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Recently, in a fantasy RPG, our GM introduced a
warrior race that I
found very interesting. They were expert horsemen,
human and
somewhat similar to the Mongols or the Huns. What
was unique about
them was that they road small horses, almost ponies,
At 12:13 AM 1/9/04, Trent Shipley wrote:
As a side note, Asimov's Galactic Empire includes 25M planets in a
single Galaxy, all of them terraformed in the past 22,000 years. But
Asimov was optimist about the existence of habitable planets, we
know for sure that there can't be habitable planets
Trent Shipley wrote:
There are two sorts of instability.
One level of instability is at the level of the lineage. The other is the
stablity of the inter-species political order. Moderate or serious
disparities in wealth curves mean that a lot of lineages die out. Having
lineages die out
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Right now, it seems that our g*vernments and j*diciary powers
and doing whatever they can to prevent tourists from crossing
the border :-/
Do you know if this is affecting Brazilian students who go to college in
the USA?
No. But I guess that most people will think
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Oh, come on, it was *loads* of fun, and probably not a bad thing to read
before rewatching the second and third Matrix movies. It does a pretty
good
job of capturing the essence of the Merovingian way of looking at things,
which was a metaphor the Wachowski brothers
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
But Asimov was optimist about the existence of habitable planets, we
know for sure that there can't be habitable planets around, for
example, Epsilon Eridani, where Asimov placed Baleyworld-Comporellon.
We do?
Doesn't Epsilon Eridani have a hot-Jupiter orbiting it
in
http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=2938
Visual effects company Digital Domain and Barnet Bain Films (What
Dreams May Come) have optioned author Dan Simmons' sci-fi novel Ilium
and its sequel, Olympos, to adapt into a feature film. Simmons will
also write the screenplay. His Hyperion saga is
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 16:28:44 -0600
Quick question: Have you seen Blade Runner and read _Do Androids
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I think that I see the difference in what Travis just wrote and what he
From: Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:19:09 -0800
Hey, Shakespeare was what *I* was gonna drag out next ;)
-j-
Drag
A local author, Kenneth J. Harvey, who actually lives just down the road
from me (Small-town Newfoundland) has been included in five Best of 2003
lists for his latest novel titled The Town That Forgot How To Breathe.
These lists include:
-Top 25 Fiction list for Amazon.ca
-CBC's Hot Type
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_01_04_atrios_archive.html#10734072882524
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Double Standards on Regional Bigotry
Imagine if I ran an ad which went something like George Bush should
take
his negro lynching, anti-intellectual, pig feet eating,
http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog//2004_01_01_barchive.html#1073631007412820
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Leading conservative figure calls for gays to be eliminated
You know how Dennis Kucinich will wax all optimistic and say things like,
When I'm president...
Well, Washington Times/UPI publisher and GOP patron Sun
Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 16:19:09 -0800
Hey, Shakespeare was what *I* was
Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 16:28:44 -0600
Quick question: Have you seen Blade
The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers, said
Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology
Professionals Association of America. The problem is a lack
of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum
wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing,
Why would Freightliner want to ban Cultural Institutions as a
category? It seems to be harmless enough...
We block the obvious categories, and allow catgories like Cultural
Institutions to count towards the non-work-related quota
some people
are on, but I can't imagine banning it.
I
Perfect Ice Storm Recipe
Ingredients:
6 inches of snow
2 inches of rain
Artic Winds to 70 mph
Instructions:
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Add 6 inches of powdery snow
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Best not read any further if of a squeamish
disposition.
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even if this woman will never again consider you a
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I suspect that this is the reason behind the list item.
If someone acknowledges a pregnacy, and the pregnacy results in a
miscarriage, there is a degree of shame
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 08:15 AM
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Subject: Re: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review
Yes and no. I agree with what Jeffrey said pretty much 100%,
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Subject: RE: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review
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Subject: An interesting tidbit of information.
A local author, Kenneth J. Harvey, who actually lives just
down
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Fool
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 09:47 AM
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Subject: Re: Double Standards on Regional Bigotry
In the ad they say: Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking,
*snip*
Did they open the airport yet today? Last night we had endless news reports about how
Amtrack and greyhound were booked solid with SEattlites unable to fly down..
-jeffrey geez, people, its only 2 hours by car... miller-
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Return of the King Review Re: my mini review
I ask because it goes back to the movie based on the
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34776.html
Flight Sim enquiry raises terror alert
By Andrew Orlowski in Las Vegas
Posted: 08/01/2004 at 22:39 GMT
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A mother's
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I work with some ..middle age, Russians, and they are starting to
discuss a feeling of Deja-vu they are experiencing. These discussions
usualy end with the concept that we should really start worrying when
we ~no longer~ hear about such things in the
At one time it was rare to find US citizens, in the safest and most
prosperous country in the world, jumping at their own shadows. Now
we
only note how high.
I work with some ..middle age, Russians, and they are starting to
discuss a feeling of Deja-vu they are experiencing. These discussions
At 02:32 PM 1/9/04, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
*snip*
Did they open the airport yet today? Last night we had endless news
reports about how Amtrack and greyhound were booked solid with SEattlites
unable to fly down..
-jeffrey geez, people, its only 2 hours by car... miller-
Well, I know
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 6:14 AM
Subject: Re: Holy Blood Holy Grail
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Oh, come on, it was *loads* of fun, and probably not a bad thing
to read
I ask because it goes back to the movie based on the book
discussion.
Blade Runner is based on _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_.
The movie took all sorts of liberties and did a lot of really
cool stuff, and I'm wondering what you'll think of it all
once you've seen the
At 06:37 AM 1/9/04, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
But Asimov was optimist about the existence of habitable planets, we
know for sure that there can't be habitable planets around, for
example, Epsilon Eridani, where Asimov placed Baleyworld-Comporellon.
We do?
Doesn't
On 9 Jan 2004, at 11:13 pm, Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
I ask because it goes back to the movie based on the book
discussion.
Blade Runner is based on _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_.
The movie took all sorts of liberties and did a lot of really
cool stuff, and I'm wondering what you'll think
At 09:15 PM 1/8/04, Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 09:14 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
At 06:14 PM 1/8/04, Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 06:51 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
(For those who have forgotten their topology, the Poincare Conjecture
states that every simply connected closed three-manifold is
homeomorphic to the
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
...
I'm too sophomoric to bother to read.
A is homeomorphic to B means that there is a homeomorphism which maps A
to B. A homeomorphism is a bicontinuous bijection.
A bijection is a function that is one-to-one and onto.
A function is a particular kind of set of
Very good!
In fact, so good I'll let you explain the rest of the statement of the
Poincare Conjecture . . .
;-)
At 08:09 PM 1/9/04, David Hobby wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
...
I'm too sophomoric to bother to read.
A is homeomorphic to B means that there is a homeomorphism which maps A
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0401.html
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Press Release
Release No.: 04-01
For Release: 9:20 a.m. EST, Monday, January 5, 2004
Note to Editors: An image to accompany this release is online at:
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/press/pr0401image.html
Suns
http://www.ras.org.uk/html/press/jod0401.html
Jodrell bank Observatory Press Release:
First-Known Double Pulsar Opens Up New Astrophysics
Date:8 January 2004
Embargoed: Not for release until 2:00 pm Eastern Time (7:00 pm GMT)
Thursday, 8 January 2004
The following press notice has been
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003038.html
TV Editing
All day long we've seen the television news repeating a short edited
segment of a single line taken from a Canadian television show. Here's
the full transcript. The discussion centered around the pros and cons of
caucuses and
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