Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliab...

2006-09-28 Thread William T Goodall
of vacuuming, then it should be straightforward to come up with a demonstration of how cheap and easy it would be for the US to meet Kyoto. Cheaper and easier than dealing with storms, floods, droughts, famines and hundreds of millions of refugees. If it comes to that Maru -- William T

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-09-27 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using launchd. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliab...

2006-09-27 Thread William T Goodall
will probably make it too late to prevent the ecosystems of the north from triggering runaway climate change, the study concludes (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 103, p 14288). [...] -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: Researchers Identify Human Skin Color Gene

2006-09-23 Thread William T Goodall
is not a myth, It's not. maybe it's time to seriously consider curing _whiteness_. Here in the tropics, just going for lunch at noon is enough to tan the skin. An interesting idea -- but what do we do to protect the other hundred million or so nonhuman species? Little parasols. -- William T

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliab...

2006-09-22 Thread William T Goodall
of all religions attack rational thought and arguments based on facts and evidence. The Emperor is naked Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ It was the pseudo-religious transfiguration of politics

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-09-20 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using launchd. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?)

2006-09-17 Thread William T Goodall
On 18 Sep 2006, at 12:43AM, Dave Land wrote: On Sep 16, 2006, at 4:24 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 16 Sep 2006, at 9:12PM, Dave Land wrote: After watching the Pyroclastic video that WTG pointed to, Not me. Just to clear that up Maru Of course not. It was Jonathan Gibson. Gibson

Re: 9/11 conspiracies (WAS RE: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?)

2006-09-16 Thread William T Goodall
On 16 Sep 2006, at 9:12PM, Dave Land wrote: After watching the Pyroclastic video that WTG pointed to, Not me. Just to clear that up Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-14 Thread William T Goodall
On 14 Sep 2006, at 7:42PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 14 Sep 2006 at 3:37, William T Goodall wrote: OS X also has a significant share in this market with several supercomputing clusters in use. http://www.apple.com/science/ Nope, don't see the American DoD listed there. A quick Google

Re: The Fertility Gap

2006-09-14 Thread William T Goodall
thought of the Democrats as the party of the man- hating feminist lesbian gender theorists and the Republicans as the 'illiterate, barefoot and pregnant from menarche to menopause' party. Stereotypes Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: The Fertility Gap

2006-09-14 Thread William T Goodall
On 14 Sep 2006, at 9:37PM, William T Goodall wrote: Is it? I always thought of the Democrats as the party of the man- hating feminist lesbian gender theorists and the Republicans as the 'illiterate, barefoot and pregnant from menarche to menopause' party. I should probably qualify

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using launchd. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
of the advantages of open source code path review that Linux has in terms of security. http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html Keep your assumptions to yourself. Really. You should try that. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
On 14 Sep 2006, at 2:32AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 14 Sep 2006 at 2:22, William T Goodall wrote: On 14 Sep 2006, at 1:47AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 13 Sep 2006 at 7:20, Gibson Jonathan wrote: Agreed. Never made any other case except to point out a Mac is better secured than PC

Re: What should we believe when there is no reliable information?

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
bottle their farts and use them to build a time machine Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ What's the difference between OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about OS X

Re: Morality

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
On 9 Sep 2006, at 12:51PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 9 Sep 2006 at 2:36, William T Goodall wrote: For me unknowable/meaningless = knowable/false. So you reject quantum theory entirely? Interesting. I'm quite happy with the 'shut up and calculate' part. It's those wacky ontologies I

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
On 14 Sep 2006, at 3:13AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 14 Sep 2006 at 2:58, William T Goodall wrote: It's not 'none' though is it? None/some/all are different you know. OS X clearly has at least some of the open source advantages of Linux and certainly a great more than Windows. Nope

Brin article on Salon

2006-09-13 Thread William T Goodall
and program themselves? To those who shape our technical world, the notion remains not just inaccessible, but strangely inconceivable. -- By David Brin -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Maybe Windows is good

