Re: US Unilateralism

2002-11-07 Thread Russell Chapman
Horn, John wrote: From: Russell Chapman [mailto:rchapman;ozemail.com.au] /8qT5dS: Permission denied Huh? - jmh Confused... Not as much as me. I posted using the same email address I have for the last 6 years or so, but from a different SMTP server. I expected to either see my post on

Re: Nukular and .pdf files

2002-11-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
David Hobby wrote: A simple way? I don't count buying a real copy of Adobe Acrobat simple. .pdf is evil. Adobe is evil. They hunt and kill programmers. Compared to Adobe, even Microsoft looks like a philantropic entity. Alberto Monteiro

Re: Nukular and .pdf files

2002-11-07 Thread Erik Reuter
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:16:02PM -0500, David Hobby wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: Acrobat Reader has a text select tool in the icon bar. Just select, then drag the text and copy. (The T icon can let you select a text select tool, a column select tool, or a graphics select tool, the

Re: I voted

2002-11-07 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 07:51 AM 11/5/2002 -0800 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: I do have one question for John: Who was the Green candidate you voted for, and why? I, like many here, am extremely curious about that. After voting for pro-ICC candidate Ehrlich for Governor this then finally convinced me to balance my

Re: Nukular and .pdf files

2002-11-07 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:17:17AM -0200, Alberto Monteiro wrote: .pdf is evil. No, PDF is an openly specified document format. Anyone can (and have!) write a program for working with or creating PDF files. -- Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikreuter.net/

Re: I Voted.....

2002-11-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 11/7/2002 6:02:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, I only drive to Church on Sunday, to the Supermarket for groceries once a week, and then during footballseason to the Sports Bar to watch Bills games. During the week, I am pretty much

Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Fafnirungenmax
Hi! I'm new! Any Robotech fans out there? JMM Holder of Lin Min Mei aka Green's Tang [that's Midori-noh-Tachi. Tachi . . .] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 11/7/2002 7:51:45 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I'm new! Any Robotech fans out there? No, not me. But damn it, I was having fun calling myself the olny idiot on the list because I was the only one on AOL. Nevertheless, enjoy the show.

RE: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from recouperating the costs of maintaining

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: Advertising space is somewhat based on viewership, which indeed cannot be counted, but mostly, its about number of hits. For example, Google's prices are based on the popularity of the words to which the add is associated as well as the number of follow

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Hector Sosa
Welcome to the list! I have the 3 part (Macross, Robotech Masters, Invid Invasion) Robotech series on VCDs. I watch them every once in a while while working on my computer at home. I also got the first two episodes of the Sentinels and the original Macross movie where Robotech descended from.

Long lost books...

2002-11-07 Thread Hector Sosa
I got into sci-fi when I started college (my second attempt) around 1989. There were a couple books that I read from the college library that I haven't been able to find again. I wish I would have jotted down info about them back then. :( The first book had humans pitted against feline type

Morning-After

2002-11-07 Thread The Fool
http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2002/110602.asp ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Long lost books...

2002-11-07 Thread Medievalbk
Did you also post to rec.arts.sf. written? William Taylor ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Matt Grimaldi
John D. Giorgis wrote: Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from recouperating the costs of maintaining these

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread The Fool
From: Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] John D. Giorgis wrote: Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Matt Grimaldi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm new! Welcome to Brin-L! Any Robotech fans out there? Yes! That was a very cool show in a time when there were not really any cartoon shows for teenage boys. It's still cool, though the version by Harmony Gold was very definitely written to a 13-15 yr.

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 21:08 06-11-2002 -0500, John Giorgis wrote: Have any of you people that enthusiastically supported the various ad-blocking software programs ever considered the fact that these software companies prevent the owners and oeprators of the websites you visit from recouperating the costs of

Re: Software question -- anyone use this?

