Gary, et al,
Not that there was anything damaging in your message, of course, but
this reminds me of the old adage, Never put anything in an email that
you wouldn't want to hear read aloud in court.
Dave
David M. Land
Deborah,
-Macintosh Performa 6220CD/75 16/1 GB
This is a really old, really slow machine with hardly any memory or disk
space. Even in its day, this was only a middling Mac. Despite my status
as a dedicated Mac zealot for most of the 20 years they've been around,
I wouldn't recommend this
Folks,
I think would also partially explain the tendency towards
right-handedness, which effects which side of the body a baby would
normally be held.
Or is it possible that mothers tend to hold babies on the left
side because the heartbeat is more easily heard on the left side
Cause and
Folks,
The question that is often posed, though, is why the Romans should
capitulate to the desire of the Jews? It was those Jewish leaders who saw
Jesus as a threat and wanted him put to death. However, they could not do
so legally: only the Romans could dispense capital punishment.
Tom,
I think Christians need to face up to this and not try to argue it
away or pretend it didn't happen or deny their responsibility for
two millennia of violence.
I am a Christian and I am definitely not responsible for two millennia
of violence.
Because, whatever Christians may think of
Chad,
I'm in that 10% minority :) Can I get a disabled sticker for that?
If I can get one for being a pure Left-handed person...
Any other lefties out there?
Actually, I'm ambi. Or maybe just ambi-curious.
Dave
David M.
John,
I assume you've been watching the news about the semicolon that saved San
Francisco. It's been nice having something to cheer about while watching
the local newscast. :-D
I presume by the smiley that you aren't serious.
Surely that kind of judicial ruling is not good for a free
Travis Edmunds wrote:
But in the grand scheme of things, nothing
is proceeding the way that perhaps it should.
Such is life, sadly.
Nothing is proceeding the way that perhaps it should reminds me of
Nothing succeeds as planned from Heller's Good as Gold, but without
the conviction.
Not that
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Travis Edmunds wrote:
I think it's a tad irresponsible, that there isn't a more concerted effort
to thwart the possible extinction of our species don't you?
A big impact like the one that ended the Cretaceous would _not_
cause the extinction of our species. Or do you
Julia, et al,
Describe how to count up to 1023 on 10 fingers. :)
That's easy to describe, but a whole lot more difficult to use :-).
I remember seeing Doug Engelbart (inventor of the computer mouse, etc)
http://tinyurl.com/9km7 using a one-handed chorded keyboard
http://tinyurl.com/3ajld that
Nick,
I can do it to 1024.. but to 1023 i have no idea
Zero counts, but for nothing.
I stand on the threshold of tommorow, atop the stairway of yesterday,
holding the key to today, staring through the door into the future.
Bully for you. As for me, I generally stumble up the stairway of my lost
Jan,
Anyway, one day we went to the grocer on our way for a long road
trip...
Great story. It reminded me of the Gangs Kill Sign Language Users
urban legend that http://tinyurl.com/2a8vf. So be careful: you and
your wife could end up dead, or worse -- an urban legend!
I like to use this now
Folks,
This is how you bypass registration:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31587-2004Mar4?language=printe
r
But that's ... like using TiVo to skip commercials!
Dave Feigned shock Land
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William T Goodall wrote:
Religion is about crazy people blowing stuff up.
Sorry, can't agree.
*Intolerance* and *fanaticism* often involve crazy people blowing stuff
up, not religion. To insist on equating religion with violence is a
form of intolerance in itself, and to have a statement like
Various people opined thusly:
Personally, Debbi, I'd prefer taking a pill every day
than the sort of nanny-stateism that has the government
dictating what I eat every day.
Personally, I don't want either.
Couldn't agree more, and for certain hyped-up conditions that are
probably better dealt
Deborah
Is there a Brin-L sign-in and password, like there is
for the NYT?
Not specific to brin-l, but bugmenot.com reports the following
pre-existing logins:
Account #1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
woman
Account #2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
foobar
Account #4
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
fast
Folks,
I hope we won't have to demonstrate that even more forcefully,
but if another 9-11 level attack happens, I'm ready to turn the
Caaba into the Crater. A radioactive crater, if that will make
the point more dramatically.
