Re: Week 1 NFL Picks

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:45 AM Thursday 9/7/2006, John D. Giorgis wrote: O.k. time for another season From Science News Online: Does Defense Win Championships? http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060909/mathtrek.asp -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 7 Sep 2006 at 20:04, Gibson Jonathan wrote: As an artist hovering around the computer industry since High School I find it amazing that AndrewC initially claims to be a non-expert, yet sells computers he regularly builds. Andrew, you undercut yourself on Go back and actually read it.

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Corrupt people abuse power and authority no matter where they get it. You can find corrupt individuals in any type of organization: police, corporations, sports, prisons, even Mac users. Why are you cherry picking the corruption found in religious organizations? You're not proving your case,

BYU places '9/11 truth' professor on paid leave

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
Brigham Young University placed physics professor Steven Jones on paid leave Thursday while it reviews his involvement in the so-called 9/11 truth movement that accuses unnamed government agencies of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. [...] BYU has

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:04 PM Thursday 9/7/2006, Gibson Jonathan wrote: - Jonathan Real Men Don't Use Backspace Keys Gibson - So you blindly rely on the good graces of the spell checker? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Morality

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:23 AM Friday 9/8/2006, Horn, John wrote: On Behalf Of William T Goodall Agnosticism : ~Believe {God(s) exist} is true Atheism : Believe {God(s) exist} is ~true Which are equivalent in a two-valued logic system. Am I the only one who read this and thought, huh? Can you parse that

Re: Keep Propaganda Off The Airwaves

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:55 PM Friday 9/8/2006, Dave Land wrote: On Sep 8, 2006, at 6:45 AM, jdiebremse wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The ABC television network -- a cog in the Walt Disney empire -- And of course, I'd be curious how many letters you wrote to movie

Re: Soldiers Die, CEOs Prosper

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:39 AM Friday 9/8/2006, Nick Arnett wrote: On 9/8/06, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Arnett quoted: (...) researchers will inevitably say that the body count has crossed 100,000. All of this madness to stop a madman, Saddam Hussein. I think it's a small price to

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:48 AM Friday 9/8/2006, Andrew Crystall wrote: You're heir to the entire technophile snob legacy, the entire It looks good so it must be superior class who are either gamers who go for the PC with the blue LED's or the non-gamers who go for Mac's. Personally, I am rather tired of blue

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:28 PM Friday 9/8/2006, Matt Grimaldi wrote: I'll stop by Joe's Artificial Organ and Taco Stand on the way. I think I've eaten there. Or at least somewhere that got their food from there . . . Barf Maru -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
On 9 Sep 2006, at 10:21AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:48 AM Friday 9/8/2006, Andrew Crystall wrote: You're heir to the entire technophile snob legacy, the entire It looks good so it must be superior class who are either gamers who go for the PC with the blue LED's or the non-gamers who go

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
On 9 Sep 2006, at 9:02AM, Matt Grimaldi wrote: Corrupt people abuse power and authority no matter where they get it. You can find corrupt individuals in any type of organization: police, corporations, sports, prisons, even Mac users. Why are you cherry picking the corruption found in

Re: Soldiers Die, CEOs Prosper

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:44 AM Friday 9/8/2006, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Nick Arnett quoted: (...) researchers will inevitably say that the body count has crossed 100,000. All of this madness to stop a madman, Saddam Hussein. I think it's a small price to pay for the removal of a tyrant. What is the

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:55 AM Friday 9/8/2006, The Fool wrote: A. I know more about 'scripture' than you do. Much more. B. I've read the bible, more times than you will for the entire rest of life. C. I've read more about the bible than you ever will. D. I Own more translations of the Bible than there are

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:01 AM Saturday 9/9/2006, William T Goodall wrote: On 9 Sep 2006, at 10:21AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 03:48 AM Friday 9/8/2006, Andrew Crystall wrote: You're heir to the entire technophile snob legacy, the entire It looks good so it must be superior class who are either gamers who

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:06 AM Saturday 9/9/2006, William T Goodall wrote: On 9 Sep 2006, at 9:02AM, Matt Grimaldi wrote: Corrupt people abuse power and authority no matter where they get it. You can find corrupt individuals in any type of organization: police, corporations, sports, prisons, even Mac users.

