Charlie Bell wrote:
This chap has done some research and found a few cases of progressive
collapse in steel-frame high-rise buildings.
http://911myths.com/html/progressive_collapse.html
While none of these perfectly replicate the conditions at the WTC,
they do show that once the load exceeds
Dan Minette wrote:
Thanks for this Dan, some comments below:
That's not really accurate. To believe this theory one needs to accept that
the physics of rigid objects can be counterintuitive at times. I'm not sure
why this would be hard to accept. I gave one model of this, which didn't
get
Dan Minette wrote:
So, it seems that we agree that the planes flying into the building are
sufficient for the buildings to collapse. We also agree that the pattern of
the collapse is consistent with rigorous structural analysis of the
buildings.
It is a very weird and unlikely concept, the
William T Goodall wrote:
What's most surprising is that several of these aren't even words so
it can't be spell checkers that are to blame.
Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue,
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a
From: Deborah Harrell
Nick Lidser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unveiling the invisible cloak
No such cloak exists yet...
Ah, but a fur coat does! As everyone knows, the hair
of unicorns has just those special properties which
bends EM energy around them, thus rendering them
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 5/11/2006 11:45:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think Zimmy was saying that, since the physics indicates that the
power
from mobile phones is not sufficient to affect the brain, he has a
heightened skepticism
From: Alberto Monteiro
Dan Minette wrote:
As recently as 25 years ago, Marxist thought
predominated in European, South American, and South Asian
universities (in things like econ, liberal arts, sociology) and was
common in the US. It is now considered fairly well discredited.
But
From: Klaus Stock
Who discredited Marxism?
Communism :-)
It's out of favour for sure, but when was the official
accreditation lost?
1989, the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Did it discredit Marxism, or did it just discredit centrally planned
economy?
Or did it just
From: Alberto Monteiro
Nick Lidster asked:
Well with the expression of interest in gaming that was put forth on
the console side of things, I figured it was just as well to see
what games that you all play online.
Diplomacy :-)
You reminded me, used to love Diplomacy. And bugger
From: Julia Thompson
Oh, that's fine, I just felt like being pedantic and mildly useful all
at once. I appreciate your giving me the opportunity to be so. :D
Julia
who once could recite a German translation of the first verse of
Jabberwocky and did so ad nauseum
Umm, ok,
From: Charlie Bell
Thus, prior to the invention of scientific methods, nobody knew
anything.
It must have been a weird, weird world.
The scientific method boils down to trial and error, repeat what
works. Without that, and the ability to remember the errors, nobody
*did* know
From: Warren Ockrassa
BTW, I feel I need to apologize for my unnecessary and rather stupid
comment yesterday. I'm not usually that thoughtless. Sorry, all.
I, for one, Welcome the return of your stupid and unnecessary comments.
Which one was it anyway Maru
From: Dave Land
Let's see if we can smoke one out, shall we: God is real.
Which One?
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On
Behalf Of Dan Minette
So, I'm really curious. How does networking form the basis for a new
paradigm that is so clearly correct, that those who look at things in
the
more traditional way are fundamentalists?
Does the correctness or
From: Robert G. Seeberger
http://wickedlasers.com/
For the last few months you have been able to buy lasers that could
pop balloons, melt trash bags, cut electrical tape, and melt through
plastic. It is a fairly interesting advance in materials science that
allows consumers to do such
From: Dave Land
Subject: Fear the Future: MSN: National Bank of Wal-Mart?
Folks,
I know very little about the responsibility of Liz Pulliam Weston or
MSN, so the story could be shot through with biases and inaccuracies,
but, here's a piece describing how the world's most voracious
From Nick Arnett
Subject: Re: Cold Pictures
What sort of work takes one to Mongolia?
Consulting geology, I am doing a model and report for an exploration
project here in the Gobi.
On 2/16/06, Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally got around to setting up a Flickr account
. I've been a fascinated with them since.
Yea, they are pretty cool. Err, warm..
Andrew
How is everyone? Any other sleepers out there care to check in?
