Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-07 Thread The Fool
From: John W Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] I confess that I do not know as much about atheism as an atheist does, or a least not as much that is correct. But neither do atheists know as much about religion as religious people do, at least not as much that is correct. Some things you

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread The Fool
From: John W Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] My atheist father used to tell me that might makes right is a bad philosophy? Why? Unless there is a God who is against it, why would that philosophy be any better or worse than any other? Upon what do atheists base their morality? I've never been

Re: The Morality of Killing Babies

2006-09-06 Thread The Fool
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6 Sep 2006 at 14:43, William T Goodall wrote: On 6 Sep 2006, at 2:31PM, Richard Baker wrote: Or: how does God Himself decide what is good and evil? Isn't He, at least, basically in the same position as us atheists? I think I

Re: To the Back of the Bus!

2006-08-25 Thread The Fool
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 24, 2006, at 11:07 AM, The Fool wrote: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/ NEWS01/60 8240332/1002/NEWS COUSHATTA -- Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week

To the Back of the Bus!

2006-08-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060824/NEWS01/60 8240332/1002/NEWS COUSHATTA -- Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children...

Re: Dzur

2006-07-30 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=yisbn=0765301482itm=1 Pub. Date: August 8, 2006 The Cycle Phoenix sinks into decay Haughty Dragon yearns to slay. Lyorn growls and lowers horn Tiassa dreams and plots are born. Hawk looks down from lofty

Re: Prehistory

2006-07-29 Thread The Fool
From: Brother John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard Baker wrote: Brother John said: Where do you think our primitive cultures came from? They are all descended from higher cultures, descended from the drop outs and hippies of prior civilizations. Where did those higher cultures come

Re: Prehistory

2006-07-29 Thread The Fool
-- From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool said: Troll, Both Egyptian and Chinese history goes back about 8000 years. I thought that the earliest known historical documents from Egypt were the Early Dynastic palettes, such as the famous Narmer palette, which shows

Re: Prehistory

2006-07-29 Thread The Fool
From: Charlie Bell On 30/07/2006, at 1:03 PM, The Fool wrote: Well if you mean writing. The sphynx is estimated as being 8000+ years ago. About 1-2000 years after the domestication of the cat. Domestication? ;) Parasitication

RIP Aku

2006-07-26 Thread The Fool
http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=170988 - Respect is fine, but actually I've always wanted to be feared. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: SciFi Channel sinks to all new low.

2006-07-25 Thread The Fool
From: Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's with a heavy heart that I must report the SciFi Channel has sunk to a new all time low. I can only guess that SciFi Channel felt as if they had to do one worse than Tremors: The Series, and Scare Tactics. [Deep sigh here] As I type this,

The Kleptocrats new Tactic: Stop Enforcing the Estate Tax

2006-07-23 Thread The Fool
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/business/23tax.html The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, specifically those who are subject to gift and estate taxes when

Re: RFK Jr. interview

2006-07-22 Thread The Fool
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] difficult for non-citizens to vote. One example that I just read was the opposition to a picture ID voting card, which requires proof of citizenship to vote. Requiring citizens to get an ID card from one single statewide office that is never open, to be able to

Your Fascist Government at work

2006-07-21 Thread The Fool
http://beta.earplug.cc/31525 Recent promotional shipments of the group's new album, YoYoYoYoYo, sent from the Montreal office of Big Dada's parent company Ninja Tune, arrived at their Los Angeles destinations with the CDs missing and Bibles in their stead, according to Ninja Tune employees. The

Re: Irregulars question about generic programming languages

2006-07-19 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which language is _the simplest_ to program things like a binary file that packs things? Something like the specification of a graphic file could be like: 4 bytes for the header: AVFM 4 bytes (little endian) for the x dimension 4 bytes (little

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-07 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlie Bell wrote: ... and second, the maths of evolutionary genetics is against you - while direct chromosomal inheritance goes down exponentially by generation, family tree goes up exponentially by generation (to within population limits).

