Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 08:24:00 -0300
Subject: Re: For David Brin and the rest of you
From: albm...@centroin.com.br
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
David Hobby wrote:
Or are you worried about energy being beamed down inefficiently, producing
much more heat than just the amount from people
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:10:33 -0700
Subject: For David Brin and the rest of you
From: hkeithhen...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
As of last April, there seems to be a solution to the
energy/carbon/climate problems, even water. Relatively cheap, less
than ten dollars a person.
John Barnes' Directive 51 went it one better - ALL petroleum and petroleum
products. It did devolve into the question of whether it was a centrally
organized conspiracy, preferably from abroad, or a spontaneous movement; in
fact, the entire US splits over that question, thanks to a
Ok - my take on it is that old, degenerate refers to the institutions of the
culture, not the biology of the race, and that those institutions strangle the
energy and desire to innovate of most bright people in the cradle.
First of all, there would be widespread corruption, and probably
This plays into some recent conversations about efficiency vs resilience.
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100
From: k...@stock-consulting.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Obama II
I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
would require that all programming for
Just so long as they don't say Existence is Feudal - Brin would have a fit!
Resistance, now ...
From: medieva...@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 21:00:47 -0400
Subject: Re: Existence
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
As long as they don't say Existence is futile.
In a message dated 5/13/2012
Prone to fads defines every urbanized civilization I've ever heard of, and
tribal societies are less given to innovation that he thinks, because the
traditional lore is a store of highly specialized local knowledge about
conditions whose changes are well understood. Even the odd
Let me join in the test.
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Subject: Testing...
From: char...@culturelist.org
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:04:27 +1000
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Testing…
1… 1…
Charlie
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a blast on his FB Wall!
Jon
At 08:00 PM Sunday 9/18/2011, Pat Mathews wrote:
My problem is that I have quite a bit of trouble
recognizing people
in a different context. So if Kat wants to poke me,
is this
catmountain in Tijeras? Kat Roberts from the SCA? Or
Kit Kat from
Two problems with the Brin list.
First, each message keeps coming up with the name of the individual sender as
primary and warning me This may not be *trustworthy*! Do you want to mark it
as safe?
Each individual sender? Give me a break!!! , And I note that hitting Reply
actually does send
Well, I got it, and since I didn't see my Reply message to the list pop up, I
figured there was smeting wrong and it wouldn;t take my reply.
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:00:42 -0500
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
From: ronn_blankens...@bellsouth.net
Subject:
My problem is that I have quite a bit of trouble recognizing people in a
different context. So if Kat wants to poke me, is this catmountain in
Tijeras? Kat Roberts from the SCA? Or Kit Kat from the Porn Page?
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:11:01 -0700
From:
Uncle Joe wasn't going to fight with troops and tanks on the ground, no. They
were in the same shape in 1945 as we'd have been if the Vietnam war had been to
the death on our own soil 25 years after we'd just been through a nasty war to
the death on our own soil - the Russian Revolution in
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From: albm...@centroin.com.br
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: RE: the Cold War
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:34:35 -0200
Pat Mathews wrote:
Of course, Russia and China didn't like each other any better
than we liked either one of them, or they, us. Still
I'm trying to imagine us as being in shape for any large enterprises in 1979,
and I was there and 40 years old at the time. Everything we'd started either in
the lush postwar years or in the wake of the Fourth Great Awakening had fizzled
out, the young people were moving into middle age, the
Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to you
hard-pressed Xers and your children in due time via the normal process of
inheritance, if the medical bills needed to keep us functioning don't eat every
last bit of it up.
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Oct 2010 09:14:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Down with the government
From: jwilliams4...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Pat Mathews mathew...@msn.com wrote:
Besides which, we greedy geezers will pass our ill-gotten wealth down to you
hard-pressed Xers and your
/
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:24:36 -0700
Subject: Re: Down with the government
From: jwilliams4...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Pat Mathews mathew...@msn.com wrote:
There is NO WAY an ordinary wage-earner could have saved enough to cover the
sort
I just downloaded Sword of the Lady and High King of Montival so I could have
the entire Emberverse series at my fingertips.
