At 04:45 PM 4/1/2003 -0600, you wrote:
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Kevin Tarr wrote:
> >When did Geraldo become a "veteran reporter" and cease to be a national
> >embarassment?
> >
> > Marvin Long
>
>
> Maybe when fourteen neighbors died September 11, 2001.
At 10:39 AM 4/1/2003 -0600, you wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, The Fool wrote:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030331/people_nm/iraq_
> usa_geraldo_dc_1
>
> US Military Moves Reporter Geraldo Rivera from Iraq
> 1 hour, 52 minutes ago
>
>
> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Veteran reporter
At 02:31 PM 4/1/2003 +, you wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> JDG - what's wrong with the football columns? I
> _love_ the football columns? Gregg Easterbrook is my
> _hero_ for the football columns...
If you send me any one of his football columns, I'll be
At 11:37 AM 4/1/2003 +0200, you wrote:
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Where the peace movement should focus a large share of its attention is
upon the weapons manufacturers in their own nations and in creating
weapons embargoes on countries like NK.
How about a push for a moratorium on the export of a
The failure in Vietnam
was not micromanagement, but a failure of civilian
control. No one in the civilian establishment ever
went to the Joint Chiefs and asked them how the hell
they planned to win.
Gautam
I don't need a discourse on this, please no ;-)
but I've been hearing people talking abo
At 07:24 PM 3/31/2003 -0700, you wrote:
I wrote:
> As a Canadian, I really don't care one way or the other about President
> Bush. He's just a name on the news, really. But this "Bush Doctrine" of
> pre-emptive warfare goes against everything I believe, and it really
> frightens me that a gigantic
Living near an airport, you get to hear many strange things. It used to be
a military airport and they still use it as a location to repair military
planes and for pilots to practice touch-n-gos. It's fun watching a four
engine C-10 lumber into the sky. Not fun when you are working third shift
At 10:13 AM 3/31/2003 -0600, you wrote:
"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 10:34 PM 3/30/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Deborah Harrell wrote:
> >
> > > This theory actually dovetails with part of His essay
> > > on Neotany: the "elk-man" would lack any of these
> > > "sensitivity" alleles [SS],
At 06:19 AM 3/31/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Hi All,
I sent my Dad the picture of the camera-toting
dolphin, and he reports:
"Don't know why but I can no longer see any jpg files.
They come out all fuzzy. Not sure why. Any ideas?"
I'm clueless, but I'm hoping that maybe somebody here
might have an idea
At 07:30 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:59:03PM -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote:
> I just can't see any company just one day calling a meeting and say
> "We need to save money. Guess what? You are all contractors now!"
> I can see what you might
>
At 04:36 PM 3/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:
O.k., I've managed to confirm that at minimum, my
computer's power supply died. Anybody have any
advice on buying a 400watt power supply?
Thanks for all your help.
JDG
First you find a place selling them. Then you make a 'transaction'
involving money or c
At 01:55 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:40:36PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> If they set your hours and you have to work at their facility, they
> can't make you a contractor or consultant.
So on Monday they just say "here is a list of things to do, get them
done by Fr
In any case Clear Channel is not the only radio company with conservative
talk shows or with hosts pushing pro-America rallies.
rob
Agree with that. I know the local station he is on here in SOUTH central
PA* is a CC station, but Beck was the one starting it. Not that I ever
listen to him, I'm
At 02:54 PM 3/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Counterprotester picture
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:46:14 -0600
> From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE
At 07:17 AM 3/25/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of iaamoac
> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:47 AM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Conspiracy redux (was RE: Oops, Clinton Just Lied
> Again)
>
>
> --- In
Up front: I agree with you.
Which Heinlein book was on the moon, for some part anyway, and he set up an
argument between the protagonist and a yocal about the cost of air? I
agreed 100% with what Heinlein wrote, but maybe I should take a second
look. While I'm not against profit and capitalism,
Just wondering if anyone works with such a creature. I feel safe in my
world of COBOL programming, web design, and form management, but I have to
look at improving my standing; the company offered a raise nine months ago
to keep me but it still isn't final.
