Hey chaps and chapesses,
Thought I'd pop in to see how things are.
So what's new in Brin-L land?
Charlie
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On Feb 22, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Russell Chapman wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Hey chaps and chapesses,
Thought I'd pop in to see how things are.
Hey Charlie!
Hey Russel! (And Will and Rob, but I see you guys over in Culture... :p)
Are you still in the Med?
Not right now, I'm in Oz. Just
On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would that be Oz-tentacious?
Glad to see the standard of puns hasn't improved since I was last
here (um... 3 years ago? $deity knows...).
Charlie
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On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Steve Sloan wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Hey chaps and chapesses,
Thought I'd pop in to see how things are.
So what's new in Brin-L land?
Charlie
Hey, Charlie, long time no see!
Sir Steve of Sloan! Well, if you'd just turned on icq occasionally...
I see
On Feb 23, 2006, at 10:36 AM, d.brin wrote:
On October 19th, 2001, former Halliburton CEO and now current
sitting Vice President, Dick Cheney, christened a new term.
Describing the curtailment of civil rights taken for granted by
American citizens as the New Normalcy, Mr. Cheney was
On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
To be clear, these particular devices have *some* potential for
misuse, but I expect that the next generation of devices that will
come on the heels of cheaper devices of this generation will have
capabilities that could be problematic
On Feb 25, 2006, at 5:42 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 2/21/06, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 22, 2006, at 2:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would that be Oz-tentacious?
Glad to see the standard of puns hasn't improved since I was last
here (um... 3 years ago? $deity knows
On Feb 25, 2006, at 6:38 PM, Ritu wrote:
Charlie wrote:
Weirdest thing. Woke up by the side of the road somewhere,
and it was
2006...
This Monday I received a huge shock. Tuesday there was another shock
lying in wait for me. By Tuesday evening I was hoping that the
Universe
pays
On Feb 26, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
I have this really weird urge to be ontopic. I'm sure it'll
pass... ;)
Steve Sloan replied:
On topic? What's that? ;-)
So would now be a good time to ask if anyone's interested in doing
On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:02 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
William Taylor wrote:
A reread of the Uplift Storm trilogy would be good if we can
seperate out
the chapters to do a flora and fauna bibliography. This would be
useful for
the next Jijo novel.
This would be good for my monomaniacal
On Feb 27, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
This would be good for my monomaniacal timeline project. I am almost
close to placing a calendar date in each Chapter of the Uplift Storm
Trilogy :-)
Hope it's the metric calendar... ;)
It's Jijo's Calendar
On Mar 1, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Jo Anne wrote:
Hey all (waves at Charlie -- loved those trikeabout updates)
Cool, glad you liked them. Strangely enough, I'm not riding the trike
much (or at all) at the moment!
And yeah, this break from politics is very nice. Could someone
email me a
On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Among my first words to him were, Thank you for serving, and
Welcome
home. I try to remember to say that to every vet I meet. Perhaps
it seems
absurd to thank people for serving in a war I oppose, but life is
absurd.
Good people serve, are
On Mar 9, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
New Animal Resembling Furry Lobster Found
I have already begun a campaign to have its common name be Disco Crab.
Charlie
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On Mar 15, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Max Battcher wrote:
The episode in question completely angered many Scientologists. If
you watch it, though, it really isn't all that scathing (nowhere
near as mean and vicious as South Park has been to several
varieties of Christian doctrine, such as more
On Mar 18, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Any of you have any experience with Network Attached Storage drives?
I'm interested in finding one that is not too expensive, can be
hooked into my router (which probably all of them can) and has a
built in print server.
Why the print server?
On Mar 19, 2006, at 4:54 AM, Horn, John wrote:
Why the print server? There are many printers now that sit
directly on the network, HP make a couple with ethernet
support (set one up for my other half's folks last week). Or
get a router with the print server if you really need one.
Netgear do a
On Mar 19, 2006, at 11:30 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0003QIFHG/103-9218007-6499853
Cheaper, bigger, has print server. What's the catch?
Shit documentation... but other than that i dunno. Good spot.
Charlie
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On Mar 20, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
Sure. Because then they'll come to America. And England. And other
western counties.
Who is *they*?
Charlie
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On Mar 21, 2006, at 6:38 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
Iraq is to terrorists what a swamp is to mosquitos. We dry up the
swamp -
or at least some portion of it - by leaving.
How much of a portion, however? Most of the groups active in Iraq
have made it clear that they won't respect borders
On Mar 21, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
...and most of those groups aren't capable of operating beyond
borders. They're bandits.
