Re: Brin: Hrm

2010-12-03 Thread Max Battcher
ia.com *Sent:* Thu, December 2, 2010 11:04:50 PM *Subject:* Brin: Hrm http://amultiverse.com/2010/09/29/dont-ask-dont-swim/ -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Gaming Computer

2010-10-26 Thread Max Battcher
understand, the XPS is a good call if you want to avoid "the Alienware tax" (which does have a few advantages, including being just a luxury "BMW" brand). -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Look Who's Back / Mike's crazy list of physics hypotheses that he wishes he had time to look into but doesn't have the time.

2010-10-23 Thread Max Battcher
. Have you tried Michio Kaku's or Brian Greene's books? In my experience they are both wonderfully accessible writers with very firm grasps in the details of quantum and string/M theories. I've certainly enjoyed what I've read from both writers. (They are also both humble,

Re: Down with the government

2010-10-17 Thread Max Battcher
sting right wing stockpiles of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. How are they any different from politics as usual or the classic "good ole boy system"? Just because they've given it a new name doesn't mean it is some new thing... But th

Re: Trolls

2010-09-07 Thread Max Battcher
tually use more ads, thus "paying" for the right to be jerks, but I certainly don't have the ad metrics to data mine in order to test that particular hypothesis. The lesson: more "privately hosted" mailing lists, less Facebook.

The Book of Enoch (was: Creationism [was: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .])

2010-08-04 Thread Max Battcher
ephenson, as I've heard it said that the Baroque Cycle is a (very) long meandering tangent en route to some sort of Singularitarian capstone...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: replacing fossil fuels

2010-06-15 Thread Max Battcher
?) (...not to mention that it is surprising how many people today need it explained that "radioactivity" is also a "natural" effect and not all radioactivity in the world/universe is human-enriched/"created"...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Platform for gathering memories?

2010-01-07 Thread Max Battcher
C world-- "Facebooks of the dead" so to speak-- but I think it has already mostly fizzled out as quickly as it became a fad. Of course I'm just judging by what I read in tech journals. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

2009-12-28 Thread Max Battcher
of spoiler limitations has run out on both of them, being semi-historical in nature. I also don't think the intentionally fictional elements of Titanic are substantial enough to be spoiled, but that's just my opinion. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net __

Re: Avatar

2009-12-23 Thread Max Battcher
s Cameron seems to have known all along, and part of why it has become the message to get out to encourage people to pay for that 3D or IMAX upgrade at their local popcorn stadium. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Recursion in C, as told by Kernigan, Ritchie, and Lovecraft

2009-12-17 Thread Max Battcher
compatibility, crept into C compilers Also, there is an undeclared variable (IA != Ia). That was the first thing I noticed skimming it. Beyond that, it doesn't seem like proper Kernigan and Ritchie code because it is not formatted properly in the K&R style... It almost looks more

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-17 Thread Max Battcher
d services should be designed around that problem...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

"Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-15 Thread Max Battcher
ry, are unwarranted or that caution doesn't apply. More that I think that journalists (and almost especially "tech" journalists) seem to be having a harder and harder time reflecting technical reality and I think there is a need for some mechanism to break the tedious Hype then Fe

Re: Google Wave

2009-10-15 Thread Max Battcher
eral "cloud computing" level, and just like any other set of services you have to go into each relationship with some idea of your intent and the company/entity's trustworthiness. Perhaps if you named specific services or concerns your questions might be answered. -- --Max B

Re: Google Wave

2009-10-15 Thread Max Battcher
o easily gain mainstream acceptance/usage. You can watch the long video (and it is long) trying to explain the thing at the Wave website: http://wave.google.com -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: What's to read?

2009-09-25 Thread Max Battcher
ule for Pratchett, which means that I started late into the series as well with Masquerade and Interesting Times, and was reading many of the earlier books alongside of new releases. (Speaking of new releases, Unseen Academicals is in stores on the 6th...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker

Re: What's to read?

