Re: Irregulars question: Milky Way

2003-08-09 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the Milky part of it comes from a myth that it's the milk spilling out of a goddess's breast into the sky. Really? And I thought it was named after a candy bar... No, you must be thinking of the *planet* named after a candy bar. Julia

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Jan Coffey
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about if we change Jan's statement to something like: C) everyone [who wants to own a gun and who has not been convicted of a violent crime or diagnosed with a serious mental or emotional illness] should [be allowed to choose to] have a gun. Can we

RE: shrubCo's faith-based prison program an absolute failure

2003-08-09 Thread Nick Arnett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] To say that this person's position is no different from the Bush Administration totally ignores the fact that a person posting on a list most of the time has absolutely no

Re: The seven habits of highly ineffective list-subscribers

2003-08-09 Thread Erik Reuter
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:47:01PM -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: By worthwile I assume you mean worth wile. (you left out a space.) Actually, I left out an h, not a space. I should have written worthwhile. And I see that the answer is, no. And talk about a lack of courage. You wouldn't dare

Re: Scouted: Horse+Horse+Horse+...

2003-08-09 Thread Julia Thompson
Jon Gabriel wrote: Haven't these scientists seen that Star Wars movie? Clones = bad! :) Jon Well, the good folks at Texas AM have been doing a lot of large animal cloning, and, well, they're AGGIES, what do you expect? ;) Julia Yes, I'm a Longhorn, why do you ask?

Statistics, was Re: Politics, was ...

2003-08-09 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: ... deaths per hundred thousand per yearcause - 870U.S. death rate (total for all causes) So it would take 100,000 people alive today 100,000/870 = 115 years to all die? That's

Re: _Politics,_was_[L3]_Re:_fight_the_evil_of _pricediscrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: _Politics,_was_[L3]_Re:_fight_the_evil_of _pricediscrimination Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:13:49 -0500

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:03:03AM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: I'm in complete agreement with this. Me too. I first heard the idea of licensing guns similar to cars from a post by David Brin here. Sounds like a good system to me. Since someone had mentioned this, I thought I'd post it.

Re: [Listref] Vitamin C and the Heart

2003-08-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Deborah Harrell wrote: (...) found that those women who took vitamin C supplements had lower risk of heart disease. So Linus Pauling was right, after all. Pity that's too late for his third [or fourth?] Nobel Alberto Monteiro ___

Re: shrubCo's faith-based prison program an absolute failure

2003-08-09 Thread TomFODW
Strange mixing of words there... he is taking the same type of position as the administration.  Your words confuse the position with the degree of responsibility and the statement's impact.  Did you mean to discourage comparisons of list postings' positions with those held by people in power?

Re: shoelaces, concetration, stingy reactionsandRe:dyslexiaandtintedlenses

2003-08-09 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Sonja van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: shoelaces, concetration, stingy reactions andRe:dyslexiaandtinted lenses Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:48:22 +0200 I've suspected I

Re: More Fiber

2003-08-09 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prune juice... a Warrior's drink. from Yesterday's Enterprise. :-) By the way, while trying to find the name of the episode, I ran across this website of Martha Stewart meets Trek: http://www.mrsmegabyte.com/startrek.html The less said

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of pricediscrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Just Shows What You Get By Choosing To Live Across The Street From The Comet Theatre Maru What would you get for living across the street from the Orbit? ( http://www.joerlansdale.com/ ) Julia hoping that Dan can snag me a copy of Lansdale's _Freezer Burn_

RE: Irregulars question: Milky Way

2003-08-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:38 AM 8/8/03 -0500, Horn, John wrote: From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No, you must be thinking of the *planet* named after a candy bar. Which one would that be? The planet Hershey's or Almond Joy? Snickers. Which happens to be the name the rest of the cosmos knows Earth

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:24 PM 8/8/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I'm holding on to my money until they release the Heroes of Desert Storm Action Figures collection. I'm waiting for the Pfc Jessica Lynch figure complete with Pentagon Overstatement Accessories. Which one? The one with gunshot

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-09 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:58:48 + From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:51:59 -0400

RE: irregulars: how to split c++ class between multiple files

2003-08-09 Thread Horn, John
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a c++ class that is very large (90k lines) that I need to split up between multiple files. I'm not a c++ programmer. But that seems to be a very, very large class. Wouldn't it be better (and/or possible) to split it up into a main class and

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-09 Thread Doug Pensinger
Jon Gabriel wrote: And now... an action figure. http://makeashorterlink.com/?M11532885 Jon GSV Just Can't Make This Stuff Up Wonder if it comes with drug paraphernalia, booze bottles and MPs in hot pursuit. Doug ___

RE: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-09 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam C. Lipscomb Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 3:47 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip Jon wrote: Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com Cool blog. It's on my Check it every day list.

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:57 PM 8/8/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:40:27PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Given that the total number of known human¹ deaths due to being struck by a meteorite stands at zero, of what meaning is the figure they quote? A number of cars have been struck by

RE: Irregulars question: Milky Way

2003-08-09 Thread Horn, John
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] No, you must be thinking of the *planet* named after a candy bar. Which one would that be? The planet Hershey's or Almond Joy? - jmh ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: A dead end for the Democrats

2003-08-09 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:19:15PM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: I agree with the gist of the article, but what he doesn't seem to realize is that if it wasn't for the WMD hype, Bush never would have had enough support for the war no matter how many other good reasons there were. That _is_ an

Re: cost of living, food and clothes

2003-08-09 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will hardly be an easy thing to think of but I have to ask. How much money would you need a week if you only had to pay for food and non-food personal items like paper supplies, cleaners; the basic stuff. There are many factors that would

Re: _Politics,_was_[L3]_Re:_fight_the_evil_ofÂ_price_discrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: C) everyone should have a gun. I don't want one and neither do a substantial number of people in the country, possibly approaching a majority. Are we all relegated to second class status because we refuse to carry a

Re: Irregulars question: Milky Way

2003-08-09 Thread Reggie Bautista
Alberto wrote: if I am Latin American then I speak Latin At least according to Dan Quayle... ;-) Reggie Bautista _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Re: [Listref] Vitamin C and the Heart

2003-08-09 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alberto wrote: So Linus Pauling was right, after all. Pity that's too late for his third [or fourth?] Nobel Debbi replied: But he advised 'megadoses' on the order of 6-7 *grams*/day; this study used ~ 500-700 milligrams/day. Megadosing

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:28 PM 8/8/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: Note that deaths are usually quoted as a number per 100,000 people, which is the case above. For comparison, below I've listed some other death rates (mostly from NSC's web page). Note that the rate for deaths from falls is 20 times that quoted above