Re: Bush's Economic Indicator: 2 New Jobs

2004-03-05 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:26 PM 3/5/2004, you wrote: Just found the title amusing... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31587-2004Mar4.html or http://tinyurl.com/ytu6x Prompted by the president, chassis-maker Les DenHerder said the tax cuts Bush backed might allow him to hire two or three more

Re: Pledge of Allegiance

2004-03-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 06:46 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:41 AM Subject: RE: Pledge of Allegiance From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In Texas, school children are

Re: States Bent on Collecting Internet Taxes

2004-03-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:48 PM 3/4/2004, you wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=528u=/ap/20040304/ap_on_hi_te/internet_sales_tax_7printer=1 snip Forty-five states require buyers to pay sales taxes on Internet and other out-of-state purchases, though a few, including California and Minnesota, exempt

Re: L3 Bitter Mellons, Gin and Tonic, and a an Un- reasonable view.

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Tarr
It is perhaps the greatest irony (among many) of the Civil War that perhaps the single most important reason for the South's defeat - the genius of Abraham Lincoln - could _only_ be utilized in the meritocratic North, where a dirt-poor farm boy had the chance to rise to the Presidency, something

fun with math

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
1. Grab a calculator. (you won't be able to do this one in your head) 2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code) 3. Multiply by 80 4. Add 1 5. Multiply by 250 6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number 7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again. 8.

Re: fun with math

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:25 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: 1. Grab a calculator. (you won't be able to do this one in your head) 2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code) 3. Multiply by 80 4. Add 1 5. Multiply by 250 6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number 7

Re: Fascist Censorship spreading like Cancer thruout Gov't

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 04:39 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote: Well then, would it be inapropriate for me to ask you to please provide the definition of Free and Speech which allows freedom of speech to align with your doctrin? My definition is freedom from persecution from the STATE for what one says. Specifically, I

another riddle?

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
Q: You are sitting behind the wheel in a car keeping a constant speed, on your left side there is an abyss. On your right side you have a fire engine and it keeps the same speed as you. In front of you runs a pig, larger than your car. A helicopter is following you, at ground level. Both

Re: another riddle?

2004-02-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:07 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: Re: another riddle? Kevin Tarr wrote: Q: You are sitting behind the wheel in a car keeping

RE: Call for Access experience/help

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 07:57 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any users? This program is outside my experience. I can work with Access, but it never does exactly what I want. I can't use any other programs, unless there is something simple I'm missing. I'm going to call

She's not racist, she's a Democrat

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8040153.htm MIAMI - U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown verbally attacked a top Bush administration official during a briefing on the Haiti crisis Wednesday, calling the President's policy on the beleaguered nation racist and his representatives a bunch of

Call for Access experience/help

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
Any users? This program is outside my experience. I can work with Access, but it never does exactly what I want. I can't use any other programs, unless there is something simple I'm missing. I'm going to call them objects, hope this will be easy to follow: Object A has two properties: it's

Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:12 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote: From: iaamoac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on gay marriage? Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:55:17 - A great quote from ABC's The Note blog on the Constitutional

Hooray for Zoidberg!

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
I'm not as happy as I was at noon, but feel like sharing. I finally got my raise to the next job classification, 18 months after I was recommended. The fact that I'm doing the same work as someone two levels above me, one now, has been rewarded. I took a big pay cut for this job, I had to

Re: Why are Democrats better in bed?

2004-02-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:19 PM 2/26/2004, you wrote: At 08:58 PM 2/26/04, Robert Seeberger wrote: Why are Democrats better in bed? You've never heard of getting a good piece of elephant, have you? Whassamatter? Can't imagine what they can do with that trunk? -- Ronn! :) Just watch the cake and peanuts.