2009-09-23 Thread Max Battcher
7;t scare you, which it shouldn't, because these books are equally awesome.) Then there is every other awesome book in Discworld. :) Ask enough Pratchett fans and you'll find a glowing recommendation for any and every book, for one reas

Re: Politicians sell out again

2009-08-11 Thread Max Battcher
legislatures. Anyway, it's just a crazy thought experiment (that I created for use in a short story I never wrote) and I doubt that it would be easy to amend the Constitution to try it, but it might be something to play with at local or state levels and see if it survives/replicates.

Re: Politicians sell out again

2009-08-11 Thread Max Battcher
t of corruption and simultaneously despise another seems to me a hypocritical thing to do. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

2009-07-27 Thread Max Battcher
reading of the final script from Comic Con in a useful fashion for those of us who couldn't make it to Comic Con... -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

2009-07-26 Thread Max Battcher
episodes rolling are on Hulu and the premise is gentle enough that you should be able to pick it up pretty quickly. Currently the show is on the back half (6 eps) of Season 1, which I believe is also doubling as the front half leading into Season 2. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.

Re: In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-12 Thread Max Battcher
literature that is the 'modern' graphic novel and 'classic literature'. Both are welcome to me, but then I'm not a high brow book critic. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Heinlein

2009-06-22 Thread Max Battcher
al extremes in his works and hiding his own actual political beliefs below trying to make his character's beliefs "realistically" their own. At best, his works make you think and question your place in society. So certainly the political ideals in

Bear's Halo Novels

2009-04-06 Thread Max Battcher
t stereotypical "ancient race" that among other things built the titular Halo devices). I'm certainly interested to see Greg Bear playing in this space. http://kotaku.com/5200423/greg-bear-penning-halo-forerunner-trilogy -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net

Re: Help with Gmail

2009-03-18 Thread Max Battcher
s. Just keep in mind it may take a while, particularly for a large amount of emails, but Thunderbird should give you a good idea of its progress and at least you will be able to do other things as it works. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Impossible account security questions.

2009-03-09 Thread Max Battcher
ust imagine if banks actually cared to invest in real security... -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net Security through annoyance Maru ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Darwinism

2009-02-10 Thread Max Battcher
ions of a word and actual contexts of its usage. Science using framing is akin to fighting ignorance with a slightly different aerosol form of ignorance. It won't solve any real issues. But who knows how to solve the real issues here? -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net We haven't evolved past the need for words Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Metric Conversions

2009-01-08 Thread Max Battcher
ne of the lot is the 3L -- 2-Liter Bottle. It's always funny when someone asks how big a 2-Liter Bottle is in metric... 3 Liters is a better response than some of the ones I've used. It's funny how so many anti-metric people don't even reali

RE: Financial institution fallout

2008-12-08 Thread Max Battcher
e of the social contract that represents between me and the people I in turn owe debts to, including but not limited to the government and its taxation. -- --Max Battcher--- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: TV Zeitgeist

2008-10-21 Thread Max Battcher
if Raymond ("Boy Scout") and Tom (OfficeSpace-reject) are in fact secretly the real main characters of the show... -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Rock Around the World

2008-10-11 Thread Max Battcher
them on the internet just prior to the event (Terrastock 7).) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_%28Japanese_band%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrastock -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Spore

2008-09-26 Thread Max Battcher
om the current gift-giving system to something bigger and more robust. Plus, Valve still pretends they aren't a publisher and are in tune with the plight of the small developer, and in that regard it makes perfect sense to build a developer-friendly, consu

Re: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-25 Thread Max Battcher
create new life - extinction. The Gospel According to Futurama has a classic documentary entitled "Don't Date Robots!" in the episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot It tells the plight of Billy Everyteen in the world of sexbots. This seems to be a borrowed c

RE: Spore

2008-09-24 Thread Max Battcher
o > see > Mass Effect as a download without the install limit crap. Mass Effect probably wouldn't have had as bad DRM if it weren't for EA buying Bioware/Pandemic. Score one more for nearly a monoculture in publishing and EA's weird love affair with DRM right no

RE: Books, was Proper function..

