Re: Soldiers Die, CEOs Prosper

2006-09-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:32 AM Thursday 9/21/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:24 PM Monday 9/11/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote: Nonesense. Why do the puppetmasters pushing suicide bombers have less to lose than the soviet aparatchniks did? 'Cuz "a cave

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:07 PM Wednesday 9/20/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:49 AM Monday 9/11/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote: [...] do you let the programmers self-test in a vacuum If so, you probably go through a _lot_ of testers that way. And you have to

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Ritu wrote: Julia wrote: D. I Own more translations of the Bible than there are regulars on this list. Query: Can you list the translations you own? I'm just curious. A "no" answer will be accepted graciously. I was saving up qone uestion for you: How many translations would Fool need to

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:48 AM Tuesday 9/19/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Charlie Bell wrote: On 08/09/2006, at 7:16 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Probably you haven't asked the right person. I base my ethical decisions on my ability to empathize. If I know a given action would cau

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?)

2006-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: On 18 Sep 2006, at 12:43AM, Dave Land wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:24 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Sep 2006, at 9:12PM, Dave Land wrote: After watching the "Pyroclastic" video that WTG pointed to, Not me. Just to clear that up Maru Of course not. It was

Re: Week 2 NFL Picks

2006-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: John D. Giorgis wrote: NY Giants at Philadelphia - Pick: EAGLES How about them Giants?? I can't believe they turned that around, as they were being soundly whupped for the first 40 minutes of the game. Though I have to wonder if it's a sign of their resiliency or the Eagl

Re: Strange New Planet Baffles Astronomers

2006-09-23 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: The scientists will continue observing HAT-P-1 to see if such an explanation could hold in this case, but "until we can find an explanation for both of these swollen planets, they remain a great mystery," Sasselov said. I hear "swollen planet" and I'm thinking bruisin

Re: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?

2006-09-23 Thread Julia Thompson
John W Redelfs wrote: On 9/13/06, Gibson Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Dan, I guess I missed that message in the bustle of my life. As another after word, every single one of my Archt schoolmates contacted in no way buys the official story. Every one of them cited the pile-up of

Re: Soldiers Die, CEOs Prosper

2006-09-21 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:24 PM Monday 9/11/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote: Nonesense. Why do the puppetmasters pushing suicide bombers have less to lose than the soviet aparatchniks did? 'Cuz "a cave somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan" is harder to program into the nav system of a crui

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-20 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:49 AM Monday 9/11/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote: [...] do you let the programmers self-test in a vacuum If so, you probably go through a _lot_ of testers that way. And you have to wonder about the reports they gasp out in the last stages of hypoxia. Dammit,

Re: The coming Singularitarian

2006-09-20 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jonathan Gibson wrote: I read Cassini Division over the few quiet times I found at Burning Man last week (...) The first time I heard about this "Burning Man" was in a Malcolm-in-the-Middle episode. It sounds like Brazilian Carnival, but tamer :-P And at Carnival, I

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-19 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: From: John W Redelfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I confess that I do not know as much about atheism as an atheist does, or a least not as much that is correct. But neither do atheists know as much about religion as religious people do, at least not as much that is correct. Some thi

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 08/09/2006, at 7:16 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Probably you haven't asked the right person. I base my ethical decisions on my ability to empathize. If I know a given action would cause me misery, I know that it's an action I shouldn't perpetrate upon another. ...un

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-18 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: On 6 Sep 2006, at 8:33PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: But it requires too much thinking to conclude that - and atheists are no smarter than fundamentalist theists, and will be satisfied with short-range egoistical goals. Short-term egoistical goals for theists mean "do goo

Waaaaaaay behind...

2006-09-18 Thread Julia Thompson
I had surgery on September 7 and am now just starting to read listmail again. If you need anything from me, direct e-mail is the best way to reach me. (My hernia is fixed, and for the first time since the twins were born, my abdominal muscles do not have a gap between the left side and the r

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread Julia Thompson
William T Goodall wrote: And does God's God have a God too? And if so does he have a God? And does God's God's God's God have a God? GEB flashback Not necessarily what I needed today, but it's not entirely bad. Might even be calming, which I *could* use today. Julia __

Re: To the Back of the Bus!