Amities,
Jo Anne
Message: 6
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:26:54 +1100
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cold
From: Russell Chapman
Subject: Re: Cold Pictures
Andrew Paul wrote:
Finally got around to setting up a Flickr account, largely cos I have
some pics of where I am currently working in Mongolia, thought you
may
be interested, esp Debbie as there is a pic of some very cute
Mongolian
Finally got around to setting up a Flickr account, largely cos I have
some pics of where I am currently working in Mongolia, thought you may
be interested, esp Debbie as there is a pic of some very cute Mongolian
horses grazing on the Gobi (There are no fences, and was a troop of
about 20, but I
From: Julia Thompson
Subject: Re: Question for Aussies
Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 1/31/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the usual ingredients in a meat pie? AFOAA (a
friend of an
acquaintance) has opened up a restaurant in Austin selling
Australian-style
From: William T Goodall
On 1 Feb 2006, at 1:53 am, Andrew Paul wrote:
Lamb pies being a
personal fave,
AKA a Scotch Pie.
--
Aussie Meat Pie
Filling:
1 1/2 pounds round steak, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Scotch Pie
Filling:
1 pound (500g or two cups) lean lamb, minced (ground
Julia Thompson
Subject: Re: What some women have always known . . .
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Wasn't an article posted some time back about human
females selecting for humor in their mates, as a
possible driving force for larger brain capacity? Or
was that in one of Himself's
Dan Minette
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 1:03 PM
snip
Given that, it's unlikely for a politician to say the
Constitution is just a piece of paper. It's much more
likely that they would say that's not what it means even if
it is clear to everyone else that's what it means.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Minette
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 1:21 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Nuclear Iran
- Original Message -
From: Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs
From: Dan Minette
Given that, it's unlikely for a politician to say the
Constitution is just a piece of paper. It's much more
likely that they would say that's not what it means even if
it is clear to everyone else that's what it means.
Dan, I find your optimism and faith
From: Robert Seeberger
Sent: Monday, 16 January 2006 11:33 AM
It may be that the ease with which the US swatted Iraq down surprised
much of the developing world (especially after the fiasco in
Sudan and
other similar events where the US was attacked) and the idea that the
US was a
From: Dan Minette
Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 2:39 PM
The Security Council was the five major powers of the Allies
after WWII.
France was in there as a gift from the US. At the time, only
the US had
nuclear weapons. Also, at that time, the only significant
military
So does Iran have the right to pursue nuclear research or not?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1547674.htm
If it is purely peaceful?
If it isn't?
Gunrights Maru
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On Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
kerri miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To celebrate the season, I made this. Dig in,
there's plenty to share!
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kerrizor/374310.html
You made me snort-laugh in the library! Gonna have to
pass this on to some
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stores are ecconomic entities. Forcing people to buy from less
efficent
stores is an ecconomic decision. What other factors, that are not
tied to
jobs, prices, income, etc. are you thinking of? I know
On Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship
Sent: Tuesday, 13 December 2005 1:49 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Help me identify 80's cop show...
At 04:55 PM Monday 12/12/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Gary Nunn wrote:
I apologize if I have asked this here before, but for
several years I
On a slightly related note.
Petrol in nearly all of the OECD countries is very much more expensive
than it is in the US.
(generally over $US3/gallon). In all the major European countries, it as
least twice the US price,
in some like the UK and Sweden, it is more like 2.5 times the price i.e.
On Behalf Of Dave Land
Folks,
Last night, I invested 45 minutes in watching Mr. Pinter's speech.
It was stunning. Not so much the production (although the three-
camera setup with a deep-blue backdrop and a large photograph of a
younger Pinter was used well enough) but the man, his
From Julia Thompson
He probably *is* serious. (If Andrew could provide the URL I might
be
able to check out the site and get a better idea of whether or not
it's
serious or satire.)
There's lots of awful stuff being said and done in the name of
Christianity.
I hate how terrorism and the war in Iraq have come to dominate debate
so. I notice that Gautam and JDG rarely post these days, and there is
no-one to staunchly dispute the centrist viewpoints we all seem to
espouse (Dan excepted). There is no right answer, we surely all know
that, but the debate
On Behalf Of Doug Pensinger
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 00:57:22 +1100, Andrew Paul
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I hate how terrorism and the war in Iraq have come to dominate
debate
so. I notice that Gautam and JDG rarely post these days, and there
is
no-one to staunchly dispute the centrist
From: Dan Minette
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am to young to recall the politics and events of that time. As you
paint it, a defacto state of war existed anyway, in which case it was
not really a pre-emptive strike. Troops were being moved
into an agreed
de-militarized zone
From: Dan Minette
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fine, I wont quibble about definitions. Its actually
interesting, that
some may call things like the war on Iraq, a pre-emptive
strike when
in reality it is a war of aggression.