RE: ATM trouble

2004-02-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:09 PM 2/23/2004, you wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was getting some cash at a foreign ATM, different from the one I have my account with. The machine made noise like it should, but there was no POP of the cash door opening. No error messages either. I thought maybe, even

Re: ISRAEL OWNS 82 NUKES

2004-02-22 Thread Kevin Tarr
This is war. With those three words to President Bush moments after the September 11 attack, Donald Rumsfeld recast decades of American policy that had once defined terrorism as a criminal matter, not as a global enemy to be identified and destroyed. rob He must have Banshee's mutant voice, since

ATM trouble

2004-02-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
I was getting some cash at a foreign ATM, different from the one I have my account with. The machine made noise like it should, but there was no POP of the cash door opening. No error messages either. I thought maybe, even though I know the account is flush with cash, that it is empty. So I

love/hate

2004-02-20 Thread Kevin Tarr
Crom! I go looking for a song and wind up on this site: http://www.lovehate.com/music.htm (Third album, Spinning Wheel). That's right. Every album, every song is right there, full length. I want to send them $100 for doing it right. Also found some music from Down and Prong. I'll be deaf in a

Re: Attachments, was Re: Democrats secular?

2004-02-20 Thread Kevin Tarr
snip You are still sending it 8bit transfer-encoded and getting the list attatchment. Not a big deal though. At least the mystery of the phantom attatchments is solved. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did everything I could to turn that off. There is an encoding choice but it's for

Re: Federal Marriage Amendment

2004-02-20 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:37 PM 2/20/2004, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:59:52AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: And you don't ovulate the day after you give birth -- it can be a few months. Do you know if it can be speeded up by the drugs they use on some women who were having troubling getting pregnant,

Re: Attachments, was Re: Democrats secular?

2004-02-19 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:58 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:52 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote: Why do some posts still have attachements? I thought the server that relayes them strippes attachements. Kevin's post f.i. has two (see below). One saying that his outgoing mail is virus

CBS 60 minutes?

2004-02-18 Thread Kevin Tarr
I was going to ask for help from the left coasters, but may not need it. Some network station was touting a report about 401ks and the IRS, but I cannot remember who it was. Damn sweeps. I thought it was 60 minutes, but the story they had put CBS in my head was the evening news broadcast about

Re: BRin-L - are we average?

2004-02-18 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:46 AM 2/18/2004, you wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BRin-L - are we average? (was RE: FederalMarraige[sic]Amendment) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:25:21 -0600 Miller, Jeffrey

Book shopping Re: Darwin's Children

2004-02-18 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:08 PM 2/18/2004, you wrote: Top posting cause the citing is getting plain ugly, I am an ignant AOL poster, and it is considered good form at work, and it really doesn't follow the material below but is a consequence of it OK you guys, you forced me to go to the

Re: Democrats secular?

2004-02-17 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 04:27 PM 2/17/2004, you wrote: --- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only way for Democrats to win in the South is to win a good portion of these folks over. This can be done by emphasizing the economic issues and I basically agree with everything you wrote (I think - I read it

Re: Democrats secular?

2004-02-17 Thread Kevin Tarr
Do you vote in primaries? (I vote in Republican primaries because whatever district I'm in tends to be a lock for the Republicans and I want to have some say in who represents me.) Julia Eight of ten times I vote in the primary. I was going to switch parties, just to vote for Dennis K.

Re: N-e-w v-i-r-u-s a-t-t-a-c-k?

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:57 AM 2/16/2004, you wrote: My firewall has noted a lot of requests by sites I don't recognize to connect during the past few minutes. Is there something new out there, or is it possible someone just now got around to opening his M-y-D-o-o-m-infected mail and it is responsible. Anyone

RE: Star Trek Politics

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:58 AM 2/16/2004, you wrote: From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Star Trek Politics Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:22:10 -0500 (EST) A forum I frequent has been having a discussion of how one would describe the

education bias

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
I'm hearing a radio commercial; don't know if it's local or national. The woman says I want a house with good schools. Schools that will make my sons smart. Like Socrates...but without the toga. Smart enough to get into the best schools on the east or west coasts. I can miss the gender bias,

Re: Federal Marraige Amendment

2004-02-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:47 PM 2/16/2004, you wrote: From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snip First, the question is: Should marriage be redefined to include homosexual unions as well as heterosexual unions? And indeed, given the current judicial environment, the question can be taken one step further

Re: Political BaitingĀ  Re: Thoughts on gay marriage?

