Re: Brin listee not smarter than a 5th grader (blush)

PAT MATHEWS wrote: > > Yup. I watch "Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader" and write down my own > answers just for fun. And I missed a question onthat anyone who has read > "Startide Rising" should have been able to ace. > > "An orca, often called a killer whale, is a species of dolphin. True? Or

Re: Mama cat . . .

Dan Minette wrote: > > Try it again: > > . ___ > . Horza's state can best be described as |git> + |git> > .__ > . sqrt(2) > . > The joke was lost in the way

Re: Religion is Destructive: Why it Must Be Discouraged

Nick Arnett wrote: > > The idea that we can think as God does is hubris... > No, it's not. Either God does not exist, and there is no such thing as hubris, or he created us with the tendency to think about what he does, so we are just obeying his orders :-P Alberto Monteiro _

Re: Evolution or creationism?

Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > Science is not open to referendum. What that means, of course, is that > the technological success of the US is doomed. > I doubt that. If the USA survived not using the Metric System for more than 100 years, it can survive another 100 years in creationism, babelism, capi

Am I married to a terrorist?

Today, when we [me + wife + 3 kids] went to watch the Pseudo-Para Pan American Games, my wife was "barred" at the door. She was hiding a WMD inside her purse, so hidden that she herself wasn't aware of it. It was a very lethal small left-handed scissors covered with rust and with a no-longer sharp

Feeling a k'chu-non :-(

If this is Brin's list, why nobody mentioned Sky Horizon as His new book? :-( Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Engineers Perfecting Hydrogen-Generating Technology

Ronn! Blankenship quoted: > > Not quite Mr. Fusion . . . > > ogen-generating-technology/> > This is probably one of the most perverse forms of energy generation I have ever heard. It takes water and _aluminium_ and gets hy

Re: Why so little renewable energy 30 years after the sweater speach?

Dave Land wrote: > > So, the argument goes, Global Warming due to human activity is either > true or false, and we can choose either to take action to mitigate > those effects or not. Each spot in the resulting truth table has an > expected outcome. > As it has been discussed here many times, there

Re: Why so little renewable energy 30 years after the sweater speach?

Dan Minettte wrote: > > It varies from about $2.55 near Houston to $2.90 in the upper-midwest to > over $3.00 in California..according to my daughter Bethbut the > California contingent would know better. My suggestion is to drive the > price up to $8.00/gal to cut consumption. > Don't say suc

Re: Why so little renewable energy 30 years after the sweater speach?

Robert Seeberger wrote: > > Here we would be a bit less likely to use LPG and a bit more likely to > use LNG for vehicles. > You mean "natural gas", not "liquified natural gas", right? There's still no commercial technology to use LNG in vehicles (it must be kept at -162 deg, sort of). Here in Bra

Brin: Uplift at Star Trek

Watching a Deep Space 9 episode, something caught my attention. Quoting from: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vorta#History_and_Politics The Vorta believe, perhaps apocryphally, that they previously existed as small, timid, ape-like creatures living in hollowed-out trees to avoid the many

Re: SuperStorm Worm

Dave Land wrote: > > Of course, this worm depends on the idiocy of people who open > attachments in emails from people they don't know. > > Those people should have their computers confiscated, the hard drives > erased and Linux installed to be given to people who are worthy of > them. I thought s

Brin: Fires in California

I heard about the fires. I hope nobody here is in any danger. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Need an artist?

These guys scare the hell out of me. This is not human, they must have sold their sold to the Evil One. Art gallery (safe for children too, despite the site's name): http://balduf.deviantart.com/ He's a friend of a friend of my daughter (which says nothing; 90% of humanity is a friend of a fri

A Call to Arms!!!

