Oops.
You don't happen to know if they installed some spyware along with it
to enforce the Eula, do you?
~Maru
Off to wipe his computer of all incriminati- err, for maintenance purposes.
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:18:17 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship
Were you aware that it is a violation of the license
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65403,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66085,00.html
Those seem pretty close to what you describe (the first especially).
~Maru
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:37:34 -0800 (PST), Matt Grimaldi
It occurred to me today during a conversation
If he was reminscent of Eliza, wouldn't he have said something along
the lines of:
And how do those pieces of paper make you feel, 'Erik Reuter'?
~Maru
I'm no farmer guess that's why I see no straw here
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:39:24 -0500, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unable to
Last I heard, SS was not a pension; so apparently they have no problem
living off charity.
~Maru
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:54:35 +0100, God [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru spoketh:
whether it is in money or other financial instruments. I
hear that farmers are paid really large sums to
What, precisely, is the true difference between giving retirees
crops/foodstuffs and money (aside from the sheer versatility of money
of course.)? They are both charity as far as I can see.
~Maru
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:18:05 +0100, God [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru Dubshinki contributed
Why the gloomy outlook? Not optimistic about security?
~Maru
Erik Reuter wrote:
In the long term, that will
make a big difference, but compound interest takes decades to make a big
difference. Also, my prediction is that over the next 10 years, equities
will return less than their long term 4%.
Curious: I would have thought that dividend would have been higher;
taxes were lowered significantly on them, and the economy has registered
mediocre gains, in which companies should be able to take profits. But
then I just heard that the producer price index has fallen noticeably.
So perhaps
I don't need to tell you that if the raw materials price is down, then
the extractive industries are not making as much profit. But since the
'producer' segement is larger, I suppose that there might be a net rise
in profits.
~Maru
Erik Reuter wrote:
By the way, PPI for finished goods is an
Hmm... Reasonable yes. But, isn't that assuming that the survivorship
bias continues to favor the US? For a 75 year, or infinite horizon
projection, the chances that it won't can't be neglected.
~Maru
Erik Reuter wrote:
...
For Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, UK, US, Australia, S. Africa, and
wrote:
* maru dubshinki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hmm... Reasonable yes. But, isn't that assuming that the survivorship
bias continues to favor the US? For a 75 year, or infinite horizon
projection, the chances that it won't can't be neglected.
Your argument is that since the US could cease
Possibly. Was that bias taken into account? If then, I will shut the
heck up about this; if not, I'd suggest that the proper statistical
treatment would be to widen the margin of error. I think
~Maru
IANAS
Erik Reuter wrote:
* maru dubshinki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was talking about
Erik Reuter wrote:
That's absurd. Doubly so. First, global growth is almost certainly NOT
overestimated by 1%. The fact that comparing the growth rates of various
countries over the last 200 or so years, INCLUDING THOSE DEVASTATED BY
WAR, has almost all of the free-market economies coming in at
In the last paragraph, you meant 'did not' right?
But don't give up hope. The Kyoto protocol still passed. People are
still aware of enviromental problems (despite crappy propaganda like
Crichton's State of Fear'.), and there is potential in the religious
right: Didn't Genesis say we were
I was thinking of Gen 2:15: 'The Lord God then took the man and settled
him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.' But then
again, my translation is 'The New American Bible', and I'm not sure of
its trustworthiness.
~Maru
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Jan 17, 2005, at 1:50 PM, maru
You have a point about oversimplification: In Guns..., my primary
grief was a lack of attention paid to how cultural and gov.'t factors
contributed and developed the potential geography bestowed. (Anyone
who has looked into, say, Chinese history will notice that a lot of
the most original stuff
I think that's a bit disingenous- saying 'God created evolution' is on
par with 'God created 2+2' or 'God created the Law of the excluded
middle'. Evolution naturally falls out of things, like 1=1.
~Maru
Microsoft delenda est.
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:08:13 -0800, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that
adjective only apply to ideas presented as facts?
Nick
Maru Dubshinki wrote:
I think that's a bit disingenous- saying 'God created evolution' is on
par with 'God created 2+2' or 'God created the Law of the exclutded
middle'. Evolution naturally falls out of things, like 1=1
So what is non-religious?