I'm going to get a book or two tonigh
At 11:06 AM 3/23/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Kevin Tarr
...
> Foul! Selective quoting to make a point not supported in the
> text. The full paragraph:
No, selective quoting to save space, band
At 12:51 AM 3/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
On 3/19/03 4:23 PM, "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone here read both _Late-Talking Children_ and _The Einstein
> Syndrome_, both by Thomas Sowell?
I have only read _Late Talking Children_ . Awesome book. I read it
because I was a la
At 12:46 PM 3/22/2003 -0800, you wrote:
--- "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [excerpt from website]> Suddenly: hoofbeats!
>
> Horses? Horses? What? Other than making Debbie
> happy (:-), there aren't
> any land animals on the Riverworld!!! Certainly not
> horses.
Well, there are very
At 11:56 AM 3/22/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of The Fool
...
> people have the moral sense to hold their own wills as slight things
> compared to those of God and His minister, the state with the partial
> excep
> > the other list, because I'm not going to learn my place in
> > order to stay on. I'll probably write one message first.
>
> I don't think anyone was asking you to "learn your place"; there seems to
be
> an agreement amongst most of the people who've been trying to debate that
> you keep chang
At 09:55 AM 3/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
How would Americans pronounce "Anneke" then?
Probably "Ann-eak".
I thought from his reasoning, it would be ann-e-key. It's ann-e-ka right?
Kevin T. - VRWC
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http://www.mccmedia.com/mailm
I'm connecting under a borrowed user name and password. For some reason
mine stopped working. While the tech support was okay, they kept wanting to
blame proxomonitor or my router, when I explained and explained they were
disabled and not hooked up. Finally the gave me a different user name and
At 10:12 PM 3/20/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Here name is:
Anneka Marie Bos
She's 6 pounds 4 ounces,
Nineteen and a half inches long.
Born at 1:32 on Thursday
Mother and daughter are doing fine.
Father is a nervous wreck.
She gets her first name after her great-aunt Anneke from the Netherlands,
here mi
At 10:13 PM 3/19/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> On the other hand, I literally bumped into Alec
> Baldwin, who didn't even seem to take notice, as
> he wandered around, practicing lines.
>
Speaking of Mr. Baldwin, I once kept him out of
the Governor's Ball after the Oscars which he
h
...
> IIRC, she was on either the Today Show or CBS This Morning in '97
> promoting
> LA Confidential. I was introduced to her in passing in the green room
> before she went on air. I don't remember much about her except
> that she was
> much shorter than I thought she'd be. :)
She's apparently
Three points: I just heard there are reports that a few very trusted
Republican guard units are getting vx tipped missles.
I saw a person, I just caught the end so I have no idea who he was or what
he's an expert in, say two things on TV the past weekend: he believes that
Saddam already has up
At 04:05 PM 3/17/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 03:43 PM
> To: Killer Bs Discussion
> Subject: Re: Language refreshers
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:34:10PM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
>
> > > (
At 11:01 PM 3/17/2003 +, you wrote:
On 17 Mar 2003 at 13:33, Jon Gabriel wrote:
> Ananova: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_761225.html?menu=news.qu
> irkies
>
> Police red-faced after hailing major cocaine coup
>
> Police in Italy have released eight men after the haul of "cocaine"
> they
At 11:07 AM 3/17/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff?
>
> > "Horn, John" wrote:
> > >
> > >
At 08:22 PM 3/16/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
So to carry the analogy, the French people may think the USA is acting by
itself, but the people who matter know the real story.
Or at least think they do.
Doug
Right. And there are those who will believe their fantasies no matter how
At 08:52 PM 3/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 09:44 PM 3/16/03 -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote:
Now a majority of the nursing home are state run. Which means they have
less wealthy residents. I'd believe that he's raising this fee because he
assume Medicaid will pay the fee, it comes from the
At 05:43 PM 3/16/2003 +, you wrote:
John G said:
> JDG - Who wonders if France would oppose Spiderman's unilateralism in
> pursuit of criminals.