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-04 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Didn't native americans cross the land bridge circa 14,000 years ago, and remained relatively unconnected to other human populations until circa 1492? The key word is relatively. There is no true isolation. I'm not buying

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-04 Thread The Fool
From: David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Didn't native americans cross the land bridge circa 14,000 years ago, and remained relatively unconnected to other human populations until circa 1492? The key word

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

2006-07-03 Thread The Fool
From: Ticia [EMAIL PROTECTED] delurking http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man Whoever it was probably lived a few thousand years ago, somewhere in East Asia — Taiwan, Malaysia and Siberia all are likely locations. He — or she — did nothing more remarkable

Fascist Censorship: Verizon's new Big Brother Router

2006-06-30 Thread The Fool
Big Brother Verizon loves it's upstream censoring abilities: http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/6/30/113944/311 The almost-proprietary customer management features of the TR-069-compliant router have the capability to provide unprecedented Verizon control of the customer's interactions with the

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-27 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On I realize that you think that, but it raises an obvious question. What do you do when different studies produce different results? How do you think the results of the studies should be

Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-26 Thread The Fool
What was that about cell-phone radiation not being able to penetrate the skull again? http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13550265/ Cell phone signal excites brain•is it harmful? Repeated exposure could have possible effect on certain people, study finds WASHINGTON - Cell phone emissions excite the part of

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-26 Thread The Fool
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It isn't whether it can penetrate it is how much penetrates, what is the energy of the penetrating em signal and where the penetration occurs. The study does not by the way prove that the em signal penetrates into the brain; the TMS signal may be affected by

Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone

2006-06-26 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Subject: Re: Cell Phone Signal Excites Brain Near the Cell Phone -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It isn't whether it can penetrate it is how much

Re: Optical Illusion (really . . . not a gag)

2006-06-24 Thread The Fool
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click on the link and follow the instructions on the page. http://www.johnsadowski.com/big_spanish_castle.html Note: JavaScript must be on for this illusion to work! Java$hit apparently changes something about the image...

Liberal Media: W.Post: Republicans 'Principled', Democrats 'Unprincipled, Racist

2006-06-23 Thread The Fool
Thankfully we have such a Liberal Media, to point out to us how principled republicans really are and how racist and unprinicpled democrats really are: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201 474_pf.html By Richard Morin (Moron) Miserly Republicans,

Re: Brin: BASIC

2006-05-08 Thread The Fool
As for fibbonacci sequences a more correct function would be along these lines: (c) 2006 The Fool ' where fib(0) = 0 Function FibNum(Fib As Long) As Long If (Fib 0) Then FibNum = FibPos((Fib - 1)) Else ' FibNum = FibNeg(Fib + 1) End If End

Brin: BASIC

2006-05-07 Thread The Fool
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/05/age-of-miracles-wonder.html Only now it's insufficient. We'd like to make pixels move around on a simulated CRT screen. And we DON'T want to do it using high-level complex stuff like VISUAL BASIC. Old fashioned line coding, iterating to move pixels according

Re: Brin: BASIC

2006-05-07 Thread The Fool
From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] As to the BASIC question: I'll shoot you a counter-question: Why? snip JavaSh!t and high level programming Dr. Brin isn't interested in that high level stuff. Too complicated. Not simple enough. Don't bring it up again or he'll start getting,

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-06 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2006, at 1:27 PM, The Fool wrote: From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2006, at 11:52 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-06 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On On 5/5/06, The Fool wrote: On 5/5/06, A person not named The Fool wrote: I see a glaring logical error. The idea that *only* science can minimize self-deception and identify non-existent

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-06 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Fool On From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/5/06, The Fool wrote: On 5/5/06, A person not named The Fool wrote: I see a glaring logical error. The idea that *only* science can minimize self-deception

Re: Myers-Briggs (was: Blog entry with interesting comment)

2006-05-06 Thread The Fool
From: Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED] If it's science at all, it's a very fluffy kind of science. Ten or fifteen years ago, I gave Kiersey style Myers-Briggs tests to a dozen people I knew. I felt the results were accurate in about 7 of those 12 cases. So I decided it was