Also the Saga of the Volsungs, but beware of downloading anything with
footnotes. Someone should do this as a miniseries, instead.
Hmmm... a miniseries with a
Naah, nobody's home but us chickens. I'm not here, either.
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 05:26:44 -0700
From: malamute1...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Is Anybody Home?
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
I was thinking the list dropped me a well, but then again I haven't
Oh, wow. Aren't they lovely animals!
We get them out here in Albuquerque from time to time, and there's TV footage,
but I've never seen one live except in the Rio Grande Zoo.
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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:49:07 -0700
From: harrellmed...@yahoo.com
And what do you all think polyester is? Hah.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:10:37 -0500
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
From: ronn_blankens...@bellsouth.net
Subject: RE: Any comments on this piece?
At 07:15 AM Thursday 6/17/2010, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
I think they had one, but it's not working, and they don't know why.
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 07:11:07 -0700
Subject: Re: On Listmail
From: nick.arn...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com
Kudos to the Helvetian Confederation.
bob
From:
marco_pert...@yahoo.it marco_pert...@yahoo.it
To: worldhistor...@yahoogroups.com;
stirl...@yahoogroups.com
Cc:
sciencefictiongroup yahoogroups sciencefictiongr...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, March 27, 2010
11:38:44 AM
Subject:
[stirling]
Pong!
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Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 19:12:17 -0700
From: tship...@deru.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: ping
Ping!
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If this is consoling instead of making matters worse - I ran across the
following poem online. It's Seamus Heaney on the death of a sibling. Just in
case it makes matters worse for some people, I will Spoiler it. Get a hanky and
look out for that last line - it's explosive.
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
I am dreadfully sorry to hear this. Deepest sympathies, and may things go as
well as they can for your niece as well.
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 13:47:41 -0800
Subject: The worst
From: nick.arn...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
My friends I hate to
Because being a dictator is the creme de la creme of vampiredom. I don't have
to hunt them - I got me a ranch!
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:45:47 -0500
From: hob...@newpaltz.edu
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke:
OH, they're at half-mast in New Mexico, all right. Or were yesterday. I didn't
pass any today to notice. (Too busy with an ailing cat).
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From: ju...@zurg.net
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Flags?
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:17:32 -0600
I'm
There are lots of Terry Pratchett books with Vetenari in them, including Going
Postal - utterly delightful, that one!
I tried downloading some PDF files on the university's eReserve list and they
came out dreadfully tiny - and the print-size changer did not work, Not on PDF.
So I read the
We started with a plea for civility and niceness. Because it invoked religion
and the name of Jesus, the thread was promptly taken over by those who felt it
their bounden duty to object to the Christian content - not on the grunds that
they were not Christian, but because they consider it
!
From: char...@culturelist.org
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:24:50 +1000
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
On 23/09/2009, at 2:37 AM, Pat Mathews wrote:
We started with a plea for civility and niceness. Because it invoked
religion and the name of Jesus, the thread was promptly taken over
I have a Sony 505. The books on my reader are on my reader and on my desktop,
not on my account on someone else's server. If anyone wants to delete them
[think 1984] or whatever, they have to physically steal my reader and then
delete the book. I own them outright. Nobody else has any rights
Amen. I second, third, or thousandth the motion.
Pat
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From: lear...@mac.com
Subject: Wife's suggestion!
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:09:36 -0500
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
My wife suggested this. I always go along with her ideas:-)
learner
Begin forwarded
Actually, the best economic prediction I ever heard was in a song:
What goes up, must come down. Spinning wheel ,spiinnig around. Talk about your
troubles by the riverside. Ride a painted pony let the spinning wheel
And for the current decade, The party's over. It's time to call it a day.
I've noticed on this and every other list and forum I've ever been on -
any thread with the word Libertarian in the title has degenerated into a flame
war within a few days. I don't know why. But it's like a massive ad hominem
generator.
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From:
I love the title of this thread. From what I've been hearing about the Kindle,
it perfectly expresses the appropriate consumer reaction to it.