Hmmm. I wonder if that would be the most effective response...
Just
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
This weekend I watched my friend put his new two-seater
ultralight into the air. While doing this we ate Oreo's
and chocolate milk. Anneka walked for 8 consecutive steps!
Then we ate hot dogs at the park.
Sweet. I got to ride in a 2-seat ultralight along the
The Fool wrote:
WILLIAM FREY, PH.D., BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: Well, I really think what's
happening is going to be this phasing out or fading out of the white baby
boom population. It is a 50-year time period we're talking about...
O'REILLY: Yes. We'll all be dead. Thank God, right?
If only he
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/12372_elevator.html
This unique project has been in development for years.
I found pravda.ru a little hard to take seriously (Boriska - Boy from
Mars and Alien visits Russians Province sidebar stories were a little
over the top, although Israel Opens
Mike Lee wrote:
... I think they better keep a civil tongue
in their heads because we're all tired of it.
Et tu, Mike
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Mike Lee wrote:
Note to Keith: saying meme a lot doesn't make you intelligible.
Question to Mike: do you really mean intelligible, or did you mean
intelligent? I don't want to assume that this was a Bushism, (as in
functionable for functional) but, I don't really understand your
criticism.
Friends,
Nick suggested that the reason it got through the
virus filters was because it was MIME encoded.
Close.
The message got through the virus filters because it was *not*
MIME-encoded -- it was a plain text message that just happened to
contain the the textual representation of a
Rich yapped thus:
Most of the people that the Vatican will have killed in the
end are alive today...
Christianity is responsible for *billions* of deaths in
the near future.
Cool. You must have loved Minority Report. Let's arrest
the Pope.
Dave
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Russell Chapman wrote:
A train able to traverse steep inclines could be very useful, say in
mine extraction. You could even nest conventional rails inside the
bumpy tracks so standard rolling stock could be hauled out and handed
over to a conventional train.
Baked: http://www.cog-railway.com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thus, the list will be slow and flakey until this is resolved.
It *seems* to be resolved (if I may announce that on Nick's behalf.) His
ISP upgraded his service, thereby rendering it completely
non-functional for most of the day.
Well, just don't point out who is
And in other news...
The discovery of a cat burial by French scientists pushes
the known date of cats as pets back more than 5,000 years.
The further discovery that the cat in question was not
actually dead at the time of burial demonstrates that
the relationship between humans and their feline
Tom Beck wrote:
This is the second time I have seen the Jordan analogy.
Personally, I
would be at least somewhat disappointed to see Iraq turn into a
self-interested, provincial, monarchy.
Why? That's what Dubya has turned the USA into.
Sort of... Come November, we get to pretend to choose a
The Fool wrote:
The Escalation of dehumanizing rhetoric in popular wartime Right-Wing
propaganda frex littlegreenfootballs:
http://www.drmenlo.com/lgfquiz/
...
62%
85% -- The language /is/ remarkably similar (and sinister).
What is it about Semites that drives people so crazy?
Dave
Nick Arnett wrote:
Julia Thompson wrote:
Article at
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/levesque/index.html
I'm interested in anything folks here can add about open source
software, either from a user's point of view or a developer's point of
view. Or if someone has a refutation for any of
Gautam, grinding the Everybody but me hates America axe, wrote:
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The image is available on their website for anyone
who wants to see it. I
think that the media isn't showing the murder out of
respect for the
families...just like it stopped showing people
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
I think I've
realized where the difference between you and me on
the media really stems from, Dan. You think that
they're good at their jobs, and I think they're inept.
Inept, but still able to coordinate the release or restriction of
certain videos (Berg, 911 jumpers,
The Fool's link to Fox News, following Gary Dunn's link to the Center
for Bio-Ethical Reform Through Psychological Abuse caused my eyes to
notice that the icons for the two web sites are nearly identical.
No conspiracy :-), just more the same-think.
