Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-09-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:25 PM Monday 9/8/2008, John Williams wrote: Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] the way i see it is focusing on cash returns is a BAD thing no matter how efficient it makes the market: How would you allocate resources among all the people who say if I only had this then I could

Re: war on the environment...

2008-09-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:34 PM Monday 9/8/2008, John Williams wrote: Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] You obviously have B.S. in statistics. You obviously are overestimating me. You're saying that what you wrote earlier doesn't come up to the level of B.S.? . . . ronn

Re: Science and Ideals.

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:40 PM Sunday 9/7/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: Yup, those are the two laws. Loving God with all one's heart, soul, and mind and loving one's neighbor as oneself are the two Great Commandments that Jesus refers too. So what if you don't believe in God and your neighbors are alcholic

Re: Science and Ideals.

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:40 PM Sunday 9/7/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: Yup, those are the two laws. Loving God with all one's heart, soul, and mind and loving one's neighbor as oneself are the two Great Commandments that Jesus refers too. So what if you don't believe in God At this holiday season in December,

RE: Science and Ideals.

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:18 PM Sunday 9/7/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Dan M wrote: Earlier than Jesus, Eammial (sp) one of the founding rabbis of the Talmud has been quoted saying something very similar to what Jesus said as the second law about 100 years earlier. There's a story that

RE: Science and Ideals.

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:44 PM Sunday 9/7/2008, Dan M wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Pensinger Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:13 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Science and Ideals. I'm trying to

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:20 PM Monday 9/1/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! wrote: The 4% inflation is unacceptable statement was the Democrat's ridicule of Ford's Whip Inflation Now! campaign and it's WIN buttons. I'm sure they picked the worst figure they could find, just as whoever from the other side who came

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:03 PM Monday 9/1/2008, John Williams wrote: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] So who can we blame for poor leadership and the complete lack of a comprehensive energy policy? The same one we blame for poor humanity leadership and complete lack of a comprehensive intelligent-design

Evolution versus religion

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Note how Thorax gets it exactly backwards (according to contemporary evolutionary biologists) in the second panel http://www.comics.com/comics/chickweed/archive/images/chickweed2008090116457.jpg . . . ronn! :) ___

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:41 PM Monday 9/1/2008, John Williams wrote: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is important is that a leader take responsibility for his administration. It is important that I am able to distinguish between someone that has done a good job and someone that hasn't when I cast my

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:50 AM Tuesday 9/2/2008, John Williams wrote: Waste is not something that can be efficiently identified and reduced by politicians. Indeed even casual observation suggests that the opposite is the more common outcome. . . . ronn! :) ___

Re: war on the environment...

2008-09-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:19 PM Wednesday 9/3/2008, John Williams wrote: Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] i think it is already too late, considering humanity's greed, and lack of foresight. Could be. I had a heck of a time getting a statistically significant r-squared with a 4th order curve fit to the

One word you can say on television

2008-09-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/02/tv.what.the.frak.ap/index.html?imw=Yiref=mpstoryemail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Sore losers

2008-09-01 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:45 PM Monday 9/1/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: aren't you being self righteous about not being self righteous, olin? if intolerance of intolerance is being self righteous, then i pleasd guilty, too. jon I'm prejudiced against bigots.

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:17 PM Friday 8/29/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! wrote: Being there. A faulty memory is a poor cite. That is an obvious statement with which anyone would have to agree. ;) Not only wasn't inflation anywhere near 20% during the Carter administration, Somebody has

Re: Personhood (was: Sarah Palin)

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:54 PM Saturday 8/30/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: When pro-life advocates start defending all life I'll take them seriously. Olin So you're a strict vegan? No Wisecracks About 26 Light Years Maru . . . ronn! :) ___

Re: Honest terminology

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:30 PM Saturday 8/30/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 30 Aug 2008, at 23:53, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: Just think of how many children's' lives in Africa could be saved with the resources used to support the world's first surviving set of

Re: Honest terminology

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:13 AM Sunday 8/31/2008, William T Goodall wrote: Running gag Maru I hope someone finally caught him and gave him the Heimlich maneuver. . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Abortion (was Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin)

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:16 PM Sunday 8/31/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 1 Sep 2008, at 01:32, David Hobby wrote: No, it's the honest terminology. Abortion kills children, very young children who can't survive outside the womb, and who wouldn't count as human at all except for their human DNA. Now

