Bryon Daly wrote:
In any case, Dan M. mentioned a few, but I will add one: The
misperception
of the current state of affairs in Iraq as a complete
shambles. The news
regularly portrays it as such. Recently, Dan Rather (of CBS
news) remarked
after a story from a reporter about how
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60713,00.html
Time to Recall E-Vote Machines?
By Kim Zetter
08:39 AM Oct. 06, 2003 PT
As Californians head to the polls on Tuesday, voters in at least one
county will cast their ballots electronically on machines that have been
shown to be flawed.
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Limbaugh is proof that the Vogon invasion has begun.
Let the bulldozers be in that case.
This is past. The destruction of the Earth happened on
1981-09-03. We live in the reconstruced Earth.
Alberto Monteiro
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Jan Coffey wrote:
--- d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bloody amateurs. think they invented alienation. Sheesh.
Alienation? who said anything about alienation? Is that really the way GenX
X- and Y looks to you? Do you really think that they feel alienated? If you
do, then your
This could also be used to enhance your fingerprint with any digital
information, not just your business card.
Jon
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5239758%255E13762,00.html
Exchange emails through handshake
TWO Japanese telecoms giants have developed technology that turns the
Calvin: ~sighs~ What's the point? GONA BE A PUNK ROCKER!
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movement started roaring in the late
70's. Any punk rocker who remembers when it started is a minimum age of 30
and closer to 40 (I'm 35.. A regular X-Gen Patriarch). Back in my 'day' we
used safety
Chad wrote:
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movementstarted roaring in the late
70's. Any punk rockerwho remembers when it started is a minimum age of 30 and
closer to 40 (I'm 35.. A regular X-Gen Patriarch). Back in my 'day' we
used safety pins to do body
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL.
Heck! We had to stand up to change the channel on the *TV*! And
only had 10 channels to
Horn, John wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL.
Heck! We had to stand up to change the channel on the *TV*! And
Julia Thompson wrote:
http://www.zurg.net/twins.html
5) Catherine
She could be a Bangle, because she's walking like an Egyptian! ;-)
Cute pictures.
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Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 10/7/2003 1:19:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Heck! We had to stand up to change the channel on the *TV*! And
only had 10 channels to boot. 11 if you counted that one from
Philly that only came in once in a long while...
10? What luxury.
Steve Sloan II wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
http://www.zurg.net/twins.html
5) Catherine
She could be a Bangle, because she's walking like an Egyptian! ;-)
You're not the first to make that observation. :)
Cute pictures.
Thanks!
Steve, if you want to put up one or two on
-Original Message-
From: Horn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:18 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to
Chad wrote:
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movement started roaring in the late
70's. Any punk rocker who remembers when it started is a minimum age of 30
and closer to 40 (I'm 35.. A regular X-Gen Patriarch). Back in my 'day' we
used safety pins to do body piercings, unlike the youth of
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From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to
Chad asked:
Has it been that long since you had to snip a bit out of a 5.25 floppy to
use both sides... That is for those luck enough to have a floppy disk...
everyone else had to use a cassette recorder to load a program...
And what about sound? A program rocked if it beeped... And if it
--- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Among the higher Eeeu!-factor medical
treatments
are the use of maggots to clean gangrenous wounds,
and leeches for therapeutic blood reduction; now
comes
the lowly pig whipworm for imflammatory bowel
disease(IBD).
--- ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
[I don't recall who asked this - sorry!]
You mean, the people from India with brown skin
colour? I think
they were lumped with the whites, among the
Aryans.
In South Africa I think they were called
colored...didn't this
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From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
-Original Message-
From: Horn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Perhaps continually releasing new microbes will
have the effect; but I
think the novel employs some literary
exaggeration. Is it not true
that in practice, in a closed community, you don't
get colds, not
after
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From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: RE: Brin: rejuveniles
Calvin: ~sighs~ What's the point? GONA BE A PUNK ROCKER!
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movement
Debbi wrote:
I learned the human variety as 'Trichuria' and
pronounced it like a whipcrack tri-*KUR-i-a! to help
me remember that it was a whipworm...the lengths to
which one must go to memorize stuff. :) (whipworm,
pinworm, roundworm, tapeworm, liver fluke...I still
recall most of the species
Nerd From Hell
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is
the oldest computer everyone here has worked on? I think
mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might
beat me. :-)
I'll take that challenge (sort of, although I know
Dan wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Oldest worked on or oldest owned? The oldest one I (or my family)
This is a must hear!
An absolutely perfect piece of work.
It must be heard to be believedG
http://www.sullivan-county.com/identity/pdupdate.htm
Its near the very bottom of the page, just below the link box.
I almost died laughingG
Who wrote and performed this? It's priceless!
Debbi wrote:
All my teacher friends complained of coming down with
cold after cold the first several years of work; now
they have immune systems of steel!
I've heard that about your first three years at a new
gradeschool or daycare center, you catch just about
*everything,* and that's true of your
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
I had an Apple II with serial number in 5 digits. Used integer basic
and a
In a message dated 10/7/2003 2:55:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:02:47 -0500
- Original Message -
From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Depends on a few definitions. I worked on an IBM system in
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 11:00 am, ritu wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
I am not assuming that only the clueless/duped were pro-war. What I
*am*
assuming is that a vast majority of the pro-war group was *not*
well-informed.