Dave
The Fool wrote:
The Idiocy of right-wing torture apologists is truly sickening:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119529,00.html
Many TV networks, including Fox News, deemed the pictures
[of the earlier murder and desecration of four Americans
in Fallujah] too shocking to air.
Deborah Harrell wrote:
I don't recall reading any Vonnegut novels (though I'm
sure I must have read some short stories in
anthologies) - have to remedy that.
Not sure whether my word has any weight for you, but I read most of what
he wrote, and have enjoyed it tremendously. His writing was one
William T Goodall wrote:
When did the spelling of 'ridiculous' and 'lose' get changed, and why
didn't I get the memo?
The Speling Simplifikashun Ak of 2004 was pasd by kongres and synd by
President-for-life Bush right after the kansilashun of the elekshunz.
Is it some kind of l33t spelling or
G. D. Akin wrote:
Carries weight with me; I've read everything he's written. The only book I
didn't really like was God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
To begin reading, go to Slaughterhouse Five first, then The Sirens of
Titan.
Yes, and don't stop there. Vonnegut's books are not only hilarious in
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
Is the replacing government well equipped to make changes? Or is it just
more of the same but with a different undercurrent? I still don't
understand how an originally born Italian can be a well equipped prime
minister of the largest democracy in the world.
Robert Seeberger wrote:
To some degree, *We* are the barbarians at the gate.
We have shamed ourselves in front of the world, and
that makes me feel ashamed *and* angry.
(Note that I am not pointing a finger and blaming soldiers or
presidents. As an American I figure I have to share some of the
Deborah Harrell wrote:
[extensive snippage]
...Of course, I have no idea if this is what he
intended, but he's talking about the psychological
concept of thrownness, and he describes it better
than many articles that purport to be /about/
thrownness.
There's a term that's new to me...sounds
Dave Land Top-Posted:
Of course, the whole left-liberal idea of reasonable discussion is
completely bankrupt.
In short, Mr. Arnett is wrong, wrong, wrong.
But what does he care?
Nick Arnett wrote:
Had a little insight the other day that seems relevant to
our periodic how-to-have
The Fool wrote:
What's Causing High Gasoline Prices?
...
I guess the only bit about it that surprises me is
that they didn't also find a way to suggest that
another tax cut would be the cure for high gas prices.
All this was interesting, but I think everybody knows that the real
reason gas
David Hobby wrote:
(I have unfortunately lost the login that someone created for
those list members who did not want to register with the
NY Times. Could someone remind me, and this time I'll save
it in appropriately titled email? Thanks!)
Here's the page on bugmenot.com that lists all of
Gary Denton wrote:
I wanted to check the list out.
Funny, I don't see many postings related to Brin.
And you won't, either. In fact, from what I've observed in my months
here, mentions of his work are few and far between. You will
occasionally spot the good doctor himself spreading his memes.
Jim Sharkey took Mike Lee's bait, concluding with:
Don't let your rampant personality defects make you a hater, Mike.
I don't think there's any danger of that in our beloved Sock Puppet's
case -- his posts bespeak a hatred that goes right to the core. I'm
guessing that when he was a kid with
The Fool wrote:
You can do an exhaustive memory check:
http://www.memtest86.com/
You can install a different OS that doesn't fail the way Linux Distros
are known to (Frex Win 2000). The Only time anything crashes on my
Win2000 Setup is when the computer / Room Temperature get too hot.
I work
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
But is the logic of warfare and occupation really wise? Does it really
make sense that we can bomb neighborhoods, storm into people's homes
at night, imprison thousands in degrading conditions without charge,
and then assume that these people will love us?
It worked in
Richard Baker wrote:
A cell is not a person. A cell has no rights. A cell does not and
should not have rights.
So if I were to destroy exactly one cell in your body at a time until
none were left then that would be okay? If not, at what stage would it
become other than okay?
Rich must understand
Deborah Harrell wrote:
What IS it with various religious factions and their
profound fear of women? Sheesh, even among the
baboons at least females determine ranking in the
society...
