Re: Global Warming

2008-04-30 Thread Russell Chapman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: China has the coal reserves to keep up this rate of increase, and it's at the heart of their ecconomic expansion. At this rate, by 2015, they'll have about twice the output of Europe and the US combined. That's why getting the cost of green technology down is

Re: Global Warming

2008-04-30 Thread Russell Chapman
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Russell Chapman wrote: The same source puts Brazil at 5th in the world for the same reason - ironically due to US AGW prevention measures The deforestation in Brazil has _zero_ correlation with AGW prevention, biofuels, or anything like that. It's just

Re: Adressing Global Warming---L4

2008-04-27 Thread Russell Chapman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote lots of interesting stuff which raised a couple of quick questions for me: 1. Why the time limit on nuclear energy? Even if every capable nation ramped up plant construction enormously (and I hope they do), there is enough uranium in Australia alone to supply their

Re: Texas

2008-03-09 Thread Russell Chapman
jon louis mann wrote: i know why they have all those signs, don't mess with texas... years ago, driving through the panhandle, i was pulled over for driving over the speed limit (keeping up with traffic). i suspect it might have something to do with my california plates. i was ordered to

Re: Godliness

2008-02-26 Thread Russell Chapman
jon louis mann wrote: Well, I think that type of god would be a very poor excuse for God. It reduces God to the mundane, and removes the transcendental nature of God. Dan M. I prefer a mundane god, myself, or perhaps a species evolving to the point of singularity and modifying its own

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-21 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: The arguments of the global warming deniers has so far run like this: 1) There's no such thing. 2) There is but humans have nothing to do with causing it. 3) We do cause it but getting a bit warmer is a good thing. 4) We do cause it and it's a bad thing but

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

2008-02-21 Thread Russell Chapman
Charlie Bell wrote: On 21/02/2008, at 8:26 PM, Russell Chapman wrote: It's all down to which data you pick to base the claim on, and which you ignore (and both sides of the AGW debate are doing both every day). There's only one side... well, one that's actually true. But any time

Re: New Anonymous Vid

2008-02-06 Thread Russell Chapman
snip This Cult is Nothing but a psychotically driven pyramid scheme. Why are you, the news media. Afraid of discussing these matters? It is your duty to report on these matters. You are Failing in your Duty. Their activities make them an affront to freedom. Remember. All that is necessary.

Re: CoS in the news

2008-01-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote: 1) Whacked my toe yesterday morning, hurt like the dickens, wasn't sure I should try to get X-rays or anything (and I didn't want to, truth be told), so I asked a mailing list and the consensus was what I wrote above. Decided not to go, toe still hurts, but not as

Re: Mac cult attacks

2007-10-17 Thread Russell Chapman
Andrew Crystall wrote: People carry spare batteries for electrical equipment, including mobiles, all the time. I keep a spare, charged mobile battery in my backpack. I'm curious what battery life you get from your phone. I bought mine because it was so tiny, and it connects via bluetooth

Re: Mac cult attacks

2007-10-17 Thread Russell Chapman
Andrew Crystall wrote: Tiny is bad, afaik. I want one which is deacent sized so I can hit the keys. And something like bluetooth afaik is a gimmick. I have a laptop for that... Bluetooth is what makes tiny so great for me. As soon as I get into either car, the phone connects and I can

Re: ban lawns

2007-09-25 Thread Russell Chapman
Ray Ludenia wrote: Maybe in your neck of the woods, Rob. In Melbourne and most of the state of Victoria (and much of the rest of Australia), watering lawns is a big no-no. Of course, a significant region of Victoria (not that far from Melbourne) suffered terrible flooding with loss of

Re: Deathly Hallows - no spoilers

2007-07-24 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote: And a mom I know has a daughter reading it, albeit slowly, and the mom wanted to know who lived and who died, so I let her know. I was all set to e-mail someone here who had already finished it, but she said she could wait for me to finish. And given what I know now,

Re: Fake Sci-Fi Heroics 1979-1980

2007-05-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Horn, John wrote: Maybe. But it definitely illustrates that if you want to keep a conspiracy like this secret, you need to keep the number of people who know about it to a very, very few. Not the thousands or hundreds of thousands needed for something like 9/11. Or the downing of TWA flight

Re: Online games

2006-05-08 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: One night, Ryan was able to scare up an open race one night and was completely smoked by a guy in a 240SX (the same car I drive) with a top speed of 299 MPH. Our top speed is somewhere in the very low 200s. This is exactly what's wrong with online gaming. I am a *very*

Re: Paging Alfred Hitchcock . . .