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
enclosure I recently bought has one for disk access (the power light is a less annoying green) and it's way too bright. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ The fact that an opinion has been widely held

Re: Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
to be trying to make. No, I'm fine. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux. - Bill Joy

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
dying tomorrow morning. :) I've always found plenty of strong drink is a great cold cure. Or takes one's mind off it at any rate :- Diuretic Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Due to a typographical

Re: Morality

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
/False/Haggis Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Our products just aren't engineered for security. - Brian Valentine, senior vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows development team

Re: Morality

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
On 8 Sep 2006, at 5:23PM, Horn, John wrote: On Behalf Of William T Goodall Agnosticism : ~Believe {God(s) exist} is true Atheism : Believe {God(s) exist} is ~true Which are equivalent in a two-valued logic system. Am I the only one who read this and thought, huh? Can you parse that out

Re: Morality

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
} is either unknown or possibly even unknowable. They *could* mean that of course, and perhaps some do. That's rather a difficult position to hew to consistently though and most agnostics don't seem to. Porridge Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http

Re: Morality

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
On 9 Sep 2006, at 12:44AM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 08/09/2006, at 7:37 PM, William T Goodall wrote: Agnostics don't believe that it is true that God(s) exist. Not quite - agnostics assert that it is not possible to prove or disprove a deity... Or unknowable which isn't the same thing

Re: Morality

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
On 9 Sep 2006, at 1:55AM, David Hobby wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On 8 Sep 2006, at 10:51PM, Richard Baker wrote: ... I think you're wrong on the former. In my opinion, a better characterisation is that agnostics think the truth value of {God (s) exist} is either unknown or possibly

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
mutates then just not reading what you don't want to read is rather simple. I don't Maru [1] Abortion anyone? Evil Clinton/Bush US politics? -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ How long a minute is depends

Re: Morality

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
On 9 Sep 2006, at 2:36AM, William T Goodall wrote: For me unknowable/meaningless = knowable/false. That's a heuristic of course. Assumptions Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ It was the pseudo

Trusted minister who fleeced his flock

2006-09-08 Thread William T Goodall
to serve a prison sentence. I can't believe he's been let off, she said. After what he's put me through, it isn't fair. Birds of a feather Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-07 Thread William T Goodall
and wrong in regards to goals become moot. In the presence of God or gods, why would one goal be preferable to any other? I might have one goal. You might have another... -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-07 Thread William T Goodall
On 7 Sep 2006, at 5:06PM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 07/09/2006, at 6:58 PM, Brother John wrote: William T Goodall wrote: The atheists eat less babies than the theists though due to having a rationally designed, probably vegetarian, diet. There is nothing rational about a vegetarian diet

Re: Manners (was Re: Religious freedom)

2006-09-07 Thread William T Goodall
On 7 Sep 2006, at 3:47AM, jdiebremse wrote: Wow. I do have to admire your chutzpah.. That's cute from the guy whose favourite topic reduces to accusing everyone who uses contraception of being a mass-murderer. Goose Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
. Bored Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris - Larry Wall ___ http

Re: Manners (was Re: Religious freedom)

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
stop fighting. Or course, that won't matter either. That's very religious talk! Lots of killing and blood. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
On 6 Sep 2006, at 2:31PM, Richard Baker wrote: Or: how does God Himself decide what is good and evil? Isn't He, at least, basically in the same position as us atheists? I think I have an advantage in not being imaginary. Real Me Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
Internals_ the other week. 1641 pages of hard- bound fun to dip into! No library is complete without it Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
himself has a God as I believe. And does God's God have a God too? And if so does he have a God? And does God's God's God's God have a God? Russian Doll Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ The surprising

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using launchd. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Shiny

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
Ooh! New 24 screen iMac with 1920 x 1200 resolution. Rattles piggybank Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris - Larry Wall

