RE: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 24 september 2002 19:25 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World > Don't me killfile you. I am not impressed. IMO, killfiling someone is done by people who

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Russell Sherman
Sonja wrote: Well it does seem an awfull many times that the >peace price goes to those points of the globe were a Western subset seem to >have a large interest in changing the current way of government. Hmmm. >Coincidence? *grins* An incredible one. Kissinger won the noble peace prize because he

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Russell Sherman wrote: > >From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World > >Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:51:50 +0200 > > > >Steve Sloan II wrote: > > > > > "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLW

Re: scientology silences the way-back-machine archive

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Kevin Tarr wrote: > I think this was more interesting: > > http://www.chillingeffects.org/ > > "Chilling Effects Clearinghouse > > Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to > remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are > you concerned

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/9/02 5:08 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:34 PM > Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > > >> on 25/9/0

Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Julia Thompson wrote: > The Fool wrote: > > > > http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/reuters20020924_700.html > > Wow. So that may give us one more weapon in fighting brain cancer. > > 1st paragraph for anyone who needs further prodding to read the whole > thing: > > PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Health) -

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Trent Shipley
Aha! So it is anti-Arab propaganda. (Actually, it stands a good chance of being anti-Islamic status-quo, pro-neo-Kemalist propaganda.) On Tuesday 24 September 2002 10:13 am, The Fool wrote: > > From: Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Van: The Fool [mailto:[EM

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Doug
Dan Minette wrote: > >I think that, if one puts these different dictionaries together, one would >have to include stuff like golf as a religion when one includes Marxism or >Objectivism. > I would think that something with an all-encompassing philosophy like Marxism would more closely resemble c

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2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
This is the kind of stuff I was talking about with nick: http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Russell Sherman
>From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World >Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:51:50 +0200 > >Steve Sloan II wrote: > > > "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" wrote: > > > > > > ARAB /

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Steve Sloan II wrote: > "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO" wrote: > > > > ARAB / ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS > > > 19.6% of World's Population > > > 1.2 billion Muslims > > > > > > > > > JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS > > > 0.2% OF WORLDS POPULATION > > > 14.1 Million Jews > > > > I wonder what the use of t

Re: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Russell Sherman
Boy Named Sue Written by Shel Silverstein and sung by Johnny Cash For a good time listen to "Father of a boy named Sue" which Shel silverstien sang himself, never being able to talk anyone else into it, due to it's punch line... -Russell >From: Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
Jim Sharkey wrote: > Baardwijk, J. wrote: > >>Van: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>>Aha, so the US is not the only country where you can give your > >>>child pretty much any name you like. Poor kids. > >>> > >>Yes, here in Brazil we can also give any name. I think all > >>democrat

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Russell Sherman
>From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:41:14 -0500 > > > From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > on 25/9/02 3:09 am, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Russell Sherman
>From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech >Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:43:13 -0500 > > >- Original Message - >From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:47:00PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > I know for a fact that my isp has the messages sent to my address, > > already separate. I don't actually have to re-separate them, they are > > already separate and can be downloaded indiv

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
Fooling around, I found some more dictionaries. I think Cambridge is British or British/American because I found a mention of the differences. So, I thought, who knows, maybe the difference is British vs. American English I obtained the following definition: religion noun the belief in and wors

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:34 PM Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > on 25/9/02 3:43 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> I thought we had alr

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:47:00PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > I know for a fact that my isp has the messages sent to my address, > already separate. I don't actually have to re-separate them, they are > already separate and can be downloaded individually. It is really > simple to keep messages an

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:25:08PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > Doesent matter if the sender munges from to >from, not all senders > > do, and from isn't neccessarily the first message header. (Getting > > message headers mixed up between messages is ba

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/9/02 3:43 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I thought we had already established on this list that >> >> 1) religious does not equal non-atheist >> 2) atheist does not equal non-religious >> 3) religious does not equal theist (or deist or pantheist even) > > Established means