That is...surmise.
Possibly, but informed surmise...
Certainly some of the current groups can't, but
that doesn't mean that if they were willing
On Mar 21, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Obviously, this analysis tends to lead one to conclude that we
can't just
stay in Iraq. Yet, it isn't a call for a quick, immediate withdrawal.
Rather, it seems to call for a transition from the US being the
controlling
force to Iraqi
Certainly some of the current groups can't, but
that doesn't mean that if they were willing that certain other
factions wouldn't be willing to pay for them to go to the great
satan and do attacks
Most, from what I understand from British soldiers I know (in real
life), seem to just be
On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Dave Land wrote:
Now you're just trying to make me angry.
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin' our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
I'm sorry, but it's time I weighed in here, I've let you two go on
long enough...
Her name was
On Mar 21, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh
one two three four five six seven eight niine ten
...eleven TWELVE!!! doo doo doo doo doo
etc.
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
Or a couple of well-placed smart bombs from F-117s or B-2s, or covert
special forces, if the US do the right thing and Iran don't. That's
my point. THAT'S how to deal with the countries (insane dictatorships
or otherwise) that present clear
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:51 PM, David Hobby wrote:
Personally, I think the best solution is to help Iraq turn
into three separate countries in a peaceful manner.
(One each for the Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites.)
Chances are the Shia part would merge with Iran, and possibly the
Sunni part with
On Mar 21, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Dave Land wrote:
While we've focused on sappy songs here, I think there are whole
areas of awfulness that we haven't even begun to plumb.
Religio-Patriotic Tripe:
- Courtesy of the Red White and Blue (The Angry American) by Toby
Keith
- God Bless the USA -
On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
There is one official, ISO-something, way to transliterate arab
characters into latin. Long ago it was Khad[d]af[f]i.
Could've guess Mr Standards would know that... :D Thanks!
You'd hate Cypriot restaurants, the menus are rarely the
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:02 AM, PAT MATHEWS wrote:
And in the UK (lost the attribution) a boy of 13 was accused of
statuatory rape for having consensual sex with a girl of 11-going-
on-12.
But in the UK the age of consent is 16. So if you're under 16, you
can't give consent legally. So
On Mar 22, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I was holding that one in reserve. Oh, well. (Or perhaps that
should be Oh, shell.)
Of course, there's always:
Star Trekkin' across the universe,
uh-huh.. well, I see that, with this...
I just down from the Isle of Skye
I'm no
On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
Fourth, the Kurds effectively become semi-independent (because the
central government was set up so as to allow tribal trouble at the
drop of a hat, but let's no go there) and Turkey gets annoyed.
Turkey then gives up on EU membership (since
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:07 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
My backup HD seems to be corrupted under game mode [Windows XP],
giving an error message [in Portuguese] that probably translates
to:
Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It's a MAXTOR, and it is functional in Linux. I _may_ have hit
On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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
On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
The laws in the US vary from state to state. Texas does something
fairly reasonable -- I've forgotten the age of consent, but if one
person is on one side and the other is on the other side, if the
difference in ages is a certain
On Mar 23, 2006, at 8:29 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
They would still be unlikely to get EU membership if they kept on
progressingeven to the point of treating their ethnic
minorities better
than they are treated elsewhere in the EU. If they joined the EU,
then
Turks would have the same
On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Nights in white satin,
No, you're wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. This is the correct Justin Hayward:
The summer sun is fading as the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near.
The winter winds will be much colder
Now you're not here.
I
On Mar 23, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
There'll be a lag on free movement/employment like there is with some
of the recent members. This is going to be a 20 year process at
least.
Ah, I didn't know about the lag for recent members. Thanks for the
correction. I looked at the EU
On Mar 23, 2006, at 2:29 PM, David Hobby wrote:
I'd even propose that partition into separate countries
should be the default for groups with separate languages.
That's England into about 4 countries (and full separation for Wales
and Scotland), and the US into at least a couple (you can't
On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Dave Land wrote:
The summer sun is fading as the year grows old
And darker days are drawing near.
The winter winds will be much colder
Now you're not here.
50 points to anyone other than Charlie who can name the album.
That's rather generous on this list
On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Russell Chapman wrote:
50 points to anyone other than Charlie who can name the album.
Dave Drawing a green mist behind him Land
But this is Forever Autumn from the War of the Worlds
Surely...
See, said it was easy. Have 50 of Dave's points... ...and don't
On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Dave Land wrote:
As long as we're slinging lyrics around, a friend sent me the
following poem.