2004-02-15 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:59 PM 2/15/2004, you wrote: For whatever it is worth, it is a common meme among conservatives that liberals consider themselves to be smarter than conservatives. I don't consider myself necessarily smarter than anyone else. What I would say is that liberals are much nicer people in

Maybe the truth will set him free

2004-02-12 Thread Kevin Tarr
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNewsstoryID=4319003 U.S. Engineer Gets 7-Year Sentence in Taliban Case Mon February 9, 2004 05:43 PM ET By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - A former software engineer who stunned friends and co-workers by admitting he tried to fight

Re: The Fool is nuttier than a fruitcake

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:38 AM 2/9/2004, The Fool wrote: I think Not! Finally an honest statement! We thought we'd have to have an intervention. Kevin T. - VRWC Arthur Murray 12 step --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.577 / Virus

Bush cost me everything

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Tarr
Bush cost me my job, my kids and my houses Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This

butterfly effect

2004-02-08 Thread Kevin Tarr
Since no one else has mentioned it. I saw it yesterday. Missed the first 5-8 minutes. Maybe I'm starved for entertainment but this was a very good movie. Not a teen movie at all. Somewhat on the far side of drama with the violence but if you can handle that you'll like it. Kevin T. - VRWC

v*r*s question

2004-02-07 Thread Kevin Tarr
I started getting mail saying something from me was undeliverable. AVG said it had the myd**m v*r*s in it. AVG isn't finding the v*r*s anywhere else, just the mail coming in. Since them I'm getting messages coming in with the v*r*s. But I'm more confused by the returned mail. Is my computer

Re: TiVo privacy

2004-02-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:19 AM 2/4/2004, you wrote: So are there any digital video recorders that don't require being hooked up to the phone and a subscription? Seems like someone would be making a killing on that kind of thing. Oh, and if you've got satelite TV, you're hooked up to the phone too. Doug Except,

bad day/customer service

2004-02-02 Thread Kevin Tarr
For reasons I've stated before I had to open a bank account with a bank that's not in my area. I was calling them today, not to complain, but to find their nearest ATM that accept's deposits because it took three days to get a cash deposit cleared two weeks ago. (Also the location for the

Re: No teeth in this tiger

2004-02-01 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:49 PM 1/27/2004, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: *It's in a section's food cubicle. The books are all mysteries and thrillers. I asked why no sci-fi? The section leader nearly jumped down my throat. This Clancy book was the first I've ever borrowed, working there two years now. When I

Re: SCOUTED: Houston

2004-02-01 Thread Kevin Tarr
Robert Seeberger wrote: Having seen the preparations being made here for The Super Bowl (something like a 10 day event with parties and festivals and such), and having seen the city prepare for other events of slightly lesser import, it is my belief that the IOC was foolish and short sighted to

Re: SCOUTED: Houston

2004-01-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:19 PM 1/31/2004, you wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58473-2004Jan28.html?nav=hptop_tb Can we start calling you The Ronn! like the other list member who posits links with no info about why we might want to read them? Course, I don't read The Idiot's posts anyway

Re: Frat boys? (was Re: Br!n: LotR and Conservatives)

2004-01-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:01 PM 1/31/2004, you wrote: At least I'm not alone! Where'd you go to school, Damon? Penn State Damon Cool! Is it possible we are the first two list people to have attended the same college? (But I went to PS Harrisburg). Maybe not, I think the people who started the list were

No teeth in this tiger

2004-01-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
Picked up Tom Clancy's TotT last week from the workplace library*. Started okay, but mostly it sucked. The ending was very bad. It needed another five chapters to really finish the story but I'm sure the next book will cover that. If I had friends who repeated the same things that much during

did I break it?