I'm not overly familiar with the Spiderman mythos, but don't lots of
Americans oppose Spiderman's unilateralism in pursuit of criminals? He
is, a
At 06:26 PM 3/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Anyone watching this tonight?
How about Riverworld next week?
rob
I'm taping.
I was MUCH more excited over the Riverworld movie, which I never heard
about until Friday. While I think the book of CoD is better, Riverworld
should be an easy visual concep
I forward this to myself at work, more time to look into it.
I want to be honest about this: Rendell is a dem and I did not vote for
him. I seriously believe that the rain the was predicted for election day,
if it would have fell, he would not be governor. (Keeping the non-serious
voters at hom
At 07:10 PM 3/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> * - Well, the tiny Pacific island state of Nauru
> (primary export - fossilized bird guano) collapsed two
> weeks ago, but it is too small and isolated for its
> collapse to matter to just about anybody but the
> Nauruans.
So who all is still playing Natio
At 10:54 AM 3/15/2003 -0600, you wrote:
The Fool wrote:
> More problematic is the fatalistic worldview of apocalyptic thinking,
> Hill said. Many who obsess about the end of the world fail to enjoy the
> life they have or reach out to help others in an effort to improve
> society, he said. They be
At 08:14 AM 3/14/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of J.D. Giorgis
...
> This morning, I turned on my computer to check my
> e-mail. I was simply sitting, typing away, when my
> computer mysteriously powered down.
>
>
At 02:42 PM 3/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:24:04PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > I think I was the one who originally brought up cargo containers with
> > regard to attacks before 9-11. They are a very significant risk for a
> > nuclear attack. But
It seems that around the time the PC game "Starfleet Academy" was
popular, a computer game by Interplay was under development which boasted
the members of TOS on 5 episodes penned by Trek favorite D.C.
Fontana. The episodes were in reality a 5 part novel. The voice sessions
of these scripts
Anyone else use those pitchers with built in filters? The ones I have
have a chamber in the top and they drip through a filter into the chamber
in the bottom.
Doug
I don't use one normally, but I've tasted water made using one and tasted
no difference. I had a water softener installed weeks a
At 01:07 AM 3/14/2003 +, you wrote:
John Horn wrote:
> > From: G. D. Akin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > The first Covenant trilogy in one word:Depressing.
>
> "great"
Agreed.
> > The second trilogy in more than one word:Even more depressing.
>
> "awful"
Wah. Why did you find it aw
> 2) Did you consider the DPRK in 1994, when it was accepting US bribes and
> UN inspections, and when it was only a few years away from assembling a few
> nuclear bombs without us knowing or able to stop them, to be "relatively
> weak" at that time?
Yes and no. Compared to the US, in general ter
At 04:25 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 02:58 PM 3/13/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Maybe they [the French people]
don't make sense all the time, but they can make a good wine. Maybe the
two are connected? ;)
When talking about the constellations in class, particularly how it is so
hard t
At 06:49 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 06:31 PM 3/13/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
French vanilla ice cream, you can have, I'll take Homemade vanilla. :)
Me, too.
And as I've said before, the only thing French I'd be really worried about
if they ban it is the kissing . . .
Mind In Gu
At 09:24 PM 3/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
You claimed that directly attacking terrorist killers is a bad idea
because more will be created by your actions than you eliminate.
Now you "apologize", but do you now retract that claim as being a bad
metaphor? I am not being deliberatel
> William T Goodall wrote:
>
> > Ties are for weddings and funerals, not for daily life.
>
> I like dress codes based on some very simple premises.
>
> Frex, the dress code based on the two following premises:
>
> 1) Nobody wants to smell anyone else's BO.
>
> 2) Nobody wants to see your underwe
At 03:04 PM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Humor] RE: Who is the sheriff?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:11:43 -0800 (PST)
This is *awful*...but good sick gall
Yes, there is administration at the highest level too, but I don't recall
it being all that massive. So, while I'm willing to agree with the
proposition that the district is too bureaucratic, I don't think much in
the way of real savings could be obtained by cutting it down.
Dan M.