I wish some of the fundies I've been dealing with recently thought
that way... :-)
Charlie
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On Mar 24, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Dave Land wrote:
As long as we're slinging lyrics around, a friend sent me the
following poem.
I wish some of the fundies I've been dealing with recently thought
On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Dave Land wrote:
From the official web site, some outrageous hype:
Jeff Wayne's musical adaptation of H. G. Wells' classic novel
/The War Of The Worlds/ is the best known and best selling
musical work of all time.
s/musical work/musical adaptation of
On Mar 24, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Dave Land wrote:
Of course, that's until the music hall revue style Startide
Rising, featuring the classic numbers Swimming in a metal sea,
Sometimes it seems like the whole universe is out to get us and
My what big teeth you have (for a dolphin).
Yeah,
On Mar 26, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Jo Anne wrote:
Did anyone else get an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking to participate in
BOINC? We used to have a Brinellers group set up by Charlie Bell,
IIRC. Thought on any of this anyone? Anyone?
The Brinnellers is still
On Mar 27, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Eh?
I was talking about administrating the group. You don't need to be
running Boinc or Setiathome to do that. It's just a webpage that wants
a password.
Or is it?
Yes, probably. What I neglected to say is that I'm too busy to look
just
On Mar 28, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Ray Ludenia wrote:
On 27/03/2006, at 11:37 AM, Jo Anne wrote:
Charlie Bell Wrote:
our Partner Application Visa
in before I have to leave...
Jeez, Charlie, did you think I was gonna let that one go? I
thought you
weren't a couple. Did I miss something
On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Jo Anne wrote:
Charlie Bell Wrote:
our Partner Application Visa
in before I have to leave...
Jeez, Charlie, did you think I was gonna let that one go? I
thought you
weren't a couple. Did I miss something? (Not that *that* would be
unusual...)
We've had
Right, we've been getting some questions about what's been going on
so here we go.
Claire and I did sort of split up for a while, after some
frustrating little problems, like some miles, or about 12,500 of
them. Our close friends know the ins-and-outs. But we stayed constant
friends and
On Mar 29, 2006, at 5:06 AM, Dave Land wrote:
Thank you for sharing your story with us. I suppose that the rest
of the list knows you much better than I do, so I appreciated
learning a little more about you and your peregrinations, both
personal and geographical.
Yeah, I first joined
Yeah, I first joined Brin-L in about 1874 I think. (1997? '98? Steve
S or Rich B will know) and was a fairly prolific contributor for a
while. Wandered off for a bit and was busy in other parts of the 'net
and real life 'til recently when I thought hmmm, 'bout time that
Brin wrote more Uplift
On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Jo Anne wrote:
Charlie! A Married Man Congratulations! Knowing the
little I do
about you, she must be some sort of woman =+))
I have checked, and I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty,
knowing what I do about zoology and cladistics, that
On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Russell Chapman wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
Second, we get married and make honest peoples of each other.
So we are. I'm going back to Cyprus, we'll try to file a
prospective marriage visa within a couple of weeks, and hopefully
this'll be the last
On Mar 31, 2006, at 12:03 AM, d.brin wrote:
A quick appeal to any nitpickers out there who spotted errors in
KILN PEOPLE.
...the uk version seemed to have a stupid apostrophe added... This
irritated me so much that I was unable to buy it.
Annoying, 'cause I was really looking forward
On Apr 4, 2006, at 4:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The word anaplastic is always bad. By far the best brain tumor to
have is
Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma of the cerebellum.
Might I suggest that least worst might be a better descriptive
ranking when talking about tumours?
Charlie
On Apr 5, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the
morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
You're wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
That doesn't happen 'til the 4th May. :p
Charlie
US scientists have successfully grown fully functioning bladders in
the lab, and implanted them into patients with bladder disease. They
hope the breakthrough could signal a new era in which a wide range of
organs can be grown in the lab.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4875244.stm
(I
On Apr 6, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
How do you _say_ the date? I think most of the time we'll say
it's April fifth when responding to the question what's today's
date? though the fifth of April is probably a not too distant
second. Fifth, April would be a rare response.
On 08/04/2006, at 3:41 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:
A mainstay of the attack pieces against Charlie Sheen have been that
he is not credible enough to speak on the topic of 9/11. These charges
are ridiculed by the fact that Sheen is an expert on 9/11 who spends
hours a day meticulously
On 08/04/2006, at 4:13 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
During your absence I have posted several articles of this sort that
question the factual nature of the Official 911 story.