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:25:08PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > Doesent matter if the sender munges from to >from, not all senders > do, and from isn't neccessarily the first message header. (Getting > message headers mixed up between messages is bad). In any case your > sender didn't munge the fro

Re: humans and computers

2002-09-24 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: > This reminds me of a short story I read (can't > remember the author at the moment - Him?) in which > computers (or maybe it was cyborgs?) get all the > interesting jobs because they are superior to plain > humans...until it's discovered that only humans can > survive the

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:40:08PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > You're joking, right? You CANNOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE DUPLICATES. They > > > look like the start of a new message. > > > > Only in the case where th

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:40:08PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You're joking, right? You CANNOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE DUPLICATES. They > > look like the start of a new message. > > Only in the case where the first message has no body, ie no message > header l

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on 25/9/02 3:09 am, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > it's no wonder very few outside the high end corporate world use them. > > >> There are about 6 million desktop computers running some version of Unix > > > What exactly is your point

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:20:43PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > You ignore the duplicate headers. Is it 100% no. It it a quicky that > > I would never actually do? Yes. > > You're joking, right? You CANNOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE DUPLICATES. They > look l

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "William T Goodall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BRIN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:13 PM Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > on 25/9/02 2:00 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > - Original Mes

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/9/02 3:09 am, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it's no wonder very few outside the high end corporate world use them. >> There are about 6 million desktop computers running some version of Unix > What exactly is your point? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.d

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:20:43PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > You ignore the duplicate headers. Is it 100% no. It it a quicky that > I would never actually do? Yes. You're joking, right? You CANNOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE DUPLICATES. They look like the start of a new message. > Also you would assum

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:07:18PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > Message size. You don't parse the body of the message, because it is > > the body of the message. You ignore all duplicate headers. > > I think you have a mental block. There is no standa

Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Kevin Tarr wrote: > >*To be fair, Heinlein used the western theme on his barely colonized >worlds. But I don't think they will have a Diaspora of the magnitude they >are talking about (is the whole galaxy now occupied by humans?) > In none of Heinlein Timelines the galaxy was occupied in 2002.

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/9/02 2:00 am, Dan Minette at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:46 PM > Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > >> >> Venn Diagram. AFAIK religi

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:07:18PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > Message size. You don't parse the body of the message, because it is > the body of the message. You ignore all duplicate headers. I think you have a mental block. There is no standard size definition. And the whole point is to disting

Re: [ADMIN QUESTION]

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote: > > Nick- > > Any idea on when the "ding" function will be up and running? No > pressure, I'm just idly wondering. > > Adam C. Lipscomb > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gonna ding me some name droppers, for starters *grin* Hey! I resemble that remark! ;) Julia

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on 24/9/02 6:45 pm, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> The Fool said: > >> > >>> The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" > >>> before 'From', after my sending and

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:51:38PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:59:12PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > > > > > This is a perfect example of what my instructors describe happens > >

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 24/9/02 6:45 pm, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> The Fool said: >> >>> The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" >>> before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. >> >> As far as I know, all mail transfe

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:51:38PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:59:12PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > > > This is a perfect example of what my instructors describe happens > when > > > people make quick-fix, kludgey, code. It n

[ADMIN QUESTION]

2002-09-24 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
Nick- Any idea on when the "ding" function will be up and running? No pressure, I'm just idly wondering. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gonna ding me some name droppers, for starters *grin* ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:59:12PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > This is a perfect example of what my instructors describe happens when > > people make quick-fix, kludgey, code. It never dies. It comes back > > and bites you in the ass. It gets used fo

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:59:12PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > This is a perfect example of what my instructors describe happens when > people make quick-fix, kludgey, code. It never dies. It comes back > and bites you in the ass. It gets used for twenty years. I can come > up with a better pars

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I was differentiating, between what I would expect those groups you > > mentioned would be aginst and what they probably would not be against. > > ICBW. Where exactly did I promote 'repression'? I am personally

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:24 PM Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > I was differentiating, between what I would expect those groups you > mentioned would be aginst and what

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > Venn Diagram. AFAIK religious people are the only ones actively > > opposed > > > > to the 'occult'.

