Erik Reuter wrote:
> Maybe we could also have things that decrease your ding number. Not
> dongs (I give you the dong! :-) ummm, tips or nods? Or you could call
> them kisses (or carresses, or ...) and then the codes for people who use
> them would mean "friendly", "promiscuous", and "real whore".
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
> I'd have separate scores for dings received an dings given. If Erik's
> codes are applied to dings received, we could have a code for dingers
> along the lines of "Tolerant", "Capricious" and "Opinion Police"
Now *that* would be interesting... ;o)
Sonja
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At 10:57 PM 10/30/2002 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>Also note that his previous postings on the UN suggest that he believes
>non-democratic countries should not have a vote in the more-or-less
>democratic UN because those countries are not democratic themselves.
Actually, I have never stated t
At 09:16 PM 10/30/2002 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>You were not ignoring *me*, you were ignoring my questions and my requests
>for proof for your claims.
If I was not ignoring you, why did you start sending your questions for me
to all of my e-mail addresses that you knew about, so as to find
At 10:57 PM 10/30/2002 +0100 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>So, what do we have here? We have one hell of an inconsistency in JDG's
>beliefs.
I can't help but wonder if right after the part about "You must always
answer every question posed to you" in Jeroen's etiquette guidelines, if
there just might
> From: Brad DeLong [mailto:delong@;econ.Berkeley.EDU]
>
> Now any suggestions on what I should tell the cybermasses?
That the next big thing will be computers (xompitors?) made out of cheese
doodles and corn pops?
or
That everyone should forget all about that movie "The Postman" and go out
and
> From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:albmont@;centroin.com.br]
>
> See below an example of how to vote
> http://www.geocities.com/albmont/urna_eletronica_iraque.htm
Shouldn't the instructions be in Arabic (Persian?)? ;-)
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In a message dated 10/30/2002 10:16:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< - the Church of the Blind Chihuahua.
http://www.dogchurch.org/
>From their FAQ page:
"What do you mean by "The Courage to be Ridiculous
before God? >>
I would think that communion would be a s
Dan Minette wrote:
> > Of course, all this is strictly imho.
> >
>
> Well, not to be argumentative, but I think it is impho.
Okay, I'll bite...
P - Personal?
Ritu
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--- Gary Nunn wrote:
>
> Ok, this website is almost scary. At first it reads
> much like 'The Onion",
> but then you realize that it is for real..
>
http://www.christianreporter.com/cgi/editorlite/print.cgi
I did find one link from this site highly amusing
(with a sharp nip or three at one's
- Original Message -
From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Our Friends at the UN
> Which section of the report was that in?
>
Part 1, chapter 11
Dan M.
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- Original Message -
From: "Ritu Ko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:53 PM
Subject: RE: Question for everyone
>
>
> J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>
> > >As for what I said, well, personal attacks doesn't ever let
> > anyone 'win'
> > >an a
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> >As for what I said, well, personal attacks doesn't ever let
> anyone 'win'
> >an argument/discussion. So I fail to see what the big deal is.
>
> Those personal attacks tend to have quite a lot of effect on
> the list as a
> whole -- and not exactly a positive effe
In a message dated 10/30/2002 8:22:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Steam cars lasted into the 1920's. They cost more than IC cars, and fuel
was
very cheap, so efficiency didn't matter. So it was price that killed them
AFAIK.
>>
But the all leather omnibus, the
on 30/10/02 1:52 am, Kevin Tarr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> External combustion engines (steam engines/turbines) are already more
>> efficient than internal combustion engines, and what happened to the Stanley
>> Steamer?
>>
>> --
>> William T Goodall
>
>
> Well come on ;-) They couldn't
Doug wrote:
>
> Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > I
> >heard from him, BTW, and he is doing fine, although he's pretty busy.
> >
> Glad to hear it. How about Zim, we haven't heard from him in quite a while.
>
> Doug
The server is chewing up his posts. We're trying to fix the problem.
Well, Zimmy and
Dan Minette wrote:
I
heard from him, BTW, and he is doing fine, although he's pretty busy.
Glad to hear it. How about Zim, we haven't heard from him in quite a while.
Doug
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In a message dated 10/30/2002 6:17:26 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Greenspan >>
If the Urs and Traeki build a bridge, will it be known as a Greenspan because
it is made of living boo, or because it needs to be Fed?