2002-11-07 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
The Fool wrote: I consider banner ads to be a necessary evil, but the advertisers routinely abuse this by coding pop-up ads that can spawn up to 30 different browser windows, each with defensive coding that opens more windows when you close it. This has crashed my computer on more

Re: PDF work-around, was Re: Nukular and .pdf files

2002-11-07 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 23:38 07-11-2002 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: Of course buying the original Adobe is probably faster and much more convenient. Yep -- the only problem is the USD 249 price tag, or (even worse) the EUR 367,71 price tag for us Yurpeans. Bit expensive for personal use. And then

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread ValdivielsoB
Robotech Fan here. Have the DVDs, the novels and one of the RPG books. Even sent a e-mail to J.P. Hogan about his book being used in the Invid arch. :) Mike V. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 23:17:12 +0100 At 03:46 07-11-2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm new! Maybe your e-mail address is new here, but I do not believe *you* are new here. A Google search on your e-mail address returned the link: snip

Re: PDF work-around, was Re: Nukular and .pdf files

2002-11-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 11/7/2002 3:39:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A simple way? I don't count buying a real copy of Adobe Acrobat simple. There is free software to recover text from .pdf files (if they are not scanned in). I've used it, but it removes most

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 11/7/2002 4:41:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh. I was wrong. William Taylor -- I once tried to get Jerry Pournelle to change his bumper sticker to Io, Io, so off to JPL I go.

Re: I Voted.....

2002-11-07 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/7/2002 6:02:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, I only drive to Church on Sunday, to the Supermarket for groceries once a week, and then during footballseason to the Sports Bar to watch Bills games.

Re: I Voted.....

2002-11-07 Thread Ronn Blankenship
So did I. With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll find out who was elected governor. -- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Robotech

2002-11-07 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Jeroen wrote: Maybe your e-mail address is new here, but I do not believe *you* are new here. A Google search on your e-mail address returned the link: (...) Hello, mr. Constantino. :-) Jeroen, you are turning paranoid... Are you going to check _every_ new listmember? Alberto Monteiro

Re: I Voted.....

2002-11-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn Blankenship wrote: So did I. With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll find out who was elected governor. -- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :) So what's the holdup? I know what it was in Tarrant County, TX and I can go back and see what it was in Bexar County. (All the

Re: Silly contest

2002-11-07 Thread Reggie Bautista
Julia wrote: On a thread which some folks may not have been paying attention to, I offered to send a paperback copy of Kiln People to the first person to guess a certain set of 3 albums (once the book is out in paperback, that is). The information I gave about the 3 albums was thus: One had

Taking time to heal [LINK]

2002-11-07 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
A friend of mine wrote this piece, and I thought it might be interesting in light of last year's discussion of the Andrea Yates case. Or maybe not. http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2002/1245/t_cover.html Five days in the psych ward for post-partum depression Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL

Power outage!

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Arnett
List folks: Power just went out here in Santa Clara. I'm working off UPS. Will let you know when power's back, but until then, no Brin-L... or at least as soon as I shut down the server. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Silly contest

2002-11-07 Thread Julia Thompson
Reggie Bautista wrote: Julia wrote: On a thread which some folks may not have been paying attention to, I offered to send a paperback copy of Kiln People to the first person to guess a certain set of 3 albums (once the book is out in paperback, that is). The information I gave about the

Local mystery - 5200 lb. rotating granite ball

2002-11-07 Thread Gary Nunn
A local mystery (about 15 miles away) that has once again made the news. The short of this is that a cemetery marker has a 5200 lb polished granite ball on it that seems to inexplicably rotate several inches a year. Check this out... http://www.alliancelink.com/users/avalon/merchantball.htm

Re: I Voted.....

2002-11-07 Thread Steve Sloan II
Ronn Blankenship wrote, about the Alabama governor's race: With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll find out who was elected governor. Julia Thompson wrote: So what's the holdup? I know what it was in Tarrant County, TX and I can go back and see what it was in Bexar

Re: I Voted.....

2002-11-07 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 06:38 PM 11/7/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: Oh, and John, is it legal for the sports bar to be showing the NFL game? Just curious -- it was mentioned that they'd gone after some bars in the context of a talk-radio conversation about how HBO is going after a bunch of bars that people go to

Re: Local mystery - 5200 lb. rotating granite ball

2002-11-07 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 11/7/2002 9:15:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A local mystery (about 15 miles away) that has once again made the news. The short of this is that a cemetery marker has a 5200 lb polished granite ball on it that seems to inexplicably rotate