Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:47 AM Thursday 12/6/2007, William T Goodall wrote: On 6 Dec 2007, at 15:17, Nick Arnett wrote: But thank goodness that people with scientific beliefs never have any trouble confronting information that conflicts with their beliefs.If scientists weren't so open-minded and willing

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:38 PM Thursday 12/6/2007, William T Goodall wrote: Two years from now, spam will be solved. - Bill Gates, 2004 Is that anything like Fusion power is only about thirty years away (ca. 1970) ? -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: Correlation v. causality

2007-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:10 PM Tuesday 12/4/2007, hkhenson wrote: snip I favor direct selection via a primary mortality mode in the EEA, EEA? European Education Association? Early Early A.M.? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: dogmatism v. pragmatism

2007-12-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:31 PM Wednesday 12/5/2007, jon louis mann wrote: i haven't seen him in years but hear that he has mellowed and no longer drinks excessively. jon Last time I saw him in person was in 2005. The latter condition has indeed made a noticeable difference since the first time I met him.

Re: Poll finds more Americans believe in devil than Darwin

2007-12-03 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Probably because they watch the evening news where most of the people they see in the stories behave like they follow the devil or like non-GEICO cavemen . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

2007-12-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:16 PM Saturday 12/1/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: On 12/1/2007 7:14:53 PM, Ronn! Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 06:03 PM Saturday 12/1/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: Thus, Paine and others of the Revolutionary Era reasoned, any institution made up by and of humans - from

Re: To Restore Democracy: First Abolish Corporate Personhood

2007-12-01 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:03 PM Saturday 12/1/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: Thus, Paine and others of the Revolutionary Era reasoned, any institution made up by and of humans - from governments to churches to corporations - must be subordinate to individual living people in terms of the rights and powers held by the

Re: Don't drink and drive: Smoke marijuana and drive

2007-11-28 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:21 AM Wednesday 11/28/2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote: I got this from another list... Maybe that's why Clinton was better than Bush II... Alberto Monteiro http://peety-passion.com/relax/2007/11/27/stoned-drivers-are-safe-drivers/ Stoned drivers are safe drivers November 27th, 2007 | $B*(B

Re: Don't drink and drive: Smoke marijuana and drive

2007-11-28 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:49 PM Wednesday 11/28/2007, Dave Land wrote: On Nov 28, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 04:21 AM Wednesday 11/28/2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote: It found that drivers with only cannabis in their systems were slightly less likely to cause accidents than those without

Re: Max Cannon on God, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip K. Dick

2007-11-27 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:30 AM Tuesday 11/27/2007, Dave Land wrote: Folks, Funny Max Cannon cartoon of a couple of weeks ago: http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/2007-11-13/ I don't know diddly-squat about Philip K. Dick, but this cartoon still made me laugh out loud. Dave Alternative response for the priest (who

Re: Starting trouble for the hell of it

2007-11-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:54 PM Friday 11/23/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: I guess I'm bored. I figure I'll start an argument somewhere. Like here: http://xponentrob.livejournal.com/ Perhaps not enough people git enough of your references to even argue with you . . . And your Primary Post explains why I feel no

Re: Mankind destroying the universe... by looking at it?

2007-11-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:36 PM Saturday 11/24/2007, Dave Land wrote: Folks, Incredible as it seems, our detection of the dark energy may have reduced the life-expectancy of the universe. -- Prof. Lawrence Krauss Interesting story found via Slashdot:

Re: Turduckin

2007-11-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:46 PM Friday 11/23/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: At least it's not abbatoir. Or was that a waypoint on the road to the table? More like a dead end . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Strangely, I wasn't invited . . .

