Kevin Tarr wrote:
I also don't like Stephen got my thesaurus right beside me Donaldson.
I'm
fairly well educated, but when I read for pleasure, I don't want to have
to
have a thesaurus right there. About three pages into the first book, I
was
reminded of Margaret Meade in her Growing Up in
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
If you're an Asimov fan, I ask: what did you (or anyone in our audience)
think of Asimov's Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection? I liked it, but
I
recently gave it to a friend who wanted to read it, and she told me she
found it disappointing. I don't know why.
Big
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Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:51 PM
Subject: Thomas Covenant (was RE: Question about Spoilers)
George wrote:
Lalith Vipulananthan asked:
Just out of interest, how old
At 18:28 14-03-03 -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
Although I really prefer to go for the third option: an improved UN
where each country has one vote, where no country has veto power so
that no country can force its will upon others, and where all
decisions are made by all members, not a small
At 03:01 15-03-03 +, Jose Ortiz wrote:
First of all, let me state for the record that our national pastime is
just that: politics. We eat/breathe politics 24/7.
Sounds like a wonderful place for Gautam to live... :-)
We have under the umbrella of both our constitution and the US
At 21:26 14-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
I do however think that keeping the pressure on high, while conducting
further peacefull inspections is probably the best bet for improvement
in the region. Then again I don't see how the US will be prevented from
going for the price... oops I mean ...
At 21:44 14-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
If France can prevent the war from happening, than it *has* effectively
protected American soldiers. After all, when there is no war, the risk to
a soldier's life is significantly less than when that soldier goes into combat.
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From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah, so? There were plenty of voices saying that war was a bad idea. The Bush
regime decided to ignore those voices and set the stage for war anyway. If the Bush
regime is foolish enough to ignore good advice, it shouldn't
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From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah, so? There were plenty of voices saying that war was a bad idea. The Bush
regime decided to ignore those voices and set the stage for war anyway. If the Bush
regime is foolish enough to ignore good advice, it shouldn't
Bryon Daly wrote:
OTOH, I'm not sure a purely population-based voting power would be fair
either. Perhaps some measure based on a combination of population,
democratic representation, monetary dues paid, economic power and perhaps
even land size and/or resources might be more fair, but maybe
At 06:05 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Yeah, so? There were plenty of voices saying that war was a bad
idea. The Bush regime decided to ignore those voices and set
the stage for war anyway. If the Bush regime is foolish enough
to ignore good advice, it shouldn't complain about the costs.
At 06:11 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
snip content
Er, John, is there a reason why you are sending each (or at least: most) of
your messages to the list *twice*?
Jeroen Casual Observations van Baardwijk
_
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:41:26PM -0600, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
That sounds good, but I think it's very hard to do. How would one
start, since buidling such a thing would appear to involve scuttling
or restructuring NATO and possibly the UN as well? I can't think
of a way for anyone to
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...
In the Catholic Church, we ask forgiveness for both what we have
done, and what we have failed to do.
Same for Lutherans, exactly.
But that doesn't mean that there isn't an ethical
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So, you pay taxes to the US government, but you don't get a
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
And, since the US has more power than Iraq, economically, militarily,
and culturally, from the point of view of a non-US government, the US
presents a more pressing danger, even if, at the moment, it is much
nicer than Iraq.
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:12:36 +, William T Goodall wrote:
So far, I haven't seen any computers that had USB as a boot option.
(I recently rolled out five brand new Pentium-4 IBM NetVista PC's, and
even those didn't have that option.)
Macs have been able to use a USB drive (HD or CD) as
* Nick Arnett [Sat, 15/03/2003 at 07:33 -0800]
But that doesn't mean that there isn't an ethical difference, does it?
Agreed, for me there is an ethical difference. I can't preventively bomb
100 Iraqi children even to save 1000 children from my community.
--
Jean-Marc
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I spent part of last night and this cleaning up and deleting some old
files. When I was done, I had removed about 6GB of stuff I didn't need any
more.