Legions of Terror! Strike at Will!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books There's NONE by Himself!!! Let's update and edit this list Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Correlation v. causality

Charlie Bell wrote: > >> And people who think like that are dangerous to themselves and others. >> Hence religion is evil. > > I don't agree that religion is evil. It just opens a large door to > evil by fostering unquestioning obedience. > Facts: (1) Most religions tell people to obey the higher

Re: Correlation v. causality

Warren Ockrassa wrote: > >> (2) Most people are stupid, and forced to think for themselves >> will opt for the most stupid and evil choices > > No. It's a mischaracterization -- and unfair -- to assert that most > people are stupid. Most people are not stupid. They make the best > operational decis

Re: Correlation v. causality

William T Goodall wrote: > > >> Corollary: >> >> Religion is not evil, because it prevents most people from being >> evil. > > It may prevent most people from being evil some of the time but it > also makes most people evil some of the time too. > > Catholic ideas about birth control are evil whene

Re: Correlation v. causality

Warren Ockrassa wrote: > >> Most people is stupid _and_ most stupid people have an instinctive >> drive to mindlessly obey the orders of those that they believe are >> more intelligent - and this is what prevents extinction. > > This is an interesting pair of claims and I'd be intrigued to know > w

Re: Correlation v. causality

Nick Arnett wrote: > >> Emergence has applications in ecosystems, crowd control, city design, >> animal behaviour, surveillance, neural nets, and so on. > > Economics. Must not omit economics. The implications for economics are, > in my mind, too interesting to make a list and leave it out. Just

Re: Correlation v. causality

Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > For instance, CNN reported today that Bush was told back in August > that Iran had dismantled its nuke program -- yet he continued pushing > the panic button and beating the war drum, *exactly as he did with > Iraq*. And yet no one is commenting on the obvious inability h

Re: Correlation v. causality

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > >> It might help to define what you mean by "stupid" > > As opposed to common working definition used by many people of > "disagrees with me" . . . ? ;) > It's not true that everybody that disagree with me is stupid! There are those that are really smart, but disagree bec

Re: Correlation v. causality

Julia Thompson wrote: > >> The datum can't be refutted: YEC would consider non-YEC as evil, >> stupid or satan's paws. I don't know how to connect this to the >> argument, namely, the measure of how many people are stupid. > > Do you mean satan's *pawns*, or have I just been exposed to something ne

Re: Correlation v. causality

Warren Ockrassa wrote: > >> Which decision? > > That people are stupid. The argument you offered suggests you decided > that people are stupid, and were doing an after-the-fact expansion on > the point of view. I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong, but that > the structure of what you wrote seem

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

William T Goodall wrote: > > It works on (...) Linux (...)( > No, it doesn't. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

AI dolls?

I saw a scary toy in brazilian TV: it's a doll that _learns_ the name given by its slaveowner, and replies with a "I love you mama" (in Portuguese: Te amo mamãe). AI dolls? Maybe AI will come to us not in the form of intelligent cars that drive, or intelligent refrigerators that detect when mil

Re: Turning religion on and off

Nick Arnett wrote: > >> A drug to cure those afflicted with religion might not be far off! > > Considering that this is about genetic links to *disorders*, quite a few > people in addition you would have to agree to redefine religion as such > first. > > I'd wish you luck with that, but it wouldn't

Re: Archbishop says nativity 'a legend'

William T Goodall quoted: > > "The Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that the Christmas story > of the Three Wise Men was nothing but a 'legend'. (...) > > In a final blow to the traditional nativity story, Dr Williams > concluded that Jesus was probably not born in December at all. He > said

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Jim Sharkey wrote: > > I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all, > but I found it interesting: > > http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn > > _Scientific American_ is saying grass as a source of ethanol has the > potential to be vastly more

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Dave Land wrote: > >> You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. >> There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) > > Sure, and if it's not already cleared for planting, I'm sure you folks > can figure out how to slash and burn a couple of million square miles of > the planet's lung

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Charlie Bell wrote: > >> You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. >> There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) > > Hasn't it got rainforest on it? > No, the rainforest is 1000 km away from the sugercane area. Check... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Brazil ... nam

Re: US Doomed

Nick Arnett wrote: > > Um... William, if Huckabee is elected president of my country, would you > have room for me and my family in yours? > > In other words, I'd rather live with a rabid atheist than in a theocracy. > What makes you think it would be _easy_ to flee? Alberto Monteiro

Re: Young Earth Math?