Re: Teaching multiple models of science

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:40 PM Sunday 8/31/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 31 Aug 2008, at 19:13, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: Dan M wrote: I wouldn't put it that way, because there are a wealth of possible future tests. And theories that have been falsified are still taught in science class...in fact

Re: Teaching multiple models of science

2008-08-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:40 PM Sunday 8/31/2008, William T Goodall wrote: I was taught that 22/7 was a handy approximation for pi but I wasn't taught that it was pi. Just like those things sold at McDonald's and similar fast food places may be handy but are at best approximations of pie. Caution: Filling

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-08-29 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:30 AM Friday 8/29/2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: I was just checking the evolution of PPI (PPI and CPI measure inflation in the USA), and noticed that _this year_ the accumulated inflation is about 10% (!!!) Welcome to Hyperinflation. If you want any hints on how to survive and prosper under

Re: Welcome to Hyperinflation!

2008-08-29 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:29 AM Friday 8/29/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! wrote: Or just remember the Carter administration. He Said During The Campaign That Four Percent Inflation Was Unacceptable So When He Got Into Office He Made It Twenty-Plus Percent Maru Cite? Doug Being there. . .

Re: Sore losers

2008-08-28 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:06 PM Wednesday 8/27/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote: Ronn! wrote: What do you do when several times each year in your town kids get shot dead in the park, walking down the street, standing on the balcony outside their apartment door, or when a bullet comes through the window or wall

RE: Sore losers

2008-08-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:13 PM 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

RE: Sore losers

2008-08-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:41 PM Wednesday 8/27/2008, Pat Mathews wrote: Bummer! Where were you living? Because my daughters escaped that, and this town is a lot quieter now than it was then. Just recent events on the local news in Birmingham, AL. And I'm not counting things like the discovery about a week or so

Re: Br¡n: What's in the works?

2008-08-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:57 PM Monday 8/25/2008, John Garcia wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Chris Frandsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember Remember 4 November! I do remember Jimmy Carter, Including his response to what happened on his watch on that date? . . . ronn! :)

Re: Br¡n: What's in the works?

2008-08-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:03 PM Monday 8/25/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: I am not sure how Obama will support the scientific community other than getting out of the business of trying to make scientific reports match political agendas. I suspect his economic social and foreign policy initiatives to get us back

Re: McCain Positions

2008-08-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:27 PM Monday 8/25/2008, John Williams wrote: I was writing about economics, not morality. But since you asked. I do not think it is fair for someone to take my money and give it to agricultural corporations. Who do you think it is fair for someone to take your money and give it to? .

Re: McCain Positions

2008-08-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:16 PM Monday 8/25/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: (I'm 45, born the same week Kennedy was shot) ObSF: And the week _Doctor Who_ premiered . . . . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: World Trade

2008-08-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:56 AM Monday 8/25/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 25 Aug 2008, at 14:18, John Garcia wrote: It's clear to me that whatever else is going on, those currently on top are determined to exact some payback from those who once ran that country. And that's never worked well either.

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:25 AM Monday 8/25/2008, John Garcia wrote: McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. So? What does that have to do with being President? I dunno. I kept looking without success for the scene in one of Harry Turtledove's alternate history books which matched the cover illustration

Re: Greg Bear

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:43 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: -- Mauro Diotallevi The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. Around what axis? . . . ronn! :) ___

Re: Greg Bear

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:56 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old

Re: Greg Bear

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:04 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to

Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote: Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is this offering: Thirty years ago he was always a young man . . . Tempus Fugit Maru . . . ronn! :)

Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And arrived there the previous night. (Of course, it's been over 25 years since I last heard the limerick,

Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote: Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable

The Price of Grammatical Perfection

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
$3,035. http://bookology.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/the-price-of-grammatical-perfection/ Its A Crime Maru . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Greg Bear

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:35 PM Friday 8/22/2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal intussception*, or CRI . . . Didn't work on *that*, either. Two problems here: First

A Physicist, A Chemist, and A Statistician . . .

