Deborah Harrell wrote:
Sinus washing with saline salution is a useful (but
admittedly disgusting! :P) technique for removing
infected mucus (aka green gunk), but I recommend it
only to those who are truly _miserable_ with severe
sinusitis. The key is to 'snork' not sniff the
solution; salt
. Quite a few drugs,
treatments or other interventions have been found over
the years to have significant impact on a population
of patients in the short-term, only to have the
benefits shrivel at the 1 or 2 or 3 year mark (frex,
use of the Swan-Ganz catheter).
Debbi
Don't say THAT word!
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:02:27AM -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
I note that we still have not received any account of the
circumstances and the decision process which led Julia to snort salt .
. .
Okay, Jero..., uhhh, I mean Ronn. One query is enough! :-)
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Ronn Blankenship wrote:
I note that we still have not received any account of the circumstances and
the decision process which led Julia to snort salt . . .
Let's say I was in college, hadn't necessarily had enough sleep, and
other people had been snorting less painful substances (e.g.,
A different approach to the question of world government is to speculate on
why nations emerged, then see if there's anything similar happening now.
What is behind the fact that people are willing to love, hate, kill and die
for an essentially imaginary (that is, little basis in physical reality)
In a message dated 10/22/2002 7:34:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I see the Internet as disruptive in much the same way as
printing was 500 years ago.
More so to me. I sell used books for a living. On the internet only.
Already I can see the trend of the past
Pleese! Only put Brin: in the subject line if it seriously
needs my attention. Interesting. Topical. Urgent or about real SF.
I gotta hide for a couple of weeks. See you all after the election
... about which you already know how I feel.
Thrive. All of you!
With cordial regards,
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:03:51AM -0700, Nick Arnett wrote:
On the other hand, I have no idea what percentage of the economy is
represented by public companies. Certainly quite a bit, since there are
relatively few very large companies that are closely held. On the other
hand, there's the
Oh, I thought it was only a problem at the beginning of the subject. It
seems we need to remove Brin: from ANYWHERE in the subject (must be a
non-clever filter he has set up).
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0700, d.brin wrote:
Pleese! Only put Brin: in the subject line if it seriously
Erik Reuter wrote:
Oh, I thought it was only a problem at the beginning of the subject. It
seems we need to remove Brin: from ANYWHERE in the subject (must be a
non-clever filter he has set up).
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:17:38AM -0700, d.brin wrote:
Pleese! Only put Brin: in the
No, it's Mailman doing the filtering. I should write a regex that allows
for Re: etc. before the phrase that causes the filtering, but I'm lazy, or
busy, or something.
And I can also put DB on nomail, which I'm about to ask him.
Nick
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At 17:59 21-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Do you believe that the principle of one country, one vote is a
democratic principle?
Yes. Of course, ideally any UN decision would be made by letting every
citizen of every member country vote on the issue (using the one man,
one vote
- Original Message -
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: The UN
Where in the UN charter does it say that a country
Needed to finish the thought, sorry..
Where in the UN charter does it say that a country
At 18:06 21-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
Out of curiosity, why do you keep on twisting meanings, even when you
don't have to?
I do not see this as twisting meanings. Apparently I use a different
definition of democracy than you do. But then, the definition the
majority decides is the
--- Kevin Tarr wrote:
[I wrote]
. Quite a few drugs,
treatments or other interventions have been found
over the years to have significant impact on a
population
of patients in the short-term, only to have the
benefits shrivel at the 1 or 2 or 3 year mark
(frex, use of the Swan-Ganz
At 19:46 21-10-2002 -0500, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
There's a colloquialism that comes to mind:
Insanity: Doing the exact same thing over and over again, and expecting
different results.
Great -- that means that insanity is what pays the bills and puts food on
my table.
Troubleshooting is part
Everyone,
I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette.
Here it is:
Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the
same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies
until you see if you have more to say on the
In a message dated 10/22/2002 2:18:53 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Your suggestion, that a country should wait until
its borders were crossed would fail the Chamberlin test.
I have a different Chanberlin test. ;-)
I tell someone, To change history you should go
--- J. van Baardwijk wrote:
snip
When the US launches a war against Iraq, the
fundamentalists in the Middle East (and elsewhere)
will see this as yet another act of aggression by the
Evil US, and will no doubt strike back with terrorist
attacks. When that happens, US cities will not the be
the
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Have you noticed that nobody (except me and DB) have
criticised JDG for his behaviour? Why do you think that is?
First off, that implies that nobody's said anything about
this thread, which is very untrue. As far as answering that
question, a good reason is: we
William Taylor wrote:
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
Ok. The Buyur are still on Jijo and they are as sane as a black beret
salesman trying to get an exclusive license for the Clinton Library.
And they have left caches of technology on the big moon of Jijo.
This
Jeroen wrote:
Even if the discussion is technically not taken off-list, but one poster
replies off-list because he apparently lacks the courage to reply on-list
to on-list messages -- almost certainly because an on-list reply is likely
to generate criticism of said poster's behaviour?