It certainly isn't a typical war
From: Warren Ockrassa
Probably I'm confusing correlation with causation again. It
does happen to me from time to time. Maybe a better
formulation is that those who are vicious, money-grubbing
bastard Republicans who weep crocodile tears *after* getting
caught (as opposed to those who
From: Dan Minette
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dan Minette
Would this be a general rule for the US being engaged in a
war? That we
only use our military against countries that pose a direct
threat to harm
the US?
I would like to think it went further than that. I
From: Dan Minette
Would this be a general rule for the US being engaged in a
war? That we
only use our military against countries that pose a direct
threat to harm
the US?
I would like to think it went further than that. I don't think
democracies should start wars at all. And what
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Dave Land
Oh, well, at least this:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
Site is slightly SlashDotted, but not from Slashdot, but from Digg
(www.digg.com).
From the site:
Among a fringe community of
Robert J. Chassell wrote:
Have new technological innovations required human generations to pass
before powerful inventions became commonplace? Put another way, do
people have to become really used to an innovation before it can be
made powerful?
My thesis here is that since the beginning
Behalf Of Rob Seeberger
Sent: Friday, 23 September 2005 10:17 AM
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Adventures In Evacuation
Howdy Folks!
I'm writting you from the second floor of St Josephs Hospital in
beautiful
Downtown Houston.
This morning at 3 AM I began getting ready to leave my
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Doug Pensinger
Subject: Re: FOUR YEARS DRUNK
Great stuff, Pat, thanks for that!
Doug
Yes, Seconded. I liked it a lot
Andrew
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Leonard Matusik wrote
Here's the real title of Darwins book, The
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or ThePreservation
of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (lol, what a pompous
19century dweeb!)
Strangely unable to locate the title of your paradigm shifting work
of
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of William T Goodall
Presently the Catholic terrorists blow stuff up so they can be
separated from the UK and the Protestant terrorists blow stuff up so
they can remain part of the UK. It's impossible to please both sects
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Leonard Matusik
A most excellent point, Warren! (the whole heart of the matter to my mind)
The phenomena of evolution is sufficiently complex and so insufficiently
understood, that Darwinism had no business strutting around calling itself
science for a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship
Sent: Friday, 9 September 2005 8:32 AM
To: Brin-L
Subject: Computer accessory review
http://www.dansdata.com/kitten.htm
-- Ronn! :)
Thanks,
Morning Chuckle Maru
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
(1) is there any way to mix lines and columns in a graphic?
(2) is there any intelligent way to plot only meaningful values? For
example, if I am plotting densities (A1:A10 is volume, B1:B10 is mass,
C1:C10
Behalf Of Maru Dubshinki
On 8/22/05, Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, and thus there are places, where time is going faster, relative
to
earth... eg places going slower (as we are going rather fast). And
is
there a minimum and maximum speed of time?
Andrew
Well, assuming
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
On Aug 18, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Andrew Paul wrote:
All I know is it's a pretty damn funky concept. And now I am
wondering
if there is such a thing as a maximum speed for time. Yes, I know,
that
sounds really stupid, I guess that's cos
Behalf Of Ritu
Julia Thompson wrote:
Nobody's posted anything for almost 3 whole hours! :)
I first took a 20 minute nap [the longest uninterrupted stretch of
sleep
in the last 24 hours], then I had to go the doctor's, and then I was
busy calming the screaming munchkins. So didn't
Behalf Of Kevin Street
Sent: Friday, 19 August 2005 6:04 PM
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion'
Subject: RE: Physics question
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
IIRC current models for spacetime hold that the maximum velocity you
can have is lightspeed. As you accelerate along the space dimension,
your
Warren Ockrassa wrote:
IIRC current models for spacetime hold that the maximum velocity
you
can have is lightspeed. As you accelerate along the space
dimension,
your motion in time slows; if you're fully at rest, your motion
through
time is at lightspeed.
Yikes.
Yikes
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a message dated 8/16/2005 10:36:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't see this as a statement necessarily directed against Jews,
and I
think people are reading a lot of stuff between the lines that may
not
be there. But it is an
Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa
Sent: Friday, 19 August 2005 6:14 AM
On Aug 18, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
I've gone from disappointed in this discussion to disgusted -- so
much
so that I'm bordering on willingness to do what I've done about
five
times in my decade-plus history
Behalf Of Dave Land
Sent: Friday, 19 August 2005 5:20 AM
On Aug 17, 2005, at 11:06 PM, Andrew Paul wrote:
I asked a serious question. You are drawing a very long bow there,
and
well, it's a little insulting. Sure, there are anti-Semites out
there,
plenty of them.. Give us the benefit
Behalf Of Julia Thompson
Sent: Friday, 19 August 2005 1:41 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Gee
Nobody's posted anything for almost 3 whole hours! :)
Julia
The Eye of the Hurricane?