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread The Fool
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out): http://skepdic.com/myersb.html MBTI is psuedo-science at its finest. ___

Re: Myers-Briggs

2006-05-05 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 5, 2006, at 11:52 AM, The Fool wrote: From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, here are a few sites for those curious: And for the skeptical (I have only skimmed this, as it's time to head out): http://skepdic.com/myersb.html MBTI

Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy

2006-05-04 Thread The Fool
From: Matthew and Julie Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/2/06 1:07 PM, The Fool wrote: What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 But just to entertain me, how can a newspaper be racist

Re: WSJournal: Western

2006-05-03 Thread The Fool
From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 Wow. It's as if you didn't actually read the editorial, beyond that first paragraph. I

Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy [L3]

2006-05-03 Thread The Fool
From: Matthew and Julie Bos [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/2/06 1:07 PM, The Fool wrote: What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 The Opinion Journal is part of the Wall Street Journal. I

Re: WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremacy

2006-05-03 Thread The Fool
From: Xponent [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 02:15 PM Tuesday 5/2/2006, Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: But just to entertain me, how can a newspaper be racist? 'Cuz until very recently, everything in it was either black or white . . . Brad

WSJournal: Western Moral Authority is based on White Supremecy

2006-05-02 Thread The Fool
What you would expect to read in the more overtly racist Washington Times: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008318 It began, I believe, in a late-20th-century event that transformed the world more profoundly than the collapse of communism: the world-wide collapse of

Scientist: Pesticides affect Dong Size

2006-05-01 Thread The Fool
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2006/04/29/1556379-sun.html A zoologist, Guillette has spent the last decade studying the influence of environmental contaminants on fetal development and reproductive systems of wildlife and humans, including the differences between alligators living in

New Levi's Dockers may have RFID chips

2006-04-28 Thread The Fool
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/levis-secret-testing.html While Levi Strauss reports that its current RFID trials use external RFID hang tags that can be clipped from the clothes and the focus is on inventory management, not customer tracking, the company isn't guaranteeing how it will use

Study: Cell-Phone Radiation Affects Brain Function it's Cumulative

2006-04-28 Thread The Fool
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/27/060427110534.coym1bs2.html Australian research shows mobile phones affect brain function Radiation from mobile phone phones affects the way the brain works, Australian researchers have found. Scientists from Swinburne University of Technology's Brain

Fight the Future: Texas Hospitals and HMO's Conspire to Murder People

2006-04-26 Thread The Fool
Welcome to King George IV's Texas, where Hospitals, Insurance companies, and HMO's are legally allowed to murder people: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/25/181614/934 The hospital ethics committee met the day before yesterday and concluded that Andrea's treatment (respirator and

Re: Fight the Future: Texas Hospitals and HMO's Conspire to Murder People

2006-04-26 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool Welcome to King George IV's Texas, where Hospitals, Insurance companies, and HMO's are legally allowed to murder people: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/25/181614/934 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/images/ANSWERMAN/215/GUN.gif

FDA: Plan B would lead to 'Teen Sex Cults'

2006-04-26 Thread The Fool
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_digbysblog_archive.html#1146 8253976488 In the memo released by the FDA, Dr. Curtis Rosebraugh, an agency medical officer, wrote: As an example, she [Woodcock] stated that we could not anticipate, or prevent extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the

Re: Jack Chick parody

2006-04-23 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/tract.html Three points to the first person to post my favorite text from it. :) In Japan, rape is how you say hello. I am Learn custom from Hentais. I love engrish. And look it's the fox-girl announcer from

Re: Depleted Uranium, Floridated Water, and Bisphenol Food Wrapping

2006-04-22 Thread The Fool
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 19 Apr 2006 at 17:42, The Fool wrote: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=133828 Young boys who drink fluoridated tap water are at greater risk for a rare bone cancer, Harvard researchers reported yesterday. Yes

Re: Depleted Uranium, Floridated Water, and Bisphenol Food Wrapping

2006-04-20 Thread The Fool
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: The Fool --- http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=133828 Young boys who drink fluoridated tap water are at greater risk for a rare bone cancer, Harvard researchers reported yesterday. The study