As far as I can tell, there are three categories: Believers who are
confident enough to invest the time and money to practise it;
Believers who are not so sure, and who don't practise it (think 'agnostic');
People who don't believe, and so are atheists, even if they don't
They also have the best software.
~Open-source-using-commie Maru
Well, according to Bill Gates anyway
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:49:03 -0700, Kevin Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
All the cool people are commies now! You've got the carnivals and all the
best music. *whine* Can I be a communist
I always figured it was because of a 'race to the outside'- that is,
extremism wins more of your potential constituency than another guy's
more centrist approach. F'er example, a fellow like Bush will pick up
all the extremists and mid-right people in an election, but while the
centrist
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:01:27 -0600, Dan Minette
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He couldn't be arrested for countering Aristotle, so they used scripture.
But, if the earth orbiting the sun were really a theological problem, then
why in the world would Pope Gregory have consulted a number of Copernican
On Apr 8, 2005 10:16 AM, Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raymond Brown, in the Birth of The Messiah argues that this is a
reasonable scenario. He discusses the theological reasons for including
virgin birth in the infancy narratives...and thinks that they are not very
convincing.
From the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/nyregion/12video.html?incamp=article_popular_4
(Be prepared to render up your soul), or
http://tinyurl.com/64xlx:
begin article
Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest
ennis Kyne put up such a fight at a political protest last
On 4/14/05, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 02:51 PM 4/13/2005 -0700, Nick wrote:
It dawned on me the other day that as we've talked about the costs of war
lately, one cost that never was mentioned was all the cuts that are being
made
in education, health care and so forth as a result of the
On 4/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Several people that I work with would like to begin
sharing resources such as presentations, website
resource info etc. We are geographically dispersed
and tossed around the idea of adding a library to our
intranet, but the
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002243262_terror16.html
http://tinyurl.com/box2r
U.S. eliminates annual terrorism report
By Jonathan S. Landay
WASHINGTON The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual
report on international terrorism after the government's top
On 4/17/05, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:25:07 -0500, Dan Minette wrote
we cannot count on
God to intervene because we eschew violence ourselves.
Good heavens, Dan, we can *always* count on God to intervene, my faith tells
me. Without God's constant, total
On 4/17/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any chance of another take, this time with some line breaks here and there
to supply readability?
-- Ronn! :)
/scratches head. Formatted just fine in Gmail... Oh well. Give it
another shot. Or y'all could follow the links.
start article
No problem. If I find an article good enough to pass along, its good
enough to be formatted and sent twice.
Now, the strange thing is, while it was formatted right when I sent,
and when I viewed it again in gmail, when I looked at your reply, then
it was block text! I figure your client is
On 4/17/05, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:16:11 +, Maru Dubshinki wrote
That is sarcasm, correct? Because seriously proposing that the
universe has no independent existence from a supreme deity is a
stance I believe is called pan-theism, and I gather from
On 4/18/05, Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/13/05, John DeBudge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
China really is greatly increasing its demand for foreign oil, thus
becoming a major factor in global demand, which in turn is starting to
outpace production, thus resulting in a price
On 4/18/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 15, 2005, at 4:07 AM, JDG wrote:
-human life begins at conception
What about the 50% or so of all pregnancies that miscarry
spontaneously, some of them so early in the term that the woman doesn't
even realize she's pregnant at
On 4/18/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 18, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
But for damn sure
they are not in Heaven- 'No one can come to the father except through
me'? They certainly could never have received the Gospel.
Apparently you've not spoken
On 4/20/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 20, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=817e=8u=/ap/
swat_monkey
I note also that, according to this article, human
being are, at best, the _third_ smartest primate. I
On 4/19/05, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
A related issue: what, if anything, prevents this understanding of a
deity from being different than Tipler's suggestion that we are,
probabilistically speaking, a simulation running in an antiquarian
AI's supercomputer?
After
On 4/21/05, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru wrote:
Wait, wasn't Tipler's argument basically given certain physical
constraints, we would surely be re-incarnated at the end of the
Universe? ...