Since I brou
At 11:22 PM 3/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
My brother is back in an undisclosed Air Force location (if it is Korea in
winter his care package will look like that MASH episode where they get
summer underwear in the bitter cold). Talking with soldiers who have been to
the desert and those around Ft Brag
At 08:32 PM 3/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
At 05:21 PM 3/9/2003 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>Also, I've heard of cases where teachers are not paid enough to be able to
>live in the districts in which they're teaching. I think that's a bit much,
>personally.
This doesn't bother me so long as teach
At 05:43 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
One thing missing, I've read stories that Iran has a much looser
government than Iraq and there are anti-government protests every day,
they want America to come there next to give them a more democratic
government? Of course ther
At 03:46 PM 3/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Does it strike anyone else as odd to have a contest about who could have
the most number of people killed in a war? I think accomplishing the
goals and having the least killed is a better metric.
Erik Reuter
Hooray! Exactly what I was thinking.
Patton:
"It
At 01:33 PM 3/9/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
And the Isralies will quite probably blow up the reactor if they can
definitely locate it early enough anyway. And the Islamic world will hown
in protest. Again. And the western world will, once more, look slightly
relieved.
'Course
At 10:38 AM 3/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The War on Schools
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:19:30 -0500
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:13:47AM -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
> Yet, as far as i can see. there isn't one constructive suggestion in
> this entire editor
I also don't like Stephen "got my thesaurus right beside me" Donaldson. I'm
fairly well educated, but when I read for pleasure, I don't want to have to
have a thesaurus right there. About three pages into the first book, I was
reminded of Margaret Meade in her "Growing Up in New Guinea" saying t
At 05:41 PM 3/8/2003 -0600, you wrote:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030307-093444-9730r
FIRE's Chief Executive Officer, Thor L. Halvorssen, praised the school.
"When fully informed of a frightening violation of freedom of conscience,
the college administration responded swiftly and boldly
At 08:36 AM 3/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Not that I am a habitual Ephedra user, but I have taken it in the past
(in dietary supplements) so I am aware of the risks and effects.
New York County Bans Sale of Ephedra
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20030305_2037.html
Quote from the article.
The
At 02:02 PM 3/7/2003 -0600, you wrote:
58c at walmart, ~79c at supermarkets, ~$1.30 at convienece stores.
The kicker is that distilled water is purer, tastes better, has fewer
contamininents, etc.
http://www.purewaterinc.com/html/about_distillation_.htm
Only posting link because I wouldn't min
At 09:47 PM 2/27/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> Just heard something funny, any of course completely untrue: Mr. Rogers
was
> a Sergeant during Vietnam and he wore long sleeve shirts all the time
> because his arms were 'sleeved': covered with tattoos from shoulder to
> wrist. After the war he blah blah
> > I wrote:
> > Girding myself to see Gods and Generals.
> > >>>
> > >
> > >Save yourself, its awful, darn awful.
>
> But will the Disney remake of the Alamo be worse?
*bz* already happened, and it rocked.
-j-
GSV Davey... Davey Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!
I think they mean
At 01:21 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Well, he's ridden off on the magic trolley for the last time...
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:32:15 -0600
"Adam C
At 02:51 PM 2/26/2003 +, you wrote:
From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:34 +
When my wife was doing a two-year computing course she had to learn
COBOL. I'd never used COBOL, and when I saw it I found it close to
incomprehensible.
You have to agree, th
The US is spending a lot of money to fight wars and pay for consequences
after the fact, but relatively little for prevention of future wars and
future terrorism. These are seriously screwed up priorities. We should
be spending money on improvements and preventing future problems, rather
than just
At 07:49 AM 2/26/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a
> > computer programming language that uses instructions
> > that resemble natural language.
>
> This is your feeling, but not mine. I think a computer
> language that adds unnecessary symbols make it harde
At 08:22 PM 2/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> Marvin wrote:
> >Ok, I just had to check...
> >
> >http://www.samueljohnson.com/refuge.html
>
> which has the quote as "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
>
> When I was looking for that quote to post it, I found not 1,
Faces 'Last Chance')
>
>
> Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> >
> > Kevin T. - VRWC
> > Girding myself to see Gods and Generals.