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:06:43 -0700
Subject: Re: The Poop on the Kindle
From: jwilliams4...@gmail.com
But only for the Kindle? Or is there a way to get Kindle books if all you have
is a Sony 505?
Pat, hopeful
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From: aking...@kornet.net
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: RE: Brin-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:40:03 +0900
David
And for that matter, why not bonobos instead of common chimps? They'd be a
faster, easier Uplift, wouldn't they?
Hmmm... why not dogs for fear they'd out-compete us? Or become such devoted
servants they'd pull a Humanoids on us?
Or worse yet, for fear they'd be just what the rest of the
What if they should get the flu?
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From: rceeber...@comcast.net
Seems like a lot of work to me.
Dogs are just not that bright to begin with, at least compared to other
species that did get uplifted.
I would think Swines would be easier.
xponent
For the predictions registry from the Beltway:
I think we will look back in 10 years' time and say we should not have
done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and
that that which is true in the 1930's is true in 2010.
--Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan, February 5, 1999
I believe five-leaved might be a better idea if he desires to be stoned.
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From: dml...@gmail.com
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Quiet
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:17:06 -0700
On Mar 17, 2009, at 7:07 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
since the
UBS is starting to look very, very bad.
I remember reading Earth and taking the Helvetian War for granted as the major
early-21st Century Crisis without bothering to wonder what triggered the public
mood of anger at their secrecy and covering up for dictators etc. Now, several
months into the
http://counterknowledge.com/2009/02/the-trouble-with-conspiracy-theories/
Basic thesis: little conspiracies exist all over the place. Global conspiracies
are un-doable given the inability to herd all those cats.
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(THAT'LL teach them to hit the mayor instead of some Joe Sixpack, won't it,
folks?)
Maryland Bill Would Bring Transparency to Use of SWAT Teams
Posted on February 6, 2009, 9:01am | Radley
Balko
hisname?
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Pat Mathews wrote:
I wrote a filk song entitled The Eagles picked up the ring about the
real end of LOTR. They flew it back to the Pentagon will publish
here on request.
Consider this to be a request. :)
Julia
I wrote a filk song entitled The Eagles picked up the ring about the real end
of LOTR. They flew it back to the Pentagon will publish here on request.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:25:13 -0800
Subject: Re: Br!n: Congratulations! Today you get rid
Yeah. I've been watching this unroll. Though to my shock and horror, I've
actually been seeing some of Rand's villains showing up in Washington whining
for their bailouts ... I had dismissed her as over-the-top and preachy and
impractical for decades!
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At least according to the local TV news tonight, they now have a first-rate
veterinary facility to treat their wounds. There were probably times when they
would have just been shot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: One
Ditto. Grrr... is a Billy Goat Gruff walking on MY bridge?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Monotonous posting
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:43:02 -0700
What will cause people to leave this list is trolls who have nothing
We used to have fifty such testing environments, until the feds decided they
had to micromanage us under the Interstate commerce clause - their excuse
being that any fungible items could end up in interstate commerce.
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To:
Who cares if the mice nibble the crust, as long as the bread is still there?
Mercedes Lackey, Storm Breaking
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:22:30 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Free Market
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:06
Nationalism is just another step in the ladder of Me and Not-Me, Family and
Not-Family, Tribe and Not-Tribe.And what is the next step after nationalism?
Judging from history and what I see around me, something very similar to
Citizen and Not-Citizen. A Citizen being defined as anyone of any
The age of the gymnasts is not an arbitrary rule that should be eliminated. My
daughter was in gymnastics for a while. Training at Olympic level is very hard
on growing bones and muscles, and it is easy for a youngster still growing to
do permanent damage to his or her body. My other daughter
Training is fine; competition at the Olympic level and the training necessary
for *that* is too much for growing bodies. Vault and beam are fine - kids do
that sort of thing for fun, in fact,and always have. But still, the Games
should be for adults.
