ld [about 50 years old] that it was extended to _any_ unexpected
result [like, for example, Saddam Hussein invoking a general
election and losing]
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h any Rio Carnival Parade [before 1995]
you will see lots of tribal and native girls whose breasts
are not falling!
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Erik Reuter wrote:
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>Thank goodness Hitler didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
>
But he had. He just didn't use them. His priority was killing
his own people
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d chemical weapons.
Hitler even had ways of using them against London or Moscow.
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then the breast is too big
to sustain itself.
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JDG wrote:
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>So far, we have deployed troops to Afghanistan, the Phillippines, Bosnia,
>and the Persian Gulf.
>
And Colombia!
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fall?
>
Oops. Of course. I guess I am watching too much
made-in-USA TV series, this might impair my logic
wrt breasts...
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s had
>stopped the bullet entering her body further.
>
Which hospital? Sounds like an urban legend
>A plastic surgeon was called in to fix the damage and took the
>opportunity to increase the size of Mrs Soares' breasts with more
>silicone.
>
Sounds unlikely. Urban legend,
k like a man.
Glory Season Maru
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is just an urban legend
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of living in a commie country!
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Kevin Tarr wrote:
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>> Ah, the joys of living in a commie country!
>
> When did you move? China or Cuba comrade?
>
I didn't move to Communism, Companheiro, but
Communism moved to me
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zy
assassins? Nukes for all! Heck, why limit the possession of Nukes
to countries? Would the USA want to dismember Micro$oft if
M$ were a Nuclear Power?
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Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> Wait, wait. It's a virus. (blah blah blah - 5 lines deleted)
>
In other words, Format & Reinstall.
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Richard Baker wrote:
>
>> In other words, Format & Reinstall.
>
> A plan whose only flaw is that Packard Bell neglected to
> provide her with a CD,
>
Maybe this is a great opportunity to install a decent OS
in her compu
The Fool wrote:
>
>Are you "UNDER THE INFLUENCE"
>of a destructive group or belief system?
>Find out with this
>SELF QUIZ:
>
I think you should redesign this quiz as a javascript, it would
be much better then
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child marriage, genital mutilation
> etc.)
>
South Americans don't abuse children :-P
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s-abortion? Maybe they should show balls,
and prove their point by making a huge barbecue with
the aborted fetuses!
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kes to get back there, the more likely it
seems that the original Moon landings were fakes, Hollywood
movies :-)
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ot;. It was
done for two of my three kids, and two of my two nieces: every measure is
taken to take the baby _alive_ from the womb.
I think that, in English, abortion presumes that the baby must be killed,
and miscarriage is a natural process [the baby may or may not come
cture was taken. Those
stinky martians don't want anybody poking around their
ratholes
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I got this from the Tolkien mailing list [that, unfortunately,
has degenerated into a Peter Jackson mailing list :-(]
But this is fun
http://cicatrix.fragland.net/smurf/frodo_has_failed.jpg
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;s obvious that, in any pair of twins, one is
born evil. So, we can use Occam's razor, and
conclude that there is just one soul in each pair.
Ergo, clones will also be soulless.
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ld Hilter be a nice guy in some alternate Universe?
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Richard Baker wrote:
>
> And for those who believe in reincarnation: where do the extra souls
> come from when the population (of all lifeforms, if necessary) expands?
>
This is simple: the soul evolves, like the species. You might have
been a Ramapithecus some time ago.
Albe
*not* corruption, but the fact that he did
extorsion against a swiss company, who complained.
So, extorsion is ok, unless you extort (sp?) a Swiss
Company?
Switzerland should be nuked back to the Ice Age
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List Overlord Nick Arnett dictated:
>
> Would you ask your clone not to send copies of the same
> messages that you send? Please?
>
Oh, come on! I'd rather have 6 identical messages from
Bemmzim that I can read, than 1 message that is
unreadable!
Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> That's the point of the three branch government.
>
Except that it seems that the USA [and Brazil, too]
might become a four branch g*vernment. The
"monetary" part of the g*vernment is almost
a separate pow
e hand in tracking _alien_ residents.
After all, AFAIK, no USA citizen was involved in the
WTC terrorist attack.
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from the Evil Empire"
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- but never mentioned.
You should take some lessons in paranoia :-)
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head whenever you feel the need to do it :-)
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:-)
My daughter Natalia, a Dark Angel fan, wants to know
where she can find removable tatoos in the form of
barcodes, so that she will look like 452
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The Fool wrote:
>
> There is no proof whatsoever that anything in the book of
> judges ever happened.
>
Last time I read about it, there was archeological evidence that
the Walls of Jericho _did_ fall, and not the way they should
after an attack, but after an earthquake.
Albe
would have
to moderate you.
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Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> I can specify a procedure that anyone could use to falsify
> the existence of Pluto.
>
Pluto is a myth. Just notice how its mass has decreased
during the XX century, from something the size of Uranus
to something smaller than the Moon
Alberto Monteiro
PS: i
hase not from one of those music
> services in a long time. And it was $18. EIGHTEEN DOLLARS WTF?