David Hobby wrote: > > An interesting find! That's the first I've heard of the > Conservapedia. It's sometimes hard to tell, but my sense > is that it's not actually meant as humor? > They think they are serious - which makes it even more fun. A masterpiece of (unintentional) humour is... http:/

Re: Polygamy

Keith Henson wrote: > > Considering that polygamy is the norm for the vast majority of the > cultures in the world, it's an interesting question how the western > countries, and a few others, became monogamous. It seems to be > associated with settled agriculture but I don't know if there is a > c

Number of gays [was: Polygamy]

William T Goodall wrote: > > So by my personal experience of college and the workplace up to that > point I'd have to say between 10% and 17% (at least) of men were gay. > Let's be non-scientific! I remember, at school, that every class had one or two gay men, and no lesbians. In classes of 40 to 6

Re: Experience Uplift in the comfort of your own home!

Nick Arnett wrote: > >> And here's the game's site: >> >> http://www.spore.com/ > > There I was, thinking, gee, this seems like Sim City, but with evolution. > And then Will Wright's name appears. Ah. > The idea seems live Civilization - but begins earlier. Is there a multiplayer version, where ea

Re: malaria in Africa

Dan M wrote: > > 1) Neli told me at Christmas that she got word from home (Zambia) that the > EU is threatening a withholding of funding if Zambia does not stop the > spraying of house walls with DDT to prevent malaria. > > 2) This technique has been demonstrated in South Africa and shown on this >

Re: Prediction time

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > So how many people expect that Fidel Castro won't live out the > week? The month? > Is He alive? Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: malaria in Africa

Doug Pensinger wrote: > > But McCain has been quoted as saying he wouldn't mind if we stayed there > for another hundred years and talks about surrender as if there was someone > to surrender to. We keep hearing Viet Nam analogies about what might > happen if we leave precipitously (though other V

Re: Lead (was: Resending: Malaria in the world)

Deborah Harrell wrote: > > Hmm, no parallels to global warming and certain > researchers either... The possible link between crime > and lead levels is intriguing; articles on lead's > harmful effects particularly WRT children have been > posted previously, so I won't add any. > > I am curious ab

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

Warren Ockrassa wrote: > > I'd like to see you go for a week's worth of posts without once > mentioning religion. Think you could manage that kind of a challenge? > I will pray for William so that he may resist this temptation. Alberto Monteiro ___ http:

Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?

Julia Thompson wrote: > > Well, if there had been anyone across the street *to* see on one of the > recent windy days (as if we got any other kind right here?), they would > have told you I wasn't a proper Scotsman. Take that however you like. :) > OTOH, here in Brazil we are experiencing a quite

Brin: Life after People

Life After People will air on 2008-03-10 21:00 on brazilian's tetrahydrocanabiol oops... The History Channel. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Genes show Latin America's past

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7308102.stm > > "Genes show Latin America's past > > Results from a genetic study of Latin America suggest most Latin > Americans are descended from European men and Native American or > African women. > Scientists say the study, said to be the largest of

Re: Mail help needed . . .

