Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
god or a six-day clay shaper doesn't strike me as being remotely possible, and I don't think that statement is one of faith; however, the Deist idea is not one I can simply dismiss as readily. There, I'll freely concede, I am expressing a faith rather than a proximate certainty. -- Warren

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
necessarily have binary resolutions. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
a given individual is clear-minded, thinking rationally or proof against crackpottery. Unfortunately another hallmark of arrogance is being unable to concede being wrong, so I don't expect anyone who disagrees with that statement to suddenly change tune. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 5, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2005 14:01:00 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote Sometimes, it seems to me, anger is really a masking emotion for fear. Only sometimes? How about always? Although other things may lie behind anger, I tend to think that fear is always

Re: Babble theory, and comments

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
Warren Ockrassa wrote: Thanks. In my cynical youth I would have been more inclined, I think, to agree with the Good news from the Vatican sentiments. But in the intervening years my rebellion against (specifically) Christianity and (generally) religion has moderated some. [KZK] So you

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
start wondering what the difference is between their views and that of gays and bisexuals who think avowed heterosexuals are afraid of themselves, or lack the insight necessary to appreciate sex outside their conformist views. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Garry Kasparov was a Steel-Drivin' Man...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
be consciousness, or will we be arrogant and think it's just a copy? And if we think that, will it really be arrogance? Or will it just be John Henry driving steel until his heart burst? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven

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

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of the shit came from Adams. That doesn't change my opinion of the movie. It was bad. Bad, bad, bad. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: A very good NYT article on intelligent design

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 2, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 5/2/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... _Calculating God_, yeah. As it happens I just finished it this weekend. It's an interesting read but Sawyer leaves a gaping hole in his story (two, actually), which he also did

Re: Close, but not yet...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 2, 2005, at 5:06 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, fair enough -- but how would that really supply you with an answer? If you simulated all senders and receivers, how would that be significantly different from the message content's

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 6, 2005, at 6:23 AM, Keith Henson wrote: At 01:28 AM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote: snip For years I have struggled with the idea of sexual orientation. I'm currently of the inclination that it doesn't exist objectively. Gay, straight or in-between are, to me, ideas, nothing more

Re: Garry Kasparov was a Steel-Drivin' Man...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 6, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Keith Henson wrote: At 02:52 AM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote: snip This reminds me of the Ballad of John Henry. You might or might not know it; the story is that John Henry, who worked on railroads in the 1900s, was faced with a steam-driven track laying

Re: Garry Kasparov was a Steel-Drivin' Man...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 6, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Keith Henson wrote: At 01:11 PM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On May 6, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Keith Henson wrote: At 02:52 AM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote: snip This reminds me of the Ballad of John Henry. You might or might not know it; the story

Re: Garry Kasparov was a Steel-Drivin' Man...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. It astonishes me that anyone can overlook ten grafs of commentary on what consciousness means to get so anal retentive over a frickin' myth. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books

Re: Garry Kasparov was a Steel-Drivin' Man...

2005-05-06 Thread Warren Ockrassa
and unnecessary. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-05 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 5, 2005, at 11:20 AM, William T Goodall wrote: On 1 May 2005, at 8:31 am, Warren Ockrassa wrote: The reverse is true of course -- if a believer becomes enraged at the suggestion a god doesn't exist, the question why is very pertinent. I've never been religious. I get annoyed about people

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-05-04 Thread Warren Ockrassa
is particularly edifying. While it's arguable that those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it, I think it's as valid to suggest that those who do not *let go* of history are equally stuck. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current

Re: anti modernism blog continues.

2005-05-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
be more like 'p' and the 'Koo' shouldn't be too stressed. It ain't KOO-toob, ya rube; it's koo-tuhb in the bathtub. Or I could be totally wrong. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http

Re: anti modernism blog continues.

