Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-06-05 Thread Ray Ludenia
Jan Coffey wrote: Look in at the members page, I'm the guy hovering over Greg Benford ;-) Seems I was so thrilled to meet him I followed him around like a puppy asking silly questions just to be communicating with the man. GB was a most impressive guest of honour at Aussiecon a few years ago.

Big Fan of GB: was Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-06-05 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ray Ludenia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: Look in at the members page, I'm the guy hovering over Greg Benford ;-) Seems I was so thrilled to meet him I followed him around like a puppy asking silly questions just to be communicating with the man. GB was a most

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-06-01 Thread Jan Coffey
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 May 2003 at 15:25, The Fool wrote: From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ??? Fascist

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:31 AM 5/30/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 May 2003 at 15:25, The Fool wrote: From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ??? Fascist power behind the throne of dictator Bush. Top

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Reggie Bautista
Ronn! wrote: FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom. ...which is kind of strange. I typically see snipping and bottom-posting on Usenet and in most e-mail

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:06 PM 5/30/03 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote: Ronn! wrote: FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom. ...which is kind of strange. I typically see snipping

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ronn! wrote: FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom. ...which is kind of strange. I typically see snipping and

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote As I took it, the main topic of concern was the proposed denial of access to space spy/intelligence technology, even for US allies. I came across to me almost as The US will forbid all other countries to have any spy/intelligence satellites.

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And welcome to the list! (I don't think I have seen your name here until recently, so I'm guessing that either you recently subscribed or recently came out of lurkdom: If I'm wrong, well, I've been wrong about other things, so simply disregard

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:21 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ronn! wrote: FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom. ...which is kind of

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Robert J. Chassell
... at every corporate job I've worked (and I worked quite a few as a temp), you never snip anything from an email and you always reply at the top. Which means either that the corporate people who send you email have not bothered to read and consider the original message or they feel

RE: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Chad Cooper
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And welcome to the list! (I don't think I have seen your name here until recently, so I'm guessing that either you recently subscribed or recently came out of lurkdom: If I'm wrong, well, I've been wrong about other things, so simply

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/30/2003 12:39:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Very into Action Sports (Snowboarding Kiteboarding mostly), Think about which sports are safe for the Hoon, and which are not. A hoon with a baseball bat would take the head off of a human pitcher.

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Reggie Bautista
Ronn! wrote: FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom. I replied: ...which is kind of strange. I typically see snipping and bottom-posting on Usenet and in

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This used to bug me a lot, since it makes communications less clear of what exactly they are replying to, but I've given up on worrying about it. The rationale was that they wanted each email to contain a complete archive of the discussion up

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:50 PM 5/29/2003 + Robert J. Chassell wrote: Why are new reporters just now paying attention to a U.S. 'negation' policy in space that has been around for two generations? And why are they paying attention to the ability I would hardly call this one link reporters just now paying

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-31 Thread The Fool
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 May 2003 at 15:25, The Fool wrote: From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ??? Fascist power behind the throne of dictator Bush. Top

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Han Tacoma
You will be assimilated! The US has every intention of deploying weapons in space, ultimately in order to control access to the atmosphere and outer space, and to be able to hit land and sea-based targets anytime, anywhere. Less need for messy and time-consuming troop deployments, which arouse

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Jan Coffey
Opinions: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ??? --- Han Tacoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will be assimilated! The US has every intention of deploying weapons in space, ultimately in order to control access to the atmosphere and outer space, and to be able to hit land and sea-based

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread The Fool
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ??? Fascist power behind the throne of dictator Bush. Top Posting is BAAD. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Robert J. Chassell
The US has every intention of deploying weapons in space, ... What is interesting is not this statement, but that it has been more than 40 years since the US first tested a nuclear weapon in space. Why are new reporters just now paying attention to a U.S. 'negation' policy in space that has

RE: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Chad Cooper
You don't have to be a space opera science fiction reader to have heard about space warfare or space-to-planet bombardment ... or do you? Let me add Jerry Pournelle's idea of a THOR space defense system summarized below http://www.jerrypournelle.com/slowchange/mega.html (I have mentioned

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:21 PM 5/29/03 -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] The US has every intention of deploying weapons in space, ... What is interesting is not this statement, but that it has been more than 40 years since the US first tested a nuclear weapon in space. Why

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Bryon Daly
Doh! I accidentally hit the send button mid-post! From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] The US has every intention of deploying weapons in space, ... What is interesting is not this statement, but that it has been more than 40 years since the US first tested a nuclear weapon in space.

RE: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Chad Cooper
What's the difference between a ballistic space-based weapon and a spy satellite? A spy satellite weighs and costs more... Nerd From Hell -Original Message- From: Bryon Daly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The Borg

Re: The Borg are coming!

2003-05-30 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 May 2003 at 15:25, The Fool wrote: From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Opinions: http://www.newamericancentury.org/ ??? Fascist power behind the throne of dictator Bush. Top Posting is BAAD. Since when did this turn