Re: The Purpose of Science Fiction

2011-01-31 Thread Alberto Monteiro
not to happen. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Lula de Silva and WikiLeaks

2010-12-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
). She switched from PDT to PT quite recently. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Facebook breastfeeding ban

2010-12-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
of a Facebook rule outlawing pictures of women breast feeding in public. Are you certain this, Alberto? They removed _all_ breastfeeding images. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: For Alberto and others

2010-12-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
article... Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Titties on Facebook

2010-12-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
important issue of government censorship.  The people who own FB can do whatever they want.  They probably figure they will gain more users than if they allowed rampant porn on FB.  Except that breastfeeding is not porn. Alberto Monteiro ___ http

Re: Titties on Facebook

2010-12-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, isn't she? I can't think of a better way to express the idea of the imorality of killing pigs than showing that they are like us. and another picture of the Google model: http://www.iamboredr.com/media/1645/Boobs/ The girl is fully clothed, what's the point? Alberto Monteiro

Re: Facebook is evil

2010-12-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
is not obscene - as those sociopaths and perverts that own Facebook think, and try hard to push this evil and babykilling meme into children and their mothers. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to communicate such info on the web, so not allowing someone to post it on one's Whitepowerbook account can be seen as a purely business decision. Alberto Monteiro (and I didn't even use the H-word or the I-word!) ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman

Re: (Ignoring Murphy's Law) kills

2010-12-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jo Anne wrote: What the heck *is* Vaseline in Brazil? Vasilina. That was not the problem. Here it is a thick ointment also known as petroleum jelly. And what is it used for there? It's placed on the skin to prevent skin dehidratation. Alberto Monteiro

Re: Facebook is evil

2010-12-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to criminalize breatfeeding. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Facebook

2010-12-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Iran's or China's censorship. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Brin: (Ignoring Murphy's Law) kills

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
is exactly the way to prevent those stupid errors. Text (in Portuguese): http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_Stephane Here an image of the two vessels: http://g1.globo.com/jornal-nacional/noticia/2010/12/mae-diz-que-auxiliar-de- enfermagem-colocou-frasco-de-vaselina-em-sp.html Alberto Monteiro

Re: Wikileaks?

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Or maybe it's everyone and their dog trying to access their new Facebook profile page: (...) Why do people join Facebook, when it's owned by sociopaths and perverts? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
be exiled to Antarctica. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Facebook is evil, why it must be eradicated [was: Wikileaks?]

2010-12-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
they need to harass the womenfolk into covering themselves up, but that may just be me.) Men that think so should do the way Oedipus did _after_ he found out he was a parricide and mfer. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo

Australia [was: Wikileaks]

2010-12-06 Thread Alberto Monteiro
/27australia.html Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Wikileaks

2010-12-01 Thread Alberto Monteiro
shelf life in all cases. I think the worst source of embarassment is the use by .govs of security-weak softwares and OSes. What if this happened 70 years ago and Manhattan Project was leaked to the nazis (or even the soviets)? Alberto Monteiro

Re: The powers of cats

2010-11-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
? On a different note, do cats see computer screens the same way we do? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: the Cold War

2010-11-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
then presidential candidates still want to identify themselves with the left: in the last election (2010), the top-three were former Commies (Dilma was arrested and tortured in the 1970s for affiliation with communist guerilla, Serra was exiled, and Marina Silva claimed to be the extreme left). Alberto Monteiro

Re: the Cold War

2010-11-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, with americans and soviets killing each other in great numbers. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: SETI@home (history)

2010-10-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
think I read it right here, in this list. Or maybe I am confusing some X-Files episode with truth. Mendacem memorem esse oportet Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Starting Engineer's Salaries

2010-10-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, and if you look at Brin-l archives, you will see that I wrote it. Ah, the files. How hard to find anything there :-( Alberto Monteiro PS: and I am glad that my _other_ prophetic doomsday scenario is still in the Future. PPS: OTOH, my local doomsday scenario was an epic fail

Re: Starting Engineer's Salaries

2010-10-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
exchange and I want to buy a candy, there's a risk that I will die in the next 10 minutes and not honor it. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Mailing lists are evil, why they must be eradicated [was: Starting Engineer's Salaries]

2010-10-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
not discuss anything Brin-related? And young people don't use e-mail; they prefer those awful MSNs, Orkuts, Facebooks, etc. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Starting Engineer's Salaries

2010-10-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
also know that this list has made its more conservative, vocal members feel less than welcome after years of feeling welcome. It also trimmed the other extreme, the anti-american, anti-capitalist and green members also were banned. Alberto Monteiro

