Re: Official Statement

2002-12-08 Thread K. Feete
Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote: I also urge the list to discuss the matter of list policy, so that we can reach a list-wide agreement on what behaviour will and will not be tolerated, and what steps should be taken if and when something happens that this list deems unacceptable. IMHO, only a clear

Re: Admin: Server Access Blocked

2002-12-05 Thread K. Feete
Alberto Monteiro wrote: I begin to understand why Jeroen was singled-out to be the victim-of-the-day. Some reasons are obvious: he *was* a listowner, so our meme of challenge authority took control. Others are subtle. And his behaviour in the past days, with mailbombing, lawsuits, and

Re:[LINK] AAAIIIIEEEE!!!!! The horror! The horror!

2002-11-26 Thread K. Feete
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: http://homepage.mac.com/msparby/iMovieTheater5.html Thank you, Adam, for posting the most truly Evil thing I have ever seen on this list. twitch twitch Kat Feete It's not you, it's me. I don't like you. -- Aeryn Sun on relationships

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-25 Thread K. Feete
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 09:34:11PM -0500, K. Feete wrote: I'm actually preparing to write a scifi story where the government has outlawed religious expression (along with any racial references whatsoever). The point being that a) it doesn't work and b) they live

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-25 Thread K. Feete
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets look at a couple of things religion brought us in the past before we examine this question. We have: the dark ages, the crusades, the Spanish inquisition, the divine right of kings, jihad, forced religious conversions, thought crimes AKA heresy, caste systems,

Re: religion is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-25 Thread K. Feete
The Fool wrote: No. Which exactly my point. If I can't prove my own existence I also can't prove god's existence. Math exists whether god, the universe, consciousness, I, etc. exist. Math is the only thing that is transcendent. And those math proofs do exist. Yes, but, as Searle and

White House Wages Stealth War on Condoms

2002-11-22 Thread K. Feete
Amusing title and a pretty good information piece. I've been hearing a startling amount about various aspects of this issue from various sources for the past month or so... opinions? http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc143002251nov14,0,7803300.column ?coll=ny%2Dviewpoints%2Dheadlines

Re: Gautam's energy levels

2002-11-22 Thread K. Feete
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Without commenting on my own salary, I would point out that between the various taxes and government-mandated deductions in my salary, I end up paying 42% to the government. That's _before_ I deduct for my 401K and things like that. I'm trying to remember what 401K is.

Re: Gautam's energy levels

2002-11-15 Thread K. Feete
Erik Rueter wrote: 5 figures a month would mean a minimum of $120K a year, right? I thought that was not all that unusual at McKinsey. Now that I know that, I guess I should have more sympathy for McKinsey employees :-) Ye gods, but that is an obscene amount of money. Brings up a point of

Re: Correcting a slight injustice

2002-11-13 Thread K. Feete
Erik Reute wrote: RTFM usually means Read The Fucking Manual There's one of those? Why haven't I got a copy? it would seem to mean, Read The Fucking Archive. This, on the other hand, I don't even want to *see* Kat Feete - Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you

Re: Attack Iraq, Alone If Must Be

2002-09-23 Thread K. Feete
John D. Giorgis wrote: Only *one* Brin-L poster bothered to object to this incredibly insulting and slanderous comment. This second poster did not attack the first poster, but simply asked if the first post ever felt guilty about casting such incredibly vicious insults when, by her own

Re:Attack Iraq, Alone If We Must

2002-09-22 Thread K. Feete
Kevin Tarr wrote: whoa, hold your horses, Republicans create an emotionally charged smokescreen? I'll give you a chance to say retract and say ALL political people create an emotionally charged smokescreen. Emendation accepted. The Republicans are just the current worst offenders. Kat I Vote

[Brin-l] Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 43, Issue 2

2002-09-21 Thread K. Feete
JDG wrote: Kat, do you ever feel guilty about accusing a guy of ordering innocent men to their deaths for electoral advantage without even bothering to keep up on the news, and oh, I don't know, news reports on the case this guy has been making to Congress and the United Nations to get their