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:05 PM Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > Venn D

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2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
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Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Venn Diagram. AFAIK religious people are the only ones actively opposed > > to the 'occult'. > > Actually, I can think of a number of different atheistic groups that are > also. Try Marxist and Objectivist

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread Kevin Tarr
> > of course, that's just my opinion. :) > > And you are entitled to it! But it might be wise not to try > justifying it in public without some better thought out reasons. Typical. Don't agree with an opinion and call it unjustified. What do you want, a dissertation on the magnitude of suckage

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:45:21PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > The Fool said: > > > > > > > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" > > > > before 'From', after my sending and

RE: scientology silences the way-back-machine archive

2002-09-24 Thread Kevin Tarr
I think this was more interesting: http://www.chillingeffects.org/ "Chilling Effects Clearinghouse A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics. Do you know your online rights? H

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 7:46 PM Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > > Venn Diagram. AFAIK religious people are the only ones actively opposed > to the 'occult'. Actually, I

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:45:21PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > > From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The Fool said: > > > > > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" > > > before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. > > > > As far as I know, all mai

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > > > From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > > > Behalf Of The Fool > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > > Eh? How is this an attack on free speech? I don't agree

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: > >Of the top 10 (and I assume you're looking at the list at >http://www.parentstv.org ), there are 2 "reality shows", Big Brother 2 > and Temptation Island 2. > We have those aberrations here too, local versions, with brazilian "actors" :-/ Alberto Monteiro __

Re: 0-3!!

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
"Horn, John" wrote: > > Oh man. 0-3. How embarrassing. How awful. How pathetic. > > Now, as a transplanted Cowboy fan, I have the dilemna of routing for the > Cowboys and seeing the Rams fall to 0-4 or route for the Rams and seeing the > Cowboys go to 1-3. > > Hmmm Maybe it's a good th

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Matt Grimaldi
> > The Fool wrote: > > > > > > He implied I was anti-arab. I don't take that from anyone. > > > > > Matt Grimaldi wrote: > > > I can see how his post could easily be interpreted that way, > > especially how he only included the ~50,000 Arab Scientists >

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: > > > From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > > Behalf Of The Fool > > > > ... > > > > > > Eh? How is this an attack on free speech? I don't agree with the > > > tactics, > > > > but I don't exactly see Fox as a g

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Matt Grimaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > > He implied I was anti-arab. I don't take that from anyone. > > > > I can see how his post could easily be interpreted that way, > especially how he only included the ~50,000 Arab Scientists

0-3!!

2002-09-24 Thread Horn, John
Oh man. 0-3. How embarrassing. How awful. How pathetic. Now, as a transplanted Cowboy fan, I have the dilemna of routing for the Cowboys and seeing the Rams fall to 0-4 or route for the Rams and seeing the Cowboys go to 1-3. Hmmm Maybe it's a good thing I won't be at the game... -

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Matt Grimaldi
The Fool wrote: > > He implied I was anti-arab. I don't take that from anyone. > I can see how his post could easily be interpreted that way, especially how he only included the ~50,000 Arab Scientists quote in the original post, but you could have pointed out how you felt wronged while remaini

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread Marvin Long, Jr.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Miller, Jeffrey wrote: > The show stinks, and I'm tired of people trying to tell me how awful I am for >acknowledging it. If it makes you feel any better, the show does nothing for me either. Marvin Long Austin, Texas ROU From Dusk Till Dawn, baby! __

Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 25/9/02 12:13 am, Miller, Jeffrey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> of course, that's just my opinion. :) >> >> And you are entitled to it! But it might be wise not to try >> justifying it in public without some better thought out reasons. > > Typical. Don't agree with an opinion and ca

Re: measles vs cancer

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: > > http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/reuters20020924_700.html Wow. So that may give us one more weapon in fighting brain cancer. 1st paragraph for anyone who needs further prodding to read the whole thing: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Health) - A preliminary study in mice has found