2006-09-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:17 PM Tuesday 9/5/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Dave Land wrote: On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 26, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Dave Land wrote: Apparently, after screening and re-screening that couple of milliseconds of Janet Jackson&#

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Richard Baker wrote: Andrew said: Plenty which can be done. But someone who is dyslexic will allways make certain personally consistant spelling errors. That is not something which can be overcome, as stated. Does your mail client support the checking of spelling? Mail.app for OS X consisten

Re: To the Back of the Bus!

2006-09-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Dave Land wrote: On Sep 1, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Aug 26, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Dave Land wrote: Apparently, after screening and re-screening that couple of milliseconds of Janet Jackson's nipple at the 2004 Superbowl for hours on end, the geeks at the FCC have lost all sen

Re: Religious freedom

2006-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: Meanwhile, red unicorns to the back of the bus THAT'S ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION! Julia (I know I'm shouting, I like to shout) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Religious freedom

2006-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Ritu wrote: Charlie asked: Yep. But it is also a subset of 'society' and 'politics', and non-religious cults do exist. What's an example of a non-religious cult? Personality cults in politics, then there is the Ayn rand cult, a non-religious one if there ever was one. NATLFED has been put on

Re: Irregulars question: English

2006-08-28 Thread Julia Thompson
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote: I may be assigned to a course in London, and the programme includes the following: "(...) will pay for the cost of the training courses and materials. Your organization will have to cover the costs of the flights and boarding expenses for nominated

Re: BSG

2006-08-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Oh, cool! Dan told me about it but I hadn't seen it yet. (And for the record, I didn't have a crush on the old Starbuck.) Julia Ronn!Blankenship wrote: == TOPFIVE.COM'S LITTLE FIVERS -- SCIENCE FICTION

Re: Thoughts on Martian timekeeping

2006-08-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:57 PM Saturday 8/26/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: http://lihan161051.livejournal.com/28786.html He hasn't read any of the KSR Mars books. (If you comment, don't shred him - I'd like to be able to have lunch with him again! Thanks.) Juli

Re: History of Racism [was: To the Back of the Bus!]

2006-08-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:54 AM Saturday 8/26/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:08 PM Friday 8/25/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Alberto Monteiro wrote: I think racism entered Western Civ based on a misinterpretation of the Bible, labeling black people either with

Thoughts on Martian timekeeping

2006-08-26 Thread Julia Thompson
http://lihan161051.livejournal.com/28786.html He hasn't read any of the KSR Mars books. (If you comment, don't shred him - I'd like to be able to have lunch with him again! Thanks.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: History of Racism [was: To the Back of the Bus!]

2006-08-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:08 PM Friday 8/25/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Alberto Monteiro wrote: I think racism entered Western Civ based on a misinterpretation of the Bible, labeling black people either with the Mark of Caim or as descendants of (Noe's son - not Sem or Japhet - dunn

Re: History of Racism [was: To the Back of the Bus!]

2006-08-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: I think racism entered Western Civ based on a misinterpretation of the Bible, labeling black people either with the Mark of Caim or as descendants of (Noe's son - not Sem or Japhet - dunno his English name). Ham. Julia __

Re: Neighbors Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? One Man's Solution

2006-08-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: On 8/17/06, Gary Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my co-workers sent me this This is beautiful :-) One man's solution to the neighbors stealing his wireless bandwidth: Dave and I are laughing out loud... but on the other hand, just encrypt your wireless, ya

Re: Jobs, not trees! (Collapse, Chapter 2)

2006-08-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: [*] take mountain with a grain of salt. About 500 meters is the highest it gets. If I'm taking a 500-meter mountain, I'm going to want more than just one grain of salt with it. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: Jobs, not trees! (Collapse, Chapter 2)

2006-08-15 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: The wedding dress I could have danced in all day, but the shoes were not at all kind to my feet. I was amazed at how Charlene wore hers for over 10 hours without complaining. Her only complaint that whole day was her brothers - who are prone to

Re: Jobs, not trees! (Collapse, Chapter 2)

2006-08-15 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Jim Off like a prom dress tomorrow Maru I always found it something of a relief to remove the prom dress Bridesmaids dresses were somehow worse. (Maybe it was the shoes the brides forced me to wear with them, I got to wear very flat but very pretty sandals with the p

Re: Question for Charlie

2006-08-10 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Charlie Bell wrote: At the moment, I reckon we've got enough material for um... 4 minutes. If that. That will make your wedding guests happy, anyway! :-p Religious people have it easy. Follow the ceremony, pick a hymn or two, say "I do"... If by easy you mean sitting

