Scouted: DHS Now Enforcing EXPIRED Patents in Outrageous Abuse of Power

2004-10-29 Thread The Fool
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=816e=1u=/ap/20041028/a p_on_fe_st/toy_store_homeland_security Homeland Security Agents Visit Toy Store Thu Oct 28, 5:20 PM ET ST. HELENS, Ore. - So far as she knows, Pufferbelly Toys owner Stephanie Cox hasn't been passing

Scouted: Internet Explorer *IS* Better Code: Proof

2004-10-29 Thread The Fool
As I post this I will note having about 90 IE windows open for aprox 4 1/2 months, no crashes. - http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632/2004-10-15/2004-10-21/0 To: BugTraq Subject: Web browsers - a mini-farce Date: Oct 18 2004 2:18PM Author: Michal Zalewski lcamtuf ghettot org

Scouted: ReptiliKlan Black Voter Supression

2004-10-29 Thread The Fool
Flyer being distributed in black neighborhoods: http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/milwaukee.gif ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Scouted: Brain battles Self over Short-Term (Emotional), Long-Term (Logical) Rewards

2004-10-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/pu-sbb101204.php Study: Brain battles itself over short-term rewards, long-term goals Implications range from economic theory to addiction research You walk into a room and spy a plate of doughnuts dripping with chocolate frosting. But wait: You were

Scouted: Another Study Shows Link Between Cellphones And Acoustic Neuromas (Ear / Brain Tumor)

2004-10-14 Thread The Fool
http://www.imm.ki.se/eng/index.htm -- http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-rxcell14oct14,0, 5506529.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines Study finds cell phones could cause noncancerous tumors By Nancy McVicar Health Writer Posted October 14 2004 People who have used cell

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-14 Thread The Fool
From: Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:35:07 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcodes have '666' built right in. The two thin bars are a six and normal barcodes have 6-some numbers-6-more numbers-6. That's an urban legend: http

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-14 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: Martin Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:35:07 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barcodes have '666' built right in. The two thin bars are a six and normal barcodes have 6-some

Re: brin: My big salvo

2004-10-11 Thread The Fool
From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:29 PM 10/11/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: The quoted passage has nothing to do with the two places where you openly stated you were quoting me. Not paraphrasing but quoting. Not true: At 08:06 PM 10/2/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: [snip] It is

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-11 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65243,00.html RFID Driver's Licenses Debated By Mark Baard 09:50 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT Some federal and state government officials want to make state driver's licenses harder to counterfeit or steal, by adding computer

Re: Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses - Now With Added 'Papers Please'

2004-10-11 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've heard a few people comparing the reading of biometrics to be equivalent to the mark of the Beast. Has anyone seen a website with this sort of sentiment? I'd be interested in reading what someone has written about it, instead of someone's vague

Embryonic Stem cells may stop birth defects

2004-10-10 Thread The Fool
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=19873 Stem cells may stop birth defects AP - Embryonic stem cells may not have to actually grow replacement body parts to be useful. New research suggests these cells also secrete healing molecules powerful enough to reverse a lethal birth defect in

Scouted: Fight The Future: RFID Driver's Licenses

2004-10-09 Thread The Fool
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65243,00.html RFID Driver's Licenses Debated By Mark Baard 09:50 AM Oct. 06, 2004 PT Some federal and state government officials want to make state driver's licenses harder to counterfeit or steal, by adding computer chips that emit a radio signal

Scouted: Stress And Violence FeedBack In Vicious Cycle

2004-10-05 Thread The Fool
Stress And Violence Feed Back In Vicious Cycle http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/apa-saa092704.php WASHINGTON -- Scientists may be learning why it's so hard to stop the cycle of violence. The answer may lie in the nervous system. There appears to be a fast, mutual, positive

Re: Brin: needing to set up a blog

2004-10-05 Thread The Fool
From: David Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Julia Thompson wrote: Dan has a blog at his own domain, using Moveable Type as the blogging software. This looks like an ideal approach to host discussions at http://www.davidbrin.com/ Thanks. I'll bring it up with my webmaster. But

Magnetic Keys and Encrypted Screws

2004-10-05 Thread The Fool
Driver Calls Police For Help When Cruise Control Gets Stuck At 120 MPH POSTED: 7:29 am EDT October 5, 2004 PARIS -- A motorist in France went a little faster than he wanted when he claimed his cruise control got stuck, leaving him barreling down a busy highway at 120 mph and forcing police to