2007-11-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The World Toilet Association kicked off its inaugural conference Thursday, http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/22/toilet.association.ap/index.html?imw=Yiref=mpstoryemail

Re: Turduckin

2007-11-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
I refuse to eat anything which includes turd . . . -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Turduckin

2007-11-22 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:22 PM Thursday 11/22/2007, Nick Arnett wrote: It's turducken (because it's chicken, not chickin). Nick Arbitter of speling. On Nov 22, 2007 12:17 PM, Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or just turkey or chicken or duck or the soy equivalent. Hope y'all have a happy one. Doug

Re: Writers Strike - Why Plumbers Don't Get Residuals

2007-11-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Most people call plumbers to clean out residuals . . . Yucky Maru -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Tattoos - Scientifical

2007-11-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:24 AM Sunday 11/18/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: http://m3.alexweidmann.com/piles/?s=sciencetattoo Has to be seen to be believed.G Perhaps #17 could donate his body to be frozen and placed on board a spacecraft so hypothetical aliens who find the spacecraft sometime in the future will

Re: Writer's Strike

2007-11-17 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:10 AM Saturday 11/17/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: If anyone is interested there are some interesting tidbits here: http://tvwritersstrike.blogspot.com/ Well, that's one side heard from. Is there a version from the writers saying it is all the producers' fault? -- Ronn! :)

Re: Address by Salt Lake City mayor

2007-11-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:27 AM Thursday 11/15/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: http://www.slcgov.com/mayor/speeches/2007%20Speeches/102507octoberdemonstration.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/2zjyu3 if the first one is too long for you. He takes Bush, Cheney and the majority of the Congress, including the entire Utah

Re: Salt Lake City mayor

2007-11-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:03 PM Thursday 11/15/2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2zjyu3 He takes Bush, Cheney and the majority of the Congress, to task over the imperial bullying, of the US government. (snip) Keep in mind that Rocky's main platform as mayor seems to be standing up to the theocracy and

RE: Uplift at Yellowstone

2007-11-12 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:21 AM Monday 11/12/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Horn, John wrote: Dave Land wrote I was about to reply with a snarky comment about how the Discovery Channel will no doubt produce a fear-mongering video about the dangers of the Supervolcano in Yellowstone,

Re: Uplift at Yellowstone

2007-11-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:21 PM Saturday 11/10/2007, Matt Grimaldi wrote: Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to Brin-L, by the way! What is the fascination (mania? obsession?) with the word maru on this list? The only maru I'm familiar with is the Kobyashi Maru from Star Trek and I somehow

Re: fires, quakes and tornadoes...

2007-11-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:25 PM Thursday 11/8/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Doug wrote: Ronn! wrote: Little Birdie In The Sky/Why'd You Do That In My Eye/Little Birdie Flying High/I'm Just Glad That Cows Don't Fly Maru Interesting. The version I always heard was: Birdie, birdie

Re: ENDA

2007-11-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:23 PM Thursday 11/8/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would allow employment protections to gay, lesbian and bisexual employees, passed the House of Representatives. The version that passed did not include protections for transgendered employees,

Re: UN Sanctions

2007-11-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:19 PM Thursday 11/8/2007, jon louis mann wrote: I don't like any nation to act unilaterally, but if it is done out of compassion and saves lives, rather than the opposite, of course it is justified. when the UN fails to intervene effectively, as is often the case, someone has to

Re: fires, quakes and tornadoes...

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:48 PM Tuesday 11/6/2007, jon louis mann wrote: i think i will have a seismic cutoff valve installed after all these stories. every once in a while you hear a story of a flying cow landing in a tree, They make a seismic cutoff valve for cows? Or just the ones in the Archer

RE: Ghostpost...synthetic biology and security

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:27 PM Tuesday 11/6/2007, Dan M wrote: What I still don't understand is why people don't want to know the actual viewpoints of folks they don't agree with. 'Cuz it's so much easier than the alternative, and saves time as well? :P Maru -- Ronn! :)

Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:10 AM Tuesday 11/6/2007, William T Goodall wrote: On 6 Nov 2007, at 14:47, Julia Thompson wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Doug wrote: Ronn! wrote: So what would most folks think of someone who professed a belief in God and spent his evenings and weekends drinking and

Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:29 PM Monday 11/5/2007, jon louis mann wrote: I have called myself a Christian, but I despise the disease that crawls among us and advertises itself by that name. I do not believe that Christianity is mainly about morality. I believe that plenty of people over the centuries have tried to

Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:15 AM Tuesday 11/6/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 06/11/2007, at 12:51 PM, Dave Land wrote: I have called myself a Christian, but I despise the disease that crawls among us and advertises itself by that name. As Gandhi said when asked what he thought of Western Civilization: It would

Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:18 AM Tuesday 11/6/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: Sure. Got a Temple of Pan in the back garden... Is that a darkroom where you develop BW film? If At First You Don't Succeed Tri-X Again Maru -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: fires, quakes and tornadoes...

