[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The natural conclusion to this string would be in the form of a mass petition
to Kevin Lenagh asking him to do aditional drawings of various aliens' elbows
and butts.
Just to bring the string back to a Brin topic; - )
Not sure if I should be proud or
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michigan program limits drugs for low-income
patients
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANSING, Mich., Dec. 16 -- Michigan acted legally
when it attempted to cut
health care costs by limiting the drugs doctors can
prescribe to
low-income
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 05:45 PM 12/16/02 -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michigan program limits drugs for low-income
patients
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANSING, Mich., Dec. 16 -- Michigan acted legally
when it attempted to cut
health care costs by
d.brin wrote:
Hi folks.
The version of my essay on Tolkien now up at:
http://salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/index.html
is a shortened version.
nice cover art!
The longer, more erudite version, going into HG Wells and such, is at
http://www.davidbrin.com/tolkienarticle1.html
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
I'm sorry you feel that way. When I learned English, I found that
there are
words, idioms and proverbs which do not exist in French and which
communicate
ideas which simply did not exist for me previously. Not only is the
reverse also
true, but learning _any_
d.brin wrote:
While I couldn't agree more with the statement, am I wrong in my
perception that the present administration has in it's sights the
compromising of said revolution?
Doug
The revolution has worse enemies than romantics. The old feudalists
are always lurking. Always scheming.
Julia Thompson wrote:
Damon wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe y'all missed my question in my (in)famous return message, so I'll
repost here for the benefit of the guilty :P
I need to know the formula used to calculate flight time for a spacecraft
using the acceleration/deceleration method of space
Lalith Vipulananthan wrote:
Embarassingly enough, I knew about both of those already, but the word looked
made up. Silly me for such a strange assumption.
Lal
GSV I Blame The Culture List
And not your Xompitor?
Doug
Or however you spell it.
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do people getting the full list deal with the
volume?
Inquiring and overwhelmed minds want to know ;)
We could try to make better use of the topics
feature of the list server.
snip
Hmm. I need to test some
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
The non-relativistic is trivial. No, I am not a _star_ship pilot,
just a _space_ship pilot. My ships have never gone
much farther than the Moon.
Well, there's a star in this here space. 8^)
Doug
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Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 12:23 AM 12/19/02 -0500, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 12/18/2002 9:42:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe next year they can have the same 99 planes and add the space
shuttle as the 100th example of flight evolution...
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Horn, John wrote:
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good.
I enjoyed it too, though not as much as the first, though to be fair, TTT was always my least favorite of the trilogy. I go in wanting a war flick, which it sort of was.
Gollum was great, and the
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Horn, John wrote:
I saw _The Two Towers_ yesterday. Very, very good.
I enjoyed it too, though not as much as the first, though to be fair, TTT was always my least favorite of the trilogy. I go
Kevin Tarr wrote:
I'm single, she's single. She's smart, I understand the infield fly
rule. She is very nice looking, I haven't been chased by an angry mob
with pitchforks in at least nine years. She needs someone to support
her and I'm okay with that as long as she can cook, clean, buy all
Horn, John wrote:
Last night I was putting my six year old daughter, Laura, to bed. After
reading The Grinch and Santa Cows, we turned out the light and snuggled
up together in bed. We then had the following conversation:
Laura: Dad, do you know what I like best about Christmas?
John: No,
Here's guessing the administration will flip on this one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/26/politics/26DRUG.html?pagewanted=2todaysheadlines
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 25 -- Drug companies and doctors are fighting a Bush
administration plan to restrict gifts and other rewards that
pharmaceutical
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I trained myself on H. Beam Piper, where he snuck in
wordplay and math errors.
The Pinnipeds in _Glory Season_?
That is a word derived from H.M.S. Pinafore and a quadruped.
Either that or an aquatic carnivorous mammal.
Doug
Koo Koo Katchoo
Dan Minette wrote:
There is a great deal of difference between the situation with N. Korea and
Iraq. At the present time, the government of Iraq has minimal ability to
inflict casualties on the citizens of other countries, while North Korea
has a tremendous ability. Just with conventional
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Koo Koo Katchoo?
Did you say this in your best Peter O'Toole voice?
Actually, referring to source material, I meant GOO GOO GOO JOOB.
Doug
Expert texpert
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Erik Reuter wrote:
If you can manage to sneeze on them, that might help. Most cats I've
seen HATE sneezes. Just sneeze in their face and they'll be gone.
Works good with people too.
Doug
Ha choo
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Jon Gabriel wrote:
Can I beat my kid because he may hit me someday?
