Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 9:17 AM, Rceeberger wrote: > There are towns in southern Australia where they won't let people > back in, > due to the numbers of bodies still lying in the streets. They have to let the forensics teams in first. > These towns are all > quite rural, and there is just no way an

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Rob asked: > > Anyone know of a good way an > American can be helpful? > Probably not now. The worst problem in this kind of disaster is logistics, not money. Since December, the brazilian state of Santa Catarina - among the richest of Brazil, probable comparable with any european country in term

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 9:50 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > There were campaings to collect clothes, water, food, etc - and > all the things that were donated were either stolen or incinerated, > as the problem was not that they didn't have them, but that these > goods couldn't get there - because the _r

Re: The trouble with conspiracy theories

2009-02-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:26 PM Monday 2/9/2009, Dave Land wrote: >On Feb 7, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > > At 06:53 AM Friday 2/6/2009, Pat Mathews wrote: > > > > > >> http://counterknowledge.com/2009/02/the-trouble-with-conspiracy-theories/ > >> > >> Basic thesis: little conspiracies exist all ove

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Rob asked: >> >> Anyone know of a good way an >> American can be helpful? >> > Probably not now. The worst problem in this kind of disaster is > logistics, not money. > > Since December, the brazilian state of Santa Catarina - among > the rich

Re: The trouble with conspiracy theories

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Arnett
All global conspiracies are generated by a secret association of church officials and the Trilateral Commission, led byDick Cheney. Everybody knows that. I'm a registered participant in the truly evil, extremely secret top-posting conspiracy. Nick On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Pat Mathews wr

One way to get your name in print

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Arnett
Get laid off, get a mention: http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/careers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213001013 I'm on the second page. The author and I worked together 20 years ago at InfoWorld. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listi

Re: The trouble with conspiracy theories

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Land
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 09:26 PM Monday 2/9/2009, Dave Land wrote: >> On Feb 7, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: >> >>> At 06:53 AM Friday 2/6/2009, Pat Mathews wrote: >>> >>> http://counterknowledge.com/2009/02/the-trouble-with-conspiracy-theori

Re: One way to get your name in print

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Land
On Feb 10, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: > Get laid off, get a mention: > http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/careers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213001013 > > I'm on the second page. > > The author and I worked together 20 years ago at InfoWorld. Evidently, you're following thi

Re: One way to get your name in print

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Dave Land wrote: > > > Evidently, you're following this job-search rule: "Don't be the > looking-for-a-job guy, be the doing-interesting-things guy." Funny thing, the headhunter who recruited me for the position I'm interviewing for says that he pretty much only

Darwinism

2009-02-10 Thread William T Goodall
With the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of _The Origin of Species_ this year there's been a lot of news coverage lately on 'Darwinism', and with the politicisation of the subject by religionists and the misdirection favoured by those trying to confound the matter

Re: Darwinism

2009-02-10 Thread Max Battcher
William T Goodall wrote: > in _The New York Times_ 'Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May > Live' is an example. > > Scientists don't talk about "Darwinism", creationists do. I can't think of a recent example by just about anyone of the term "darwinism" that was outside of the phrase "soci

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-10 Thread Doug Pensinger
Charlie wrote: Or give something to your local volunteer fire service. In a few > months, it'll be the northern hemisphere on fire. > So true. There were two fires in Santa Cruz county last June which, prior to that, had been known as "asbestos county" because of the lack of wildfires over the p