Save yourself, its awful, darn awful.
> Have you read the book?
I did and enjoyed it, yes, enjoyed it.
> VFP Recommended
The book or the movie
Zoo Octopus Learns To Open
Shrimp Jar By Watching
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A common octopus in a German zoo has learned
to open jars of shrimp by watching zoo attendants perform the act
underwater. Frida, a 5-month-old female octopus, opens the jars by
pressing her body on the lid and grasping
At 09:37 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Kevin T. - VRWC
Girding myself to see Gods and Generals.
Have you read the book?
Doug
Yes, when I saw the movie posters I got the book. First time I've used the
local library. I have not seen the movie Gettysburg or read The Ki
and the third time, I went in on Friday, got put in a pool to
be called back Monday, and on Monday, it turned out they had to postpone the
case, so the entire pool was released by 11AM (which was just as well, as
I'd gotten e-mail just before I left the house saying I had to go the
opposite direc
At 11:02 AM 2/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
> Texas was barbecuing their criminals (okay, okay... it's an awful choice of
> words) on a regular basis while GWB was governor. I can't imagine that all
> those people really deserved to be put to death for their crimes. And, as
> you s
I was going to ask a question, but this site answered it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/sfeature/mapablast.html
I was a little drunk last night. Four hours after I went to bed I was
wakened by the house shuddering from wind, the most noise I ever heard. My
addled mind was thinking, that's w
At 02:54 AM 2/24/2003 +, you wrote:
From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I saw a TV program about ADD/ADHD. The schoolkids [from a school
in Colorado, IIRC] were diagnosed with ADD after they failed to
concentrate on a reading of The Great Gatsby, but this was easily cured
when all kid
At 09:35 PM 2/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
>Note that this excerpt comprises only a fraction of the DSM-IV's
>entry on ADHD, and it should be used only for informational
>purposes. They apply not only to children, but to adults as well.
>Although it's clear that adults don'
At 07:48 PM 2/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
A metallic asteroid may have coincided with the fall of Rome
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/science/story/0,12450,889308,00.html
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L20112393
"This is what happened when a 50-metre rock blew up over Siberia in 1908,
leavi
On the author's website, he said the book is not finished. beginning of
Feb. he said it.
No big deal to me.
Kevin T. - VRWC
At 09:05 PM 2/20/2003 +0900, you wrote:
According to Locus Online's Forthcoming Books, the book will be out in
April. According to Amazon.com, you can preorder now for de
My brother said April 1st. Is that just here in the US?
Kevin T. - VRWC
At 07:53 PM 2/20/2003 +0900, you wrote:
"A Feast for Crows" due in September.
George A
- Original Message -
From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, Feb
At 10:20 PM 2/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: bush and Title IX
>
> - Original Mess
At 06:21 PM 2/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> >
> >Someone asked on-list about whether people should be forced into freedom.
> >This strikes me as a very interesting question, one I hadn't thought
about.
> >I find that I'm amvbivalent about
At 07:21 PM 2/19/2003 -0800, you wrote:
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the income generated by a winning football
> program? Dollars to
> donuts, even with the high expense generated by the
> football program, the
> football program generates a lot more revenue than
> expen
At 08:59 PM 2/19/2003 -0600, you wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: bush and Title IX
> Top football programs pay their coaches more than $1 million a
> year, shower luxur
Someone asked on-list about whether people should be forced into freedom.
This strikes me as a very interesting question, one I hadn't thought about.
I find that I'm amvbivalent about it. Erik, would you see your view as
just stated on-list in another email that religion should be eradicated a
At 08:14 PM 2/18/2003 -0800, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Take the urinal test and see if you know proper etiquette or if you
arekinda strange.
I noticed that they didn't have any of the handicapped sized urinals in
the quiz which IMO would also be a factor.
Doug
There is a bar
At 10:24 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Jim Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Rush is a rock band from Canada. Their drummer and
>> main songwriter, Neil Peart, is (or at least was) a
>> great fan of Ayn Rand. At the time when I was a
>> teenager, Rush was one of
At 10:01 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
>Which makes me wonder.. which is *your* favorite SciFi/Fantasy
>movie soundtrack?
