The Fool wrote:
No, they can't. Why those guys can't read what they
wrote? There ain't no signal travelling FTL.
No individual particle is traveling above c. But the pulse is.
Pulse-Modulation.
Sure. Then send some information at 4c using this
Pulse-Modulation :-P
Alberto Monteiro
speaker, I could be lazy with the grammatical
rules. Having been born in a country whose mother tongue is not
English, I was taught to stick to the letter of the law. O:-)
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The Fool wrote:
Don Marti is the editor of LinuxJournal and the mastermind behind the
Burnallgifs campaign.
Can he use gif this way without paying the tribute to whichever owns gif?
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Robert Seeberger wrote:
Okay, where are the pictures?
They are Libertarians.You have to *buy* the calender.
OTOH, if someone scans the pictures and put them in a Website,
they will forget the slaughter the lawyers motto and find one to
sue the pirate
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a verb, judiar, that is also _very_
derogatory against Jews. It means to make someone suffer,
with a touch of humiliation in it. Like: Os cristaos judiaram dos
judeus por 2000 anos = The Christians made the Jews suffer
for 2000 years...
Alberto Monteiro
Jeroen wrote:
Aha, so the US is not the only country where you can
give your child pretty much any name you like. Poor kids.
Yes, here in Brazil we can also give any name. I think
all democratic countries in the world allow that :-P
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in.
It ain't democratic if it has kings and queens :-P
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Julia Thompson wrote:
Of the top 10 (and I assume you're looking at the list at
http://www.parentstv.org ), there are 2 reality shows, Big Brother 2
and Temptation Island 2.
We have those aberrations here too, local versions, with
brazilian actors :-/
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a disaster in spin]
BTW, Mars has the same problem.
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Julia Thompson wrote:
Transparency? As in, people peeping in through the front window to see
what I'm watching on TV in the livingroom? :)
I bet you are *not* seeing anything worse than what is exactly
now in my TV: Hercules, played by Lou Ferrigno (!!!)
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/timeline.htm
[if the idiots of genocidies allow the visit today]
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momentum, for example, by taking
into account matter that is ejected from the stars.
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There is a serious flaw in (...) Windows (...)
Yawn
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. This
acronymous is obvious for any brazilian. And no, I can't explain
it in this sensible and polite community evil grin
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over the world.
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, if those shows were staged by, say, blind black
bald men, then we should ask the community of blind
black bald men if they like to watch those shows,
and if the show makes them pull their hair in anger. Ooops...
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Sonja wrote:
Does population wide vacination make virusses that
have been around for ages more virulent?
No, probably 6 thousand million natural labs make
virusses more virulent.
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Doug wrote:
That being said, I would have loved to see them make the Riders
of Rohan non-white.
It would be wrong and misleading. OTOH, making _Aragorn_ non-white
would make more sense. The more Noldor blood you have, the
blacker you are. Ref: _The Lost Road_
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Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
Actually Peope is a she, a female dolphin from the Streaker crew.
Peepoe
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was
quite active in the Tolkien Mailing List
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William Taylor wrote:
Maybe I will be banned... Ok, let's go. He was
quite active in the Tolkien Mailing List
Tolkien in the Brin list.
Is there anything wrong with this?
No - the first time I read about Brin was in the
Tolkien list :-)
Alberto Monteiro
The Fool asked:
What's ORMUS?
Ask another question like this and you will face unending ban
from the list :-/
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Julia Thompson wrote:
I think that is a badder thing to do than (...)
Speaking of which, you missed one such exception. Shouldn't it be
worse, not badder? :)
No, it should be ungooder
newspeak maru
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be *_gooder_ and *_goodest_].
*_plus_ is the marker of intensity.
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, and start
sending messages as if it were a real person?
Or should we require a phone number and a physical
address so that someone can get there and check if
every listmember is real? [which would be interesting,
if some list member claimed he was living in Iraq or
Antartica]
Alberto Monteiro
[as exactly as natural languages allow]
the opposite.
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Erik Reuter wrote:
Are you saying that dropping leaflets saying that if they fire on US
planes, they will be fired upon, is arrongant?
No
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Erik Reuter wrote:
So is your point that we shouldn't spend resources
on Iraq; rather we should attack Saudi Arabia?
Yes - instead of dropping threatening leaflets that will
make iraqis laugh, you should be dropping porn leaflets
over Saudi Arabia.
Alberto Monteiro
:-)
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Ritu Ko wrote:
Nope. But I am not really that astute. Most Indians can
take a look at that name and tell you about the caste
of Gautam's father [and hence, Gautam's].
There are studies here in Brazil showing some correlation
between surnames and skin colour. For example, surnames
Ritu Ko wrote:
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro [:-)]
And what is that supposed to tell me about you? :)
That I should be jew - all of these surnames come
from professions. But there is a lot of mixing in
Brazil.
Alberto Monteiro
;
and the optional honorific surname would point that
this name has been used instead of the Y-surname
for some time [example: if there was adoption]
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their ancestry! Discrimination is something that an
efficient Evil Overloard can't afford to ban!