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
I sent this e-mail last night, with the subject work e-mail Not about list e-mail, but general work e-mail. I got chastised by a boss because I was contacting a user using e-mail instead of calling directly. The text of the e-mail was about, drumroll, setting up a face to face meeting. I

Re: did I break it? [snarky response]

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:52 PM 1/23/2004, you wrote: No, you didn't break it, but we're blaming the problem with the Spirit rover on you. :P Julia couldn't resist, and needing to let off some steam due to some frustration with a certain website that will remain nameless until such time as I determine I'm

The Captain has passed

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
Montpelier, Vt. -- Long Island native Bob Keeshan, who gently entertained and educated generations of children as television's walrus-mustachioed Captain Kangaroo, died Friday at 76. http://www.nynewsday.com/ny-kangaroo0123,0,1776938.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-left Kevin T. drop ping-pong

Toastmasters?

2004-01-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
I want to expand on my work email question. This is a poor forum for asking for advice, but asking for experience(s). I don't think I'm shy, I don't think I ever was. Even the terms I use will show a bias. I'm not a chatterbox and those that are upset me. I think they are idiots, filling the

Re: Trent Lott on recess appointments

2004-01-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:55 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/79.html Trent Lott on recess appointments: THEN Any appointment of a federal judge during a recess should be opposed. - Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) opposing the appointment of an African American

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:17 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: It's not that far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking

Re: SotU 2004 drinking game

2004-01-19 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:37 PM 1/19/2004, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: http://www.drinkinggame.us/ Their countdown thingie is an hour off, BTW. Julia Not where the SotU is coming from. But I'm sure you knew that. Kevin T. - VRWC When does cycling season start

streaming

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Tarr
Let's see if this e-mail makes it through the censors. I have DSL service. I have a two port router but only one computer hooked up. I don't know the upload/download speeds, and don't care just yet. I'm just wondering about streaming music out from this computer. It would only be for personal

RE: Announcing brin-l-books

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:42 AM 1/17/2004, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: That doesn't seems to be the right person. But I've been begging for something like this on our subservient list, they throw around titles and likes and dislikes so fast it's hard to keep up. If you're referring to the Culture List, did you

RE: Announcing brin-l-books

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:36 PM 1/17/2004, you wrote: Kevin Tarr wrote: But there are times when the list is tossing off lists like water off a wet dog. Hard to keep track and most of them are not in the CDR. I kept track of a few of the more obscure ones, and then I went out and hunted them down via

Re: Newest spam tactics

2004-01-17 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:45 AM 1/17/2004, you wrote: The spammers are getting more and more devious. In the past week a handful of messages have made it through my filters and Mailwasher. The first tactic was to put some text at the beginning of an HTML message indicating that it was a message concerning an eBay

Renting was Re: Martian Emotion

2004-01-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
And I think that, given the government's record on social issues (the housing projects of the Sixties, frex, or the education issues I mentioned), putting the government in charge of more of them would be really bad public policy. Most people feel better and do better when they are in

Re: Tg Territories

2004-01-16 Thread Kevin Tarr
Ok, the _technical_ names of the stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system are Alpha Centauri A [the Sun-like star], Alpha Centauri B [almost Sun-like, but smaller; it's still in the spectral class that usually is considered fit to have Earth-like planets] and Alpha Centauri C aka Proxima

Re: EPA Works Out Secret Deal with Factory Farms

2004-01-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:00 PM 1/13/2004, you wrote: kneem posted EPA Works Out Secret Deal with Factory Farms Perhaps taking its cue from the Cheney Energy Task Force, the EPA has been holding secret meetings with the agribusiness industry this year, putting together a sweetheart deal with lobbyists to

Re: how CAPPS II works

2004-01-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 04:19 PM 1/14/2004, you wrote: This is the scariest thing ever. Get ready to be extorted! You want to fly, you have to pay $250 for your Cendant security records so that you can find out why your rating comes up yellow or red. Then once you find out you will have to pay thousands and