William Taylor
-
For SF hist
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> Further, we have the unfortunate example of the Balkins. The US behaved as
> just one of many members of the international community, unwilling to force
> its will on the world, or even its allies. Lets look at what the Dutch
> review of the tragedy in Kosova has to say ab
I haven't been reading the WSJ editorial page much recently, but my
husband has, and he's seen a fair bit of the following as of late:
1) Arguments that France shouldn't be a permanent member of the UN
Security Council.
2) Arguments for a somewhat new set of permanent UNSC members: US,
Russia,
- Original Message -
From: "Brad DeLong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: heading towards a singularity
> >- Original Message -
> >From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: W
In a message dated 10/30/2002 6:03:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<
Now any suggestions on what I should tell the cybermasses?
>>
How about:
"Are you now, or have you ever been?"
>From one of the worst movies to ever rent if it's not the letterbox edition.
Wi
Brad asked:
> Now any suggestions on what I should tell the cybermasses?
That they should give me their money.
Or I destroy Tokyo.
Adam C. Lipscomb
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"Silence. I am watching television." - Spider Jerusalem
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Robert Seeberger wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:49 AM
> Subject: heading towards a singularity
>
> > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/view.html?pg=4
> >
>
> I started
- Original Message -
From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: heading towards a singularity
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/view.html?pg=4
I started reading this and felt that I had read it befo
The Qheuen have a better mind's eye than what humans have.
How many human artist do you know that look at their model and then turn out
the lights before they begin to paint or sculpt.
The Qheuen eye is on the top. The mouth is on the bottom. The eye cannot see
what the mouth is doing.
Yet Pin
Iraq Sets an Example in Computerizing Its National Elections
BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 - Iraq's election this month had all the ingredients to be slow and
messy. This country is larger than
Florida, with millions living in remote desert and ruined areas.
While one of every seven people is illiterate, voti
- Original Message -
From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: Question for everyone
> At 06:49 30-10-2002 +0530, Ritu Ko wrote:
>
> >As for what I said, well, personal attacks doesn't ever let anyone 'win'
Jeroen wrote:
> I thought "beautiful" and "brazilian guys" were mutually exclusive.
Alberto replied:
[in fact, it's "beautiful" and "guys" that are mutually exclusive,
by definition of beautiful. At leat it was so when I learned
English, more than a quarter of a century ago]
Yes and no. By d
- Original Message -
From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: heading towards a singularity
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/view.html?pg=4
>
I started reading this and felt that I had read it bef
- Original Message -
From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Our Friends at the UN
> Why can't you (and the WSJ and the Bush Administration,
> whom you endorse wholeheartedly) trust people to form
> their ow
--- Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
> Erik Reuter [wrote:]
>
> > I would suggest at
> > least 3 codes meaning roughly: "well-though-of",
> "somewhat annoying",
> > "real asshole". Dings could be any real number
> that people decide (but I
> > still think absolute minimum of 1 ding cost to
> ding someo
Following a link from a link that Dan (I think) posted, I ran across an
article from 1997 that seems to apply to a few recent threads. The article
is, "Was Democracy Just a Moment" by Robert Kaplan.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97dec/democ.htm
The article is very long, but well worth the r
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Brazilian officials said the new system also makes tallying the vote
easier and more reliable once the polls have closed. Instead of
relying on election judges who are vulnerable to error or political
pressures, the results are transmitted on a secure line to the state
- Original Message -
From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: Our Friends at the UN
> Dan Minette wrote:
> My issues of concern (which I've stated before) are:
>
> There are moral and political problems with
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Our Friends at the UN
>
> > You presented a document which uses such
> > labels as "soft-on-Saddam queue" and
> > "d
Jeroen wrote:
>
> I thought "beautiful" and "brazilian guys" were mutually exclusive.
>
[in fact, it's "beautiful" and "guys" that are mutually exclusive,
by definition of beautiful. At leat it was so when I learned
English, more than a quarter of a century ago]
>
> BTW, does your wife know about
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
>
> De : Erik Reuter [mailto:ereuter@;erikreuter.com]
> > Maybe we could also have things that decrease your ding number. Not
> > dongs (I give you the dong! :-) ummm, tips or nods? Or you could call
> > them kisses (or carresses, or ...) and then the codes for people w
--- Julia wrote:
> Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > --- Julia wrote:
> > > Deborah Harrell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to find out what the problem is: I
> just got
> > > > Sonja's post on this, but Jim's was already in
> my inbox before lunch, so clearly others received
> > > it in timely fashion.