I find the subject, crazy or not, to be fascinating.
It was that there was no other mention of Charlie Sheen. The
On 09/04/2006, at 9:29 AM, Damon Agretto wrote:
Brin should be shopping his wares at Pixar or Dreamworks. Can you
anime fans imagine how much better The Postman would have been as an
Anime OVA?
If it was from those two studios, it wouldn't really be anime then,
would it?
No. It would
On 10/04/2006, at 7:00 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
But I do agree that Startide is far more likely to work as an
animated or largely animated feature. (Might work in the Babe style,
mind...)
You mean with a starship run by pigs? I'm not so sure.
Link Hogthrob, Miss Piggy and Dr Strangepork
On 11/04/2006, at 6:33 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
He also seems to fail to recognize the difference between
irrational and
non-rational beliefs. And this statement, Religious moderation
is just a
cherry-picking of scripture, ultimately, is ridiculous. It
implies that
fundamentalism is
On 12/04/2006, at 12:33 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Faith in a deity/deities/force/whatever is one thing. It's highly
personal. But faith in a book is something else, and that's where the
argument starts - if the book says one thing, but a follower
disagrees and does something else, where's
On 12/04/2006, at 1:31 AM, Dave Land wrote:
One view -- a minority view in Christianity -- is that the Bible
is a human product, not a divine one.
Or that it is a divine one but with the errors inherent in human
transcription, which is a similar but distinct position to the one
that
On 12/04/2006, at 1:57 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
I have discussed religion with a
number of Lutherans other than Nick (mainly Germanic Europeans,
either in Cyprus or in Australia), and all bar one of those still
practicing that I have met in the flesh (so 6 or 7) are biblical
literalists.
Are
On 12/04/2006, at 4:18 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
If one is Christian, then the Incarnate Word of God (Jesus) has the
greatest
authority.
Precisely what I was taught.
I never met someone who was really a literalist
concerning the whole of scriptures.they just don't count their
On 12/04/2006, at 7:45 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
I was saying that social, political and economic conditions in the
Middle
East have created an environment favorable to recruiting
terrorists by
demagogues. My point was to argue against focusing on religion as
the
reason there are
On 12/04/2006, at 8:59 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
One answer is that if there really is a God, you could try asking
Him what He wants you to do . . .
Sure. Like I say, it's highly personal.
Of course, it's possible that the answer you get will be RTF¹M . . .
Now there's a good shortcut
On 12/04/2006, at 7:09 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
In Lutheranism and most of Protestantism, Christianity isn't about
doing
good in order to get into heaven, even though that's often how it
comes
across.
That I know - I was raised C of E, and was heavily involved in
Christian fellowship
On 12/04/2006, at 10:17 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
The Fool wrote:
I believe only in the purity of math. Everything else is nonsense.
Humans are fundamentelly evil creatures who deserve to die.
You must be great fun at parties.
*snort* Lucky I wasn't drinking just then. :D
Charlie
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 with other humans. Then it might
Sure. But, I guess you're just as likely to find that smiting and
stoning is recommended as a solution as kiss-and-make-up is...
That's when it is advisable to request further light and knowledge
in the form of another hint . . .
Lord, what sort of rock should I lob at his head?
;)
On 13/04/2006, at 1:24 AM, Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
Matthew
If you run 25 miles a week, you can eat what you want.
And if you cycle 60 miles a day for 6 months, you can have trouble
eating enough...
Charlie
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On 13/04/2006, at 2:17 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Apr 12, 2006, at 3:27 PM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 13/04/2006, at 1:24 AM, Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
Matthew
If you run 25 miles a week, you can eat what you want.
And if you cycle 60 miles a day for 6 months, you can have trouble
On 14/04/2006, at 3:16 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
On 4/12/06 4:04 PM, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I read about this a couple of weeks ago and started to drink more
of the
stuff. Like I need more
On 16/04/2006, at 2:57 AM, maru dubshinki wrote:
At the risk of shocking the more tenderminded persons in the audience,
I must confess that my chosen window manager is ratpoison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratpoison
When I need a program that doesn't quite fit the ratpoison paradigm, I
On 16/04/2006, at 4:48 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On 16/04/2006, at 2:57 AM, maru dubshinki wrote:
At the risk of shocking the more tenderminded persons in the
audience,
I must confess that my chosen window manager is ratpoison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratpoison
When I need a program
On 18/04/2006, at 11:59 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
That is extemely interesting. For whatever reason,
I never thought of it.
