Re: Suspected 9/11 Mastermind Caught

2003-03-02 Thread Bradford DeLong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2445121,00.html Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan, a senior Pakistan government source told The Associated Press. Yay! Yay! Yay!

Re: Benford on space exploration

2003-02-09 Thread Bradford DeLong
On Brad's site... http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001554.html Discussion of the article on Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/02/07/2131241.shtml?tid=160 -- Hmmm. I didn't notice anything odd about my server yesterday... Maybe slashdotting is not what

Re: Benford on space exploration

2003-02-09 Thread Bradford DeLong
On Brad's site... http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/001554.html Discussion of the article on Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/science/03/02/07/2131241.shtml?tid=160 -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Catholics Could Lose Seal of Confession

2003-01-27 Thread Bradford DeLong
Bradford DeLong wrote: But when the Knights Templar were suppressed by Philip the Fair of France and Pope Clement V in 1307, one of the charges was that the Templars confessed only to each other and not to other priests--so that nobody outside the order knew what horrible and foul things were

Re: Catholics Could Lose Seal of Confession

2003-01-26 Thread Bradford DeLong
But when the Knights Templar were suppressed by Philip the Fair of France and Pope Clement V in 1307, one of the charges was that the Templars confessed only to each other and not to other priests--so that nobody outside the order knew what horrible and foul things were going on within the

Re: Twins and Clones are soulless [was: Child abuse]

2003-01-17 Thread Bradford DeLong
Brad said: More interesting is what happens if your embryo absorbs your embryonic twin. Then you have two souls... A few years ago, I read a story in New Scientist about a boy whose blood had no father, because the ova that became him had divided and then one of the two cells had been

Re: Twins and Clones are soulless [was: Child abuse]

2003-01-16 Thread Bradford DeLong
It seems clear that conception in human can occur both sexually and asexually. Thus, it would seem that the second soul would logically arrive at the moment of the second conception. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Have you watched any movies recently? It's obvious that, in any pair of twins, one is born

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-15 Thread Bradford DeLong
Excluding the 1/3 or so of conceptions that are `aborted by God' God aborts 1/3 of all conceptions Doesn't He realize that each one is a human life!?!? He's going to go to HELL for this!! Brad DeLong ___

Re: A Problem For Conservatives

2003-01-15 Thread Bradford DeLong
William said: Since there is empirical evidence for consciousness, your argument fails. There's only heterophenomenological evidence for consciousness - some people say they experience it. There's exactly the same kind of evidence for God. Rich GCU Entirely Serious There's only

Re: Admin: Server access blocked

2002-12-06 Thread Bradford DeLong
At 11:31 06-12-2002 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: I'm disturbed by his being blocked at chello.nl, but I'm more disturbed that the list server was attacked from that isp. The nature and extent of this attack is being grossly exaggerated. Arnett immediately assumed the worst, but the truth is that

Re: jesus genealogy is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-12-01 Thread Bradford DeLong
Nick Arnett wrote: It's really only a minority that believes wacko ideas such as dinosaur bones being a trick of the devil. But we live in a time when the more wacky an idea is, the more media attention it gets. I had thought that the dinosaur bones is a trick of the devil line was utter

Re: jesus genealogy is evil, why it must be eradicated

2002-11-29 Thread Bradford DeLong
I imagine that the fact that Mary was mentioned in this sentence might be interpreted as Jacob being _her_ father and not Joseph. You know, translation errors from Aramaic to Greek, etc. Were I an omnipotent omniscient omnibenevolent God, such translation errors are things that I would be

Re: heading towards a singularity

2002-11-05 Thread Bradford DeLong
Brad asked: Now any suggestions on what I should tell the cybermasses? That they should give me their money. Or I destroy Tokyo. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Silence. I am watching television. - Spider Jerusalem A surprisingly small proportion of _Wired's_ readers live in Tokyo.

Re: heading towards a singularity

2002-11-05 Thread Bradford DeLong
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brin-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:49 AM Subject: heading towards a singularity http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.11/view.html?pg=4 I started reading this and felt that I had read it before. I

Re: Market caps v. economy (was RE: Well, This Is Fun...)

2002-11-05 Thread Bradford DeLong
Who is the economics professor here? Nick Me! Me! Me! And it's spelled ekonomics perfesser! Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Market caps v. economy (was RE: Well, This Is Fun...)

2002-11-05 Thread Bradford DeLong
In a message dated 11/5/2002 4:18:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who is the economics professor here? Nick Me! Me! Me! And it's spelled ekonomics perfesser! Brad DeLong You mean he didn't see the tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, the

Re: Well, This Is Fun...

2002-10-19 Thread Bradford DeLong
I've scored (though how long it will last I don't know) a monthly column in _Wired_: Change. What do people think that _Wired's_ subscriber base and other readers need to be told? Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l