Re: What America Does with its Hegemony

2004-05-20 Thread Doug Pensinger
Gautam wrote: Since Bill Clinton himself has stated on many occasions that he agreed with the Bush Administration's interpretation of Iraqi threat, that's a remarkable statement of his omniscience there, Doug. Would Clinton have depended on stove piped intelligence from expatriate Iraqis with an a

Re: Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread David Land
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voice of the web server: What do you mean it was out? Golly, it's nice out. I think I'll leave it out. Nick's server has been "out" of the server closet for a couple of years. Aww come on, it was in by a mile! Are you blind? It's not "mcenroemedia.com," you know. Dave

Re: Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:05 PM 5/20/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/20/2004 7:57:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The web server was just unhappy... but I believe I just fixed it. > > Nick > > Voice of the web server: What do you mean it was out? Aww come on, it was in by

Re: Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/20/2004 7:57:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The web server was just unhappy... but I believe I just fixed it. > > Nick > > Voice of the web server: What do you mean it was out? Aww come on, it was in by a mile! Are you blind? * * * *

Re: Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread Nick Arnett
d.brin wrote: Hi folks. My web person just reported the following: " I just found out that the Brin-L discussion group's link (http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l) isn't active. Do they have a new site address? The web server was just unhappy... but I believe I just fixed it. Nick --

Re: The Savage Solution

2004-05-20 Thread Keith Henson
At 09:26 AM 20/05/04 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: snip The problem I have with evolutionary psychology is that it is an a posterori general explaination. So, I thought I might deal with this by asking some questions about an area that can be explained by arguements similar to that you have given abov

Re: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:20 PM Subject: Brin: group still active? > Hi folks. > > My web person just reported the following: > > " > I just found out that the Brin-L discussion group's link > (http://w

Re: Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread The Fool
-- From: d.brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi folks. My web person just reported the following: " I just found out that the Brin-L discussion group's link (http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l) isn't active. Do they have a new site address? " I like to link fans to the list. How

Brin: group still active?

2004-05-20 Thread d.brin
Hi folks. My web person just reported the following: " I just found out that the Brin-L discussion group's link (http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l) isn't active. Do they have a new site address? " I like to link fans to the list. How now? See the latest re the sci fi museum openin

ShrubFuhrer Ends Support for Caribbean Democracy

2004-05-20 Thread The Fool
<> Bushwhacked In the Caribbean By Randall Robinson Wednesday, May 19, 2004; Page A23 BASSETERRE, St. Kitts -- On Feb. 29 the legally elected government of Haiti was driven from power by armed force. Its president,

Fight The Future: The Right to Read / Write: Fascist Censorship Enters the Schools

2004-05-20 Thread The Fool
<> Hard lessons from poetry class: Speech is free unless it's critical By BILL HILL Last update: 15 May 2004 Bill Nevins, a New Mexico high school teacher and personal friend, was fired last year

ShrubCo Breaks Anti-Propaganda law in Election Bid

2004-05-20 Thread The Fool
<> GAO says Medicare videos violated law By Emily Heil, CongressDaily The Bush administration violated anti-propaganda law when it distributed videos to news stations earlier this year about the newly passed Medicare prescription drug law, t

Re: Researchers hail dyslexia breakthrough

2004-05-20 Thread Gary Denton
On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:41:13 +0100, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/ > 0,9865,1220980,00.html?=rss > > "Researchers who have monitored a new treatment for dyslexia today > hailed it "as close to a cure as there is". Just by t

Re: The Savage Solution

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Baker
Dan said: > The problem I have with evolutionary psychology is that it is an a > posterori general explaination. The problem I have with evolutionary psychology and "memetics" (especially in combination) is that I often find it hard to see what the theory being proposed actually is. This is espec

Re: Numbers on the rebuilding of Afghanistan

2004-05-20 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: Re: Numbers on the rebuilding of Afghanistan A quick response to one point. > >What freedom and liberty. > > [snip] > > > Have you looked at >

Researchers hail dyslexia breakthrough

2004-05-20 Thread William T Goodall
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/ 0,9865,1220980,00.html?=rss "Researchers who have monitored a new treatment for dyslexia today hailed it "as close to a cure as there is". Academics at Exeter University, who have been monitoring the technique, made up of a series of exe

Re: The Savage Solution

2004-05-20 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Keith Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:11 AM Subject: Re: The Savage Solution > > Who knows how many conditionally expressed psychological traits humans > have? Mothers bond with their

Re: The Savage Solution

2004-05-20 Thread Keith Henson
At 02:05 AM 20/05/04 -0700, you wrote: Keith said: > Unfortunately, this turns out to be expected from evolutionary > psychology considerations. > > Rather than repeat it here, put "xenophobic memes" in a search engine > for the concepts. Isn't evolutionary psychology about *genes* for behaviours c

Re: The Savage Solution

2004-05-20 Thread Richard Baker
Keith said: > Unfortunately, this turns out to be expected from evolutionary > psychology considerations. > > Rather than repeat it here, put "xenophobic memes" in a search engine > for the concepts. Isn't evolutionary psychology about *genes* for behaviours common to all humans (as compared to

Re: Good News From Iraq

2004-05-20 Thread Gary Denton
Let me add this for the real news out of Iraq. FT: Iraq's rebel cleric gains surge in popularity An Iraqi poll to be released next week shows a surge in the popularity of Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical young Shia cleric fighting coalition forces, and suggests nearly nine out of 10 Iraqis see US

Re: Good News From Iraq

2004-05-20 Thread Gary Denton
On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:12:55 -0400, John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DEMOCRACY TAKES ROOT An article from Feb 15, before the mass uprising began with the closing down of a Baghdad newspaper. Looking further, this whole thing was a compilation of good news articles, next two more from D