Well, it's not exactly my original thinking; 'be the
leader' is the big theme in current horsemanship
training, and has been important in dog training for a
while.
On 19/04/2006, at 12:53 AM, Deborah Harrell wrote:
But I have
problems with the 'planned betrayal,' as this makes
Judas a stool pigeon, and God an underhanded schemer.
Indeed, it brings to mind the entire Garden bit as
another planned betrayal.
Precisely. It's yet more of why this loving
On 19/04/2006, at 1:41 AM, Dave Land wrote:
That variant spelling of extrovert only finds 236,000 pages on
Google.
Spot on, William. I searched for introvert OR intravert vs
extravert
OR extrovert and came up with closer, but still skewed results:
intr(o|a)vert: 2,470,000
On 19/04/2006, at 5:13 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
http://goodmath.blogspot.com/
He welcomes clarifications and corrections.
A favourite of mine. His explanations of the vacuity of Dembski's bad
maths often amuse.
Charlie
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On 19/04/2006, at 3:37 PM, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
And people ask why I chose Australia for my big solo rip... no
large terrestrial maneaters is a good reason I feel! (s about
the crocs and sharks... ;) )
But doesn't Oz have, what, nine out of the ten most poisonous
On 23/04/2006, at 12:28 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
People blame communication issues on Mercury being retrograde.
And they're stupid or ignorant people. FFS.
Like the sodding Mars closest appoach mails that go round every
couple of years... mars will appear to be the same size as the
On 23/04/2006, at 5:44 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
Charlie Bell wrote:
On 23/04/2006, at 12:28 AM, Julia Thompson wrote:
People blame communication issues on Mercury being retrograde.
And they're stupid or ignorant people. FFS.
I just don't get the whole astrology thing. It makes
On 24/04/2006, at 4:01 PM, Klaus Stock wrote:
People blame communication issues on Mercury being retrograde.
And they're stupid or ignorant people. FFS.
I just don't get the whole astrology thing. It makes absolutely no
sense when you consider the pairs of identical twins that were born
On 27/04/2006, at 1:13 PM, Klaus Stock wrote:
inspired later Muslim philosophers and theologians. For example, the
Brethren of Sincerity
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brethren_of_Sincerity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Encyclopedia_of_the_Brethren_of_Sincerity
- full disclosure:
On 28/04/2006, at 12:39 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
I'm no fan of the God is in control of everything way of
thinking. When a
child dies, God must have needed another angel is a fairly
horrible idea.
On that we agree.
It was his time to go is a phrase I would never use regarding
Wes'
On 28/04/2006, at 10:16 AM, Russell Chapman wrote:
I happened to be looking for an old email in my mail folders when I
came across some stuff I had saved from mid 1996 from the list.
I know we went through all this 5 years ago, but I can't remember -
did we ever determine when the list
On 28/04/2006, at 2:06 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 4/27/06, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... It says nothing about God grieving.
Jesus wept. That's God grieving, in my book.
A man crying over the news of another man's death is not surprising
(or, indeed, because he'd been
On 06/05/2006, at 1:53 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
stuff
Given that I so often disagree with Dan on many things, I think it
only fair to chip in that I was lurking on this one too, and he has
basically said what I would've...
:)
So, where are we wrong this time?
Charlie
On 07/05/2006, at 3:37 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
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
On 07/05/2006, at 10:05 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
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
On 07/05/2006, at 10:40 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
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
On 07/05/2006, at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Alberto wrote:
It might be a belief, it might even be
strident and loudly held, but it's a slightly different class of
belief.
No, it's not, and this belief may have killed more people than all
religions
put together - you missed this
On 07/05/2006, at 11:53 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
I think militant atheism is a better description of the
philosophy apparently espoused by The Fool.
Certainly is.
There is no text from which to be fundamentalist for atheism, as
far as I know. Militant is a reasonably accurate
On 08/05/2006, at 12:28 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Well, then it's clearly possible to be an agnostic Christian by that
definition. A significant fraction of Christians would be
agnostics, by your
definition...including me. Even our pastor, who is fairly
Evangelical,
agrees that there is no
On 08/05/2006, at 3:01 AM, The Fool wrote:
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
On 08/05/2006, at 7:49 AM, Dave Land wrote:
On May 7, 2006, at 8:06 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
snip a bit of self-loathing over liking the Xbox
(Friends being parlance meaning OK to play with -- real human
friendships are based in a lot more than game theory. Right?)
Based on some of the
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