I'm not a fan of the current administration's policy on NK, and I'm
really not a warmonger, but... I think your analogy here may be a bit
too simplified. If your neighbor across the street starts setting up
cannons in
Dan Minette wrote:
Violence and intimidation might be successful short term measures, but
they will ultimately fail.
Well, everything ultimately fails. If you are talking about pure
practicality, the Roman empire lasted through brutal means for over 1500
years. Yes, the brief experiment in
Horn, John wrote:
BTW, I now understand better the change in Faramir. The Ring is much more
malvolent and active in Jackson's version. Even Aragorn was greatly tempted
by it and had to send Frodo away in order to be certain he would resist it.
If Faramir had resisted as he had in the book, he
Robert Seeberger wrote:
But one of the bullets is a blank.
A gun against your head filled with blanks is just as likely to kill you as
one filled with bullets.
Its a myth that blanks are *safe*.
They are very dangerous at close range and no one should even pretend
differently.
Iraq is not
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Erik Reuter wrote:
Sounds fine to me. Since it was your idea, you get the job of collecting
the cat pee and pouring it into the squirt guns...
I hear Harkonnen Inc. has a device that might be adaptable to our
nefarious purpose...but we could
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
way doesn't strike me as the obvious choice.
Now, maybe the Segway will be rare enough and nimble enough that it
doesn't cause many problems. And I can see that it might be very useful
on, say, a corporate campus or in a large warehouse or on a lightly
trafficked
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
Maybe...I've nothing against the technology itself. But is a $5000 tool
that will move one and only one person at a slow (but fast enough to
endanger pedestrians) speed with only a tiny bit of cargo an efficient use
of that technology? The ultra-individualistic
Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/deteriorata/default2.asp
Ahhhthe memories of my youth
G
xponent
A Flash Presentation Maru
rob
Go placidly amid the noise waste, remember what comfort there may be in
snip
Ah, Radio Dinner! I think I still
Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStoryc
=StoryFTcid=1039524021167p=1012571727085
It is the time of year when people are casting about for good books to read
to resolve the current perplexity. If you are sitting in Washington, there
are
William wrote:
Zebra is a place to park your car
in Britain according to Gerard Hofnung.
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Doug
Yoiks, did I say that?
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John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 11:17 PM 12/27/2002 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
And I think your analogy is far too simple. The neighbor lives on the
other coast and couldn't hope to hit us with his cannon in a thousand
years.
Doug:
North Korea has missiles capable of incinerating a great
Erik Reuter wrote:
Very few people I know will sweat much from the exertion of riding a
bike at 12mph, the Segway's top speed. In my experience, riding a bike
at 10-12 mph is roughly equivalent to the exertion of walking at 3mph.
I couldn't agree with you more, though my route from the train
Julia Thompson wrote:
who avoids wearing silly shoes whenever possible, unless for some
unfathomable reason Doug puts Reeboks into that category
No. Silly shoes are those that put function secondary to form, i.e.
high heels. Many men like the way they look on women (I guess), I think
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/EETD-SUV-Safety.html
Most cars are safer than the average sports utility vehicle [SUV],
while pickup trucks are much less safe than all other types. Minivans
and import luxury cars have the safest records, states the report, An
Analysis of Traffic
In this months issue, Scientific American honored the National Energy
Resources Laboratory and Spectrolab for constructing the most
efficient land-based solar cell. ...the cells converted 34% of the
energy in sunlight to electricity beating the previous record by about
2%. Equally
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: New Brin-l Address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:04 AM
Subject: More Efficient Solar Cell
In this months issue, Scientific American honored the National Energy
Resources
Bill Walsh wrote:
This is the one I will strongly disagree with. The Niners are just an
average team who played six games in a weak division--Rams, Cards and
Seahawks. They also were life and death to beat the Cowboys. While
they have the best receiver in the game, they'll need more than
Erik Reuter wrote:
That was kind of silly of her, wasn't it? Omniscient, omnipotent beings
should have more sense than that!
Oh, man, you've got it all wrong. Omniscient, omnipotent beings turn a
blind eye to genocide while helping football players get touchdowns (at
least according to
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/international/middleeast/09ALLI.html?todaysheadlines
The Turks would probably help us out if they didn't think that by doing
so the Kurds would get their way.
Doug
VFP Miss Muffit
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Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Carter. He began his Presidency as he conducted it,
with a dumb idea that ignored security concerns. Ford
was the target of two assassination attempts (thus
leading to the eternal question - why would you want
to kill Gerald Ford?) and Reagan was almost killed.
Clinton
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 11:41 AM 1/10/03 -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
(...) Bush, having a higher security threat against
him than any of his predecessors since Lincoln, I
have more sympathy for.