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that returned,
and Yoda is a Buyur. Of course, SW happens one
or two Eras after the Wolflings rip-off Milky-Way from
the other Galaxies and conquer it, subdueing the allied
races and enslaving the enemies.
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] would
still be poking around.
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Julia Thompson wrote:
1) Ask BN to order it for you, if you like.
I think they'll do that sort of thing.
I don't recomment BN. They will keep spamming you
with horrible html messages :-/
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and the Thennanin Wreck site were done by
swimming dolphins, so we have travel times of the order of 20
Earth Hours [or 1/2 Kithrup Day]
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Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Anyway, regarding the name thing, I was given three
Christian names in addition to my ridiculously long
surname.
Lalith is Christian? And Vipulananthan [ah! the blessings
of cut-and-paste!] sounds like Thailandese :-)
Alberto Monteiro
can get confused. My wife's mother's
surname, _Malheiros_, is always misunderstood.
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.
This is what happens when you stick to feet and pounds
instead of using metric :-P
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never imagine how famous
this weird region would become 20 years later :-)]
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their orbits :-/
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anything, but
that I will not hang up the phone either. I think after a loss of
5 minutes - a time where he/she usually annoys 60 people - those
phone spammers blacklist my phone number forever evil grin
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is
microscopic.
Ex-Cathedra Maru
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up a specific race? :-)
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Yesterday, br humour program CassetaPlaneta identified
the maniac who is killing people in Washington. They
said the police knows who he is, but can't do anything,
because he lives in the White House...
Alberto Monteiro
PS: it's a pity nobody here understands Portuguese.
This program
need some population data for these planets.
H... The problem is, we don't have them. Maybe
we can estimate, but how accurate do you want this
estimation? An error of 1 magnitude is acceptable? :-)
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for landed Jophur - that should
have come at the same time as Kaa, BTW.
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Creationisms
were taught as equal nons^H^H^H^H mythologies. BTW, have you
heard about the Creation of the World according to the Nago [an
African tribe] or Tupi [a br native group] legends? :-)
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Two whales? A host of Pring? Where did you get these?
BTW: I have *no* idea about the relative date of _Temptation_
and the end of _Heaven's Reach_. I think _Temptation_'s end
precedes the breaking of Galaxy 4, otherwise all Buyur tech
would fail before the end of the book.
Alberto Monteiro
.
This is a general rule. Private messages, no matter how offensive ou
ridiculous, should be kept private.
Then what is your opinion about people who, like JDG, make claims but
refuse to answer questions, and refuse to back their claims when asked to
do so?
It's his right
Alberto Monteiro
that was the militarization of the
Sudetos (sp?), the border of Germany and France.
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, it will be too late
to regonize it as such. The best we will be able
to do will be to look back to the past and try to
figure out when it formed - if such analysis will
be permitted :-/
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ignorance
of the Latin word for Bush [it is Arbustus? :-)]
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Russell Chapman wrote:
On a completely different track, why is Pravda
published (electronically at least) in English,
Russian and Portugese?
No offence, Alberto, but isn't Portugese a fair
way down the list in terms of international
languages?
Not if you consider European
and I am watching him right now, in tv.br. CNN will
probably show him soon. The mother is a 14-year-old
girl, and the father is 16 years old.
www.redetv.com.br
Mutants Rule Maru
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How Industry Intends To Kill The 'Net As We Know It
How interesting. I've just commented this on another list.
All useful and informative sites are dying, being replaced
by payed or restricted services. Even the IMDB is devolving
into a IMDBPro :-/
Death to Capitalism!
Alberto Monteiro
Jon Gabriel wrote:
But the Muslims didn't start it recently in Bosnia or Sarajevo, did they?
Ask any serbian, and he will answer with an emphatic _Yes_.
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evidence that the
iraqis and saudis would be better if you replace the current set
of kings and dictators by the MBAed corporate rulers?
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in the Brazilian Presidential Election. You will see that about 2/3
of the _voters_ reject this model.
Why would the iraqis and saudis think differently?
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Doug wrote:
Brazil hasn't had a lefty in power for nearly forty years, according to
the article below.
??? The current president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, _is_ a lefty.
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should act in an assertive
way, showing that we abhor terrorism and those that support it.
So, all women should be naked, and the men should drink
alchoholic beverages during Halloween.
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Halloween,
a Satanist holyday.
This is the way we celebrate Carnival!
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- this saves them about 4% of the
_total_ salary they paid for the employee [br law].
Alberto Monteiro
[*] movie reference :-)
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Applet to simulate the vote at...
http://www.riberguia.com.br/votebrasil/urna.asp
... you must click in the Clique aqui text.
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Hi, Jeroen!
Hiss - siss - crackle $%%^^*(^^%#%^$*#!$
TRANSMISSION TERMINATED
Oops. Sonja reads your messages? Yikes. I'd rather not
send you my personal collection of thousands of pictures
of beautiful naked brazilian guys that you requested me.
[let's hope I hit the private key...]
Alberto
apparent bisexuality?
:-)
serious
My wife used to be jealous of my computer. But now
she is jealous of the TV series I watch...