2006-05-02 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: and in the spirit of protecting their nest, one of them attacks me every time I go to or near the mailbox. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to solve the problem which does not involve destroying the nest and any eggs/babies which may be in it or waiting until

Re: Hello (hello, hello)

2006-04-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/25/worst.songs/index.html Howcum no one here came up with #4? Yep - truly nauseating - but the wierd thing is that all these songs were incredibly popular at the time. They are nearly all top 10 hits, many of them held number

Br!n-L anniversary date

2006-04-28 Thread Russell Chapman
I happened to be looking for an old email in my mail folders when I came across some stuff I had saved from mid 1996 from the list. I know we went through all this 5 years ago, but I can't remember - did we ever determine when the list actually started? I'm sure there are people here who were

Re: Fwd: Timing's Everything

2006-04-05 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. You strange Americans... I still remember celebrating 12:34 5/6/78, which for me occurred on June 5th, but applied equally to the USA on May 6th.

Re: News

2006-03-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Charlie Bell wrote: Second, we get married and make honest peoples of each other. So we are. I'm going back to Cyprus, we'll try to file a prospective marriage visa within a couple of weeks, and hopefully this'll be the last enforced separation we have to deal with. Congrats! Hey, with

Re: Hello (hello, hello)

2006-03-22 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: No, you're wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. This is the correct Justin Hayward: The summer sun is fading as the year grows old And darker days are drawing near. The winter winds will be much colder Now you're not here. 50 points to anyone other than Charlie who can name the

Re: Hello...

2006-02-21 Thread Russell Chapman
Charlie Bell wrote: Hey chaps and chapesses, Thought I'd pop in to see how things are. Hey Charlie! Are you still in the Med? Many old hands still here, just not as vociferous as we all used to be. Cheers Russell C. --- This email

Re: Cold Pictures

2006-02-16 Thread Russell Chapman
Andrew Paul wrote: Finally got around to setting up a Flickr account, largely cos I have some pics of where I am currently working in Mongolia, thought you may be interested, esp Debbie as there is a pic of some very cute Mongolian horses grazing on the Gobi (There are no fences, and was a

Re: Question for Aussies

2006-01-31 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 1/31/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the usual ingredients in a meat pie? AFOAA (a friend of an acquaintance) has opened up a restaurant in Austin selling Australian-style meat pies, and I'd like to find out before I

Re: Nuclear Iran

2006-01-15 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert Seeberger wrote: We (the international community) can always resort to a MAD-like position to enforce anti-proliferation. (In fact that might be an inevitability) A formalization of the Nuclear Club would be a sign that such is indeed on the way. But isn't that what the Security

Re: Having children 'is bad for your mental health'

2006-01-15 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: If you thought that the joys of watching your young ones grow up was one of life's simple pleasures, think again. Parenthood is actually bad for your mental health, according to the latest research. Questions included how often you felt lonely, you felt depressed,

Re: My annual Xmas tirade... Was RE: An armed society ...

2005-12-21 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: Microsoft attained its dominant position in the personal computer software business through 1) Luck 2) Illegal business practices 3) The mistakes of its competitors and since a) Luck eventually runs out b) Microsoft is now closely scrutinised to ensure it doesn't

Re: Help me identify 80's cop show...

2005-12-12 Thread Russell Chapman
Andrew Paul wrote: That sounds like Chiefs, which I cant say I saw, and seems to be a movie. http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/652 1983, but it has many of the elements that Gary noted, such as taking place over a long time frame. Charlton Heston as well! IMDB shows it

Re: My annual Xmas tirade... Was RE: An armed society ...

