Dan Minette wrote
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poor George, no wonder he looks tired, tossing all night, crying over
the starving Koreans kiddies etc...
What I don't understand is, given that I'm pretty sure I already
mentioned
this to you in an earlier discussion, why you
Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:05 AM Thursday 4/21/2005, Andrew Paul wrote:
[...] I, like you I think, await a world government, where the need
for
national armies, and thus the need for protection agianst this sort
of
problem, becomes irrelevant.
What kind of world government would you
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:55:50 -0500, Robert Seeberger
wrote
I don't think Nick intended to call you a
McCarthyite
It was a particular argument that I said I see as
McCarthyism. It was
Gautam's argument, which I'm sure doesn't represent
the
At 01:34 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote:
Dan, it was a rhetorical question. I know why he isn't, and frankly very
glad he isn't. But thank you for the refresher. I must learn to put more
umm, nuance in my typing tone.
It clearly wasn't a very good rhetorical question - and it wasn't the
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I
stand by my view still,
as he'd have us believe that anyone who participates
in any peace and justice
demonstration in the United States is a Stalinist
because a guy (Clark) behind
an organization (AIC) that is related to an
anti-Trotsky
OK, I'm done arguing with you Nick
I for one am in favour of changing the subject. As you said Gautam, we
are just going over lots of old ground here. We agree to differ. And I
retract any remarks which you found offensive. I did not intend them to
be so, and I don't think Nick et al did
JDG wrote
At 01:34 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote:
Dan, it was a rhetorical question. I know why he isn't, and frankly
very
glad he isn't. But thank you for the refresher. I must learn to put
more
umm, nuance in my typing tone.
It clearly wasn't a very good rhetorical question -
Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
... assuming that the Universe was closed and would collapse to a
point in a Big Crunch ... a suitably set up superintelligence
would be able to ... recreate the past ... thusly reincarnating
us.
Yes. That is how I understood Tipler, too.
On 21 Apr 2005, John D. Giorgis wrote
Bush's proposed budget would provide $6.7 billion in tax breaks
for energy, but 72 percent of that would go to renewable energy
sources and energy efficiency.
To which Nick Arnett responded
May Bush win this one!
Now, what if the US
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
The change in what we consider ethical has evolved over human
history but the basic notion; that one should be honest and fair
with all of your own kind; that you not kill or mame them; that
you not cheat them and the expectation that they will behave in
On 22 Apr 2005, Andrew Paul wrote
An ideal world government. ... I doubt we will always want a
Chinese President, and an Indian VP. Something like the Senate
here perhaps, where each state gets the same number of members
(7), and territories (smaller states) get a couple each. I
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:58:58 -0400, JDG wrote
Dan M., Gautam, and probably others have pointed out to you on multiple
occasions that it is *not* _anyone_ who participates in _any_ peace and
justice demonstration. It has been _specific_ people
participating in _specific_ demonstrations,
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html
April 21
Beamed Into Space: Whale Songs
From the deep ocean into the depths of space, the first live whale songs are
to be broadcast into the cosmos on April 22 - Earth Day.
Providing the service is the Deep Space Communications Network, a private
http://www.click2houston.com/news/4408753/detail.html?treets=houtml=hou_natlbreakts=Ttmi=hou_natlbreak_1_07140204222005
Officials say the Army has cleared four top officers of all
allegations of wrongdoing in connection with prisoner abuse at Abu
Ghraib, and those officers will not be
At 04:01 AM Wednesday 4/20/2005, God wrote:
Yet another reason for strictly limiting the right to own guns to trained
professionals who actually need a gun for their job:
Police: 9-Year-Old Kills Mom, Self
(CBS/AP)When several family members forced their way into the suburban red
brick home Glenda
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
As far as I can see, the only kind of `UN' that has a chance of being
accepted by rich countries as well as poor has three houses:
population based, history based, and tax based.
It will never work. I think it should be _territory_ based :-P
[off-topic comment:
On Apr 22, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Officer Craig Clancy strolled to the appropriate facility and was
lowering his trousers when his pistol fell from his waistband. When
Clancy fumbled for the falling firearm, it went off, twice.
One of the bullets nicked a bit of floor tile
On 4/22/05, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
(Why would a non-antiquarian superintelligence bother to reincarnate
us? In this reading, any superintelligence doing research that
involves reincarnating anyone from the past is an
://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20050422/ap_on_fe_st/bathroom_gunshote=4
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Dan Minette wrote
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poor George, no wonder he
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Think you could tone down the insult rhetoric a bit?
Remember that you guys have an audience.
Hear hear! Your (plural) need to put people down
only serves to make you look arrogant and elitist.
-- Matt
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