/serious
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to generate big cost savings. This
year's first-round vote required
about 2.5 million days of labor, they estimated, compared with up to 45 million days
in the past.
See below an example of how to vote
http://www.geocities.com/albmont/urna_eletronica_iraque.htm
Alberto Monteiro
/timeline.htm
I hope the link isn't dead
Alberto Monteiro
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] - it worked on both browsers.
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to the C.J.Cherryh's timeline.
Unfortunately, it's a dead link. Yikes. I guess _all_
links expire after 3 or 4 years :-/
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(farmers)
yet. Anyway, desperate times call for desperate
measures...
*Victorians urged to shower together*
How likely is this to lead to water saving
Showering together usually makes the
showering time four to ten times longer O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
is simple? :-)
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:-/
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My daughter is uttering sounds in a language that
must be the mother-tongue of the Spawn of Cthlulhu:
Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere
sebiunouba majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
Does anyone know what this means? Is is somehow
connected to the Orbital Mind Laser Satellites?
Alberto
of the
Above happens to get the largest number of the votes cast?
I *think* that nothing happens.
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I was watching a TV propaganda of Nike, when Natalia
commented: Did you know that Nike uses child slave
labour?
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possible choices and anything looks good compared to it
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this Gorilla, My Dreams as
The Hitchhiker Guide to the Five Galaxies O:-)
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of direct votes given to the President, then the title
does not belong to India, but to Brazil :-P
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be one-working-class-one-vote. There would be
worldwide elections to nominate the World Representative
of the Bus Drivers, the Telephone Cleaners, and the
Elevator Pilots.
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brazilian
girl would have: panties (1), miniskirt (2), microblouse
(3), bellybutton piercing (4), necklace (5), wristlaces (6)
and (7), anklelaces (8) and (9), ... Hmmm... Maybe it's
a fair criterium
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is closing, because inflation is building up
pretty fast. For example, the Mac Donalds Number 1 costs R$ 6.50,
some barbecues where you pay a fixed price and eat until you
die are costing about R$ 20.00, etc
BTW, I had never seen as many tourists as I saw today...
Alberto Monteiro
Murphy Field to the P-36, didn't you?
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aren't worried that
they will be skewed, then you shouldn't. Unless you
plan to invalidate the vote, of course :-)
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David Hobby wrote:
A simple way? I don't count buying a real
copy of Adobe Acrobat simple.
.pdf is evil. Adobe is evil. They hunt and kill
programmers. Compared to Adobe, even Microsoft looks
like a philantropic entity.
Alberto Monteiro
Jeroen wrote:
Maybe your e-mail address is new here, but I do not believe *you* are new
here. A Google search on your e-mail address returned the link:
(...)
Hello, mr. Constantino. :-)
Jeroen, you are turning paranoid...
Are you going to check _every_ new listmember?
Alberto Monteiro
FDA OKs Fast, Easy HIV Test
So what? There's no correlation between HIV and AIDS!
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loader, called LILO, has been able (...)
(blah blah blah)
You didn't answer the question :-)
The How-to is:
(1) Install Windoze
(2) Install Linux
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of allegations of fraud.
This backup system *would* generate too much noise,
for example, people might not put the paper vote,
or might write something on it, etc.
Since the electronic system is very safe, the best
solution is, in case of failure or fraud, call
the voters to vote again.
Alberto
belongs to Ronaldus Magnus. Ronald
Reaganin 1984.
But, AFAIK, he only got about 400 or 500 votes O:-)
[BTW, I think Putin also got a huge number of votes]
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guy defeated the bad guy by chopping
off his hand.
Watching Andromeda but still not knowing what the hell is this Maru
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Robert Zimmerman wrote:
But if I pray for my nephew to be the one, I am in
effect praying that the other 99 are not.
No, you are not. You would be praying to change
the survival rate from 1% to 1.001%
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not be
at all popular, but Powell being ex-military would
actually help him.
Hmmm... I imagined that this Vietnam-scared generation
wouldn't have this admiration for the militaries that
the previous generations had.
Alberto Monteiro
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published its plan for Colombia, the discussion was based on this is how
Vietnam started: arming South Vietnam to fight the Commies, then
invading neighbouring states, and then a full-scale war with the invasion
of USA troops and USA chemical weapons
Alberto Monteiro
Jon Gabriel quoted:
You're not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil.
You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil.
You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie,
not evil enough.
~ Dr. Evil ~
My favourite Villain's Quote is:
Who told you to think? I don't give
_couldn't_ have unmanned drones.
I imagine that the technology to put a robot to
pilot an aircraft might be quite simple. Hitler had
unmanned drones [the V-1]. [[no, I am not bringing
Hitler into the discussion as an example of Evil, but
as an example of ancient technology...]]
Alberto Monteiro
Jon Gabriel wrote:
RTFA.
Uncalled for. Please be civil.
Jon Remember IAAMOAC Gabriel
Maybe we could reach a compromise? Something like
IAAFMOAFC?
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about it when they release a dumbed version with cute alien familiar
and spellcasters
(3) write stories, keep the in locked boxes, so that His sons can
publish them 100 years after His death
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