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> Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:48 PM
> To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
> Subject: RE: Wal-Mart and more L4
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> Oh. For a second I thought I was going to read ab
Oh. For a second I thought I was going to read about the first
Supercenter on a space colony . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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> On Feb 17, 2008 8:50 PM, Dan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
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Dave Land said the following on 2/20/2008 9:36 PM:
> Folks,
>
> Two videos, definitely NSFW (and maybe NSFH, if you have kiddies in
> the room or a partner with extremely delicate sensibilities) showing
> what happens when online community behaviors find their way into the
> corporate boardroom.
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> Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:23 PM
> To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
> Subject: Re: Wal-Mart and more
>
> On Feb 18, 2008, at 6:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
Folks,
Two videos, definitely NSFW (and maybe NSFH, if you have kiddies in
the room or a partner with extremely delicate sensibilities) showing
what happens when online community behaviors find their way into the
corporate boardroom...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556
http://www.college
On Feb 20, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
> There's an email circulating on the net regarding $250 billion to
> rebuild
> New Orleans, which one of Louisiana's senators apparently is asking
> for (I
> didn't check that fact).
Cites might be helpful to see if (1) there is in fact such a
On 20 Feb 2008, at 23:07, Nick Arnett wrote:
> There's an email circulating on the net regarding $250 billion to
> rebuild
> New Orleans, which one of Louisiana's senators apparently is asking
> for (I
> didn't check that fact). The email suggests that this is an obvious
> waste
> of taxpa
Deborah Harrell wrote:
>
> Hmm, no parallels to global warming and certain
> researchers either... The possible link between crime
> and lead levels is intriguing; articles on lead's
> harmful effects particularly WRT children have been
> posted previously, so I won't add any.
>
>
I am curious ab
On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Dan M wrote:
> You posted to state that a significant fraction of my posts are rude
> because
> they are long.
And you wonder why few people seem to want to engage you in
intelligent, polite discourse?
Seriously, Dan -- arguing in good faith, avoiding strawmannin
> Pat Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The story you're loking for is Robert Heinlein's
> "Jerry Was a Man"
>
> "Never judge a book by its movie."
Ah, thanks - I read it so long ago that I'd forgotten
just about all but the premise.
Debbi
Breed To Come Maru =^.^=
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There's an email circulating on the net regarding $250 billion to rebuild
New Orleans, which one of Louisiana's senators apparently is asking for (I
didn't check that fact). The email suggests that this is an obvious waste
of taxpayer money, since it comes to about a half million dollar per
reside
The story you're loking for is Robert Heinlein's "Jerry Was a Man"
"Never judge a book by its movie."
http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:26:35 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: "Ape Genius" on NOVA last night
> To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
>
> > I wrote:
> I wrote:
> More on those spear-makers:
>
>
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-04/chimps-with-spears/roach-text.html
[from a reporter's visit with researcher Jill Pruetz]
Shades of a short story, title and author not
recalled, of granting legal status to a
cigarette-smoking chimp (wh
This was way cool -- and a bit scary, especially
watching a chimp make a primitive spear with which to
hunt bush babies.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_3_novabrapegenius_2008-02-20
One bonobo, Kanzi, understands *3000* English words
according to his researchers.
> Curtis Burisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...But tonight I was reading a very
> interesting article on the
> use of lead additives to petrol in the USA, and I
> thought there were some
> very interesting parallels with the whole DDT issue.
> Damn interesting site, too, with great articles.
>
At 12:14 PM Wednesday 2/20/2008, Dave Land wrote:
>On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
>
> > At 01:23 AM Wednesday 2/20/2008, Dave Land wrote:
> >> the moderators, historian Sean "Worst President In History?" Wilentz
> >
> > Never heard of him. What was he president of, to got th
> Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I could have been clearer. I will beg indulgence due
> to a brain that was
> in a fog last night due to too much travel and too
> little sleep while way too ill.
>
> Dave
> Travel advice: Don't get an upper-respiratory
> illness at 8,000 feet: it's no fu
> Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >jon louis mann wrote:
> > debbie, sorry for the top post; for some reason
> >this showed up in my bulk folder...
> Well, it WAS a bulky message.
Just because it's winter and I've put on a couple of
pounds is no reason to insult me, Nickelodean...
Lance A. Brown wrote:
>http://xkcd.com/386/
I got linked to that on a forum I'm active on. The number of people
I am 'Net-acquainted with to whom that cartoon applies staggers the
imagination, and I can include myself on that list every now and again
too. :-)
Jim
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Dan M wrote:
>However, since I try to be polite, I will refrain from that until I
>can devote a day or two per post honing my responses down to strict,
>yet unspecified, page limitations or I am told that I am allowed to
>write long posts.
Passive-aggressiveness aside, I personally wouldn't wa
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over nine
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 regulars over th
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'll let Nick decide what Nick deems appropriate. The construct "you and
> Nick" seems to presume that we think with one mind, which we definitely
> do not. I think that Nick finds me a pompous ass from time to time, and
>
Dan,
On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Dan M wrote:
>
>> Behalf Of Dave Land
>>
>> Perhaps we can give each other the same gift?
>
>
> You posted to state that a significant fraction of my posts are
> rude because they are long.
I don't recall having said any such thing. Someone else commented that
On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
> At 01:23 AM Wednesday 2/20/2008, Dave Land wrote:
>> the moderators, historian Sean "Worst President In History?" Wilentz
>
> Never heard of him. What was he president of, to got the title?
Sorry: To the extent that he is known, Wilentz is
http://xkcd.com/386/
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Dave Land
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:23 AM
> To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
> Subject: Re: Wal-Mart and more
> Despite the fact that there were some people in the room who coul
On Feb 19, 2008 11:23 PM, Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> As much as I want to brag about the fact that I got to attend such a
> prestigious event, my main point is that Dan's complaint about the poor
> quality of discourse on this list and Doug's frustration with Dan's
> extraordinaril
At 09:29 AM Tuesday 2/19/2008, Andrew Crystall wrote:
>Hi everyone;
>
>I'm currently looking at possibly moving to Amsterdam for a game
>design job, and I believe there are a few people who might be able to
>help - I am looking for some advice on areas and rents in Amsterdam
>and general cost of l
At 01:23 AM Wednesday 2/20/2008, Dave Land wrote:
>the moderators, historian Sean "Worst President In History?" Wilentz
Never heard of him. What was he president of, to got the title?
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Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> But McCain has been quoted as saying he wouldn't mind if we stayed there
> for another hundred years and talks about surrender as if there was someone
> to surrender to. We keep hearing Viet Nam analogies about what might
> happen if we leave precipitously (though other V
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