Haven't we spent a fair amount of our energy over the past couple of
hundred thousand years separating ourselves
Deborah Harrell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Graphic, Violent Images Can Curb Kids' Aggression
Uh, Chad old boy, it was *actual pictures* of the
_results_ of violence that changed the kids'
attitudes:
Precisely: pictures of the results of /actual/ violence.
Actually /reading/ the story, one
Folks said:
smile Organized religion is hypocrisy at it's finest.
There is some truth to that, but I must say that pointing it out
seems
to make things worse for the most part.G
How so?
Aint nothing worse than a devout believer feeling self righteous and
defensive and throwing a hissy in your
And yet, the image of the goddess Pomona was permitted to remain. This
is an outrage.
Dave
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A guy arrives at the Pearly Gates.
Peter: Bill Smith?
Guy: That's me.
Peter: You were an electrician in life?
Guy: Yup.
Peter: Great: we've got a huge electrical storm in Missouri that we
need your help with...
Another guy arrives.
Peter: John Wallace?
Guy: It's me.
Peter: I see that you
On Jun 4, 2004, at 1:29 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debbi said:
(You can also use the dark chocolate squares for
baking, but that makes more than one cup and you
have
to heat the milk _before_ adding it, or else you
get teeny chocolate pieces swimming in the
On Jun 11, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Gary Denton wrote:
Me, i think that dogs are smart and cats are just stubborn.
Yes. I think our cat has a vocabulary of 2 words: his name and
snack. OK, make that three words, as he has had 2 names in his tenure
with us, due to a 2-year-old who couldn't manage
grin Squirtguns work really well for most cats -
even my eldest, who will lean into a sprinkler stream
to lap at the water (so that it runs down his ruff and
soaks his front feet), hates being squirted.
We've found that a quick puff of air in the face does the same trick.
Our auxiliary backup
On Jun 19, 2004, at 10:14 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
An angry Ray Bradbury is demanding an apology from filmmaker Michael
Moore for lifting the title from his classic science-fiction novel
Fahrenheit 451, for his new documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. He
didn't ask my permission, Bradbury, 83,
On Jul 26, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I remember Ford/Carter, but I wasn't quite up with what was going on.
My younger sister might have been, though -- who knows? (Those of you
who are parents, imagine yourself in 1974 faced with a 3-year-old
demanding that you explain Watergate!)
On Jul 26, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:01:58AM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Nick Arnett wrote:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/26/123227.shtml?tid=133tid=199
Yeah, that was pretty good.
It would have been nice, though, if there'd been something in the
message
On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:28 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 26 Jul 2004, at 6:07 pm, Dave Land wrote:
On Jul 25, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
We're very much afraid of the way he attacks the principals that
have always been the bedrock of this nation.
But I thought he was The Education
On Jul 28, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
Now three University of Washington physicists are suggesting the two
discoveries are integrally linked through one of the strangest
features of the universe, dark energy, a linkage they say could be
caused by a previously unrecognized
On Aug 5, 2004, at 3:34 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
Not having Belief is like not having Alzheimer's - a great good. Why
on earth would you wish a crippling brain-illness on anyone you liked?
The condition you describe is very like the knee-jerk reaction of some
atheists.
Please find a new
On Aug 8, 2004, at 11:45 AM, JDG wrote:
From an Economist/YouGov poll:
Only 36% of Democrats agree that life is better now for Iraqis than
under
Saddam Hussein.
51% of Democrats believe that US forces should be withdrawn from Iraq
within the next few months.
This last result makes me very
On Aug 6, 2004, at 10:45 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Horses have magnifying lenses in eyes. People and things look bigger
than they are.
That doesn't make sense to me -- they wouldn't have a frame of
reference. Bigger that what, in other words?
Reminds me of a line in a song by Steve Forbert:
It's
On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:35 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:06 AM 8/6/04, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Even though horses may not see colors as such, individual horses have
a desire for certain colors. Perhaps they really do see colors
snippage
And as anyone who lives with one can attest, it is not
On Aug 10, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Gary Denton wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:47:12 -0700, Nick Arnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gary Denton wrote:
The CIA uses very few agents which have been set up with expensive
cover employment in CIA front companies.