2007-11-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:36 PM Wednesday 11/7/2007, jon louis mann wrote: i think i will have a seismic cutoff valve installed after all these stories. every once in while you hear a story of a flying cow landing in a tree... jon They make a seismic cutoff valve for cows? Or just the ones in the Archer

Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:15 AM Sunday 11/4/2007, Nick Arnett wrote: On 11/4/07, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=258 Global publics are sharply divided over the relationship between religion and morality. In much of Africa, Asia, and the Middle

Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:34 PM Sunday 11/4/2007, Nick Arnett wrote: On 11/4/07, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is perfectly reasonable for Christians to believe that morality is achievable without belief in God. How about the converse? (Other than in the James 2:19 sense.) Isn't

RE: Shaking!

2007-11-01 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:32 PM Wednesday 10/31/2007, Dan Minettte wrote: I resigned my roadrunner account on brin-l to Comcast, and haven't seen the email. I'm resending from my hotmail account. If this appears first, then Comcast isn't working yet. This is the last message I have received from Brin-L . . .

Re: Naked Eye Comet!

2007-10-29 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:48 PM Monday 10/29/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 10/26/07, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, a normally-faint comet named P17/Holmes, which never gets closer to the Sun than more than twice the Earth's distance underwent an outburst which resulted

Naked Eye Comet!

2007-10-26 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
On Wednesday, a normally-faint comet named P17/Holmes, which never gets closer to the Sun than more than twice the Earth's distance underwent an outburst which resulted in it becoming nearly a million times brighter than it had been a few hours before. It is an easy naked-eye object, even

Speaking of public mass transit . . .

2007-10-23 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Scott Adams rides the New York City subway: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/new-york-city-s.html http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/09/new-york-city-s.html -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: 150 MPG from a Toyota Prius

2007-10-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:39 PM Saturday 10/20/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34422/113/ TG Video: Aftermarket lithium-ion battery pack squeezes 150 MPG from a Toyota Prius Ontario (CA) - A new lithium-ion battery pack for the Toyota Prius may not lower gas prices, but it

Re: Death Note

2007-10-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:30 PM Saturday 10/20/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: Tonight on the Cartoon Network. xponent Watch It Maru rob Is there a missing link? -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Rowling Outs Dumbledore

2007-10-20 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:32 PM Saturday 10/20/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/20/2007 3:25:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dumbledore was gay Now you know the reason why he kept the sorting hat in his office. Vilyehm I expect I should be glad I don't quite get

Re: Unattended Children

2007-10-19 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Pediatricians to FDA: No cold meds to children under 6 Cold and cough medicines given to infants and toddlers work no better than dummy pills and can be dangerous, pediatricians seeking to curb their use told government health advisers Thursday. The doctors told the Food and Drug

Relativistic Thermodynamics

2007-10-19 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Thought some here might find this interesting . . . PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 843 October 18, 2007 by Phillip F. Schewe www.aip.org/pnu RELATIVISTIC THERMODYNAMICS. Einstein*s special theory of relativity has formulas, called

Re: Crossing that bridge . . .

2007-10-19 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:40 PM Thursday 10/18/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 12:52 AM Wednesday 10/17/2007, Ray Ludenia wrote: On 17/10/2007, at 6:27 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: On this day in 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea

Re: Mac cult attacks

2007-10-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 01:33 PM Thursday 10/18/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: Sure. Current web tablet (£120) and Wifi adaptor (£15) with a deacent 9 screen and stylus, or an iPhone. Gee! So what's the conversion factor to $US? -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: Crossing that bridge . . .

2007-10-18 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:52 AM Wednesday 10/17/2007, Ray Ludenia wrote: On 17/10/2007, at 6:27 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: On this day in 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. Not to forget that it is also the day George H

Re: Mac cult attacks

2007-10-17 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:40 PM Tuesday 10/16/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Oct 2007, at 21:25, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 16 Oct 2007 at 21:09, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Oct 2007, at 20:43, Andrew Crystall wrote: [snip and hope I left the attributions

Crossing that bridge . . .