2008-09-24 Thread Max Battcher
tical > computer science, do you mean something like Knuth or Sedgewick? > Or further back, like von Neumann? Yes, Stross has a CS degree and it shows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net The wiki has so many easy answers Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Spore

2008-09-24 Thread Max Battcher
Solar Empire to an Impulse account. GOG.com looks interesting and I'm waiting on an invite. I believe that all of the above services have better DRM and DRM policies than SecuRom and other DRM du jour products used in individual games and often nowadays the same games with weird on disc DR

Re: McCain Positions

2008-08-25 Thread Max Battcher
and intellectual property who knows what's at stake on the issues and is very eloquent when discussing them...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-25 Thread Max Battcher
and indicative of stronger political, social, and economic trends), and he did try to show at least a few differences between the timelines that might have resulted indirectly from vastly different presidents and moon landings. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Off-topic., monotonous posting (was Child-killing religion)

2008-08-21 Thread Max Battcher
m line it: I'm probably as anti-religious as you and I would say the same thing for any other poster that posted similarly useless, rude posts that don't fit the mailing list medium and would be better in some other environment such as the aforementioned "social bookmarking&quo

Re: Irregulars Question

2008-07-24 Thread Max Battcher
the connection settings in your browser as well, particularly for any installed proxy/VPN set up. Also double check all of your installed firewall software (don't forget to check if your virus scanner or other third party "security" tool is doing firewalling of an

Re: Indigo and Umami

2008-07-19 Thread Max Battcher
toids (Pluto, Eris). -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

2008-07-17 Thread Max Battcher
to be believed, the eventual DVD release may be an event unto itself. (Whedon has promised that one of the commentary tracks will be "Commentary! The Musical" with entirely new songs, presumably a satirical commentary on commentary...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/

Re: Portal (was Re: A videogame that will make William happy)

2008-06-07 Thread Max Battcher
d try it, but it obviously has nowhere near the polish that Valve was able to give it, particularly with the addition of the writing skills of Old Man Murray alum and Psychonauts collaborator Eric Wolpaw. It's absolutely the writing that turned it from interesting tech demo to endearing

Re: A videogame that will make William happy

2008-06-07 Thread Max Battcher
tactics experience for those willing to work together to plumb the game's depths... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: geek test

2008-05-28 Thread Max Battcher
nd my appreciation of good bourbon generally seems to find me good scotches when I'm in search of one. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Yahoo/Microsoft merger/takeover (Re: thread policy)

2008-05-22 Thread Max Battcher
thread it is obvious that he is much closer to the latter than the former. I realized that. I mentioned the "hard solutions" only as potential impetus for some kindly soul that reads this list to maybe convert a hard solution into an easy one... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Silverlight (Re: thread policy)

2008-05-21 Thread Max Battcher
other can be debated endlessly. I don't think that either "standard" is the best, and I guess in a perfect world both Silverlight and Flash would support both. (I believe that Moonlight has some H.264 support, at least.) -- --Max

Re: Dollhouse

2008-05-21 Thread Max Battcher
Curtis Burisch wrote: > > Max Battcher wrote: >> and the awesome direct-to-DVD Futurama 'sodes. > > Hey, let's not forget their MOST IMPORTANT recent decision -- to bring back > Futurama! They were mentioned. I would have had to kick myself had I forgotten. I&#

Silverlight (Re: thread policy)

2008-05-21 Thread Max Battcher
and in no way using existing Flash technology. So they can't "extend" Flash with Silverlight. That doesn't make any sense. It's very, very unlikely that Silverlight will entirely "extinguish" Flash or even Java Applets from use on the web. Why shouldn&

Re: thread policy

2008-05-21 Thread Max Battcher
astic and may offer some healthy competition to the rest of the pack. As a Web Developer I find that IE7/8 is close enough to Firefox's rendering when I have good semantic XHTML (verified by Firebug) that I don't spend any time worrying about IE

Re: Dollhouse

2008-05-20 Thread Max Battcher
Max Battcher wrote: > Dollhouse is apparently going to be fighting back to back with Fringe > (J. J. Abrams' "I Can't Believe It's Not X-Files") and it does appear > that Fox may actually have a plan for its Fall sci-fi programming... Oh, plus The Sarah Con

Re: Dollhouse

2008-05-20 Thread Max Battcher
t;) and it does appear that Fox may actually have a plan for its Fall sci-fi programming... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ I don't think Whedon would put *himself* through another Firefly Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: thread policy