2005-12-05 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: PS: Much as I want to, I cannot say that I have never set foot inside a Wal-Mart. Once, in San Diego, I went into one to extract my wife and child who, ignoring my protests, went in to some kind of super ultra mega Wal-Mart monstrosity to buy a pair of sunglasses. I've

Re: Scouted: The Sony Backdoor

2005-11-16 Thread Russell Chapman
Kevin Street wrote: Could we be witnessing the Hindenburg-style crash n' burn of the DRM meme in real time? It's hard to believe any consumers would just placidly accept the installation of DRM software on their machines after this. I'd like to think that, but while the message is big news

Re: 4thReichKKKlan:

2005-10-20 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert Seeberger wrote: Allow me to step out on a limb here. The people on the bottom can do without the people on the top much better than the people on the top could do without the people on the bottom. I wonder... If that were true, why aren't they? Why are there ghettos, why is

Re: D'oh! - Is nothing sacred???

2005-10-18 Thread Russell Chapman
Gary Nunn wrote: So MBC is making some changes as the characters go from American to Arab. They will remove references to things forbidden by the Koran, such as bacon, beer, and other references that might be construed as offensive. Before anyone does this, they should load the scripts

Re: Brin: Asia-friendly URL?

2005-10-17 Thread Russell Chapman
email program. Cheers Russell Chapman Brisbane Australia --- This email (including any attachments) is confidential and copyright. The School makes no warranty about the content of this email. Unless expressly stated, this email does not bind

Re: RFID clothing

2005-10-10 Thread Russell Chapman
The Fool wrote: Electronic anti-theft devices have been installed in vehicles cars for years -- such as the LoJack, which gained fame during countless TV commercials. Soon, similar technology will be used in the clothes you and your children wear. You wouldn't believe how many people,

Re: Brin: Bush considers changes to Posse Comitatus Act

2005-10-10 Thread Russell Chapman
Gary Nunn wrote: I have horrific pictures in my head of absolute military control during a disaster like a pandemic or hurricane relief and them using extreme methods to quarantine sick citizens. Maybe I read too much Science Fiction :-) But isn't that why we like Science Fiction? To

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs spiders

2005-10-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: I was at a dinner party Friday night where one of the guests (a real girly-girl) was bragging on the fact that she had faced her fear and killed an extremely large spider in her living room. I told her that killing something that you outweigh by a factor of several million to

Re: Gay Penguins....

2005-10-02 Thread Russell Chapman
to know much about this, and certainly not to understand the nuances, but isn't the male who chooses male partners to the exclusion of *any* female partners, different on some level? Seems to me like homosexual men *are* gay humans. Why do you say there are none? Cheers Russell Chapman

Re: SCOUTED: Wonkette: Jurassic Perk: Crichton's Fame Exchanged for Dignity of Senate Panel

2005-09-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: Love her as a quirky voice in political blogging or deride her as an airhead wannabe, today, the Wonkette tells the sad tale of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's invitation of novelist Michael Crichton to testify on global warming. Because he wrote a novel

Re: SCOUTED: Wonkette: Jurassic Perk: Crichton's Fame Exchanged for Dignity of Senate Panel

2005-09-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: On Sep 28, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Russell Chapman wrote: To be fair, Crichton hasn't just written a novel and sat back while someone decided to believe it. He has been actively campaigning around the world to anyone who will listen with his whole mission to divert funding

Re: Contraflow info

2005-09-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: Some cities in the world are investing *MASSIVE* amounts of money and effort to protect them from various natural disasters. Take, for instance, Tokyo, which is building the world's largest flood-prevention system of mind-boggling proportions, of which some too-cool-to-be-real

Re: Contraflow info

2005-09-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: From at least one of the shots, it seems that the supports for the ceiling of the pitch pressure tank are about 3-4 feet thick by 20-30 feet wide, spaced about 30-40 feet apart. There may or may not be a civil engineer on this list who can judge it better than I can, but I

Re: Contraflow info

2005-09-26 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: Are you saying that countries like Japan do not have health or education budgets? I think the biggest contributor to our /not/ having the budget for projects like this would be military spending. Hell no - just that they have lots of money (esp true when they started this).

