Re: USA, love it or leave it!~)

2010-06-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jon Louis Mann wrote: i think in brazil, you can beat your wife. No, you can't. Maybe you could, back in 1825. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

USA, love it or leave it

2010-06-21 Thread Jon Louis Mann
that, too, but seriously, alberto, basic instinct is just a movie.  there are a lot countries where you really can get away with murder by seducing the cop.  in some countries a woman is arrested and beaten for showing bare ankle.  i think, in brazil, you can beat your wife.  in some

Re: USA, love it or leave it

2010-06-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jon Louis Mann wrote: i think in brazil, you can beat your wife. No, you can't. Maybe you could, back in 1825. Alberto Monteiro http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/205-june-2009/10195- in-brazil-a-culture-of-violence-sees-wife-beating-as-no-big- deal.html At least

Brin: Potter

2010-06-21 Thread KZK
David Brin Wrote: Go read some of ther terrific “fanfic” or fan-generated fiction out there. Here’s a great example: futurist/scholar Eliezer Yudkowsky’s ongoing series/novel that is both a tribute to - and deconstruction of - J.K. Rowling’s fantasy universe. HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF

Re: !Brin: Potter

2010-06-21 Thread David Hobby
KZK wrote: David Brin Wrote: Go read some of ther terrific “fanfic” or fan-generated fiction out there. Here’s a great example: futurist/scholar Eliezer Yudkowsky’s ongoing series/novel that is both a tribute to - and deconstruction of - J.K. Rowling’s fantasy universe. HARRY POTTER AND THE