Re: Trashing Superman

2002-09-24 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
Rob wrote: > I have no words to describe this crap. > > http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13350 > > Somebody has a death wish! If I had a nickel for every true rumor I've seen on AICN, I'd have enough for a candy bar. I'll hold back on lining up the mob of angry villagers with pitchfo

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
The Fool wondered: > > The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >From this guy: > > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" before > 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. Obviously, it was those Amish Black Helicopter Anti-Privacy, Pro-Microsoft Alien Sex Clone Kidna

measles vs cancer

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/reuters20020924_700.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> > of course, that's just my opinion. :) > > And you are entitled to it! But it might be wise not to try > justifying it in public without some better thought out reasons. Typical. Don't agree with an opinion and call it unjustified. What do you want, a dissertation on the magnitude of suc

scientology silences the way-back-machine archive

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959236.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread William T Goodall
on 24/9/02 5:11 pm, Miller, Jeffrey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ymmv, but its nothing more than a show about pretty people being angsty. Throw > a cast slightly less attractive into the show with less sexy clothing, Just a suggestion, but maybe you need to get out more. 'Sexy clothing' ? > cu

Re: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Alberto Monteiro
[crossposting between the brin-l and the tolklang lists] Julia Thompson wrote: > >Shall I say that "Frodo" isn't necessarily a constructive suggestion for >naming a kid in the US? :) (I already have an if Sammy comes home >saying there's a kid named Frodo in his class who's getting teased.) > F

Re: humans and computers

2002-09-24 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- The Fool wrote: > Fascinating article on human / computer processing > tasks: > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/start.html?pg=2 This reminds me of a short story I read (can't remember the author at the moment - Him?) in which computers (or maybe it was cyborgs?) get all the interesti

Trashing Superman

2002-09-24 Thread Robert Seeberger
I have no words to describe this crap. http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=13350 Somebody has a death wish! xponent Mindless Drivel Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: > > > From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The Fool wrote: > > > > > I wasn't suggesting anything involving 'terrorism', I was suggesting > > > other features of the Taliban rule. How about a different analogy. > > > Popery in the middle ages (not that medieval popery

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > I wasn't suggesting anything involving 'terrorism', I was suggesting > > other features of the Taliban rule. How about a different analogy. > > Popery in the middle ages (not that medieval popery was less violent than > > the Ta

RE: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Julia Thompson ... > > at #3. Unless I am mistaken, csi, is not a drama or fictional, > but shows > > professionals in action. Apparently anything that teaches people how to > > think logically, usi

RE: Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- "Miller, Jeffrey" wrote: > ymmv, but its nothing more than a show about pretty > people being angsty. Throw a cast slightly less > attractive into the show with less sexy clothing, > cut the oh-so-dangerous "lesbian" thing (that's > there only to attract the panting fan-bois) and > you'd hav

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: > I wasn't suggesting anything involving 'terrorism', I was suggesting > other features of the Taliban rule. How about a different analogy. > Popery in the middle ages (not that medieval popery was less violent than > the Taliban (perhaps much more so)). A theocratic 'god' rule.

RE: Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional

2002-09-24 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
Man, we keep shakin' things up - first Civil Unions, now this... -jeffrey- > -Original Message- > From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 01:34 PM > To: Brin-L > Subject: Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech > They put 'crime scene investigation' on their list of top 10 worst shows, > at #3. Unless I am mistaken, c

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Matt Grimaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > > > > Bullshit. Your reply was directed at me and not that > > other data which I deleted. You wonder why people > > consider you anti-semitic, when you keep providing > > examples. > > So you feel the need to attack him when he t

Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61028-2002Sep24.html Death Penalty Ruled Unconstitutional The Associated Press Tuesday, September 24, 2002; 3:41 PM MONTPELIER, Vt. –– A federal judge declared the federal death penalty unconstitutio