2005-05-03 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 2, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Khadafy, Qadaffi, Gadafhy Maru You say Khadafy and I say Qadaffi You say Al Koran and I say al-Q'ran Jihad, Fatwah, Meatwad, Frylock Let's call the crusades off... -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

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

2005-05-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 1, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Max Battcher wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: The problem with the pacing was that it *did not have to be cut*. All the screenwriter had to do was start from the original material -- as I mentioned before the first installment in radio form was only 2 hours long

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
spots instead of reacting to every statement. Well, it's not just them that get away with it though. I've seen much oversloppage of bombast in the last week or so, only a relatively small amount of which came from either Erik or William. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books

Re: A very good NYT article on intelligent design

2005-05-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: TV Guide

2005-05-02 Thread Warren Ockrassa
blood sugar will do to perception, innit? My own aisle was flanked (in the cereals) by Darth Vader on Kellogg's corn flakes. The Breakfast of the Dark Lord? Hmm. I guess it could've been worse -- Wheaties remained unaltered. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Re: Permission Slips Re: RhetoricalQuestionsRE:RemovingDictatorsRe:PeacefulchangeL3

2005-05-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
brains are good for one thing, anyway. This is more hilarious than the 3 Stooges! Out of curiosity, why is it that Erik and a few others are able to get away with incessant windbaggery and insulting behavior? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
a masking emotion for fear. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On May 1, 2005, at 2:59 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:31 AM Sunday 5/1/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 30, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Out of curiosity, why is it that Erik and a few others are able to get away with incessant windbaggery and insulting behavior? Cuz others

Re: The Root of All Evil

2005-05-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
that ludicrous broadcast that featured (among others) James Dobson, and so I think were laboring under the assumption that the fundies were a serious threat. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http

Re: The Root of All Evil

2005-05-01 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books Quite right- what were they going to do to carry out their empty threat? Use communist Linux? Hardly! : ) ~Maru Might require them to strain their brains The final line is the reason that can't happen, of course. You've got to be bright to use Linux

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

2005-04-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa
.) ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

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

2005-04-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa
their checkbooks.) They couldn't show everything, but I think they got the essential core of the story in there... They couldn't show everything partly because they added crap that did not need to be there. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work

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

2005-04-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 30, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: They couldn't show everything partly because they added crap that did not need to be there. From Wkipedia: The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wroteAll the substantive new ideas

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

2005-04-29 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of material just as they were; had they been left unsodomized there would have been no need to edit the parts that made the plot, as crafted by Adams, fly. Save your money and the two hours of your life and do something productive. Such as combing the shag carpet. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor

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

2005-04-29 Thread Warren Ockrassa
is the unexpected. 'Cmmb the shag'?Oh la di dah, aren't we the fancy one! In *my* day we didnae have shag! We had woven poison ivy to cover our floors, and we liked it! The rashes kept us warm when we ran out of dung to burn. Ahh, hae ano'er potaato an shet yer gob, granddad. -- Warren Ockrassa

Re: Permission Slips Re:RhetoricalQuestionsRE:RemovingDictatorsRe:PeacefulchangeL3

2005-04-28 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Dunno about our great nation, but obviously our citizenry has sunk to that level. Would you [plural] mind finding a different horse to flog? This one's dead. And while you're [singular] at it consider dropping the pompous tone as well. It's obnoxious. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor

Re: Mr. Smith Goes to Hell

2005-04-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
that is, at its heart, surprisingly liberal and broad-minded. The pendulum's arc might well have maximized this last weekend. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa

Re: Mr. Smith Goes to Hell

2005-04-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, for instance, gays, they *have* one, and they're willing to use it too. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: I am spamming your head I am spamming your head

2005-04-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Howcum (some) Texans are so happy?

2005-04-27 Thread Warren Ockrassa
sunlight quantity. That's just a wild stab though. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http

Re: France supports unilateralism, preventive war

2005-04-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
is perpetrated on your behalf by people whom you do not support. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http

Re: Bad Hitchhikers

2005-04-26 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of the humor of the Guide, the production has lost everything. There is no reason whatsoever to read the books or listen to the BBC recordings except to laugh your ass off, even at the bits you've heard or read dozens of times before. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
if there's a guilty verdict. That's only sensible, right? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:45:25 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote Fratricide, infanticide and cannibalism are serious crimes. I say we try the offender as an adult and don't hold back on the death penalty if there's a guilty verdict. That's only sensible

Close, but not yet...

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to schizophrenia. The tragedy of it, of course, is that in such a future it's in government and corporate interests *not* to treat or cure schizophrenia. I love it when dilemmas like that get dropped in my lap; they really punch up a story. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Re: Close, but not yet...

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 25, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what would be the way to prevent that mapping from working? It seemed obvious to me: A one-time pad. One-time pads are used to scramble a coded message and are then discarded (hence

Re: RIAA resorts to extortion....