Re: Announcing brin-l-books

2004-01-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:40 PM 1/14/2004, you wrote: Following several months of development by me and lots of testing by the members of the Wednesday chat brin-l-books is probably ready for you all to try :) http://books.scattersoft.com An interactive web site where you can view and vote on books. The initial

Re: Double Standards on Regional Bigotry

2004-01-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:19 PM 1/14/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 7:24 PM Subject: Re: Double Standards on Regional Bigotry At 03:31 PM 1/14/2004 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: Its

Re: Danger of US military overextension

2004-01-13 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 06:30 AM 1/13/2004, you wrote: Not sure who or where this guy is, but the Army War College is NOT as Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The Air War College is. George A I was going to point that out myself, but was distracted by something else. Someone was cutting down the air force saying it

Re: Extraordinary Rendition

2004-01-11 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:41 PM 1/11/2004, you wrote: It is time someone asked. What our government did to Maher Arar is worse than anything the British did to our Colonial forefathers. It was worse than anything J. Edgar Hoover did to alleged Communists, civil rights workers and anti-war activists during his

Health was Re: Extraordinary Rendition

2004-01-11 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 06:34 PM 1/11/2004, you wrote: Kevin wrote: Responding to another list member's ghost post with hateful, hate filled clones: too upset to come up with more adjectives? I'd say you and your lot are the ones filled with hate and madness. I'm happy even with pipes in my kitchen frozen, the

Re: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review

2004-01-10 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:13 PM 1/10/2004, you wrote: Vilyehm Teighlore wrote: Or in Scotland you wake up with a blue ribbon tied Debbi replied: I Dunno Wher Ya Bin, Milad, But I See Ya Won Firs' Prize! Maru;} Funny this song should come up now... There are a lot of different versions of that last line. I

Re: Physics Quiz

2004-01-10 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:21 PM 1/10/2004, you wrote: http://intuitor.com/physics_test/PhysicsSavvy.html 77.5 % Embarrassing xponent But At Least I Passed Without Study G Maru rob 80%. Two of the questions I missed because I did understood the answer differently, but I dispute some of the others. Not that

Re: Shrub's Conspiracy to Invade Iraq Revealed by Ex-Admin Official

2004-01-10 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:16 PM 1/10/2004, you wrote: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/printable592330.shtm l From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go, he tells Stahl. For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the

Re: Double Standards on Regional Bigotry

2004-01-10 Thread Kevin Tarr
As promised, my ex-wife replies: The Texas Miracle or The National Nightmare.? snip rob I don't know how much was hers, if it all was. I'm not arguing against anything written. I just want to point out that this has been going on for years under all leadership, as the point seemed to be. I

Re: Ha Ha! At Last!

2004-01-10 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:35 PM 1/10/2004, you wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You see, I'm at somewhat of a disadvantage due to my age. I'm only 21, and I'm only now beginning to immerse myself into the things I really enjoy. -Travis That mean's I'm no longer

Re: Flight Sim and Witch Hunts

2004-01-09 Thread Kevin Tarr
At one time it was rare to find US citizens, in the safest and most prosperous country in the world, jumping at their own shadows. Now we only note how high. I work with some ..middle age, Russians, and they are starting to discuss a feeling of Deja-vu they are experiencing. These discussions

Re: SCOUTED: Poincare Conjecture (Really) Solved?

2004-01-08 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 06:51 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote: (For those who have forgotten their topology, the Poincare Conjecture states that every simply connected closed three-manifold is homeomorphic to the three-sphere.) http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/01/07/math.mystery.ap/index.html

Re: SCOUTED: Poincare Conjecture (Really) Solved?