Scouted: 62% Really are that Stupid

2004-10-05 Thread The Fool
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1 000653667 Media Matters? Poll Shows More than 4 in 10 Still Link Saddam to 9/11 By EP Staff Published: October 05, 2004 4:10 PM EDT NEW YORK While the press gave extensive coverage Tuesday to Defense Secretary Donald

Scouted: The Evil of Country Music Literally Saps The Will To Live

2004-10-03 Thread The Fool
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=5 67654 Strange but true: country music saps will to live By Steve Connor, Science Editor 01 October 2004 A study showing the link between country music and suicide has taken one of the top prizes in this year's Ig-Nobel

Scouted: The Age of an Engine

2004-09-30 Thread The Fool
http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001723.html The Age of an Engine by Stirling Newberry There are many ways to look at each period or time. One picks the lens to view the world that makes what you are looking at snap into focus. Viewed from the lens of energy, there have been three waves of

Re: Scouted: The Age of an Engine

2004-09-30 Thread The Fool
From: Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] The author flubbed some of his dates and therefore some of his conclusions are innaccurate. Specifically I'm talking about the Mechanical age based on water and wind...his date for the beginning of these developments (such as the waterwheel and

Scouted: Sexual behavior predicted by voice attractiveness

2004-09-29 Thread The Fool
http://www.plebius.org/article.php?article=613 Sexual behavior predicted by voice attractiveness Posted on Monday, September 20 2004 @ 18:27 EDT If, sight unseen, you think someone sounds attractive, chances are you're right ALBANY, N.Y. (September 20, 2004) -- University at Albany

Scouted: New RepulsiveKlan Jim Crow Tactics in Florida

2004-09-28 Thread The Fool
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=566037 Politics and sleaze envelop Orlando As the presidential campaign approaches its showdown, the Republicans in the state run by George Bush's brother are up to their tricks again. Andrew Gumbel reports from the heart of Florida

Scouted: New ReptiliKlan Jim Crow Tactics in Ohio

2004-09-27 Thread The Fool
http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/9/27/125755/309 Remember that story over the weekend on how Democrats are crushing Republicans in new voter registration in Florida and Ohio? Well, in a move that would make a Mississippi election board from the 1950's proud, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is

Scouted: Baghdad Year Zero

2004-09-25 Thread The Fool
Baghdad Year Zero - Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia http://harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html This is worth the time to read. It is way too long to post here. -- That all these things have been done with the knowledge, sanction, and procurement of the present National

Scouted: NyTimes Link Generator

2004-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink - Fox News in April, instructs employees how to report on the increasing number of American fatalities in Iraq: ''Do not fall into the easy trap of mourning the loss of U.S. lives'' -- NYT ___

Brin: Chimp can (Literally) Steal Election

2004-09-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133214,00.html Critics of the Diebold (search) touch-screen voting machines turned their attention Wednesday from the machines themselves to the computers that will tally the final vote, saying the outcome is so easy to manipulate that even a monkey could do

Machiavellian Ethics: Fertility Slavery, Mortality, Morality and the State

2004-09-19 Thread The Fool
http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001620.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Cat Missing :-(

2004-09-19 Thread The Fool
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I noted in my last post, my cat Zimmie has been missing for days now. He's never been away for more than 12 hours at a stretch -- too fond of his full food dish! sad smile Given where we live, the most likely scenario is that a coyote or pair of

Re: ATL Win2k Passwords

2004-09-19 Thread The Fool
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] My son had not used his computer for several months, and when he went to use it, what he thought was the password didn't work. He's tried just about everything and can't log back on. Does anyone know if there's a way to reset the password or what

Re: The Venture Bros.

2004-09-19 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Sep 18, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: (Had to stop here to watch The Venture Bros. Tonight it started with the death of Race Bannon from the old Johnny Quest show. What a concept) You SPOILER

Re: Brin: Pax Americana Re: Brin: political balance

2004-09-17 Thread The Fool
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] France, as we know, very frequently has had its own anti-American motiviations, as well as some serious oil contracts with Saddam Hussein on the line. Given that France has been lobbying for years to *end* sanctions and *end* inspections in Iraq, it

The Palladium DRM Lockdown Begins...

