: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance'

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 11:12 AM 2/20/2003 -0800 Miller, Jeffrey wrote: I don't believe that there is a major WMD program in Iraq that is an immediate threat on the scale the White House claims it to be. Let's draw this up clearly. After 7 years of inspectiosn (1991-1998), the UN concluded that Iraq had

Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes)

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes) Date: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:15 PM Wrong! In Alabama, the value of pie is Pecan. George A P.S. Sorry, I couldn't help it. Top Posting == BAD.

Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Jon Gabriel
Yes, it's annoying, but top posting is sometimes easier. I searched for a setting in MS Outlook XP that would put a little carat next to all the reply lines. Couldn't find one. I tried putting 'em in manually a few times. It's rarely worth the effort. Speaking of which, if anyone knows where

Re: bush and Title IX

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 07:09 PM 2/19/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote: Title IX, the landmark law that has greatly expanded opportunities for girls and women to engage in sports, is in danger of being watered down. This is another classic liberal tactic - say that Title IX has done some good things, and then insinuate that

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's annoying, but top posting is sometimes easier. I searched for a setting in MS Outlook XP that would put a little carat next to all the reply lines. Couldn't find one. I tried putting 'em in manually a few times. It's rarely worth the effort.

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:53:21PM +, Richard Baker wrote: Do you think that presidents and prime ministers should also count lives equally? I'd be more likely to vote for one who did. I'd choose my mother every time, of course. I would probably choose the greater number of saved lives.

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:52:12PM +, Richard Baker wrote: Uh, this isn't quite right. The life outside has to be worth at least 1/9 (not 1/10) more than the life inside for it to be worth it, because P(shot) * value dead + P(not shot) * value outside has to exceed value inside, so

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:25:22PM -0600, The Fool wrote: From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's annoying, but top posting is sometimes easier. I searched for a setting in MS Outlook XP that would put a little carat next to all the reply lines. Couldn't find one. I tried

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 3:28 AM Subject: Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance') Rob said: Prison should be either a punishment appropriate to a

RE: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Fool Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:25 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes)) From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's annoying, but top

Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes)

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:20 PM 2/21/03 -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote: G. D. Akin wrote: Wrong! In Alabama, the value of pie is Pecan. I had a funny moment in the grocery store one day, when I walked by a table with someone handing out free samples of apple pie, and noticed that they were selling it for $3.14. Oh,

Re: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:31 PM 2/22/03 +0100, Ticia wrote: Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] My daughter watches the pet Psychic and last week she had a Cockatoo that would not breed. The Pet Psychic's reading was that the Cockatoo wanted it's owner to know that it (the Cockatoo) was gay. The

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:25:22PM -0600, The Fool wrote: From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's annoying, but top posting is sometimes easier. I searched for a setting in MS Outlook XP that would put a little carat next to all the

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:05:08PM -0600, The Fool wrote: Nothing I can do. Obviously wrong. I showed you how to do it! Here it is again: From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it's annoying, but top posting is sometimes easier. I searched for a setting in MS Outlook XP that

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:57 AM 2/22/03 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:31:27PM +, Richard Baker wrote: Would an action that killed a thousand Americans but which gave overwhelming improvements to a million Japanese people be justified? The details of the improvements are necessary: are

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
The Fool said: It's an intersesting problem. If everyone sets line wrapping at 72, then whenever someone quotes someone else, invariably the lines get pushed 1 or 2 spaces for the which then causes the quoted text to start wrapping again. Nothing I can do. You could get a mail client that

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:05:08PM -0600, The Fool wrote: Nothing I can do. Obviously wrong. I showed you how to do it! Here it is again: I could, but I am unwilling to do it by hand and even more unwilling to write a program to lex messages.

Re: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel....

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
Ticia said: Actually, the 'homo' refers to 'same' (as in same sex), not to homo as in Homo Sapiens (man). Rich replied: There are lots of other homo- words in which the root means same too: homogeneous, homoeopathic, homonym, homomorphism, homologue Ticia: Not sure where *that* 'homo' comes

Re: Chelsea is offered a $100,000 job

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
rob posted: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-584215,00.html CHELSEA CLINTON is the envy of this year's graduate trainees after being offered a $100,000 (£64,500)-a-year job with McKinsey, the New York management consultancy. I wonder what Guatam has to say about this. On

Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 10:02 AM 2/22/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: On what basis do you state that he agrees with most ecconomists? Greenspan came out against his tax cut. Now, if his tax cut were offset with other tax increases that target the same income level, then there might be a point to this. That's

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:17:05PM -0600, The Fool wrote: I could, but I am unwilling to do it by hand and even more unwilling to write a program to lex messages. No need to write one. They already exist. I use one, called par. http://www.nicemice.net/par/ -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL

Re: Head Injuries (was Re: Anger (was Re: JVB flames (was RE:POLICY...))) (Any LISP programmers in the audience?)

