Ritu, I almost let this thread die, or go on without me, but I
decided that I would answer.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I am not forgetting any such thing. Nor have I heard anybody
ever
claim that these companies were Indian or that they exist for the
good
of
Jan said:
There is ownership and then their is ownership. The point is that
it has been our hard work, our society, our national decisions, and
our commitment that has fostered these companies and allowed them to
exist. As with every system there is trade offs. Our society has
both good
At 02:06 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/news/s_183239.html
State lawmaker accused of drunken driving
Friday, March 05, 2004
By Ed Blazina, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
State Rep. David Levdansky, D-Forward, is scheduled for a
Jan wrote:
Ritu, I almost let this thread die, or go on without me, but I
decided that I would answer.
Like you, I debated answering this mail, then I wondered where to start
and then the answer was just so very obvious. I don't know if I would
ever get around to answering some of the points
Did you know there's a Tenagra Observatory whose name is based on the
episode? http://www.tenagraobservatories.com/Who%20are%20we.htm
There's also a Darmok Dictionary at
http://www.chaparraltree.com/sflang/darmok.shtml.
Ritu said:
I live in India. I was born here and have lived here ever since.
I am curious - what made you assume otherwise?
You mean... they have the Internet in India? Next you'll be telling me
they have it in England! Or France!
Rich
___
Rich wrote:
Ritu said:
I live in India. I was born here and have lived here ever since.
I am curious - what made you assume otherwise?
You mean... they have the Internet in India? Next you'll be telling me
they have it in England! Or France!
*g*
Oh, that nothing!
I'll be *really*
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:29:24PM +0530, ritu wrote:
I'll be *really* heretical and repeat something Gord told me:
apparently South Korea has better internet connectivity and speed than
even the North American Continent...
Why is that heretical? I would think it would be obvious, considering
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:01:39AM -0800, Richard Baker wrote:
Are you sure that's why companies get tax breaks? I would've thought
it would be much more sensible to give companies tax breaks because it
will encourage economic growth and give Americans a better standard of
living.
Yes, of
Erik Reuter wrote:
I'll be *really* heretical and repeat something Gord told me:
apparently South Korea has better internet connectivity and
speed than
even the North American Continent...
Why is that heretical? I would think it would be obvious, considering
the population density.
--- ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
I'll be *really* heretical and repeat something
Gord told me:
apparently South Korea has better internet
connectivity and
speed than
even the North American Continent...
Why is that heretical? I would think it would be
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:55PM +0530, ritu wrote:
I found the information surprising though and although the population
density bit looks obvious now, it still hasn't worked out quite that
way here yet.
Yes, there are other factors as well. But for GDP/capita's in the
same ballpark,
Julia Thompson wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of Pinky and The Brain.
/me too. I guess that's because of the noise we have at home :-)
Alberto Monteiro
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Trent Shipley wrote:
On Wednesday 2004-03-10 21:53, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recall from last year another gene that they discovered that caused
mice brains to become highly folded (like a human brain) instead of being
'flat'.
Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 02:06 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/news/s_183239.html
State lawmaker accused of drunken driving
Friday, March 05, 2004
By Ed Blazina, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
State Rep. David
From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll admit that I never had that particular symptom of GERD. But
I
would wake up in the middle of the night and think that someone
was
trying to pick me up with an old-time ice block grabber-thingie.
I had tests to see if I could have that
Trent Shipley wrote:
The Rats of NiMH?
That's the one I was thinking about. It had fantasy elements --
the non-enhanced animals could talk, too. I'm wondering if anyone
has ever written a hard science fiction version of the same
premise, of enhanced rats escaping, then trying to form their
own
From: Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Do as I say, not as I do Democrats
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:55:21 -0800
Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 02:06 AM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan wrote:
Ritu, I almost let this thread die, or go on without me, but I
decided that I would answer.