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > Firefox may be a satisfactory browser but I am quite > disappointed in the lack of functionality of Thunderbird as a mail > client compared with Eudora, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has any > (obviously, non-M$) recommendations? > This is so insane. If you don't like

Re: Brin: Singularities, Nightmares, and Japanese Sci-Fi

Wayne Eddy wrote: > > I have enjoyed all the Uplift novels, but ever since I first read Startide, > I have been waiting for a sequel that shed some light on the fate of the > crew of the skiff. > There are many hints in _Heaven's Reach_ about that fate. For example, there's a description of Tom's

Re: Muslims More Numerous Than Catholics

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > I think that's one of the best responses anyone has ever made to one > of WTG's posts on religion. Well worth repeating, also . . . > OTOH, being as far from muslims as possible, I think that message is scaring. AGW, Dengue and Muslims Maru Alberto Monteiro _

Re: An interesting response

Dan M wrote: > > The trick is, as it always has been, to lower launch costs. Unfortunately, > even in inflation adjusted dollars, launch costs haven't dropped much over > the past 40 years. > Maybe even if launch costs were _zero_, orbital power satellites could still have a negative energy net pr

Peak Oil [was: Brin-l Digest, Vol 376, Issue 5]

Keith wrote: > >> Alberto 'oil rulez, fsck space!' Monteiro > > Completely correct. But what do you do when you run out of oil? Try > this web site. > > http://www.drmillslmu.com/peakoil.htm > We will *never* run out of oil. It's more likely that we will run out of oxygen in the air :-P > The pa

Re: Food Wars

Charlie Bell wrote: > > Petrol in Melbourne is now $1.51 a litre (USD1.43 a litre, or about > $5.70 a gallon). > "Petrol" (gasoline) in Rio de Janeiro is now (and for many months) about R$ 2.70 a litre (about USD 1.625 a litre), of which 25% is ethanol and 50% are taxes. And food prices are rising

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

Nick Arnett wrote: > > So... I "upgraded" to Microsoft Office 2007 recently. Can't do half of > what I used to do because I can't find anything. They seem to have > succeeded in making it harder to use. > And you don't even have to handle the mistranslations of the commands. The idiots that tran

Re: Adressing Global Warming

Charlie Bell wrote: > > Yeah. The point of solar hot water is it's so cheap, and pays for > itself very quickly (3 - 5 years) if it's installed in a new house. So > while it'll never amount to a huge percentage, it's still an > inexpensive way of saving a significant amount of energy. So, like > ma

Re: Adressing Global Warming

Charlie Bell wrote: > >> Seriously, if we want to save the planet, domestic solar power should >> be banned! People should live and work in the smallest possible area, >> and it means packing families in huge buildings. > > Solar hot water, not solar electric. Black pipes in a glass cabinet on > th

Re: Adressing Global Warming

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > Which brings us righ back to the dirty little secret of the > environmental movement: that the real underlying problem is that > there are by about an order of magnitude just too darn many people > already, particularly darker-complected ones with no money who don't >

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

Dan M wrote: > > I'd guess $75, because of the fall of the dollar, but with the big Brazil > findand the fact that two countries with tremendous reserves (Venezuela > and Iraq) are marginal producers for political reasons. > Only Venezuela and Iraq? What about Nigeria, Iran, Russia, Alaska...

Re: Global Warming

Kevin B. O'Brien blasphemed: > >> Or does IAAMOAC mean that civilized behavior includes throwing >> other people under the wheels in order to save themselves? > > I don't recognize the acronym you used, > WHAT??? You herectic scum! Alberto Monteiro PS: "I am a member of a

Re: Brin-l Digest, Vol 377, Issue 3

William T Goodall wrote: > > So we don't really know how available some minerals are until we start > looking for them harder? > It happened with oil and gas. Brazil was considered with no oil back in the 1930s - they were almost right, considering the technology of the time. Probably the UK and N

Re: Just one complaint about Forbidden Kingdom

Julia Thompson wrote: > > The moon. The frakkin' moon. > > By what they said in dialogue at one point, I figured it was waning. Then > when we saw it on the screen, it was waxing. > > Do they need to hire someone who understands the phases of the moon there? > The idiocy of script writers spoiled

Re: culling the species

Dan M. wrote: > > I don't really think the fact that the US has a ZPG fertility rate of 2.1 > while Europe and Japan are at 1.5 and 1.22, respectively is the result of > Japanese women being the most liberated of the three developed > countries/ecconomic unions. > BTW, Brazil's low ZPG fertility r