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Matt Grimaldi
The Fool wrote: > > Bullshit. Your reply was directed at me and not that > other data which I deleted. You wonder why people > consider you anti-semitic, when you keep providing > examples. So you feel the need to attack him when he tries to correct and restate his position? Why should anyo

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: J. van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 14:39 24-09-2002 -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > > I suddenly get this feeling we are not on the same wavelength here. I > > > am not saying that the statement about there being ~50,000 scientists > > > in the Muslim world is coming from either of t

Re: how religious fanatics attack free speech

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of The Fool > > ... > > > > Eh? How is this an attack on free speech? I don't agree with the > > tactics, > > > but I don't exactly see Fox as a great defender of free speech, either. >

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 14:39 24-09-2002 -0500, The Fool wrote: > > I suddenly get this feeling we are not on the same wavelength here. I > > am not saying that the statement about there being ~50,000 scientists > > in the Muslim world is coming from either of those (non-existant) > > websites, nor am I saying that t

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: J. van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 12:24 24-09-2002 -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > > > There are something like ~50,000 scientists in the entire muslim > > > > world (an agregate total comprising the total of all scientists > > > > from the majority of islamic states). How many are

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 12:24 24-09-2002 -0500, The Fool wrote: > > > There are something like ~50,000 scientists in the entire muslim > > > world (an agregate total comprising the total of all scientists > > > from the majority of islamic states). How many are there in the > > > U.S.? Or Europe? > > > > > > I have

Experiment Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: > > > The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >From this guy: > > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" before > 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. I've seen that a lot if there are "too many" lines of nothing between paragraphs. I don't kno

Re: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Reggie Bautista wrote: [re: the name Ignatius] > The name has a grand tradition, at least among Catholics. The two most > famous saints who have the name are Ignatius of Antioch and Ignatius Loyola. > > Ignatius of Antioch was the third Bishop of Antioch, and according to > tradition, was the

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool said: > > > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" > > before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. > > As far as I know, all mail transfer agents do that so that computers > using Unix mailboxes don't g

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread Richard Baker
The Fool said: > The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" > before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. As far as I know, all mail transfer agents do that so that computers using Unix mailboxes don't get confused and think that a leading "From" is a new emai

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From this guy: The real question is what kind of filtering software inserted ">" before 'From', after my sending and before my recieving. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > There are something like ~50,000 scientists in the entire muslim world > > (an agregate total comprising the total of all scientists from the > > majority of islamic states). How ma

RE: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Jim Sharkey
Baardwijk, J. wrote: >>Van: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>>Aha, so the US is not the only country where you can give your >>>child pretty much any name you like. Poor kids. >>> >>Yes, here in Brazil we can also give any name. I think all >>democratic countries in the world allow

Re: Intellectual output from the Arab World

2002-09-24 Thread The Fool
> From: Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > There are something like ~50,000 scientists in the entire muslim world > > (an agregate total comprising the total of all scientists from the > > majority of islamic states). How

RE: [Brin-l] Brin: Freedom isn't free

2002-09-24 Thread Reggie Bautista
Marvin wrote: > > > > None of these thoughts are set in stone, but it's a set of > > thoughts that > > have been gnawing at me over the past year. > John replied: >I am in awe of some of the writing ability on this mailing list. Marvin, >if >I could write 1/100 as well as you or contribute 1/100

Re: Baby names

2002-09-24 Thread Reggie Bautista
Julia wrote: >It's not really anyone else's business until the baby is born, IMO, >unless the couple is frantically searching for a name, in which case the >best thing to do is make constructive suggestions. ("Ignatius" is not a >*constructive* suggestion, but it's a pretty funny one. BTW, one f

RE: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"?

2002-09-24 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Adam C. Lipscomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 05:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Brin-l] [TV] Anyone watch "Firefly"? > > > Jeffrey Miller wrote: > > Matt Grimaldi wrote: > > > "Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote: > > >

RE: Housing Out of Reach

2002-09-24 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 04:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Housing Out of Reach > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:32:13AM +0100, Rik Burke wrote: > > > My point, however, I think still stands.

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