2008-08-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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Re: Apology (was Re: Off-topic., monotonous posting (was Child-killing religion))

2008-08-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:38 AM Thursday 8/21/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 21 Aug 2008, at 14:07, Pat Mathews wrote: 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

Re: Apology (was Re: Off-topic., monotonous posting (was Child-killing religion))

2008-08-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:33 AM Thursday 8/21/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote: Ronn! Blankenship wrote: If they are indeed _silent_, what makes you think they agree with you? He's a mind reader. Doesn't believe in religion, but does believe in telepathy. :-) The Amazing William Maru --[Lance] I was being

Happy Birthday!

2008-08-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Ray Bradbury is 88 today (Friday). ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Celebrating 140 years of talking like Donald Duck . . .

2008-08-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
On this date in * 1868, French astronomer Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discovers helium ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Nice of him . . .

2008-08-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
On this date in * 1941, Adolf Hitler, orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Sanity prevails

2008-08-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:02 PM Monday 8/18/2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote: pitch manure, What's that? Required skill for politicians and other bureaucrats. . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: True Love

2008-08-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
IIRC these finding were announced several years ago. . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: OK, I ROTFLOL . . .

2008-08-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:39 PM Friday 8/8/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: Well, I guess it falls into the category of what would you do with it if you caught it? .. :) Give it as a gift? :D AoF 4 Maru . . . ronn! :) ___

Re: OK, I ROTFLOL . . .

2008-08-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:23 PM Friday 8/8/2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 7, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: http://xkcd.com/459/ Meh. Not even in the upper third of xkcd, in my estimation. If you are really into that film, maybe. Perhaps strangely, those are not the people who seem to find

Re: The Nigerian man who has 86 wives

2008-08-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:23 PM Thursday 8/7/2008, William T Goodall wrote: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7547148.stm By Andrew Walker BBC News, Bida, Nigeria Nigerian Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 84, has advised other men not to follow his example and marry 86

Group protests LHC startup . . .

2008-08-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2008/08/group-protests-treatment-of-hardrons-at-cern.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

OK, I ROTFLOL . . .

2008-08-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
http://xkcd.com/459/ . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The First Event

2008-08-05 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:57 PM Tuesday 8/5/2008, David Hobby wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: Jon Louis Mann wrote: sounds like peter hamilton's new trilogy http://www.peterfhamilton.co.uk/index.php?page=Void_Trilogy Which I've not yet read, even though I quite like Hamilton. I own a copy of Dreaming

Re: Alastair Reynolds

2008-08-05 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:04 PM Monday 8/4/2008, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 4 Aug 2008 at 16:45, Olin Elliott wrote: Has anyone here read Alastair Reynolds -- Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark. I've been reading his books for the past few months and really loving them, but he doesn't seem to be that

Re: Wait how long for the file to download?

2008-08-05 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:18 PM Tuesday 8/5/2008, Nick Arnett wrote: I have to use MS Excel in my work. Actually, it has always been an application that I thought does a lot of cool things... but boy, it crashes a lot on my desktop machine. I upgraded to the latest version, finally got used to the weird ribbon

Re: Top-posting...

2008-08-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:01 PM Monday 8/4/2008, Charlie Bell wrote: I'm noticing a few people replying at the top of the email they're responding to. This is a polite reminder that it's convention on this list to reply *below* the quoted text, and only quote relevant text. It maintains the flow of conversation by

Re: Alastair Reynolds

2008-08-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:45 PM Monday 8/4/2008, Olin Elliott wrote: Has anyone here read Alastair Reynolds -- Revelation Space, Chasm City, Redemption Ark. I've been reading his books for the past few months and really loving them, but he doesn't seem to be that well known among science fiction readers I've

Re: The First Event

2008-08-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:05 PM Monday 8/4/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: It happened, so it's possible. As we only have one sample, we have only speculation as to how improbable it was (and that goes for both the formation of the universe and abiogenesis). What we don't have is any reason at all, in this

Re: Religion kills

2008-08-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:50 PM Monday 8/4/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: By atheists and in the name of atheism aren't the same thing. It's about, as was mentioned a few posts back, ideology. When beliefs get in the way of reason. And in that sense, Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Spain under the

Inventor unveils $100,000 jet pack

2008-07-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
(Not really a jet.) http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/07/30/jetpack.unveiled.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: World Trade

2008-07-31 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:45 PM Thursday 7/31/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 10:58 PM Wednesday 7/30/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: yet, many countries still allow forced child labor and other forms of economic slavery, so americans can shop at walmart. you can't tell me

Re: World Trade

2008-07-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:58 PM Wednesday 7/30/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: dan, of course ancient societies had little control over their lives, but we live in the 21st century now, and it still goes on. i am not denying that wealth can be created and technology increases production. it is also unquestionable

Bush Plans to Invade Titan in October!

