At 12:37 04-04-2003 -0800, Jeffrey Miller wrote:
American officials have admitted that the thousands of boxes of white
powder they seized north of Baghdad are explosives.
Aw. Poor America. Again their evidence for Hussein's WMD's turns
out to NOT be evidence for WMD's.
Bush-regime Mode
At 19:32 04-04-2003 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
How two people who consider themselves to be at opposite ends of the
political spectrum can be so alike, it is amazing!
Well, we *are* at opposite ends of the political spectrum: I consider
myself a socialist, while Giorgis is a right-wing
At 19:54 04-04-2003 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
still wondering just *how* they identify mysterious white powders that
might be very lethal
I can imagine that they'll have some field test kit to check what kind of
substance they're dealing with. Chemical composition can be determined with
a
At 20:08 04-04-2003 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
[The question remaining is what to do about all the cats who can hear
perfectly well but just don't listen . . . ]
Now ask that question again, but replace cats with kids. :-)
If you ever develop a product that will solve this problem, you
At 23:10 04-04-2003 -0800, Debbi Harrell wrote:
Even if I do think it's ridiculous to chase down a
tiny group like this for infringement...does the USOC
actually fear that people around the world will trek
to Nebraska to watch this mighty event? Or spend
boodles of money on RO caps, T-shirts and
At 11:26 05-04-2003 +0100, Richard Baker wrote:
Jeroen said:
Jeroen Giorgis Delenda Est van Baardwijk
Ah, yes: tolerance.
Even *my* tolerance has its limits. I will tolerate a lot, but I will not
tolerate hate-spewing. Not Giorgis's neverending hate-spewing, not anyone
else's hate-spewing.
At 08:02 05-04-2003 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
Similarity #1 (of hundreds)
The comment of hundreds implies there are, at the very minimum, 200 (two
hundred) similarities between me and Giorgis. I challenge you to list all
of them (or at least, the first 200 of them).
If you already know there
At 08:53 05-04-2003 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
Similarity #327: They both missed similarities #2 through #326
Whew, 327, that was tiring. That's all for now.
Thank you for once again reminding us why we should not take you seriously.
Jeroen Didn't expect anything else van Baardwijk
At 13:32 05-04-2003 -0600, John Horn wrote:
Jeroen mode
You *still* haven't answered my or Jon Gabriel's questions...
/Jeroen mode
What were the questions again?
Jeroen So many messages, so little time van Baardwijk
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At 21:37 03-04-2003 +, John Giorgis whined:
Please, there is a better way. If you feel the same way that I do,
please e-mail the List Admins and ask them to take action against the
fundamentally non-serious list-flaming of Jeroen.
In the almost five years I've been on Brin-L, I've seen
At 22:49 02-04-2003 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Fifteen Iraqi civilians were packed inside the Toyota, officers said,
along with as many of their possessions as the jammed vehicle could hold.
Ten of them, including five children who appeared to be under 5 years old,
were killed on the spot when
At 14:27 03-04-2003 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Fifteen Iraqi civilians were packed inside the Toyota, officers said,
along with as many of their possessions as the jammed vehicle could
hold. Ten of them, including five children who appeared to be under 5
years old, were killed on the spot when
At 16:38 03-04-2003 -0500, Damon Agretto wrote:
That was humor, right? Not a serious comment, right?
If not, you just confirmed the wisdom behind not joining the ICC...
I just as well assume Jeroen failed to read my post in response to this.
Or ignored it...
Neither, actually. Between sending
At 21:37 03-04-2003 +, John Giorgis wrote:
Everybody, Jeroen is NOT BEING SERIOUS ABOUT THIS!Come on now - no
serious person could say something that stupid!
Jeroen is *flaming* us.
Snipped rest of Giorgis's extensive umpteenth personal attack against me
John, please limit yourself to
At 17:35 03-04-2003 -0500, Damon Agretto wrote:
Neither, actually. Between sending my original message and hitting Send
after writing *this* message, I have received only two messages from you:
the one quoted above, and the one about you being a collector and painter
of figures.