At 21:47 30-10-2002 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Oops. Sonja reads your messages? Yikes. I'd rather not send you my
personal collection of thousands of pictures of beautiful naked brazilian
guys that you requested me.
I thought "beautiful" and "brazilian guys" were mutually exclusive.
BTW, d
At 20:12 29-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Latest projected vote count:
YES (Nine Needed for Passage):
United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Bulgaria, Colombia, Singapore,
Mauritius
Note that he lists seven countries here.
At 08:32 30-10-2002 -0500, he wrote:
Democracies on the UNSC:
--- Reggie Bautista wrote:
> Jean-Louis replied:
> >I suggest drinking Halloween floats :
> >
> >1 part blond beer (eg. lager) with orange coloring
> >1 part Guinness which should float on the lager!
>
> Irish bars here in KC (and presumably elsewhere)
> call this either a
> half-and-half (if the
Hi, Jeroen!
>
>Hiss - siss - crackle $%%^^&*(^^%#%^$*&#!$
>TRANSMISSION TERMINATED
>
Oops. Sonja reads your messages? Yikes. I'd rather not
send you my personal collection of thousands of pictures
of beautiful naked brazilian guys that you requested me.
[let's hope I hit the private key...]
Albe
At 10:16 30-10-2002 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
I'm with you on that one for 100%. Indeed, better to have no dinging.
Ignoring what you don't like, respond to what is interesting. We used to
be able to do that quite well in the very far back past. Now the list
gets clogged with expla
At 08:26 30-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>You left out "we all know that nobody from those
>countries, even diplomats to the U.N., could possibly
>hope to make competent decisions in such a matter."
The diplomat to the UN is probably the dictator's second cousin once-removed.
Yeah, so wh
At 23:49 30-10-2002 +1100, Ray Ludenia wrote:
> There's difference between giving the Cameroonians a *say*, and giving
> the despot of a tiny, one-party, banana republic the decisive vote on
> the morality of intervening in Iraq.
>
> I'd support the former, but right now, we're stuck with the lat
At 23:41 29-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>>Yes folks, the fate of the world may well rest in the hands of Guinea
>>or Cameroon, should Ireland or Mexico choose to abstain from voting.
>
>This kind of statement is an example of why some nations think the US is
>arrogant. God forbid a pathet
At 21:10 29-10-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>My opinion on listmail is that if you don't like what somebody has to
>say, ignore it. People have a right to an opinion, fortunatly others
>have just as much right to ignore it. Use that right. Use filters, be it
>it just mere mental or state of th
At 06:49 30-10-2002 +0530, Ritu Ko wrote:
As for what I said, well, personal attacks doesn't ever let anyone 'win'
an argument/discussion. So I fail to see what the big deal is.
Those personal attacks tend to have quite a lot of effect on the list as a
whole -- and not exactly a positive effec
Erik Reuter asked:
>
>> Officials were also heartened by statistics indicating
>> that the number of blank and spoiled ballots fell by
>> nearly half, from 18.7 percent in the 1998 general
>> election to 10.7 percent in the first round of
>> voting.
>
> How can you have a "blank" o
William wrote:
> >P.S. A single female on our list should dress up as a large
> >biologist/gardener alien in a tasteful pink dress with matching
pillbox hat.
> >Let's see how long it takes someone to figure out that she's dressed
as a
> >Jackie-O-Linten.
Alberto replied:
> No, no, no. The men
De : Erik Reuter [mailto:ereuter@;erikreuter.com]
> Maybe we could also have things that decrease your ding number. Not
> dongs (I give you the dong! :-) ummm, tips or nods? Or you could call
> them kisses (or carresses, or ...) and then the codes for people who use
> them would mean "friendly", "p
JDG wrote:
There's difference between giving the Cameroonians a *say*, and giving the
despot of a tiny, one-party, banana republic the decisive vote on the
morality of intervening in Iraq.
I'd support the former, but right now, we're stuck with the latter - and
find it fairly amusing.
John, cal
Maybe we could also have things that decrease your ding number. Not
dongs (I give you the dong! :-) ummm, tips or nods? Or you could call
them kisses (or carresses, or ...) and then the codes for people who use
them would mean "friendly", "promiscuous", and "real whore".