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Andrew Paul wrote:
[Robert, I believe]
And for an object to have absolute zero momentum in a relativistic
universe the entire universe and every object in it would also have
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Kevin Street
Maybe little chip size radio transmitters could be buried with each
plant.
They say that houseplants grow better when Beethoven is played, but
what
composer would be best suited for Mars?
I would suggest
I just read all of Zimmy's posts in this thread and couldn't find
any
statement which could be construed to mean that the only reason
Perle
and Wolfie get attention/are known to people is because they are
Jews.
So, yes, I would like if you could point out the relevant portions
of
his
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
snip Ta, that is an area that interests me too
Debbi
who is experimenting with herbs at altitude, having
discovered already that tomatoes don't do well
Certain herbs grow way better at altitude, as the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Julia Thompson
Subject: Re: Death in the family
My father-in-law died this afternoon.
Hugs to you and your husband
Andrew
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quote from Cindy
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he
was
killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My
son
joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I
know
full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Robert Seeberger
At very cold temps some kinds of molecular bonds become very weak
and
if the displacement transmission is in any way turbulentthe craft
just might disintegrate.
Good try, but that's not it.
But is my
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Warren Ockrassa
On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:38 PM, The Fool wrote:
If you could overcome the effects of gravity and slow an object's (such
as a space probe's) absolute velocity to very close to but not quite
zero, would the uncertanty principle cause the
Behalf Of Ronn!Blankenship
Pesonally, I think that the sentences for molestation/pedophillia
etc.
are
entirely too light. Time and again we end up with these creeps back
on
the street not only molesting again but raping and killing their
victims
-
like the guy in Idaho a few weeks a
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
http://beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html
I got (1-9 don't surprise me much):
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (94%)
3. Secular Humanism (92%)
4. Theravada Buddhism (88%)
5. Mainline to
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Sloan
Sent: Wednesday, 27 July 2005 9:58 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Brin-L Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: It's a boy!
Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote:
Great news, everyone!
Earlier
Warren Ockrassa wrote
On 23 Jun 2005, at 10:06 pm, Frank Schmidt wrote:
Questions to William:
What is it that makes something evil?
What is it that makes something good?
Why, don't you know?
It's an interesting pair of questions, and I notice you've carefully
avoided trying to answer
Jim Sharkey wrote
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn7564
Pretty nifty, I thought.
Jim
Damn tooting it is, You gotta love that God guy :)
Andrew
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contained a windows executableor other
On Behalf Of Gary Denton
On 6/3/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 2, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Dave Land wrote:
If you don't mind giving your email address to a bunch of biblical
literalists, you could try another worldview quiz at:
David Brin wrote
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Brin wrote:
No, there are only two words on the table for such
people. Stupid. Or Disloyal.
I lean toward both.
You left out greedy. There's not a whole lot of
money to be made in the
renewables
Warren Ockrassa wrote
On May 18, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Gary Nunn wrote:
You know, some bathroom time and a Playboy magazine (or a Playgirl,
depending on your personal preferences) will probably take care of
some of
that pent up frustration
Playgirl's draw is more for women, I think.
JDG wrote:
At 11:27 PM 5/11/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote:
Are you of the opinion that American Foreign Policy is always led by
selfless morality,
or are there times when they too stoop to the level of the scummy
French
or the sneaky, dirty
Germans, and do things where the self interest
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam, why is it that only other countries have
self-interested
agendas?
Is it possible that now and then, America does too?
I think it is, and
that's why I think it is worthwhile getting a second
opinion
JDG wrote
.
Yeah, but his argument didn't make any sense, because
it was just a wholesale abrogation of moral judgment
to other people - people who have an interest in
acting in an immoral fashion. All of the arguments
you and he make _completely ignore_ that fact. We
have many, many
Ronn!Blankenship quoted:
snip
Researchers interpreted that to mean that humans, as they evolved to
rel
on sight more than smell, had no need of the primitive cues that pass
for
sexual attractiveness in mice. But a role for human pheromones could
not
be ruled out, especially in light of
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As Nick (I think) noted already, a 'moral
imperative'
should be essentially unimpeachable, because it is a
softer reason than, say, the other guy has missiles
pointed at your capital.