Re: culling the species

Dan M. wrote: > >> I guess the USA rate would be close to 1.5 if it were not for mexicans > > It would be just above if the Hispanics were not included. The rates are > > 2.9 Hispanic > 2.0 Non-Hispanic black > 1.8 Non-Hispanic white > 1.9 Asian, Pacific Islander > 1.7 Native Americans > Not

Re: culling the species

William T Goodall wrote: > > Seems a bit pointless since it just discourages me from trying to read > his posts at all. > /me too. I usually ignore messages that are badly quoted. Some of them I even delete without opening (too many messages to read, not worth the time) Alberto Monteiro __

Re: geek test

Bruce Bostwick wrote: > > Kind of a hydrogen hydrate then? :D > No, because there is no unionized hydrogen. It could be a hydric acid hydrate (or hydrous acid hydrate?) or a oxygenydric acid hydrate. Alberto Monteiro (never sure about those hellysh _y_s - we don't use them yn Portuguese)

Re: TV Time Musings

William T Goodall wrote: > > With almost no new TV until September I've started peeling the > cellophane from my complete box sets of _Alias_ for my first watch- > through since it ended. Two disks into s1 so far :-) The number of > actors from other shows I watch is remarkable though. Sarah Shahi

Re: Louisiana passes first antievolution "academic freedom" law

Olin Elliott wrote: > > What's really scary about this is that rejecting evolution requires > rejecting the entire framework of modern science, > I must disagree. It requires the freedom of religious belief. When you believe in a God that is good and respectful, you automatically must believe that

Re: Genesis 1:28

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, > and replenish the earth, and subdue it." surely you don't believe that > gawd created man to have dominion over every living thing that moves on the > earth? > OTOH, if this command should be take

Re: Sanity prevails

William T Goodall quoted: > > "World History and Cultures in Christian Perspective > This well-researched text stands on the conviction that God is the > Creator of the world and the Controller of history. > (...) and concluded: > > These people are mad Maru > And yet, if _we_ are right (i.e., Ev

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

David Brin wrote: > > But of course I am distracted by the elections, hoping > we'll at last save America and civilization from a > criminal gang. (What we're seeing -- including the > outright and direct theft of half a trillion dollars > -- goes far beyond regular issues of mere left or > right.

Re: Brazilian volleyball girls

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > >>> I bow down to the Chinese volleyball girls, >> >> Err... They were blasted 3 x 0 by the Brazilian volleyball >> girls :-P > > missed that, congrats to brazil!~) > It was the first time the girls won the gold medal. They didn't even win it at the Pan american games, her

Re: Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

William T Goodall wrote: > > That assumes there aren't crazy religionists trying to play the system > to promote their superstitious pernicious garbage. > When it's split between crazy creationists in one side and mass murdering atheist baby killers on the other side, I think I side with the creati

Re: Sarah Palin

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > >> When it's split between crazy creationists in one side >> and mass murdering atheist baby killers on the other, I >> think I side with the creationists. > > That is not thinking, Alberto, that is feeling!~) I unequivocally side > with the mass murdering atheists!~). > I

Re: Honest terminology

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > Just think of how many children's' lives in Africa could be saved with the > resources used to support the world's first surviving set of septuplets, > born in Des Moines, Iowa to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey. (...) > So you believe that the logic of capitalism should be use

Re: Sarah Palin

Dan M wrote: > > With all due respect, so what? Most people prefer drilling everywhere over > $4.00 gasoline. And, the Republicans are winning that argument...the polls > show a massive preference now to drill to bring down the prices. > Right now, this is one of the two arguments I (internally)

Re: My contribution to the bail-out

John Williams wrote: > >> Imagine that you, me, and a few other stupid guys believe that >> some stock prices will go up tomorrow by 10%. What should we do? > > Not enough information. What probability will they go up by 10%. What > are other possible outcomes and probabilities? How much money do >