>
CDs here usually sell by the price of 18 "reau" - probably 18 is some magic
number O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
PS: these are the prices of _legal_
water from freezing, because liquid
H2O has a higher density than solid H2O. That's why water exists under
the Northern Pole Icecap.
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hould be hanged in public :-/
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eer commercial
> isn't these days.
>
So, in the USA, beer commercials also use pretty girls
to sell beer to ugly men? Here in Brazil, becoming a
"beer girl" is always a first step towards
celebritydom.
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in the chest, falls into the water,
and we don't see that water becoming red with blood.
This is a very bad lesson to kids: that guns
are clean killers. I think this scene is very
objectionable.
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manage with wisdom, speed and restraint its
>procedural business" (Clare Nullis, Associated Press,
>Jan. 20).
>
Uh? What does he mean? Maybe I must ask him...
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Bob Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Say Mary Poppins digitally remastered to show
> Julie Andrews naked.
>
Great! Where can I find this movie? Is it at sale in
the Internet?
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Robert Seeberger quoted:
>
> Mexico will today urge the World Court to order stays
> of execution and retrials for more than 50 Mexicans
> on death row in the United States.
>
Oh-oh. A difficult task for the new UN secretary of
Human Rights! :-)
A
nazi"
anywhere. Or maybe using Communism is an equivalent?
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hing immoral in Unisys trying to
get some money for something that they legitimately
own. What's the problem? Did y'all forget TANSTAAFL?
It's stupid, but not "bad" or "extorsion".
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> Pope John Paul II is lobbying European governments to
> officially recognize the European Union's Christian roots,
(...)
How interesting. When I read the subject, I automatically
translated EU to Estados Unidos :-)
Alber
Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>I got spam today, an ad for Norton Anti-Virus, and the "from" claimed to be
>"Andre Norton".
>
I got the e-mail telling about his death some days after it was sent. I had
put "Norton" as one of the words
JDG wrote:
>
>>> "This is the worst president ever," she said. "He is the worst president
>>> in all of American history."
>
> Apparently Bill Clinton never sexually harassed her..
>
Or could it be the reverse?
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>
> Norton the company DO kinda spam you if you use NAV :(
>
I don't use [and since I don't use any anti-virus, I never
get a virus], and will never use. But I get spammed the
same way :-(
Alberto Monteiro
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t;
NASA probably has learned something from the marketing department
of the satellite companies. IIRC what was proposed five years ago,
right now my company would have 6 more satellites
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d by the inclination and not the eccentricity :-)
[but OTOH we all know that Xmas is a time of snow for the
Northerners, which is a way to debunk the ecc myth]
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ed in the opposite
direction of the movement.
But I have no idea how you could _cool_ the nuclear motor in space :-)
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create three-eyed fishes]. In space, the
best that can be done to cool something is to irradiate it - a very
slow process.
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>
>In recent months Italy has launched a fierce campaign against prostitution.
>In Rome, punters face fines and prostitutes caught by authorities more than
>once can find themselves jailed for up to 15 days.
>
Uh? Is prostitution illegal in Europe? Why?
A
>
But isn't speciation itself a jump? You can't change
from a being with, say, 44 chromosomes per cell to a
being with 46 without a jump.
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>
>I teach a Computer Science course, and I'm asking my students to research on
>the topic of "The Pros and Cons of Online Dating".
>
You mean, "pros" are the professionals, and "cons" are the
convicts?
Alberto Monteiro
but if Joss Whedon had continued with the Jossverse it would be another
great show. Imagine: Vampires against laser guns?
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s?
If you use AOL "service", you are subject to AOL rules.
TANSTAAFL
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ust don't want to actually
> encounter a pile of them... :D )
They are Heinlein's Flatcats from _The Rolling Stones_
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ut no one is _forced_ to use AOL. Don't like it? Get a decent
Internet Provider
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m? Pakistan to chair the UN anti-nuke program?
Saudi Arabia to chair the UN Freedom of Religion
program? USA to chair the UN polution control program?
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Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>> Uh? I thought she was Kira _Neris_
>
> Kira Nerys. At least, according to IMDB.
>
How canonical is this? IIRC, I got the spelling _Neris_
from the show. But I may be wrong
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Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> 3 1/2 years of marriage as of next week, and counting... :-)
>
Teenager :-)
Alberto Monteiro, _14_ years of marriage and 18 years of
"namoro" a few days ago
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- doesn't have to be original,
of course - should stress his stereotypes, like the
fact that people blame him for being stupid.
Any good one?
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to be the world g*vernment,
then it's stupid to put dictator representatives
[instead of people representatives] there.
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na.
>
I told you that it had broken during that time.
You seem to bring about a Murphy field around
you wherever you go :-P
Brazil will chair the UN forest preservation program
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the
> ceiling, and "Excuse me sir, aren't you Moses?"
>
Ok, this one I never heard before :-)
>
> ---
> This following poem is composed entirely of actual
> quotes from George W. Bush. It was compiled and
> arranged by Washington Post writer Richard
> Thompson.
>
This is also news to me :-)
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or guilt? This is not the correct joke
character attitude! This joke should be told with
Colin Powell.