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
conclusions about our best bets at approaching the truth when it comes to ethics. I'll stop here to see if you think that is a presupposition that is worth exploring further. No. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread William T Goodall
. Short-term egoistical goals for atheists lead to mass murder. The atheists eat less babies than the theists though due to having a rationally designed, probably vegetarian, diet. Baby munching God lovers Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: Religious freedom, but not that stupid argument

2006-09-05 Thread William T Goodall
wrongheadedness is the target. It's more of a hobby really. He's just baiting to and beyond the point of rudeness. If people espouse risible nonsensical religious views of their own free will then they are fair game for ridicule in my book. Invisible Pink Gods Maru -- William T Goodall

Re: unholy OS wars (was Re: history is evil, why it must be eradicated)

2006-09-05 Thread William T Goodall
! HP-25 from 1975 to 1990 HP-15C from 1990 - current HP-48 emulator on the iMac RPN Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ [Microsoft’s Windows Vista] Beta 2 is a good looking operating system with a number

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
a paper about the prevalence of sexual abuse and got such an icy reception for it (because of the widespread denial in society) that he changed his tune and claimed the victims were making it up. Freudian analysis is clearly a religious movement. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Sep 2006, at 3:05AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 4 Sep 2006 at 2:49, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Sep 2006, at 2:27AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a In America. For one specific

Zombies (was Re: unholy OS wars)

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Sep 2006, at 2:06PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 4 Sep 2006, at 3:05AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On the other hand, you're comparing the time a computer can be connected to the internet, entire unprotected, before it picks up nastyware. Which a variety of free firewalls and virus

Re: Religious freedom, but not that stupid argument

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
religious beliefs. Those mostly aren't religions because they do not have the organisational structure of a religion. An exception would be the Raelians. That is a UFO based religion. Tenets Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: Religious freedom, but not that stupid argument

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
associated with such belief or system of thought. It is sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system[1], but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions. Just to save some more wasted time I point out that those lists are *OR*ed not *AND*ed. -- William T

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
everything suddenly changed then it is entirely reasonable to assume the same things were going on back to the 800's or whenever it was priests stopped marrying. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ The fact

Word games (was Re: Religious freedom, but not that stupid argument)

2006-09-04 Thread William T Goodall
to. Round Again Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Aerospace is plumbing with the volume turned up. - John Carmack ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 2:30AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 3 Sep 2006 at 0:53, William T Goodall wrote: On 2 Sep 2006, at 10:10PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 2 Sep 2006 at 21:57, William T Goodall wrote: On 2 Sep 2006, at 9:34PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: No, the issue is that some people

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 3:03AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Interesting. Why do you suppose you feel that way? Oh, I suppose I feel that way. Eliza Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot

Police hunt for terror training camp at a faith school in Tunbridge Wells

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
. Shopping centres and main-line railway stations are believed to have been possible targets, although there is no suggestion that the London Underground, would be attacked. Sick puppies Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 3:07PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 3 Sep 2006 at 8:31, William T Goodall wrote: Perhaps if you read the origional again? I gave plenty of evidence, which starts with the fact that they operate as whatever sort of organisation better suits the area. They not a religion

Re: Police hunt for terror training camp at a faith school in Tunbridge Wells

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 3:32PM, David Hobby wrote: Look, I teach at a real school. The phrase Faith school already sounds pretty bad to me, as it indicates that nothing of substance is taught. Maru. Apart from bomb-making obviously. God loves an explosion Maru -- William T Goodall Mail

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
abuse using bribes and intimidation and shuffling deviant priests around from place to place without punishing them or keeping them away from children. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
that perhaps you don't know the Truth after all. One step at a time Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right and wrong are the arbitrary proclamations of invisible

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
the burden is on you to show it isn't so if you disagree . -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Every Sunday Christians congregate to drink blood in honour of their zombie master