Re: Question for Charlie

2006-08-10 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 10/08/2006, at 10:47 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: As long as you post your answer at some time too! I'm sitting here trying to write vows. Wedding in 3 weeks. :-o Good luck! (And I hope the wedding all goes well!) Cheers Julia. At the moment, I reckon we&#

Re: Question for Charlie

2006-08-10 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 10/08/2006, at 4:33 PM, Richard Baker wrote: Charlie said: I'm thinking about it. :-) It warrants a considered reply. I like asking questions like this :) As long as you post your answer at some time too! I'm sitting here trying to write vows. Wedding in 3 weeks.

Re: What be WMD, me hearties? Aaaaarrrrrrrrr!

2006-08-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 06/08/2006, at 7:13 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Modernized now. Pop culture topicalised now... It's always fun when pirates are in fashion. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Collapse

2006-08-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Two questions: 1) I've never been involved in one of these, so, what exactly do we do? 2) When do we start? Read. If we have a leader, the leader says "Well talk about chapter(s) X starting on day N." Read that part of the book, think about what struck you as interesting

Re: Prehistory

2006-08-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 01/08/2006, at 8:45 AM, Brother John wrote: As a child that raised white mice and rats as much as I did snakes, I can attest that white rats are much, much better pets than white mice. Mice bite and their urine stinks something awful. Neither is true of white rats. Ra

Re: Abortion

2006-07-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:47 PM Sunday 7/30/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:17 PM Sunday 7/30/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:53 PM Saturday 7/29/2006, William T Goodall wrote: 'Brother John' is a troll and probably someone

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Brother John wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: 1) Not all people are suitable for parenthood. It's not easy. I have respect for people who decide that they're not going to be as good at parenting as their children would deserve. 2) If you decide you want a child, you'd better

Re: (no subject)

2006-07-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Brother John wrote: Doug Pensinger wrote: Are you a fundy? Do you believe that the earth and heavens were created in six days approximately 6000 years ago? No, I think that the "six days" mentioned in the Bible are more properly thought of as six creative periods each of which is of indetermin

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-31 Thread Julia Thompson
David Hobby wrote: Agnostic, but Atheist if pushed. I take most insects out of the house without killing them. Why? Because it's easy to do, and might reduce suffering. My cousin the entomologist would catch flies in his hand and toss them out the window still alive. The only flying inse

Re: Abortion

2006-07-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:17 PM Sunday 7/30/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:53 PM Saturday 7/29/2006, William T Goodall wrote: 'Brother John' is a troll and probably someone who's been here before yanking some chains. No, he isn't. IAWT

Re: Abortion

2006-07-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:53 PM Saturday 7/29/2006, William T Goodall wrote: 'Brother John' is a troll and probably someone who's been here before yanking some chains. No, he isn't. IAWTC. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Brother John wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Gary Denton wrote: He reasoned that the Supreme Court could not make it fertilization as that would make most Americans guilty of murder as birth control pills work by preventing fertilized eggs from attaching to the uterine wall. It would not be the

Interesting blog

2006-07-27 Thread Julia Thompson
A surgeon started a blog recently. I found this entry particularly interesting: http://surgeonsblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/global-warming-inoperable-truth.html (If that entry name doesn't capture someone's attention here, I don't know what will. :D ) Julia __

Part 4 of The Seven Most Common Thinking Errors ...

2006-07-27 Thread Julia Thompson
http://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/07/seven-most-common-thinking-errors-of_18.html If anyone needs a tinyurl, holler. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:24 PM Wednesday 7/26/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But whether people plan their pregnancies around the tax season or their new-age hippie health classes is irrelevant to the question: Yoga is a new-age hippie health class? Since when

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-26 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But whether people plan their pregnancies around the tax season or their new-age hippie health classes is irrelevant to the question: Yoga is a new-age hippie health class? Since when? The only 2 yoga instructors I know personally are new-age hippy types. Well, new-a

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-26 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes - I'd want abortion to be replaced with transfer of the foetus to the artificial womb. In fact, if technology progressed so far, I suspect many people would avoid the risk of pregnancy and childbirth altogether. This seems to be an entirely male perspective. I wonde

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-26 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 26/07/2006, at 3:05 PM, PAT MATHEWS wrote: From: Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:15:19 +1000 On 26/07/2006, at 11:43 AM

Re: SciFi Channel sinks to all new low.