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
Ronn! wrote: __ ¹Twice later I _was_ kept out of school for about six weeks each time: a couple of years after the bicycle accident I had a bout of influenza which kept me out of school for six weeks, and then in high school someone whose sports skills must have been about as good as mine²

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
Erik said: Are these numbers made up? I know the basic situation has occurred multiple times, but the actual numbers? Have large numbers of people, aware of a 10% chance of death, actually tried to leave? Did they risk their children's lives as well? I'll have to think about the rest of your

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
George wrote: Bayta Darrel, Hober Mallow, Salvor Hardin, Preem Palver, Gaal Dornick leap to mind (even if I forget the speeling). Debbi replied: Oh, boy, not one of those names rings a bell! (Think I read that series over 2 decades ago.) You don't remember Salvor Hardin, the mayor who said

Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
JDG wrote: The logical conclusion of this is that Bush agrees with most ecnomists in that the double-taxation of dividends is a bad idea. The double-taxation of divendends may be a bad idea, but there are far worse ideas spread throughout the tax code, and fixing many of those would give big tax

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:17:05PM -0600, The Fool wrote: I could, but I am unwilling to do it by hand and even more unwilling to write a program to lex messages. No need to write one. They already exist. I use one, called par.

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Richard Baker
The Fool said: Is manual. I'd have to compile it, then for every single message I'd have to do something like cut all the text, paste that text into a text file, run this par program, open the outputed text file, cut the text, and paste into message again. Sorry, not gonna happen. Doesn't

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thoughtcrimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:53:16PM -0600, The Fool wrote: Is manual. I'd have to compile it, then for every single message I'd have to do something like cut all the text, paste that text into a text file, run this par program, open the outputed text file, cut the text, and paste into message

Elrond is a Balrog!

2003-02-22 Thread Julia Thompson
Stolen from another list (and the poster had stolen it from yet *another* list): MINAS TIRITH (Gondor News Network) - Thousands of peace activists took to the streets of Minas Tirith and other cities of Middle Earth today to protest what they termed a rush to war with Mordor. We need more time

Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 01:53 PM 2/22/2003 -0600 Reggie Bautista wrote: The double-taxation of divendends may be a bad idea, but there are far worse ideas spread throughout the tax code, and fixing many of those would give big tax relief to the bottom 95% of wage-earners in the US, unlike Bush's plan. Such as?

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Julia Thompson
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: You'll have to agree with me that when TNG was good, it was GREAT. But when it was poor, it was REALLY bad. I may sound like a purist, but I have always divided TNG into two eras: before Gene's death, and after Gene's death. I humbly think quality control in TNG,

Re: Head Injuries (was Re: Anger (was Re: JVB flames (wasRE:POLICY ...)))

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:27 PM 2/22/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote: Ronn! wrote: __ ¹Twice later I _was_ kept out of school for about six weeks each time: a couple of years after the bicycle accident I had a bout of influenza which kept me out of school for six weeks, and then in high school someone whose

Re: Irregulars Question (New), was Re: Book Suggestions: TheBest ofCurrent SciFi?

2003-02-22 Thread Julia Thompson
G. D. Akin wrote: It wouldn't be a big deal to me either except that I found I really enjoyed the first three. I wouldn't have read them in the first place if A Storm of Swords hadn't been nominated for a Hugo a couple of years back. I've been a supporting member of the Worldcons for the

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:53:21PM +, Richard Baker wrote: Suppose that there's an unpleasant totalitarian regime that is trying to prevent people from leaving. Roughly one in ten people who try to cross the border will be caught and shot. Despite this, many

Re: Elrond is a Balrog!

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:22 PM 2/22/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: Stolen from another list (and the poster had stolen it from yet *another* list): MINAS TIRITH (Gondor News Network) - Thousands of peace activists took to the streets of Minas Tirith and other cities of Middle Earth today to protest what they termed

Re: Top Posting: (Was: RE: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes))

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:56 PM 2/22/03 +, Richard Baker wrote: The Fool said: Is manual. I'd have to compile it, then for every single message I'd have to do something like cut all the text, paste that text into a text file, run this par program, open the outputed text file, cut the text, and paste into

Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance'

2003-02-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 03:57 PM 2/21/2003 -0800 Deborah Harrell wrote: What is your position on the death penalty - i.e., is it morally justifiable or not? Well, officially, I think that I would still vote to abolish the death penalty. However, you will not see me crying too hard over the likes of Timothy McVeigh

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
JJ wrote: You'll have to agree with me that when TNG was good, it was GREAT. But when it was poor, it was REALLY bad. I may sound like a purist, but I have always divided TNG into two eras: before Gene's death, and after Gene's death. I humbly think quality control in TNG, and the Trek

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
JJ wrote: When I was a 4 year old kid, I used to watch TOS in reruns with MY GRANDMOTHER!!! She was in LOVE with Spock. She found those pointed ears.. fascinating. ;-) My... [does quick relationship math]... step-grandmother-in-law is a huge fan of G'Kar on Babylon 5. Actually, she's a big

Re: Wealth trends and Bush's tax cuts

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
I wrote: The double-taxation of divendends may be a bad idea, but there are far worse ideas spread throughout the tax code, and fixing many of those would give big tax relief to the bottom 95% of wage-earners in the US, unlike Bush's plan. JDG replied: Such as? Last year my mother-in-law, who

Re: Head Injuries (was Re: Anger (was Re: JVB flames (was RE:POLICY...)))

