Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:16 PM Monday 10/15/2007, William T Goodall wrote: >On 16 Oct 2007, at 01:03, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > At 05:35 PM Monday 10/15/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > >> "The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, > >> glued and soldered in to the handset" > >> > >

Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 Oct 2007, at 01:03, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 05:35 PM Monday 10/15/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: > >> "The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, >> glued and soldered in to the handset" >> >> That is something you can't shrug off in the same way though. >> >>

Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:35 PM Monday 10/15/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: >"The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, >glued and soldered in to the handset" > >That is something you can't shrug off in the same way though. > >AndrewC So after a few hundred charging cycles when the battery

Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 15 Oct 2007 at 19:55, William T Goodall wrote: > Enviro-loony cult Greenpeace issued a report today on the vile > chemicals to be found in the Apple iPhone. Mmm-hum. (And I have no general use for Greenpeace) "The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, glued and s

Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread Julia Thompson
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, William T Goodall wrote: > Enviro-loony cult Greenpeace issued a report today on the vile > chemicals to be found in the Apple iPhone. > > http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/iphone-s-hazardous-chemicals > > Apple declined to comment on the cultists' latest attempt to leverag

RE: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Gary Nunn
>So I take it you don't think this was genocide? >Martin I didn't say that it wasn't genocide, I was questioning what good could possibly come from making this declaration 90 years after the fact - especially if it's going to piss off an allied nation that is clearly a different regime. As som

Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread William T Goodall
Enviro-loony cult Greenpeace issued a report today on the vile chemicals to be found in the Apple iPhone. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/news/iphone-s-hazardous-chemicals Apple declined to comment on the cultists' latest attempt to leverage Apple's brand for publicity. Faith Maru -- William

RE: Highlander: The Source - Quick, avert your eyes!

2007-10-15 Thread Horn, John
> Gary Nunn wrote > > I thought Highlander 2 was bad, but this one easily takes the > prize. It's almost worse than Tremor: The Series. > > This is an all new low for terrible SciFi channel programming. I'm not sure anything could be worse than "River World". Ack! I'm a HUGE fan of the seri

RE: "Maru"

2007-10-15 Thread Horn, John
> jon louis mann wrote: > > i asked the same question and was given this link: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru Someone should create a Brin-L/Maru page on Wikipedia. I wonder if that would last through the review process... Not that I'm volunteering or anything! - jmh Woo Foo

Re: What the heck is "Maru"?

2007-10-15 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On 10/13/07, Kevin O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- > Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL Speaking of TANSTAAFL, I just reread _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ again over the weekend. I think I enjoy it more each time I read it. -- Mauro Diotallevi "Hey, Harry, you haven't done anything useful for

RE: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Horn, John
> Gary Nunn wrote: > > It seems to me that Congress should have more important > issues to deal with than trying to appease lobbyist with a > hidden agenda over something that happened 90 years ago. I have the sinking feeling that the Democrats in control of Congress WANT to anger Turkey. If t

Re: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Julia Thompson
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: > We usually celebrate our turkey genocide in late November. > But we don't invite Congress. Was it the President or Congress who set the date for that turkey genocide? Julia too lazy to go to Wikipedia this morning ___

Re: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ray Ludenia wrote: > > > Of course, to be fair, there should be matching resolutions > > for EVERY country. They could go through the alphabet, and > > do one a week.. > > Quite right as I started saying above. Where does one draw the line? > I was reading one Wikipedia article about Genocides,

Re: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Ray Ludenia
On 15/10/2007, at 9:28 AM, David Hobby wrote: > Gary Nunn wrote: >> >> I'm REALLY struggling with this one. I don't understand what good >> could >> possibly come from passing a resolution labeling this WW1 issue as >> "genocide". I tend to agree with you on a practical basis, and I have actual

Re: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: > >> ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's top general warned that ties with >> the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in >> Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a >> resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of >> Armenians a genocide. > > Ye

Re: Turkey, Genocide & Congress.

2007-10-15 Thread Martin Lewis
On 10/14/07, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm REALLY struggling with this one. I don't understand what good could > possibly come from passing a resolution labeling this WW1 issue as > "genocide". So I take it you don't think this was genocide? Martin

Re: Highlander: The Source - Quick, avert your eyes!

2007-10-15 Thread Charlie Bell
On 15/10/2007, at 11:02 AM, Gary Nunn wrote: > > >> Highlander 2? >> There is no such thing. >> Julia > > > > au contraire.. > > >> From the IMDB: Did you post some text after "from the IMDB"? It mysteriously vanished. Charlie ___ http://www.