2004-09-16 Thread The Fool
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/16/ms_cd_copy_protection/ Microsoft tells music biz to 'back lock-down CD standard' By MusicAlly Published Thursday 16th September 2004 13:14 GMT Microsoft is attempting to force a last-minute pact with record labels over the future of copy-protected CDs,

Re: Brin Re: was that scary enough?

2004-09-16 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think we are better prepared for this discussion than you might think. I'm pretty sure it's Brin: not Brin ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 194, Issue 17

2004-09-15 Thread The Fool
From: Maru [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe I misunderstand here Dr. Brin, but are you saying here that we would have been successful minus the insurrection and concurrent thousand dead troops if Bush Sr. had not left the task of toppling Saddam for later presidents? What changed between then and now?

Re: One For The Fool

2004-09-15 Thread The Fool
From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf (Flash - contains audio Depends on whether there is a stand alone flash player that exists or not. I do not run 'programs' that parasitic to Internet Explorer.

Re: Above Ground Nuclear Blast in North Korea My Ass

2004-09-13 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 11, 2004, at 10:24 PM, The Fool wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storye=5u=/ap/20040912/ ap_on_re_as/nkorea_explosion True story, dishonest subject. This wasn't the only wire story, all of the early wire stories said 'nuclear

Texans to Rediscover the Joys of Price Discrimination

2004-09-11 Thread The Fool
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/09/subprime_electr.html Reuters reports that TXU Energy, the biggest utility in Texas, intends to increase its rates -- but only for those least able to pay: In a new rate-setting tactic for electric utilities, the unit of Dallas-based TXU Corp.

Above Ground Nuclear Blast in North Korea

2004-09-11 Thread The Fool
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storye=5u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_ as/nkorea_explosion Blast, Mushroom Cloud Reported in N. Korea 17 minutes ago By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press Writer SEOUL, South Korea - A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea ( - ),

Re: Diebold systems contain feature that allows tampering at central tabulator

2004-09-10 Thread The Fool
issues like security and TCO as well as just apps/OS/hardware. And the fulminating Evil of the Beast of Redmond :) Well, I just meant to be a hopeless pedant. And be careful what you say about the Beast, or you might wake up its troll -- er, Fool. When you see me pimping XP or Palladium

Jebus Runs For President

2004-09-10 Thread The Fool
http://www.dailykos.com/images/user/3/jesusbush.jpg ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Diebold systems contain feature that allows tampering at central tabulator

2004-09-09 Thread The Fool
with microsoft. It has everything to do with dibold president proclaiming he would deliver the election to Shrub. Typical of a Windows fanatic in denial. And how interesting that The Fool never replies to anything we write, except when someone points out the fragilities of Windows

Re: Diebold systems contain feature that allows tampering at central tabulator

2004-09-09 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:32 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] William T Goodall wrote: The GEMS program runs on a Microsoft Access database. Don't be stupid. It's not a problem with any microsoft product. I've

Re: Diebold systems contain feature that allows tampering at central tabulator

2004-09-09 Thread The Fool
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9 Sep 2004, at 8:11 pm, The Fool wrote: From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:32 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] William T Goodall wrote: The GEMS program runs on a Microsoft Access

Re: Quiet

2004-09-09 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 9, 2004, at 10:35 AM, Damon Agretto wrote: Still getting caught up in the (lack of) fallout from last nights 60 Minutes. Did I miss something important? Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben helping George Bush get into the National Guard was the

Re: Diebold systems contain feature that allows tampering atcentraltabulator

2004-09-09 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 9, 2004, at 2:32 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] William T Goodall wrote: The GEMS program runs on a Microsoft Access database

Re: Diebold systems contain feature that allows tampering at central tabulator

2004-09-08 Thread The Fool
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The GEMS program runs on a Microsoft Access database. Don't be stupid. It's not a problem with any microsoft product. I've posted about the dibold 3 sets of accounting books before, and it has nothing to do with microsoft. It has everything to

Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote

2004-09-03 Thread The Fool
http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/justice_redaction.htm Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote Offers Smoking Gun Proof That Document Redactions Are Often a Joke Anybody who has read many official documents—including those making headlines in the last year or more—has seen plenty of

Purple hearts

2004-09-03 Thread The Fool
Picture: http://www.on101.com/dishonor2/ - I Pledge Impertinence to the Flag-Waving of the Unindicted Co-Conspirators of America and to the Republicans for which I can't stand one Abomination, Underhanded Fraud Indefensible with Liberty and Justice Forget it. -Life in Hell (Matt Groening)

