The Fool wrote
AIR TRAVELER ID REQUIREMENT CHALLENGED Secret rule demanding 'Your
Papers
Please' claimed unconstitutional
snip
Any government that tracks its citizens' movements and associations,
or restricts their travel using secret decrees, is violating that
Constitution,
Checking ID is not
At 23:16 1-3-2003 +, Jose Ortiz wrote:
Now, why is it that the writers of these novels always come up with better
plots than the average television episodes of Trek? The television writers
could learn a thing or two from the pros.
My guess is that it has something to do with deadlines. The
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Patriot II
In fact, if the current administration had its way, the confidentially and
quietly drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed Patriot
Act II, would already be the supreme law of the land. Under this law, U.S.
citizens
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd love to have one, but I'm afraid the electricity bill would be too
high. Playing the Holodeck version of games such as Half-Life or Unreal
would make gaming so much more... interesting... :-)
Not to mention the Holodeck Interactive Edition of the
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:48:01PM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote:
Has Iraq turned over its anthrax? nerve agents?
As far as I know, nobody's actually shown Iraq still *has* anthrax.
--
Paul
I need some good links about ip spoffing .
So, you need some good herking sites so you can become a
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:24:59AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
boxes. Though I would have loved to have had the work, I couldn't honestly
come up with a strategy that made sense. Neither could anyone else,
apparently, so Sun steered it in the direction it has gone.
There's a platform - MHP, I
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 05:46:11PM -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
I agree. Fine him $100 and close the books.
At which point, every loon goes out and buys a gun, 'cause they figure the
worst they'll get is a $100 fine. Nice one.
The real problem here is the cop that investigated the crime.
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:57:31PM -, Andrew Crystall wrote:
More, someone trying to buy air tickets without ID should be investigated
as security risk.
Why?
You CANNOT have unknowns traveling on transport where a single disruptive
passenger can endanger others so easily. If you WANT
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:21:28PM -0500, Gary L. Nunn wrote:
So why is the UN and countries surrounding Korea not all over that? I
can't help but think that a nuclear exchange on the Korean peninsula
would take a bit more priority than Iraq?
Because North Korea can actually fight back
Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] notes:
I couldn't help but notice a news article today where the
president of North Korea is threatening nuclear war (see link
below). I guess that ABC doesn't consider that breaking news?
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030301_927.html
At 18:40 1-3-2003 -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Well, first, there has to be a UN security resolution demanding a change
-- but only if the light bulb can be proved to be burned out and not
just in a quantum state of flux.Second, there should be an increase in
the number and frequency of
At 18:44 1-3-2003 -0600, The Fool wrote:
There will be no place on earth, or the heavens for that matter, where
Washington's writ does not run supreme.
US control over the heavens is old news, really -- it's even mentioned in
the Navy Hymne:
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's
At 19:14 1-3-2003 -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
In any case, using a law that was designed to fight gangbangers
Huh? I am familiar with the meaning of the word gangbang (and thus with
the meaning of the words gangbanger and gangbanging), but I can assure
you that it has nothing to do with
At 20:48 1-3-2003 -0500, Gary Nunn wrote:
I don't disagree with you, but sending the man to jail with a possible
felony for defending his family is an abuse of what the original intent
of the law was.
That's rhetoric, not fact, Gary. The guy is not going on trial for
defending his family, he is
At 00:37 2-3-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Those idiots who are travelling to Iraq to be human shields *are*
committing war crimes, by intentionally placing themselves in a war zone.
Indeed, by aiding and abetting a war criminal, Saddam Hussein, they are
not only accessories to war crimes,
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Not to mention the Holodeck Interactive Edition of the _Kama
Sutra_...
See, that's the problem. To paraphrase Dennis Miller, if some ensign can turn on a
switch, crack open a Romulan ale, and have Seven of Nine do the naked mambo on his
johnson, why the heck would
At 13:04 2-3-2003 +, Jose Ortiz wrote:
I'd love to have one, but I'm afraid the electricity bill would be too
high. Playing the Holodeck version of games such as Half-Life or Unreal
would make gaming so much more... interesting... :-)
Not to mention the Holodeck Interactive Edition of
- Original Message -
From: Paul Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:31 AM
Subject: Re: Brooklyn Dad Facing Jail for Shooting Intruder
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 05:46:11PM -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
I agree. Fine him
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 00:37 2-3-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Those idiots who are travelling to Iraq to be human shields *are*
committing war crimes, by intentionally placing themselves in a
war zone. Indeed, by aiding and abetting a war criminal, Saddam
Hussein, they are not only
At 15:30 1-3-2003 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:
Just joined the list and got caught up in this thread, nostalgia suddenly
waking up in me.
Hello to you too, and welcome on board! :-)
Care to tell us a bit more about you? You know, getting to know you and
stuff like that. :-)
In return, we will
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:24:56AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
You have to understand the enviromental idiom concerning weapons over
here. Gun ownership is common. So common in fact that every loon already
has one, and they dont have to get a permit to do so. All that is required
is a
- Original Message -
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?
