At 01:52 AM 10/27/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 10/26/2002 10:04:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
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I thought ouzo was the closest thing to alcoholic mulch.
I thought it was licorice-flavored lighter fluid . . . that you ignited
before drinking . . .
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At 17:18 26-10-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
What I would like would be an automated[1] system with web-based
interface where the dinger indicates who they want to ding, with a field
for explanation for the ding, and for anonymous dinging to be possible,
but penalized; the dingee would be
At 18:36 26-10-2002 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Excuse me? Giorgis has, among other things, repeatedly refused to
answer questions, has repeatedly refused to back his claims, and has
repeatedly turned to personal attacks to try and silence people who
disagree with him. In my book, such
At 16:55 26-10-2002 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
On the other hand, if the UN states that unless SH complies with all
prior resolutions, he will be made to comply by force, cries of American
imperialists will have much less credibility; I think the chance of
widespread street uprisings will be
At 00:07 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Do you have a better suggestion?
Yea, accept the reality of what the UN is, instead of pretending it is
what it isn't. It is a forum for the countries of the world to talk, and
occassionally express their collective will. The big 5 winning powers
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
No one seems to care but you.
If that is true, then I might just as well restore the previous content of
the Main Page of Brin-L.com, as it appearently is quite accurate -- you
know, the version that says that things like flame wars and personal
attacks are
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:39:17PM -0500, The Fool wrote:
To achieve this, the cable industry, which sells Internet access to
most Americans, is pursuing multiple strategies to closely monitor
and tightly control subscribers and their use of the net.
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 00:07 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Further, given Iraq's history of playing cat and mouse, isn't it
reasonable to have strict rules that will ensure that an inspection can
be thorough?
I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is that the
At 00:07 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Now *that* is reprehensible -- the idea that the Dutch would
deliberately let the Bosnians in Srebrenica be deported (the women and
children) or killed (the men).
Yes, that is represensible. But, le
But... what? Unfinished sentence.
Why did
At 00:20 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Our aim is to find a set of rules, or heuristics, that prevent abuse --
not necessarily the possibility of abuse, but certainly from a
practical standpoint.
That makes sense. I support the idea of dings because it allows the
community to slow
Jeroen wrote:
At 00:20 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
That makes sense. I support the idea of dings because it allows
the
community to slow down mail bombs, quiet flame wars, etc. without
throwing anyone off.
Dinging will not stop it, it will only delay it. The only difference
will
At 22:20 27-10-2002 +1100, Ray Ludenia wrote:
No one seems to care but you.
If that is true, then I might just as well restore the previous content
of the Main Page of Brin-L.com, as it appearently is quite accurate --
you know, the version that says that things like flame wars and
At 21:33 26-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting advise for
those list members who have small children.
Why would this be a good time for it?
Maybe it is because of the whining about my attempts to improve this list,
or maybe I am
Jeroen whined:
At 22:20 27-10-2002 +1100, Ray Ludenia wrote:
PS: You can have the last word on this too, if you like. However,
you would
be far better thought of if you didn't bother replying to this
post.
Even that is questionable now, given that people seem to believe
that
Giorgis's
At 06:54 AM 10/27/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 21:33 26-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting advise for
those list members who have small children.
Why would this be a good time for it?
Maybe it is because of the whining about my
Doug asked
How would they measure use?
Time Warner / Road Runner, in the last year, has been replacing the older
Motorola cable modems with the new Surfboard. One of the technicians that
did some troubleshooting here was telling me that with this particular modem
they can throttle the
Very interesting website about digital copyright and related issues. This
site also covers the recent controversial Paramount crackdown on
intellectual rights for the Star Trek franchise. There have been several
recent cases where Paramount has come into a science fiction conventions
with Federal
Nick wrote (I think)
It is quite literally a moderating effect.
Jeroen replied.
EXACTLY! Which is exactly why this is a bad idea -- it goes straight
against David Brin's wishes that this list be unmoderated.
Not all moderation is created equal. I would be opposed to moderation or
Erik Reuter wrote:
Besides, as usual, your digression doesn't really make a good argument,
since I DO think the US should push for regime change in Saudi Arabia
after Iraq is handled.