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 10:09PM, Dave Land wrote: On Sep 3, 2006, at 12:18 PM, William T Goodall wrote: On 3 Sep 2006, at 7:55PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be interested in seeing William provide evidence that the Catholic Church has been running a pedophile ring for centuries... It's

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 10:45PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: And no, I can't spell. I'm dyslexic. Your point? It's harder to read your incoherent babbling when it's full of spelling mistakes. Good spelling is polite Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 10:53PM, William T Goodall wrote: It seems pretty obvious to me, but it's not a subject I find important enough to put any extra effort into. If you want to prove me wrong go ahead and knock yourself out. Otherwise we'll just have to differ on the matter. Just

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
Church is a dangerous pedophile organisation that has been molesting children for centuries. That's apart from all the other criminal activities it is involved in. And don't get me started on nuns. History Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 11:19PM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 9/3/06, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the Catholic Church is the largest pedophile ring in the world. That's pretty criminal and they've been covering that up for centuries. That is an absolutely ridiculous statement

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
mistaken me for Dan! Top posting is religious Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right and wrong are the arbitrary proclamations of invisible demons

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 3 Sep 2006, at 11:23PM, John W Redelfs wrote: On 9/3/06, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given the Church's ongoing efforts to cover up the issue any lack of published scandal prior to the well-known present day cases can't show that molestation wasn't going on then too. I

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
of the parties in the discussion are trying to further their own pro- or anti-celibacy agenda, regardless of statistical or factual evidence. Therefore, no consensus can be reported here. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http

Manners (was Re: Religious freedom)

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
. Sincerely Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right and wrong are the arbitrary proclamations of invisible demons

Re: unholy OS wars (was Re: history is evil, why it must be eradicated)

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
. The Mac is about $947 cheaper — and the gap widens when you start piling on options such as more memory, faster processors and bigger hard drives. Best Value Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Sep 2006, at 12:58AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 3 Sep 2006 at 23:00, William T Goodall wrote: Good spelling is polite Maru Not criticising people for disabilities is polite, as well. But given the propaganda you spew, I can't expect politeness from you. I'm being far politer to you

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Sep 2006, at 1:15AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More to the point, pointing out spelling mistakes and bad grammer is an indication you have nothing better to say... Some posts have nothing in them worth replying to. Both my parents were teachers Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL

Re: unholy OS wars (was Re: history is evil, why it must be eradicated)

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Sep 2006, at 1:14AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 4 Sep 2006 at 1:02, William T Goodall wrote: A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a In America. For one specific model. And with a very expensive Windows PC make for comparison. And without similar options

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
On 4 Sep 2006, at 1:28AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 4 Sep 2006 at 1:22, William T Goodall wrote: I'm being far politer to you than all the careless educators who couldn't be bothered to teach you the basics of thinking and writing because you had a handicap. Your basic lack of knowledge

Re: unholy OS wars

2006-09-03 Thread William T Goodall
years the Mac would work out cheaper! Still only $100,000 whereas you'd need over $500,000 worth of PCs! Comparisons Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-02 Thread William T Goodall
done it for you and join their religion. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right and wrong are the arbitrary proclamations of invisible demons

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-02 Thread William T Goodall
you are. You're no different from the person round here who drew slogons in paint over the wall of someones house recently, calling the occupier gay. Was that you? It's certainly not the sort of thing I approve of at all. But I'm ethical Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-02 Thread William T Goodall
On 2 Sep 2006, at 5:42PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 2 Sep 2006 at 17:29, William T Goodall wrote: On 2 Sep 2006, at 5:07PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: Yes, amazing how different it is if you, say, follow the teachings of say Marx, or L. Ron Hubbard, or your grandma... Oh wait, it's

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-02 Thread William T Goodall
gather from your preceding rants that you're bigoted as well. So I can conclude you are also a hypocrite... QED Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ And yes, OSX is marvelous. Its merest bootlace

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-02 Thread William T Goodall
. In the nursery Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right and wrong are the arbitrary proclamations of invisible demons