2007-10-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
On this day in 1843, Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Big and dumb . . .

2007-10-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
On this day in 1869, Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Yes, but is *walking* necessarily the answer?

2007-10-16 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:05 PM Tuesday 10/16/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece Quote from article: The troubling fact is that taking a lot of exercise and then eating a bit more food is not good for the global atmosphere. Eating less and driving to save

Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:35 PM Monday 10/15/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, glued and soldered in to the handset That is something you can't shrug off in the same way though. AndrewC So after a few hundred charging cycles when the battery dies

Re: Evil cult attacks

2007-10-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:16 PM Monday 10/15/2007, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Oct 2007, at 01:03, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 05:35 PM Monday 10/15/2007, Andrew Crystall wrote: The disassembling also revealed the iPhone's battery was, unusually, glued and soldered in to the handset That is something

Quote of the day

2007-10-14 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
From a blog comment to an article about a TV weatherman in Texas announcing that the station would now report temperatures in Celsius as well as Fahrenheit: You've just highlighted one of the gross inefficiencies of the Fahrenheit system, it requires more degrees to express a temperature.

Monday EVENING . . ., was Sunday morning . . .

2007-10-14 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Sorry . . . looked at the old subject line and went with morning for some reason. The Moon and Jupiter in the west SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsgo/whatsuptonight/10261537.html http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsgo/whatsuptonight/10261537.html In The Right

May be useful to writers -- SUNDAY ONLY

2007-10-14 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
May be of interest: http://www.giveawayoftheday.comGiveaway of the Day http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/giveawayoftheday/feed/~3/169655772/Portable Text Editor that Keeps You Organized! Posted: 14 Oct 2007 02:00 AM CDT Liquid Story Binder XE is a uniquely designed word processor for

Another online test . . .

2007-10-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
What Kind of Reader Are You? http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_kind_of_reader_are_you http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_kind_of_reader_are_you I'd Rather Be Reading Than Taking Another Dumb Online Test Maru -- Ronn! :) ___

Monday morning . . ., was Sunday morning . . .

2007-10-13 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
The Moon and Jupiter in the west before sunrise: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsgo/whatsuptonight/10261537.html http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsgo/whatsuptonight/10261537.html In The Right Direction For Julia To See This One Maru -- Ronn! :)

Re: bikes v. cars

2007-10-12 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:33 AM Friday 10/12/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 12/10/2007, at 10:57 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: which could also stand for High Profile Vehicle, i.e., the ones which are subject to being blown off the road or over on their sides when it gets windy . . . What's the difference

Re: bikes v. cars

2007-10-12 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:47 PM Friday 10/12/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 13/10/2007, at 1:36 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:33 AM Friday 10/12/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 12/10/2007, at 10:57 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: which could also stand for High Profile Vehicle, i.e., the ones which

Re: bikes v. cars

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:33 AM Thursday 10/11/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 11/10/2007, at 2:28 AM, Dan Minettte wrote: What you're saying is that the weak should give up their rights to the strong. Actually, while asking for trouble is a poor choice of words, I don't think that he's advocating that

Re: Unattended Children

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:27 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:49 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://www.europastation.com/gary/pictures/ No one wants an unattended child anywhere near

RE: bikes v. cars

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:49 AM Thursday 10/11/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Horn, John wrote: Charlie Bell wrote Oooo... There's that nerve again. At least it wasn't *me* this time! It's going to get very tiresome if every time I disagree with something strongly, you claim it's a

Re: blood type

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:25 PM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:07 AM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Ray Ludenia wrote: On 10/10/2007, at 9:46 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: (My biggest complaint about my fish allergy is not being able to eat lox

Re: blood type

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:25 PM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:07 AM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Ray Ludenia wrote: On 10/10/2007, at 9:46 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: (My biggest complaint about my fish allergy is not being able to eat lox

Re: Unattended Children

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:30 PM Thursday 10/11/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:27 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:49 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, jon louis mann

Re: blood type

2007-10-11 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:32 PM Thursday 10/11/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 10:25 PM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:07 AM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Ray Ludenia wrote: On 10/10/2007, at 9:46 PM, Julia

Re: blood type

2007-10-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:07 AM Wednesday 10/10/2007, Ray Ludenia wrote: On 10/10/2007, at 9:46 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: (My biggest complaint about my fish allergy is not being able to eat lox.) I can't even drink it! Liquid oxygen??? A dish best served cold. -- Ronn! :)

Blame Bush . . .

