In Indonesia rapidly shrinking habitat might force the Orangutang into
cultivated areas, where she would be killed as a crop raider.
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Jon Louis Mann
net_democr...@yahoo.com wrote:
Would this orangutan be better off released in the Indonesian rain forest?
Jon
I once read a quote that went something like, No action against
climate change has ever been taken that resulted in material economic
injury to those who took the action.
This lead me to think that despite the knowledge about climate change
at a physical level, humans make decisions based on the
I have a degree in Mathematics. I consider it more of an art than a
science. Math is a linguistic game that fortuitously has practical
applications.
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:44 PM, David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
On 3/3/2014 10:37 PM, trent shipley wrote:
...
The second thing it made
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Keith Henson hkeithhen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:00 PM, trent shipley
trent.ship...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Keith Henson hkeithhen...@gmail.com wrote:
Does Imaginaria stretch far enough to encompass Tom Clancy
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Keith Henson hkeithhen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. I suppose I could put in a short bit about how The Clinic Seed
came about.
Another would be a long article about the influence of the early
Extropian mailing list on such writers as Charles Stross.
Does
Anne
evens...@hevanet.com
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:28:21 -0700
From: trent shipley trent.ship...@gmail.com
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: New Encyclopedia
Message-ID:
AANLkTikcn3pjcJFJP+k=gdnocb0w4gnprn+vr71la...@mail.gmail.com
Content-Type: text
Some of you may recall that a few months ago there was a discussion
about a David Brin trivia site. I have rented space on a server and
Nick has helped with technical issues. You are welcome to work on a
trivia project for David Brin's fiction at
http://www.encyclopediaimaginaria.org.
I hope to
A business decision that injures public health.
On Dec 7, 2010 3:15 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote:
Only a sociopath and pervert can think that
breastfeeding is pornography. It's disrespectful
to...
Actually, it doesn't, Alberto. Facebook is free, last time I looked. I can
choose to
The Manhattan Project was spied on by the Soviets.
On Dec 1, 2010 4:18 AM, Alberto Monteiro albm...@centroin.com.br wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
I'm generally for transparency and haven't heard of anything yet that
...
I think the worst source of embarassment is the use by .govs
of
How many secrets does Australia have that are worth leaking. Does a
significant fraction of the World's population believe it is The Great
Satan?
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Wayne Eddy darkenf...@gmail.com wrote:
It is interesting to hear that there is overwhelming sentiment against
On 10/15/2010 05:15 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 03:23 PM Friday 10/15/2010, Dan Minette wrote:
[snip]
California has put itself in a box and I'd expect housing prices to drop
another factor of
?
before it can start to rebound. Now, there's a topic we
can debate. :-)
Dan M.
http://alturl.com/s5id
Republicans would have to be suicidal idiots to play ball with Obama and
the Democrats on health care reform. They all involve increased
interference by the Federal Government in the health care market, which
is a cultural no-no in America. (Leaving people uninsured is
Wayne Eddy wrote:
Found what I thought was a terrific paper on carbon sequestration.
It suggests that it should be possible to use nanotechnology to
convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into diamond bricks by the 2030's.
http://www.imm.org/Reports/rep043.pdf
Keith Henson wrote:
If we don't solve the energy problem as many as 6 out of 7 people will
*die* in famines and resource wars.
Keith
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Where will they live?
(I am a member of
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 18/02/2010, at 11:29 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.org
wrote:
On 13/02/2010, at 7:05 AM, Keith Henson wrote:
Examples such as water tanks, solar hot water, decent insulation are
Michael Harney wrote:
Trent wrote:
I believe that climate change is true, but that America's response
must preserve the American way of life or to hell with the planet.
You're kidding right? If we go down we're taking the world with us?
A little Bond-villain-esqe don't you think? Can't
a marginal improvement over oil.
For America, however, Coal is the ultimate in energy security. It's
right here. We can even export the stuff and gain a strategic advantage
over other countries by becoming part of their energy supply chain.
Trent Shipley wrote:
I believe that climate change
As you said.
http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/u/uranium-reserves.htm
Uranium mining (reserves?) in tonnes
Australia 725,000 t
Brazil 157,400 t
Canada 329,200 t
* Kazakhstan 378,100 t
South Africa 284,400 t
Namibia 176,400 t
* Niger 243,100 t
* Russia 172,400 t
Ukraine
I believe that climate change is true, but that America's response must
preserve the American way of life or to hell with the planet.