SETI@home (history)

2010-10-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
reference for this. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Down with the government

2010-10-19 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, and obsolescence, and doesn't like it at all .. I think this has been said before. Was it Cicero? No, probably some ancient summerian said it earlier. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Back to the Plantation!~(was Down with the Government)

2010-10-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
that _they_ will have to bring back child labor, because the mature people don't want to work. Alberto Monteiro PS: for those who are interested, Brazil came up with a nice solution to the retirement problem, and it's _not_ killing old people

Re: StratoSolar

2010-10-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
either. However, it passes first-order physics and economics analysis and seems to deserve serious further study. You (USA) might be closer to self-sufficienty than you (Keith) think. Deepen the crisis (and reduce energy expendidure) and get a little more of shale gas, and you get there. Alberto

Re: Who dat?

2010-10-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
also running for political office, for the tenth time...~{ Good luck :-) Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-09-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
a rib- woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. :-))) I guess you are reading too much Uncyclopedia... Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .

2010-08-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
phenotypic plasticity through their lifetimes. There can't be too many different species, Noah's Ark wasn't big enough to carry them all! Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Creationism [was: First Pluto is not a planet, and now . . . .]

2010-08-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to deceive His creation, then Satan can't be that bad in rebelling. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Tea Party Racism

2010-07-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
attention away from what's going on. Bottom line: you don't think it's Intelligent Design, you think it's Natural Selection. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Having Dads makes you Happy

2010-07-20 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Deborah Harrell wrote: Only if you're Lutheran. Or Jewish. On the other paw, does anyone else recall wincing in remembrance when Mufasa said Simba, I'm *very* disappointed in you...? At that time, I was more Mufasa than Simba. Pre-historic Alberto Monteiro

RE: Having Dads makes you Happy

2010-07-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
that she's faced as a parent that I haven't. It's probably easier for a lesbian couple than for a male-gay couple to raise kids - most socio-cultural events require the presence of the mother, not the father. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535

Re: USA, love it or leave it!~)

2010-06-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jon Louis Mann wrote: i think in brazil, you can beat your wife. No, you can't. Maybe you could, back in 1825. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: USA, love it or leave it

2010-06-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jon Louis Mann wrote: i think in brazil, you can beat your wife. No, you can't. Maybe you could, back in 1825. Alberto Monteiro http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/205-june-2009/10195- in-brazil-a-culture-of-violence-sees-wife-beating-as-no-big- deal.html At least

Re: Any comments on this piece?

2010-06-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
was definitely a bad movie. I didn't really need to be reminded of it. : ) I think Showgirls is a great movie, and the selling of DVDs just proves that. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Any comments on this piece?

2010-06-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
?) Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Any comments on this piece?

2010-06-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dan Minette wrote: Last bust was 98-99, when oil prices averaged about $15/barrel. No-one would be drilling deep water at those prices. Petrobras was :-) Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Any comments on this piece?

2010-06-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
[*] is from the actual USA. Alberto Monteiro [*] at least something is on-topic... ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Any comments on this piece?

2010-06-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to mention a few of them. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: Any comments on this piece?

2010-06-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
star in 1950, and not updated since? Yes, they are called Patrimônio cultural tombado, which means that you can't touch them. But there are new hotels. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: One Fish, Two Fish, Oil Fish, Goo Fish

2010-06-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to this vacation for *months*. But again, not nearly as bad as the people (and animals) who's lives have been ruined by the oil spill. The good side of the oil spill is that you don't have to bring fuel if you want to have a beach barbecue; just get some seawater and set fire on it. Alberto

Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, while this Clash of Titans (like the previous) will be thrown in the trash. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Snakes on a Plane

2010-05-31 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Eu nunca vi este filme, mas me deu vontade de ver pela crítica feito a ele pelo Jake Harper. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Snakes on a Plane

2010-05-31 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Oops, sorry, I thought - because the original message had no text - that it came from any of the pt-speakings lists I read. I never saw this movie, but I wanted to watch it since I heard Jake Harper's critics [something is lost in the translation :-( ] Alberto Monteiro

Re: Off to Haiti

2010-05-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Nick Arnett wrote: L'espwa fe viv! Be careful. Bel dan pa di zanmi Alberto Monteiro (and that's all I know about Creole, thanks to the Portuguese Uncyclopedia) ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: On Listmail

2010-05-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Bruce Bostwick wrote: Wind/solar energy resources are still seen as hippie fringe science in the parts of the world where oil is still king, Not everywhere. P = k v^3 Maru Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Rio de Janeiro rains in April/2010 [was: On Listmail]