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
I wrote: I think this is the first time I've ever seen a footnote to a footnote to a footnote... Ronn! replied: I _could_ have used nested parenthetical clauses instead . . . DOH! Sorry, I accidentally left off the smiley :-) I think nested parentheticals would have been more obfuscatory than

Re: Top 5 Cosmic Myths

2003-02-22 Thread Reggie Bautista
rob posted: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top5_myths_020903-1.html How does the fourth myth: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top5_myths_020903-4.html relate to the Columbia disaster? Reggie Bautista _ MSN 8 helps

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] But it took them a little while to get it right. I don't think the first season was as good as seasons 2-4, frex. True! Season 1 was especially notorious for being a major revolving door of staff members. They were dropping like flies. I personally think

Re: Head Injuries (was Re: Anger (was Re: JVB flames (wasRE:POLICY ...)))

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:34 PM 2/22/03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote: I wrote: I think this is the first time I've ever seen a footnote to a footnote to a footnote... Ronn! replied: I _could_ have used nested parenthetical clauses instead . . . DOH! Sorry, I accidentally left off the smiley :-) I think nested

Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: I love Asimov's Foundation series, but in the original trilogy Seldon is little more than a glyph; and I'd be hard-pressed to remember the name of the rest of the characters (aside from The Mule). Actually, I

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George wrote: Bayta Darrel, Hober Mallow, Salvor Hardin, Preem Palver, Gaal Dornick leap to mind (even if I forget the speeling). Debbi replied: Oh, boy, not one of those names rings a bell! (Think I read that series over 2 decades ago.)

Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes)

2003-02-22 Thread G. D. Akin
I have no idea what you are taking about. George A - Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 2:56 AM Subject: Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes) From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance') And we know what happens when you ass-u-me . . . There is a U

Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread G. D. Akin
To me, there is nothing that captures the beauty of the universe and the imagination and dreams of spaceflight than Thus Spake Zarathustra at the beginning of 2001 and the Blue Danube as the Pan Am ship approaches the space station. George A

Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance')

2003-02-22 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Death Penalty (Was: Re: EU Warns Iraq It Faces 'Last Chance') And we know what happens when

Re: Chelsea is offered a $100,000 job

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Chelsea is offered a $100,000 job rob posted: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-584215,00.html CHELSEA CLINTON is the envy

Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread William T Goodall
Or of course 'Once More With Feeling' from BtVS series 6... Not a movie, but longer than a normal ep. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's why so

Re: Chelsea is offered a $100,000 job

2003-02-22 Thread William T Goodall
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 12:42 am, Robert Seeberger wrote: I sat on that story for 3 days wondering if I might unintentionally offend or anger Gautam. As I thought about it I realized that Gautam is a pretty big-hearted fellow and would probably understand why I thought it newsworthy

ADMIN: Server config problem

2003-02-22 Thread Nick Arnett
Something odd in Mailman's configuration was going on this afternoon. It's fixed (or you wouldn't be seeing this). Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

SCOUTED: Buh-Bye BUFFY

2003-02-22 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=14538 Buh-Bye BUFFY (updated) If one needed any confirmation that Buffy the Vampire Slayer would indeed cease production for good in a month or two, that confirmation can be found in this morning's Hollywood Reporter.. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who

Re: Anger (was Re: JVB flames (was RE: POLICY ...))

2003-02-22 Thread Doug Pensinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/18/2003 9:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the clarification - I should have defined significant concussion/CHI more accurately. However, even minor head trauma/concussions, if repeated over time, can cause subtle

Re: Pi in the Sky (Was: Re: EU thought crimes)

2003-02-22 Thread The Fool
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have no idea what you are taking about. http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm The following question was asked on a newsgroup: Please excuse my ignorance but I visit occasionally and read the mail and have contributed a little, but have now

Fw: Top 5 Cosmic Myths

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 8:19 PM Subject: Re: Top 5 Cosmic Myths - Original Message - From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Secret Saudi Plan To Occupy Iraq

2003-02-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/ITeamInsider.html The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has recently transmitted a secret proposal to the Bush administration, using one of his own sons, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah as an emissary, rather than officials from the Saudi Embassy in

RE: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack? From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] But it took them a little while to

Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

2003-02-22 Thread Halupovich Ilana
George asked Not trying to be a smart**s here, but how do Twin Peaks and The Last of the Mohicans fit in the category of SciFi/Fantasy? The most fitting description of SciFi/Fantasy that I ever read was when you can not identify time place. Twin Peaks fit, The Last of the Mohicans I think not.

Star Trek (Was: RE: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy MovieSoundtrack?)

2003-02-22 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 3:38 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack? Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote: You'll have to agree with me that when TNG was