So the solution has to be a magic technology fix. We cannot raise the
cost of energy to solve climate change, especially not before the costs
of climate change
Ping!
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Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
taps on microphone
Is this thing on?
/tapping
Is this silence (no messages for several days) caused by technical
issues, or is Brin-L no longer the high-volume list is once was?
Jeroen van Baardwijk
Nick Arnett wrote:
My friends I hate to write this. Been putting it off for a while.
My younger sister, Lesley, the youngest of the four of us, mother of
my five-year-old niece, Sarah, could not fight off the sepsis that
attacked her body. Lesley died this morning.
I have never hurt
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Brin asked:
Let me know how I can help!
You must tell us how far can we go - and how far we can't go :-)
Here are the guidelines so far -- and they aren't consensus guidelines,
they are still just guidelines Trent made up.
You have to write from
Dr Brin please see: http://nickarnett.net/foswiki/bin/view
Hopefully you won't find anything more offensive than forcing writing
about your work to share a site with fantasy and other forms of
imaginaria.
Other list members should note that the the site is open for business.
New pages should
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
Yes, Im in Santa Clara... waiting to see if I should head to NC.
Apparently the recovery from something like this is very long, so Im
not rushing there unless the medical people say that its time for
family to gather. They havent quite said that, but
Wayne Eddy wrote:
I'm interested to hear what everyone thinks the purpose of the SF
Foswiki should be?
Is it ...
a) just a place to store SF related information not sufficiently
important to be incorporated into WIkipedia.
b) a place for things discussed on the Brin List to be
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Death-Toll-Now-at-95-in-Pakistan-Volleyball-Bombing--80498082.html
This is just dumb. If you want to win a war, intimidating the people
whose support you need is pretty stupid.
The West might not be able to win in Central Asia ... unless the Taliban
keep
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com wrote:
The host or its agents cannot serve on any board of
directors since that would be a conflict of interest.
Eh? Interlocking boards of directors with conflicts
And... a blast from the past, pasted below. I'll let whoever emerge
as the folks who lead the wiki project decide how to respond. As
usual, I'm inclined to let the community choose and will only
intervene directly as a last resort.
Nick
It's been a sufficiently long banishment.
If we are to grow we need an organizational plan for growth.
We need a growth oriented revenue plan.
** This can wait awhile.
** Nonprofit??
underwriting or no underwriting?
** For profit? (I would be reluctant to contribute for free.)
If it grows, I
Nick Arnett wrote:
Got Foswiki installed here:
http://nickarnett.net/sfwiki
Hi Nick, check out:
http://n2.nabble.com/Foswiki-f2555947.html
It's the archive for Foswiki discuss after March 2009. I have a thread
near the top. The gist is that if we are lucky we could run into a
problem
I can think of at least two webs that we will need.
Most important we will want the main web with all the writing about
imaginaria.
Then we will need the meta-content where we have policies, discussions
about the site, basically information about the site, so a
MetaUniversesImagined web.
And
Sorry. I must read more carefully. I missed the retired, presumed dead
part.
tship...@deru.com wrote:
No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was followed by his
brother Raul(?).
Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
-Original Message-
From:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 29 Dec 2009 at 22:22, Trent Shipley wrote:
See above answers.
There's an effective page limit per-web (20,000), but you are not
limited in the number of webs and users you can create.
The biggest? Probably Google or Nokia's installs. (Foswiki is the
direct
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
So the user is Abductive, and he seems to spend a lot
of time proposing articles for deletion.
It's probably an attack account: a sock puppet of a known
user, created to give anonimity to a coward behavior (if it
used the _real_
,
Wayne Eddy
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com
mailto:nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Mon
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
Seriously, though, the wiki gives everybody lotsa power...
I'm not familiar enough with Media Wiki to see (a) what
administrators might do via the web interface and
(b) exactly how to create 'em. It's a php associative
array, the docs tell me.
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 28 Dec 2009 at 17:16, Nick Arnett wrote:
I'm happy to keep the discussion here for now, to get it going.
Any other experience wiki-ers here?
Hi. I absolutely detest MediaWiki, though, so I won't be much use for
this. (Fos/T Wiki, now...)
AndrewC
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com wrote:
Why? We can change no problem. There's no content on it yet.
Nick has said that whatever we choose has to use MySQL on the back
end.