Re: Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote

2004-09-03 Thread The Fool
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:55:14 -0500, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/justice_redaction.htm Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote Hmm. I can't access that page, or anywhere else on that site. It appears

Alan Keyes: Lesbian's--Specifically Mary Cheney--Are Selfish Hedonists

2004-09-01 Thread The Fool
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm Keyes Criticizes Cheney's Lesbian Daughter Tue Aug 31 2004 23:04:55 ET Alan Keyes, the Republican candidate for a vacant U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, said Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary is a selfish hedonist because she is a

Terrorism

2004-09-01 Thread The Fool
Just Days after president Bush declared defeat in the war on terrorism, and as the New York GOP masquerade keeps extolling the strength of bush in 'fighting terrorism' (even after Bush declared defeat), Terrorism is on the increase: Major terror attacks in Afghanistan by the Taliban. Two Russian

Did Nixon Debate Humphrey?

2004-09-01 Thread The Fool
I'm having trouble finding information about a Nixon-Humphrey debate. I wan't to find out what humphrey was saying that sounded like socialism and what nixon was saying that sounded like free enterprise. ___

Re: Did Nixon Debate Humphrey?

2004-09-01 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 1, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Julia Randolph wrote: Nope. GWYDU. (Google nixon humphrey debate and look at the last 2 entries on the first page of results.) As a citizen of Kah-lee-faw-nia, it's interesting that several of the top items on

The McCain Fizzle

2004-08-31 Thread The Fool
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3pid=1732 Mccain'll never win the GOP presidential primary. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

AIDS: The Moral Scourge

2004-08-31 Thread The Fool
The RNC Speaker just told the assembly that hiv/AIDS was a Moral Scourge. -- [I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw

Re: The McCain Fizzle

2004-08-31 Thread The Fool
From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:33 PM 8/31/2004 -0400 Bryon Daly wrote: I don't think so either. I think despite McCain's loyalty to the party in campaigning for and endorsing Bush (and rejecting the Kerry VP offer), he will be remembered by the Republicans far more for his few small

The Shrub Hamster...

2004-08-31 Thread The Fool
Didn't make it. Proving yet again, Stupidity is genetic. -- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

JDG-Type Jeeb-O-Fascist Bigots Terrorize Neighborhood

2004-08-30 Thread The Fool
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_08_29_dneiwert_archive.html#1093826093 15414800 'I feel terrorized' Looks like that ol' anti-abortion extremist, Flip Benham, is not only stepping up the nastiness of his campaign by targeting abortion providers at their homes -- a tactic intentionally

National Guard

2004-08-28 Thread The Fool
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_08_22_atrios_archive.html#10936456764867 1349 Speaking to an audience: Let's talk a minute about John Kerry and George Bush, and I know them both. And I'm not name dropping, saying I know them both. See I got...I got a young man named George W. Bush into the

Clueless

2004-08-27 Thread The Fool
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/campaign/27bush.html?hp On environmental issues, Mr. Bush appeared unfamiliar with an administration report delivered to Congress on Wednesday that indicated that emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases were the only likely explanation

Re: Fascist Censorship Spreads: Vichy Style

2004-08-25 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Mercury News wrote: Yahoo cannot expect both to benefit from the fact that its content may be viewed around the world and to be shielded from the resulting costs, Judge Warren Ferguson wrote for a 2-1 majority. While the French censorship

Big Rock Found Circling Star mu Arae

2004-08-25 Thread The Fool
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/super_earth_040825.html 'Super Earth' Discovered at Nearby Star By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 25 August 2004 10:06 am ET In a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known

Re: Definition of SF

2004-08-25 Thread The Fool
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Environmental/ecological issues. Read it. Scarier than Stephen King (IMO), but the monsters are human. All real monsters are human. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Definition of SF

2004-08-25 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Damon Agretto wrote: Star Wars is Science-Fantasy, like Japanese Anime. It's up to you to consider it SF or Fantasy or both. Not all anime I would classify as Science-fantasty. Ok, but _in general_, Anime has elements of Fantasy and

DeLong's 3 Important Court Cases

2004-08-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004-2_archives/16.htm l Most Important Court Case Ever? The Eleven-Year-Old is asking, What was the most important court case ever? I have three possible candidates: 1. Dred Scott v. Sanford: If Roger B. Taney had found for Scott, then