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 25, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Gary Nunn wrote: Representatives from Comcast said they could not immediately comment on the lawsuit. Technically, oh shit *is* a comment. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year

Re: Global do-gooder with trouble at home

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
education budgets, for starters. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-25 Thread Warren Ockrassa
means have been tried. 4) The war will, at least, do no net harm to the people in the region. These are interesting points. By their criteria, I find Iraq (example) even less justifiable than before! ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work

Re: Radical National Rifle Assoc.

2005-04-22 Thread Warren Ockrassa
into the leg of a man who was washing his hands nearby. That man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. On the positive side, the man seated two stalls over was suddenly and entirely cured of his constipation. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
..., or after the '04 election. There's some opinion poll evidence to support his claim. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
all. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, the necessary, and the natural. Indubitably. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
as our face to the UN assembly? It seems to me that a wiser choice would be someone who is *consistently* an effective negotiator and bridge builder. On a different tack, what would be the merits and disadvantages of having the position be decided by election rather than appointment? -- Warren

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
: Fire is not volitional. National leaders are. *Presumably* this means the latter can be swayed or reasoned with. It was certainly evocative imagery, but the flaw really stood out to me. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
to be suggesting here that no Klan members are Republicans. Are you certain? Or do you mean instead that no elected Republican official would show public support for the Klan? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You seem to be suggesting here that no Klan members are Republicans. Are you certain? Or do you mean instead that no elected Republican official would show public support for the Klan? The latter

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 21, 2005, at 7:09 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 21, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: So the next time Republicans march in something organized by the KKK you'll say, ohh, that's guilt by association, really you shouldn't critcize. Wait. No Republican

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. Atheists aren't going to accept its premises *or* the possibility that it's scripture as historically valid as more traditional works -- after all, the text has absolutely no provenance; and non-Mormons won't accept its validity of authorship either. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. I think that sheds an instructive light on the suggestion that complex ethical systems are innate rather than acquired; the tendency to be ethical might be born into us, but the ethics we employ is, to my mind, all about opinion. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Warren Ockrassa
-groupers aren't human, after all). And what we define as being out-group is still, I think, a matter of public opinion. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 19, 2005, at 11:01 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:04 PM Tuesday 4/19/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? group_id=5083package_id=9297 I DLed the .jar, the first on the list, 0.8pre2. And when I entered 900! and clicked the Symbolic evaluation

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

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:05 PM, Dan Minette wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] You completely missed the point of what I wrote. I'm not saying anything at all about people who accept occasional correction (BTW there are several others on this very list who refuse to admit to being

Re: Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, it seems. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
. I think someone is trying to get his pet paid for by the government... Let's hope it's just a pet. (Spank, spank...) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:24 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: Here's something else, then. What if there were Iraqis praying for an outcome that could only have been possible if Wes didn't survive? Or anybody! I suspect there were prayers for various people

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Dan Minette wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] From my point of view today, and I suspect from yours and most others', those actions are all reprehensible. But to no small degree I suspect that's because we're living in a world and a time that affords us

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

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
be capable of similar behavior -- but maybe that's best taken up on the other thread. ANYway, thanks for the comments; they're appreciated. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com

Re: Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 20, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Steve Sloan wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Let's hope it's just a pet. (Spank, spank...) How shocking! I think somewhere in here, there's a joke about a Peter, Gabriel. Oo. I think you win some kind of prize for that one. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher

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

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Dan Minette wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To be fair I don't always make the distinction when I comment on something, which surely doesn't help anyone else decide whether I think I'm right or I'm just blowing hot gas. ;) I wouldn't mind having to ask

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:01:19 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote Possibly harking to Job and God's reply out of the whirlwind? That's one of the more enigmatic monologues in the entire Abrahamic tradition. I've seen really hard-line realist type

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, in the hands-on (or pseudopods-on) exhibit wing, and it's up to the young (brood, hatchlings) to determine which prayers are answered and which are not. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-04-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:03 AM, KZK wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: Warren Ockrassa wrote: That's a good point. I'd ask you to think about something else, though -- why do you consider yourself religious? I mean, if you have some kind of faith, *why* do you have that faith? Well, there's the question

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
an artifact of culture, society, weltanschauung. To my mind ethics is all about opinion polls -- the opinion of an entire society, in some cases. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Dan Minette wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: Why? Morality is not the product of an opinion poll. Something is either the right thing to do or it is not. Umm, I can think of a lot of historical

Re: One more!