That is correct
I am with a little group of science fiction fans. We are looking at
starting a science fiction wiki with synopses, reviews, literary
criticism, and above all trivia. We have a big vision for the site
since Wikipedia won't let us put our trivia there and it annoys us. So
basically the vision is
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Crystall
dawnfal...@upliftwar.com mailto:dawnfal...@upliftwar.com wrote:
On 29 Dec 2009 at 16:11, Trent Shipley wrote:
Any other experience wiki-ers here?
Hi. I absolutely detest MediaWiki, though
. That means, for example, if I
created an article on Trent Shipley, it would be removed since I don't
merit mention in an encyclopedia.
David Brin is an important science fiction author so he merits mention
in Wikipedia.
The Jijo trilogy merits mention.
Each book in the trilogy merits an article
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com wrote:
I did not send the original to the list. Feel free to forward this
to the list.
I'm partial to MediaWiki.
I have installed MediaWiki here:
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com mailto:tship
Original Message
From: - Sun Dec 27 19:10:30 2009
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X-Mozilla-Keys:
Message-ID: 4b38138e.1030...@deru.com
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:10:22 -0700
From: Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
User-Agent
Google? Bing? I don't care.
Not long ago if I was given an MSN or Yahoo search tool I went out of my
way to get to a Google search. Not any more. The competition has come
a long way.
That's BAD news for Google. I like Google as a corporate citizen, but
they are still a one trick pony. If
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 25/11/2009, at 9:57 PM, Trent Shipley wrote:
It would take time to wean myself off Microsoft even if someone
made an desktop operating system that was twice as good.
There is. I did.
Except for gaming. So I use a MacBook for day-to-day shite, email
We know each other and know each
other's positions.
What about those of us who try not to have positions?
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No, when I say we in this context, I mean that we have in the past booted
people from the list as a group in most cases. There being no one person in
particular one can suck up to in order to avoid consequences, it behooves
everyone to be generally inoffensive. A few people have been
John Williams wrote:
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:48 PM, xponentrobxponent...@comcast.net wrote:
But no, I do not give you the benefit of the doubt. I think I have you
pegged as exactly the kind of intentionally obtuse person you appear to be.
My apologies for not being as perceptive as you
Obama, yesterday, was right on target when he said there was no single
silver bullet for this problem. But, we do know things can be better,
because we are paying twice as much as the average developed country per
person with worse than average results.
I have heard, but have been too lazy
Lance A. Brown wrote:
John Williams said the following on 8/16/2009 5:08 PM:
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote:
It does strike me as a kludge, though. To continue
your example of car insurance, I don't believe that
anybody markets insurance against having
Trent Shipley wrote:
Obama, yesterday, was right on target when he said there was no single
silver bullet for this problem. But, we do know things can be better,
because we are paying twice as much as the average developed country per
person with worse than average results.
I have heard
John Williams wrote:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Trent Shipleytship...@deru.com wrote:
John Williams wrote:
There are billions of people around the world with worse healthcare
than virtually everyone in the United States. If the goal is to
redistribute wealth to improve healthcare
A while back there was a thread on the list about people wanting David
Brin to write more Uplift fiction. Back when I was writing the Alliance
for Progress Encyclopedia I wrote some Fan-Fic history and fiction--the
longer works I never finished. A few people wrote and said they liked
what I had
dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote:
People on this list have argued for the advantages of a free market system
for health care and health care insurance. I have thought about it, and
decided to apply what we know from other markets that have considerable
less government intervention.
For
John Williams wrote:
There are billions of people around the world with worse healthcare
than virtually everyone in the United States. If the goal is to
redistribute wealth to improve healthcare because of the belief that
everyone should have a chance to live and be healthy, then why not
David Hobby wrote:
John Williams wrote:
#1 patent-related
#2 patent-related
#4 IP-related
#5 patent-related
Sounds like you have a problem with the government-run patent system.
Yes. He's saying it doesn't actually work the
way you think it would, since there's latitude
for people
Chris Frandsen wrote:
On Aug 10, 2009, at 8:40 PM, John Williams wrote:
The politician pretends to be acting
altruistically while still behaving in a self-serving manner.
But the politicians take your money by force and THEN give it to the
businesses.
John:
These two sentences are
Where can I find the list archives?
Note also that typing Brin-L in Google returns:
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Which produces a page No such list brin-l, which is not helpful if we
want to recruit new members.