Fascist Censorship Spreads: Vichy Style

2004-08-24 Thread The Fool
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=1620ncid=1620e=2u=/sv /20040824/tc_sv/yahoomustfacefrenchlegalaction Yahoo must face French legal action Tue Aug 24, 9:17 AM ET By Howard Mintz, Mercury News In a decision that could expose U.S.-based Web sites to free speech laws of other

Rules for Being a ReptiliKlan

2004-08-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.lyingsocialistweasels.com/rules_for_being_a_republican.htm Rules for Being a Republican You must believe that being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime - unless you're a millionaire right wing radio personality; then, it's an illness and requires prayer for recovery. You

Episodes VII, VIII, IX

2004-08-23 Thread The Fool
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=115020814p=yy5xzy5 zx Lucas to make more Star Wars? 21/08/2004 - 22:18:27 Star Wars creator George Lucas could be poised to make three sequels to the original space opera trilogy, according to insiders at Lucasfilm. According to fan site

Swift-Boat Liars for Shrub

2004-08-20 Thread The Fool
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/08/19/politics/campaign/2004082 0swift_graph.gif - You cannot cripple an opponent by outwitting him in a political debate, You can do it only by following Lenin's injunction: 'In political conflicts, the goal is not to refute your opponent's

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-20 Thread The Fool
From: Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick update on this issue. There was a story about it on the news tonite. The girl WAS offered to take Communion with wine, but her mother rejected the idea (she rejected the idea). So John was correct. Giving alcohol to child is immoral and

Gravitational anomalies

2004-08-20 Thread The Fool
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3104321 Gravitational anomalies An invisible hand? Aug 19th 2004 From The Economist print edition An unexplained effect during solar eclipses casts doubt on General Relativity “ASSUME nothing” is a good motto in science. Even the

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-19 Thread The Fool
on a daily basis because you don't believe? Read the posts here straight. The Fool and William regularly post bigoted nonsense and most of us just shrug it off. I do too, so I'm not jumping on you, but the reality is that this list does tolerate attacks on believers that it would not accept if any

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-19 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for bigotry in America, put yourself in the shoes of an non-believer

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-19 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 19, 2004, at 11:28 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for bigotry in America, put yourself in the shoes of an non

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-19 Thread The Fool
From: Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've peeped before, with disastrous consequences. Dr. Brin, as the name member of this list, does indeed get a pass from me. I would peep more too, and in fact have done so in the past. I take the pass now because I get the impression I would be

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-19 Thread The Fool
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 01:28 PM Thursday 8/19/04, The Fool wrote: From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] As for bigotry in America, put yourself

Re: Temp delay in XP SP2

2004-08-17 Thread The Fool
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI to those running MS Windows XP Pro. Apparently, MS was going to start force feeding XP Pro users SP2 the next time they logged into Windows Update. At the link below, you can download a script that will write an entry into the Windows registry that

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-17 Thread The Fool
From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:01 PM 8/16/2004 -0500, Julia Randolph wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:17:42 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--communioncontrove0812au g12,0,6656242.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire 8-year-old's first Holy Communion

Re: The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-17 Thread The Fool
From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:42 AM 8/17/2004 -0500 The Fool wrote: What The Fool conveniently left out is that communion can be distributed as either unleavened bread or as wine, and that *each* is considered to be fully the Body *and* Blood of Jesus Christ by the Catholic Church

Unto the Third and Fourth Generation

2004-08-16 Thread The Fool
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=551894 Children of criminals to be 'targeted' and 'tracked' By Marie Woolf ,Chief Political Correspondent 16 August 2004 Children of criminals are to be targeted and tracked from an early age by the Government to prevent them following

The Mercies of The Vatican

2004-08-16 Thread The Fool
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--communioncontrove0812au g12,0,6656242.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire 8-year-old's first Holy Communion invalidated by Church By JOHN CURRAN Associated Press Writer August 12, 2004, 2:25 PM EDT BRIELLE, N.J. -- An 8-year-old girl who suffers

Paper-Trails

2004-08-16 Thread The Fool
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,64569,00.htmlI t was simultaneously an uh-oh moment and an ah-ha moment. When Sequoia Voting Systems demonstrated its new paper-trail electronic voting system for state Senate staffers in California last week, the company representative got a surprise when