Re: My contribution to the bail-out

John Williams wrote: > >> I am making it simple. There ain't no options. Just buy or (short) sell. > > Oversimplifying, and missing obvious ways to make money. Typical of > people who think they know better how to spend other people's money. > Goodbye. I won't waste my time with Trolls. Alberto Mo

Whales: one good news among the chaos and mayhem

I'm watching the news, and among the economical disasters (which reached Brazil - interest rates, that were immorally high before the crisis, are even higher), there are good news. The Jubarte whales found out that the coast of Sergipe, BR, is a whale sanctuary (as all brazilian coast - enforcing

Re: Off-topic., monotonous posting (was Child-killing religion)

Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > > At this point I cannot rule out some stupid technical problem, like a > message that got caught in a queue somewhere and just now shook loose. > It *does* happen sometimes. > No, I think he means that the financial system crashed because the USA abandoned God and became

Re: Gen. Colin Powell, Pres. Obama's Secretary of Defense

Julia Thompson wrote: > > It's like the people running around accusing Obama of being a Muslim -- > it's inaccurate, but they may have been lied to by people who want to turn > opinion against Obama, and not be intending to lie. > That would be the perfect conspiracy theory, following the Bush-is-

Re: Racial and religious bigotry

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > I agree, but only because the economic collapse has actually made it likely > that he will be elected. I still would have preferred that Obama picked a > qualified Hispanic woman for his VP. Jon > Like, say, J-Lo? Alberto Monteiro PS: fwiw, here's the uncyclopedia page

Re: Future of the list / Questions?

Nick Arnett wrote: > > I'm not sure exactly what David B.'s attitude is toward the other list, but > he is subscribed, albeit filtered, to this one. David only sees messages > whose subject starts "Brin:". > Not counting times when He uses a sock puppet just to see if we are still worshipping Him

Brin: The Core

Was there any advance in the credit/lawsuit/whatever related to the rip-off movie The Core? I was editing the Portuguese Wikipedia article about it, and I would like to know if there is any hard data (references, frex) about it. The English Wikipedia article only mentions that it was ripped off (r

Re: Redistribute the wealth

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > A Democratic congress will tax the wealthy and redistribute the > wealth to the poor and middle class. > > If McCain wins he will continue GOP policies of subsidizing the corporate > state and cutting social programs. Jon > This is something I don't understand. If Obama is

Brin: from Saturday's blog

> Ever notice that Sarah Palin anagrams to "Sharia plan." > So, clearly, she's the one who plans to institute Muslim > law in the United States. Other anagrams include: > a sharp nail a plain rash. Any chance of a numeralogical > match with 666? Pleze? > Numerology is an easy science! S

Re: correct geography nomnclaturee

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > thanks for the correction, alberto. what part of the netherlands is > holland? > The most important part: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, etc are in Holland. Now there are two: Northern Holland and Southern Holland. > is it correct to call natives of the netherlands,

Re: How's Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion?

> How's Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion? > Who fscking cares? AFAIK, in the past 100 years, only _two_ elected politicians proceeded according to what they promised. The other one is bolivian Evo Morales. Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/

Re: $290 billion down the government money hole

John Williams wrote: > > I think that heroin addicts should use drugs responsibly. I think > anybody does. Let's give the addicts a plentiful suppy of heroin and > hope they behave! > I don't like to feed the trolls, but this time I think you crossed the line. Comparing government expending with h

Re: Ask the Next Question "Q--->"

John Williams wrote: > > Did you make any posts predicting the housing crisis before, say, > 2004? > I did. Unfortunately, I can't find the post where I predicted it. But I always predict disasters, so it's not surprising that sometimes I'm right. Cassandra Monteiro

Re: rude and insulting

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > If someone _physically_ attacks one of my kids or my wife (all > hypothetical atm), they may find themselves suddenly with one or > several surplus body openings in whatever caliber I can lay my hands > on at the time . . . > So, your kid (or wife) is playing with a 4-y

Re: On Topic shocker!