2008-05-20 Thread Max Battcher
s (Email) Quotation, which seems a shame. I would assume that you could easily adapt one from Thunderbird's source... I did not find any addons for IE that would help. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ Interrobang Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: thread policy

2008-05-19 Thread Max Battcher
e mailing list address from your email client rather than replying to something that you are not in fact addressing. There are easy ways to deal with that... Get a smarter client that makes it easy to start a new message to your mailing lists or get a dumber client that doesn't bothe

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

2008-04-24 Thread Max Battcher
Andrew Crystall wrote: > On 24 Apr 2008 at 20:18, Max Battcher wrote: > >> Andrew Crystall wrote: >>> On 24 Apr 2008 at 8:05, Nick Arnett wrote: >>> >>>> So... I "upgraded" to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of >>>

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

2008-04-24 Thread Max Battcher
for is Visual Studio.) There's no way that I could use OpenOffice.org daily. I'd rather use Vim. In fact, with Vim's inline spell check (new in 7.0) I have been using it a lot more for basic document writing than either OO.org or Office. -- --Max Battcher-- You get wha

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

2008-04-24 Thread Max Battcher
ut not exactly what they need... Have you seen the presentations from Jensen Harris? There's a lot of good things he talks about (including the importance of lots of usability testing and lots of automated feedback of product usage) in his presentations on and about the ribbon. Well worth t

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

2008-04-24 Thread Max Battcher
Id=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en (Adobe blocked it from the out of box install, which to me is a pretty petty maneuver...) Hope some of those tips help, -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ Sometimes old dogs get good treats from new tricks Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Mail help needed . . .

2008-03-30 Thread Max Battcher
//wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases More about the Penelope project: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope Maybe that plugin will help you. I have to admit that I never used Eudora, so I don't have any idea of whether the Penelope project is sufficient or not. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmak

Re: On Godliness

2008-02-24 Thread Max Battcher
ty is correct we may have to sink or swim sooner than we think... (At GDC Kurzweil apparently said that those that can live to 2015 may probably live "forever", I only wish I had been there to see his charts...) -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ No Lifeguard on Duty in the Godhood Pool Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: On Godliness

2008-02-24 Thread Max Battcher
king to become, in some way, gods ourselves and so I think there is a lot of good things to learn from the mistakes of the various deities that are worshipped today. Hopefully we aren't doomed to repeat those mistakes. (That's the plot of Zelazny's Lord of Light, among others

Re: Writing workshops +

2008-01-11 Thread Max Battcher
et relevantly constructive criticism. Hope that helps, -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brin:World Building Wiki

2007-12-27 Thread Max Battcher
Did you look at Orion's Arm? It has a couple of the things you mention: http://www.orionsarm.com/ Trent Shipley wrote: > I am going to launch a world building wiki. The working name for the project > is "Red". > > Since world building shares a lot with encyclopedias I'm planning to use > Med

Re: Highlander: The Source - Quick, avert your eyes!

2007-10-14 Thread Max Battcher
oducer (I don't recall his name, but he died just recently) from the oblivion it probably deserved (it was actually filmed with the hopes of making theaters and probably would have gone straight to the DVD bargain bin if Sci-Fi hadn't spent the few dollars it did to call it a "Sc

Re: Flash Gordon question - Possible Spoilers

2007-10-08 Thread Max Battcher
ause Ming sent her ex-husband after her to kill her when she failed at her task on Earth. It seems the normal OCD sci-fi watchers aren't into the show because I'm not turning up much more of a synopsis than my own poor recollection on the usual OCD sources... -- --Max Battcher-- ht

Re: Add To Lexicon: Googleganger

2007-09-30 Thread Max Battcher
. > > > > Hey! I got an astrophysicist Googleganger! > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Robert+Seeberger > > > > xponent > Twins Maru > rob > > > > ___ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > > -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Iron Man Movie

2007-09-18 Thread Max Battcher
come off pretty intriguing, particularly as it looks like they'll follow Iron Man's origin story pretty closely (albeit swapping contemporary Iraq for comic-contemporary Vietnam/Gulf War). -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http