2006-07-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Gary Nunn wrote: It's with a heavy heart that I must report the SciFi Channel has sunk to a new all time low. I can only guess that SciFi Channel felt as if they had to do one worse than Tremors: The Series, and Scare Tactics. [Deep sigh here] As I type this, the SciFi Channel is showing

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Gary Denton wrote: He reasoned that the Supreme Court could not make it fertilization as that would make most Americans guilty of murder as birth control pills work by preventing fertilized eggs from attaching to the uterine wall. It would not be the attachment to the uterine wall as that would

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-25 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:03 PM Sunday 7/23/2006, maru dubshinki wrote: ~maru we can clearly through a simple diagonal argument along the lines of cantor that the number of angels is uncountable, and thus the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is the same number as the num

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-24 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/23/2006 7:17:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do the cells *really* have human DNA? The wikipedia mentions their extraordinary reproductive properties - don't these properties necessitate some sort of change in the DNA?

Re: WTC Redux

2006-07-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Reggie Bautista wrote: - Original Message - From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:50 PM Subject: Re: WTC Redux Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: On 7/19/06 11:47 AM, "Dave Land" <[EMA

Re: Good Lord, it's hot

2006-07-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Dave Land wrote: So there appear to be at least two ways to deal with the heat: crank up the AC and the fan, or crank up the blues. You non-tropicals are so weird. Enjoy the heat; that's what Homo sapiens was designed [:-)] to cope. Yeah, well, I've run into a few wei

Re: RFK Jr. interview

2006-07-23 Thread Julia Thompson
jdiebremse wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only the party in power has been this corrupt and this cynical. Where have you gone Dan Rostenkowski? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you! ;-) Doesn't scan right. Julia who lives within 15 miles of Joe DiMa

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

2006-07-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Andrew Crystall wrote: On 17 Jul 2006 at 20:30, Gary Nunn wrote: I'm not sure if this archive is cool or disturbing. Cool for historic purposes, but a bit disturbing if you once posted things you may not want potential employers to find. Then don't post it under a traceable name... And it

Re: WTC Redux

2006-07-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: On 7/19/06 11:47 AM, "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the strength of your reasoning (as well as recent views of myself in a mirror), I concede the point that I am nowhere /near/ as hot as Sigourney Weaver, who would be significantly hotter regardless of he

Re: WTC Redux

2006-07-18 Thread Julia Thompson
Dave Land wrote: On Jul 18, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Dan Minette wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Land Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:58 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: WTC Redux On Jul 15, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Charlie Bel

Re: WTC Redux

2006-07-18 Thread Julia Thompson
Dan Minette wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Land Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:58 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: WTC Redux On Jul 15, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 15/07/2006, at 10:44 PM, Dave Land

Part 3 is up!

2006-07-17 Thread Julia Thompson
http://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/07/seven-most-common-thinking-errors-of_10.html Part 3 of the Seven Most Common Thinking Errors of Highly Amusing Quacks and Pseudoscientists is up, containing errors #s 4 and 5. Julia ___ http://w

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-07-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Dan Minette wrote: Let's also assume that it rarely was used to get all boys or all girls, that most families who used it picked a girl if they had a boy and a boy if they had a girl. Why would this be such a significant problem that the government had to ban it? Certainl

Re: WTC Redux

2006-07-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: I hypothesize that the damage to the outer ring caused load shifting, with the inner core acting as a fulcrum. On the other parts of the affected floor compressive forces became [the opposite of compressive] forces or torsive forces beyond the rating of bolts and welds.

Re: WTC Redux

2006-07-16 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: Isn't Stockholm a form of PTSD? I don't see why both propositions could not be true. I am sure there are limitations to the applicability of such disorders, so it is a matter of degree coupled with propensity. Some poking around leads me to believe that no, they are n

Re: Sudoku beats Tabloids

2006-07-15 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia wrote I understand it's important. And I'm grateful that I'm not subjected to details of the French soccer player's live, unlike those of Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, J-Lo and Jennifer Anniston. Oh, and I am SICK of Tom & Katie. And my favorite grocery st

Re: Earth Shattering BREAKING NEWS!! (not!)