I know many well-informed
pro-war people
who still believe it was for
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh sings I'm A Nazi
This is a must hear!
An absolutely perfect piece of work.
It must be heard to be believedG
Crawling out of my hole (briefly) to remind everyone... New Brin Book
Tomorrow!!! (or so says DC Comics)
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/ws_display.html?cm_ws_itemCode=lifeeatersmonth=O
ctober
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R3E312326
While I'm here... congrats to all the new parents, and I
Well, I just hung some chad. Here in Santa Clara County, we're still
using the infamous punch cards. I don't think my votes on the recall
will have any real impact, though, since I voted against it and for the
lieutenant governor. The exit polls are depressing.
Tomorrow, I'm probably going
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1058298,00.html
Yasser Arafat has suffered a mild heart attack but the Palestinian
leadership has sought to keep his health problems secret for fear it will
create panic.
The 74-year-old Palestinian president, who is suffering from Parkinson's
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL.
Heck! We had to stand up to change the channel on
Sean Kane wrote:
Crawling out of my hole (briefly) to remind everyone... New Brin
Book Tomorrow!!!
I dunno. I read the last collaboration between Hampton and Dr. Brin, _Forgiveness_,
and I was underwhelmed. Some of that might be my distaste for Hampton's art style
(which I've been down on
At 05:02 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
-Original Message-
From:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
...
at least with maggots or leeches they eventually
LEAVE your body!
---David
It's not a parasite, it's a symbiote! : )
grin
Well, in most cases the worm eggs have to be taken
every three weeks to keep the disease in remission;
While we're on the topic, I also remember the family next door owning a TV
with one of the first remote controls. It was two buttons: 'power on/off'
and 'channel' and made a horrendous clicking noise each time you used the
button. I think you had to scroll through every channel to find the
Change the header if it's wrong. (Could someone list the special headers we
have/use/could use?)
I have never drank coffee, but a relative does. She normally only drinks
two cups, one in the morning and one at night. She buys one shot coffee
pouches. Of course they are expensive. I'm trying to
Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL.
Heck! We had to
Sorry this is a *long* reply, as I've tried to include links to back
up some of what I say, and have included excerpts of some relevant
parts...
From: ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bryon Daly wrote:
Well, I am not sure that this is a misperception. Neither is the US
State department, at least not going
Kevin wrote:
Would anyone know of or use a machine that makes one cup using coffee
grounds?
Try the Black and Decker Brew 'n Go. It will make coffee and if you run
it without coffee grounds in the machine but with a tea bag in the cup,
it makes good tea also.
Here's a link:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Change the header if it's wrong. (Could someone list the special headers we
have/use/could use?)
I have never drank coffee, but a relative does. She normally only drinks
two cups, one in the morning and one at night. She buys one shot coffee
pouches. Of course they are
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Not looking to spend a lot of money, but it'd be a good Christmas
gift. She has a regular coffee maker, but doing just one cup is tough.
What about a Bodum - do you have them there? Has a clear pot where you
throw the ground beans in and fill with boiling water (though I
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Oldest I've owned is a Commodore-64. My
ritu wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
I don't think there was ever as much concensus as you indicate.
Well, I seem to have been wrong about the media at least. Again, I could
be wrong here but I seem to recall polls which indicated public support
for the war as above 70%.
You would
At 12:16 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
This could also be used to enhance your fingerprint with any digital
information, not just your business card.
Jon
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5239758%255E13762,00.html
Exchange emails through handshake
TWO Japanese telecoms
At 01:50 PM 10/7/03 -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
And what about sound? A program rocked if it beeped...
And now every bloody thing in the world beeps, buzzes, chirps, queeps, or
plays annoying tinny music . . . unless it is blaring [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam at you.
When I was your age . . . it was
In a message dated 10/7/2003 8:12:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would anyone know of or use a machine that makes one cup using coffee
grounds?
Not a coffee drinker.
But...
In the spirit of one of Dr. Brin's latest communications. If you had to buy a
two cup
At 02:39 PM 10/7/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Among the higher Eeeu!-factor medical
treatments
are the use of maggots to clean gangrenous wounds,
So how accurate was last night's episode of CSI: Miami?
-- Ronn!
At 05:02 PM 10/7/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
-Original Message-
At 06:55 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:02:47 -0500
- Original
At 09:07 AM 10/8/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Depends on
At 12:56 AM 10/8/03 +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 11:00 am, ritu wrote:
Bryon Daly wrote:
I am not assuming that only the clueless/duped were pro-war. What I *am*
assuming is that a vast majority of the pro-war group was *not*
well-informed.
I know many
At 10:15 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL.
Heck!
At 10:21 PM 10/7/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP
AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the
MP3
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Do you remember the math machines - kind of mechanical
At 12:30 AM 10/8/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William Taylor
-
(Half empty-half full of it.)
Dunno about the first part, but the second part is clearly an
understatement . . .
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
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In a message dated 10/7/2003 10:02:09 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 12:30 AM 10/8/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William Taylor
-
(Half empty-half full of it.)
Dunno about the first part, but the second part is clearly an
Nick Arnett wrote:
Well, I just hung some chad. Here in Santa Clara County, we're still
using the infamous punch cards. I don't think my votes on the recall
will have any real impact, though, since I voted against it and for
the lieutenant governor. The exit polls are depressing.
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