Re: Constantine's cross may have been mushroom cloud from meteorimpact

2003-06-26 Thread The Fool
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's the thing about empires. They squeeze out competitive forces and it's those competitive forces that keep innovation and progress alive. For example there was one point when china was all set to conquer Europe,

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all of them go off. Which can make decorating the tree with Star Trek starships that plug into the

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all of them go off. Which can make decorating the tree with Star Trek

Re: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Reggie Bautista
Doug wrote: Or a phenomenon that is beyond our understanding, but in fact has a logical explanation? I replied: Hypothetical situation: At some point in the future, God reveals him/her/itself in an unambiguous, empirically testable way. If that is going to eventually happen, then right now

Re: Constantine's cross may have been mushroom cloud from meteorimpact

2003-06-26 Thread Matt Grimaldi
--- Damon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or that it was a medieval German that invented the printing press. Jan Coffey wrote: The chinese invented the printing press. That german just copied it. Gutenberg is credited for inventing movable type. There had been other methods for pressing ink

Re: Catholicism Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-26 Thread Robert J. Chassell
http://www.carm.org/dictionary/dic_c-d.htm#Consubstatiation * transubstantiation: The theory accepted by Catholicism, that in the Lord's Supper, the elements are transformed into the actual body and blood of Jesus. However, there is no perceptible or measurable change in the

Re: constatine's 'cross' may have been mushroom cloud from meteorimpact

2003-06-26 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Did a meteor over central Italy in AD 312 change the course of Roman and Christian history? It was just before a decisive battle for control of Rome and the empire that Constantine saw a blazing light cross the sky and attributed his subsequent victory to divine help

Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
One of the truisms that has been accepted by me, and others, is that the US ecconomy has been growing faster than Europe's, and that this reflects the advantages of less governmental control of the ecconomy. I decided to try to find the numbers on this. I took longer term growth: '73-'00. I

RE: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Chad Cooper
Now, this is not a certainty; all curves are not regular and extremely well behaved. Thus, it would make sense to look at the local slope; which I proposed to do by comparing the ecconomic performance under Democratic and Republican administrations. I'd be more than willing to consider data

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Richard Baker
Dan said: One of the truisms that has been accepted by me, and others, is that the US ecconomy has been growing faster than Europe's, and that this reflects the advantages of less governmental control of the ecconomy. I decided to try to find the numbers on this. I've just started reading

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 07:03 AM 6/26/2003 -0500, you wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all of them go off. Which can make

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:37 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth Dan said: One of the truisms that has been accepted by me, and others, is that the US ecconomy

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:36 PM Subject: RE: Comparision of ecconomic growth Now, this is not a certainty; all curves are not regular and extremely well behaved. Thus, it

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread William T Goodall
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 09:30 pm, Dan Minette wrote: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/archives/000949.html we find recent quotes from the IMF showing that the US now leads Europe in productivity per hour as well as productivity per capita. Considering the fact that the US has a

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Jun 2003 at 13:07, Dan Minette wrote: **One might argue for including 45-47. However, if one doesn't include the great wartime improvement in GDP between 41 45, I don't think one should include the relatively small letdown right after the war. That's certainly a factor for Europe -

RE: RIAA to sue hundreds of Internet file sharers

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Jun 2003 at 13:06, Chad Cooper wrote: So lets do the math 10,000,000 thieving hippies downloading music 500 get sued. that means 1 in 20,000 will get sued. Real risk, my ass! I have a 1 in ~1800 chance of dying in an accident in the next year. I have much more to fear

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism Erik Reuter wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:34:43PM -0500, Julia Thompson

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: BTW...if your Christmas lights burn out *during* the Christmas season, it means that Jesus doesn't love you anymore. G xponent The Beginning Of A New Urban Legend Maru rob Yes, but does he love me any less? :) And which Jesus, anyway? I mean, I've never met

Re: this might be an interesting article

2003-06-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Doug Pensinger wrote: Happy Clappers? Dunno what you guys call them, but the ones who go to a church service (not necessarily in a traditional church) and praise the Lord in a most enthusiastic and joyful way, with lots of singing and clapping hands. Kind of the opposite of a Catholic Mass.