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Max Battcher wrote:
On 8/11/2009 18:53, Trent Shipley wrote:
More fundamental is his objection to the U.S. Government. In effect, he
is saying that the U.S. system of government is inherently illegitimate,
largely because it is run by politicians. By John William's standards
ALL
). Morality an antidote, not a
synonym, for self-centered pragmatism.
The antecedent for you in this thread isn't clear. I suspect it is
not Trent Shipley, but I will provide my input anyway.
Well, how do you define what a moral principal is? I'd argue it is an axiom
of a system of ethics. Now, from
Dan M wrote:
-Original Message-
From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Trent Shipley
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 3:23 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: Br!n: Libertarian Morality--Up with good King John, down
PM, Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
mailto:tship...@deru.com wrote:
It started me thinking about the bases of libertarianism and American
conservatism. Previously when I had thought of libertarianism, I had
not thought of it as particularly based in a moral principle.
Good
will be
succeeded by their brain children, those children will soon run into the
organizational behavior and governance problem. Managing your
relationships in ever increasing troop sizes will not scale in
polynomial time.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Trent Shipley tship...@deru.com
Date
David Hobby wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
I wrote a suggestion to my Arizona State legislators about de-funding
the state universities in favor of tuition vouchers.
...
Dear Senator Linda Gray, Representative Doug Quelland, and
Representative Jim Weiers,
...
“Be it resolved
David Hobby wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
Hi. It's interesting. I wonder about the last bit,
though. How does one tell whether or not a profession
is essential? (I can certainly name some that I feel
are NOT essential, but let's get beyond our personal biases.)
One answer may
On Friday 2008-01-11 12:04, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Lance A. Brown wrote:
Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for
other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits.
To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's
grass; it doesn't require nearly the
On Friday 2008-01-11 12:04, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Lance A. Brown wrote:
Being able to grow switchgrass on marginal land not suitable for
other, more traditional, crops is one of its benefits.
To me that certainly seems like one of its biggest benefits. It's
grass; it doesn't require nearly the
On Thursday 2008-01-10 17:13, Lance A. Brown wrote:
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all,
but I found it interesting:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn
Is this plausible?
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On Saturday 2007-12-29 16:46, jon louis mann wrote:
... why does it take millions of years to fill the galaxy with
sentient life...
jlm
The galaxy is one hundred thousand light years across. At 1% light
speed, i.e., 3000 km/sec or 1860 miles per second, that is ten million
years.
Yes. They threw me off the Orion's Arm discussion list for being a worm hole
skeptic.
On Thursday 2007-12-27 20:57, Max Battcher wrote:
Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention:
http://www.orionsarm.com/
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Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use
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I haven't decided on GFDL or Creative Commons license yet.
The wiki will not be an Uplift site.
These are the features
On Tuesday 2007-10-02 17:11, William T Goodall wrote:
On 2 Oct 2007, at 22:38, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:25 AM Tuesday 10/2/2007, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 30/09/2007, at 8:50 PM, Gary Nunn wrote:
Holy Cow!!
I make a post and step away for a few weeks and find this topic ran
rampant
Translating the uplift encyclopedia into a wiki format is feasible.
Would anyone be interested in having it in that form? There don't seem to
have been any contributions for ages.
Does anyone have ideas about how we would protect David Brin's intellectual
property if the Encyclopedia used a
On Saturday 2006-04-22 11:55, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 19 Apr 2006 at 17:42, The Fool wrote:
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=133828
Stearns' research, published in the journals Mutagenesis and Molecular
Carcinogenesis, confirms what many have suspected for
David Brin has many virtues, but he is hardly obsessive about editing for
continuity. Contacting Aliens has a huge number of discrepancies. The
discrepancies are internal, it contradicts itself, it contradicts things
written by Brin, it contradicted all sorts of stuff from Gurps Uplift, 1st
I tend to favor technicalism -- a political stance that favoring the free play
of technology.
I hate the digital millennium copyright act because it is capitalist
Ludditeism. The DMCA tries to protect an version (a relatively recent
version) of intellectual property against free technological
On Friday 2005-08-26 11:28, William T Goodall wrote:
Or we could outsource it to countries that can manage it cheaper like
China or India and have them shipped over at 22 or whatever when they
have their degrees and are ready to start working. Brought up using
European standards of language
On Monday 2005-07-18 18:17, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Vilyehm wrote:
there is a strong possibility that UW Chapter 81 takes place in
2489-November.