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 9 Sep 2006 at 4:21, William T Goodall wrote: http://tinyurl.com/r22k8 By Nick Britten (Filed: 09/09/2006) A church minister who befriended elderly parishioners before forging documents to inherit their property and possessions was given 240 hours community service yesterday.

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 9 Sep 2006 at 11:06, William T Goodall wrote: On 9 Sep 2006, at 9:02AM, Matt Grimaldi wrote: Corrupt people abuse power and authority no matter where they get it. You can find corrupt individuals in any type of organization: police, corporations, sports, prisons, even Mac

Re: Morality

2006-09-09 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 9 Sep 2006 at 2:36, William T Goodall wrote: For me unknowable/meaningless = knowable/false. So you reject quantum theory entirely? Interesting. AndrewC ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Soldiers Die, CEOs Prosper

2006-09-09 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 8 Sep 2006 at 7:37, Nick Arnett wrote: researchers will inevitably say that the body count has crossed 100,000. No, not really - it's disputed. All of this madness to stop a madman, Saddam Hussein. Who was killing arround 175 of his subjects a day a rate which excluding the war

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread PAT MATHEWS
trusted minister fleeces flock is of the same genus as trusted teacher elopes with student, Trusted bookkeeper embezzles non-profit's funds, trusted doctor abuses patient, or trusted politician... OK, guys, stop laughing. But you know what I mean. Wherever someone is in a position of trust

Re: Keep Propaganda Off The Airwaves

2006-09-09 Thread Dave Land
On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:43 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 02:55 PM Friday 9/8/2006, Dave Land wrote: If there was a political point to be made by teaching kids that 2+2=3, it would be no different to me: lies are lies, and teaching kids lies as history is the beginning of the end. IOW, if I

Scholastic Does the Right Thing

2006-09-09 Thread Dave Land
Folks, In an impressive display of agility, educational publisher Scholastic has cancelled their planned distribution of study guides to accompany the Path to 9/11 miniseries and replaced them with a Media Literacy Discussion Guide that focuses on helping high-schoolers learn how to think about

Re: Keep Propaganda Off The Airwaves

2006-09-09 Thread Dave Land
On Sep 8, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: On 9/8/06, jdiebremse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And of course, I'd be curious how many letters you wrote to movie theatres to get them to keep Farenheit 911* off the screens Moore's movie played in private theaters. ABC is using the public

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread Dave Land
On Sep 9, 2006, at 3:01 AM, William T Goodall wrote: Yes, they can be very annoying. A new firewire disk enclosure I recently bought has one for disk access (the power light is a less annoying green) and it's way too bright. I have a KGear USB2/FW enclosure that has *four* bright blue LEDs

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread Dave Land
On Sep 9, 2006, at 5:28 AM, PAT MATHEWS wrote: trusted minister fleeces flock is of the same genus as trusted teacher elopes with student, Trusted bookkeeper embezzles non- profit's funds, trusted doctor abuses patient, or trusted politician... OK, guys, stop laughing. But you know what I

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread maru dubshinki
On 9/6/06, Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JohnR said: What we really need is an OS with all of the advantages of XP and Ubuntu and none of the disadvantages of either. Then maybe we would have a decent operating system. That's called OS X. Oh, except for the fact that OS X is much

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-09 Thread Jim Sharkey
Matt Grimaldi wrote: As a list, we have not dropped our guidelines The Fool has definitely over-reacted. On the other hand, William *has* been trolling pretty heavily, and the strategy known as hoping it will stop on its own is not faring very well at this point. Just to clear this up, the

I Recommend...........

2006-09-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Once upon a time, there lived a nameless monster. The monster was dying to have a name so badly. So the monster decided to set out on a journey to find itself a name. But the world was such a large place. So the monster split into two and went on to two separate journeys. One went to the East and

Re: I Recommend...........

2006-09-09 Thread maru dubshinki
On 9/9/06, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One day the boy met the monster that went west I have a name said the boy. It's a wonderful name. And then the monster that went west said... I don't need a name. I'm happy even if I don't have a name. Because we're monsters without

Re: I Recommend...........

2006-09-09 Thread Jim Sharkey
maru dubshinki wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: There was no one left to call him by his name. Johan. It is a wonderful name. I *knew* another Brin-eller would discover Monster one day! Now we can have semi-involved discussions of whether Monster would be better as a live action series, why