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth On 26 Jun 2003 at 13:07, Dan Minette wrote: **One might argue for including 45-47. However, if

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
I wouldn't be complacent as an American. Andy Dawn Falcon But that's our motto: Fat, dumb, and lazy! KevinT. - VRWC and proud of it ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:35:51PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Nah.its for convenience. It is just a basic series parallel circuit, so you would get 120V if you got Huh? series parallel circuit? I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Julia said hers were wired in parallel.

Re: this might be an interesting article

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:46:19AM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote: So what do you guys call Happy Clappers? Have you seen the Blues Brothers movie? Remember the church scene? Would you call those guys Happy Clappers? -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 05:35:51PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Nah.its for convenience. It is just a basic series parallel circuit, so you would get 120V if you got Huh? series parallel circuit? I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. Julia said

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/archives/000949.html we find recent quotes from the IMF showing that the US now leads Europe in productivity per hour as well as productivity per capita. Considering the fact that the US has a large

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Kevin Tarr wrote: I wouldn't be complacent as an American. Andy Dawn Falcon But that's our motto: Fat, dumb, and lazy! KevinT. - VRWC and proud of it Hey, I'm only going to admit 2 of the 3 right now, and the reason for the first explains the other. :) Julia spent

Re: this might be an interesting article

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Russell Chapman wrote: So what do you guys call Happy Clappers? You know, I knew a term for them about 20 years ago, and I'm drawing a complete blank now. But I knew what you were talking about. That's about as good a *descriptive* term as anything else. Julia

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's our motto: Fat, dumb, and lazy! KevinT. - VRWC and proud of it Yeah, but out real motto should be: We have healthy demographics, while Europe (with the exception of Britain) is about to go down the toilet because of the age of its

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth --- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: this might be an interesting article

2003-06-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Erik Reuter wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:46:19AM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote: Have you seen the Blues Brothers movie? Remember the church scene? Would you call those guys Happy Clappers? Hmmm - too long ago. Never been good with remembering movies (which means I get to enjoy reruns much

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
The best data on world markets is from _Triumph of the Optimists_. I'll post some more on that in another message. A more comprehensive (1000 years of data!!!), albeit lower quality, set of data is available in Angus Maddison's _The World Economy: A Millenial Perspective_. Brad DeLong keeps a

Re: this might be an interesting article

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:15:01AM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote: The priest in Coming to America comes to mind - always breaking into Gospel music, and having people shout out their affirmations... I'm sure there's lots of movies that feature this sort of thing - often Southern

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth Having just spent the last week or so furiously studying worldwide demographics, the situation for

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
Replying to both Erik and Julia in a single message. - Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism Erik Reuter wrote: On

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread William T Goodall
On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 11:57 pm, Dan Minette wrote: Well, complacency is never good, but the challenge to the US will not be from Europe in 30 years. How will an old society that is shrinking be able to challenge for supremacy? Europe is in the process of fading away. The only way I

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Your house is wired in parallel. Does removing one lightbulb in your house make them all go out? No, of course not. That tells me that there is something more complex going on with these lights. I guess you missed my post

Re: The Brights

2003-06-26 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Gabriel wrote: http://www.the-brights.net/ Thought it was appropriate to post this since we've been hitting so many spiritual/scientific worldview topics lately. They're trying to introduce a new meme: Or a new religion :) Does that make them Wild

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, complacency is never good, but the challenge to the US will not be from Europe in 30 years. How will an old society that is shrinking be able to challenge for supremacy? Europe is in the process of fading away. The only way I can see this

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:42 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Your house is

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:42:20PM -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Do the lamps plug in or screw in? If they plug in they likely have a built in shunt resistor to provide continuity. Plug in, as Julia described. And your

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 11:57 pm, Dan Minette wrote: Well, complacency is never good,

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism Incidentally, I've definitely seen packs of bulbs labeled parallel wiring at the

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Like setting your house on fire, eh Erik? Have you ever tried shorting out the smart DC transformers that come with things like notebook computers? They don't set on fire, they don't even get hot. There is a circuit inside that

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism The reason I ask is that Rob's hypothesis (that the string is wired in series

