sell for much more that its value!
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is better than a (pure)
Democracy.
A Good Dictator is a Dead Dictator Maru
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this water.
Think about a way to avoid this war
[translated by Alberto Monteiro from what
Natalia learned in her school today]
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JDG wrote:
(...) When China is deciding whether or not to invade
Taiwan, (...)
And they missed a great opportunity to invade Taiwan
at the same date and hour that the USA started
invading Iraq. If they didn't, maybe they will never
do it.
Alberto Monteiro
Roberto Benini
as Magnifico?
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Four years ago, the magazine I write for featured a synopsis of a book by
an author who predicted the end of days. I don't recall the author's name
or the book's title, mind you, but clearly remember Doomsday's date:
December 21, 2012.
X-Files, The Truth - Part 1 O:-)
[except that IIRC the
Andrew Crystall wrote:
Here in the UK it's handled as a medical matter, and two doctors
signatures are required, etc.
Is there any accountability of this? For example, if I am looking
for a doctor, can I check how many abortions s/he has signed?
Transparent Society Maru
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think there are too much
iraqis surrendering relative to the number of iraqis that
fight and die?
50 dead in Basra, and 8000 surrender - this doesn't sound
right. Even the soldiers of the drug traffic show more
bravery
Sic Semper Tyrannis Maru
Alberto
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
by Thom Hartmann
If Bush is Hitler and Blair is Mussolini, then I guess
Saddam is De Gaulle, isn't he?
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_Risa_ ?
Alberto Monteiro I guess I am watching too much TV
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Dan Minette wrote:
What books on incest, besides Heinlein's, have you read?
Gor?
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the paradox of someone who is going to the marriage of his
(half-)brother to his (half-)sister.
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Ok, I created the term (1/4)-sibling :-)
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of someone who is
going to take care of your health in advance, before you
become emotionally bound to the physician.
This works both ways: a pro-abortion person should never consult
with an anti-abortion doctor, or an anti-euthanasia person should
never consult with a pro-euthanasia doctor.
Alberto
Julia Thompson wrote:
You know what would really be cool? It would be cool
if there were some sort of substance that totally
dissolved plant material, but left animal
flesh totally untouched.
The Naked Bomb!!!
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his parents were 1st cousins
once removed. AFAIK, this is the closest thing to
incest in my [or my wife's] ancestry.
This would make me my own 5th cousin once removed,
so I beat you by 1/2 generation :-P
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much that it is now doing
orbit estimations
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Andrew Crystall wrote:
There's a HUGE database of Jewish genealogy in Tel Aviv.
Any free and simple way to access them? I am curious
about some Monteiro that was mentioned by a friend,
who was a jew forced into Christianity back in the
old days of Portuguese inquisition
Alberto
The Fool wrote:
I owed him one for his last (that I read anyway) ad hominem attack on me.
No, you didn't. Since you have no name, there can't be an
ad hominem attack against you :-P
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Jon Gabriel wrote:
Out of curiosity, I looked it up.
https://www.bh.org.il/General/queryform.asp?gen
Simple, yes. Free, no.
:-)
I will refrain from making a joke with jews and money -
after all, I am probably 25% to 50% jew myself :-)
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Julia Thompson asked:
The Naked Bomb!!!
What was that from?
The Agent 87 m*vie.
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Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
I think it's written
Si vis pacem para bellum
This is obvious. But then Quidquid latine dictum sit,
altum viditur
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, they wouldn't be deterred by the
presence of a human shield volunteer. If the blowing
up was accidental, then the death of a human shield
volunteer would be nothing compared to the death
or children or hospitalized people.
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---
Doctor, please restrain your leaps of illogic (Spock
has degenerated so much that it is now doing
orbit estimations
And that's a bad thing because...?
;-)
Once you start, you can't stop.
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Andrew Crystall wrote:
The conduct of the Chechyen war by Russia in general
has been frankly disgusting, has cost many Russian
lives and has managed by it's incomplete effectiveness
to become a continuing problem.
What should they do? Blast Chechynea back to the Stone
Age?
Alberto
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Jon Gabriel wrote:
There was a riot in Spain during a protest yesterday.
I love these riots to protest against violence :-)
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or even millions of years
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PS: yes, I will use them in timelines
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! They voted 100% for Saddam!
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the exact date of the awakening of the Elves in Middle-earth, determine
the exact hours of the transitions in The Number of the Beast, and
spend a lot of time doing funny things while the real world explodes
around me
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have it for thousands or even millions of years
Planning a trip?
Yes. Or, rather, analysing some trips
Can I go?
Only if you have good information to share :-P
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, with
no observable effects :-)
I will refine the time of the Awakening as long as I have planetary
ephemeris with known errors for 6000 - 4000 BC.
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If so, are you familiar with the Hip/Tyc catalog
and its data format, or do you need more information?
No; but I guess I can find it quickly with a google
search. It's free, isn't it? Probably some Megabytes of data
I've been using the Gliese3 catalog for some time
Alberto Monteiro
?
mybp is frequently used by geologists as an abbreviation for million
years before present.