Re: Free Markets good but left un checekd they are evil

2005-09-15 Thread Russell Chapman
Dan Minette wrote: Light Sweet Crude Oil prices are $66.35/barrel or $1.58/gal for that date. Wholesale unleaded gas prices are $1.83/gal. I've often wondered about this - is the production volume more or less the same? ie do you get a gallon of unleaded from a gallon of crude? Cheers

Re: Gotta love the conspiracy people....

2005-09-15 Thread Russell Chapman
Gary Nunn wrote: Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall! *One diver, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers* *sent to trusted military friends at

Re: Brin: The Military Coup Of 2012

2005-09-13 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm Preface: The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012 The most interesting thing in this is

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-09-06 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: snip I'm trying to resist blaming, because it can't possibly do any good at this point. People want to point the finger at Bush's shifting of funds from the levee repairs to Iraq, but there have been TEN presidential administrations since the Army Corps of Engineers'

Re: Rebuilding New Orleans flood damages structures.

2005-09-04 Thread Russell Chapman
Warren Ockrassa wrote: It makes no sense to rebuild *at all*. It's a fairly common question around the BBQ or water cooler here. We just don't have anything similar, so many people are wondering why a city of a million people was ever built on land that was below sea level? We have reclaimed

Re: The Doom That Came To N'Warlins - II

2005-08-31 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert Seeberger wrote: The really sad thing is the pitiful effort from the Federal Government. snip This shows how pitifully prepared we are for a disaster of this scale. Well, that and the looting... There are photos on the front page of our paper showing people divvying up the loot as

Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost

2005-08-30 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: FWIW, I was getting constant nastygrams from the system that free space on the C: drive was getting very low. Now I have 1.38TB of disk space. Perhaps that'll be enough to get me through Labor Day without getting any more nastygrams . . . Hmmm - I could get a fairly

Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost

2005-08-29 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I tried several times, playing around with the settings in Ghost (largely guessing, as the help file is not very helpful and the dead tree manual which came in the box even less), but never got any better results than that: a reportedly successful copy to the new

Re: Irregulars Question: Copying Drives with Norton Ghost

2005-08-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Has anyone ever done this to copy the contents of the old drive to a new (larger) drive? I have been working on doing so for hours: a couple of times it has reported that it copied successfully, but the computer would not boot with the new drive as drive 0. Can

Re: Are you in the right religion?

2005-08-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: Apparently, I AM in the right religion: Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (100%). I currently attend and worship at a United Methodist church, which is pretty well over on the Liberal end of Mainline Christian Protestantism. I find it fascinating that Roman Catholocism

Re: New Season - Stargate SG1-Atlantis Battlestar Galactica

2005-07-18 Thread Russell Chapman
Max Battcher wrote: From what I heard RDA isn't completely being phased out, but he's going to be much more like the President in terms of on screen special appearances. I'm hoping that they play this really well, because as the coordinator of Stargate operations across two galaxies it

Re: Local car heat-related child death

2005-07-12 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson responded when: Dave Land wrote: I don't believe that there is a need to punish them: they have already paid for and will continue to pay for their mistake (or malice) for the rest of their lives. Something that is the result of one moment of error, yes. Something ongoing,

Re: Windows infected in 12 minutes

2005-07-05 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: It now takes just twelve minutes for an improperly protected[1] Windows PC connected to the internet to become infected. [1] Most of them in other words. The significant point here is that unless you have access to a second machine with a burner and a reasonable

Re: Plot Holes: War of the worlds - SPOILERS

2005-06-30 Thread Russell Chapman
Gary Nunn wrote: WARNING !!! MAJOR spoilers below S P O I L E R S P A C E I saw War of the Worlds tonight, and I really liked it except for a few major plot holes and inconsistencies. 2. If the aliens were here hundreds of years ago, why didn't they take over the planet then,

Re: Faith crimes

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall submitted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4294417.stm Black church and community leaders are calling for action to protect children from the effects of exorcisms. A spokeswoman for Africans Against Child Abuse (Afruca) said church leaders who believe in possession needed

Re: Apples Adventures in TCPA / Palladium

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: So IOW when you buy a new computer with that OS and start installing everything that was on the old machine onto the new one so you can get back to where you were with the old machine and can get back to work as usual, you get screwed because you've made too many

Re: Civilian in military court?

