Re: Russia (Was What is wealth?)

2008-12-19 Thread Wayne Eddy
No, by well-educated I mean professionals - accountants, lawyers, medics etc. Cyprus was full of them working bar, waiting, or worse being exploited in strip clubs. (It wasn't like London where an attractive woman could make good money doing exotic dancing a couple of times a week - these

RE: Russia

2008-12-19 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dan M wrote: And how can we trust communist statistics? By secondary measure, of course. :-) If you want to argue that things were worse than the official statistics under the USSR, you won't find a debate opponent in me. But, after the USSR fell, a lot of data became available. The

Russian strippers [was: Russia]

2008-12-19 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
Wayne Eddy wrote: Cyprus was full of them working bar, waiting, or worse being exploited in strip clubs. (It wasn't like London where an attractive woman could make good money doing exotic dancing a couple of times a week - these girls were often being forced to have sex with customers).

Re: Russia (Was What is wealth?)

2008-12-19 Thread Charlie Bell
On 19/12/2008, at 7:44 PM, Wayne Eddy wrote: How did you establish that the girls in the strip clubs were well educated russian girls? By the cunning method of living in the same building as them, and talking to them during the daytime. Charlie.

RE: Russia (Was What is wealth?)

2008-12-19 Thread Dan M
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of Charlie Bell Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:54 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Russia (Was What is wealth?) No, by well-educated I mean

Re: Russia (Was What is wealth?)

2008-12-19 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Dan M wrote: No, by well-educated I mean professionals - accountants, lawyers, medics etc. I thought that was the case, but thanks for the clarification. Cyprus was full of them working bar, waiting, or worse being exploited in strip clubs. (It wasn't like

Privacy and web analytics

2008-12-19 Thread Nick Arnett
I just blogged on privacy and web analytics... and included a plug for this list. http://www.nickarnett.net/2008/12/19/privacy-and-third-party-analytics/ Short version is that it seems to me that people raise the privacy flag when it adds more heat than light. Nick

Admin: Moving the list

2008-12-19 Thread Nick Arnett
As I mentioned in passing the other day, I'm planning to move everything off the server I operate at home and on to a hosted solution. Soon, I'll move the list to www.nickarnett.net, which is hosted at Bluehost. After I've done that and moved some other stuff there, I'll move the mccmedia.com

Re: Admin: Moving the list

2008-12-19 Thread Wayne Eddy
From: Nick Arnett narn...@mccmedia.com I was hoping to find an open-source discussion platform that would allow me to easily import the archived messages, so that we would have the benefits of a mailing list and web forums... haven't found such a thing yet. I considered using a wiki for

Re: Admin: Moving the list

2008-12-19 Thread Nick Arnett
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Wayne Eddy we...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi Nick, if you do decide to go the wiki route, you should try www.wikidot.com I've been using it for a few months. It is a really good host and it you get 5 x 300MB sites for free. I'm happy with Bluehost (except

Re: Admin: Moving the list

2008-12-19 Thread dsummersmi...@comcast.net
Original Message: - From: Nick Arnett narn...@mccmedia.com Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:59:01 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Admin: Moving the list I'm happy with Bluehost (except for the lack of back-end access to Mailman archives)... the issue is more to do with

Re: Incoming!

2008-12-19 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 08:08 AM Thursday 12/18/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:02 PM Wednesday 12/17/2008, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Shoe-fly pie. Your fly is open. No it's not. I'm not even

Re: Incoming!

2008-12-19 Thread Julia Thompson
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 08:08 AM Thursday 12/18/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:02 PM Wednesday 12/17/2008, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Shoe-fly pie. Your fly is