--
"Erik Reuter" <[EMAI
In a message dated 10/30/2002 10:03:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< A Salon columnist has plans for a shocking ad campaign
associating SUVs to terrorism. >>
Willian Taylor (hey, that's my last name too!) replied
> Waiting with fish baited breath to see their reason
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:42PM -0500, Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
> I'd have separate scores for dings received an dings given. If Erik's
> codes are applied to dings received, we could have a code for dingers
> along the lines of "Tolerant", "Capricious" and "Opinion Police"
Great idea! I l
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:01:49PM -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Officials were also heartened by statistics indicating that the number
> of blank and spoiled ballots fell by nearly half, from 18.7 percent
> in the 1998 general election to 10.7 percent in the first round of
> voting.
How can y
De : Erik Reuter [mailto:ereuter@;erikreuter.com]
> I would suggest at
> least 3 codes meaning roughly: "well-though-of", "somewhat annoying",
> "real asshole". Dings could be any real number that people decide (but I
> still think absolute minimum of 1 ding cost to ding someone else), and
> your
In a message dated 10/30/2002 10:03:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< A Salon columnist has plans for a shocking ad campaign
associating SUVs to terrorism. >>
Well, the SUV can hold more explosives than a Yugo.
Or are they trying to keep the terrorists from coming t
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:42:36PM -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
> Ah, great idea, better than my subject: line idea! Also, instead of
Umm, I should have said, "much better than my formulation of the
subject: line idea", since I did not think of the idea.
--
"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:14:19AM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> Ratings a la Slash wouldn't work very well, either, since people read
> mailing lists via a variety of applications, in which there is no
> standard way to accommodate ratings.
That is not so. Anyone who has capability for simple keyw
At 10:45 AM 10/29/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> William Taylor wrote:
> >
> >P.S. A single female on our list should dress up as a large
> >biologist/gardener alien in a tasteful pink dress with matching
pillbox hat.
> >Let's see how long it takes someone to figure out tha
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Medievalbk@;aol.com]
>
> A flying saucer was recently spotted hovering over Rio De Janeiro,
> broadcasting,
> "Take me to your leader." in Spanish.
>
> Yup, It's a genuine U. F. faux pas
Ouch. Thanks for a good laugh!
- jmh
Dan Minette wrote:
>
> I think it depends on where in the paper it lies. If
> it is on page one, its bad journalism. If its on the
> editorial page, its an opinion.
>
So there is a potential "out" for the WSJ's reputation...
It still fails to be the conclusive argument that JDG
hoped it would.
I found a well written article that details the negatives for going into
Iraq unilaterally. Its at
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/11/fallows.htm
Its too bad Gautam has a problem with his email server that keeps his as a
part time lurker. I'd be curious to see what he'd say about this, s
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces@;mccmedia.com]On
> Behalf Of David Hobby
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:05 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dinging plans (was RE: test)
...
> Sorry, I guess that I missed the post where the dingin
I wrote:
> Haven't even had a good glass of Mead in the past year Maru :-(
Jean-Louis replied:
Come up north! Mead and cider have made a big comeback in Quebec.
Lots of good stuff like, for example, ice cider : apple cider made
in the same way as icewine.
Oh, we have plenty of mead available
Latest in the demagogy war (or fighting fire with fire)
http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/10/22/oil/index.html
http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/10/29/suv_ad/index.html
A Salon columnist has plans for a shocking ad campaign
associating SUVs to terrorism.
Jean-Louis
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From: "Matt Grimaldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Our Friends at the UN
> "John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> >
> > At 05:02 AM 10/30/2002 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
> > >> This *council of conciliation* .
I got this from another list. I have interpolated
some comments in [[brackets - avfm]]
Alberto Monteiro
---
By LARRY ROHTER
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 29 - Brazil's two elections this month had all
the ingredients to be slow and messy. This country is larger than the
continental United Sta
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/view.html?pg=4
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De : Reggie Bautista [mailto:baure_gakan@;hotmail.com]
> Haven't even had a good glass of Mead in the past year Maru :-(
Come up north! Mead and cider have made a big comeback in Quebec.
Lots of good stuff like, for example, ice cider : apple cider made
in the same way as icewine.
Jean-Louis
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Nick Arnett wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Do we know if he intended for the dings to be anonymous? Anyone?
>
>
> My intention is to try to figure out something that works in this
> environment, with help from all of you. It surely won't satisfy all,
> perhaps none, but I hope we can collectively ar
In a message dated 10/29/2002 3:51:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> > "Ahem."
>> >
>> > "Post."
>> Ehrum.
>>
>> Kellogg's.
>>
>>Julia
>>
>> dodging the projectiles sure to follow *that* one >>
> Naw, I'm holding it in Chex.