Depleted Uranium, Floridated Water, and Bisphenol Food Wrapping

2006-04-19 Thread The Fool
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C8122-1596301%2C00.html Food wrap linked to prostate cancer by Jonathan Leake, Science Editor A CHEMICAL used to make food wrapping and line tin cans could be the cause of surging prostate cancer rates in men, says a study. Bisphenol A is widely

Re: Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-13 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: I believe only in the purity of math. Everything else is nonsense. Seriously? And what do you do with Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem? Does it effect the underlying math the all physics is based around? I think

Re: Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-12 Thread The Fool
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11 Apr 2006 at 7:22, The Fool wrote: If you ingore some minor gibberish about buddism: www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060403_sam_harris_interview I find your faith in atheism is touching. I wonder why you need so strongly not to believe

Re: Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-12 Thread The Fool
From: Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/04/2006, at 10:01 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Of course, it's possible that the answer you get will be RTF¹M . . . Now there's a good shortcut to atheism. :-) Not necessarily, if as some have suggested the Bible is a record of God's dealings

Re: Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-12 Thread The Fool
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] But, they were not fundamentalists. The two great doctors of the church (Agustine and Aquinis) did not emphasize a literal interpretation of scripture. The authority of the Church was the keys of the kingdom being passed on from Peter to his successors,

Re: Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-12 Thread The Fool
-- From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/12/06, The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe only in the purity of math. Everything else is nonsense. Seriously? And what do you do with Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem? - Does it effect the underlying math the all physics

Great Sam Harris Interview

2006-04-11 Thread The Fool
If you ingore some minor gibberish about buddism: www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060403_sam_harris_interview -- ...34/-21/13/-8/5/-3/2/-1/1/0/1/1/2/3/5/8/13/21/34... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

IBM's New Evil TPM -- Paranoid Device

2006-04-10 Thread The Fool
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/04/10/ibm.chip.ap/index.html IBM is announcing Monday that it has developed SecureBlue - a set of encryption circuitry that can be integrated into any processor, regardless of its manufacturer. This thing is trying to be one of the most paranoid devices on the

62 m

2006-04-10 Thread The Fool
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/Phys-fossil-biodiversity.h tml A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in mysterious cycles of 62 million years

Re: Robert Jordan

2006-04-06 Thread The Fool
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know some people on this list read him. http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html From Locus: Dear Locus, I have been diagnosed with amyloidosis. That is a rare blood disease which affects only 8 people out of a million each year,

Re: FEAR THE FUTURAMA: In-Sleep Advertising

2006-04-05 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, No, really: In. Sleep. Advertising. This is a sign of the end times. http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003900 Sleep well, I've Seen that episode. Fourth season episodes are much, much better. eno lirpa.

Re: Thunder

2006-04-05 Thread The Fool
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 05:46 AM Wednesday 4/5/2006, G. D. Akin wrote: I remember reading last year about a movie based on one of Ray Bradbury's best short stories, A Sound of Thunder. Then I never heard of it again until today when I saw (and

The Australian Gov't is reading your Email

2006-04-04 Thread The Fool
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/more-than-ever-watch-what-you-say/2 006/04/02/1143916406540.html -- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be

Re: Another study show cell-phone tumor link

2006-04-02 Thread The Fool
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 3/31/2006 6:28:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A total 85 of these 905 cases were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is they began early to use mobile and, or wireless telephones and used them a lot, the study

Re: Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark -- Update (Fox News Lies -- Again)

2006-04-01 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool Lies: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188463,00.html http://www.wwtdd.com/index.php?type=onei=757 http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/65830.htm http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1527001/20060324/hayes_isaac.jhtml?he adlines=true Adding another wrinkle

Another study show cell-phone tumor link

2006-03-31 Thread The Fool
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060331/sc_nm/phones_dc_3 researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life said they looked at the mobile phone use of 905 people between the age of 20 and 80 who had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and found a link. A total 85 of these 905