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-02 Thread William T Goodall
on the head of a pin? After all, nobody can prove a negative and it's all just a theory anyway... Third Policeman Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-01 Thread William T Goodall
On 1 Sep 2006, at 5:47AM, Ritu wrote: William T Goodall wrote: In rural India little girls are still sold to temples as sex slaves In rural India little girls are sold as maids/bonded slaves, Devadasis are well documented. See here for example http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes

Re: history is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Religious freedom]

2006-09-01 Thread William T Goodall
don't study it either from what I can recall of high- school history classes. There were some Romans, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Acts of Union of 1707. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ And yes, OSX

Re: Religious freedom

2006-09-01 Thread William T Goodall
where everybody 'graduates' from high school and basic literacy and numeracy are university level subjects. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ It was the pseudo-religious transfiguration of politics

Re: Religious freedom

2006-08-31 Thread William T Goodall
On 31 Aug 2006, at 4:09AM, Charlie Bell wrote: On 31/08/2006, at 12:56 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 31 Aug 2006 at 2:36, William T Goodall wrote: What's your point? The guy was [allegedly] responsible for forcing girls as young as 12-y.o. to marry older men, giving the girls no choice

Re: Religious freedom

2006-08-31 Thread William T Goodall
On 31 Aug 2006, at 3:56AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 31 Aug 2006 at 2:36, William T Goodall wrote: What's your point? The guy was [allegedly] responsible for forcing girls as young as 12-y.o. to marry older men, giving the girls no choice in the matter. Are you suggesting that under

Re: Religious freedom

2006-08-31 Thread William T Goodall
On 31 Aug 2006, at 7:27PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 31 Aug 2006 at 16:40, William T Goodall wrote: 'Cult' is a derogatory term used by members of one religion to describe another religion they particularly dislike. Yes, I'd describe your militant atheism as a cult in many respects

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using launchd. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 30 Aug 2006, at 6:58PM, William T Goodall wrote: This message was sent automatically using launchd. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up. Now running on the new server. Weekly reminder now sent by launchd instead of cron. I had to recompile

Religious freedom

2006-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Theists cannot be trusted as they believe that right and wrong are the arbitrary proclamations of invisible demons. ___ http

Re: Religious freedom

2006-08-30 Thread William T Goodall
On 31 Aug 2006, at 2:18AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:56 PM Wednesday 8/30/2006, William T Goodall wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5297990.stm Uncertain future for US polygamy sect The arrest of US religious leader Warren Jeffs over alleged sex offences has brought his

Pope prepares to embrace theory of intelligent design

2006-08-27 Thread William T Goodall
, who has cancer, had asked to be replaced. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006 -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ And yes, OSX is marvelous. Its merest bootlace, Windows is not worthy

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-08-23 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using cron. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-08-16 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using cron. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Re: Question for Charlie

2006-08-12 Thread William T Goodall
individual master a language? Some humans have less intellectual capacity than a parrot. Microcephalics for example. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ Those who study history are doomed to repeat

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-08-09 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using cron. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-08-05 Thread William T Goodall
the obesity and diabetes causing products of the food industry have any legitimate interest in the intimate contents of a woman's own body? -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ And yes, OSX is marvelous. Its

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-08-05 Thread William T Goodall
On 6 Aug 2006, at 2:06AM, Dan Minette wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William T Goodall Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 8:01 PM Isn't the real question about whether the state owns one's body or oneself? And how

Re: Wealthy couples travel to U.S. to choose baby's sex

2006-08-03 Thread William T Goodall
believe that our fellow great apes deserve more consideration (limited human rights, if you will), than, say, cows. 900 million Hindus are very fond of cows. Moo Maru -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221

Weekly Chat Reminder

2006-08-02 Thread William T Goodall
it set up. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ This message was sent automatically using cron. But even if WTG is away on holiday, at least it shows the server is still up

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