How would we be re-incarnated? And if you think we will be, how do
On 4/22/05, Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
(Why would a non-antiquarian superintelligence bother to reincarnate
us? In this reading, any superintelligence doing research that
involves reincarnating anyone from the past is an antiquarian
On 4/24/05, JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:07 PM 4/24/2005 -0500, Ronn! wrote:
-human life begins at conception
This is scientifically debateable.
Really? This would require the [group of cells] to be something other
than human life between the meeting of the sperm and the egg,
On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
This intrigues me because of something in my WIP, _The Seven-Year
Mirror_ -- one of the subplots involves using schizophrenics as
information couriers. The reason is pretty simple. In the 2K+
-year-distant future there's a sophisticated
On 4/26/05, Keith Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:23 PM 19/04/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Apr 19, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Why? Morality is not the product of an opinion
On 4/27/05, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.cdbaby.com/amycd2
The album I have been helping to midwife for the last year.
With tinny sounding samples that are supposed to make you have to have
to have this album today!
I worked my ass off to get this out. You could
I certainly hope I do not get an A or A+ on that list. :)
~Maru
Sometimes, failure is the only way to succeed.
On 4/27/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From another list:
List Of Depressed Cities
1.. Laredo, TX -- A+
2.. El Paso, TX -- A+
3.. Jersey City, NJ
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 28, 2005, at 7:43 PM, JDG wrote:
The Bush Administration used the child/permission slip analogy to make
this
*latter* viewpoint, that the US must gain the *permission* of the UN
Security Council before activing, appear
On 4/29/05, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Travis Edmunds wrote:
From: Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Permission Slips
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...Douglas Adams spinning in his grave.
HHGttG was everything its detractors have suggested, unfortunately.
Entirely meaningless digressions, all the genuinely funny situations
replaced by watered-down simpering, and a story that was
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 29, 2005, at 7:28 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
/is not actually surpised. HHGTG didn't have a really
straightforward, movie suitable plot.
In the shape it took for radio or the book, possibly not; but it
managed to make
On 4/30/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins explains why God is a
delusion, religion is a virus, and America has slipped back into the
Dark Ages.
...
Currently, Dawkins is the
On 5/1/05, Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Every country in the world can now purchase nuclear weapons from rogue
elements in the USSR. GOP leaders in Congress defunded for over a
year the major program preventing that. Some people in this
administration leaked the name of one of the
On 5/1/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The cowardice evinced by MS is staggering in this case. They, like many
in the current national legislature, have vastly overestimated the
numbers of radical right-wing loonies out there. A fundamentalist
boycott of MS products would dent
On 5/1/05, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:31:38 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote
Out of curiosity, why is it that Erik and a few others are able to
get away with incessant windbaggery and insulting behavior?
Free speech.
More seriously... our list managers
On 5/2/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
_Calculating God_, yeah. As it happens I just finished it this weekend.
It's an interesting read but Sawyer leaves a gaping hole in his story
(two, actually), which he also did with _Hominids_.
In CG Sawyer's aliens suggest that the
Now, I am not an economist but wouldn't it be almost impossible to
untangle causation here? Because the economy would run in cycles
irregardless of which party is in power, and voters would react
accordingly; so a party could get voted out on the basis of a normal
cyclical downturn, and voted in
On 4/29/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:21 PM Friday 4/29/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 4/29/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the shape it took for radio or the book, possibly not; but it
managed to make the transition to television more or less in one
On 4/25/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, fair enough -- but how would that really supply you with an answer?
If you simulated all senders and receivers, how would that be
significantly different from the message content's encryption itself?
You'd have a reduced range of
On 4/26/05, Keith Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:53 PM 26/04/05 -0400, Maru wrote:
On 4/26/05, Keith Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed. Further, I think I can describe what it takes, namely an
expanding
economy, to keep a population in a mode where it extends human to
On 5/2/05, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
's website is featured on SciFi.com?
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue419/site.html
Hint: He reads this list sometimes
xponent
Namesake Maru
rob
Hmm... Banks? Baxter? Benford? Bear? Vinge?
~Maru
D'oh!
/shoulda guessed.
On 5/3/05, Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/2/05, Maru Dubshinki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
~Maru
The wordless teaching, neh?
Actually he is GOH at the Houston ApolloCon coming up so I hope to
hear a few words.