2010-04-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
the city from the safety of home. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2010_Rio_de_Janeiro_floods_and_mudslides Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: On Listmail

2010-04-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: In any case, poor old Brin-l seems to be as dead as a door nail, and I think that that's a shame. Is anyone out there? Yes and no. I seldom check my e-mails these days, and I spend most of my free internet time in wikis. Alberto Monteiro

Re: On Listmail

2010-04-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
SimsWiki. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Not ready

2010-02-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
is _easier_ off-line than on-line? At least here your occasional bursts of impatience will not be met by a punch in the nose :-) Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: national security and climate change

2010-02-22 Thread Alberto Monteiro
one published in August 2008. Food for thought, eh? Yes. I've read most of that lot in the past. But it's still a hoax, apparently. *sigh* What is a hoax? Anthropogenic Global Warming? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman

Re: Platform for gathering memories?

2010-01-08 Thread Alberto Monteiro
it simple: just dedicate one directory to her memories, and backup it to your niece's computer as frequently as she changes computers or you digitalize more stuff. That's how I keep my electronic memories. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman

RE: The worst

2010-01-05 Thread Alberto Monteiro
- needless to say, let's keep Nick's sister memory alive. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Brin: Re: is Brin-l active?

2010-01-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaker_(David_Brin) (possibly other pages) Are these pages too much or too little? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
of Uncyclopedia. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Another Conserpadia accidental joke: Fidel Castro is dead

2009-12-30 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Trent Shipley wrote: No, this one may be right. Fidel got too sick to rule and was followed by his brother Raul(?). What is the _reliable_ source that Fidel is undead? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
) could be more important than Alvin? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
. How much fanfic should be admitted? Logical inferences based on the books are ok? Natural extrapolations are ok? Or should we stick to canonical (and deutero-canonical, like Kevin Costner's movie) material? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
page would exhibit a random ad that would eventually offer Brightness Reef, Infinity's Shore or Heaven's Reach. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

The wikipedia trolls may win again (II) :-/

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
articles, but they have expanded beyond what I wrote. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Special:Contributionslimit=50target=Abductive Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
. Does anybody know any? Probably some science fiction magazines have material about Brin's characters, races, etc. Also, there's GURPS Uplift, who is _not_ by Him. (and I still think Category should not be in the magma table!!!) Alberto Monteiro

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again (III) :-/

2009-12-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
the name from the picture, unless you have Shinigami eyes. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

2009-12-28 Thread Alberto Monteiro
see developing a Wiki devoted to the Uplift Universe in the meantime, and copying its content onto Wikipedia as time passes. I think the best would be to do the opposite: create an Uplift wiki, copy _from_ Wikipedia, and remove from Wikipedia. Alberto Monteiro

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

2009-12-23 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to show up! Maybe I will get there tonight to remember you that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ :-P Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

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

2009-12-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
compilers /joke critic Alberto Monteiro, Cthulhu worshipper, C programmer and utterly insane, having failing the sanity check many times ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

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

2009-12-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
/C_programming into the Uncyclopaedia mirror: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/C_programming_language Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Nomenclature (was) Chemicals R Us

2009-11-19 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: I agree with you. Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Though usually with the omission of most metal carbonates, the chemistry of which is usually covered in the section on inorganic chemistry. That's how *I* teach it in colleges, anyway.

Re: List of The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

2009-11-19 Thread Alberto Monteiro
). Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Chemicals R Us

2009-11-18 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Chemboxes in Wikipedia :-) Alberto Monteiro aka albmont ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Microsith's evil ways [was: For those still following the 'balloon boy' fracas]

2009-11-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
that I have no idea how to cut, copy, paste, save, etc. BTW, each M$ product uses a _different_ set of Control's. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: How to tell if a star has planets?

2009-11-12 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby asked: Whatever happened to good old snake oil? Became biodiesel. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Windows question . . .

2009-10-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
to be updated in the foreseeable future) though it has occurred with earlier versions, too. Format Reinstall Alberto Monteiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sorry, couldn't resist. ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin

Re: Knowledge of Complex Systems and Ecch-onomics

2009-09-14 Thread Alberto Monteiro
in Portuguese, Spanish and English (unfortunately, not in Latin, the official language of Latin America). Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Knowledge of Complex Systems and Ecconomics

2009-09-11 Thread Alberto Monteiro
. There's so much information that I have no idea where the data came from. But it probably came from that site. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: The thread about the thread

2009-09-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
don't bother to read e-mails during the weekends - I seldom miss something really worth discussing. I think e-mail is dying. Most people prefer posting in blogs or similar media. I, for example, prefer trolling in the Wikipedia and other sites like that. Alberto Monteiro

Re: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-09-01 Thread Alberto Monteiro
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine#Industrial_sources Soylent green is not alternate future. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Posted in a workcube

2009-08-31 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Doug Pensinger wrote: wtf are you doing in a workcube on a Sunday evening??? Where are your priorities, man? Trying to make the evil boss happy and keep the underpaid slavelike job? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: More Pluto Goofyness . . .

