Re: Popular Mechanics editors a bunch of cranks?

2003-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:33 PM 9/29/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: jake2.0's only saving feature is that it comes on right after Enterprise. Which, after 2 seasons of crap is now actualy a fairly decent showshow more vulcan flesh, show more vulcan flesh, show more vulcan flesh, show more...well, you get the idea.

Re: RFID chips, was Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:11 PM 9/30/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: On 29 Sep 2003 at 23:37, David Hobby wrote: destroy by washing machines and dryers. Or how about the printers that require specific brand ink cartridges that must have a chip from their own products to work (printer

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:36 PM 10/1/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: The A$ is certaily not pegged to the US$. When I visited the States in 2001, we got US$0.52 for our dollar, yet it is now worth US$68. The Australian dollar really increased in value by 13,077% relative to the US dollar in the past two years? Wow!

Re: Raceism

2003-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:12 PM 10/1/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the Washington DC football team goes, I heard an interesting proposal: Don't change the name, but totally change the logo. But keep the same colors. You can do it. A red potato (of course,

Re: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:12:42AM +0530, ritu wrote: Which reminds me, Gautam has sometimes stated on-list that Gandhi's advent postponed the Indian Independence. These days I have some time to spare, so we could debate that idea now Gautam, if you are interested. You might not get a reply,

Re: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 07:00 PM 10/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:45:47PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: The judge said they weren't, but the Federal law in question was established in 1946 and prohibits the gov't from registering a trademark disparaging any race, religion

Re: Raceism

2003-10-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:49 AM 10/4/2003 -0400, you wrote: Now that the Redskins have been attacked in court, will the Cincinnati Reds be sued next? -- Erik Reuter No joke emote? June 1, 1869 In the first game ever played by a professional baseball team (all paid players, no amateurs), the Cincinnati Red

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Ray Ludenia
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:36 PM 10/1/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: The A$ is certaily not pegged to the US$. When I visited the States in 2001, we got US$0.52 for our dollar, yet it is now worth US$68. The Australian dollar really increased in value by 13,077% relative to the US

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:03 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 11:36 PM 10/1/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: The A$ is certaily not pegged to the US$. When I visited the States in 2001, we got US$0.52 for our dollar, yet it is now worth US$68. The Australian dollar really increased

Re: Return of the King trailer review.

2003-10-04 Thread William T Goodall
On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:14 pm, Erik Reuter wrote: How'd you manage to see 5x02 already? On my eMac. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ 'The true sausage buff will sooner or later want his own meat

Mink eat each other after animal rights break-in

2003-10-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1451/4133880.html An animal rights group's plan to free 10,000 mink from a farm turned deadly after many of the emancipated mustelids became cannibals while others went on a carnivorous feeding frenzy. About 9,000 of the freed mink have been returned to Roesler

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
Regards, Ray. (wannabe American millionaire) PS: Does my comment remind anyone that we seem to be missing some of the picky arguments and linguistic contortions of the past on the list? Um . . . I've been busy recently. Perhaps the other pickers of nits have also. -- Ronn! :) I didn't

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Ray Ludenia
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:03 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: PS: Does my comment remind anyone that we seem to be missing some of the picky arguments and linguistic contortions of the past on the list? Um . . . I've been busy recently. Perhaps the other pickers of nits have

Re: Raceism

2003-10-04 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:49:13PM -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: Seriously, what is your problem? Oh, Jan, don't worry. I'm only prejudiced against male redskins. Jan is such a pretty name. I'll bet you are a beautiful redskin girl. Want to go out to a movie sometime? -- Erik Reuter

Re: Return of the King trailer review.

2003-10-04 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:21:36PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote: On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:14 pm, Erik Reuter wrote: How'd you manage to see 5x02 already? On my eMac. Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question. I thought it wasn't even available yet from satellite

Re: Raceism

2003-10-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: Now that the Redskins have been attacked in court, will the Cincinnati Reds be sued next? The Cleveland Indians or the Atlanta Braves would be more likely. And unless the Cleveland Indians have changed their logo lately, it's probably more offensive than the Washington

Re: Raceism

2003-10-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Kevin Tarr wrote: At 08:49 AM 10/4/2003 -0400, you wrote: Now that the Redskins have been attacked in court, will the Cincinnati Reds be sued next? -- Erik Reuter No joke emote? June 1, 1869 In the first game ever played by a professional baseball team (all paid players, no

Rush Limbaugh's identity politics

2003-10-04 Thread The Fool
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_09_28_dneiwert_archive.html#1065126721 95746881 Rush Limbaugh's identity politics It should surprise no one that, instead of recognizing that he was out to lunch and apologizing for it, Rush Limbaugh has chosen to make himself a martyr on the cross of political

Re: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Kevin Tarr wrote: What about the Cleveland Browns? I'm sure Hispanics and the other Indians are offended. (Yes I know, and I also know the difference.) And what about the Netherlands Soccer Team, called the Clockword Orange? It's highly offensive for those people that suffer from... hmm...