I had sent a
At 07:15 01-04-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
As such, by not launching the war now, if you were George Bush, would you
be prepared to bear the following costs of waiting until September to let
a dictator whom we know with certainty will try and succeed at hiding
*something* from inspectors
At 17:29 02-04-03 +0100, William Goodall wrote:
It's the money, really. The 256/64 Kb package is considerably cheaper
than cable, and other packages (512/256 and better) are all more
expensive than cable. Cable costs EUR 49.95 per month, which I find to be
a bit (too) much for what I use
At 07:55 02-04-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Sonja van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I think you should stick to attacking arguments
and not the poster.
And I think your husband could, perhaps, strive harder to avoid giving the
impression that he wouldn't particularly regret
At 10:29 02-04-03 +0200, I wrote:
Can't compare ADSL vs. cable speed, BTW -- Chello doesn't provide
information about their connection speed. But hey, if the ADSL
package I got turns out to be too slow, I can always upgrade.
Ahh, that's right - ADSL services around me also offer different
At 15:43 02-04-03 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Or, since you work for the Dutch department of defense, if they have
reserves who are subject to callup, perhaps you know some of those reserve
members who have been called up in the past and you could ask them.
So far it has never been necessary
The good part first: bought a new computer last Wednesday. Real nice stuff:
P4 2.6 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 120 GB harddisk, 128 MB video card,
CD/DVD ROM drive, CD-RW/DVD-RW burner, TV/Radio receiver, and connections
for literally *anything* that can nowadays be plugged into a computer. It
At 10:20 26-03-03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
I see. You do not punish criminals in your country.
No, Ilana, we *do* punish criminals -- we're just not in the habit of
violating their human rights by keeping them in solitary confinement
for 15 years. Unlike Israel (apparently), we actually
At 10:01 27-03-03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
The US has declared for years that the only WMDs we have in our possession
are nukes. We don't own or use chemical or biological weapons.
At least, none that you know about. The US government has been lying to the
public before, so I wouldn't just
At 00:36 28-03-03 +, Jose Ortiz wrote:
Going back to my example, Michael Kamen is a top-rated, world-famous
composer and conductor. All those young musicians he is *leading* are
recently graduated or about to. He didn't finish Julliard. But he has a
career. What's the real message here?
At 18:27 30-03-03 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Is it true, Jeroen?
The Mayor of Amsterdam is _always_ elected with 100% of the votes of those
that elect him, namely, one vote from the Queen?
In a way, it's true. Mayors here don't get elected but are appointed by the
Crown.
The appointment
At 15:50 30-03-03 -0800, David Brin wrote:
I have an essay explaining many aspects of the Foundation universe. I
thought I had posted it at http://www.davidbrin.com/ but now I can't find
it. (Ay of you know where it is?)
If one of you would choose to host it, I'll email it over and then you
At 07:28 27-03-03 +0200, Ilana Halupovich wrote:
Jeroen
If it was later proven to be mass hysteria, I'm sure it would have been
mentioned in the documentary.
It should have been. If the documentary was trying to be objective, that is.
I have no reason to believe that the BBC would be trying to
At 07:47 27-03-03 +0200, Ilana Halupovich wrote:
Jeroen asked
If a country's arsenal of WMD's is nobody else's business, why did the
US consider Iraq's *alleged* arsenal of WMD's a reason to go to war?
Because it's crazy enough to use it?
And, again, I ask you to check the world map.
I *am*
At 01:13 31-03-03 +, John Giorgis wrote:
Eh, I was in Ohio on Saturday figuring all this out anyone, is it
really a better idea to buy a whole new case instead of just putting the
power supply in my old one?
That depends on what you value most: your wallet or the US economy.
Buying
At 19:22 31-03-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
act has been committed. Hopefully, no one will ever be stupid enough
to attempt to destroy New York or anywhere else with weapons of mass
destruction - but unfortunately, that's a risk we all have to live with.
No. It's a risk _I_ have to live
At 22:32 31-03-03 -0500, Jim Sharkey wrote:
I enjoyed the book, but the ending, and some of the tangents were a bit
puzzling. I'm sure this was intentional, but I was wondering to what end
it was intentional, if you take my meaning.
Er, to provide a starting point for a sequel, perhaps?
Just
At 15:20 01-04-03 -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
Two new toys, actually: a few days earlier Sonja gave me a digital
photo camera for my birthday... :-)
No birthday, here, but I just bought a digital camera also (to use for our
baby's imminent arrival)... anyway, what'd ya get?
