On 22/11/2006, at 3:18 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And so there are some f*ckers out there who have been responsible for
acts of terror causing the deaths of a few hundred people worldwide
on top of the WTC attacks.
I was going to
Charlie wrote:
And compared to just about any other cause of death
you can think of, terrorism is way way down the list.
This reminds me of an article I read this morning - international
travellers were polled and it turns out that most consider US to be the
'most unfriendly country',
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 22/11/2006, at 3:18 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And so there are some f*ckers out there who have been responsible for
acts of terror causing the deaths of a few hundred people worldwide
on top of the WTC
On 22 Nov 2006, at 6:24AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
- Original Message -
From: jdiebremse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Heroes mid-season climax tonight
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Seeberger
Happy Thanksgiving!
Miami at Detroit - Joey Harrington returns to the scene of the crime..
I'll give the nod to the former first-rounder for the Lions. Detroit,
after all, just lost to Arizona. Pick: DOLPHINS
Tampa Bay at Dallas - Tony Romo is the best undrafted NFL QB since..
well, since
John D. Giorgis wrote:
Happy Thanksgiving!
Back at you! :)
Tampa Bay at Dallas - Tony Romo is the best undrafted NFL QB since..
well, since Kurt Warner... He's making me a believer, though. Pick:
COWBOYS
When Dan saw what the matchup was on Sunday, he just resigned himself to
the Colts
John D. Giorgis wrote:
New Orleans at Atlanta - I've been getting burned by the Falcons all
year, but this week they're getting a lot of players back from injury.
Pick: FALCONS
Oooo, is this going to be Vick vs. Brees? If so, I don't know who to
root for! :P
Julia
Jacksonville at Buffalo - I just can't believe that JP Losman will turn
in a second good game in a row. Pick: JAGUARS
I'd better not go pick up pizza while that game is on, then -- the owner
of the pizza place is from Buffalo, and a big Bills fan, and if they're
losing I don't want to be
On 11/20/06, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I recently joshed about elephants in spaceships,
somebody here mentioned _Footfall_ as the book to
read; last week, what did I spy on the SF shelf of our
library's booksale but that very title?! I haven't
started it (I'm in the middle
Charlie said:
Actually, I do. And compared to just about any other cause of death
you can think of, terrorism is way way down the list. Like I've
said, the response is disproportionate to the risk.
The number of people who died from terrorism in the US in 2001 was
about the same as the
JDG said:
This strikes me as classic generational arrogance - the old saw that
*our generation* dealt with threats much more sensibly than the
young'uns out there.
I like to delude myself that I'm in the same generation as you, so
it's not generational arrogance on my part. Since I became
As Steve said,
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of
maru dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/20/06, Deborah Harrell wrote:
snip
...Also found: _Consider Philebas_
(?sp?), several Tony Hillerman Southwestern
mysteries I was looking for...
I wonder if Consider Philebas is where Banks got his
Consider Phlebas
from? It's an
Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Argument against assisted suicide by a member of Not
Dead Yet:
http://www.ragged-edge-mag.com/0598/d598ft1.htm
I'm going to excerpt a bit from this; my personal bias
is that a competent adult, who is not suffering from
acute depression or some other
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Charlie Bell
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:58 AM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Someone Must Tell Them
But it isn't. The whole idea of terror is to get you to take away
your own
On 11/22/06, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/20/06, Deborah Harrell wrote:
snip
...Also found: _Consider Philebas_
(?sp?), several Tony Hillerman Southwestern
mysteries I was looking for...
I wonder if Consider Philebas is where
Dan said:
I really don't see this. For example, with AQ, the evidence is that
they see
the lifestyle of the West as decadent and evil, and the dominance
of the
West to be anathema to the proper order of things.
My take is that the radical fringe of Islam is a sort of cargo cult.
I think
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Richard Baker
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 4:30 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Someone Must Tell Them
I appreciated your response, and will give it some consideration for a
longer
At 07:37 AM Wednesday 11/22/2006, William T Goodall wrote:
On 22 Nov 2006, at 6:24AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
- Original Message -
From: jdiebremse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Heroes mid-season
Rich wrote:
Quite how we can convince people in the regions where the failure
of the Islamic states is most total that the things they ought to
be emulating from the glorious past of Islamic are openness to
trade, toleration, meritocracy, egality, respect and encouragement
for science and
On 23/11/2006, at 9:29 AM, Richard Baker wrote:
Quite how we can convince people in the regions where the failure
of the Islamic states is most total that the things they ought to
be emulating from the glorious past of Islamic are openness to
trade, toleration, meritocracy, egality,
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