2008-07-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Carolina Martinez 818-354-9382 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 NASA Headquarters, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lori Stiles 520-360-0574 University of Arizona, Tucson [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWS RELEASE: 2008-152

Re: Bushco

2008-07-28 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:50 PM Monday 7/28/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: that certainly contributed to why france and germany were so adamant against the invasion, because it would benefit europe if the price of gas in europe and america were to be more equitable. I for one wouldn't have complained had they

Re: Global Economy

2008-07-28 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:03 PM Monday 7/28/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: you are right about bushco using his presidency to enrich his cronies, lance, but i doubt he comprehends what an enormous deleterious effect his policies have had on the global economy. The global economy is still growing at 4%.

Re: memes, or genes...

2008-07-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:33 AM Sunday 7/27/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 27 Jul 2008, at 04:58, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:47 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, William T Goodall wrote: Nonsense only requires one answer. As does knee-jerk prejudice. Like the knee-jerk 'religion is not sick twisted

Re: Google, video DRM, spammers flatulent llamas.

2008-07-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:41 AM Sunday 7/27/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Gary Nunn wrote: PS - nothing really here about flatulent llamas, just thought I would see if anyone was paying attention. Darn. I live near an alpaca farm, and wondered if what you had to say might be applicable

Re: Llama flatulence

2008-07-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:41 AM Sunday 7/27/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: Bovine flatulence more damaging to planet than cars? Alpacas and llamas have stomachs with multiple compartments and expel approximately a barrel of methane a day. Multiply that by billions, and all the more reason to become vegetarian...

Re: memes, or genes...

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:21 AM Saturday 7/26/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 26 Jul 2008, at 16:49, Doug Pensinger wrote: William wrote: Is there no limit to the depraved wickedness of the religionists? What's wicked about bringing children into the world that you have the resources to support

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:35 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: I just don't see it happening according to their script. Of those 8 or 10, how many are going to follow their parent's ideology lock step? How many will rebel and provide a backlash? How isolated can they remain in a society

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:09 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: If our species were made up entirely of individuals who approached decisions, especially important ones like whether it's wise to reproduce, with as much thought toward collective benefit as individual gratification, Perhaps that would be

Re: memes, or genes...

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:05 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Wayne Eddy wrote: I get annoyed with people who think that mankind is a blight on the world and that the world would be a better place if homo sapiens dies out or civilisation totally collapses. That makes at least two of us. . . . ronn! :)

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:55 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: there has always been a gap between the haves and have nots with those at the bottom providing the labor and resources for those at the top. if they were really so enlightened they would prohibit the very greed As the hot dog vendor said

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:44 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote: To be honest, I think the only real solution is a world government that has the power and the resources to correct severe problems. If one nation tries to do it alone, their motivations might be questioned and for good reason (see Iraq). I

Re: memes, or genes...

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:17 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: You quoted the beliefs, but you failed to explain why the beliefs described in each quote are perverted. I presume you think the answer is self-evident, but for those of us dummies with IQs that fall slightly under 200 would you

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:12 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: are you suggesting it is rational to have more enlightened children to balance those who are raised by cults and jihadists, etc.? the mormons and various religious cults may not have taken over the world, but they are still

Re: memes, or genes...

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:48 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: One way to win an argument is to nit pick your opponent to death. My I.Q. is closer to 100 than 200, and I get it, Ronn. Jon Oh, I get it, all right. William is a very intelligent person with some interesting things to say on

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:01 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: So if its a numbers game, how do you win by not having children? actually you lose by having too many children and overpopulating the planet... the argument you should be forwarding is that affluent societies stop consuming so

Re: memes, or genes...