--
Gary Denton
The speech which can be spoken
On 5/4/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 3, 2005, at 8:17 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 09:25 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote:
On May 3, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 03:30 PM Tuesday 5/3/2005, Dave Land wrote:
On May 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Horn, John
On 5/4/05, Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Brin asked:
--- Alberto... explain?
Gregory Benford attended[*] the Writer's Convention in Year 4335
(plus or minus 3) in Tellus Tertius, Timeline 2, described in Heinlein's
book _The Number of the Beast_. :-)
You should
On 5/5/05, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Dave Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There is a God and there is no God are equally statements of
faith.
And there are fearsome, invisible, undetectable pink unicorns and
there are no fearsome, invisible, undetectable pink unicorns are
Hah- you obviously are not favored by our Google overlords; *I* can
get the Civilization board game for a mere 41.95$ !
Civilization Board Game
Only $41.95. Board game version of Sid Meyer's popular PC game.
www.gameoutfitter.com
On 5/6/05, Keith Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 02:52 AM 06/05/05 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
snip
This reminds me of the Ballad of John Henry. You might or might not know
it; the story is that John Henry, who worked on railroads in the 1900s,
was faced with a steam-driven track
On 5/6/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 2, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 5/2/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
_Calculating God_, yeah. As it happens I just finished it this
weekend.
It's an interesting read but Sawyer leaves a gaping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_%28folklore%29
In a bid to save his job, and the jobs of his men, John Henry
challenges the inventor to a contest: John Henry VS. the Steam-Hammer.
John defeats the Steam-Hammer in driving spikes, but in the process he
suffers a heart attack and dies a
On 5/7/05, Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HONOLULU (AP) _ The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given
birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii
said Thursday.
The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer
whale and an Atlantic
On 5/8/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had low expectations, but it was worse than I imagined.
I think I'll save myself £5 and not bother seeing this then. What
else is coming out in May...
The Jacket
Ong Bak
Palindromes.
And Sin City in June!
--
William T
On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 5/8/2005 8:55:48 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Speaking as someone who has seen it already (and was not a fanboy
prior to seeing it), Sin City is most definitely worth watching,
riveting and
On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 5/2/2005 7:46:42 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A goof point Warren, but you forget that genes aren't the *only* unit
of inheritance- culture is also inherited. Sawyer could have just as
well
On 5/9/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 02:33 PM Monday 5/9/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 5/9/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:05 AM Monday 5/9/2005, William T Goodall wrote:
On 9 May 2005, at 11:51 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I've heard
On 5/9/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 9, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I'm beginning to think this whole list is one big Eliza program I have
somehow inadvertently accessed . . .
Tell me more about how cinnamon affects your perception of religion,
Ronn!.
On 5/10/05, Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:27 AM Tuesday 5/10/2005, Dave Land wrote:
On May 9, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:30 AM Tuesday 5/10/2005, Dave Land wrote:
On May 9, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
I
On 5/11/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On May 11, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I just wonder what can be done to solve the plight of those millions
of human beings, and so far haven't heard much in the way of
suggestions on how to save them, or an argument that
On 5/11/05, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2005 12:47:45 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote
Not really, no. Those who criticize? No. People
who pontificate endlessly but suggest nothing, who
attack any idea but provide none of their own, who
preen constantly but
On 5/15/05, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005309.html
May 11, 2005
Regulating risk
There's a debate that we should be having in this country, about risk,
but aren't, because everyone's trading scare stories about Social
Security.
In a
Oh come on- it was way better than the preceding two, and only a
little worse than ROTJ. But I saw this article in USA Today and I
have to pass it along: apparently some people think Lucas is a liberal
and it reflects in ROTS (incidentally Brin, I am a little surprised
you didn't pick up on the
On 5/18/05, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
on-list.
If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of
your being placed on moderation will be non-zero.
On 5/19/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 05:52 PM Wednesday 5/18/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 18:45:15 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks
on-list.
On 5/23/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks,
Today at lunch, Nick and I were reading reading selections from The Art
of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. It is a tiny book
that contains 100-some sayings excerpted from Master Ueshiba's writings.
Among them is this:
On 5/31/05, Leonard Matusik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
None taken Warren, I was smiling when I sent it (not smirking either!)