2004-01-08 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:14 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote: At 06:14 PM 1/8/04, Kevin Tarr wrote: At 06:51 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote: (For those who have forgotten their topology, the Poincare Conjecture states that every simply connected closed three-manifold is homeomorphic to the three-sphere.) http://www.cnn.com/2004/US

Re: Rugby: was Shouldn't this have read N-F-L

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:55 PM 1/5/2004, you wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: The Sugarboal. (Why do they call it a boal?) OU looked like they didn't care, but then the LSU defence was rolling over them. In answer to the question, I think because various stadiums were called bowls or something. If anyone has a better

Re: Overpriced Shirts and Irregulars Question

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:53 PM 1/2/2004, you wrote: I'm pretty sure I set the price of the shirt at my online store too high, so as an apology, I've decreased it from $19.99 to $16.99. Do y'all consider $3 of profit per shirt fair? http://www.cafeshops.com/Sloan3D As for the Irregulars question, Dr. Brin

RE: Davidbrin.com blocked by WebSense

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
place. Notice any reduction in the amount of junk in your inbox? Neither have I. In fact, if my inbox is typical, if anything, recently it's been getting worse . . . I agree completely, I have started to receive almost twice the amount of mail in the last few weeks, especially mail about an

Re: Mexican Diplomat Charged With Helping Smuggle Arabs Into U.S.

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:47 PM 1/3/2004, you wrote: At 05:21 PM 12/31/2003 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote: Almost a month after Ortiz was arrested, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said: The bottom line is, as a country we have to come to grips with the presence of 8 to 12 million illegals, afford them some kind

RE: Mexican Diplomat Charged With Helping Smuggle Arabs Into U.S.

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:07 PM 1/3/2004, you wrote: Actually, Ridge is right.If the US were to somehow manage to enforce its immigration laws and remove 8 to 12 million workers from our economy - the effects on the US would be catastrophic. JDG Prove it. Kevin T. That depends if the US unemployed

wireless internet

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
Asking now so I can have a plan in March. Me and friends are going to be in a location (bar) and need access to a couple of websites while we are there. I do not think my area supports any wireless internet services yet. Even if a phone company had some services, I only need it for a few days;

indoor fun

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
So I get my indoor trainer out of the basement. This is the first time I've ridden this winter. I usually use it with my mountain bike, but put my second road bike on it this year. I like my mountain bike, but can't get a good leg extension with it. So after two minutes something feels funny. I

RE: indoor fun

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:12 PM 1/3/2004, you wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So I get my indoor trainer out of the basement. This is the first time I've ridden this winter. Is this a sign? Yes! It's a sign that you have a strange idea of indoor fun! grin - jmh Doing this might afford me

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-03 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 07:46 PM 1/3/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:31 PM Subject: Minimal Profits for Halliburton Here is the NY Times Article that found that so far there have been, quote minimal

Re: Science Fiction In Music

2004-01-02 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:55 PM 1/2/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 11:46 AM Subject: Re: Science Fiction In Music Has anyone mentioned Rush? Yea, there was a thread on his hypocrisy last month. Dan M. Oh,

Re: Star Trek The Next Generation question

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:44 PM 12/29/2003, you wrote: Miller, Jeffrey wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 08:33 AM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Star Trek The Next Generation question

Re: RIDDLES: Yet another thread for fun.

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Tarr
You know, I would probably do the same thing you're doing right about now. However this is a classic case of over-analysis. The answer (or perhaps more accurately my answer) isn't a sense of anything, nor is it an intangible, abstract concept of any type. Rather it is something quite

Re: RIDDLES: Yet another thread for fun.

2003-12-29 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:26 PM 12/18/2003, you wrote: Lets play a little game. I'll start things off by throwing a riddle on the table. The first person to correctly answer the riddle has the privilege of posting a riddle of their own. This guy went into the forest one day. Once there he got it, but he couldn't

Re: Efficient bus

2003-12-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
But there is actually no new tech involved, just some good brainwork. The inverted rotor/stator design is such an obvious and elegant solution to an electric drive for vehicles that one does wonder why it hadn't been thought of before. But I think that shows just how difficult it is to think out

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:32 PM 12/27/2003, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:47:25 -0500 (EST), Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Pensinger wrote: I'm just finishing Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) What did you think? Haven't quite finished yet, battle looming on the Enterprise. Stephenson is a real talent,