I guess you would like to see both Iraq and Saudi Arabia ruled
by Western Democracies. Do you have any
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:21:11AM -0600, The Fool wrote:
This wouldn't be necessary if the local-phone monopolies would
install
fibre optics right up to the home like they should have done.
While I would also like to see a fiber going to each home
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
No one seems to care but you.
If that is true, then I might just as well restore the
previous content of
the Main Page of Brin-L.com, as it appearently is quite
accurate -- you
know, the version that says that things like flame wars and personal
attacks are
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:17:16AM -0600, The Fool wrote:
Those are mostly one time costs. The only part of the phone network
that isn't fibre is the twisted pair that goes to homes.
Contrary to pro-forma corporate income statements, one time costs are
still costs. Someone has to pay for
- Original Message -
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: Call the UNSC's Bluff
I think Israel is a much more likely target, as it is closer; a hit on
Israel would also be extremely inflammatory - do you
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Excuse me? *I* am trying to improve this list by trying to get a
major disturbing factor (Giorgis) to clean up his act, and then you
call *me* irresponsible? I think that irresponsible better
describes those who think there is nothing wrong with Giorgis
wreaking havoc
- Original Message -
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: corporations
At 17:20 26-10-2002 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Bandwidth is obviously a limited (scarce) resoure, and there is no
logical
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 06:54 AM 10/27/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 21:33 26-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting
advise for those list members who have small children.
Why would this be a good time for it?
Maybe it is because
- Original Message -
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: test
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On
Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
...
Sounds like an
William Taylor wrote:
PS: You can have the last word on this too
ZZZ
That would be the last word, if it was a word.
According to Mr. Webster, it is! :)
ZZZ or zzz (used to represent a person snoring)
If you don't like that one, there's Z-zero particle: the electrically neutral type
- Original Message -
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: The UN
At 00:07 27-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Do you have a better suggestion?
Yea, accept the reality of what the UN is, instead of
You gotta read this!
This is great!
First some background:
The Culture list had been receiving spam from Nigeria, typical stuff wanting
money, promising riches, normal net aggrivations.
Apparently Nigerian scams are on peoples minds!
This one is one guys Lovecraftian response to the spammers.
- Original Message -
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: The UN
I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is that the US
wants military action to be the first option, not the last option.
Jim Sharkey wrote:
William Taylor wrote:
PS: You can have the last word on this too
ZZZ
That would be the last word, if it was a word.
According to Mr. Webster, it is! :)
ZZZ or zzz (used to represent a person snoring)
If you don't like that one, there's Z-zero particle:
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: test
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On
Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk
The Fool wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 05:21:11AM -0600, The Fool wrote:
This wouldn't be necessary if the local-phone monopolies would
install
fibre optics right up to the home like they should have done.
While I would also like to see a
Looks like the advice given to Ilana is still correct . . .
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:27:02 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- All but one of 118 dead hostages in Moscow theater standoff died from
gas poisoning, Russia's chief medical examiner says.
(c)2002. Cable News
- Original Message -
From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Parenting advise from an old man who's done a lot of parenting
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 06:54 AM 10/27/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 21:33
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: test
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002
Since the main branches that they could branch off from were not on our
side of our street, the phone company had 2 options: 1) dig a trench
across the street, or 2) dig a trench through the yard of a neighbor
whose property backed onto ours. And the neighbor whose yard was going
to have to
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:40:50 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Please forgive the lateness of my reply. Life gets in the way.
..much snippage throughout...
Feel free to check my figures, but it appears that the energy storage is
consistant with about 12% efficiency. Which kinda makes sense, because
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Since the main branches that they could branch off from were not on our
side of our street, the phone company had 2 options: 1) dig a trench
across the street, or 2) dig a trench through the yard of a neighbor
whose property backed onto ours. And the neighbor whose yard
Erik Reuter wrote:
I guess you would like to see both Iraq and Saudi Arabia ruled by
Western Democracies.
I don't care what flavor of democracy, but everyone should have
a right and a say in how they are governed.
Do you have any evidence that the iraqis and saudis would be better
if you
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On
Behalf Of Dan Minette
...
I think that is reasonable. But, I've got a neat, IMHO,
variation on that.