Re: Religion is Valuable: Why it Must Be Encouraged

2007-07-30 Thread Max Battcher
t have you) to go to mostly-black/mostly-poor neighborhoods for church services. I have a lot of respect for that as there seems to be a genuine feeling of wanting to stay rooted/grounded in the community (and problems and hopes) of their "family" and further putting their money to good u

Re: TV Series: "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"

2007-07-23 Thread Max Battcher
ore reason I think Nielsen ratings suck. But all of that is just my opinion, -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Straczynski Fan Update

2007-06-21 Thread Max Battcher
gt; written. Quick tip, for those that don't know: jmsnews.com is a nice way to keep track of his news posts. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Heroes - Generations

2007-06-04 Thread Max Battcher
andy guide since only a few episodes in... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show?

2007-06-04 Thread Max Battcher
all that genetically realistic)... I'm really looking forward to seeing how the writers expand this mythos in the coming seasons... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Political Dementia

2007-05-16 Thread Max Battcher
Vice-Admiral of the Narrow Seas*, not that anyone here is, of course. * Just found it a perfect time to use an old insult: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1719448 -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ You Sunk My Battleship Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: transportation

2007-05-09 Thread Max Battcher
k) people never seemed to actually take the time to sit and enjoy the food they bought and were often pressured by invisible peer pressure to eat faster than strictly necessary... I've come to the point where I'm starting to appreciate that sometimes people need to just slow down. -- --Ma

Re: transportation

2007-05-09 Thread Max Battcher
I'm not a chemist) would be a good compromise between the inert Helium and the cheap Hydrogen. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: conservation

2007-05-08 Thread Max Battcher
th some classy noir dame than ride the modern sardine can that is an airplane... Sometimes the future isn't as good as it used to be. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Conservation

2007-05-08 Thread Max Battcher
transportation, and yet right now legislators are still just thinking inside the "interstate roads for masses of congested automobiles" box. Remind me sometime to talk about my crazy idea for air travel... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Not reading statistics gets a Drubbing

2007-04-10 Thread Max Battcher
Park episodes on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_God_Go -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ Science damn you! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: NASA Goes Deep

2007-02-26 Thread Max Battcher
r manufacturing plant in Space. Who wouldn't buy space beers? It's makes a whole lot more sense than a lot of the flavored beers and "energy" beers the big guys keep putting onto shelves... I demand to see a race for the first beer brewed in space to reach store shelves. P

Re: First Amendment takes a hit

2007-02-22 Thread Max Battcher
to be killed. Myspace and Instant Messenger applications are *opt-in*. Shut it down, close it out, start a different account, find a better Instant Messenger that allows you to screen who messages you (Jabber servers require explicit permissions), whatever... Honestly, why do people chase these s

Re: Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-05 Thread Max Battcher
taken and generally in my judgment of the system itself says. The I/E I tend to flip-flop depending on several factors. Another choice would be to use something like I?NTP, as the I is often more dominant, but again, subject to change. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "I'm

Re: The Gospel Of Judas

2006-04-19 Thread Max Battcher
s in a row, and he still can't always manage it either. :) I personally love how he managed to blame it on his own characters in Thief of Time. How can he be expected to keep continuity when his characters keep messing with the timeline? :) -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/

Re: The Gospel Of Judas

2006-04-18 Thread Max Battcher
othing people would battle to the death over, which appears to be such a major goal of Western Civilization's organized religion. (I sometimes wonder if the Greeks did too good of a job in trying to separate the useful Philosophy from Religion that all that was left was the Irrational stu

Re: The Gospel Of Judas

2006-04-18 Thread Max Battcher
with her creation (by way of the maniac Doctor) and realized that the technology was frightening, but the real morality is in what you _do_ with that technology. xponent The Heresy Of Rob Maru I find myself more a heretic than ever, as I mature. I started out very heretic, so I'm so

Re: Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-12 Thread Max Battcher
of Germany's policy toward/with several nations, in particular Russia/Soviet Union. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "I'm gonna win, trust in me / I have come to save this world / and in the end I'll get the grrrl!&

Re: Tales From Earthsea.........Anime!!!!!