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Chapman
Deborah Harrell wrote: Well, I say she's got big titanium ovaries...and my prior decisions to limit documentation to frex Spent 30 minutes discussing severe mental distress from sexual abuse are s justified (although that's more because of my distrust of A. insurance companies and B.

Re: Gulags

2005-06-14 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: Instead of the present incredibly wasteful and expensive prison system just transport all serious criminals to a tropical resort island and give them free booze, drugs and hookers for life. This would be far cheaper than the present prison system, more humane, and

Re: Forget global warming, let's make a difference

2005-06-14 Thread Russell Chapman
Erik Reuter wrote: http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/06/13/ccpers13.xmlmenuId=242sSheet=/money/2005/06/13/ixfrontcity.html Personal view: Forget global warming. Let's make a real difference snip Moreover, they should also tell what they expect the cost of the

Re: Even WingNutDaily Can Smell the Republican Hypocrisy

2005-06-08 Thread Russell Chapman
KZK wrote: Is there anyone Republicans won't take money from? Would they take money directly from the mob, which backs most porn? Would they take money from white slave traders? Would they take money from kiddie-porn producers? What would be their price for access and influence in the White

Re: Brin: Democracy, genocide, torture, etc.

2005-06-08 Thread Russell Chapman
Nick Arnett wrote: My question is this. Has our form of government really changed in the decades since? Is democracy today fundamentally different from the system under which we not only permitted, but encouraged and paid for people to cheat, drive away, torture and murder the native people

Re: What do you call this?

2005-06-06 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: No, no, no. *This* is the coolest picture ever. I even *had* one of those cars... http://img203.echo.cx/img203/4106/bestpictureever0qv.jpg What were we thinking back then - to think those two were wildly famous and even popular... aaagh. Cheers Russell C.

Re: See Kingdom of Heaven

2005-05-30 Thread Russell Chapman
d.brin wrote: But is there anybody OTHER than Ridley Scott who has the guts to try something new? Not just something new, but a 2005 movie about Christian invaders taking over Moslem holy ground by force, a movie about the occupation of Jerusalem... That's guts. And really well done - great

Brin: Lucas Film Business Model

2005-05-12 Thread Russell Chapman
I don't know if these figures are widely known, but I found them staggering... Cost of making STIII-ROTS - $115,000,000 Money spent *so far* on marketing STIII-ROTS - $100,000,000 Revenue to date on Star Wars Merchandise/Licencing - $9,000,000,000 9 Billion ? Which makes 10 Billion a distinct

Re: Brin: Luca$ Film Bu$ine$$ Model

2005-05-12 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 06:44 PM Thursday 5/12/2005, Russell Chapman wrote: I don't know if these figures are widely known, but I found them staggering... Cost of making STIII-ROTS Probably someone else has previously noticed this, too, but written like that it looks like it says STILL-ROTS

Re: Earth has developed a slight eccentricity in its orbit...

2005-05-08 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert Seeberger wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: That doesn't change my opinion of the movie. It was bad. Bad, bad, bad. Still have not seen it myself. But you are the only person I've run across so far who dislikes it greatly. Oh, bad doesn't begin to describe it. I'm a fan of all

Re: Howcum (some) Texans are so happy?

2005-04-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Jim Sharkey wrote: I mean, have you ever seen a sad Jehovah's Witness? :) Jim Which raises the question - how come Salt Lake City rates so poorly? I would have thought that the doctrine would prevent Mormons using anti-depressants, and the community structure should reduce suicide. Has the

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-12 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert J. Chassell wrote: If the Iraqi government had waited until it had nuclear weapons, Iraq might well have become the first country since 1945 to annex all of another country successfully (country as recognized by the UN as a 1648 `Treaty of Westfalia' type of country, not as a `protocol

Re: Peering through the Keyhole (Satellite Maps a la Google)

2005-04-06 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote: if I'm to believe all the comments of people who have gone to every Burning Man event since at least 2001. (And the resolution available for right there is a lot better than for the nearest real town, or so I've been told.) That's because the geeks operating the

Re: Human Virus Scanner

2005-03-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Julia Thompson wrote: Religion Read God's Debris by Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert guy) (That's the second recommendation I've gotten for that. Ought to check it out this decade) Highly recommended, but don't read it when you're tired, so maybe this decade will be too soon for you...