HP 720 (3.3
At 12:59 01-04-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
And you think the rest of the world will not feel (in some way or
other) the consequences of US retaliation for the destruction of
New York?
I think that everything anyone ever wants to say about your politics is
encapsulated, Jeroen, in the
At 14:54 01-04-03 -0600, The Fool wrote:
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters
(spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't
there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly
At 15:06 26-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
I suspect that Brin-l must have received some publicity recently -- we
have picked up several new members in the last couple of days. That's a
bit of an unusual burst, so I thought I'd say welcome to all of them.
New folks, please feel free to
At 09:18 25-03-03 +0200, Ilana Halupovich wrote:
I found the documentary very disturbing. Just to mentions a few things:
* For years Israel lied about having a nuclear program (the plant in
Dimona where Israel was making plutonium for bombs was said to be a
textiles factory).
1. There are
At 09:39 25-03-03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Mark your history books, liberals have just gone on the record as
supporting tax cuts for big business!
Where? In Dictator Bush's dividend tax cut. Idiot.
When you post anonymously you shouldn't abuse that privilege by insulting
listmembers.
At 08:01 25-03-03 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Jeroen Sick Tired van Baardwijk
Not nearly as sick or tired as the rest of us who have to read this.
But you don't *have* to read it -- you could simply ignore messages from me
and JDG. Or, if you only want to filter out our replies to each
At 14:30 23-03-03 -0800, John Giorgis wrote:
As an example of how biased NPR is, even by mainstream media standards,
while most radio news outfits cover the actual war, NPR seemed to find
coverage of the anti-war protests far more interesting - and provided
virtually play-by-play coverage.
At 16:46 23-03-03 -0600, John Horn wrote:
...in case you still didn't believe that Bill Clinton is and was a
compulsive liar
Give it a rest. He's not president anymore, remember? You won, OK? Your
guy is in office.
Boy, Republicans *really* hate that man...
It's all plain jealousy, I tell
At 20:53 23-03-03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Friday after 9/11 [..] BBC America was airing a concert from England,
something about the end of the Prom (or Proms?), and they did Adagio for
Strings in honor of the American tragedy.
That was Last Night of the Proms, the closing night of the
At 22:14 23-03-03 -0500, Gary Nunn wrote:
The news ticker on MSNBC says that the Military is accusing Iraqi
soldiers of dressing in civilian clothes, using civilian vehicles and
faking surrender.
Well duh.
Why would the military think that the Iraqi military would do anything
different than
At 14:04 24-03-03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Here in the UK it's handled as a medical matter, and two doctors
signatures are required, etc.
Is there any accountability of this? For example, if I am looking for a
doctor, can I check how many abortions s/he has signed?
Out of curiosity, why
At 05:59 24-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Quit blaming me for you own intellectual laziness.
SIGH
John, is there even a remote chance that you will ever stop throwing
insults at people you disagree with? Do you really believe that you can get
your opponents to agree with you if you insult
At 10:17 17-03-03 +0200, Ilana Halupovich wrote:
Israeli nuclear 'power' exposed
By Olenka Frankiel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2841377.stm
Vaanunu was kidnapped in Rome, not in London. Now if this reporter could
not give *one* fact right, why should I think that other
At 15:55 24-03-03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
BTW, for those interested in the full text of the Many many years
ago... joke, see
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~cperlich/areisz/humour/Familyties.htm.
Thanks for that. :) It's actually a song. I could probably dig up an MP3
somewhere given enough
At 16:13 24-03-03 -0600, Marvin Long wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Julia Thompson wrote:
I'm pregnant again.
Holy #*!! It's an epidemic of sperm poisoning!!
GRIN
Amazing, isn't it -- the things some people will do to make sure that there
will always be a fresh supply of Brin-L members...
At 00:32 23-03-03 +, Andy Crystall wrote:
50 dead in Basra, and 8000 surrender - this doesn't sound right. Even
the soldiers of the drug traffic show more bravery
The problem is sure you might be holed up in a town.