2005-04-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
handle any really long numbers: http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/java-ent/jnut/ch01_03.htm -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: One more!

2005-04-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of the box... -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: One more!

2005-04-19 Thread Warren Ockrassa
entered 900! and clicked the Symbolic evaluation button I got a damn big number, which was much more satisfying than the infinity symbol I got when I clicked Numeric evaluation. This might show more promise for calculating 5,565,709! than a basic Java hack. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor

Re: Opinion Disclaimers (was Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babbletheory, and comments))

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
macho? Congratulations. You've officially tossed out one more ad hominem missive than I in this discussion, and you still haven't managed to address any of the substance of any of my points. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
at conception, why do you celebrate a birthday (I assume you do) -- 9 months after life ostensibly began? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
really deal with worldwide food problems. As for game preserves -- you can feed more people with a pound of grain than a pound of meat, and meat preparation (not just feeding; slaughter and cleanup) uses more water than is employed in an entire growing season. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher

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

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
the digression, but you weren't the one to drag it into a quagmire, FWIW. That was the work of someone else. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
? That *can't* be what you're suggesting. Can it?) If the above's a valid assessment, you might want to look at the Koran as a comparative religious exercise, because what I just described here is very, *very* similar to what Islamic fundamentalists believe as well. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 11:42 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:18:57 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote That's interesting. So you're suggesting that prayer literally works in all cases (which *does* raise some flag issues regarding your own troubles), that there literally is a God personally

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

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
with it. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: But for damn sure they are not in Heaven- 'No one can come to the father except through me'? They certainly could never have received the Gospel. Apparently you've not spoken with many Mormons on the subject. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:13:49 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote IOW, it's all about faith. ;) The above is a much better answer than many might have given. Thank you. Well, it was especially the part where you said nothing was provable. That's pretty

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 04:06 PM Monday 4/18/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 18, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: But for damn sure they are not in Heaven- 'No one can come to the father except through me'? They certainly could never have received

Re: Pathetically Simple Photoshop Question . . .

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
\Photoshop Actions\. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Bob's...

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:01 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote: I Think I'm Sentient My first instinct, while usually right when acted upon, is usually wrong. Huh. That's rather good, you know. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress

Re: Vectrix Electric Scooter

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.vectrixusa.com/index3.html I think I want one of these. Naah. http://www.bianchiusa.com/599.html I've got the '03. Indispensable. Worked in metro WI, works in rural AZ. ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http

Re: Bob's...

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: He's my cousin. Not your uncle? -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

Re: Bob's...

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:26 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: Oh, Bob. Bob, Bob, Bob. I had the answer! In your opinion you did... -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa

Re: Pathetically Simple Photoshop Question . . .

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 7:39 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 08:50 PM Monday 4/18/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Apr 18, 2005, at 4:09 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Where is one supposed to put the ready-made actions (*.atn) files one can find from various third-party sources in order to make them

Re: Vectrix Electric Scooter

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:09 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vectrixusa.com/index3.html I think I want one of these. Naah. http://www.bianchiusa.com/599.html I've got the '03. Indispensable. Worked in metro WI, works in rural AZ. ;) Where do you plug

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-18 Thread Warren Ockrassa
of intellectually and philosophically inbred louts I'd fallen foul of. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http

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

2005-04-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
for some fairly dull debates. I'd rather see a little fire in the dialogue than letter after letter of mutually-stroking milquetoast. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books

Re: Weird e-bay auction

2005-04-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
for Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf

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

2005-04-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 12, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Dan Minette wrote: From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] But, the words actually do mean different things. Let me make two statements I consider true about Iraq and one that I consider false. true The actions of Hussein against his own people were unjustifiable

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

2005-04-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
oneself and one's responses to the world, not just to [substance], and I'm uncertain that any 12-step program provides the necessary tools to accomplish that fundamental transformation. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress

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

2005-04-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Apr 13, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:06 PM Wednesday 4/13/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: I don't see a difference, at least not a functional one, between the statements The Iraq war is unjustifiable and the *debate-style* Resolved: The Iraq war is unjustifiable. Discuss. How

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-13 Thread Warren Ockrassa
, but apparently willing to make whatever mistakes are politically expedient when discussing bombing nations that didn't attack us.) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books

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