Re: Return of the King trailer review.

2003-10-04 Thread William T Goodall
On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 03:57 pm, Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:21:36PM +0100, William T Goodall wrote: On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:14 pm, Erik Reuter wrote: How'd you manage to see 5x02 already? On my eMac. Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question. I

Re: Raceism

2003-10-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 12:56 AM Subject: Re: Raceism From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:03 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: PS: Does my comment remind anyone that we seem to be missing some of the picky arguments and linguistic contortions of the past on the list? Um . . . I've been busy recently. Perhaps the other pickers of nits have

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Doug Pensinger
Julia Thompson wrote: actually got some sleep last night, we may have the nighttime feeding situation under control for now! __ So how are the babies doing after 1 week? What does their big brother think of them? How are you holding up? Doug

Re: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Julia Thompson wrote: It's in a book called IIRC Detectives of the Medicine or something like that You wouldn't remember the author of that, would you? No It wouldn't happen to be Berton Roueché, would it? No idea. It could. Alberto Monteiro

Re: [Scouted] Maggots, Leeches, and Now -- Worms?

2003-10-04 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Among the higher Eeeu!-factor medical treatments are the use of maggots to clean gangrenous wounds, ... which is a wonderful idea, and leeches for therapeutic blood reduction; I remember leeches sticking on me when I sat in shallow water

Re: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Isn't it easier to just set all webpages to use specific colors? Right, impose your worldview on what's going on rather that looking at the reallity of the situation. Nice metaphor... Actually, HTML is designed so that the reader sets the viewing or listening parameters, WYSIWYC,

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: actually got some sleep last night, we may have the nighttime feeding situation under control for now! __ So how are the babies doing after 1 week? What does their big brother think of them? How are you

Re: [Scouted] Maggots, Leeches, and Now -- Worms?

2003-10-04 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert J. Chassell wrote: Perhaps continually releasing new microbes will have the effect; but I think the novel employs some literary exaggeration. Is it not true that in practice, in a closed community, you don't get colds, not after the beginning? When he was in the navy, Fred spent

Re: a new Br!n: book review

2003-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:41 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 12:03 AM 10/5/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote: PS: Does my comment remind anyone that we seem to be missing some of the picky arguments and linguistic contortions of the past on the list? Um . . . I've been busy recently.

RE: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-04 Thread ritu
Bryon Daly wrote: I notice that this survey didn't look for any misperceptions of the type that the more left-leaning media might help propagate, and that far more democrats would be likely to believe... Well, the topic of the survey was 'Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War'.

Re: RFID chips, was Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-10-04 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] So they do exist? O.K.. (But aren't there kits to refill the cartridges, then?) I don't know if this is currently in use or was simply being mentioned as a possibility, but I read something awhile back about the chips in the cartridge keeping a

RE: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread ritu
Erik Reuter wrote: You might not get a reply, Gautam has written that he is extraordinarily busy these days. Thanks, Erik. :) I had been extremely busy lately so I missed that mail of his Ritu ___

Re: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 09:54:23AM +0530, ritu wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: You might not get a reply, Gautam has written that he is extraordinarily busy these days. Thanks, Erik. :) I had been extremely busy lately so I missed that mail of his ___ _ Ritu . Gautam = 0 -- Erik

RE: Racism

2003-10-04 Thread ritu
Erik Reuter wrote: Thanks, Erik. :) I had been extremely busy lately so I missed that mail of his ___ _ Ritu . Gautam = 0 *lol* Ritu GCU Indeed ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Week 5 NFL Picks

2003-10-04 Thread John D. Giorgis
I feel like I might finally get off the schneid this week as so far I have been positively dreadful. Another 7-7 week leaves me right on the Mendoza Line at 30-30 for the year and the Upset Special at 2-2 as well. This week I bodly challenge mediocrity. Minnesota at Atlanta - I keep

Re: [Scouted] Maggots, Leeches, and Now -- Worms?

2003-10-04 Thread Doug Pensinger
Julia Thompson wrote: Robert J. Chassell wrote: Perhaps continually releasing new microbes will have the effect; but I think the novel employs some literary exaggeration. Is it not true that in practice, in a closed community, you don't get colds, not after the beginning? When he was in

Re: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-04 Thread Doug Pensinger
ritu wrote: I'm sure there are many liberal flavoured misperceptions but isn't it understandable that they would want to focus on the ones which have cost the US so much money and lives? Not to mention that these particular misperceptions have been encouraged by the Bush administration.

RE: The Hazards of Watching Fox News

2003-10-04 Thread Bryon Daly
From: ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryon Daly wrote: I notice that this survey didn't look for any misperceptions of the type that the more left-leaning media might help propagate, and that far more democrats would be likely to believe... Well, the topic of the survey was 'Misperceptions, the