Nick Arnett wrote: > > Wikipedia probably has an article on the subject. Try searching on > "democracy." > Found it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy#The_Bush_Administration Oops, the page was vandalized :-( Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mcc

Brin: Hitchhiker's quote from the blog

There is another metaphor from fiction that would seem to apply, from the Douglas Adams series The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” In book #3 (I think), our heroes find themselves on the “C Ark” from Golgafrincham, carrying the entire planet’s supply of “middle-men, managers, accou

Re: Linux suckz

Maru Dubshinki wrote: > >> Both uses are possible. But _after_ I have installed the >> system, there's no safe way to create a partition. > > Well, not easily. I'm pretty sure the Reisers and Ext2 and up support > resizing. > I could use parted, but I guess it has some dangers. >> I tried Kubuntu,

Re: Myers-Briggs

Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > Fool, I'm just curious. Most of the articles you post are ones > claiming that there are problems with this, that, and the other. Can > you give us some examples of something concrete (not abstractions > like "the truth" or "rational thinking and behavior") that you ar

Re: Myers-Briggs

Charlie Bell escreveu: > >> I'm no Fool, but he admires Windows 2000 and NTFS. I also think >> he admires one religion, "fundamentalist atheism". > > *wry smile* How can one be fundamentalist to a lack of belief? > By rejecting any possibility that God [or gods, or The Devil, etc] exists. Alberto

Re: Myers-Briggs

Charlie Bell wrote: > >>> *wry smile* How can one be fundamentalist to a lack of belief? >> >> By rejecting any possibility that God [or gods, or The Devil, etc] >> exists. > > So? Non-belief in the supernatural can't be "fundamentalist", there's > no scripture or dogma. > Yes, there are. "Das Kapi

Re: Peaceful regime change

Nick Arnett wrote: > > On this general subject... a while back, in the context of options for Iraq > other than war, I offered examples of non-violent regime changes, with some > on the list arguing that they are rare. I recently came across a > compilation of recent non-violent regime changes, wh

Re: Physics Prof Finds Thermate in WTC Physical Samples

Damon wrote: > > The History Channel occasionally runs its 9/11 special. (...) > My cable TV recently added THC to the line-up. I have enjoyed most of its programs. Alberto Monteiro, who will be echeloned for mentioning tetrahydrocanabiol and WTC in the same message... ___

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

The Fool wrote: > > Genetically, I think it was that chinese people are about 8% decended from > Khan. At least that is what the last thing I read about it said. > No, it's stronger than that: 8% of some oriental folk [not chinese, probably mongolian but also other places] descend from Gengis Khan

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

David Hobby wrote: > > If so, one who wanted > to prove that everybody was descended from a Eurasian of 5000 years > ago would have to show that all of the native peoples of the Americas > had picked up some European blood in 20 to 25 generations. Even > tribes deep in the Amazon jungle... > Thos

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

Julia Thompson wrote: > > At the generation where you'd expect me to have 128 ancestors, I have > 122. (There was a first-cousin marriage at one point, and a > second-cousin marriage at another. And on top of that, I know someone > whose closest degree of relation to me is third cousin -- but he'

Re: Roots of human family tree are shallow

Julia Thompson crawled under my throne: > >> [I can't trace back to Charlemagne, AFAIK, but I know some relatives >> who are doing research, and they are struck in 1500 or 1600. But now >> I don't care for this, I want to trace me back to JESUS and claim >> that I must inherit the Earth and be its

Re: An Inconvenient Truth

Robert G. Seeberger wrote: > > But yes, you are correct. If enough alternatives to fossil fuels are > used to generate power, then supply should increase and prices should > lower to whatever degree. I think any oil we don't buy will just go to > some other customerIndia or China frex. So it ma

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