U.S. Army Bans Use of Privately Bought Armor

2006-03-31 Thread The Fool
Pop quiz: Which protects you better? A. No Armor B. Shoddy Armor C. Superiour Armor Like the 'Dragon Skin' If you answered A, you would be the U.S. Army: http://my.netscape.com/corewidgets/news/story.psp?cat=51180id=2006033 018170001373988 Soldiers will no longer be allowed to wear body

Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

2006-03-28 Thread The Fool
Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Timothy B. Lee http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa564.pdf The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when

Brin: New Wingnut Meme: Cultural Terrorism

2006-03-27 Thread The Fool
Fascism is on the March: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/25/MNG6OHU6RR1.DT L This is more than a spiritual war, Luce said. It's a culture war. Military metaphors abound in Luce's descriptions of the struggle. He tells young people of how an enemy has launched a brutal

Brin: Vote-Stealing-Machine Makers Using New Tactics to Prevent Transparency

2006-03-27 Thread The Fool
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006 032500805.html -- Freedom Democracy were S last millenium. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark -- Update

2006-03-26 Thread The Fool
From: Max Battcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: But in late January, Hayes suffered a stroke, and members of Scientology took advantage if his infirmed condition to issue a statement claiming to be Hayes leaving the show. Today the story gains momentum as the New York Post picks

Re: Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark -- Update

2006-03-24 Thread The Fool
From: The Fool http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188463,00.html Isaac Hayes' Quitting Controversy Isaac Hayes did not quit South Park. My sources say that someone quit it for him. I can tell you that Hayes is in no position to have quit anything. Contrary to news reports

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlie Bell wrote: Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR? Spinrite might do it, it's a dos thing. Don't have a copy handy unfortunately, my windows stuff is all in Cyprus (and I'm in Oz still with my iBook...).

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Is there any way to recover the HD for Windows XP without FR? Did you try using chkdsk.exe? Yes, but it was useless, like any other Windows XP resident (evil) tool. They either repeat the meaningless error message

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Is the HD partition FAT, Fat32, NTFS or other? Fat32 There's your problem _Right There_. Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to see this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Fat32 There's your problem _Right There_. Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to see this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every way. And you can compress NTFS drives

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: But NTFS is not visible to Linux. I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux distros that do understand NTFS. Ask some of the more serious linux gurus to help you (I'm sure there's a newsgroup

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Now you force me to do a little Linux bashing :-) Never a bad thing. Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P But 99% of open source progams outside

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Yes, because it keeps our criticism, not because Linux is worse than the standard PC-alternative :-P But 99% of open source progams outside of the the top 30 are terrible, horrble, craptackularly bad. Sturgeon Law

Re: hardware suckz

2006-03-22 Thread The Fool
From: Andrew Crystall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22 Mar 2006 at 11:16, The Fool wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: But NTFS is not visible to Linux. I'm _sure_ there are versions of programs in specific linux distros that do understand

More evidence linking the White mans poison to Obesity

2006-03-21 Thread The Fool
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003182.html University of Florida researchers have identified one possible reason for rising obesity rates, and it all starts with fructose, found in fruit, honey, table sugar and other sweeteners, and in many processed foods. Fructose may trick you into

Re: Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark -- Update

2006-03-21 Thread The Fool
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188463,00.html Isaac Hayes' Quitting Controversy Isaac Hayes did not quit South Park. My sources say that someone quit it for him. I can tell you that Hayes is in no position to have quit anything. Contrary to news reports, the great writer, singer and

Fascist Censorship Spreads: AU Labor Party to Filter Internet at ISP

2006-03-21 Thread The Fool
http://smh.com.au/news/National/Labor-will-make-ISPs-block-net-porn/20 06/03/21/114270305.html Labor's plan to protect children from online pornography and graphic violence has been backed by family groups, but dismissed by the government and internet industry. Opposition Leader Kim Beazley

Dr. Who

2006-03-20 Thread The Fool
Probable spoilers: They added a new counterpoint to the opening theme and rescored it with synthesizers. Bleh. It lacks the truly synthetic and slightly creepy sound of the the original masterpiece. This new version has no heart, no sharpness. It's kind of bleh. Seems kind of campy so