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-27 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:47 PM 12/27/2003, you wrote: Doug Pensinger wrote: I'm just finishing Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) What did you think? I was shopping for my brother in law who also reads a lot of SF and ended up getting him a copy of Iain M. Banks' Inversions without thinking too much about it. I need to

RE: Merry Christmas

2003-12-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:54 PM 12/26/2003, you wrote: At 11:35 PM 12/25/03, Bryon Daly wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Merry Christmas, everyone! Merry (somewhat belated) Christmas, all! Happy Boxing Day! So Far The Only Big Box I've Seen At The Curb In Front Of Any Neighbor's House For Trash

Re: First Mad Cow Case in U.S.

2003-12-26 Thread Kevin Tarr
Here in Colorado and a few contiguous states there's been a problem with Chronic Wasting Disease, a TSE, in deer and elk; it was recently discovered in Wisconsin as well. Locally, hunters who kill deer or elk that appear to be ill are requested to submit the head for testing to state

Re: Christmas greetings

2003-12-24 Thread Kevin Tarr
. I've heard horror stories about three lines with 20+ customers in each. I got there and no one was in the store. Must have been the rain. Came home to get truck and change clothes for the drive north. And burn a CD while I'm at it. So happy holidays. Kevin Tarr

Re: christianism is evil, why it must be eradicated

2003-12-24 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:20 PM 12/24/2003, you wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 05:23:51 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:45 PM 12/23/03, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! wrote: Like a toilet? Carefull now, I've been to Alabama. And not just driving through, either. Ever driven past a paper mill? Not

Re: Science Fiction In Music

2003-12-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:06 AM 12/23/2003, you wrote: A message for Kevin for tomorrow! And what a short turn around it is. - Original Message - From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:26 PM Subject: RE: Science Fiction In Music I'm

RE: Science Fiction In Music

2003-12-23 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:59 AM 12/23/2003, you wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Science Fiction In Music Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:26:08 -0500 I'm not trying to be confrontational, but you'd have

Re: Filtering

2003-12-22 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 06:45 AM 12/22/2003, you wrote: Doug Pensinger wrote: With all due respect, if we stopped talking about everything that makes someone upset, we may as well shut down the list because we wouldn't even be able to discuss the weather. What do you mean by discuss the weather? I feel highly

RE: Science Fiction In Music

2003-12-22 Thread Kevin Tarr
Well this is right up my alley. You're talking to the resident music freak here! First of all though let me point out something. You said you'd like some suggestions and criticisms. Well here's where I criticize: Although the music mentioned certainly has sf/f themes, I don't think that's

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
On the bright side, did you know that it can be a lot of fun doing play-by-play for an infant? 1) Hold infant in front of you, facing you. 2) Peer over infant's shoulder to see the TV. 3) As the play is made, describe it in a high-pitched voice with all the enthusiasm you can muster.

Re: Michael Crichton is Evil and Must be Destroyed (was: Scouted: Environmentalism is Evil and Must Be Destroyed)

2003-12-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 03:52 AM 12/21/2003, you wrote: At 02:37 AM 12/20/03, Deborah Harrell wrote: snip Yes, it would indeed be nice if someone could find an alternative which was nearly (90%+?) as effective as DDT at killing the insects which spread disease to humans while being much safer (10% as toxic?) as DDT,

Re: Scouted: Environmentalism is Evil and Must Be Destroyed

2003-12-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:28 PM 12/21/2003, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 2:36 AM Subject: Re: Scouted: Environmentalism is Evil and Must Be Destroyed It takes a lot less time than that for

Thank goodness

2003-12-20 Thread Kevin Tarr
A real court ruling that means something. http://www.newsday.com/business/printedition/ny-bzmusi203592329dec20,0,7442469.story?coll=ny-business-print http://makeashorterlink.com/?B23734CD6 Court Win For Illegal Music Downloads A federal appeals court has sounded a sour note for the recording

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