OTOH, have you read about Lula's security?
Who's Lula?
Most
Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Alpha Mails (Was: Re: Scouted: Last of transplanted
wolves killed)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:29:34 +0100
At 17:18 10-01-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Jeroen,
While we're on the topic, do you happen to know which
Julia Thompson wrote:
Anyone else here think it's a BAD practice to split up refereeing teams
for the playoffs, and put together teams of refs that are individually
the best, but not used to working together?
John Madden keeps saying that on his radio show, and it sounds logical
to me.
Julia Thompson wrote:
Julia's picks for next weekend:
Tampa Bay beats Philadelphia.
Oakland beats Tennessee.
(And if she doesn't go 2-0 next weekend, her Superbowl prediction
doesn't come true.)
Philly will beat TB (again), but you're right on the second one.
Doug
GCU Thermal Whimps
Countering Gautam's spin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/12/international/asia/12ASSE.html?pagewanted=1todaysheadlines
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 -- An Asian diplomat emerged from one of the many
meetings on defusing the North Korean nuclear crisis saying that no one
could know what Kim Jong Il
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Then, perhaps hoping that it could avoid a
confrontation that would
distract from its campaign against Iraq, Mr. Bush
never described to
North Korea what might happen if it crosses the
nuclear red lines.
Though he has often said he will never allow the
world's worst
Russell Chapman wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Alpha Mails I remember are Ethain Lazh, Stefan Jones, JDG, Nicola,
Steve Sloan, Gord, and of course Julia.
In terms of Nick's analysis of how many months at the top, Stefan
would have to challenge Julia. Through all of 1996 and 1997 he was far
Jon Gabriel wrote:
I'm not making any sort of connection or implication between what
policies the Bush Administration is following and those of Nazi
Germany. I did not say or imply that with that quote. Please don't
put words in my mouth. I merely posted a quotation that I found
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
He wanted to know how people could actually be dumb
enough to believe that, among other things, a
large image of a human face existed on the surface of Mars.
Of course it no longer exists. There was time enough to
blow it off after the first
Jo Anne wrote:
Sean wrote:
The reviewer was particularly taken with the Darth Vader
creation by one Eileen Tan. Who ever knew a simple sheet of black
paper could be so scary?!?
Isn't her work amazing? She sent me a pattern for an oragami dragon once
that I passed on the origami-er in the
Dan Minette wrote:
Indeed, what was surprising to even me was that income is a minimal factor
in the response to abuse. I can refer to Economic Dependence and Battered
Wives Returning to Their Abusers, a 1983 Master's Thesis by Teresa
Summers-Minette. This thesis studied about 200 battered
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
Newspaper, magazine, Stephen Wolfram's new book (depending on the
estimated time required to complete the task being undertaken).
A New kind of Science? I read a blurb in Discover about that
yesterday. What do you think so far?
Doug
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Jon
Of course that's just my opinion... I could be wrong. And considering
that I'm running on 4.5 hours of sleep in 32 hours I definitely could be
wrong! :)
Actually, you made your point well, and I agree with most of what you
said. However, I think that Bush has gone
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:52 PM 1/16/03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
The connection between my brain and my fingers sometimes does really odd
things. Words I'm not even thinking appear.
Your fingers. My tongue.
Wow, hyperspacial man! A connection between Nick's fingers and Ronn's
Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:43 AM 1/17/03 -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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
Deborah Harrell wrote:
I find this topic tiresome and divisive, but will not
refrain from righting incorrect information.
Your expertise is appreciated.
Doug
GSV By Me Anyway
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Dan Minette wrote:
I fully support Nick and Julia. If I were to offer an opinion, it would be
that they have bent over backwards too many times.
and Jon wrote:
I would like to publicly go on record as stating that I personally fully support Julia and Nick in this matter.
I support the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/18/2003 11:52:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'60s vintage TV drama. Ben Casey was an MD. Ever heard of
Dr. Kildare?
Ben Casey was a neurosurgeon
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Julia Thompson wrote:
1) The singer of The Star Spangled Banner for the AFC game was a lot
better, IMO, than the one for the NFC game. (Who the heck is Jessica
Simpson, anyway?)
2) I hate having to listen to Cris Collinsworth. I'd rather that
someone with that particular voice not talk
Julia Thompson wrote:
Now, I have heard that there is an ending only seen on cable TV that
might push the limits even farther, but I have not seen it.