Re: TV Weekend

2006-03-19 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr Who is on Sci-Fi tonight It's two hours. The final episode of FullMetal Alchemist is on tomorrow on Cartoon Network. Sprited away is on CN at 6:30pm central. Uncut. I

Re: TV Weekend

2006-03-19 Thread The Fool
From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Seeberger wrote: Has anyone seen Howls Moving Castle yet? We rented it last weekend. It was, as usual, an amazing visual treat filled with memorable characters. Miyazaki's movies should be required watching, especially for young girls as his

Scouted: a new kind of repressive state

2006-03-19 Thread The Fool
http://www.bopnews.com/archives/006142.html ... For those reading carefully, this essay will come across as familiar in one respect. Each wave of repression is tied to a particular kind of state. The reformation repression is the feudal state, the absolutist the mercantile state, the victorian

Brin: Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer

2006-03-17 Thread The Fool
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/03/16/2357204.shtml 'Capsaicin led 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to commit suicide in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said.' This led to tumors one fifth the size of those in untreated mice.

Missouri ReThugliKLans Ban Birth Control Services

2006-03-16 Thread The Fool
Now that the thugs got Borklito and Roberts they start ratcheting up their real agenda: http://www.firedupmissouri.com/gop_bans_birth_control The amendment, offered by Rep. Susan Phillips (R-Kansas City) removed voluntary choice of contraception, including natural family planning as one of the

Isaac Hayes quits SouthPark over Scientology Ep

2006-03-14 Thread The Fool
Hyprocrisy. http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=162283 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_en_tv/people_isaac_hayes Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored, he continued. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot

History Channel: Fraud

2006-03-13 Thread The Fool
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/12/191034/261 The Garrison character is lamenting that the world that his family kids live in and will grow up in has become a lawless, screwed-up world and he defends to his wife why he has spent so much time away from the day-to-day family issues

Brin: The End of the Internet?

2006-03-02 Thread The Fool
The End of the Internet? -- (The Nation -- February 1, 2006) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run

Re: Stop AOL from ruining email

2006-02-27 Thread The Fool
From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Folks, The following message is the boilerplate that moveon.org is providing to help get the word out about what they're calling an email tax, under which large emailers can basically buy the right to spam AOL users. What do you expect from evil

Scouted: The Way Things Are:

2006-02-27 Thread The Fool
The US is... http://www.bopnews.com/archives/006055.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Palladium Laptop

2006-02-24 Thread The Fool
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/02/yes_trusted_ com.html Yes, Trusted Computing is used for DRM Ever since the Trusted Computing Group went public about its plan to put a security chip inside every PC, its members have been denying

Brin: The Big Bangs

2006-02-19 Thread The Fool
An article you might find interesting Dr. Brin: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/006046.html - 'I wish it need not have happened in my time', said Frodo. 'So do I,' said Gandalf, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do

Fight the Future: Houston Police wanna put Cameras in Your Home

2006-02-18 Thread The Fool
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Police_Cameras.html Houston's police chief on Wednesday proposed placing surveillance cameras in apartment complexes, downtown streets, shopping malls and even private homes to fight crime during a shortage of police officers. I know a lot of people

Iran to hang teenage girl who fought back against rapists

2006-02-17 Thread The Fool
http://feministing.com/archives/002691.html Iran to hang teenage girl who fought back against rapists This is pretty horrible stuff. A teenage girl in Iran has been sentenced to death by hanging after she admitted that she accidentally killed a man who was trying to rape her and her niece.

Brin: California Recertifies Hackable Diebold Voting Machines

2006-02-17 Thread The Fool
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/17/21954/9471 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Cancer Drug: $100,000 / Year

2006-02-16 Thread The Fool
http://thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?/archives/526-If-cancer-patients -wants-to-live,-the-price-is-8,000-a-month,-no-checks-please..html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/15/business/15drug.html Doctors are excited about the prospect of Avastin, a drug already widely used for colon cancer, as a

Hoes seek GTA ban

2006-02-16 Thread The Fool
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6144286.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

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