Yes.
At 21:27 21-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
I have always been opposed to veto power for *any* country because it gets
in the way of the democratic process, so the answers to the above questions
are no and no.
So, in other words, the UNSC is by no means a paragon of the democratic
principle.
I'm sending this again because it didn't show up after
~10 minutes; if there's a glitch and 2 copies go
through, I apologise in advance.-Deb
--- J. van Baardwijk wrote:
snip
When the US launches a war against Iraq, the
fundamentalists in the Middle East (and elsewhere)
will see this as yet
At 21:31 21-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
Actually, the majority does not decide in the UNSC. First, decisions
require a minimum of 9 out of 15 members. Secondly, many decisions with
the support of 14-1 are not taken by the UNSC.
Worse yet, several decisions have been made by just one
At 21:33 21-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
Haven't you previously argued that I *never* understand what you mean?
Maybe, maybe not. Can you quote a post in which I said that? Because I
really do not have the time to go through some 3,300 posts to see whether
or not I said that.
Jeroen
- Original Message -
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: The UN
I'm sending this again because it didn't show up after
~10 minutes; if there's a glitch and 2 copies go
through, I apologise in advance.
I've sent 2 messages (re: the UN) in the past 15
minutes, but they haven't made it - at least to my
computer. Would someone reply to this?
Thanks-
Debbi
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--- Dan Minette wrote:
[I wrote]
I'm sending this again because it didn't show up
after
~10 minutes; if there's a glitch and 2 copies go
through, I apologise in advance.-Deb
Well and good, but there's a problem with symmetry.
There is no way for us
to accept your apology in
- Original Message -
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brinl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 5:49 PM
Subject: test
I've sent 2 messages (re: the UN) in the past 15
minutes, but they haven't made it - at least to my
computer. Would someone reply to this?
In a message dated 10/22/2002 3:50:07 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've sent 2 messages (re: the UN) in the past 15
minutes, but they haven't made it - at least to my
computer. Would someone reply to this?
Thanks-
Debbi
::clears throuat::
::stands upon
Julia Thompson
Please administer suitable bonking, someone (Unless that's what
Sammy's doing to me today)
Wasn't bonking what got Sammy started in the first place? Or was that boinking?
*runs* ;-)
Jim
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At 10:27 PM 10/21/2002 -0500 Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Apparently there are other locations, but only the Utah location was
mentioned in the story that was just on our local 10 pm news:
http://www.fetal-fotos.com/
Question: What would be your reaction if you learned that a woman (or,
--- Kevin Tarr wrote:
(frex, use of the Swan-Ganz catheter).
Don't say THAT word!
That *is* a singularly unpleasant experience, isn't it?
*shudders at the memory.*
Jim
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At 11:48 PM 10/22/2002 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Through cooperation with other
freedom-loving democratic countries, or by unilaterally deciding to ignore
all those potential allies, storming into country after country with all
guns blazing, and alienating all those other freedom-loving
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
::clears throuat::
::stands upon soapbox::
::strikes classic orator's pose::
::raises hand::
To this!
Hey, if you are using a library computer, ain't your
hour up yet?
Well, I went to read a magazine for 15 min, then got
on another one (wouldn't
- Original Message -
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: test
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
::clears throuat::
::stands upon soapbox::
::strikes classic orator's pose::
::raises hand::
In a message dated 10/22/2002 5:29:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey, if you are using a library computer, ain't your
hour up yet?
Well, I went to read a magazine for 15 min, then got
on another one (wouldn't have if there were folks
waiting, but there are 5
Ooops let me try that again. Please reply to this message.
JDG
At 08:21 PM 10/22/2002 -0400 John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 11:48 PM 10/22/2002 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Through cooperation with other
freedom-loving democratic countries, or by unilaterally deciding to ignore
all those
It looks as if in the latest attack, the sniper simply took up a position
outside a bus stop, and just waited until somebody started going down the
steps of the bus.
Those blue Ride-On buses are the same buses that I ride to the Metro every
day. In fact, my bus route starts on Georgia Ave, so
In a message dated 10/22/2002 5:41:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I do think that if all of the Library units dummy down, this means that
they are psionically linked and that they have been lying to the Galactics
for over two billion years. You don't need
At 09:41 PM 10/22/2002 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What if the SOB is caught in Maryland by an armed civilian of Virginia that
can only legally carry a firearm in his own state?
A mild thought to all of this mess.
This is the perfect example of why we require trial-by-jury in this country.
In a message dated 10/22/2002 7:17:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So we know the Jophur have landed and that the war is on.
No, the Jophur _left_ an occupation force in Jijo. They took Biblos,
and even some Gray Queens were said to be allying with them.
No,
Well, I more-or-less redeemed myself this week with a 10-4 outing, and
60-42 on the season. The Upset Special season standings won't be
mentioned out of sheer embarassment..
Atlanta (+3.5) at New Orleans - O.k. everybody suddenly thinks that the
Saints are the best team in football. Yes,
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