2006-07-13 Thread Julia Thompson
Dave Land wrote: On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:48 PM Wednesday 7/12/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Gary Nunn wrote: Ok, does anyone really care that one guy head butted another for insulting his lineage? Definitely don't think this warran

Re: Bulwer-Lytton 2006

2006-07-12 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ Thanks. Larry Person's entry that made the list wasn't as good as his contribution last year or the year before. IMO. So I'm not sure I'm going to compliment him if I see him at ArmadilloCon this time. :) Julia __

Re: Earth Shattering BREAKING NEWS!! (not!)

2006-07-12 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Gary Nunn wrote: Ok, does anyone really care that one guy head butted another for insulting his lineage? Definitely don't think this warrants a BREAKING NEWS! Alert from ABCnews.com. They must be bored today :-) Is it so hard to USAns to understand how important Footb

Re: Introductions

2006-07-11 Thread Julia Thompson
Gibson Jonathan wrote: I'm 43, self-employed software designer, married with one kindergarten aged boy. My wife is VP of Las Olas, an adventure travel company that caters exclusively to women who wish to learn surfing, art, fashion, golfing, "we make girls out of women" ... Check out http://

Re: Watch out . . .

2006-07-11 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I moved some accumulated newspapers this evening and noticed on one of them the headline: "Alberto Threatens Florida" *Our* Alberto would threaten more than just Florida! :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailma

Re: Introductions

2006-07-11 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:34 AM Tuesday 7/11/2006, Charlie Bell wrote: On 11/07/2006, at 5:48 AM, David Hobby wrote: I don't want to jinx you, but are you sure you're done? : ) We're done until the wedding. Prospective Marriage Visa has been granted. Then we have to go back, and it gets

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-10 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Jim Sharkey wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Can I be a minion? PLEASE? I think it all depends on how you look in black leather. :-p >I'm capable of looking pretty hot in black leather, actually. Why Mrs. Thompson, I am *SHOCKED* a

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-10 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Alberto Monteiro wrote I must inherit the Earth and be its EVIL OVERLORD!!! Can I be a minion? PLEASE? I think it all depends on how you look in black leather. :-p Jim Would settle for a position as lackey Maru I'm capable of lo

More of The Seven Most Common Thinking Errors of Highly Amusing Quacks and Pseudoscientists

2006-07-08 Thread Julia Thompson
Part 2: http://photoninthedarkness.blogspot.com/2006/07/seven-most-common-thinking-errors-of.html http://tinyurl.com/mupdv He only goes into one thing on this entry, sigh. I'll alert folks to the next one when he gets around to it. Unless someone subscribes to the feed and beats me to it. :)

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: So, let me rephrase my claim. Everybody that lives now descends from _every Eurasian person_ that lived in Year 800 and that has at least _one_ living descendant. We can trace my wife's ancestors back to Charlemagne, who died around the year 813. But

Re: Introductions (Was:Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent)

2006-07-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: And, as a final note... I have hosted the list for the last, ummm, five or six years?. Dave Land is the backup on-site sysadmin, so to speak, but Julia is the uber-list manager because it is nigh unto impossible to respond to list admin stuff faster than she does. Four, a

Re: Push for simpler spelling persists

2006-07-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Ticia wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_on_re_us/simpl_wurdz "Those in favor of simplified spelling say children would learn faster and illiteracy rates would drop. Opponents say a new system would make spelling even more confusing. Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th p

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: On 7/5/06, Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, let me rephrase my claim. Everybody that lives now descends from _every Eurasian person_ that lived in Year 800 and that has at least _one_ living descendant. We can trace my wife's ancestors back to Charlemagne, wh

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: At the generation where you'd expect me to have 128 ancestors, I have 122. (There was a first-cousin marriage at one point, and a second-cousin marriage at another. And on top of that, I know someone whose closest degr

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-06 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: ... and second, the maths of evolutionary genetics is against you - while direct chromosomal inheritance goes down exponentially by generation, family tree goes up exponentially by generation (to within population limits). Or do you really think you had 2,147,483.648 *indi

Re: Introductions

2006-07-05 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: semi regular - I lurk a lot and come out in bursts when things I know about (very few actually) or I care about are discussed. I am 60 years old (how did that happen). I have two children 22 and 16. My dad died last Friday of Alzheimer's Disease.He had a long decline b

Re: More on progressive collapse at WTC.