My last computer had a total of 6GB of hard drive space . . .
Every time Dan gets a new personal computer (as
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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: RE: Deadlier Than War
* Nick Arnett [Sat, 15/03/2003 at 07:33 -0800]
But that doesn't mean that there isn't an ethical
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, now we are being hosted by leagin the US troops prepared
^^
to carry out this resolution in the lurch in the Gulf.
This didn't make sense. Could you re-state the sentence in a way that makes
sense, using
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
While it definitely sucks to be away from loved ones for such a long time,
and while I sympathise with those sailors who had to miss their own
wedding, you can't put a military operation on hold just because someone
wants to get married.
You're right, you can't. The
G. D. Akin wrote:
Sheesh, I hope not. I've never read his works, but I will soon read his
Claw of the Conciliator which won a Nebula a few years back. I'm
trying to read all the Hugo (actually, done that) and Nebula Award
winners. Just a goal.
I had that as a goal (the Hugos, anyway) and
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:40 PM 3/14/03 -0800, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
There are already purple potatoes (naturally occuring pigment) that
you can make into purple mashed potaoes. I remember seeing a bag
of novelty potato chips which were made using these potatoes.
Served with the
Matt Grimaldi wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
(...)
I once listened from a nutty UFO and psychic believer
that water from high up in the mountains was more
healthy than water from below, because it had less
Deuterium and Deuterium would accelerate aging.
Sounds nutty, but - as
* Dan Minette [Sat, 15/03/2003 at 10:25 -0600]
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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: RE: Deadlier Than War
So, would you have been a pacifist in WWII?
No. I
The Fool wrote:
More problematic is the fatalistic worldview of apocalyptic thinking,
Hill said. Many who obsess about the end of the world fail to enjoy the
life they have or reach out to help others in an effort to improve
society, he said. They become morally complacent.
This is
Julia Thompson wrote:
This is illustrated by a bumper sticker seen on cars of a few Rapturists:
In case of the Rapture, this car will be driverless
That's a hell of a thing to inflict on everyone else you're in traffic with!
I imgaine that the ethics of Rapturism would _prevent_ this from
This editorial makes a pretty good analysis of how
this crisis has transpired so far, until the end.
Somehow, Krauthammer seems to have missed the fact
that the US proposed exactly the same resolution he
described several weeks ago, and it was rejected by
the French, et all. Indeed, Jose Maria
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* Dan Minette [Sat, 15/03/2003 at 10:25 -0600]
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From: Jean-Marc Chaton
At 10:42 AM 3/15/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:40 PM 3/14/03 -0800, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
There are already purple potatoes (naturally occuring pigment) that
you can make into purple mashed potaoes. I remember seeing a bag
of novelty potato chips which were
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:00:44PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Ok, but AFAIK serious consequences should be something worse than
the current siege warfare against Iraq, and I fail to see what can be
more serious than a siege if you don't mean war
Siege with attitude?
--
Erik Reuter
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
This is illustrated by a bumper sticker seen on cars of a few Rapturists:
In case of the Rapture, this car will be driverless
That's a hell of a thing to inflict on everyone else you're in traffic with!
I imgaine that the ethics of
On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 11:57 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
John Garcia wrote:
For fans of The District and the Carmen Sandiego series on PBS, sad
news:
Lynne Thigpen, who played Ella Farmer (assistant to the police chief)
on The District police show, and The Chief on the Carmen Sandiego
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From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The UN Resolution says serious consequences, it doesn't say war. The consequence
war is merely America's interpretation of the phrase serious consequences; the
various UN members are not in agreement about the how it
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Behalf Of Dan Minette
...
The reality of the situation is that if the US doesn't do
something about a
place like Rwanda, the Balkins, Iraq, nothing will be done.