Doug Pensinger wrote:
GSV Ancient Submariner
With a penguin hanging
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:44:39 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
I've used VBA quite a bit, almost exclusively in Excel manipulating test
data. I now program quite a bit in LabView... I'm sure there are a few
opinions about that particular language if you are familiar with it.
Any volunteers? 8^)
I
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:16:15 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Anyone want to comment here on APL?
I would love to but don't I need a special keyboard? :)
Dean
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http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Rob wrote
Contrary to the rumors circling the globe, US citizens don't
run around waving their guns in the air or shooting beer
bottles off handy fence rails. People are much more discrete
than that. (And I'm in Texas in case you don't
recall) To see Americans shooting guns you pretty
rob wrote:
Contrary to the rumors circling the globe, US citizens dont run around
waving their guns in the air or shooting beer bottles off handy fence
rails.
People are much more discrete than that. (And I'm in Texas in case you dont
recall) To see Americans shooting guns you pretty much have to
On 2 Mar 2003 at 10:58, Robert Seeberger wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:24:56AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
You have to understand the enviromental idiom concerning weapons
over here. Gun ownership is common. So common in fact that every
loon already has one, and they dont have
Jose wrote:
Makes you wonder where did Wesley Crusher spend his free time, after he was
done saving the Enterprise.
ACK! MY EYES! MY EYES!
Oh, sorry... did anyone else just go to a really scary visual place?
Reggie Bautista
Buffy Quote Maru
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Almighty Dollar, Deutchemark (sp!)
I think you're OK as long as you don't spell it Douchemark. ;-)
and Franc Maru (guess now that's Dollar and Euro)
__
Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama =
Jeroen wrote:
Besides, I think the I would be out of a job statement is a lame excuse;
mr. Dixon *knew* he was breaking the law by owning an unlicensed gun. If
he's going to lose his job because of it, well, that's his own fault -- he
should have thought of that before he decided to keep an
Jose wrote:
Now, why is it that the writers of these novels always come up with better
plots than the average television episodes of Trek? The television writers
could learn a thing or two from the pros.
Jeroen replied:
My guess is that it has something to do with deadlines. The average novel
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?artid=3911
0877
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has offered political asylum to Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein, according to a front page story in Sunday's South
China Morning Post.
The bizarre tale appears to be the kind of news
I wrote:
There's No Tear In My Beer Maru
Debbi replied:
grin
I believe that's a reference to 'the ultimate country song,' and I think
the line is There's tears in my ears from lying on my back crying over
you!
Jeroen responded:
Fairly accurate. The exact line is:
I've got tears in my ears
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 05:51 am, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Right now my favorite song is Sun King by a band called The Naming.
They
are based in London and I am friends with the keyboard player John
Goodall
(I wonder if there is a relationship with William).
Not that I know of... I
At 12:11 2-3-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
At 10:25 AM 3/2/2003 -0500 Jim Sharkey wrote:
Jeroen, I don't see that as what JDG is saying at all.
Jim,
You know, John, if you want to send a message off-list, you really must
change the address in the To: field before sending the message. Actually,
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Jim Sharkey wrote:
See, that's the problem. To paraphrase Dennis Miller, if some ensign can turn on a
switch, crack open a Romulan ale, and have Seven of Nine do the naked mambo on his
johnson, why the heck would he ever do any work? :-)
So the really big question
George A wrote:
I thought Sisko was a quiet and effective leader. Neither
bought into nor liked the emissary thread.
Steve replied:
AKA the Valen thread... ;-)
Ah yes, another B5 echo in DS9. It's especially interesting to note the
similarities that occurred once the show was already created,
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Contrary to the rumors circling the globe, US citizens dont run around
waving their guns in the air or shooting beer bottles off handy fence rails.
People are much more discrete than that. (And I'm in Texas in case you dont
recall) To see Americans shooting guns you
Julia wrote:
There are the occasional yahoo redneck exceptions, but they tend to keep it
out in the country, where no
one else is going to get hit.
You forgot the (tm) after yahoo... :-)
Reggie Bautista
[sung in country music voice] Dot Com [spoken ala James Earl Jones] Maru
Reggie said:
Ah yes, another B5 echo in DS9. It's especially interesting to note
the similarities that occurred once the show was already created, like
both doing episodes around the same time in which it was revealed that
there is or might be an alien conspiracy within our own government,
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd love to have one, but I'm afraid the electricity bill would be too
high. Playing the Holodeck version of games such as Half-Life or Unreal
would make gaming so much more... interesting... :-)
Not to mention the
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 23:16 1-3-2003 +, Jose Ortiz wrote:
Now, why is it that the writers of these novels always come up with better
plots than the average television episodes of Trek? The television writers
could learn a thing or two from the pros.
My guess is that it has
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Or at least some have decided that:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/02/wshiel02.xmlsSheet=/news/2003/03/02/ixnewstop.html
It's a lot harder to hold to your principles when the bombs might actually hit you,
I suppose. What did these people
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Julia wrote:
There are the occasional yahoo redneck exceptions, but they tend to keep it
out in the country, where no
one else is going to get hit.