You're surrounded by more soldiers, better trained soldiers, soldiers
At 19:15 21-03-03 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote:
The reason I explicitly mentioned RH 7.2 is that I recently bought a
box set of RH 7.2 Professional on the cheap (EUR 35, down from EUR
235). Given the price I already figured a new version must have been
released, but for an absolute newbie who just
At 20:08 21-03-03 -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
Actually, I used obscure reference, because I had no idea if there were
any Monty Python
fans here and didn't want to seem like a wierdo (or not more than usual
anyway) if no one
got it. :-)
Hey, don't worry about it. If you seem like a weirdo,
At 20:18 21-03-03 -0500, William Taylor wrote:
He will receive half of the credits.
If he had said under secular humanism, would he have gotten full marks?
If he had said under Allah, would he have been expelled from school
altogether?
Jeroen Religious Observations van Baardwijk
At 15:23 22-03-03 -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Now if you want obscure
Gee dad! No Irishman can keep you from becoming dogkiller this
time!
10 Points
Clue:I bet you are really proud of your friends at Communist Martyrs High
School.
Porgie and Mudhead?
Jeroen Too easy,
At 21:45 22-03-03 +, Andy Crystall wrote:
I have a defibate problem with certain sections of Ortherdox Judaism
...as well as with the spelling of it... GRIN
Jeroen Casual Observations van Baardwijk
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At 22:12 20-03-03 -0500, Matthew Bos wrote:
Here name is:
Anneka Marie Bos
She's 6 pounds 4 ounces,
Nineteen and a half inches long.
Born at 1:32 on Thursday
CONGRATULATIONS!!! :-)
First child?
Mother and daughter are doing fine.
Father is a nervous wreck.
Been there, done that. Don't
At 01:17 21-03-03 -0500, William Taylor wrote:
In-between two Something wonderful replies was a SPAM message for
Maintain Your Septic Tank Properly.
Download and install MailWasher. That's what I did, and it works great.
Spam? What spam?
www.mailwasher.com
Jeroen Tech Support van Baardwijk
I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2:
- Red Hat Linux 7.2: The Complete Reference, Second Edition
Author: Richard Petersen
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072191783
- Red Hat Linux 7.2 Bible Unlimited Edition (With CD-ROM)
Author: Christopher Negus
At 11:47 21-03-03 -0500, Damon Agretto wrote:
Problem with Brin-L and my desire to keep up with other lists is that,
invariably, I get way behind!
Quit those other lists, then. I mean, when you have Brin-L, why would you
need any other lists? :-)
Jeroen Brin-L Propaganda van Baardwijk
At 21:27 17-03-03 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
Come Sunday, I will have been living in The Netherlands for the last 36
years.
Does this mean you have a birthday coming up? If so, happy birthday!
Yep. T minus 29-years-and-two-days till retirement. :-)
Jeroen Oldtimer van
At 12:13 21-03-03 -0500, Damon Agretto wrote:
Quit those other lists, then. I mean, when you have Brin-L, why would you
need any other lists? :-)
Well, Jeroen, if Brin-L can supply my gaming fix then you'd have a valid
point! Anyone want to talk about Fading Suns RPG or Battletech? :)
All is
At 16:09 21-03-03 -0500, Gary Nunn wrote:
Jeroen,
Check out www.abebooks.com before you buy from Amazon.
Thanks Gary! That was indeed a very useful suggestion! :-)
I paid them a quick visit and found both titles there (albeit from two
different sellers, which means higher SH). I didn't make
At 21:39 17-03-03 +, John Giorgis wrote:
Uhhh. I don't know how Dutch dictionaries work, but in English
dictionary definitions are *OR* propositions, not *AND* propositions.
For example, please visit the dictionary definition of the English
word heart:
At 21:19 18-03-03 +, John Giorgis wrote:
First question for you - do they have to irradiate the mail in your office
because several people in *your* city have _died_ from anthrax?
Didn't think so.
How can you be sure that they don't irradiate the mail over here?
I'm not sure if they *are*
At 17:25 18-03-03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
With all those security measures in place, and with all that military
hardware in position around DC, it is probably one of the safest urban
areas in the country right now... Given all those security measures,
chances are that I am taking more risk
At 13:13 19-03-03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
I don't know how it would work in your yard, or in your climate, or with
your palate, but rosemary is a pretty and useful ornamental bush
The biggest problem with rosemary is neither our yard itself, nor the
climate, nor the palate.
The
At 16:00 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Then how would you describe countries like The Netherlands, Belgium,
the UK and Spain? These are all monarchies and they are all
democratic.