>
> Vilyehm
As a warlock, Willi
In a message dated 10/30/02 6:44:37 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<
As for prayer teams "swinging into action," I have a problem with that. It
sounds a lot like it mistakes prayer for action, >>
Swinging into action had me thinking up "Mission Unprayable"
Select
"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> At 05:02 AM 10/30/2002 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
> >> This *council of conciliation* ... [disagrees with
> >> the term "material breach"] What is it, a foot fault?
> >>
> >> ... Franco-Russian-Mexican position isn't diplomacy
> >> so much as a denial of reality.
> >
>
William T Goodall wrote:
>
> External combustion engines (steam engines/turbines) are already more
> efficient than internal combustion engines, and what happened to the Stanley
> Steamer?
>
Aren't they the ones that are tough on dirt, gentle on carpets?
Julia
who expects that that
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces@;mccmedia.com]On
> Behalf Of Gary Nunn
...
> I am having a difficult time picturing a "prayer team" swinging
> into action,
> it almost reminds me of watching the white-hot action of bowling on TV.
>
> I have always sai
John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 10:14 AM 10/30/2002 -0300 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>> _Banana Republic_ should be *only* used when applied
>> to Latino-American countries
>
> I resent the sexist implications of referring only to Latino-American and
> not Latina-American countries!
Hey. What about
At 11:49 PM 10/30/2002 +1100 Ray Ludenia wrote:
>You don't perchance find it amusing that the US appears to be relying on the
>support of this banana republic to over-ride the reservations that the other
>members of the SC have about the morality of intervention?
Democracies on the UNSC:
Yes:
US,
At 05:02 AM 10/30/2002 -0800 Matt Grimaldi wrote:
>> This *council of conciliation* ... [disagrees with
>> the term "material breach"] What is it, a foot fault?
>>
>> ... Franco-Russian-Mexican position isn't diplomacy
>> so much as a denial of reality.
>
>What a load of propaganda! Frankly I'm s
At 10:14 AM 10/30/2002 -0300 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>_Banana Republic_ should be *only* used when applied
>to Latino-American countries
I resent the sexist implications of referring only to Latino-American and
not Latina-American countries!
JDG
JDG wrote:
>
> There's difference between giving the Cameroonians a *say*,
> and giving the despot of a tiny, one-party, banana
> republic the decisive vote on the
> morality of intervening in Iraq.
>
I feel strongly offended by the use of the derogatory
term _banana republic_, as ap
"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
(edited for emphasis -- Matt G)
>
> Wall St. Journal
> Our Friends at the U.N.
> Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:01 a.m. EST
>
> President Bush is *understandably8 losing
> patience with the U.N. ... Saddam Hussein
> "...has made the United Nations look foolish."
> ... Vic
John D. Giorgis wrote:
> There's difference between giving the Cameroonians a *say*, and giving the
> despot of a tiny, one-party, banana republic the decisive vote on the
> morality of intervening in Iraq.
>
> I'd support the former, but right now, we're stuck with the latter - and
> find it fai
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:07:42PM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
wrote:
> I just picked up my mail and I got over 100 of the brin-l mail with
> over half dating back as far as saturday. This is even more mysterious
> since I did pick up my mail yesterday. So unless everybody on this
> list is
At 07:34 PM 10/29/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
I'll warn you once. Never ever bandy the the reliability of data and the
certainty of observation with someone who has degrees both in science and
philosophy. You risk being subjected to a L8 post on the minutia of the
philosophy of
I just picked up my mail and I got over 100 of the brin-l mail with over
half dating back as far as saturday. This is even more mysterious since
I did pick up my mail yesterday. So unless everybody on this list is
delayed something is very wrong. I'm just not sure where the bug is.
Sonja
At 10:00 PM 10/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Ok, this website is almost scary. At first it reads much like 'The Onion",
but then you realize that it is for real..
http://www.christianreporter.com/cgi/editorlite/print.cgi
My favorite headline:
Prayer Teams Deploy Against Buddhist Gathering
posted
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
> De : Deborah Harrell [mailto:harrellmedleg@;yahoo.com]
> > And after further consideration, I have to agree with
> > Erik that anonymous dinging should be severely
> > penalized. If allowed at all. And you ought to try
> > talking it out offlist first [*politely*],
"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
> At 18:02 29-10-2002 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>
> >Out of context from exchange between Debbi and Nick:
> >
> >Debbi:
> > > I must once again respectfully disagree. Anonymous dings, no matter the
> > > value they are given, go against the idea of transpar
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