Like you, I debated answering this mail, then I wondered where to
start
and then the answer was just so very obvious. I don't
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:44:10 -
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan wrote:
Ritu, I almost let this thread
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:33:07 -0500
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:29:24PM +0530, ritu wrote:
I'll be *really* heretical and repeat
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:05:51 -0500
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:10:55PM +0530, ritu wrote:
I found the information surprising though
Jan wrote:
My best friend is Indian and holds an Indian passport,
I'm curious about this friend of yours. A few questions: does he work in IT
as well? Is he getting paid much less than a typical American, and if so, is
he directly employed by a US company or he is being hired out from India as
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Some people on this list consider drunk driving to be a horrible crime that
isn't punished harshly enough. (I'm not one of them.) At least he wasn't
caught legally gambling, the republicans would really howl over that!
IMO, it isn't punished harshly enough when it leads to
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
I'll be *really* heretical and repeat something
Gord told me:
apparently South Korea has better internet
connectivity and
speed than
even the North
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I live in India. I was born here and have lived here ever since.
I am curious - what made you assume otherwise?
Quite honestly, you talke as if you are here, and have a right to
have an opinion about ~parts~ of
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but your numbers I believe are wrong. It is 1
in 6 jobs that
are going to India, that's not 1 in 6 tech jobs,
it's 1 in 6 jobs.
Jan, think about what you're saying here. There are
~100 million jobs in the United States. 1 in 6 would
mean more
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
; I live 45 minutes from
the office and 30 minutes from the stable; I have
always tried to plan things like grocery shopping
etc. to be 'on the way home.'
Ouch!
What type of books-on-tape do you listen to?
None; I crank up the CD
Gautam said:
Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a gadget -
a new computer program, let's say - that allows us to
replace computer programmers with this program. Would
you argue that the government should stop us from
using that program? If yes, why? If no, then, how is
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
most snipped
Rather than talk about the human morality of killing
humans, I am
curious how many on this list think that it is
morally good to emulate a `higher being'?
That depends on whether the 'higher being' _is_
morally goodMost of the
An interesting editorial from salon.com details the VRWC's latest attacks
on Kerry. I guess Republicans are now seeing him as a serious threat.
Editorial is here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/03/09/conspiracy/index.html.
Jon
So Republicans shouldn't consider the Democratic nominee
In a message dated 3/10/2004 8:53:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Heh. I had heard of this. My best guess is that
simply pumping up that gene leads to more neurons, and
that a species without OTHER adaptation will simply
suffer from severe internal skull squeeze.
It
-Original Message-
From: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 2:13 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Gas Prices
At 01:54 PM 3/7/2004 -0800 Damon Agretto wrote:
You also have to consider the cost-of-living factor. I
know, FREX, that
In a message dated 3/10/2004 10:27:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
No, you'd be honest about it if you admitted that you
already had one - it's called NPR - paid for with my
tax dollars. If you want to waste _your_ money on
such a thing, be my guest.
There is a
In a message dated 3/10/2004 11:58:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I think the time is ripe, actually.
I'll be checking it out...
They need to have entertaining personalities. Frankin will succeed and if they can
find a few more like him it will fly. Of course if
In a message dated 3/10/2004 11:04:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Why, is he defending cowards again?
OSL.
Get off it. He never defended the cowards. He pointed out in his iconclastic way
that calling the 911 terrorists cowards was inaccurate. He did not call them
In a message dated 3/10/2004 11:58:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I think the time is ripe, actually.
I'll be checking it out...
They need to have entertaining personalities. Frankin will succeed and if they can
find a few more like him it will fly. Of course if
In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:21:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
For a law maker to break any law should be enough for him to be removed
from office. Maybe he'll go for the democrat daily double
and lie under oath.
Uh - you are kidding right? Any law? Drunk driving
The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/001260.html
An anology that explains why Abstinence-Only
education is so very wrong.