If person A dings person B, who dings back, person A should be
free to ding
again. But, then
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:54:33PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Research # 1: count the number of votes _against_ Capitalism
in the Brazilian Presidential Election. You will see that about 2/3
of the _voters_ reject this model.
Why would the iraqis and saudis think differently?
Research
Erik wrote:
The difference is that cable tv sends the same data to everyone, i.e.,
the backbones only need to carry one copy of the data which is virtually
the same for all subscribers.
With Internet, everyone is sending and receiving different data. If
everyone wanted to watch a different movie
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:05:09PM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Here in KC, TimeWarner Cable now has Movies On-Demand, about 50 or
60 different movies available whenever you want to watch them. In
addition, they have Comedy Central On-Demand (8 30-minute episodes
of various shows and
I've been looking through the source for the MLM the list is running on. It
looks to me as though it won't be too difficult to set up everything
*except* the actual effects of dinging on messages. Thus, we could try out
dinging without any actual effects (except, of course, for the feedback
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:05:09PM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Here in KC, TimeWarner Cable now has Movies On-Demand, about 50 or
60 different movies available whenever you want to watch them. In
addition, they have Comedy Central On-Demand (8 30-minute episodes
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: test
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:50:44PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
I was going to comment on a similar service available from Time Warner
in Austin for HBO, called HBO On Demand, where you get to view a bunch
of things offered by HBO when you want to see them (no more worrying
about VCR setup to
Terragen Field Agents should refrain from doing imitations of the
Frankenstein monster in front of most Galactics.
In the very first movie, the monster accually speaks one complete sentence of
Gal Five.
And it was a very, very rude one.
William Taylor
---
Genitilia on a
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:50:44PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
I was going to comment on a similar service available from Time Warner
in Austin for HBO, called HBO On Demand, where you get to view a bunch
of things offered by HBO when you want to see them (no more
William Taylor wrote:
Genitilia on a robot? That's a Gortian naughty.
There are times this list makes my head hurt a whole lot. :)
Jim
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In a message dated 10/27/2002 4:39:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
William Taylor wrote:
Genitilia on a robot? That's a Gortian naughty.
There are times this list makes my head hurt a whole lot. :)
Jim
And the thing is, this same joke might not play
At 11:42 PM 10/26/02, William Taylor wrote:
Ten dings = one dong
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
And 10 dongs = 1 dung?
That makes an odd sort of sense, because if we ever need that
many dings, it will probably be during a major shit-storm... ;-)
- Original Message -
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: test
At 11:42 PM 10/26/02, William Taylor wrote:
Ten dings = one dong
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
And 10 dongs = 1 dung?
That makes an odd sort
Being new to the list, I wouldn't know if there was a past history of emails
about this, but just who is that person in the 1985 photo on the rear inside
cover of Uplift War?
That picture seems to be of a doctor of astrophysics who is morose because he
is demeaning himself by actually writing
In a message dated 10/27/2002 10:13:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 11:42 PM 10/26/02, William Taylor expended precious bandwidth by
expostulating:
[Anyone know the programing for changing my AOL automatic CP line?]
Ten dings = one dong
Ron wrote
I suppose by now you have heard the outcome:
50 Militants, 90 Hostages Dead After Moscow Siege Gas Used to Subdue
Chechens; Fate of Americans Unknown
Spent Saturday glued to TV screen. Russian channels. Saw some pretty
strange things - as syringes (sp). It's 115 dead now. :-( head
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: cars, air L3er
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 15:40:50 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Please forgive the lateness of my reply. Life gets in the way.
..much snippage throughout...
I don't really like the idea of anonymous dings but if they are allowed
the penalty should be at least .5 ding.
Otherwise, I'm in favor of the system.
Doug
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- Original Message -
From: Halupovich Ilana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Brin-l Digest, Vol 76, Issue 2 Rebels seize Moscow theater
Ron wrote
I suppose by now you have heard the outcome:
50 Militants, 90 Hostages
Brazil hasn't had a lefty in power for nearly forty years, according to
the article below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2124330,00.html
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Former union boss Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won
Brazil's presidential election runoff by a landslide Sunday,
In a message dated 10/27/2002 10:17:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And, we can have a provision that the offending poster be kicked off the
list for a week if it gets that high. Afterwards, we can sing ding-dung,
the witch is dead
The term 'witch' is usually
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