On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:37:19 -0500, maru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nice post Erik. Now your previous ones make more sense (to me, anyway).
But one thing: In your proposed allocation, the 25% bonds would be US
Treasuries. That would still be vulnerable to the attack that it is
merely the gov.'t
From The Financial Times:
During the past few years the US has become dependent, not so much
on millions of investors around the globe but on a few individuals in
a few of the world's central banks.
In 2003, the most recent year with full international statistics,
central banks financed
Greetings,
My name is Jonathan Gibson. I've looked over the Holocene site and
soaked up what I could. I am an interface developer and sci-fi
enthusiast keen to have hands on HC Real Soon Now.
Count me in and let me know what you need/want next.
- JG -
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On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blow up or ignite Jupiter, creating a miniature sun, the moons become
new planets.
Ever since reading this idea in A.C.Clark's 2010, I have wondered if
this was possible. Could gas giants be ignited? If it were possible,
would the moons
Dave Land wrote:
Need I say more?
I think not.
Nick
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--- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As the following columns of badly-aligned, context-free numbers that
I collected from an obscure government web site clearly show, Jupiter
is clearly the cause of the impending collapse of Social Security, not
to mention serious perturbations in the
On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:13 AM, kerri miller wrote:
--- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As the following columns of badly-aligned, context-free numbers that
I collected from an obscure government web site clearly show, Jupiter
is clearly the cause of the impending collapse of Social Security, not
On Jan 24, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Erik Reuter wrote:
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I read the rest of the post. Understood most of it. Wish AARP would
jump off a cliff or do something similarly constructive
Martin Wolf, an economist who writes an excellent weekly column for
the
On Jan 24, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Dave Land wrote:
Need I say more?
Yes. What exactly is trickle-down Jovonomics anyway?
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1/24/05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damn Liberal Media with their Jupiter
loving ways!
Ask a serious question...
It's a good thing I neglected to point out that Jupiter is the home of
big government, really big government.
Yours,
MM
I am confused here- how does giving parents extra votes votes counteract
the old's power? Don't the old have most of the sons and daughters?
~Maru
Erik Reuter wrote:
Martin Wolf, an economist who writes an excellent weekly column for
the _Finanical Times_, has suggested that one way to
Kotlikoff and Burns Both Diss Bush Social Security Plans
The Democrats want to deal with it in the traditional manner of
politicians: denial. They intend to tinker their way through the
largest demographic change in American history. It simply won't work.
And now we know what the Republicans
The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked
for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow
- and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already.
The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task
force of senior
Well, I'm still getting it free.
Vilyehm
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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm still getting it free.
Newsgroups? You mean those endless Viagra ads?
-kerri, who stopped using Newsgroups 4 years ago, and hasn't been pained
much at the loss-
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On Jan 24, 2005, at 2:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a good thing I neglected to point out that Jupiter is the
home of
big government, really big government.
True, but ours is still more dense.
As to whether you could really get fusion going on Jupiter -- IIRC it's
actually radiating
Behalf Of David Brin
Below is the list of those I already see interested.
Anyone else?
If it's not too late, I am interested.
- jmh
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In a message dated 1/24/2005 3:23:51 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Newsgroups? You mean those endless Viagra ads?
-kerri, who stopped using Newsgroups 4 years ago, and hasn't been pained
much at the loss-
Rec.arts.sf.composition and rec.arts.sf.written
There
alt.fan.dune isn't too bad either.
and more miscellaneously, rec.food.drink.tea is a useful group for me.
~Maru
optimum online does offer the bin.* hierarchy... just very slow...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rec.arts.sf.composition and rec.arts.sf.written
There are a few useful groups mixed in with
On 22 Jan 2005, at 6:46 pm, Gary Nunn wrote:
WARNING - VERY minor spoilers of the first three episodes below
I liked the Galactica miniseries, but it felt emotionally
distant. I did not have that same feeling with Friday's
episodes. I am looking forward to seeing the rest of the
series, and
On Jan 24, 2005, at 5:04 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
I saw the second part of the two-part season finale tonight here in
the UK, and it was awesome. It seems to be doing well in the USA too,
so it is looking good for it be renewed.
Now I have a long wait to see what happens next...
Mm. Nearly
I'm very pleasantly surprised so far. I went in expecting crap-o-la, since for
every Farscape SciFi gives us five to ten Earthseas, but I caught the
miniseries a few weeks ago and have seen the three espisodes since, and I'm
hooked. It's on my short must watch list already.
Jim
Starbuck's a
http://www.googlism.com
Googlism.com will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends
or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out
some of the popular Googlisms below.
I did some for some names from the list and got some funny results.
Googlism for: nick arnett
Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
http://www.googlism.com
david brin is a transparent eyeball
david brin is a transparent eyeball the sci
david brin is mesa college?s commencement speaker
david brin is a top bloke himself
david brin is one of the few people thinking and writing about the
social problems
On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
Googlism for: warren ockrassa
warren ockrassa is a multimedia composer for thinking with computers
Actually that was me, ca. 1992 - 1998.
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This is just weird!
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine_martha.htm
For almost the entire course of the 20th century, unknown to the
public, doctors and medical researchers have been proving in both
laboratory and clinical testing that our own urine is an enormous
source of vital
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/bodily-functions/pissing/drinking-pee/
More practically,
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/bodily-functions/pissing/practical-uses/
And of course, who can forget the use of urine to produce, the
deadly-but-oh-so-beautiful phisphorus? (I'm thinking of
Folks,
This thread reminds me of the Texas quackazoid Stanislaw R. Burzynski,
M.D, who believed that antineoplastons could normalize cancer
cells. Antineoplastons, of course, were extracted from urine. He was
eventually indicted by a federal grand jury for mail fraud and
marketing an
Starbuck's a chick??? Maru
Yes, and much better for it, IMHO.
Damon.
Damon Agretto
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On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
Starbuck's a chick??? Maru
Yes, and much better for it, IMHO.
Me too. I like her a lot more than Dirk Benedict's portrayal. Actually
watching the miniseries made me forcibly face how sexist the original
series was. Even by late 70s standards I
On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:23 PM, Dave Land wrote:
Dave
Piss on 'em Maru
:D
There's a reason we* don't drink pee. I suspect it's akin to the reason
we don't indulge in coprophagia either.
*we being defined here as normal people.
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On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:35 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
This is just weird!
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/urine_martha.htm
On this page there's a link to a video of a chimpanzee (male) drinking
its own ... um, effluent. I'm not sure what the page's author is trying
to prove here. That
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