The abstract isn't available in PubMed, but here is
the title of one comment on this approach:
Why we should just say no to exclusive
Richard Baker wrote:
Gautam said:
Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a gadget -
a new computer program, let's say - that allows us to
replace computer programmers with this program. Would
you argue that the government should stop us from
using that program? If yes, why?
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Do as I say, not as I do Democrats
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:08:56 -0500
An interesting editorial from salon.com details the VRWC's latest attacks
on Kerry.
Still, it's scary (reminds me of the parody of Joyce Kilmer's Trees:
I think that I shall never see/A billboard lovely as a tree/Indeed,
unless the billboards fall/I'll never see a tree at all).
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/11/russia.space.ap/index.html
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Orion,
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/10/2004 11:04:56 PM Eastern
Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why, is he defending cowards again?
OSL.
Get off it. He never defended the cowards. He
pointed out in his iconclastic way that calling the
911 terrorists cowards was
--- Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam said:
Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a
gadget -
a new computer program, let's say - that allows us
to
replace computer programmers with this program.
Would
you argue that the government should stop us from
using that
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/10/2004 10:27:42 PM Eastern
Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, you'd be honest about it if you admitted that
you
already had one - it's called NPR - paid for with
my
tax dollars. If you want to waste _your_ money on
such a
Is this the same in NJ? It translates to about an
extra 10 cents per gallon.
We are paying about 1.80-1.90 pg
Traditionally gas in NJ is cheaper than gas in PA. I
don't know what the prices are now though, since I
don't work in Jersey and have NO reason to go there
(except to go to the
- Original Message -
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/10/2004 10:27:42 PM Eastern
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What percentage of NPR funding do you think is from
tax money? And, is it
overall funding going right to the general budget,
or specific grants for
specific features?
Dan M.
I believe that it goes to the general fund, but it
doesn't really matter
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What percentage of NPR funding do you think is from
tax money? And, is it
overall funding going right to the general budget,
or specific grants for
specific features?
Dan M.
I believe that it goes to the general fund, but it
doesn't really matter
I believe that it goes to the general fund, but it
doesn't really matter to me. Nor does the percentage
matter (I believe it's around 40%, but say that with
no confidence). It's the principal of the thing. The
fact that _my tax dollars_ go to fund leftist
propaganda is an outrage. It's coerced
--- Tom Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And NPR is hardly leftist propaganda. Most of it
is completely
unobjectionable, and the rest is leftist only to
extreme
right-wingers. NPR is actually quite moderate, for
the most part.
Someone who thinks the average American is an idiot is
perhaps
- Original Message -
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What percentage of NPR funding do you
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:49:46 -0600
- Original Message -
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Coerced speech is a violation of
the most fundamental principles of the United States.
It is ironic and revelatory that people who think
preventing flag burning is an atrocity are fine with NPR.
So, are you saying that any entity that gets government money for any
reason whatsoever is
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, unless they deliberately lie it's 2%.
The only direct government funding NPR receives is
through competitive
grants from government agencies for specific
projects. Such grants are
awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
the
In fact during development there is
extensive neuronal die off (neurons compete for
various connections and when they don't get them
they are supposed to die).
For a description of this that PREDATES the science,
see an obscure novel called Earth
;-)
=
.
.
* Please note. My email
- Original Message -
From: ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:33 AM
Subject: RE: Race to the Bottom
Jan wrote:
Then move back to India, or act like a guest while you are here.
You
don't get to come here and have
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Coerced speech is a violation of
the most fundamental principles of the United
States.
It is ironic and revelatory that people who think
preventing flag burning is an atrocity are fine
with NPR.
So, are you saying that any entity that gets
- Original Message -
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, unless they deliberately lie it's
On 11 Mar 2004, at 9:29 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but your numbers I believe are wrong. It is 1
in 6 jobs that
are going to India, that's not 1 in 6 tech jobs,
it's 1 in 6 jobs.