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losers
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
---Pat Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Training is fine; competition at the Olympic level and the
training necessary for *that* is too much for growing
bodies. Vault and beam are fine - kids do that sort of thing
for fun, in fact,and always have
Wednesday 8/27/2008, Pat Mathews wrote:
Ah. Gotcha. Yeah - we played sports, but today? Play? What's that?
Something you make a playdate for. Don't get me started; I think my
grandbabies are hideously overprotected.
What do you do when several times each year in your town kids get
shot
I can't speak for other members of the list's silent majority. I, for one, see
another news article on some cult or its members run amok,yawn, and hit Delete.
Just thought you'd want to know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject:
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score
and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest.
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:56:26 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Greg Bear
On
And better practiced in his day than in ours! Despite his flirtation with an
Act that's becoming our governmental standard.
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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:49:22 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Governments...
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
BTW - when you talk about people working longer, don't assume we are all
leaving the work force early because we want to. While firing people because of
their age is illegal in the United States, giving them poor performance
reviews, making their lives miserable, etc can be done and often is.
I have been trying to live within my means. In May my car needed $2,000 worth
of repairs. June my vet bill ran over $600. This month the plumber is at my
house roto-rooting the main line and the line between the sink and the washing
machine. I could, of course, cut down the tree whose roots
Actually, that is standard Roman Catholic teaching as well. Except that a lot
of American Catholics don't do it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: memes, or genes...
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:55:02 -0500
On Jul 26, 2008,
Actually the colors are or, argent, gules, vert, azul, purpure, and sable.
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:07:18 -0500
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Indigo and Umami
At 03:14 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:04:02 -0500
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Showing again that the underlying problem is that people must
renounce greed and selfishness and replace them with cooperation and altruism.
. . . ronn! :)
Great idea. Wrong species. E.O.
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:48:18 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: USA presidential race(ism) On Thu, Jun
19, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both
McCain and Obama were
Deborah Harrell says: I think we ought to have adaptation classes for those
unfamiliar with our ideal values.
I totally agree. Enrollees will include a good many people who think that
granting habeas corpus to accesed enemies of the State means we will all be
murdered in our beds; those who
One more answer to Debbi - this time about GreenTechnology - as I sit here in
my midcentury box in the desert with the swamp cooler running - people used to
build for the climate. There once was a huge body of knowledge about how to do
so. No high tech required; just the good services of an
Some of the criticism I get on a forum supposedly dedicated to intellectual
analysis of a theoretical book has so often degenerated into name calling that
they set up a special Flame Wars thread just for that. Did it work? No.
So be prepared to filter out a lot of Fascist! Well, you're a
Actually, you can get much the same result with vast numbers of jobs for women
and high-paying jobs that call for more education. That are actually accessible
to low-income or third world women by following a few straightforward steps,
results guaranteed if she works at it. That will result in
Great idea! I'm looking forward to meeting your extended family in your new
tenement apartment. Especially the little kids.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Adressing Global Warming
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:36:53 +
If you go to the Powell's website, you'll find a blurb for a book which
described in detail how the author's family lived on potatoes and bland,
processed (or packaged) products scavenged... during one spell of poverty.
Enjoy them, mashed, fried, and mixed with onions.
Blessings on her and your dad and you. My sister died the same way, so I know
how it hurts.
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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:19:08 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Courage in facing death
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Years ago, someone asked me who my
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF202-Post_Apocalyptic.jpg
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:39:00 -0500 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com From: [EMAIL
PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Interesting Day Good Friday! Happy Purim, Eid,
etc... Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008 By DAVID
Suppose you are a brain in a jar, a prisoner in Plato's cave, or in the Matrix.
Then you have two choices. You can play the game as if it were serious, as all
god game players do, and treat real life as real; or you can do as Plato;s
escaped prisoner and Neo did, work your way free, and try
The story you're loking for is Robert Heinlein's Jerry Was a Man
Never judge a book by its movie.
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:26:35 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ape Genius on NOVA last night
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
I wrote:
snip
Where can you get a 200 pound cat? Go into the woods in any mountain range in
the Southwest and Rockey Mountain West with a chunk of raw meat and call Here,
gato, gato, gato.