I'm not sure I entirely agree, but I'm also not
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we are now killing babies by failing to make war on Iraq, then we were also killing
babies by supporting sanctions. Unless the we in those sentences is the whole human
race, I don't think it makes any sense to think this
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But, there are indeed benefits in becoming a state, and statehood may pass the next
election. It doesn't take a
revolution; it just takes voting yes. Congress has to approve statehood, but it has
indicated a willingness to do
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, now we are being hosted by leagin the US troops prepared
^^
to carry out this resolution in the lurch in the Gulf.
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The citizens of the US are in a unique moral position.
With great power comes great responsibility.
JDG - Who wonders if France would oppose Spiderman's unilateralism in pursuit of
criminals.
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Who is the sheriff?
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The UN Resolution says serious
At 11:35 AM 3/15/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
This is illustrated by a bumper sticker seen on cars of a few Rapturists:
In case of the Rapture, this car will be driverless
That's a hell of a thing to inflict on everyone else you're in
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Authorizes Member States co-operating
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Subject: RE: RE: Deadlier Than War
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...
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Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Heinlein and current international politics L3
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:38:56PM +, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
And, since the
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Authorizes Member States co-operating with the Government of Kuwait,
unless Iraq on or before 15 January 1991 fully implements, as set forth in
paragraph 1
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Who is the sheriff?
I personally think that France may be winning a victory, but that they
are losing the War. Their
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You need to consider the trade-off. For example, the various
Christian Churches of the world do not hold people morally
culpable all those who do not sell off all of their
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Subject: Re: Commentary on French-bashing
At 14:32 14-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
[The French] actively support a brutal dictator.
I
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As the leaders of the contain the US alliance? The only democracy that I know of
that favors attacking Iraq without a new specific Security Council resolution
authorizing it explicitly is the US. After we go in, probably
At 09:35 15-03-03 -0500, JDG insultingly wrote:
The UN Resolution says serious consequences, it doesn't say war. The
consequence war is merely America's interpretation of the phrase
serious consequences; the various UN members are not in agreement about
the how it should be interpreted.
At 09:44 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
BTW, I'd just like to point out, that the quintessential example of
Anti-Americanism is criticism of America's treatment of Puerto Rico.
SIGH
For the umpteenth time, John, criticism of the US does NOT equal
anti-Americanism. I also criticise the
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From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snip
JDG - International Opion :), Maru.
BTW - I forgot to include Portugal and Israel in my list of democracies who will
support a war without a second UN Resolution. Apologies if I missed any others.
Additionally, I
The one country, one vote system also gives you the least amount
of paperwork After all, either a country exists or it doesn't.
This is a very puzzling statement. What about northern Somalia? It
collects taxes, pays civil servants and soldiers, and you can point to
it on the map.
... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
the dangers posed by Hussein?
That is not the question. The question is, for example, whether a US
government thinks it better that France workers
JJ wrote:
(Aside: There are some extremely cool games coming out for the
PS2. It seems
the gas is running low for the XBOX and PC game developers... ).
Pah. Panzer Dragoon Orta, um, Splinter Cell, and that's about it. We'll have
to wait a little while longer before we see Halo 2, PGR 2 and
On Saturday 2003-03-15 09:54, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
More problematic is the fatalistic worldview of apocalyptic thinking,
Hill said. Many who obsess about the end of the world fail to enjoy the
life they have or reach out to help others in an effort to improve
society, he
The Fool wrote:
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river
Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way
for the kings from the East, writes John, possibly the
apostle, of a container of Gods anger
Known in modern times as a can of whoop-ass. ;-)
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, you pay taxes to the US government, but you don't get a say in who will
be in that government, and you don't get a say in how your tax dollars are
spent. No insult intended, but this sounds like Puerto Rico's primary
function is that of a milk cow
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:37:22PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 01:24:04PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
I appreciate your sincerity in this, but I'm curious as to why you
think that while an extremely modest effort (about $40 spent per
person in Afghanistan is as
On 15 Mar 2003 at 19:54, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
the dangers posed by Hussein?