Jan, think about what you're saying here. There are
~100 million jobs
In a message dated 3/11/2004 3:57:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Red Dwarf predicted this 20 years ago (almost)
And Arthur C. Clarke did it even 20 years before Red Dwarf.
Though he never mentioned the product by name..
William Taylor
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I don't understand is how you can make this a
consistent matter of
principal. If you apply this to for profit
corporations, then a number of
things that you have defended as free speech are
really coerced speech.
For example, is it OK for
And Arthur C. Clarke did it even 20 years before Red Dwarf.
Though he never mentioned the product by name..
Did he really? In which story?
--
Tom Beck
my LiveJournal:
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
By the way Jan, Ritu is probably one of the nicest, most
levelheaded people we have on this list.
Especially considering she's an import from that other list (along
with Lal, of course). grin
Seriously, that's one of the greatest thing about
- Original Message -
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I don't understand is how you can
On 11 Mar 2004, at 10:06 pm, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
most snipped
Rather than talk about the human morality of killing
humans, I am
curious how many on this list think that it is
morally good to emulate a `higher being'?
That depends on whether the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lalith Vipulananthan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jan wrote:
My best friend is Indian and holds an Indian passport,
I'm curious about this friend of yours. A few questions: does he
work in IT
as well? Is he getting paid much less than a typical American, and
if
I just checked the local public radio website and got the following number
Nearly 90% of Houston Public Radio's annual operating budget comes from
the local community
60% comes from individual listeners, a lot comes from local companies. I
don't think Houston has a budget for public radio. If
NPR's own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a liberal bias in
NPR's talk programming. The daily program Fresh Air with Terry Gross -- a
60-minute talk show about the arts, literature and also politics -- airs on
378 public-radio stations across the fruited plain. Gross recently
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but your numbers I believe are wrong. It is 1
in 6 jobs that
are going to India, that's not 1 in 6 tech jobs,
it's 1 in 6 jobs.
Jan, think about what you're saying here.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam said:
Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a
gadget -
a new computer program, let's say - that allows us
to
replace computer programmers with this program.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11 Mar 2004, at 9:29 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, but your numbers I believe are wrong. It is 1
in 6 jobs that
are going to India, that's not 1 in 6 tech jobs,
it's 1
At 07:47 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Coerced speech is a violation of
the most fundamental principles of the United
States.
It is ironic and revelatory that people who think
preventing flag burning is an atrocity are fine
with NPR.
So, are you
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
By the way Jan, Ritu is probably one of the nicest, most
levelheaded people we have on this list.
I never suggested otherwise. She is entitled to her opinions, but it
is a bit rude
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My taxes are being given to Halliburton to do things
the government want
done. I have as much choice in the matter as you do
with NPR. They turn
around and use part of that money to buy political
influence. Public radio
is given government money to
NPR's own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a liberal bias
in NPR's talk programming. The daily program Fresh Air with Terry
Gross -- a 60-minute talk show about the arts, literature and also
politics -- airs on 378 public-radio stations across the fruited
plain. Gross recently
--- Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
San Jose Paper. sais 1 in 6 jobs in the bay area are
now or will be
replaced by outsourcing.
Without even having seen the article I say, without
fear of contradiction, that it did not. _At most_ it
said that 1 in 6 jobs in San Jose were at risk from
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=147-03092004
Virginity Pledges Do Not Reduce Rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases;
More Evidence that Young People Need Comprehensive Sexuality Education
NEW YORK, March 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A report released today at the
National STD Prevention
At 08:46 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
I just checked the local public radio website and got the following number
Nearly 90% of Houston Public Radio's annual operating budget comes from
the local community
60% comes from individual listeners, a lot comes from local companies. I
don't think Houston
At 09:15 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
NPR's own official ombudsman, Jeffrey Dvorkin, admitted a liberal bias
in NPR's talk programming. The daily program Fresh Air with Terry
Gross -- a 60-minute talk show about the arts, literature and also
politics -- airs on 378 public-radio stations across the
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:07:44PM -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
But it's not a real parallel, because Halliburton wins those contracts
on a free market basis.