Never judge a book by its movie.
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:44:14 -0500
From:
Two reasons besides patrilocality that males might be more valuable:
Heavy labor it takes a lot of muscle mass - especially upper body muscle mass -
to do.
Nonmechanized warfare, ditto.
So you want sons to push the ox-plow and sons to wield a sword.
Never judge a book by its movie.
Great! I had a meeting that ran past 8pm Monday
Never judge a book by its movie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: David Brin on History Channel 1/21/08
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:11:29 -0800
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:49 PM,
That's odd. It was #3 that I found unfunny.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: On the American Standard front.
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:45:00 -0700
On Jan 9, 2008, at 6:41 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Some funny
The President of the United States should not have the power to declare what
science teachers should teach. That it's even a remote possibility is a sign of
federal mission creep - and presidential mission creep on top of it - so severe
I'd be sorely tempted to vote for Ron Paul if I weren't a
But in a caste system such as India has, you also had downward mobility. A
person could lose caste in various ways and sink downwards, especially as
conditions were so crowded and harsh the very lowest of castes would probably
not have reproduced themselves.
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With deepest sympathies. I'm sorry to hear that.
Blessings,
Pat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: A Family Tragedy
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:54:53 -0600
- Original Message -
Oh, no!
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To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Pratchett has Alzheimer's
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:46:10 -0500
http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html
I'll warrant we've got a fan or two
Does Satan have retractable claws at the end of his paws?
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:24:41 -0600
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Correlation v. causality
At 07:06 PM Thursday
Lakoff makes more sense if you add the concept of freely chosen obligations
versus enforced obligations - I forget the precise terminology. The latter
means that you do what you do because you must - it's your duty as whatever
your role is. Dharma, in the Hindu usage. The former is, you freely
Not with the Santa Ana blowing so fiercely, you don't.
Note: our huge fire in Los Alamos was caused by a controlled burn (a tactic
the firefighters are very well aware of, upsides and downsides both) that
got out of control due to a strong shifting wind.
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You
Sandia National Labs announced it is cutting off all access to it's
collection of hard-copy content to save money and re-engineer library
services for the electronic age. Eventually (note the disjuncture!) the
people will have access to a fully electronic library.
Jean, I'll send you the
Sandia couldn't keep the hard-copy library open until they had the
electronic one in place? Usually when you replace one thing with another,
you allow for some interim coverage. I'm taking your old coat; eventually
you'll get a new one. Meanwhile, you can freeze. Gaah.
Patricia Mathews
Oh, you're out there! Ouch...
After the Cerro Grande fire up in Los Alamos some years ago, I bought
soft-sided cat carriers for my fellows and made them as attractive as
possible in hopes they'd sleep in them. I keep them on waist-high bookcases
one near each dor. That way in case we have to
From: Ray Ludenia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Turkey, Genocide Congress.
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:43:33 +1000
On 16/10/2007, at 5:01 AM, Gary Nunn wrote:
Even if it WAS genocide, the question
Adding a nice little purr to the hybrid motors might prove to catch the
public's fancy, so maybe we're not just accomodating 0.5% of the population.
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Albert, quit telling
While we're on other languages,
Eres tarde, Frodo. Los Estados Unidos tiene el Uno Anillo y está usándolo
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I want to add my two cents about car-free anything, since the University of
New Mexico is working very hard to become a car-free campus - at the age of
68 and in hot weather, walking any distance is exhausting. There have been
days I've tried to do so for my health and have come home and been
Wait a minute - I'm a liberal and I took an executive function test a lot
like that only more complex and got a lousy 108 on it.
And how is being more responsive to a new signal a brain DEFECT?
Pat, needs to study to become an idiot savant.
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The shape looks canine to me.
Pat
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From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
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Your kitty died? I'm sorry to hear that.
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From: Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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She has a hedge fund job? Better get her resumes out - they are crashing
like cheap pinatas at a birthday party.
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From: John Garcia
I am deleting, unread, all posts with this title because nobody is saying
anything new. Everybody has their minds made up and all the force of their
deepest values behind it.
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