2007-10-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Lightning Strikes, Changing Climate Revealed on Jupiter http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071009-jupiter-lightning.html -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: More crap about music - really stupid this time

2007-10-09 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:26 PM Tuesday 10/9/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: --===0792540944== http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7029892.stm A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work. The action

Re: Select a Candidate 2008

2007-10-09 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:45 PM Tuesday 10/9/2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460 This little quiz/calculator will weigh your preferences about issues and tell you which candidate (claims to share) your views. Take it with a grain of salt, but it might help you find a candidate

Re: Select a Candidate 2008

2007-10-09 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:45 PM Tuesday 10/9/2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460 This little quiz/calculator will weigh your preferences about issues and tell you which candidate (claims to share) your views. Of course, the problem is that when you get to the polls on Election

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-10-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:06 AM Monday 10/8/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 10/5/07, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you get a chance to pick up the series by John Scalzi: Old Man's War , The Last War and The Ghost Brigades, do so, they were an excellent read. Scalzi's latest book, _The Android's Dream_,

Re: Tame rats

2007-10-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:16 AM Monday 10/8/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 10/6/07, Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's why a regular reminder that IIAMOAC is a good idea. I is a member of a civilization? Opps. The Most Common Blood Type Among Internet Posters Is Type-O Positive Maru -- Ronn

Election Poll

2007-10-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
Tomorrow is the general election for mayor. Nine candidates are running. If there is no clear winner, the two top candidates will participate in a runoff election three weeks later. I just got a call in which a pre-recorded voice asked If the runoff election were held today, would you vote

Re: Oops...

2007-10-08 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:26 PM Monday 10/8/2007, jon louis mann wrote: IAAMOAC is a good idea. I am a member of a civilization Opps... The Most Common Blood Type Among Internet Posters Is Type-O Positive Maru -- Ronn! :) uh, uh... Type O was the original paleolithic blood type. Type A showed up after

Re: Sunday morning . . .

2007-10-07 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:48 PM Saturday 10/6/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 11:28 PM Friday 10/5/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: OK, so that was Venus I saw this morning. Wasn't sure. Now I am. :) If it's in that direction and at that time of day

Re: Sunday morning . . .

2007-10-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:28 PM Friday 10/5/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: From Astronomy magazine's on-line newsletter (I couldn't find a link to it): Early morning display [Image] [] Plan to awaken early October 7 - a spectacular view awaits you in the eastern sky

Re: Tame rats

2007-10-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:50 PM Saturday 10/6/2007, jon louis mann wrote: It's about a group of scientists in Russia who have been experimenting over the past 50 years with domestication and how it might be possible through selective breeding in a short time rather than a long one. They're also attempting to

Re: Science near Julia

2007-10-06 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 10:42 AM Saturday 10/6/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071006/ap_on_sc/new_canyon Geologic time has a different meaning when it comes to Canyon Lake Gorge. You could say it dates to around the end of the Enron era. So what did Enron have to do with the formation

Sunday morning . . .

2007-10-05 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
From Astronomy magazine's on-line newsletter (I couldn't find a link to it): Early morning display [Image] [] Plan to awaken early October 7 - a spectacular view awaits you in the eastern sky. Shortly after 4:30 A.M., Venus, Saturn, the Moon and the bright star Regulus in Leo rise in the

Perhaps of interest . . .

2007-10-05 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
In today's news: Purpose of appendix believed found — (It isn't nothing.) http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/10/05/appendix.purpose.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Ig Nobel awards celebrate the sillier side of science — (Why it's of interest should be self-explanatory to anyone who recognizes

Re: Forget children's health, and the troops upon return...