2006-04-10 Thread Max Battcher
Woody and Keanu, but it can't be that tough to play druggies, can it?) -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "I'm gonna win, trust in me / I have come to save this world / and in the end I'll get the grrrl!" --Machinae Supremacy, Hero (Promo Track) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Tales From Earthsea.........Anime!!!!!

2006-04-09 Thread Max Battcher
really neat in Linklater's style of "animation". Its a very neat way to both break from reality and yet stay firmly grounded in reality. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/warner_independent_pictures/ascannerdarkly Too bad it seems to be notoriously slow/needlessly expensive (how many

Re: FEAR THE FUTURE: In-Sleep Advertising

2006-04-06 Thread Max Battcher
a long silence they get up and run out.] -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "I'm gonna win, trust in me / I have come to save this world / and in the end I'll get the grrrl!" --Machinae Supremacy, Hero (Promo Track)

Re: FEAR THE FUTURE: In-Sleep Advertising

2006-04-05 Thread Max Battcher
a long silence they get up and run out.] -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "I'm gonna win, trust in me / I have come to save this world / and in the end I'll get the grrrl!" --Machinae Supremacy, Hero (Promo Track)

Re: Seti at Home

2006-03-26 Thread Max Battcher
o be a slow memory+cpu leak, even with it told only to work in screensaver mode). On the plus side, you can use the same client to sign up for other good scientific causes like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ClimatePrediction.net. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "I'm gonna w

Re: Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark -- Update

2006-03-24 Thread Max Battcher
needs it for income. He has a new wife and a baby on the way.' " <<http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/65830.htm>> Anyone else curious how Isaac Hayes might feel now after this week's Super Adventure Club episode? -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.ne

Re: Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark over Scientology Ep

2006-03-14 Thread Max Battcher
e, such as more recently: the Mel Gibson school of violent worship). In fact, the worrying thing is that most of what is scathing about it is actual "Scientology doctrine" repeated in the midst of the episode. It's just sad that Scientology is so inherently funny. -- --Max Battch

Re: New Battlestar Galactica - no spoilers.

2006-01-07 Thread Max Battcher
ecent "secondary run" with a new lead. The key here is, are the writers up to the challenge? (Slider's writers in a few key seasons certainly were not.) -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: "Let's Roll"

2006-01-04 Thread Max Battcher
rogue flights. The 9/11 Commission Timeline shows so many points of potential criminal negligence... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "History bleeds for tomorrow / for us to realize and never more follow blind" --Machinae Supremacy, Deus Ex Machin

Re: "Let's Roll"

2006-01-03 Thread Max Battcher
m actually afraid of examining too deeply. Look into the abyss and, well... -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "History bleeds for tomorrow / for us to realize and never more follow blind" --Machinae Supremacy, Deus Ex Machinae, Title Track __

Re: Query: spoken numbers in 1200 AD

2005-12-23 Thread Max Battcher
d to the fit the radix we use daily, instead of historical oddities. > > and all the more ridiculous for your religious ranting > > and racism. > > I didn't see either of those things in Robert's post. Covert in post, overt in referenced website of poster. -- --Max Bat

Re: Query: spoken numbers in 1200 AD

2005-12-22 Thread Max Battcher
more ridiculous for your religious ranting and racism. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "History bleeds for tomorrow / for us to realize and never more follow blind" --Machinae Supremacy, Deus Ex Machinae, Title Track ___ http://w

Re: My annual Xmas tirade...

2005-12-21 Thread Max Battcher
I don't expect Microsoft to deal with the Vim v. Emacs debate. The cmd.exe and Windows Script Host together support quite a bit of "reasonable" commands, and the Monad Shell in beta-testing provides everything but the kitchen sink. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net

Re: Defeat in Victory

2005-12-21 Thread Max Battcher
eft than right. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ "History bleeds for tomorrow / for us to realize and never more follow blind" --Machinae Supremacy, Deus Ex Machinae, Title Track ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: My annual Xmas tirade... Was RE: An armed society ...

2005-12-21 Thread Max Battcher
ich goes to show how Computer software may in fact be a Socialist organism). People need to start realizing that the blame for Microsoft's profluence is partly their own. (The only real solution to the "Microsoft Problem" would be to institutionalize/nationalize the Operating System. Some

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