That is not the question. The question is, for example, whether
On 15 Mar 2003 at 13:05, Dan Minette wrote:
I personally think that France may be winning a victory, but that
they
are losing the War. Their influence will only be reduced after this
is all said and done.
As the leaders of the contain the US alliance? The only democracy
that I know of
On 15 Mar 2003 at 17:14, Jean-Marc Chaton wrote:
* Nick Arnett [Sat, 15/03/2003 at 07:33 -0800]
But that doesn't mean that there isn't an ethical difference, does
it?
Agreed, for me there is an ethical difference. I can't preventively
bomb 100 Iraqi children even to save 1000 children
On 15 Mar 2003 at 11:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:12:36 +, William T Goodall wrote:
So far, I haven't seen any computers that had USB as a boot
option. (I recently rolled out five brand new Pentium-4 IBM NetVista
PC's, and even those didn't have that option.)
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:34:34PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you think many French reason this way? I can understand being
concerned about excessive American power in general. But when
specifically compared to Hussein, do the French really think the
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:54:38PM +, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
... do the French really think the probability of the US attacking
or subverting their country sometime in the future is greater than
the dangers posed by Hussein?
That is not the question. The question is, for
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, let me quote from
http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=2query=puerto+rico+taxes+rsource=
INKtarget=http%3A%2F%2Fwelcome%2Etopuertorico%2Eorg%2Fgovernment%2Eshtml
Hi, Dan. Thanks for bringing these sources to my attention. I love it when I
read these
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: France's influence
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As the leaders of the contain the US
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just to review, the US regularly lets the Puerto Rican vote on their
status, and they have chosen the status quo every time.
Like I stated on an earlier post, this is just not a correct assesment of
the situation. We have yet to see the final referendum in which we have
Andrew Crystall wrote:
The UK public and leadership are in favour.
The UK public are in favour? What is that statement based on?
Lal
GSV Curious
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http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 11:29 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
BTW, I'd just like to point out, that the quintessential example of
Anti-Americanism is criticism of America's treatment of Puerto Rico.
Jeroen wrote:
But hey, here's a challenge for you: prove beyond reasonable doubt that
criticism of America's
Earlier, I wrote,
What about northern Somalia? It collects taxes, pays civil
servants and soldiers, and you can point to it on the map. From
what I have heard, it is one of the better run countries in its
part of Africa.
By `northern Somalia' I meant the part of the country
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 09:43:42PM +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
And we may not pay taxes openly, but again, the taxes are there. They are
just embedded in the prices of the articles we pay and similar areas
related to trade and commerce. Cost of living is really high down here. I
have
On 15 Mar 2003 at 21:55, Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
The UK public and leadership are in favour.
The UK public are in favour? What is that statement based on?
Poll I saw 2 days in a newspaper. Can't think offhand which.
Support has been growing recently.
Andy
Dan Minette wrote:
I've read that French resistance was fairly minimal, and that most French
cooperated willingly with the Germans. Do you have a good source on the
extent of French resistance?
If 50 innocent lives were taken for the life of one combatant how much
resistance would you expect
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Deadlier Than War
Dan Minette wrote:
I've read that French resistance was fairly minimal, and that most
French
cooperated
Erik Reuter wrote:
At the risk of ruining it, can you explain the joke? I know that le is
and article for the, but what is le weekend? I thought the French
worked short weeks compared to Americans, so they would have at least as
long a weekend as Americans.
The use of the word weekend rather
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:33 PM
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Erik Reuter wrote:
At the risk of ruining it, can you explain the joke? I know
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The US numbers have shifted towards going in without
the UN, but the trend
polls that I have seen in other countries have
indicated a firming up of
the opinion that they will approve of a war only
with a UN mandate. I know
that Gautam is fairly
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
I've read that French resistance was fairly
minimal, and that most
French
cooperated willingly with the Germans. Do you
have a good source on the
extent of French resistance?