Constitutional monarchies. They are not democracies because there is not a
direct rule of the majority.
When
At 16:33 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
What risk would that be? The only action he is involved in is posting
Bush-regime propaganda to a mailing list; what risks he is exposing
himself to by doing that (other than having his arguments shot to
barrels time and time again)?
He lives in the
At 19:10 16-03-03 -0500, Gary Nunn wrote:
So who all is still playing Nation States?
raises hand
I'm still in the game, although the game has horribly little gameplay.
Keeping the relevant page on my website up-to-date ( www.brin-l.com [Fun
Games] ) is more time-consuming than the actual
At 18:24 16-03-03 -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Er, John, I think you need to read up on how a democracy works. In a
democracy, decisions are not made by the populace but by the politicians
that were elected by the populace.
No, that is the definition of a _republic_.
That's not entirely
At 19:20 16-03-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
If the US was under such occupation, what would happen? Well, I hope to
God that if I wasn't dead, I'd be helping to smuggle Jews out of the
country, and I'm confident that the rest of the population would do the same.
That's very unlikely. It is
At 20:37 17-03-03 +, John Giorgis wrote:
That's not entirely correct. In The Netherlands, our politicians
have been elected by the populace, and decisions are made by those
politicians. However, The Netherlands is NOT a republic -- it's a
democracy (with a constitutional monarchy).
Are
At 20:39 17-03-03 +, John Giorgis wrote:
If the US was under such occupation, what would happen? Well, I hope
to God that if I wasn't dead, I'd be helping to smuggle Jews out of
the country, and I'm confident that the rest of the population would
do the same.
That's very unlikely. It
At 15:11 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Absolutely. Come Sunday, I will have been living in The Netherlands
for the last 36 years. I can assure you that our politicians have
been elected (two elections so far this year), and I can assure you
that if my country would be a republic, I
At 15:30 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
So, a republic does not have a monarch. The Netherlands does have a
monarch, therefore The Netherlands is not a republic.
Q.E.D.
But, it isn't a democracy either. Democracies don't have monarchs.
Then how would you describe countries like The
At 15:34 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
No, spoken like someone who knows that with most people in such a
situation, their survival instinct kicks in and takes over.
But, Gautam provided plenty of counterexamples in other countries where
the Nazis attacked. Examples where people's lives
At 21:39 17-03-03 +, John Giorgis wrote:
So, a republic does not have a monarch. The Netherlands does have a
monarch, therefore The Netherlands is not a republic.
Q.E.D.
Uhhh. I don't know how Dutch dictionaries work, but in English
dictionary definitions are *OR* propositions, not
At 17:05 17-03-03 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
So, a republic does not have a monarch. The Netherlands does have a
monarch, therefore The Netherlands is not a republic.
Q.E.D.
Uhhh. I don't know how Dutch dictionaries work, but in English
dictionary definitions are *OR* propositions, not
At 16:56 17-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Moderate risk? It was a _major_ risk. A HUGE risk. People who were
discovered protecting Jews were treated like Jews. They risked not
only their own lives but those of their families. They may have been
cowards but I can understand their fear.
At 21:20 15-03-03 +, Andy Crystall wrote:
Consider - if he does develop WMD and uses them against Israel, Bagdad
will be glassed. That is, frankly, the future alternative to a war now.
Speaking of Israel and WMD's...
Tonight on _Correspondent_ (BBC Two, 19:15 GMT): Israel's Secret Weapon.
At 17:35 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
You're in for a disappointment then. I have it on good authority that
anti-Americanism had nothing to do with my criticism.
*
Whose authority, yours?
Heh. Believe me Jeroen, your doing exactly what I would expect of you is
hardly a
At 17:40 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
I was talking about the opinion of people. In a January Gallup poll, the
last one I could find, the numbers were:
**
Again, though, I definitely believe that those numbers are skewed by the
presence
At 13:26 16-03-03 +, Andy Crystall wrote:
France has a VERY strong Neo-Nazi majority, especially at present.
^
/me doesn't bother to answer.
sigh minority.
I've been up for ~30 hours.
If you want to be an idiot, be an idiot. Nothing I don't
At 17:21 16-03-03 +0100, I wrote:
Tonight on _Correspondent_ (BBC Two, 19:15 GMT): Israel's Secret Weapon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2837671.stm
The United States and Britain are preparing to wage war on Iraq, for its
undisclosed weapons of mass destruction.
