Re: 24? **correction^2**

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:30 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 08:49 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >> Yes, 2500! = 1.628 10^7411 has 7412 digits, but 500 of >> them are zeroes > > 624, actually. > Ah, ok, I should have mentioned that 500 of t

Radical National Rifle Assoc.

2005-04-17 Thread Gary Nunn
I have always been a supporter of personal firearms, as well as the *reasonable* regulation of guns (no, I don't have a definition of reasonable), but guys making comments like the ones Ted Nugent made (see below) make all gun owners look like dangerous, radical fundamentalists. He is doing more

Bush cite-

2005-04-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Peaceful change L3 > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:14:08 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > > > Whose definition is it? Yours? Bush's? Mine? > > > > Bush's. >

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-17 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Our task should not be to invoke religion and the > name of God by claiming > God's blessing and endorsement for all our national > policies and practices - > saying, in effect, that God is on our side. Rather, > we should pray and worry > earnestly

Re: 24? **correction^2**

2005-04-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 08:49 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >> Yes, 2500! = 1.628 10^7411 has 7412 digits, but 500 of >> them are zeroes > > 624, actually. > Ah, ok, I should have mentioned that 500 of them are _trailing_ zeroes. I didn't count the middle

Re: 24? **correction^2**

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:49 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >> Yes, 2500! = 1.628 10^7411 has 7412 digits, but 500 of >> them are zeroes > > 624, actually. > Ah, ok, I should have mentioned that 500 of them are _trailing_ zeroes. I didn't count the middle zeroes Neither did I .

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:30:09 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > > > How about James 2:17-26? > > > >It's fine with me. What about it? > > Is it also "baloney" (or worse)? I don't think it is baloney at all. I think it states a basic truth, that there is no such thing as faith without works. A f

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:14:08 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > Whose definition is it? Yours? Bush's? Mine? > > Bush's. Cite please, in that case. > But, Bonhoeffer sought peace through a bomb...which is the same as seeing > peace at the barrel of a gun. There are times when Gandhi's > techniqu

Re: 24? **correction^2**

2005-04-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > >> Yes, 2500! = 1.628 10^7411 has 7412 digits, but 500 of >> them are zeroes > > 624, actually. > Ah, ok, I should have mentioned that 500 of them are _trailing_ zeroes. I didn't count the middle zeroes Alberto Monteiro ___ htt

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:22 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:41:32 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > At 10:54 AM Sunday 4/17/2005, Nick Arnett wrote: > >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:46:24 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > > > > > What about the idea that "the Lord helps those who help themselves"?

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:47:31 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > So, let me ask a question of you and Nick, if I might. Have you had the > chance to be in close fellowship that contains both liberals and > conservatives, literalists, and non-literalists? I don't see the > understanding that comes from suc

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:41:32 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > At 10:54 AM Sunday 4/17/2005, Nick Arnett wrote: > >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:46:24 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > > > > > What about the idea that "the Lord helps those who help themselves"? > > > >It is baloney, or perhaps the substance t

Re: 24? **correction^2**

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:22 PM Wednesday 4/13/2005, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > That should read "2500!" > >>, which, with iirc 7412 digits, > Yes, 2500! = 1.628 10^7411 has 7412 digits, but 500 of them are zeroes 624, actually. 16242416926354689668105747439663365399942834366597611705

Re: Peaceful change L3

2005-04-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 8:52 PM Subject: Re: Peaceful change > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:25:07 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > > Actually, the definition of a good guy is anyone who wants to live >

Re: it goes on and on...

2005-04-17 Thread Gary Denton
On 4/17/05, Frank Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Think Tank's Ideas Shifted As Malaysia Ties Grew > > Business Interests Overlapped Policy > > And about what in this article do you want to discuss here? > > I already think that the current US government is making bad policy and > using

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 1:33 AM Subject: Re: Peaceful change > Dan, > > In short, he has drawn a line between dictators, > > terrorists and their cronies and everyone else. > > A line he erases by saying "Yo

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Matt Grimaldi wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: we invade! Justice will be served! With a side order of freedom fries. Dan Minette wrote: No fries. They sell an assortment of chips, though. Ronn!Blankenship wrote: So do most electronic hobby stores, but I wouldn't want to eat there . . . Julia Thompso

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:40 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Matt Grimaldi wrote: [...] Given my luck with the computer chips I've bought at Fry's, I'd rather get the edible ones. Just because it says "Fry" on the package doesn't mean that you are supposed to hook them up directly to the 440VAC line and actually _fry_ them .