Re: Battlestar Galactica renewed

2005-02-10 Thread Russell Chapman
Nick Lidster wrote: and kerri with teh multinationalism of this list, im sure there are several memebrs that have seen the entire season. You'd think the networks would be more aware of how much these shows are being propagated around the world ahead of various broadcast dates, especially

Re: Is environmentalism dead?

2005-01-17 Thread Russell Chapman
Dan Minette wrote: And, remember, the US is one of only 3 developed countries that are not considered in deep doggie do-do over demographic changes. Only 3? That seems strangely low, though clearly there are many western nations with a bleak outlook. Who are the other 2? Cheers Russell C.

Free to a good Bay Area home...

2005-01-11 Thread Russell Chapman
Tyre-Chains (wait - that would be Tire Chains) to suit SUV. Sorry that this is waaay off-topic, but I am about to throw away a brand new, never opened, set of chains, with tensioners, purchased 2 weeks ago. It seems a shame to just leave them sitting on the footpath (oops, sidewalk...) But

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-14 Thread Russell Chapman
Nick Arnett wrote: I bought the nuclear threat pitch the first time around. It reminded me of the nightmares (literally) of the '60s. Do you think that those of us who bought it the first time, only to find out it was a fabrication, are any more likely to swallow it now? When do you mean by

SoCal Brin-L members question

2004-12-13 Thread Russell Chapman
Legoland, San Diego to LAX question Friends, I seek the advice of anyone who frequents Southern California. I have been planning my Christmas holidays using both Microsoft's Streets Trips (no way it was written in Redmond - it's brilliant!) and Mapquest. They have given me wildly different

Re: Irregular Question: DVD±RW

2004-12-13 Thread Russell Chapman
Erik Reuter wrote: One thing I was wondering about for a new purchaser was whether they might increase their chances by buying drive and media with the same brand, on the theory that HOPEFULLY the company would thoroughly test the drive and media, with their name on it, together. Of course, that

Re: Famous Atheist Now Believes in God

2004-12-13 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-13 Thread Russell Chapman
Warren Ockrassa wrote: Well, they're usually about conquest _by one side_. The side that's trying to prevent itself from being conquered is not usually described as fighting for conquest. I'm not sure what spin doctors would put it that way; whether one is on the offensive or defensive is

Re: So it begins.... Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time

2004-11-28 Thread Russell Chapman
JDG wrote: So what begins?More demonization of Christians? Sometimes I think that for all the talk about religious tolerance, that some people believe that Christians really shouldn't be permitted to participate in the political process. Anyone who works to have the government and the

Re: Brin: the new know nothings

2004-11-10 Thread Russell Chapman
Warren Ockrassa wrote: Barna's results verified findings of earlier polls: that conservative Protestant Christians, on average, have the highest divorce rate, while mainline Christians have a much lower rate. They found some new information as well: that atheists and agnostics have the lowest

Re: Nerd From Hell is back from the dead!

2004-11-10 Thread Russell Chapman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now I am back, feeling better, and a bit more fiendish. Excellent news! Glad to have you back. There was also an unexpected side effect - anticipatory nausea. When ever I think about the chemo, I get nauseas. The other day, a nurse wheeled in a IV pole into the exam

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-04 Thread Russell Chapman
kerri miller wrote: --- Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (especially to a citizen of a country where voting is compulsory...) From what I understand, if you don't vote you just have to say Oh, I was sick or you face a $15AU fine? Basically, yes. It's AUD20 (USD15), and you can

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-04 Thread Russell Chapman
Horn, John wrote: Again, he stood behind her (and me!) telling her what to do. She didn't seem to understand that she had to put the punch-card ballot *in* the little slot and how to follow the ballot to know where to punch. Wow, that's a jailable offence here. If you don't know how to vote,

Re: National ID card

2004-11-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Um, what about the suggestions some have made of having your medical records stored in the National Health Care Database and every time you go to buy food, it checks and if you are overweight, have diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or anything else, you

Re: A few positive things

2004-11-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Ruben Krasnopolsky wrote: Bush has made some things wrong during his first period. Iraq's current anarchy probably the worst of them. Maybe he would make some things better this time - it's not impossible, especially if he's pressured by public opinion. But it is a sad fact of history that

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-03 Thread Russell Chapman
kerri miller wrote: Make sure Obama gets a good committee seat, and make it quite clear to him that if he has ANY skeletons in the closet (even a paper one packed away in a box from last halloween) to fess up ASAP. I don't think he can be on a presidential ticket - his closet skeleton is on his

Re: It seems over...