As far as what the least objectionable thing in the commercial is, it's
the expressions of the girlfriends as the guys are relating the
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Hammock said he got interested in working with scorpion venom while
researching insecticides. He wanted to take the type of common cold
virus that infects insects and insert a gene for a toxin, so that when
the insect gets a cold it dies.
Now that sounds like an effective
Deborah Harrell wrote:
I am sorry that I was unaware of the prior debate; I
wasn't a member then.
I wouldn't be sorry at all, if I was you. It's a perfectly legitimate
and interesting topic and I don't remember any massive flame war in a
previous thread about the book in question, or any
G. D. Akin wrote:
I've been on this list for two days and received about 125 posts, most in
mid-stream it seems.
The Nomination Form for the Torcon 3 2003 Hugos is available on the Conjose
2002 site and in the Torcon 3 PR 4. I'm about to send my nominations in.
How many on the list think Kiln
Andrew Crystall wrote:
O
Lomborg's response was to publish the text of the Scientific
American article on his own website and to intersperse it with a
detailed response to every point raised by his critics. Scientific
American then threatened to sue Lomborg over copyright.
I think that
Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 25 Jan 2003 at 18:18, Richard Baker wrote:
Andy said:
Whatever, I'm pleased that they're kickstarting the space effort
again.
I'll be happier when I see engineers working on actual hardware. We've
been through this stage so many times before: the Space Exploration
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Cat like? I didn't know they were cat like.
Chelgrian's are covered with fur, have retractable claws and long
Tawny tails, and they prefer to sit in curl pads. Also they are
predators. From what I gather they have three legs and two arms. I
know there were other cues,
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 12:51 AM 1/25/03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
I find it fascinating that the only people I ever hear complaining about
Senator Hillary Clinton are non-New Yorkers. Obvious Republican
mouthpieces like the NY Post, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh
notwithstanding, I've
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Doug Pensinger asked:
Does anyone have a rough idea of how the nuclear propulsion works?
Probably the same way a chemical rocket works, if the analogy
nuclear rocket:chemical rocket::nuclear power plant:chemical power plant
is valid: a fission reaction heats something
Jim Sharkey wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
Use of Weapons should always be the first Culture book you read,
to see if you can stand it. joking
Haven't found a copy yet short of paying $20 for a paperback at
amazon.uk. Which I intend to do shortly if I don't find a copy soon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/26/2003 4:22:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Try www.abebooks.com
which is linked to addall.com/used, which also has alibris and powells and
I took my books off of ABE as Alibris works on payment to them only on
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 06:04 AM 1/27/03 -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote:
The after game interviews, [...] was cringe worthy.
One word for ABC:
Heidi.
Not Even The First View Of Jennifer Garner Was Worth The Waste Of Time
Maru
John Madden is still head and shoulders above anyone else
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/864430.asp
An excellent article. Zakaria needs no introduction,
but I'll give a short one anyways. He's currently the
editor of Newsweek International and formerly the
editor of Foreign Affairs. He got his PhD at Harvard
studying under Stanley
Posted on the Culture list, no attribution:
When you're happy and you know it bomb Iraq
If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq.
If we have no allies with us, bomb
Julia Thompson wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 06:04 AM 1/27/03 -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote:
The after game interviews, [...] was cringe worthy.
One word for ABC:
Heidi.
Not Even The First View Of Jennifer Garner Was Worth The Waste Of Time
Maru
John Madden
Reggie Bautista wrote:
You could also say that Buffy (and some of the other
characters in the show) are basically superheroes, and
superheroes have usually been lumped into the category
of science fiction.
And despite all the silliness, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
still manages to be a great
Horn, John wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Let's do our own survey:
Lazarus Long
Gillian Baskin
For sentinent heros I like:
Horza Gobuchel
Daneel Olivaw
Doug
GSV Not a Git
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Damon wrote:
Thankfully, after dozens of dates and other duds (one claimed she had
sex with 30+ guys by our second date) I finally met someone I fell
in love with. We're looking to get married sometime this summer...
Very cool, congratulations Damon, and best of luck!
GSV Happily Ever
Dan Minette wrote:
I wonder who is the longest married on the list? I'm guessing it might be
Jo Anne or Zimmy. Teri and I have been married just under 25 years.
25 years yesterday. 8^)
Doug
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Jim Sharkey wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
25 years yesterday. 8^)
Awesome! Congratulations. You do anything special?
Thanks! We just had dinner out, but we have a special trip planned for
when the weather is more cooperative.
Doug
Julia Thompson wrote:
Maybe if one of my friends gets pigs, I'll get a basketball to give the
pigs. (I think my friends are more likely to get cats, dogs, rodents, maybe
horses, or possibly goats before any of 'em would get pigs. What sort of a
ball would be good to give a goat?)