2006-07-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: - Original Message - From: "Charlie Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:48 AM Subject: Re: More on progressive collapse at WTC. On 04/07/2006, at 3:12 PM, Andrew Paul wrote: And then there is the question of the

Re: Introductions (Was:Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent)

2006-07-03 Thread Julia Thompson
D. C. Frandsen Jr wrote: Hi Julia: thanks for the welcome. but you folks north of the river are in a foreign land aren't you. I know when I was growing up in Northern Virginia I thought that it took a passport to go to Maryland. something like that for Pflugerville for us Bubaland folk. I symp

Re: Introductions (Was:Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent)

2006-07-03 Thread Julia Thompson
D. C. Frandsen Jr wrote: Thanks to all those who have said Hi! I have been a lurker for awhile but have decided it is time to jump into the online world with both feet. Though time may restrict how often I post. I am 58 yrs old. I have 5 kids( two of my own, two of my wife's and an unofficial

Re: Introductions (Was:Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent)

2006-07-02 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: What about the Irregulars? I don't know about the rest of you, but I make sure I have a couple of big salads with dark, leafy greens and a few whole grain breads a week so I don't have that problem. Jim Truly "regular" Maru Drinking a fair amount

Re: Very unlikely story: Hasselhoff injures arm while shaving

2006-07-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:32 PM Saturday 7/1/2006, Gary Nunn wrote: Ok, I have a good imagination, but this story just reeks of total bullsh*t [snip] The 53-year-old actor, who played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon on the TV beach drama for 11 years, was shaving at a gym in the Sanderson

Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent

2006-07-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Dan Minette wrote: But, that's mostly hindsight. Looking forward, I see only one Democrat on the national scene who "gets it": Barack Obama. He had some interesting statements on the way Democrats deal with people of faith yesterday. I can provide links if people want. This person wants, anyw

Re: Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples

2006-07-01 Thread Julia Thompson
d. -Original Message- From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 22:01:22 To:Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The History Channel occasionally runs its 9/11 special. IIRC their co

Re: Introductions (Was:Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent)

2006-07-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: On 6/30/2006 3:48:49 PM, Chris Frandsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Howdy Chris! Don't feel like the Lone Texas Ranger Dan and I live in opposite ends of Houston and Julia is in Austin. There are several former Texas posters here and may still be a few current membe

Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent

2006-07-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Chris Frandsen wrote: I agree with your analysis of the incumbent problem. I live in Texas and the travesty of gerrymandering hit very close to home after a mid census redistricting. I have heard from one source that incumbents now have a 98% return rate due to this type of redistricting. What e

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-07-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:52 AM Friday 6/30/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:20 PM Wednesday 6/28/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Klaus Stock wrote: What was that about cell-phone radiation not being able to penetrate the skull again? Gee. Smoking is harmful

Re: Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples

2006-06-30 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The History Channel occasionally runs its 9/11 special. IIRC their conclusion was that the heat caused the structural beams to sag, pulling away from the anchors and thus causing the floors to pancake on top of each other. At a sufficient weight the lower floors were no l

Re: Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples

2006-06-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: On 6/28/06, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The max fuel load of a top-of-the-line 737 is 37,712 Kg, or around 90,000 pounds. Figure 8 pounds of water in a gallon and you've got better than 10K gallons of fuel in a 737, give or take. Oops. Fuel weighs less tha

Re: SCOUTED: Bush is Not Incompetent

2006-06-30 Thread Julia Thompson
PAT MATHEWS wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \> On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Dave Land wrote: The assertion that the Bush administration is incompetent is ridiculous, anyway: the many accomplishments -- like 'em or not -- of the Bush administration are the proof, the article a

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:12 PM Wednesday 6/28/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: And what parts of the brain are used during conversation? Given many of the conversations I have witnessed and, yes, participated in, it would seem that the parts associated with cognition and higher brain

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-30 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:20 PM Wednesday 6/28/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: Klaus Stock wrote: What was that about cell-phone radiation not being able to penetrate the skull again? Gee. Smoking is harmful, alcolhol is harmful, cell phones are harmful... ...what will come next? Something

Re: Lurker Seeks A Voice

2006-06-29 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: On 6/27/2006 7:15:38 AM, Gibson Jonathan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, HI! Nice to meet you Jonathan! I sent this letter yesterday to the discussion group and it has yet to be posted. I, frankly, do not understand the criteria our minders use for what passes

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-28 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/26/2006 3:45:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which, IIRC, have been now shown to have an effect, albeit low level. But the effect is completely different than the effect needed to produce cancer. Remember the brai

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