You forgot the (tm) after yahoo... :-)
No, that's Yahoo!(tm). I was referring to a certain class of people, not a
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Jim Sharkey wrote:
See, that's the problem. To paraphrase Dennis Miller, if some
ensign can turn on a switch, crack open a Romulan ale, and have
Seven of Nine do the naked mambo on his johnson, why the heck
would he ever do any work? :-)
So the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But of course they must have something (or many things) that they
do not want inspectors to find. That is the problem with the
inspection game.
It is only a problem if the host country does try to hide something.
If the host country is trying to prove its
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On at least one of those times, didn't he have to save the Enterprise from
some goof-up that he himself was responsible for?
You *don't* let a kid goof around with a starship. Period.
Julia
How a starship that represents the prime technological advance of
http://truthout.org/docs_03/022803A.shtml
Blood Money
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Thursday 27 February 2003
In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military
Industrial Complex.
At 02:44 PM 3/2/03 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I preferred to spend my military days hurtling through the air at
hundreds of miles per hour in a flimsy tin can rather than moving
hundreds of feet under the water at a few knots in a flimsy tin can . . .
Well now, flimsy
At 11:15 PM 3/2/03 +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On at least one of those times, didn't he have to save the Enterprise from
some goof-up that he himself was responsible for?
You *don't* let a kid goof around with a starship. Period.
Julia
How a
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0%2C3604%2C903584%2C00.html
Germans wrestle with rights and wrongs of torture
Revelation that police signed order to extract confession fuels furious
national debate
John Hooper in Berlin
Thursday February 27, 2003
The Guardian
One of Germany's
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 10:58:35AM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
The fact that of all the Americans you have known, hardly any of them have
died from gunshot wounds, and that should tell you something about the
actual state of things here. I rarely see a firearm, and if I do its
True. (I'll
Julia Thompson wrote:
Makes you wonder where did Wesley Crusher spend his free time, after he was
done saving the Enterprise. (Which he did way too many times, methinks).
;-)
On at least one of those times, didn't he have to save the Enterprise from
some goof-up that he himself was
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/28/bush.forests.ap/index.html
Timber industry benefits from Bush forest policy Administration says
wildfires underscore need for change
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In just six months President Bush has succeeded in
redirecting the nation's forest policy toward the
From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I stand corrected. Let me rephrase. When I first heard
about Java, it was
in an article that described it as a language where you could write a
program once and compile it anywhere, so as to help narrow
the software gap
between Windows
From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S'bit of a late reply but my computer has well and truly
given up on me. My
webmail has been complaining a lot (about 6 weeks worth of
Culture, Brin-L,
MML mails = 7000 emails or so) and will undoubtedly die
completely if I
Welcome
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Orrin Hatch, a strong supporter, felt a need to ask
her why she
dissents so often. It is not, as has been implied, she
said, a matter
of my particular bent or preference for any side of a case. She
dissents, she said, when she disagrees about the
From: Doug Pensinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
GSV Ancient Submariner
Do you rhyme?
Sorry, I'm stuck in a cramped middle seat on a flight from Atlanta to Dallas
and couldn't resist. Do you now how hard it is to type when the guy in
front of you has his seat all the way back?!?
- jmh
Ouch
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd love to have one, but I'm afraid the electricity bill
would be too
high. Playing the Holodeck version of games such as Half-Life
or Unreal
would make gaming so much more... interesting... :-)
I'll wait for the Holodeck version of
Horn, John wrote:
From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not to mention the Holodeck Interactive Edition of the _Kama
Sutra_... GRIN
What would Sonja say about this, h???
Probably Hurry up, slowpoke! I'm lonely in here! At least if he's lucky. :-)
Jim
be forewarned, this may be considered long, or very long by some
_
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo on Sun Mar 2 00:30:26 PST 2003 wrote:
Welcome aboard. Have fun!! :)
Thanks for the welcome Jose, muchas gracias. Krajo que este
sitio
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Han Tacoma
...
Became a Systems Engineer, Sales Rep., Product Planner for SQL/DS,
worked with early natural language, knowledge based system products,
and then retired from IBM (in South America,
Horn, John wrote:
From: Lalith Vipulananthan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
S'bit of a late reply but my computer has well and truly
given up on me. My
webmail has been complaining a lot (about 6 weeks worth of
Culture, Brin-L,
MML mails = 7000 emails or so) and will undoubtedly die
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2445121,00.html
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror
attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior
Pakistan government source told The Associated Press.
Yay! Yay! Yay!
At 02:57 PM 3/1/2003 -0800 Bradford DeLong wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2445121,00.html
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror
attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior
Pakistan government source told
http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/templates/article.asp?NewsID=4274
North Korea is on the verge of becoming a nuclear weapon state. Yet,
after a decade of concerted effort by Democrats and Republicans to keep
the Koreas non-nuclear, the Bush administration has apparently decided
either that
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030303-104.htm
Terrorists aim at Pearl Harbor
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Terrorists linked to al Qaeda have targeted U.S. military facilities in
Pearl Harbor, including nuclear-powered submarines and ships, The
Washington Times has learned.
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