One that
Damon wrote:
Is it =! or !=?
=!
Damon.
There's always
Doug
GSV Yer Basic Programming Language
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One has to wonder if Bush's religious babble was appropriate in light of
the fact that at least one of the crew members was not of the
Judeo-Christian persuasion. How must it feel to the parents of
Ms. Chawla that the God of Abraham knew her name (paraphrase).
I'm sorry, but the president of
Robert Seeberger wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: Shuttle Debris Trail
- Original Message -
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
Thats what I am thinking.
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
FWIW, that information is not given in her official bio:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chawla.html
(Expect delays getting this or any NASA page, especially anything to
do with STS-107 or its crew, to load tonight.)
I had found a reference prior to my
Richard Baker wrote:
Jon said:
Dan Simmons: Endymion and the Rise of Endymion (but not Hyperion and
The Fall of Hyperion)
Never before have I heard anyone express a preference for the second
pair of Hyperion Cantos. In my eyes, _Hyperion_ and _The Fall of
Hyperion_ are superior in every
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
Hmm.. that's odd. When you're wearing your glasses, you look like..
you. But I've never seen u without them. Then again, when I look at
Fool, he looks an awful lot like you WITHOUT glasses..
Nah, it can't be. It's too easy. It would never work. ;-)
Well on his
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:19:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I smell a scientific study here. Perhaps there is a gene for spelling
and fidelity. Here is how it might work. Good spellers have excellent
memory for irrelevant or dangerous information. Bad speellers can't
Nick Arnett wrote:
Any thoughts?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Nick.
Doug
Who thinks it must be a good sign that you are posting to the list
despite your troubles.
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Dan Minette wrote:
Let me get this straight. You are accusing Powell of fabricating evidence?
Well (this is the article that Rich ghosted)
No casus belli? Invent one!
As Colin Powell presents evidence to the UN to justify war, Maggie
O'Kane argues that the US's justification for the
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
A tally of books that have been suggested for review to date:
Can I offer two suggestions? What about _Atlas Shrugged_,
or one of the Gor books?
ROTFL! Thanks for that, Alberto, needed a good laugh.
How about Heart of the Comet? One thing
Julia Thompson wrote:
Gary L. Nunn wrote:
I remember way back in the beginning when the Sci-Fi channel showed
uncut and commercial free versions of science fiction shows. But then
again, I remember when MTV used to show music videos. :-)
Now there's M2 for that. (At least, I *think*
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Eric wrote:
However, I still think the best way to handle this is for as many people
as possible to state that they have adopted a policy of not replying to
messages with legal notices.
I agree
I'm convinced
I'm on
Me too.
Doug
xROU Bandwagon
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
I have Visual FORTRAN on this system.
Now _that_ sounds like an oxymoron.
Doug
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Russell Chapman wrote:
Reggie Bautista wrote:
There is nothing quite so stirring or that can get my blood pumping
quite like a good pipe-and-drum band with those high, crisp Scottish
snare drums.
And yet, the most evocative pipe band performance I've heard was at
the Australian War
Kevin Tarr wrote:
I'm not saying he is lying in any way/shape/form, this is just a
question. Wouldn't it seem premature to send Ilan Ramon's remains
home? Unless they found the whole body?
I have not been reading about this so I don't know.
I did hear that they had sent his remains home
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Skeptics should test all possibilities Maru
I tested that, but it didn't work since I don't have
infinite time I can only test some possibilities.
Ok. Rephrase.
Skeptics should _accept_ that, among the many
possibilities that look like
Jon Gabriel wrote:
GSV Commute = Sleep or Read
Aha! Get a laptop. Commute = Sleep/Read/Work/Compose/Listen to
Music/watch a DVD/play a game etc. etc.
Doug
GSV Rider of Trains
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Dan Minette wrote:
Second, in light of that, Nick's actions can only be faulted for bending
over backwards too much.
I agree with this. I would have at least contacted his ISP after a
threat like that, and perhaps the police as well especially in light of
his attack on the server. Then I
Nick Arnett wrote:
Big milestone today, I guess -- I drove. A friend gave me a ride up to Palo
Alto, where I left my car last Wednesday (no room for it in the ambulance,
apparently). Driving was unpleasant, though. Rapid head movements make me
feel lousy. But I got to take flowers and
The Fool wrote:
http://www.pigdog.org/auto/Bush_Family_Hi_Jinx/link/2429.html
snip, snip, snip
Maybe in 2004, we can elect Caligula.
Assuming there will be an election.
Doug
GSV Not Entirely Joking
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