Dave Land wrote:
So there appear to be at least two ways to deal with the heat: crank
up the AC and the fan, or crank up the blues.
You non-tropicals are so weird. Enjoy the heat; that's what
Homo sapiens was designed [:-)] to cope.
Alberto Monteiro
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
So there appear to be at least two ways to deal with the heat: crank
up the AC and the fan, or crank up the blues.
You non-tropicals are so weird. Enjoy the heat; that's what
Homo sapiens was designed [:-)] to cope.
Yeah, well, I've run into a few
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: WTC Redux
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
On 7/19/06 11:47 AM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the strength of your
On Jul 24, 2006, at 3:34 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
So there appear to be at least two ways to deal with the heat:
crank up the AC and the fan, or crank up the blues.
You non-tropicals are so weird. Enjoy the heat; that's what
Homo sapiens was designed [:-)] to cope.
On Jul 24, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
I suspect that the vast majority of Americans, when asked if
Iraq had complied with Chapter 672.4 of the UN Security
Resolutions, requiring disarmament of model airplanes,
they'd say (...)
(a) Yes - 0.4%
(b) No - 0.7%
Reggie Bautista wrote:
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: WTC Redux
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
On 7/19/06 11:47 AM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the
I've read about this before, but it still just astonishes me that Katrina
survivors have lost civil rights as a result. They end up living in a
community where they are not free to talk to the press unless there is a
FEMA representative present. They can't have a landline telephone or cable
At 06:09 PM Monday 7/24/2006, Nick Arnett wrote:
I've read about this before, but it still just astonishes me that Katrina
survivors have lost civil rights as a result. They end up living in a
community where they are not free to talk to the press unless there is a
FEMA representative present.
In a message dated 7/23/2006 7:17:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do the cells *really* have human DNA? The wikipedia mentions their
extraordinary reproductive properties - don't these properties
necessitate some sort of change in the DNA? After all, if you took
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 7/19/06, David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
...
Or we can hold all sets of axioms, assign a prior probability
to each of them, then apply Bayesian analysis with real world
examples and get a posteriori probability for each sets.
...
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is complex about this question, to pick one major example --
should the
US have gone to war with
Iraq if US intelligence had concluded that Iraq was not making WMD
or providing support to al Qaeda?
Is that too complex for
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Welcome back.
Thank you.
I think you're missing Charlie's point.
To me, his argument is that it is VERY hard to draw a clear
line between things that can turn into adult humans and things
that can't. I advise conceding the
On 25/07/2006, at 12:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HeLa cells came from a tumor of Helen Lane.
Helen Lane was a pseudonym used to protect the patient's identity.
Her real name was Henrietta Lacks.
They are unquestionably human
cells. They have a mutation that allows them to continue to
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I'm saying WHAT THEY'RE CALLED is beside the point.
Which I continue to fail to understand. Obviously, some very
intelligent people believe that HeLa are of, at minimum, another
genus from humans, let alone of another species.
On 7/24/06, David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
I think having them cancel out would be a better idea. We could
formalize each god as really being a infinite series of ethical
axioms (covering every possible action), each of which says to do or
do not a specific
jdiebremse wrote:
...
May I propose that you reply: Anything produced by combining
a human egg and sperm certainly counts as HUMAN. Other things
might also; we'll decide about clones later.
How about - any individual organism whose adult stage is an adult
human is a human?
Well, to start
On 25/07/2006, at 1:40 PM, David Hobby wrote:
How terribly disappointing. How anyone could consider a half-cell
to be human is beyond me.
JDG
You're right. Sperm and eggs would be some of the few cells
that would NOT count as human, since they don't have enough
chromosomes. : )
Jesus
On 25/07/2006, at 1:04 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
How terribly disappointing. How anyone could consider a half-cell
to be human is beyond me.
A sperm is not a half cell. It is a highly specialised full cell that
happens to have a half-set of chromosomes. Same for an ovum.
Charlie
On 25/07/2006, at 1:14 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I'm saying WHAT THEY'RE CALLED is beside the point.
Which I continue to fail to understand. Obviously, some very
intelligent people believe that HeLa are of, at minimum, another
On 7/24/06, jdiebremse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For one thing, does Iraq not producing WMD also mean that Iraq had
no stockpiles of WMD? Does it also mean that Iraq was not
retaining to capacity to restart WMD programs as soon as sanctions
were lifted? Yes, Nick, it is complex.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/23/2006 7:17:43 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do the cells *really* have human DNA? The wikipedia mentions their
extraordinary reproductive properties - don't these properties
necessitate some sort of change in the
At 11:03 PM Sunday 7/23/2006, maru dubshinki wrote:
~maru
we can clearly through a simple diagonal argument along the lines of
cantor that the number of angels is uncountable, and thus the number
of angels that can dance on the head of a pin is the same number as
the number of real numbers...
At 09:53 PM Sunday 7/23/2006, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 7/23/06, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 08:33 PM Sunday 7/23/2006, Nick Arnett wrote:
The last two days, my little indoor/outdoor thermometer has recorded a
high
temp of 117 degrees.
I suppose I should clarify that that was
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