Re: Wal-Mart and more L4

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Land
On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Dan M wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 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 Oh.

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-21 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: The arguments of the global warming deniers has so far run like this: 1) There's no such thing. 2) There is but humans have nothing to do with causing it. 3) We do cause it but getting a bit warmer is a good thing. 4) We do cause it and it's a bad thing but

Re: Fwd: CNN Breaking News

2008-02-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 2/21/2008 12:31 AM: So . . . if they shot it /down/ before it crashed to Earth, where is it going to fall now? (Yes, I know . . . just seems they could have phrased that better . . . ) The point of shooting the satellite was to disrupt the fuel

Re: Wal-Mart and more L4

2008-02-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dan M said the following on 2/21/2008 12:44 AM: Nationwide, Wal-Mart pays just under average for retail workers. Here near Houston, it pays a bit better than average. So, exploiting the worker by paying far less than the next guy for a worker does not seem to be the MO. Indeed, as the

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-21 Thread Charlie Bell
On 21/02/2008, at 8:26 PM, Russell Chapman wrote: It only takes 30 seconds on the 'net to find insurmountable evidence of AGW and insurmountable evidence of no long term warming and insurmountable evidence of warming due to non-human factors. If you were to believe the Google results,

Re: Wal-Mart and more L4

2008-02-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:06 AM Thursday 2/21/2008, Dave Land wrote: On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Dan M wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:48 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al)

Re: Fwd: CNN Breaking News

2008-02-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:23 AM Thursday 2/21/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote: Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 2/21/2008 12:31 AM: So . . . if they shot it /down/ before it crashed to Earth, where is it going to fall now? (Yes, I know . . . just seems they could have phrased that better . . . ) The

Re: CNN Breaking News

2008-02-21 Thread Charlie Bell
-- The U.S. Navy successfully shot down an inoperable spy satellite before it crashed to Earth, the Pentagon confirms. So . . . if they shot it /down/ before it crashed to Earth, where is it going to fall now? Can't believe so many have swallowed hook-line-sinker the it's to stop the

Global Warming [was: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?]

2008-02-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Charlie Bell wrote: It's all down to which data you pick to base the claim on, and which you ignore (and both sides of the AGW debate are doing both every day). There's only one side... well, one that's actually true. This is not really accurate, is it? Depending on how we _define_

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-21 Thread William T Goodall
On 21 Feb 2008, at 09:26, Russell Chapman wrote: William T Goodall wrote: The arguments of the global warming deniers has so far run like this: 1) There's no such thing. 2) There is but humans have nothing to do with causing it. 3) We do cause it but getting a bit warmer is a good thing.

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-21 Thread Russell Chapman
Charlie Bell wrote: On 21/02/2008, at 8:26 PM, Russell Chapman wrote: It's all down to which data you pick to base the claim on, and which you ignore (and both sides of the AGW debate are doing both every day). There's only one side... well, one that's actually true. But any time

Re: Wal-Mart and more L4

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Arnett
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Dan M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (As an aside, it was English Gentlemen who ate the Irish Children...a bit pedeanticbut rather important to the author's point.) (As a further aside, think of we as the human race rather than we, the Irish, who would be the

Re: A little too close to home...

2008-02-21 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Two videos, definitely NSFW http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1771556 http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1776175 Thanks for reminding me why I try to stay away from forums. By the way: FIRST! Sorry, I've always

RE: Wal-Mart and more L4

2008-02-21 Thread Dan M
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Arnett Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:19 AM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Wal-Mart and more L4 I'm interpreting everything your wrote about ethics as agreement

Re: No education in Florida

2008-02-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:10 AM Monday 2/18/2008, William T Goodall wrote: * 54 percent of men said humans evolved over millions of years compared with 35 percent of women. The difference being those women who have experience with men who they are very sure haven't evolved at all . . . Put The Seat Down When

Re: Wal-Mart and more

2008-02-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Dan M wrote: Okay ... so where's the middle class gone to, then? It's still there, but whether the middle class has noticeably improved its standing over the last 30 years is a argument based on subtle interpretations of the inflation index. The subtle nature