Re: Happy Diwali

At 11:14 AM 10/25/03 +0530, ritu wrote: I wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali. :) Thank you! Now, what is a Diwali? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Hairballs (was RE: Cancer update)

At 10:51 PM 10/24/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Cat-Savvy But Kumpewter Cludge Maru :) > Strange question of the night contest entry: > Do you ever take your cats riding? > > William Taylor > - > Once had a 15 lb

Re: [Listref]'Ignorant Thugs' Have Mishandled Downloadable Music

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:48:30 -0500, Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=14&u=/nm/20031022/music_nm/music_rundgren_dc http://makeashorterlink.com/?C5DE23056 By Todd Rundgren Music is a sacrament. This has been true for thous

Re: Happy Diwali

ritu wrote: I wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali. :) A warm and Happy Diwali to you as well, and a prosperous new year! And for those on the list that havent a clue as to what Diawali is, Ritu explained it for us last year: http://www.mccmedia.com/pipermail/brin-l/Week-of-Mon-

Re: Irregulars question re: 'spyware'

--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I got a 'spyware detected' pop-up today, but as I > > reflexively close them immediately, I don't know > > who/what it was. A dogpile search for > > 'countermeasures' lists quite a few sites; this > one is

Re: Hairballs (was RE: Cancer update)

>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Cat-Savvy But Kumpewter Cludge Maru :) > Strange question of the night contest entry: > Do you ever take your cats riding? > > William Taylor > - > Once had a 15 lb dog > that wanted to sit in my > lap as I drove

Re: Irregulars question re: 'spyware'

> From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I got a 'spyware detected' pop-up today, but as I > reflexively close them immediately, I don't know > who/what it was. A dogpile search for > 'countermeasures' lists quite a few sites; this one is > free to download. Anybody have an opinion or advic

Happy Diwali

I wish you all a very happy and prosperous Diwali. :) Ritu GCU Happy Diwali ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Hairballs (was RE: Cancer update)

In a message dated 10/24/2003 10:20:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Cat-Savvy But Kumpewter Cludge Maru :) > Strange question of the night contest entry: Do you ever take your cats riding? William Taylor - Once had a 15 lb dog that wanted to

Hairballs (was RE: Cancer update)

--- Chad Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Debbi > > who wishes the Cooper kitty well also > > Cooper Kitty coughed up a monstrous hairball > yesterday and is now feeling fine... Yay! Huzzah! Way to go! This is Bill: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/comics/Bloom.County/bill.gif Both of

Irregulars question re: 'spyware'

It *would* help if I included the URL http://www.enigmasoftwaregroup.com/jump5.shtml [I wrote] I got a 'spyware detected' pop-up today, but as I reflexively close them immediately, I don't know who/what it was. A dogpile search for 'countermeasures' lists quite a few sites; this one is free

Irregulars question re: 'spyware'

I got a 'spyware detected' pop-up today, but as I reflexively close them immediately, I don't know who/what it was. A dogpile search for 'countermeasures' lists quite a few sites; this one is free to download. Anybody have an opinion or advice? Thanks. Debbi Computer-Impaired Maru

it's who you're in bed with that matters

<> Arnold Unplugged - It's hasta la vista to $9 billion if the Governator is selected Friday, October 3, 2003 E-Mail Article Printer Friendly Version It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that should raise an

Re: Retroactively morphing past memories through propaganda

> Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>You've eaten a chocolate bar and you didn't really > >>like it. Can a > >>commercial afterwards persuade you that you did? > >>'Memory morphing' could > >>be a powerful weapon for advertisers... > Some of ou

Brin. When I first gave these characters life....