I think he has a point, Gautam. Everyone competes for government money.
The government could cut off all funding for public radio, or
In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:12:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And Arthur C. Clarke did it even 20 years before Red Dwarf.
Though he never mentioned the product by name..
Did he really? In which story?
Damn. I figured someone would ask.
I don't
Tom Beck wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Did you know there's a Tenagra Observatory whose name is based on
the episode? http://www.tenagraobservatories.com/Who%20are%20we.htm
There's also a Darmok Dictionary at
http://www.chaparraltree.com/sflang/darmok.shtml.
Both of these links were tres cool.
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
There was an editorial I read, it may have been on here, about science
reporting. How
Erik Reuter wrote:
ritu wrote:
I'll be *really* heretical and repeat something Gord told me:
apparently South Korea has better internet connectivity and speed
than even the North American Continent...
Why is that heretical? I would think it would be obvious,
considering the population density.
William T Goodall wrote:
Religion is about crazy people blowing stuff up.
Sorry, can't agree.
*Intolerance* and *fanaticism* often involve crazy people blowing stuff
up, not religion. To insist on equating religion with violence is a
form of intolerance in itself, and to have a statement like
--- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 06:07:44PM -0800, Gautam
Mukunda wrote:
But it's not a real parallel, because Halliburton
wins those contracts
on a free market basis.
I think he has a point, Gautam. Everyone competes
for government money.
The
- Original Message -
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Race to the Bottom
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A pretty classic example...
http://slingsnarrows.erudite-absurdity.com/archive/001447.html
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Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freedom is not free
http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com
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Julia Thompson wrote:
Richard Baker wrote:
Gautam said:
Let me suggest an analogy. Someone invents a gadget -
a new computer program, let's say - that allows us to
replace computer programmers with this program. Would
you argue that the government should stop us from
At 09:47 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
There was an editorial I read, it may have been on
At 09:47 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: LIBERAL TALKRADIO NETWORK TO LAUNCH MARCH 31
There was an editorial I read, it may have been on
On 12 Mar 2004, at 2:16 am, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Wages adjusted for the lower cost of living? Higher,
certainly. The _total welfare of the society will
increase_. Now, it's an entirely appropriate use of
government power to tax the winners in this sort of
free market friction to compensate
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040311/D818EM8G1.html
A series of bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession
Thursday, blowing apart four commuter trains and killing at least 192
people and wounding 1,200. Spain blamed Basque separatists but a
shadowy group claimed responsibility
In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:16:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
True as far as it goes, but I believe that he called
_American_ soldiers cowards instead. That was not
exactly okay.
a serious charge if true. can you document
In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:19:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a difference, in fact. NPR is much worse.
NPR is done with _my tax dollars_. That is, it
supported by money taken by threat of force. And NPR
pretends to be unbiased, when it is in fact
Gautam wrote:
If NPR's _only_ public funding was from federal grants
that it won competitively, that would be fine. But it
doesn't - it gets special allocations and special
privileges that aren't on the open market. It
competes not through bidding, but through the
political process - through
--- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It depends how it is distributed. I recall reading
something about how
the more socialist and redistributive taxation in
Europe had caused
growth to be slightly lower than in the US (as you
argue), but that the
poorest 25% in the US are
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/11/2004 6:16:55 PM Eastern
Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
True as far as it goes, but I believe that he
called
_American_ soldiers cowards instead. That was not
exactly okay.
a serious charge if true. can you
In a message dated 3/11/2004 7:39:45 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Note that it could be 50 cents, and I would still
think it's unconscionable, but I _believe_ that this
is a fudge on their part. Not a lie, per se, but I
think that some fairly substantial fractions of
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