2004-11-03 Thread Russell Chapman
John D. Giorgis wrote: Here's another good analysis of why things ended up as they did http://slate.msn.com/id/2109145/ Did I understand the bit about the number of voters right? I got the impression that John Kerry got more votes in this election than any president in the history

Re: Scouted: Salon: Trapped in the Echo Chamber

2004-11-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Dave Land wrote: In an off-list conversation with Nick, he opined that we're at the beginning of what may turn out to be a generations-long coming-to-terms with having an unprecedented variety of points of view available via the Internet. Right now, we just don't know what the heck to do with

Bay Area Residents Question

2004-10-28 Thread Russell Chapman
Hi fellow Brinellers Can anyone who lives in the Bay area help me? I am working out my schedule for the Christmas holidays, and many of my friends have recommended I rent a bicycle and ride over the Golden Gate and around the bay in a big circle. This sounds great, but I differ from them in 3

Re: An attack on Iran?

2004-10-24 Thread Russell Chapman
d.brin quoted: According to White House and Washington Beltway insiders, the Bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to Senator John F. Kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on Iran's top Islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at Bushehr on

Re: Earthsea Miniseries

2004-10-19 Thread Russell Chapman
Jim Sharkey wrote: While watching the Farscape miniseries, I've caught several advertisements for an Earthsea miniseries. Surprisingly, given that it *is* SciFi network, and they hate their fans, it looks like it might be pretty good. Anyone else looking forward to it? Bah! Tell me what you

Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis

2004-10-12 Thread Russell Chapman
Erik Reuter wrote: What was the margin of error of the poll? Quantify your landslided, how much did the winner get? Different polls gave different margins, but they were all way short of the actual result - way short. The most prominent polls were talking 50:50 with margins of 3% for Newspoll,

Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis

2004-10-11 Thread Russell Chapman
John D. Giorgis wrote: After all, remember that due to redistricting, a straight re-run of the 2000 election would produce a 278-260 Bush win. I think I now understand the US EC voting better now, except this one thing - I thought it was already done as Byron has suggested - that each

Re: The Electoral College (Was: Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis)

2004-10-11 Thread Russell Chapman
Damon Agretto wrote: The Electorial College is in place so that the American People will be prevented from electing a Hamster as president, and have the results validated, something that happened at my University for Student Body President. snip Although the system can nerf election results

Re: The Electoral College (Was: Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis)

2004-10-11 Thread Russell Chapman
Bryon Daly wrote: Translation: states where your vote doesn't mean squat, especially if you're in the minority party there. Both parties know who will win so neither will expend much effort (if any) in these places. and to add a quote from Dr Brin... If you find it persuasive, please share it

Re: Debate

2004-10-03 Thread Russell Chapman
Doug Pensinger wrote: How many watched tonight? Well, I can guess that there were more than for ours... The Great Debate between our 2 aspiring leaders was out-rated by Australian Idol... Who won ours depended on which paper you read the next day. At least our election will be over in a week's

Re: Mt. St. Helens On Eruption Watch

2004-09-30 Thread Russell Chapman
Travis Edmunds wrote: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040927/helens.html Sept. 30, 2004 U.S. geologists warned Wednesday that a surge in seismic activity at Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington could spark a volcano eruption. Gosh - I hope not - it is one of the centrepieces of my

Re: Desktop Linux a vehicle for pirating Windows

2004-09-30 Thread Russell Chapman
William T Goodall wrote: PCs running Linux are growing in popularity in part because they can be loaded with a pirated copy of Windows, according to a study from analyst Gartner. What an enormous load of FUD. The same asians who buy a pirated copy of Windows buy cloned hardware that doesn't

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