When I first gave these characters life, I said, as I looked at the page, "It's not complicated Their actions as stated The dummy, the hero, the sage. Good reasons and words with a flair, (And I've plenty of that, and to spare), For an author's confessions As ersatz transgressions Are used almost

Re: Brave new Schools: Adopting RFID

At 10:44 PM 10/24/2003 -0400, you wrote: > But the Buffalo school is believed to be the first facility to use the > technology to identify and track children. > > In 1873, as the post-Civil War inflationary boom went bust, a > devastating panic > hit the United States, leaving unemployment and po

Re: [Listref]'Ignorant Thugs' Have Mishandled Downloadable Music

Robert Seeberger wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=14&u=/nm/20031022/music_nm/music_rundgren_dc http://makeashorterlink.com/?C5DE23056 By Todd Rundgren Music is a sacrament. This has been true for thousands of years of human history, save the last 100 or so. G

Re: Brave new Schools: Adopting RFID

Erroneous material removed -- > From: The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <> > > Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID > > > By Julia Scheeres > 02:00 AM Oct. 24, 2003 PT > > Gary Stillman, the director of a small K-8 charter school

Re: Brave new Schools: Adopting RFID

> But the Buffalo school is believed to be the first facility to use the > technology to identify and track children. > >   In 1873, as the post-Civil War inflationary boom went bust, a > devastating panic > hit the United States, leaving unemployment and poverty in its wake; the > country > sank

Brave new Schools: Adopting RFID

<> Three R's: Reading, Writing, RFID By Julia Scheeres 02:00 AM Oct. 24, 2003 PT Gary Stillman, the director of a small K-8 charter school in Buffalo, New York, is an RFID believer. While privacy advocates fret that the embedded mic

a Republican Goes to Hell

<> George Goes to Hell this came to us unattributed. If you know who wrote it, please let us know. While walking down the street one day, a Republican head of state is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

>Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [I wrote] > > > The only Satan-worshipper(s) I've met > were...weird. > > > Definitely in the "Epi-normal" category; I'd > gotten > > > 'yellow flag vibes' around them in dance class > > > _before_ they extolled the virtues of the > > > POD...fanatics just g

Re: A bit of trip down memory lane

> William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > >> "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> From: "William T Goodall" > G. D. Akin wrote: > I wonder how many of you read any of Andre > Norton's early SF works (in the > 50's, 60s). She's known m

RE: Vanity: Where is she now.....

Jan wrote... > Prince was a geneous, but all that crew were always jesus > freeks. You have heard of flirty fising right? I am not familiar with that reference. Do tell. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

A Confederacy Of Dunces****Film

http://movies.go.com/movies/C/confederacyofdunces_2003/ Summary: Ignatius J. Reilly is 30 years old and lives at home with his mother in New Orleans. When he's not working on a writing project, he's complaining about virtually everything and insulting everyone, to the point that he alienates all

Juicy bits from Diebold internal memos

http://www.why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html Excerpts from the Diebold Documents "Elections are not rocket science. Why is it so hard to get things right! I have never been at any other company that has been so miss [sic] managed." [source] "I have become increasingly concerned about t

[Listref]'Ignorant Thugs' Have Mishandled Downloadable Music

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&ncid=768&e=14&u=/nm/20031022/music_nm/music_rundgren_dc http://makeashorterlink.com/?C5DE23056 By Todd Rundgren Music is a sacrament. This has been true for thousands of years of human history, save the last 100 or so. I'm sure it was not Edi

Re: iTunes for Windo$e

Jan Coffey asked: Reggie, What are you using for recording? That depends. If I'm using my own equipment, I typically record to a DAT machine at 44.1kHz and then run the signal in digital into my hard drive and use ProTools, CSound, and various freeware and shareware tools to capture and manipulate

Re: Vanity: Where is she now.....

IIRC she was on VH1's "Where are they Now" show Damon. = Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." http://www.geocities.com/garrand.geo/index.html Now Building: ---

CIA-Leak Scapegoat Still At Large

As usual, The Onion has the scoop: http://www.theonion.com/3941/news1.html WASHINGTON, DC—A White House administration official who can be blamed for leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the press remains at large, White House officials announced Monday. Ashcroft says the scapeg

Death Tax?

http://www.legacy.com/nola/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=1445197 Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones, 81, passed away on August 25, 2003, under the loving care of the nursing aides of Heritage Manor of Mandeville, Louisiana. She was a native of Lebanon, KY. She was a re

Re: iTunes for Windo$e

Reggie, What are you using for recording? --- Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Coffey wrote: > >16 bits per sample? yuck! get with the program, we are talking 24 at the > >very > >least and 32 if you are recording to standard mdvd. never mind the format > >wars). > > Extra bits a

RE: iTunes for Windo$e

--- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Coffey > > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:00 AM > > To: Killer Bs Discussion > > Subject: Re: iTunes for Windo$e > > > > > > > > -

lost in the ether Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

At 02:15 PM 10/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about fifteen minutes ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours

Re: Vanity: Where is she now.....

