Re: Israel to collapse in 25 years?

2009-01-03 Thread dsummersmi...@comcast.net
Original Message: - From: Charlie Bell char...@culturelist.org Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:59:20 +1100 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Israel to collapse in 25 years? On 04/01/2009, at 10:54 AM, Dan M wrote: > Plus, demographics favor the Palestinians in the long run. Furthe

Re: Israel to collapse in 25 years?

2009-01-03 Thread Charlie Bell
On 04/01/2009, at 10:54 AM, Dan M wrote: > Plus, demographics favor the Palestinians in the long run. Further, > since > Arabs control oil, there is a great desire to please Arabs by many > world > powers (the UN tacit approval of the genocide in the Sudan is a good > example > of this), N

Re: Israel to collapse in 25 years?

2009-01-03 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:54 PM Saturday 1/3/2009, Dan M wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On > > Behalf Of Doug Pensinger > > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 5:17 PM > > To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion > > Subject: Re: Scout

Re: Israel to collapse in 25 years?

2009-01-03 Thread Doug Pensinger
Dan M wrote: > > > So, can anyone argue me out of this pessimistic viewpoint? I honestly hope > so, even though I'll argue hard for this pointit's one argument I'd > love > to lose. Well, note that there has never been the kind of tacit support for Israel from moderate Arab states such as J

Israel to collapse in 25 years?

2009-01-03 Thread Dan M
> -Original Message- > From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On > Behalf Of Doug Pensinger > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 5:17 PM > To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion > Subject: Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years? > > Alberto >

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

2009-01-03 Thread Doug Pensinger
Alberto > > > > > Clearly, the only solution is for the US to mount a massive attack on > > all the countries listed in the article at once. > > > It's surprising that not a single piece of the future-former-USA went > to Israel. Those conspiracy theorists are getting unimaginative. > Sheesh, don

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

2009-01-03 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
David Land wrote: > > Right. As everyone knows, Mexico is a great power that is poised to > take over the entire Southern tier of the United States. And those > damned Canadians have been quietly biding their time since the > American revolution, lying in wait for just the right moment to > arrive.

Re: Who's on Twitter?

2009-01-03 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:20 PM Saturday 1/3/2009, David Land wrote: >In my experience, the least interesting tweeple I suppose calling them "twits" is frowned upon . . . >are the ones who use >twitter as a kind of public instant message with their friends. Every >message is a reply to someone else, and they ofte

Re: Who's on Twitter?

2009-01-03 Thread Julia Thompson
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, David Land wrote: > Julia, > >> OK, that one looks somewhat more interesting than some of the Tweets I see >> dumped to LiveJournal. > > Thank you (if you're referring to my twitter feed). I try to remember > that the people who are following me (there are a little under a >

Scouted: Paul Saffo on non-human intelligence

2009-01-03 Thread Nick Arnett
Paul Saffo: "DISCOVERY (OR CREATION) OF NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE CURES HUMANKIND'S EXISTENTIAL LONELINESS" The last two sentences are great: " A world shared with super-intelligent robots is a hard thing to imagine. If we are lucky, our new mind children will treat us as pets. If we are very unluck

Re: Who's on Twitter?

2009-01-03 Thread David Land
Julia, > OK, that one looks somewhat more interesting than some of the Tweets I see > dumped to LiveJournal. Thank you (if you're referring to my twitter feed). I try to remember that the people who are following me (there are a little under a hundred, with some falling off and new ones replacing

Re: Who's on Twitter?

2009-01-03 Thread Julia Thompson
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, David Land wrote: > I'm no twitter as http://twitter.com/dland Nick has been kind enough > to mention me several times in his musings on Twitter. OK, that one looks somewhat more interesting than some of the Tweets I see dumped to LiveJournal. Then again, the less interesti

Re: Who's on Twitter?

2009-01-03 Thread David Land
I'm no twitter as http://twitter.com/dland Nick has been kind enough to mention me several times in his musings on Twitter. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

2009-01-03 Thread David Land
Right. As everyone knows, Mexico is a great power that is poised to take over the entire Southern tier of the United States. And those damned Canadians have been quietly biding their time since the American revolution, lying in wait for just the right moment to arrive. And the European Union is so

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

2009-01-03 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Dan M. wrote: > >> As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S. >> In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America >> 'Disintegrates' in 2010 > > I read this a few weeks ago and got a good chuckle out of it. It shows > than Americans aren't the only ones wh