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English translation
> GSV Refraining from Smart Ass Comments.
>
Don't
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JDG wrote:
>
> Terry Eastland: Children with 'special needs' are as
> loved as any others
> 01/28/2003 Dallas Morning News
>
In the Down Syndrome Conspiracy, this story is
called "Choosing Naia". Why does it remind me
ing to write
letter of recommendation for those that believe that
PI = 3 would be considered a religious discrimination...
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t;
Of course, that pesky Communist dictator only got there
in the first place because that small island _was_
a corporate state before, controlled by capitalist
assassins.
Fidel, Chavez and Lula Maru
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Pi *is* 3 according to the bible though isn't it ? :)
>
That's why I chose Pi. But this requires a quite
obtuse interpretation of the scriptures, something
that creationists might do.
There is a spheroid whose diameter is given as
n units of length, and whose perimeter is giv
Anti-Guiness.
listing the worse of everything. One of them was the worse determination
of Pi, for an USA city that make a law making Pi = 4
I don't know if this is true.
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this at all times?
>
Yes.
Is it likely that it was a terrorist attack? No
Is it impossible? No
I can imagine some ways that a terrorist could make it
happen. I think it's necessary to blame negligence or
incompetence, to save the morale damage that a
successful space ter
I've just heard it in a br channel.
The father of the israeli astronaut was a
holocaust survivor. When he was in Poland,
he drew a picture of the Earth as it would be
seen from space.
The astronaut brought that picture in the
mission
Alberto Mon
The Columbia
was going down, and supposedly decelerating from an orbital
speed of 7,700 meter/second to some multiple of the speed of
sound (300 meter/second).
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sually massive shuttle into docking
> position?
>
What is the orbital height of the Space Station? Maybe it's
above the orbital height of this mission of the Shuttle.
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h shuttle
flight with Murphy's law in mind, and he would have made a
rescue team be always ready to go.
OTOH, I bet the explanation for the disaster might turn out to
be some piloting blunder, like using feet and miles instead of
metric.
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Nick Arnett wrote:
>
>If you were sending books to a 25-year-old young man who's into punk,
>skateboarding and such, who tends to always want to be very cool... what
>science fiction would you recommend?
>
I've heard that the _Gor_ books are qui
for
the recomendation. Yes, I didn't read them.
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U-238 _fusion_? This would be great for _cooling_
things!
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n simulation. Maybe someone comes out
with one that has international warfare :-)
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gt; They already did...its called Civilization III!
>
Can I play it on-line, free, using just any browser? :-P
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Dan Minette wrote:
>
>Right, just allow private companies to launch their own manned space
>program on a profit making basis. But, there is no profit in manned
>spaceflight...Nevermind.
>
What about space tourism? :-)
Alberto Monteiro
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Erik Reuter wrote:
>
>>> Bastards! I hate them with their long tails and
>>> their stupid twitchy
>>> noses. [bang bang eep eep thud thud]
>
> Actually, I was quoting someone else to amiably add
> black humor to the subject. Anyone pick up the refere
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
>Japan is:
>1. A _lot_ wealthier than the UK and
>2. Has much more imminent security threats (North
>Korea and China, and don't think they don't think
>about both :-)
>
Uh? Are those numbers correct? _Brazil_ spends more
than Israel and The
I have a computer running Linux. How can I make Apache run?
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Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> (...) In my opinion, the
> only stable and peaceful global power structure is a
> unipolar one - one with one dominant country.
>
I don't think so. I think the most stable power structure
is _tripolar_, with the biggest and strongest still
weaker than the combinati
rld. If you just want to
> experiment on an intranet you
> should be fine...
>
I think I have something that is running. Maybe I
will start coding the wargame today - with a cgi
interface
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_think_.
Why would either the second or third team up with
the strongest? He would only watch the strongest
annihilate both of them, in sequence.
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:-)
[OTOH, someone has just told me that the Canadians
are going to vote for being anschlussed by the USA...]
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e opponent as the Parthian and then
the Sassanid Empire, in Persia. They didn't conquer
Germany, who spent the whole Imperial time attacking
their borders.
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l power in Europe.
> So, maybe you have an arguement that the US will
> not exist as it is 1000 years from now, but your
> data supports little more. :-)
>
The USA will break 140 years after it establishes
a monopolistic tyranny over the rest of the
world :-)
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start an intifada?
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Jeroen wrote:
>
>So, what were all those non-British European forces doing in the Middle
>East during the Gulf War? Enjoying the scenery?
>
Help Saddam train target practice :-)
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Andrew Crystall wrote:
>
> G-d didn't dictate you leave your poor to starve in the street
> either.
>
You sound like Lula O:-)
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e than medicine :-(
Her family flew Iraq when the persecution against
Jews became intolerable.
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I am running SQL under Linux, and I am trying to write
something... Well, nevermind.
Is it safe to issue the command "createuser nobody"
using the account "postgres"?
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tever antics Shatner does off-screen.
>
Not all "Kirks" died. There's still ex-Emperor Tiberius of the Mirror Universe
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