Annan's Legacy

2004-12-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot9dec09,0,7903756.co lumn?coll=la-news-comment-opinions http://tinyurl.com/6u2h7 Imagine if U.S. troops were accused of sexually exploiting children in impoverished nations. Imagine if a U.S. Cabinet secretary were accused of groping a

RE: ADMIN: Mail hiccup

2004-12-22 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: ADMIN: Mail hiccup Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:23:56 -0800 Our mail server was misbehaving for a little while this afternoon. If you had a message to the

Great Christmas Gift Ideas!

2004-12-22 Thread Travis Edmunds
http://www.errorwear.com/errorwear.html (T-shirts that fuse geek culture with high fashion.) Do you love a T-shirt that displays a witticism clearly defining the wearer as both King of the Cubicle and/or Captain of Kitsch? Have you developed a fear of error messages, and would you love a

Re: Micropayment/online swap systems?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Micropayments will fail. Four years ago, Clay Shirky wrote about micropayments http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.html which could ... reward creators of text, graphics, music or video without the overhead of publishing middlemen or the necessity to charge

RE: Asimo running

2004-12-22 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: RE: Asimo running Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:59:39 -0800 For all, The tinyurl.com web site is now blocked at my work. Can we all also include the full URL as well (my my sake please?)

Re: Asimo running

2004-12-22 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Asimo running Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:13:37 -0700 On Dec 20, 2004, at 5:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For all, The tinyurl.com web site is now

Holiday Heist

2004-12-22 Thread Travis Edmunds
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11764320%255E663,00.html 23dec04 ONE of the biggest heists in history has left the National Australia Bank with a $50 million headache. In a Hollywood-style raid, the 20-strong Irish gang robbed the NAB-owned Northern Bank in Belfast as

Re: Micropayment/online swap systems?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked about micropayments: ... are there some relevant or parallel experiences that might serve as models for exploration? As I said in a previous message, micropayments will fail. Clay Shirky

Re: Scouted: Popists: 'Christianophobia' = Anti-Semitism; Demand UN Recognition

2004-12-22 Thread Travis Edmunds
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Scouted: Popists: 'Christianophobia' = Anti-Semitism;Demand UN Recognition Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:28:35 -0800 Whether one believes that Christians

Re: ADMIN: Mail hiccup

2004-12-22 Thread Nick Arnett
Travis Edmunds wrote: I had one bounce back on me last week. Sadly (sad as in - y'all missed a funny post from me!!!), I had the original message that I was replying to deleted by the time the mailman hit me back, so I was too pissed/lazy to do anything but nothing about it. That made sense

Re: Usenet

2004-12-22 Thread maru
I feel like following in the steps of others using this list for tech support... Lately, using Thunderbird 1.0, I've been having serious problems connecting to Optimum Online's USENET server after a while of doing just fine. It's not my bandwidth, I still receive all my other traffic fine,

Re: Usenet

2004-12-22 Thread Nick Arnett
maru wrote: I feel like following in the steps of others using this list for tech support... Lately, using Thunderbird 1.0, I've been having serious problems connecting to Optimum Online's USENET server after a while of doing just fine. It's not my bandwidth, I still receive all my other

Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Nick Arnett
Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Yay! Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Kanandarqu
WOOHOO! Good time to have the whole family together, Dee Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Yay! Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 12/22/2004 11:13:05 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WOOHOO! Good time to have the whole family together, Dee And big headaches will turn back into small headaches. The ones of everyday life. When Tommy grabs the phone, he's going to call

RE: Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Horn, John
Behalf Of Nick Arnett Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Fantastic! This is really great news. - jmh ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Ronn Blankenship
At 10:08 22-12-04 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Yay! Yay, too! At least I didn't say Me, too! Maru -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Homeless Martians with Squeegies?

2004-12-22 Thread Dave Land
[New Scientist Magazine] said something -- or someone -- had regularly cleaned layers of dust from the solar panels of the Mars Opportunity vehicle while it was closed down during the Martian night. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNewsstoryID=7161248 And, for everyone but

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-12-22 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of

Re: Homeless Martians with Squeegies?

2004-12-22 Thread Damon Agretto
Presumably the native, homeless martians get tired of waiting for a tip and eventually wander off...thus explaining why we have no pictures! :P Damon. = Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.

Re: Usenet

2004-12-22 Thread maru
Hah! I finally figured it out! What I was doing was trying to connect with SSL, which uses a different port from normal NNTP connections. So I set it back to insecure connection, and that finally did the trick! Thanks anyway. ~Maru Nick Arnett wrote: maru wrote: I feel like following in the

Re: Great Christmas Gift Ideas!

2004-12-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 22, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Travis Edmunds wrote: http://www.errorwear.com/errorwear.html (T-shirts that fuse geek culture with high fashion.) At last, empirical proof to support my assertions of platform superiority. # Mac errors: 2 # Windows errors: 6 (3 different BSoD's + 3) Told you so. ;P

Re: Asimo running

2004-12-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 22, 2004, at 8:43 AM, Travis Edmunds wrote: Don't like TinyURL myself, but that's because I'm just a pain in the ass. Ockr-ASS-a Once in high school I had a teacher mispronounce my name deliberately: OCK-ruh-suh. I looked at him strangely and he said I'm talking the CRASS out of

Re: Great Christmas Gift Ideas!

2004-12-22 Thread maru
Windows: 6 Mac: 2 Linux: 0 ~Maru :) Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 22, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Travis Edmunds wrote: http://www.errorwear.com/errorwear.html (T-shirts that fuse geek culture with high fashion.) At last, empirical proof to support my assertions of platform superiority. # Mac errors: 2 #

Burt Rutan Interview

2004-12-22 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20041220215558.shtml http://tinyurl.com/4pbur Question: Whats on the horizon in terms of future interests? Answer: Well, I think I will spend a large percentage if not all of my main efforts for the rest of my career on manned-space travel. I

Re: Burt Rutan Interview

2004-12-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 22, 2004, at 5:39 PM, William T Goodall wrote: http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/local/20041220215558.shtml http://tinyurl.com/4pbur Question: Whats on the horizon in terms of future interests? Answer: Well, I think I will spend a large percentage if not all of my main efforts

Re: Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 12/22/2004 1:37:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Yay! Yay, too! Yay three ___

Re: Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread maru
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/22/2004 1:37:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Yay! Yay, too! Yay three Yay.. quad? ___