Bloody non-standard bastards. What is the abbreviation of year?
yr? _Certainly_ m stands for 1/1000, not 10^6
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that they should
be G-type stars that lie about 2 parsecs apart. I ended up with too many
pairs :-(
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developments, which simply can't be
pure luck.
Did these guys ever heard of Occam's Razor? If we have 500 thousand
people betting in the stock market, and most of them losing, it's expected
that one of them will win all of it
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Is it true, Jeroen?
The Mayor of Amsterdam is _always_ elected with
100% of the votes of those that elect him, namely,
one vote from the Queen?
Maybe it's time to an international coalition to
liberate the dutch people from their Saddam!
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race who is uncapable
of even dreaming of becoming non-slave.
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will be
tortured to death and their bodies shown in
tv.iq, in order to raise fear in the enemy.
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will be too old to understand how
to operate their chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
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... and now even more that it has three values:
1 USA inch = 2.something cm
1 TV inch = 2.0 cm
1 penis enlargement spam inch = 0.5 cm
Curse them!
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JDG wrote:
Those nations closest to doing this are the USA, UK,
Australia, and Poland that are doing the most to
establish Western Civilization for the first
time in the Arab World.
For Poland, this is not the first time O:-)
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to real units.
We came up with something like 1 foot = 1/3 meter and 1 pount = 1/2 kg
Inches weren't used for anything, so we ignored them
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MARINES facing battle are being asked to pray for
President Bush (...)
serious
Bah. Really religious people should be praying for
_Saddam_ too.
/serious
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it? :-)
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42 years of siege warfare], and the cost
of the war would decrease substantially
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*not* to be of Arab [and Islamic] origins.
In the long term, an iraqian victory over the USA
coalition would be much more disastrous to France.
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the
stranger.
They hate the rival tribe intensely, but they will team
up against the USA
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that they were
launched by Saddam? :-)
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of
the Ministers of the current gov.br are ex-terrorists
too.
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about.
And probably you wouldn't know if they did :-P
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.
Touche'. Time to wear my dumb hat again - twice this
week :-(
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Jeffrey Miller wrote:
their kid will be flippin' burgers all summer to cover
the cost, (...)
Yikes. Remind me never to eat a burger in Seattle. A
sociopath like this boy might find pleasure in poisoning
the food he cooks :-/
Alberto Monteiro
without
using fuel [Delta-V] is using Mercury's gravity to
deflect that ship's orbit one way or the other.
I put some Javascript calculations that can be
reached from...
http://www.geocities.com/albmont/hard-sf.htm
/ex-cathedra/serious
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to visit. Even more than
Pluto. The best way to go from Earth to Mercury is going
to Jupiter and then coming back.
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of Jupiter, but I am not sure about Mercury. Anyway,
it would be such a long trip that maybe wasting fuel is a better
technical option
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Ronn, look at what Ray wrote. Maybe we should
time our replies from the questions that the Orbital
Mind Laser Satellites implant on them after we get
confirmation that they posted them. What do you
think?
Worse still is getting answers before you even get a chance to ask the
question. . . .
Jeroen wrote:
Thank you for once again reminding us why we should not take you seriously.
I resent this. *** I *** am the one who should not be taken seriously
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John Horn wrote:
I say get rid of all the little buggers. What good are mosquitoes anyway?
Takes care of West Nile at the same time too!
Mosquitoes are good for pest control. They transmit many diseases
that keep under check a very dangerous and nocive species
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My theory. Time travellers trying to eliminate a mighty humanity
from the future. But you're all too tough.
Hmmm... I sniff something here. Is your next book about time-travel?
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their belief in a civilized way, and those that can't.
Oh, add a third bit: those that can recognize and prevent self from
discussing in an uncivilized way, and those that can't.
Add to that another bit for those that can count, and those that can't,
and you have 42 types of people
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lied in these boxes. You have a strong revulsion
in killing your characters, and as soon as Hari became one of them,
he was fated to live forever :-)
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Erik Reuter asked:
Alberto! Where you been? :-)
Rio de Janeiro
Alberto Monteiro, the neo-humour-challenged
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that whenever you travel?
Brazilians are as diverse as europeans, except that
we share a common language. I guess this behaviour is
limited to sports competitions.
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... though some might disagree.
Java is also a very offensive name. Any association
of coffee with things outside Brazil deserve any
act of vandalism and hooliganism
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Julia Thompson wrote:
Most of what I can get easily is Columbian. What's the difference
between that and Brazilian coffee, Alberto?
br coffee has no trace of cocaine O:-)
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Erik Reuter wrote:
28 days after the release of the virus, London is a virtual ghost-town
by day.
Sounds like _Lifeforce_ without Mathilda May. Bah
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propulsion force will turn
it into a very small propulsion force.