If 50 innocent lives were taken for the
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Deadlier Than War
Or, you know, the Russians, who had a pretty effective
partisan campaign going. Or the Serbs, in Yugoslavia.
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From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You're in for a disappointment then. I have it on good authority that anti-Americanism
had nothing to do with my criticism.
*
Whose authority, yours?
Heh. Believe me Jeroen, your doing exactly what I would
Julia asked
G. D. Akin wrote:
Sheesh, I hope not. I've never read his works, but I will soon read his
Claw of the Conciliator which won a Nebula a few years back. I'm
trying to read all the Hugo (actually, done that) and Nebula Award
winners. Just a goal.
I had that as a goal (the
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was talking about the opinion of people. In a January Gallup poll, the last one I
could find, the numbers were:
**
Again, though, I definitely believe that those numbers are
William wrote:
Since 'Claw' is volume 2 of _The Book of the New Sun_, it might be a
good idea to start with volume 1, The Shadow of the Torturer.
Probably.
I have a self-inflicted rule to read any prequel in a series, so I will do
as you suggest. I have a nice SFBC omnibus edition of The
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about some numbers?
Why not? Take your pick. You have infinite choices!! JUST KIDDING! ;-)
(A little math humor..)
What percent of your income goes to various taxes (social security,
medicare, equivalent of Federal income tax, equivalent of state income
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 01:45:09AM +, Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
If I use my experience as a frame of reference, roughly 9.22% from the
monthly paycheck goes to Social Security and Medicare, while only 7.5%
go to local state taxes.
In the 50 states, last I checked, we paid 6.2% for social
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/31403_local_rodeofight.html
Talk of war with Iraq has sparked an atmosphere of tension and anxiety. And
it may be to blame for a brawl that broke out at the rodeo Thursday night
With some 15,000 to 20,000 folks at the rodeo drinking beer and having fun,
things can
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,915125,00.html
An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in awe by what it
believes to be a mystical visitation by a 20lb carp that was heard shouting
in Hebrew, in what many Jews worldwide are hailing as a modern miracle.
Many of the
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/03/15/villepin/index.html
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Saturday he believed
Washington was now working on the basis that war could start in Iraq in a
matter of days, and urged a rapid rethink at U.N. level.
Paris also issued a
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: Re: France's influence
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was talking about the opinion of
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless the war in Iraq is not considered important
by people, why wouldn't
politicians who oppose it have a tremendous
advantage in the next election
in countries where the overwhelming majority of
people are opposed to the
war?
Dan M.
That may
Public release date: 12-Mar-2003
New Scientist issue: 15th March 2003
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3488
The World's First Brain Prosthesis
By DUNCAN GRAHAM-ROWE
AN ARTIFICIAL hippocampus, the world's first brain prosthesis, is about to
be tested in California. Unlike
In a message dated 3/15/2003 7:56:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in awe by what it
believes to be a mystical visitation by a 20lb carp that was heard shouting
in Hebrew, ..
Carp? Hey deum.
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Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda
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Or, you know, the Russians, who had a pretty effective
partisan campaign going. Or the Serbs, in Yugoslavia.
The Vichy government could, at the least, have
pretended to care about
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From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
France is prepared to compromise, on the basis of a very tight timetable (for
inspections), but not on an ultimatum...
Me:
France can't ever agree to *any* ultimatum to Iraq? That is all you need to know
about how
The inventors of the prosthesis had to overcome three major hurdles. They
had to devise a mathematical model of how the hippocampus performs under
all possible conditions, build that model into a silicon chip, and then
interface the chip with the brain.
My first thought about a
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Given your earlier misrepresentation of French
gratitude about its
liberation in WWII and now this comment, I'm
wondering if you simply don't
know much about France or you have some anti-French
prejudice, or it is
carelessness driven by your
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The eternal optimist? John, the question was
1) Not even with UN backing
2) Only with UN backing
3) Even without UN backing
You really think all the 2s are going to slide into 1s?
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