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:55 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=71741 When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as

Re: Cat free London?

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:08 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: And Of Course King Of The Wind! I've heard that Beano can help with that . . . ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: bikes v. cars

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:55 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, jon louis mann wrote: The biggest problem with car driver in car-based cities is the general ignorance of rules applying to bicycles. Two abreast is legal just about everywhere, and a bicycle is *entitled* to the *whole lane*. Even in LA. Most cyclists stay towards

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:34 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance, but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get intelligent servants/companions is not His invention: the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about gengineered cats Do you think

Re: It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:06 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far, and in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from missions: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19425/ ...Salmonella grown onboard the

Re: Hybrid Cars: An unexpected complaint

2007-10-03 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:23 AM Wednesday 10/3/2007, Jim Sharkey wrote: Apparently, they're too quiet: http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?news_id=ap-d8s1n79o0; The National Federation for the Blind is complaining that when the cars are running on solely electricity, blind people cannot hear them and it

Re: Hybrid Cars: An unexpected complaint

2007-10-03 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:04 AM Wednesday 10/3/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 03/10/2007, at 10:23 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote: Apparently, they're too quiet: http://money.excite.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt_top.jsp?news_id=ap-d8s1n79o0; The National Federation for the Blind

Re: Car free London?

2007-10-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:25 AM Tuesday 10/2/2007, Charlie Bell wrote: On 30/09/2007, at 8:50 PM, Gary Nunn wrote: Holy Cow!! I make a post and step away for a few weeks and find this topic ran rampant - and I missed it! Yep. I'm still wondering what bits of London are 20 mins apart by car and hours

Re: Cat free London?

2007-10-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:30 AM Tuesday 10/2/2007, Nick Arnett wrote: Every time I see this subject, I think What about dogs? Of course, I'm seeing something that isn't there... Hardly the first time, either. Nick How long since your last eye exam/new pair of glasses, Nick? 8-) (As an interim fix, perhaps you

Re: Cat free London?

2007-10-02 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:36 PM Tuesday 10/2/2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 10/2/07, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I see this subject, I think What about dogs? All dogs go to heaven. If they insist on chasing cars*, sometimes sooner than later . . . _ *Or in Florida, licking toads . . .

Re: Car free London?

2007-10-02 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:11 PM Tuesday 10/2/2007, William T Goodall wrote: Sounds like your public transport is designed by people who want to discredit public transport. But at least the lead story on the local news today there was an announcement that they are raising the fare . . . -- Ronn! :)

Re: Add To Lexicon: Googleganger

2007-09-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:16 AM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: --===0020866293== http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=googlegangers http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21050562/site/newsweek/ Eve Fairbanks knew something was up four years ago when her

Re: Signs

2007-09-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:07 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: Looky Looky!!! http://www.flickr.com/groups/badsignage/pool/ Bilingulism run amuck: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hansol/82654761/ -- Ronn! :) ___

Re: Signs

2007-09-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:45 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Robert Seeberger wrote: Here, have a taste: http://pictoral.blogspot.com/2007/09/jesus-forgives-you.html I thought from your tag line it might be a reference to one of the photos of the Jesus Restaurant . . . -- Ronn! :)

Re: Unattended Children

2007-09-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:49 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://www.europastation.com/gary/pictures/ No one wants an unattended child anywhere near espresso, and this seems to be an effective way to prevent that. Julia wouldn't caffeine have the

Re: Unattended Children

2007-09-30 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:27 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:49 PM Sunday 9/30/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, jon louis mann wrote: http://www.europastation.com/gary/pictures/ No one wants an unattended child anywhere

Re: iPhone spotting

2007-09-29 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 06:40 PM Saturday 9/29/2007, William T Goodall wrote: We all know that on TV the good guys use Macs and the bad guys use PCs and Mac spotting has become slightly passé because they're everywhere as are iPods. But the iPhone puts new life into this exciting pastime. So; Spotted - in Journeyman

Re: Al Gore and the Internet

2007-09-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:09 AM Tuesday 9/25/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: Al Gore and the Internet. My apologies that this is a bit out of date... http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070627 How could you apologize for that and not for the pun contained

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