2009-08-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
years and then either crashed or flew away. IIRC, Phobos is falling and Deimos is leaving Mars. And why with 100+ moons, none of them has a sub-moon? Alberto Monteiro the nostalgic ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: More Pluto Goofyness . . .

2009-08-26 Thread Alberto Monteiro
in many orders. The Moon has orbited Earth for thousands of millions of years, and it will orbit for ten times that number before stabilizing. Deimos may leave Mars even before Pangea Nova forms on Earth. Alberto Monteiro [*] is this the correct verbal tense? I want to express an alternate

Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market

2009-08-17 Thread Alberto Monteiro
listmember to get out of the closet and confess being a Holocaust denier. I still don't know if he was sincere, or if we was just testing how free speech rulez we were. Alberto Monteiro PS: just because we believe in free speech doesn't mean we have to feed the trolls

Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market

2009-08-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Bruce Bostwick quoted: Heard from a flight instructor: The only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask, resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal. This seems like a Heinlein quote to me. Alberto Monteiro the lurker

Re: Brin: On 'Incomprehesibility'

2009-08-03 Thread Alberto Monteiro
version compares the buyer of pirate DVDs to drug dealers and kidnappers. Another version has a daddy proudly exhibiting a pirate DVD to his son, who in turn proudly says he got grade 10 (grade A+ in USA) as he cheated in the test and copied the test of a colleague. Alberto Monteiro

Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

2009-07-28 Thread Alberto Monteiro
William T Goodall wrote: It reminds me of the (cancelled) _The Middleman_ series. Seems like the fate of every good series that does not become sentimental :-( Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

2009-07-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

2009-07-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
watched _Fringe_. It replaced _Terminator_ in the Warner Channel (which I find quite annoying: they keep chaning the times and days, even placing good shows on Sundays (!)), and then I switched to The Hentai Channel aka Animax, and now I am totally captivated by _Death Note_. Alberto Monteiro

Death Note and japanese music [was: Torchwood: Children of Earth]

2009-07-27 Thread Alberto Monteiro
song by Nightmare, the show began with the death-metal by Maximum the Hormone. Animax shows japanese videoclips every half hour. It's very interesting. Some bands are quite good - and they don't show in the mainstream videoclip channels. Alberto Monteiro PS: I will refrain from commenting too

Re: Why not discuss the topic?

2009-07-20 Thread Alberto Monteiro
import taxes when I come from a travel, people with guns will steal the things I bought. G*vernment is consent robbery. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Mention of David Brin

2009-07-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
of education that slows population growth. Alberto Monteiro, 3 kids, and paying 50% of the salary in education ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

RE: In despair for the state of SF

2009-07-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dan M wrote: Film, definitely. But, I'd argue that graphic novels combine literature and art. Good art can be part of storytelling. For example, Guernica by Picasso certainly tells a story. (...) Nazi thug to Picasso: You did this? Picasso to nazi thug: No, you did this Alberto

Re: Drinking Water From Air Humidity

2009-07-13 Thread Alberto Monteiro
? What is a wind turbine? What is renewable energy? Those words make no sense to me either, since energy = oil. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Google Operating System

2009-07-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, and it will be able to store files locally on your computer. Persian: This is Madness! Leonidas: No, THIS IS LINUX!!! Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Google Operating System

2009-07-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
, then Linux will never be safe again :-( Not to mention that changing Windows virtual monopoly to *Nix monopoly is _very bad_ for the development of new techs. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Google Operating System

2009-07-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
the M$ pay to play licensing paradigm and leveling the playing field for open source developers? Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible that the worse nightmare of the free-software sjihad/s community happens: M$ may embrace, extend and then extinguish Linux. Alberto

Re: Iran

2009-06-29 Thread Alberto Monteiro
in fascist countries?) Yes. Been there. Our fascist dictatorship fell (probably) because the fascists were tired of being ridiculed by the population. The subtle and persistent strategy of Humour is far more powerful than guns or strikes. Alberto Monteiro

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