Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
Warren Ockrassa wrote: > On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: > >> In 3056 people are their own computers after Thinc/Geneontek >> developed the whole body logic protien matrix. That is why people >> in >> the future are so fat. The more body mass, the more computing >> power. > >

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 5, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Dan Minette wrote: I'm surprised we haven't heard the Aaron Neville singing "Louisiana 1927" as background music on CNN during the coverage. Oddly enough this only surfaced in my awareness today. (I've been rather busy the last couple of weeks.) == I would neve

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Damon Agretto
Pftt You actually think people use PCs in 3056? In 3056 people are their own computers after Thinc/Geneontek developed the whole body logic protien matrix. That is why people in the future are so fat. The more body mass, the more computing power.

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: In 3056 people are their own computers after Thinc/Geneontek developed the whole body logic protien matrix. That is why people in the future are so fat. The more body mass, the more computing power. Actually you've got it a little backward.

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
Maru Dubshinki wrote: > On 9/18/05, Ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Warren Ockrassa wrote: >> >>> On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Ritu wrote: >>> I can't reveal too many details [signed a non-disclosure agreement] but it was pretty and nice and sensible >>> >>> The first half

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 9/18/05, Ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > > On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Ritu wrote: > > > > > I can't reveal too many details [signed a non-disclosure agreement] > > > but it was pretty and nice and sensible > > > > The first half of that sentence suggests Mic

RE: Katrina: Republican Political Tool(AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Ritu
Warren Ockrassa wrote: > On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Ritu wrote: > > > I can't reveal too many details [signed a non-disclosure agreement] > > but it was pretty and nice and sensible > > The first half of that sentence suggests Microsoft owns the future > world. > > The second half suggests

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 17, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Ritu wrote: I can't reveal too many details [signed a non-disclosure agreement] but it was pretty and nice and sensible The first half of that sentence suggests Microsoft owns the future world. The second half suggests the opposite. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publish

RE: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (AreYouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Ritu
Doug Pensinger asked: > > Ritu, who just came back from 3056 > > And beyond the Bush flybys, how was it? Pretty. :) I can't reveal too many details [signed a non-disclosure agreement] but it was pretty and nice and sensible...And there were a few developments which Mr. Baker would definitely ap

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are YouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Doug Pensinger
Ritu wrote: Ritu, who just came back from 3056 And beyond the Bush flybys, how was it? -- Doug Who's currenty considering a trip to 4034. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are YouLonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Ritu
Robert Seeberger wrote: > I sat in on the Interdictor IRC chat recently (Brad DeLong was there) > and commented that Bush was going to keep flying over New Orleans > until he started to look good. > > I have yet to be disproved. Ah, that is why that ghost plane kept on flying over NO in 3056

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:19 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition) > On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:49:27 +, Alberto Monteiro > <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition) > Robert Seeberger wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: "A

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Robert Seeberger wrote: > >> Is there any real danger that Yellow Fever returns to New Orleans? > > There are plenty of other diseases that might take its place if the > mosquitoes are not effectively controlled. West Nile is all over this > part of the world and we have been dealing with various m

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition) Robert Seeberger wrote: In the 1840s, 4

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome TonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:49:27 +, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: In the 1840s, 40,000 Irish laborers died of yellow fever draining the swamps that are now a part of New Orleans because slaves were too valuable to waste. Irishmen were cheap and expendable

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:49 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You LonesomeTonightEdition) > Robert Seeberger wrote: >> >> In the 1840s, 40,000 Irish laborers

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome TonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Robert Seeberger wrote: > > In the 1840s, 40,000 Irish laborers died of yellow fever draining the > swamps that are now a part of New Orleans because slaves were too > valuable to waste. > Irishmen were cheap and expendable. > Is there any real danger that Yellow Fever returns to New Orleans? Albe

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome TonightEdition)

2005-09-17 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Warren Ockrassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome TonightEdition) > On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Dave Land wrote: > >> That is to say

Threshold

2005-09-17 Thread Nick Lidster
So did anyone watch the 2h premier last night on CBS? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: BraveNew genetic frontiers

2005-09-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:49 PM Saturday 9/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Dan makes a common spelling error below, and I can't help but be snarky this afternoon And your reason the rest of the time is . . . ? :P Oh, I can't help but be snarky at other times. But I figured I'd throw

Re: BraveNew genetic frontiers

2005-09-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:49 PM Saturday 9/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Dan makes a common spelling error below, and I can't help but be snarky this afternoon And your reason the rest of the time is . . . ? :P (if more people post more stuff with content on ANY of my mailing lists, I'll be more likely to STF

Re: "Lost" DVD set question

2005-09-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:24 AM Saturday 9/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: A friend of mine bought the "Lost" DVD set. It has a pocket for a booklet, but no booklet. If anyone here has bought it and can state something about the existence or non-existence of a booklet therein, we'd be keenly interested in that in

Re: BraveNew genetic frontiers

2005-09-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Dan makes a common spelling error below, and I can't help but be snarky this afternoon (if more people post more stuff with content on ANY of my mailing lists, I'll be more likely to STFU): Dan Minette wrote: I'm not quite sure where you break with established biochemestry, so let me ask a fe

Re: BraveNew genetic frontiers

2005-09-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Leonard Matusik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 10:26 AM Subject: RE: BraveNew genetic frontiers > For mechanisms, I favor some sort of Neo-Lamarckism. The notion more adequately explains things like >BlindCa

Re: Katrina: The Gathering

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 17, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: http://www.brokentoys.org/?p=6849 A couple of bloggers have fun spoofing Magic: The Gathering with Katrina-related cards. Very good stuff. VERY good. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Cur

Re: Brave New Genetic Frontiers

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:24 AM, Leonard Matusik wrote: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:13:35 -0700 Warren Ockrassa wrote: (I'm not being coy. We can't predict weather accurately past a few days; what you're asking about is a lot more complex over many more differences in timescales.) A most excellent poi

Re: Bush on TV tonight

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 16, 2005, at 4:36 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: A subsidy to entrepreneurship means the government finances a business that can't turn a market rate of profit. It's paying someone to lose money. Hey, I could do that. Mr. President, over here! Farmers have been doing that for decades. --

Re: Katrina: Republican Political Tool (Are You Lonesome Tonight Edition)

2005-09-17 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:36 PM, Dave Land wrote: That is to say, "Tonight, I will use the destruction of the Gulf Coast to cut taxes." It gets more interesting. Bush wants to temporarily suspend the laws requiring contractors to pay prevailing wages to workers, thus allowing them to be hired a

Katrina: The Gathering

2005-09-17 Thread Julia Thompson
http://www.brokentoys.org/?p=6849 A couple of bloggers have fun spoofing Magic: The Gathering with Katrina-related cards. I thought the categorizing of Louis Farrakhan as "Creature - Insane Politician" was right on the money. Interdictor has a card, as well. And they put the infamous news

"Lost" DVD set question

2005-09-17 Thread Julia Thompson
A friend of mine bought the "Lost" DVD set. It has a pocket for a booklet, but no booklet. If anyone here has bought it and can state something about the existence or non-existence of a booklet therein, we'd be keenly interested in that information. Julia