This statistic is published somewhere?
Nick
Part
On Aug 10, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Horses
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:25:13 + (UTC)
Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
... some types of birds
On Aug 10, 2004, at 3:47 PM, JDG wrote:
At 10:55 AM 8/9/2004 -0700 Dave Land wrote:
On Aug 8, 2004, at 11:45 AM, JDG wrote:
From an Economist/YouGov poll:
Only 36% of Democrats agree that life is better now for Iraqis than
under
Saddam Hussein.
51% of Democrats believe that US forces should
On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:54 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You state that you are very nervous as to what
pressure JK will be
under
from within his own party... The rest of us (that
is, people who
continue
to /think/ about issues, rather than accept whatever
BushCo
On Aug 10, 2004, at 5:34 PM, JDG wrote:
Anyhow, would you car to apologize for the gratuitous insult which
followed
the above?
OK. I apologize for asking if you are a horse's ass.
Dave
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Folks,
First of all, thanks to The Fool for scouting this -- it's an
interesting
read, and it jibes with the experience I'm having with the radio in my
Honda recently (the battery went dead due to a broken thermostat that
left the electric radiator fan running all night, now the anti-theft
radio
On Aug 11, 2004, at 7:39 PM, Steve Sloan wrote:
An interesting link posted to LarryNiven-L:
Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns6255
You say this like it's a bad thing...
We all *know* that the aliens are only interested in eating us.
On Aug 11, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Steve Sloan wrote:
Another link from LarryNiven-L, that's even more topical on Brin-L:
Gorilla Seeks Help Using Sign Language
http://start.earthlink.net/newsarticle?
cat=10aid=809022602_5310_lead_story
My favorite part of the story:
They crowded around her, and
Dr. Brin,
It's really much simpler than that. I am a Mac user
who reluctantly bought an XP/Vaio horror in order to
run games and some other things for the kids.
I understand: as a dedicated Mac user since '86 (only
my innate cheapness kept me from jumping in in '84), a
seven-year Apple employee,
On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote:
We all *know* that the aliens are only interested in eating us.
I thought they just wanted to harvest our intestines to make condoms...
-Travis two sizes - large and small Edmunds
Clearly, you've never worked in marketing: there are only two
sizes
On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Yeah, well, some people took to command lines, and are a lot happier
using command lines than GUIs. I realize such people are in the
minority, but if you don't understand that there is such a minority and
that they get frustrated with GUIs
On Aug 12, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 04:51 PM Thursday 8/12/04, Julia Thompson wrote:
Sort of like the car dealer who totally lost the sale with my mother
when she expressed a preference for a manual transmission (she has
never, ever, ever driven an automatic, narrowly dodging
On Aug 13, 2004, at 10:05 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:40 AM Friday 8/13/04, The Fool wrote:
Please explain how, under any system of morality, that is wrong in any
way?
Humor is indeed wasted on you, Fool . . .
It seems that The Fool is having a bad week.
Dave
On Aug 13, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
The Fool wrote:
I'm not the one going around claiming how much better it was in day...
Your insistence that he could choose something better is taking his
request far beyond his goal -- which makes it seem to me as though
you're really saying that
On Aug 13, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Gary Nunn wrote:
Has anyone had any good or bad experiences with number porting
(changing
your cell number to a new carrier)? I recently ported my cell phone
number from Verizon to Nextel, and the reliability of my phone went
from
99.9% to less than 50%. After
On Aug 16, 2004, at 4:39 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
Is there no limit to the twisted sick evildoing of these sick twisted
evildoing religious freaks? [1]
[1] Rhetorical question.
Is there no limit to the one-note playing of these sad, tiresome
anti-religious freaks?
http://www.senti-metrics.com/jpl/images/marswater.jpg
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On Aug 19, 2004, at 11:28 AM, The Fool wrote:
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As for bigotry in America, put yourself in the shoes of an
non-believer
for a moment and you'll feel real bigotry.