At 11:54 PM 10/23/2003 -0400, you wrote: Anyone remember Vanity? The Prince protégée and sex goddess of the 80's? I ran across this website (see ling below) and thought that she looked familiar. I was amazed to discover that she is the artist formally known as Vanity. Quite a lifestyle change fro

Scouted: Sciavo Case

Since there was some discussion on this issue before, I thought I'd post the article from Slate: http://slate.msn.com/id/2090249/ Excerpt: One needn't take a position on the right-to-life/right-to-die controversy to be appalled by the events in Florida. Whether one believes that Terri

RE: Cancer update

> > Debbi > who wishes the Cooper kitty well also Cooper Kitty coughed up a monstrous hairball yesterday and is now feeling fine... Thanks, Nerd From Hell > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.co

Re: iTunes for Windo$e

Jan Coffey wrote: 16 bits per sample? yuck! get with the program, we are talking 24 at the very least and 32 if you are recording to standard mdvd. never mind the format wars). Extra bits are nice, but all they really give you is a bigger dynamic range. What I really like playing with (at 16 bit

RE: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

"We were all warned of MS problems many years ago; remember how the Magic 8 Ball always said: 'Outlook not so good'?" -- my officemate > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Crystall > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 07:34 PM > T

RE: iTunes for Windo$e

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan Coffey > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:00 AM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: iTunes for Windo$e > > > > --- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Friday, Octobe

RE: iTunes for Windo$e

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reggie Bautista > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 04:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: iTunes for Windo$e > > > ** I'm not sure how much (if any) overhead the iPod has per > file, but th

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 06:50 am, Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > > --- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> And it's those very same API's you just mentioned that will stop your > >> driver from capturing video as part of a secure

Re: iTunes for Windo$e

--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 06:43 am, Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > 16 bits per sample? yuck! get with the program, we are talking 24 at > > the very > > least and 32 if you are recording to standard mdvd. never mind the > > format > > wars)

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

Um, on second thoughts seach the link. --- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On 23 Oct 2003 at 21:55, The Fool wrote: > > > > > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > On 23 Oct 2003 at 15:59, The Fool wrote: > > >

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

On 23 Oct 2003 at 23:19, The Fool wrote: > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On 23 Oct 2003 at 21:55, The Fool wrote: > > > > > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > On 23 Oct 2003 at 15:59, The Fool wrote: > > > > > > > > > > From: Andrew Crystall <[EMA

Re: The Manchurian Fool?

The Fool wrote: > > > From: Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > First, there's this... > > > > >>'He' being the Great Satan of Redmond? :) > > > > > >I think that would be a compliment for Satan taught people to reason > for > > >themselves and not to trust or rely on so-called authority figure

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 06:50 am, Jan Coffey wrote: --- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it's those very same API's you just mentioned that will stop your driver from capturing video as part of a secure video pipeline (or whater they're calling it now). No direct hardware Access.

Re: iTunes for Windo$e

On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 06:43 am, Jan Coffey wrote: 16 bits per sample? yuck! get with the program, we are talking 24 at the very least and 32 if you are recording to standard mdvd. never mind the format wars). 16 bits is what CDs use, so a lossless copy of a CD is 16 bit. -- William T

Re: Twin pictures

Julia Thompson wrote: Steve, if you want to put up one or two on your site, we're cool with that. Anyone else, check with me before distribution or putting up on a website. Thanks. (Chances are I'll say yes, but we'd like to be *asked*.) Ooops, sorry, hope you didn't mind me sending them to L