Fission, fusion, antimatter or even total mss annhihilation [that depends
on the instability of the proton - which AFAIK is still is doubt] are
the only ways to go to the stars
Alberto Monteiro
-assist maneuvers?
The latter is possible, it has been done, but it also requires
some Delta-V to get there, plus some Delta-V there.
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I read a resume of _The Chronicles of Riddick_ [not sure if this
is the English title], featuring Vin Diesel in the continuation of
_Eclipse something_.
It sounds like a Jijo ripoff: the guy crashes in a multicultural planet
that is at the same time invaded by a fanatic race.
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]. They have *no* legal protection for simple things,
like extending insurance to the other. Why they can't be married?
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world
Not it was not. There's no stable orbit between two stars.
OTOH, it looked like Lovecraft visiting Nightfall
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conception therefore killing those predictive genes.
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this designation, preferring being called Vampire Hunter :-)
[the world in _The Chronicle_ is so similar to the Jossverse -
with vampires, demons, ghosts, spellcasters, aliens, etc - that I
can imagine that a crossover would be appropriate]
Alberto Monteiro I guess I am watching too much TV
PS
a Slayer? O:-)
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Bryon Daly asked:
So I'm curious, why do you wish
to deprive your daughter of all things Barbie?
Barbie is a white-supremacist doll :-)
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problems. Copy from one
is plagiarism, copy from many is research :-)
They probably can claim that they were taking ideas
from many books so they can escape being accused of
stealing from only one.
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times that and
br currency is 1/3 its value, so no more Barbies.
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giving bank account passwords, of course]
and he had to reconstruct my birthdate based on it.
He bailed out evil grin
WFC Maru
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ground to orbit is
harder than going from orbit to escape speed
[1st order approximation: two times harder]
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Were there scissors in Roma? I saw Gabrielle's hair
being cut in Xena's Episode _When Fates Collide_
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,
and not of Judeo-Christianism.
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Computer Voting Is Open to Easy Fraud, Experts Say By JOHN SCHWARTZ
No, it isn't. See the recent brazilian elections. Unfortunately,
it's not idiot-proof, and we keep electing jerks :-/
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It shows the position of the Sun relative to the near
stars and then zooms out to the whole observable
Universe:
http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/
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as the luddites. No, let me
be fair: this probably dates back from the Greeks,
when some brilliant engineers were designing machines
and the paleoluddites complained that it would cause
a massive unemployment of slaves
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would still crash twice a day if they were using a real
O.S. instead of Gates's videogame.
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at the time of the
American Revolution, including a number of
scoundrels. :)
That can't be prevented, can it? Some of mine were
slave owners. AFAIK, no one was a slave trader, which
is some degrees lower in the morality scale.
Alberto Monteiro
as the luddites. No, let me
be fair: this probably dates back from the Greeks,
when some brilliant engineers were designing machines
and paleoluddites complained that it cause a
massive unemployment of slaves
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as the luddites.
No, let me be fair: this complain probably went back to the
Greeks, when some of their brilliant engineers started
building machines, and paleoluddites complained that it
would cause massive unemployment of slaves
Alberto Monteiro
I've seen some maps of the Milky Way, and the mapmakers
usually don't bother to orient it. When we see it from
the Galactic North Pole, does it look like something
that is rotating clockwise or counterclockwise?
[I guess the spiral arms would rotate faster
closer to the center]
Alberto
of the author and do not represent the
official position of the University of Montevallo.
Chicken!!! Can't you put an ex-cathedra before and
another /ex-cathedra after to show that you are infallible? :-)
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Ronn Blankenship wrote:
The main problem with keeping Hubble in service until
after the Webb telescope is in place is that doing so
would cost about $150 million each year.
???
Where does this number come from?
I would argue for something 100 times less expensive.
Alberto
for something 100 times less expensive.
Perhaps you should put in a bid to NASA to run it, then . . .
Who me? A dangerous alien? I might use it to spy the
USA and sell the information to North Korea!
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Deborah Harrell wrote:
(...) found that those women who took
vitamin C supplements had lower risk of heart disease.
So Linus Pauling was right, after all. Pity that's
too late for his third [or fourth?] Nobel
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Via Apia, like the
Via Lactea :-) [and Galaxia comes from the Greek
word for Milk, too]
Alberto Monteiro if I am Latin American then I speak Latin
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learned from Cosmos.
In the Tupi-Guarani mythology it's called Caminho da Anta,
which means Pathway of a big-cousin-of-the-rat-with-the-
size-of-a-cow. Sorry for not getting the name in Tupi
but in Portuguese O:-)
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if people
are polite there.
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propaganda that shows the bloody accidents
has some merit.
But these examples are not examples of Marketing, because
they are based on true facts. It's unethical to use
Truth in Marketing.
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Nick Arnett wrote:
The list addresses -- brin-l and mailman's internal list --
are getting hit hard. There were already about 100
virus-generated messages awaiting
moderation when I got up this morning.
And you can't even blame some banned ex-listmember... O:-)
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