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-17 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Erik Reuter wrote: >>> >>> we invade! Justice will be served! >>> With a side order of freedom fries. >> >> Dan Minette wrote: >> >> No fries. They sell an assortment of >> chips, though. Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > So do most electronic hobby stores, > but I wouldn't want to eat there > . .

Re: it goes on and on...

2005-04-17 Thread Frank Schmidt
> Think Tank's Ideas Shifted As Malaysia Ties Grew >Business Interests Overlapped Policy And about what in this article do you want to discuss here? I already think that the current US government is making bad policy and using questionable methods to get what they want. But alas, you cannot i

Re: 'Hello', said the Ostrich, to the Administration

2005-04-17 Thread Jim Sharkey
Ronn! wrote: >Am I the only one for whom both of the other attempts were all run >together into one huge block of text? Seems like. My 'Net-based mail formatted it fine. Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on th

it goes on and on...

2005-04-17 Thread d.brin
Think Tank's Ideas Shifted As Malaysia Ties Grew Business Interests Overlapped Policy By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 17, 2005; Page A01 For years, the Heritage Foundation sharply criticized the autocratic rule of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mo

Re: 'Hello', said the Ostrich, to the Administration

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:29 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:06 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:33 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote That's all I'm doing for now about it. I'm tired and I want to go to bed, but there's somethi

Re: 'Hello', said the Ostrich, to the Administration

2005-04-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:06 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:33 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote That's all I'm doing for now about it. I'm tired and I want to go to bed, but there's something I want to figure out first, and I need to find t

Abortion and war

2005-04-17 Thread Keith Henson
One of the occasionally necessary components to birth control is abortion. (The alternatives are worse in many situations.) World wide birth control down to replacement, and in many cases below, is one of the two hopes humans have for avoiding a population crash that might well go into the bil

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Peaceful change > At 10:54 AM Sunday 4/17/2005, Nick Arnett wrote: > >On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:46:24 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > > > > > Wha

Re: 'Hello', said the Ostrich, to the Administration

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:06 PM Sunday 4/17/2005, Julia Thompson wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:33 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote That's all I'm doing for now about it. I'm tired and I want to go to bed, but there's something I want to figure out first, and I need to find the right screwdriver to

Re: 'Hello', said the Ostrich, to the Administration

2005-04-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:33 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote That's all I'm doing for now about it. I'm tired and I want to go to bed, but there's something I want to figure out first, and I need to find the right screwdriver to do it You mean in the sense of what brands of

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:54 AM Sunday 4/17/2005, Nick Arnett wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:46:24 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > What about the idea that "the Lord helps those who help themselves"? It is baloney, or perhaps the substance that one finds at the south end of a northbound steer. Okay. :) How about Jame

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Maru Dubshinki
On 4/17/05, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:16:11 +, Maru Dubshinki wrote > > > That is sarcasm, correct? Because seriously proposing that the > > universe has no independent existence from a supreme deity is a > > stance I believe is called pan-theism, and I ga

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 06:46:24 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote > What about the idea that "the Lord helps those who help themselves"? It is baloney, or perhaps the substance that one finds at the south end of a northbound steer. Nick ___ http://www.mccmed

Re: 'Hello', said the Ostrich, to the Administration

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 23:18:33 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote > That's all I'm doing for now about it. I'm tired and I want to go > to bed, but there's something I want to figure out first, and I need > to find the right screwdriver to do it You mean in the sense of what brands of vodka and ora

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:16:11 +, Maru Dubshinki wrote > That is sarcasm, correct? Because seriously proposing that the > universe has no independent existence from a supreme deity is a > stance I believe is called pan-theism, and I gather from other > things you have written that your 'faith'

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:08 PM Thursday 4/14/2005, John DeBudge wrote: On 4/14/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone else has read "The Mythical Man-Month," I see . . . > I really wish the only experience I had in that subject was from a book. So do we all . . . Oh, I do

RE: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

2005-04-17 Thread God
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JDG > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:07 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis > >There are people -- I'm assuming that JDG is one of them -- > who believe > >tha

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:52 PM Saturday 4/16/2005, Nick Arnett wrote: Good heavens, Dan, we can *always* count on God to intervene, my faith tells me. Without God's constant, total involvement, all of creation would come to a halt and we would cease to exist. The question is not whether God is involved, the questio

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I feel angry when anyone bring up "inaction" or "doing nothing," > etc., in this thread. Nobody is suggesting doing nothing. But there > are times when Except for Nick. > something seems t