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:47 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, William T Goodall wrote: Nonsense only requires one answer. As does knee-jerk prejudice. . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Genesis

2008-07-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:52 PM Saturday 7/26/2008, Wayne Eddy wrote: - Original Message - From: Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:40 AM Subject: Genesis it may well come to that, bruce, or the problem may be

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-24 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:19 PM Wednesday 7/23/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Some of us get it. But not enough, not by far, not yet .. Is there any other way to help them to get it than to keep reminding them? . . . ronn! :) Now on that, I

RE: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-24 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:39 AM Thursday 7/24/2008, Curtis Burisch wrote: It's an unstable situation, implying change. One way or another it will sort itself out. For what it's worth, I'm pretty confident we'll sort the energy crisis out completely within the next five years or so. In what way, specifically?

No worries, then . . .

2008-07-24 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Utilities: Grid can handle influx of electric cars Which draws more juice from the electric grid, a big-screen plasma television or recharging a plug-in hybrid car? The nation's electric grid can handle a mass conversion to plug-in hybrid cars like this one, utility executives say. The

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:34 PM Monday 7/21/2008, hkhenson wrote: At 12:00 PM 7/21/2008, you wrote: Keith wrote If someone in the area can think of another venue to talk about dollar a gallon gasoline, I found it interesting that over the weekend I heard a sound bite on the news from Al Gore where he was also

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:06 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, at 9:29 PM, hkhenson wrote: I am not optimistic that this will be done. If this or some other really huge supply of primary energy is not found, we are going to be in for some nasty times. The other way the energy

Re: Indigo and Umami

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:14 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:02 AM Wednesday 7/23/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 10:06 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 22, 2008, at 9:29 PM, hkhenson wrote: I am not optimistic that this will be done. If this or some other really huge

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:23 AM Wednesday 7/23/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:02 AM Wednesday 7/23/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 10:06 PM Tuesday 7/22/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Jul 22, 2008

Re: Not the face of Jesus

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Whassamatter? You didn't like the subject line Meat your maker? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/22/meat-your-maker/ . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:32 PM Wednesday 7/23/2008, hkhenson wrote: ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l I'm speechless, too! . . . ronn! :P Professional Smart-Aleck. Do Not Attempt. ___

Re: Dollar a gallon gasoline

2008-07-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:39 PM Wednesday 7/23/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 03:32 PM Wednesday 7/23/2008, hkhenson wrote: ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l I'm speechless, too

Re: Denver/Denvention

2008-07-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:26 AM Monday 7/21/2008, hkhenson wrote: It's a bit late to be mentioning this, but sometimes there are reasons not to let certain people get organized. I expect to be in Denver during the Worldcon. As most of you know, I have been working on an energy project that's large enough to replace

From New Scientist: Asteroid switched Mars's magnetic field on and off

2008-07-19 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Maybe . . . http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19926655.900-asteroid-switched-marss-magnetic-field-on-and-off.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

READ ME NOW! -- Upgrade to Liquid Story Binder XE

2008-07-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
I let you know about this program for writers back in October when they offered version 1.71 Giveaway of the Day has posted an upgrade to version 2.91. Unfortunately, I didn't see it until late, so if this is the first you are hearing of the upgrade (What? You didn't sign up for GotD the

Re: Computer Security

2008-07-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:56 PM Wednesday 7/16/2008, John Garcia wrote: There are other problems that have nothing to do with one O/S vs another. A disgruntled network engineer in San Francisco has apparently locked everyone out of the city's WAN.

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:35 PM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote: Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM: Now how about an actually helpful response for those who do not have access to another computer at home? Well, how about this: Before plugging your new computer into a network

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:12 PM Tuesday 7/15/2008, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Jul 2008, at 00:24, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:56 AM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote: Charlie Bell said the following on 7/15/2008 4:47 AM: ...and for the 95% of home PC users who buy a PC at PC World or Walmart

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:56 AM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote: Charlie Bell said the following on 7/15/2008 4:47 AM: ...and for the 95% of home PC users who buy a PC at PC World or Walmart or from Dell, and plug it straight in to their modem when they get it home? I don't have a good answer for them.

Apparently Iraq is the new Nigeria

2008-07-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Arrived in my inbox this morning: Hello, I hope my email meets you well. I am in need of your assistance. My name is SGT JOEY JONES.I am a military attache with the Engineering unit here in Ba'qubah Iraq for the united states, we have about $20 Million American dollars here which is

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