Basil Poledouris' soundtrack for Conan the Barbarian runs neck in neck
with John Williams' Star Wars work. The Dune (by the band Toto)
soundtra
At 08:19 PM 2/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Out of curiosity, is this the worst storm to come your way in a while?
Well I live in PA and this is the snowiest winter we've had in years, and
this is the worst snowstorm we've had in that same amount of time
All in all lots of snow to be shoveled
At 08:37 AM 2/17/2003 -0600, you wrote:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, G. D. Akin wrote:
> "Amercian Gods" . . . 2002 Hugo winner and probably even odds on taking
> home the Nebula in April as well. I thought it was different, imaginative,
> but not anything to write home about or recommend to anyone.
A
At 10:14 PM 2/13/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Since we're on the subject of spin-offs, I'd like to ask
if anyone else has noticed connections between the "Soap"
spinoff "Benson". It seems like so many actors from the
latest star trek shows (DS9 & Voyager especially) were all
on "Benson" together. Do
Jose said:
> I'm going to make my weekly expedition to Borders in a couple of days.
> I'd like to stock up on SciFi books. What's new and worthy out there?
I'm reading Alastair Reynolds' Conjoiner/Demarchist books at the moment...
Richard:
I thank you for your review. MacLeod's books will de
At 03:20 AM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote:
So when are they going to put on antennae and do a guest appearance on
_Enterprise_ as an Andorian musical group . . . ?
-- Ronn
Have any Andorians been bald? They all seem to have a (basketball coach at
Georgia Tech) haircut.
Kevin T. - VRWC
__
Oh...
On the flight that took him to his resting place, in Jerusalem,
overlooking the Temple Mount, Herb was accompanied in the hold of the El
Al 747 by another Jewish hero, the astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died as the
Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart in the sky over Texas, sixteen
minutes f
At 11:49 PM 2/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Reggie Bautista wrote:
>"Bite my shiny metal *$$" --Bender
Best. Catchphrase. Ever.
Speaking of sitcoms, anyone else watch Scrubs? I have come to love this
show, and I'm annoyed that it keeps getting pre-empted by BS "extra-long
Friends" because NBC is
At 01:51 PM 2/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Resend of my MIA post from yesterday...
>Speaking of which:
>3) Things *will* go wrong. Don't worry about 'em. Nobody but you and
your wife
>will notice when things go wrong, and no one will remember 'em but you,
either.
>
>4) Remember that it's your day.
At 11:16 PM 2/13/2003 +, you wrote:
Chose one Prisoner, M, that will count something. The
other prisioners are P2, P3, ... P23 (n = 23?)
Each prisoner P_n must switch A from 1 to 0, but
he must do it just _twice_.. After that, and when he
finds A in 0, he will only switch B
Prisoner M will s
> From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > To take the easy shot, all us meatheads would have to stifle
> > ourselves.
>
> I doubt if that show were made today if they would use the term
> meathead. Today, it sounds to me like an insult an AI robot
> or computer
> would use for a human.
At 07:25 AM 2/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
The news reports this meeting that SAM Batteries have now been deployed
throughout Washington, DC.The "Avenger" surface-to-air missiles can
shoot down low-flying aircraft and helicopters.
Its amazing to think that this is actually happening, since until
At 10:38 PM 2/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:
The Fool wrote:
> A second counter-intuitive aspect of power laws is that most elements in
> a power law system are below average, because the curve is so heavily
> weighted towards the top performers. In Figure #1, the average number of
> inbound links (cu
At 06:40 PM 2/11/2003 -0600, you wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> Just found a new company. Well, don't know how new they really are but I
> never heard of them. Very specific guidelines, scientific approach. May
> take an hour to fill out questionnaire. I do not agree with their
&
Just found a new company. Well, don't know how new they really are but I
never heard of them. Very specific guidelines, scientific approach. May
take an hour to fill out questionnaire. I do not agree with their
assessment of me, makes me sound like a milksop, which I'm not. But some
things are
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