I'm sort of interested in a scenario where the next Thomas Edison(s) pop up
in places other than the USA. Technical (bio or otherwise) renders US
superiority
Hmm.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553242660/qid=1117983080/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-0035335-7082201
http://tinyurl.com/chv4o
108 used and new, available from .01$
~Maru
On 6/4/05, d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
A PS on this topic: Go onto Amazon and see if you can find a
On 6/5/05, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://people.freenet.de/kraskapolski/Coolest_Picture_Ever_1.jpg
xponent
No Idea Maru
rob
Big.
~Maru
Terse
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On 6/7/05, KZK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.html
Apple are migrating the Mac from the PPC CPU to the x86 over the next
two years. x86 based Macs are available for developers now, and the
first x86 Macs for sale to
On 6/9/05, d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the
U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project
apparently to be built by four former Enron
On 6/9/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 9, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
Is anyone really surpised? Heck, Bush has been favoring big business
ever since he first came in- remember how Microsoft *was* going to be
broken up, but the DOJ's interventions on its
On 6/9/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 9, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 01:56 PM Thursday 6/9/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
~Maru
Too bad really- if Gore had won, everybody might just be using a real
OS.
Not that it would matter with us all living
On 6/11/05, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And see a very empty future...
- jmh
The solution to the Fermi Paradox!
~Maru
Oh wait, nevermind, there y'all are.
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On 6/11/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10 Jun 2005, at 1:28 pm, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
And your problem is? His story is very American. He (1) earned his
money (2) by creating (or at least finding marketing) a product
never seen before,
Which product was that?
--
On 6/14/05, Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* David Brin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Please drop dead.
Eventually, perhaps.
You are a bona fide asshole and I want to hear from you never again.
I can keep playing these games as long as you can. I was going to let it
drop, but
On 6/14/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 14, 2005, at 12:32 PM, David Brin wrote:
PS Today announced. The service academies have seen
a plummet in applications of unprecedented
proportions.
The No Child Left Behind bill had an elegant little solution built
into
On 6/16/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4098172.stm
Children are being trafficked into the UK from Africa and used for
human sacrifices, a confidential report for the Metropolitan Police
suggests.
Children are being beaten and even murdered after
On 6/18/05, PAT MATHEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Gary Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The
disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed
among 11 children born in the months after thimerosal was first added
to baby vaccines in 1931.
No, it wasn't, looking back. The
On 6/19/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles Stross has put up a free to download copy of his new novel
Accelerando in several formats at
http://www.accelerando.org/book/
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William T Goodall
I dunno... If it isn't pirated, it's just not the same.
~Maru
Yo ho, ho!
On 6/21/05, Kevin Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Come to think of it, the same line of thought might preclude interaction
between AIs and humans. What kind of intelligence could stand to wait a
million subjective seconds between each sentence? We might just be too slow
and boring for
On 6/28/05, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where's the Cat got your tongue joke that clearly is in here somewhere?
Nick
Turn-about's fair play?
~Maru
got nuthin'
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On 6/28/05, William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the Christian sacrament is more like ca-nibble-ism because
those wafers are really tiny :)
It would be a whole lot more fun if they transubstantiated some nice
BBQ...
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William T Goodall
You think far too small, my dear
On 7/11/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see how the multi-world or multiverse model is more
conservative than Bohm's idea, though. It sounds considerably more
complex and requires a hell of a lot more effort to make it happen. An
entire universe at each decision node? For
On 7/16/05, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's 260 minutes to read a 652-page book.
I'd call you a fast reader, is what I would do. :)
Julia
I'm just glad I got (and assembled) my new futon
On 7/16/05, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THERE IS A MISTAKE ON PAGE 10!
At least in the US edition.
Was Gautam reading too fast to catch it? :)
Julia
who is on page 10
Is it the mention of Brockdale Bridge? No Google hits.
~Maru
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
The big shock was not Dumbledore dying, of course -
it's been obvious that that had to happen at the end
of Book Six since, well, Book 1, probably. What is a
huge shock, of course, is that _Snape_ would be the
one who murders him. I am quite impressed by
Perhaps I've missed something rather obvious, but...
Why don't you guys just ask Brin about all these niggling lil'
details? This is his list, and it's not like he's dead.
~Maru
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