Weasle

2004-08-15 Thread The Fool
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/000679.html Compare the new BSA's mascot for propaganzing children to classic villian comics (the chest numbers were prison numbers not gang numbers). ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Br!n: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-14 Thread The Fool
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps there's a 'How things ought to work' collory to the 'Golden age' meme. In my experience, oughts, shoulds and their ilk are the seeds of resentment. I guess we agree on this. Actually I was mostly just trying to criticize his remarks

Re: Brin: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are many freely and easily available compilers in many languages so this doesn't really disturb me. I've heard Yet Another Basic is good (though I haven't used

Re: Brin: Format Reinstall

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Davd Brin wrote: I will not jiunx myself with overconfidence. But at first glance it is everything I was looking for in a simple BASIC interpreter that works turnkey, accompanied by a tutorial that was written for human brains. You know,

Re: Brin: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The Fool said: I Still don't understand why Dr. Brin has Difficulty with Qbasic. It seems very much like he's expressing the meme: things were better in the past, a golden age that he himself rails against so much. Well now ain't that sweet

Re: Brin: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
Final post. From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] These remarks are really rather amusing. You continue to lecture at me obvious things, based on assumptions that are false in every conceivable way. It just seems to me that you've spent more time searching (you said you've been looking for

Re: Every Single Sperm

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:07 PM Thursday 8/12/04, Deborah Harrell wrote: It's rather a non-sequitur, but the notion that a man 'wasting seed'* is a sin, while a woman undergoing 'housecleaning' after non-fertilization of an egg is merely considered 'unclean' and

Re: Br!n: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:52 PM Friday 8/13/04, The Fool wrote: From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, thank you for using the word seems so well to display your handicaps at perception. I will now continue using pencil and paper, and segue (as planned

Re: Br!n: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-13 Thread The Fool
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: I'm not the one going around claiming how much better it was in day... Aw, c'mon. David was looking for this for a very specific teaching purpose. It brought back a great memory of the first time I managed to print a sine wave

Re: Brin: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-12 Thread The Fool
From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are many freely and easily available compilers in many languages so this doesn't really disturb me. I've heard Yet Another Basic is good (though I haven't used it myself): http://www.yabasic.de/ I shall try ybasic, thanks. But after

Republicans Vs Science: Condom Wars

2004-08-12 Thread The Fool
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/31/news-ireland.php Condom Wars New guidelines gut HIV prevention — and endanger young people's lives by Doug Ireland Lethal new regulations from President Bush's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, quietly issued with no fanfare last

Re: Brin: Format Reinstall

2004-08-12 Thread The Fool
From: Davd Brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right. It is illegal in most Western countries, including all of the US and Europe. A copyright such as this in China is hardly worth the paper it is printed on. I beg to differ. Asian nations have long learned to interpret intellectual property

Re: Objective Evil

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
-- From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of The Fool -- From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] They certainly don't consider themselves Christian or at least don't call themselves that. If you are referring to JW's here you are quite mistaken. According to my sisters

Re: Objective Evil

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
. shepherds are predators who FOOL sheep into a false sense of security they fleece and slaughter sheep for their own benefit...even in sincerity -posted somewhere ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Every Single Sperm

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:51 PM 8/9/2004 +1000 Russell Chapman wrote: JDG wrote: Is it so inconceivable that maybe - just maybe - they sincerely believe that God does not want us to engage in contraception? Well, yes - if there's no basis for it. No scriptures, no tablets

Re: Avian Magnetic Vision (was Re: Horses)

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 10, 2004, at 3:33 PM, Travis Edmunds wrote: From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 21:25:13 + (UTC) Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ... some types of birds have five types of cone cells,

Study Shows Why Republicans Are Desperate to Ratchet Up the Fear Level

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=584e=6u=/nm/20040729/p l_nm/campaign_fear_dc Fear of Death Wins Minds and Votes, Study Finds Thu Jul 29,11:13 AM ET By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush ( - ) may be tapping into solid human

Brin: Fight The Future: Encrypted Screws

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
embedded microchips that control the fastening process through digital instructions from a remote tool. (Fool: Enabling The Manufacturer to have a complete monopoly on all parts, all 'tools' to open, fix, modify, or release, any and all parts of the vehicle.) Fasteners typically account for only 5

Re: Every Single Sperm

2004-08-11 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] JDG wrote: ... and until the scientific discovery of ovum and sperm, there probably wasn't much theological difference between abortion and contraception. I _think_ I read somewhere about roman condoms, made of some animal internal body

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