Israel's
At 11:12 16-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Er, John, I think you need to read up on how a democracy works.
In a democracy, decisions are not made by the populace but by
the politicians that were elected by the populace.
ROTFLOL!
You crack me
At 11:05 16-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
There's also the matter of French preservation of language and
culture. It is a country where it can be illegal to use a foreign word
in business. When computers first became widely available, phrases such
as le software and le hardware came into
At 11:19 16-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
People are so... weird.
Nah. All of us are normal, it's just you who's weird. :-)
Jeroen Jokes'R'Us van Baardwijk
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Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website:
At 12:37 16-03-03 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Mais tu parles l'histoire Francais comme un imbecile arrogant, pour je
parle francais aussi.
It's been twenty years since my last French class, but somewhat to my
surprise I had no problem translating that sentence to English. I could
also tell
At 17:21 16-03-03 +0100, I wrote:
Tonight on _Correspondent_ (BBC Two, 19:15 GMT): Israel's Secret Weapon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2837671.stm
The United States and Britain are preparing to wage war on Iraq, for its
undisclosed weapons of mass destruction.
Israel's
Once again, there has been some moving-around in the Top-10 of the
Alpha-Mail Statistics.
1. Julia Thompson 5,378
2. John Giorgis 4,326
3. Jeroen van Baardwijk 3,987
4. Dan Minette3,259 (switched places with Gord Sellar)
5. Gord Sellar3,248
The long-time listmembers will remember one of the most prolific members
from Brin-L's past: Gord Sax Sellar.
It took a while, but he finally got himself a web presence:
Hey everyone.
I just thought I would announce two things; the first is that after
several weeks of busy work, my website is
At 18:28 14-03-03 -0500, Bryon Daly wrote:
Although I really prefer to go for the third option: an improved UN
where each country has one vote, where no country has veto power so
that no country can force its will upon others, and where all
decisions are made by all members, not a small
At 03:01 15-03-03 +, Jose Ortiz wrote:
First of all, let me state for the record that our national pastime is
just that: politics. We eat/breathe politics 24/7.
Sounds like a wonderful place for Gautam to live... :-)
We have under the umbrella of both our constitution and the US
At 21:26 14-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
I do however think that keeping the pressure on high, while conducting
further peacefull inspections is probably the best bet for improvement
in the region. Then again I don't see how the US will be prevented from
going for the price... oops I mean ...
At 21:44 14-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
If France can prevent the war from happening, than it *has* effectively
protected American soldiers. After all, when there is no war, the risk to
a soldier's life is significantly less than when that soldier goes into combat.
At 06:05 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
Yeah, so? There were plenty of voices saying that war was a bad
idea. The Bush regime decided to ignore those voices and set
the stage for war anyway. If the Bush regime is foolish enough
to ignore good advice, it shouldn't complain about the costs.
At 06:11 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
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Er, John, is there a reason why you are sending each (or at least: most) of
your messages to the list *twice*?
Jeroen Casual Observations van Baardwijk
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At 09:35 15-03-03 -0500, JDG insultingly wrote:
The UN Resolution says serious consequences, it doesn't say war. The
consequence war is merely America's interpretation of the phrase
serious consequences; the various UN members are not in agreement about
the how it should be interpreted.
At 09:44 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
BTW, I'd just like to point out, that the quintessential example of
Anti-Americanism is criticism of America's treatment of Puerto Rico.
SIGH
For the umpteenth time, John, criticism of the US does NOT equal
anti-Americanism. I also criticise the
At 11:29 15-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
BTW, I'd just like to point out, that the quintessential example of
Anti-Americanism is criticism of America's treatment of Puerto Rico.
Jeroen wrote:
But hey, here's a challenge for you: prove beyond reasonable doubt that
criticism of America's
At 23:39 12-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
BTW - Jeroen - a constitutional monarchy is a form of republican
government
How's that?
Under a population-based system, China's population should be measured as
being approximately 5,000. This is the number of people who are actually
At 23:45 12-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Germany has proportional representation. If there are two big parties,
each with 47.5% of the legislature, then a party with 5% can claim a
pretty high price to make one of the two parties the top dog.
In theory, yes, but that's not how it works in
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