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:04:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Like setting

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:20:12PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Thinking further..the easy way to tell would be to look at each individual socket. If it is parallel, you will have 4 wires at each socket. hot in hot out neutral in neutral out or perhaps there is an inline tap point

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: But what manufacturer is going to go to such expense for an item such as christmas lights which have little use the rest of the year. (hence the occams razor comment) These things are available as a single chip solid-state DC

Re: Holiday Lights, was [Humor] RE: Question RegardingReligion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:19 PM 6/25/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: Wait, if one bulb goes out, they all go out, no? How'd they do that? Aren't those things linear circuits? You mean wired in series. The cheapest ones are, and all of the older ones I've

Re: this might be an interesting article

2003-06-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
Down South, we called them Holy Rollers.* :) Sects that seem to have more of this include Pentecostal and Charismatic congregations. *I think because of the dancing and swaying while praying and witnessing. _Not_ St. Vitus' Dance Maru;) We had HRs up north also. A church in one neighborhood

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: But what

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Which is what Christmas lights cost. I've obtained 100 light strings for about $3-$4 retail. So, whatever goes into Christmas lights really has to be cheap and cheerful. The parallel ones I've seen cost about double that. --

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:25:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: But what

Re: Names, was Another ultrasound

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:12 PM 6/25/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Steve Sloan II wrote: From personal experience, a father and son with the exact same first, middle, and last names isn't too fun either. ;-) The only time I've seen it be really advantageous was when the father (with the mother) moved out of the

Re: Holiday Lights, was [Humor] RE: Question RegardingReligion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:34 PM 6/25/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: All of the ones we've owned since we got married (and we got some in 1991) were wired in parallel. But if you pull a bulb *out*, all of them go off. Which can make decorating the tree with Star Trek starships that plug into the light string

Re: Holiday Lights, was [Humor] RE: Question RegardingReligion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:57 PM 6/26/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Sammy might be able to do it. I sure couldn't -- the bulbs are small, the sockets are small. Small children are not left unattended in the same room with the Christmas tree anyway, so the risk to Sammy isn't great. (Plus we have this baby

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism The reason I ask is that Rob's hypothesis (that the string is wired in series

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:16 PM 6/26/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Right, but the median real wage started going down around 1980. The increase in income for all but the top 20% of households was due to the additional hours work outstripping the drop in wagers. Wanna bet? -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land

Re: Steeds (was: Constantine's cross may have been mushroomcloud from meteor)

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:07 PM 6/26/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: Chargers In The Garage Maru So you have trouble with your battery running down, too, huh? -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Sure Erik, but Christmas lights are AC and why would anyone use That is absurd. Lights (i.e., incandescent light bulbs) are not AC. They are resistive filaments. They will work DC or AC. an expensive (relatively) powersupply to

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:13:52PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: http://home.howstuffworks.com/christmas-lights2.htm Look for the picture with the shunt wire in the lamp. Thanks for posting that link. Looks like you called it right. It is good to know how things work! But I'm still going to

Re: Constantine's cross may have been mushroom cloud from meteor impact

2003-06-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:34 PM 6/24/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: --- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Fool wrote: If they are right then if it were not for this chance occurance [meteor impact before emperor Constantine], europe might be mithraist or mulsim and not

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Jun 2003 at 17:57, Dan Minette wrote: But seriously, unless Turkey is admitted, the countries that it is expanding to have the same or worse demographic problems as Western Europe. Not really - and their less developed economic structures are markets which America will find it a lot

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Jun 2003 at 16:04, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But that's our motto: Fat, dumb, and lazy! KevinT. - VRWC and proud of it Yeah, but out real motto should be: We have healthy demographics, while Europe (with the exception of Britain) is about

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Sure Erik,

Custer and Little Big Horn

2003-06-26 Thread John Garcia
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a long time custer was considered by history to have been very brave and a good warior. As it turns out he wasn't. _ Jan

Re: Panther and 970

2003-06-26 Thread John Garcia
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Reggie Bautista wrote: William T Goodall wrote: So the rumours were true, and don't they look nice :) http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/fast_user_switching.html John Garcia replied: Mmm, Panther. yeah i switched, so what!? I have access to several