Yeah, but his argument didn't
From William T Goodall
On 6 May 2005, at 3:19 am, Dave Land wrote:
WTG: No, they aren't actually. There is no God is a rational
claim based on evidence. There is a God is a statement of faith
made in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Do you have evidence of the
Warren Ockrassa wrote
On May 2, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Khadafy, Qadaffi, Gadafhy Maru
You say Khadafy and I say Qadaffi
You say Al Koran and I say al-Q'ran
Jihad, Fatwah, Meatwad, Frylock
Let's call the crusades off...
LOL, Well Warren, if the book selling business stays
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Julia Thompson
Dave Land wrote:
Yo,
Far from the Cereal Aisle, is the computer department, where you can
find the Alienware Aurora Star Wars Edition PCs, available in Dark Side
(Darth Vader) and Light Side (Obi Wan Kenobi) versions:
From: Nick Arnett
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:10:42 -0500, Dan Minette wrote
Don't you remember them pushing to take Medicaid money out of Bush's
budget in order to pay for additional farm subsidies?
Unless we're farming babies, I can't figure out how this is relevant...?
Its relevant cos it
Dan Minette wrote
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Poor George, no wonder he looks tired, tossing all night, crying over
the starving Koreans kiddies etc...
What I don't understand is, given that I'm pretty sure I already
mentioned
this to you in an earlier discussion, why you
Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:05 AM Thursday 4/21/2005, Andrew Paul wrote:
[...] I, like you I think, await a world government, where the need
for
national armies, and thus the need for protection agianst this sort
of
problem, becomes irrelevant.
What kind of world government would you
OK, I'm done arguing with you Nick
I for one am in favour of changing the subject. As you said Gautam, we
are just going over lots of old ground here. We agree to differ. And I
retract any remarks which you found offensive. I did not intend them to
be so, and I don't think Nick et al did
JDG wrote
At 01:34 PM 4/22/2005 +1000, Andrew Paul wrote:
Dan, it was a rhetorical question. I know why he isn't, and frankly
very
glad he isn't. But thank you for the refresher. I must learn to put
more
umm, nuance in my typing tone.
It clearly wasn't a very good rhetorical question
Erik Reuter wrote
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It seems paradoxical, if Africa has starvation, why sell food. But, the
It does seem odd. But what if most poor countries are net importers of
food? The subsidies obviously hurt the food exporters, since subsidies
depress prices, but
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of JDG
snips fair response
And why isn't the US invading North Korea?
Why is it, as you put it doing nothing?
The calculation has to include the probability of success. While doing
nothing' in the DPRK is clearly resulting in the deaths of North Koreans,
the
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Erik Reuter
* Andrew Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
While I am not a supporter per say of tarrifs and subsidies, what
about the strategic issue of a country being able to feed itself in
times of strife.
Too indirect. If you are worried about war
Erik Reuter wrote
* Andrew Paul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Surely it always going to be relative? You will need to explain this
more,
I was pretty clear before, and you twisted what I said to try to make
it
look like I was saying something that supported your worldview.
You've
made
Gautam Mukunda
--- Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gautam Mukunda
So Gautam, are you saying that the US invaded Iraq
out of a deeply felt
need to save the Iraqi people? Not cos of WMD risks,
not cos of issues
over oil?
Again with this? Why are people who think _George
Gautam Mukunda wrote
Subject: France supports unilateralism, preventive war
The amazing thing about this article is how _blatant_
it is.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1559253,00.html
That's pretty sad isn't it. Nice find :) I can't see in his words where
he actually says he
Dan Minette
From: Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3
And why isn't the US invading North Korea?
Why is it, as you put it doing nothing?
As JDG said, the answer to that is fairly straightforward. South
Korea
begged Clinton
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Subject: RE: Br!n: Re: more neocons
At 08:05 AM Thursday 4/21/2005, Andrew Paul wrote:
[...] I, like you I think
Gautam Mukunda
So yes, I acknowledge that you've spoken to lots of
soldiers have suffered. Have you spoken to Iraqis
who, say, saw their children raped and tortured in
front of them as a routine method of interrogation?
How about ones whose hands, ears, or tongues were
chopped off
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At 04:17 PM 4/7/2005 -0700, Nick wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:01:52 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote
It means that there
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It didn't seem to me that Event horizons were so much abandoned as
redefined and re-explained. The important question for me is still how
time is regarded in QM and GR.
If the author of the paper is making an incorrect statement, why would
it be
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