That would make things easier. The first of the Thennanin fleet arriving
December 2489
Hmmm... No, because the Tymbrimi-Thennanin treaty
And let us now remember the evil done by doctrinaire atheists such as Stalin
and Mao. Verily it is not faith in diety or religion that causeth evil, but
belief in all master narratives. If thou wouldst do no evil, have not faith,
not even faith in no-faith.
==
If religion is
On Thursday 2005-06-02 19:10, Dave Land wrote:
On Jun 2, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
A fun test!
http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=23320
You scored as Modernist.
You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental
particles. Everything
Depends on what you mean by Neocon.
Wahhabism is a very literalist approach to Islam and has had a radical
influence on global Islam in the late 20th and early 21st centuries AD.
There are some weak parallels with literalist North American approaches to
Evangelical Protestant Christianity.
On Monday 2005-05-02 17:39, d.brin wrote:
Any of you who haven't joined our regular Thursday pm gathering
online, using my Holocene Chat interface, are welcome to let me know.
Several brinellers participate. Each Thursday 4pm Pacific.
---
This from my blog
Still too swamped to
On Monday 2005-05-02 17:39, d.brin wrote:
Any of you who haven't joined our regular Thursday pm gathering
online, using my Holocene Chat interface, are welcome to let me know.
Several brinellers participate. Each Thursday 4pm Pacific.
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Still too swamped to
On Monday 2005-03-21 17:11, William T Goodall wrote:
On 21 Mar 2005, at 8:51 pm, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:26:18 +, William T Goodall wrote
The people in the original story who had religious objections to
evolution. You are objecting to them being referred to as
On Thursday 2005-03-17 20:25, d.brin wrote:
Today. In person. One of the most conservative men I know and former
special forces. One of dozens who have told me - when I asked about
the purge - David, it is worse than you can imagine.
This is not just the fault of the Straussian fanatics, or
On Monday 2005-03-14 23:01, Doug Pensinger wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:37:34 -0800 (PST), David Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What's stunning is the ability of hypocrites to make
excuses for (or ignore) the most relentless and
deliberate politicization and political purge of our
On Friday 2005-03-04 06:27, David Hobby wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
What the I can't find any context for this.
But see comments, below.
---David
1) You might have seen this on
brin-l
aztechlist
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did not recognize this as a simple
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On Sunday 2005-02-20 20:36, d.brin wrote:
1/ Why do CIA Director, Porter Goss, and the head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, Lowell Jacoby, HATE AMERICA?
Islamic extremists are exploiting the Iraqi conflict to recruit new
anti-U.S. jihadists, CIA Director Porter J. Goss told the Senate
On Sunday 2005-02-20 20:36, d.brin wrote:
2/ Why would our Iraq war fuel Islamic resentment? Don't they see
the great things we are doing?
snip content=examples of abuses/
I think we did not hear these kinds of stories from Vietnam because we could
use the South Vietnamese as cutouts to
On Sunday 2005-02-20 20:36, d.brin wrote:
3/ Meanwhile, the big winner in Iraq is the latest target of the
Bush administration's macho rhetoric, Iran:
When the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq two years ago, it
envisioned a quick handover to handpicked allies in a secular
On Sunday 2005-02-20 20:36, d.brin wrote:
4/ So, how are our relations with Iran now that it is the dominant
regional power, with a sympathetic Shiite government in a weak and
chaotic neighboring Iraq, its former enemy?
Iran, facing mounting U.S. pressure over its nuclear program,
promised
On Wednesday 2005-02-09 12:43, Gary Denton wrote:
With a slow connection I don't do video feeds but am glad they
recognize the sacrifices our troops are making.
My nephew the Army Ranger is back in Iraq. He was protecting the
vote. He is at Mosul, where they had 10% voter turnout. I was
On Sunday 2005-02-06 22:17, Nick Arnett wrote:
Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
And that comes right after AOL claimed that spam was going down and
that everybody was saying that spammers had given up It seems that
spammers have adapted. How can they use the ISP's infrastructure and
why can't
On Sunday 2005-02-06 23:09, David Land wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
I really do not get that angry with spammers. They are just rational
entrepreneurs.
I take from this it that you are some kind of extreme libertarian that
rejects both property and privacy.
It would not be incorrect
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