Out of
On Aug 19, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
Fool: Read the posts here straight [but not narrow :-)]: Dan asked you
to point out where JDG *OR* he had stated blah, blah, blah. Your
assertion
I stated JDG did matches one side of the OR in his request, so his
request stands
On Aug 23, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Julia Randolph wrote:
It's used in miniscule quantities in recipes, at least in comparison
with other ingredients. Even if you buy a huge bottle at the
warehouse club (say, something on the order of a liter or so), you're
still not using a lot in comparison with what
On Aug 23, 1980, at 4:07 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
This makes about 1 pint or 16 oz. Lets say the child makes it with 2
teaspoons, and each of two kids gets one cup of ice cream each. That
is
one teaspoon of vanilla per child. There are three teaspoons in a
tablespoon and two tablespoons in an oz:
On Aug 23, 2004, at 5:04 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 24 Aug 2004, at 12:41 am, Deborah Harrell wrote:
who is personally _very_ anti-PDA, more from a
'horribly embarrassed' rather than a 'morally
outraged' standpoint...
So what do you have against Personal Digital Assistants? Or is it
On Aug 23, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:32:15PM -0700, Nick Arnett wrote:
What you wrote seems rather more argumentative than belongs here,
given that you actually knew that Mark's real name is no secret.
Argumentative? I beg to differ!
That's not an argument.
On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:53 AM, Gary Nunn wrote:
I guess it had to start some time. Yesterday I received my first
unsolicited spam message on my cell phone.
Nextel sent me a browser message advertising additional cell services
that I had not previously subscribed to with them. Complete with the
On Aug 25, 2004, at 8:19 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Doesn't science fiction require *fictitious* science, i.e., stuff that
hasn't been discovered/invented yet?
While it probably doesn't /require/ fictitious science, it certainly is
a common element in the genre, or at least it is better tolerated
The Mercury News wrote:
Yahoo cannot expect both to benefit from the fact that its content may
be viewed around the world and to be shielded from the resulting
costs,
Judge Warren Ferguson wrote for a 2-1 majority.
While the French censorship attempt is bothersome, this seems to be the
real
On Aug 25, 2004, at 10:42 AM, The Fool wrote:
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Mercury News wrote:
Yahoo cannot expect both to benefit from the fact that its content
may
be viewed around the world and to be shielded from the resulting
costs,
Judge Warren Ferguson wrote for a 2-1 majority
On Aug 25, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
The question I have is what to do about it -- what if France blocked
Yahoo!?
I think this is the right solution. Countries that don't have
free speech should block the external sites that they find
offensive: France should
On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I don't make moral choices either, just ethical ones, and both good
and
evil are human-defined terms that refer to things which do not
objectively exist.
So, an ethics in which it is immoral to allow a Jew to exist is just as
valid as one in which
On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Differing with their unfounded assumptions is just irrational :-)
No, but differing with reality is. :D
Hmm, how do I differ with reality? From where do you get your sure
knowledge of what is real and what is not. For example, do you think
that
On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Dave Land wrote:
it is extraordinarily unlikely that any more of the endless yes there
are vs. no there aren't arguments will change that.
No it isn't!
LESS FILLING
On Aug 25, 2004, at 5:55 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Differing with their unfounded assumptions is just irrational :-)
No, but differing with reality is. :D
Hmm, how do I differ with reality?
Where did I say you did?
We differ. I was referring to assumptions of yours that I differ with.
You responded
On Aug 25, 2004, at 6:03 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Please don't let's get started on *that* old song again...
Listen: some people believe that there are such things as good and
evil, and some people don't. This list contains both kinds, and it
is extraordinarily unlikely that any more of the endless
Folks,
From the posts I've seen on this list, I'm guessing that not too many
here hold with Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who rejects both
what he calls the naturalistic fallacy (the belief that if something
is natural, it must be good) and the moralistic fallacy (the belief
that moral
On Sep 1, 2004, at 7:52 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
CPAP compliance rates are around 40 percent -- most people can't
tolerate it for one reason or another. There are some in-between
surgeries, but their success rate is not great, except for one method
that wears off after two years or so (that one
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