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth At 06:16 PM 6/26/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: Right, but the median real wage started going down

Re: constatine's 'cross' may have been mushroom cloud from meteor impact

2003-06-26 Thread Damon
What I heard is that Maxentius and Constantine were fighting, as the BBC article said. Maxentius had his clan and the support of the Mithraic elements in the army. These made for a powerful group. Constantine needed allies and put together a coalition that included Christians. During, or

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:49 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth On 26 Jun 2003 at 17:57, Dan Minette wrote: But seriously, unless Turkey is admitted, the

Re: Custer and Little Big Horn

2003-06-26 Thread Damon
I think what Jan was referring to in his post about Custer was not the man's personal bravery nor his skills (or lack thereof) of a tactician. I think what he was referring to was the concept of the Last Stand as a heroic battle to the last. The reality, of course, is that Custer vastly

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:37 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:13:52PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Erik Reuter wrote: By the way, that shunt is interesting. How do you suppose burning a coating off of a wire actually DECREASES the resistance? The only explanation I can come up with is that the coating insulates the wire and keeps it hot, and a hot wire has a higher resistance. I was assuming

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
Incidentally, on the next page of the link that you found, http://home.howstuffworks.com/christmas-lights3.htm The more sophisticated light sets now come with 16-function controllers that can run the lights in all sorts of interesting patterns. In these systems, you typically find a

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:18:35PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: During our back and forth challenges I hit upon something close to the mark. Yes, you did. :-) The main reason I was skeptical was that for the first few messages you seemed to completely ignore several things that had been

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism Incidentally, on the next page of the link that you found,

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:31:27PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: By the way, that shunt is interesting. How do you suppose burning a coating off of a wire actually DECREASES the resistance? The only explanation I can come up with is that the coating insulates the wire and

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:12:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Have you seen the rice lights? Exquisite! I don't think so, unless there is another name for them. What the heck is a rice light? -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Dan Minette wrote: Another example is the fact that half of the EU budget goes to subsidize inefficient farms. Really? How big is that budget? Where does the rest of it go? Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Names, was Another ultrasound

2003-06-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: OTOH, with different names, when someone calls and asks for the father's name when everyone who knows him knows he has moved, it's a dead giveaway it's a telemarketer, and you can either have some fun with them or tell them exactly what you think of telemarketers

Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth

2003-06-26 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:31 PM Subject: Re: Comparision of ecconomic growth Dan Minette wrote: Another example is the fact that half of the EU budget goes to subsidize

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:12:06PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: Have you

Aw drat! I found a B but Julia's post anyway.

2003-06-26 Thread Medievalbk
One hoon name contains a B' Auph-hu-Phwuhbhu, author of The Art of Exile Page 230 of the hardback Brightness Reef. Well, I still wanted to do the following, so let's make this er the exception by choice. --- Though the Hoon can easily pronounce any Anglic word with the letter B, they

Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism

2003-06-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Erik Reuter wrote: Another interesting question. I can't think of any quick way to check if your 240V bulbs are the same as our 120V ones. I assume yours look like the picture of the 2.5V mini-bulbs in the link? Even the packaging looks identical - they would all come out of the same factory

HIV antibodies

2003-06-26 Thread The Fool
http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/nationalnews/content_objectid= 13115397_method=full_siteid=50102_headline=---x91-Breakthrough--x92--in-bi d-for-Aids-vaccine-name_page.html ‘Breakthrough’ in bid for Aids vaccine Jun 27 2003 Scientists have made a vital breakthrough in the search

Re: Custer and Little Big Horn

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Damon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what Jan was referring to in his post about Custer was not the man's personal bravery nor his skills (or lack thereof) of a tactician. Well I was refering to both actualy. The last stand and the BS marketing that led up to it. Custer was not all his

Re: Aw drat! I found a B but Julia's post anyway.

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Coffey
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One hoon name contains a B' Auph-hu-Phwuhbhu, author of The Art of Exile Page 230 of the hardback Brightness Reef. Well, I still wanted to do the following, so let's make this er the exception by choice. --- Though the Hoon can easily pronounce