Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

2007-11-06 Thread Lance A. Brown
Doug said the following on 11/6/2007 12:49 AM: Ronn! wrote: So what would most folks think of someone who professed a belief in God and spent his evenings and weekends drinking and carousing? Wouldn't that depend on what particular brand of God this person believed in and which

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-11-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
Deborah Harrell wrote: Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_ IIRC, about a race of telepathic interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've mentioned that here previously. Oh my. I own a copy of that book. :-) --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle

Internet Privacy and Earth

2007-11-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
Here's an interesting interview about privacy in the age of Facebook and other social networking sites. Immediately reminded me of the net and the anti-secrecy viewpoints in Earth. http://www.switched.com/2007/11/05/can-privacy-exist-on-the-internet/ --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-11-08 Thread Lance A. Brown
Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 2:03 PM, Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_ IIRC, about a race of telepathic interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've mentioned that here previously. Oh my. I

Re: Uplift at Yellowstone

2007-11-10 Thread Lance A. Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 11/10/2007 2:07 AM: In a message dated 11/9/2007 11:43:03 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yellowstone is rising. The word uplift makes me think the tytlal have been pouring bicarbonate of soda down Old Faithful.

Re: Uplift at Yellowstone

2007-11-10 Thread Lance A. Brown
Always fun to arrive in the middle of a cultural movement and have to play catch-up. Thanks for the comments on maru-ism. Matt Grimaldi said the following on 11/10/2007 11:21 PM: This whole thing started because, for a time, there were a large number of brin-lers that also belonged to the

Re: Tattoos - Scientifical

2007-11-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
Now that's certainly a lady believer in Darwin! --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-11-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
Deborah Harrell wrote: Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_ IIRC, about a race of telepathic interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've mentioned that here previously. Oh my. I own a copy of that book

Re: Where the web is heading?

2007-11-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
Just reading that gave my eyeballs hives I *really* hate marketing speak. 20% to 200% uplifted customers... Damn, can't they get their clients right? Weak Joke Maru --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest

Re: Religion and greed

2007-12-13 Thread Lance A. Brown
jon louis mann wrote: they do seem to go together. there are greedy liberals as well, although their religious beliefs are generally more progressive than evangelical. hopefully, there may be a way to medicate all varieties of social and behavior disorders, some day... Welcome to Brave

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-10 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: 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

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Robert Seeberger said the following on 1/10/2008 8:56 PM: The problem with corn is that it produces a lower energy ethanol. Sugarcane *is* much better in that regard. But why are you worried about sugarcane? We don't use it all that much in the US, even for making sugar. Last I heard, sugar

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Unused land suitable for corn or sugarcane? You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) Yer right. I didn't. Assumption has once again worked against me. :-) --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: This is not necessarily true - if there's unused land and the new crop grows into that land, then this would have no positive impact in the food price. The reverse would even be more likely, since if it becomes not viable to turn the food crop into fuel, the new crop

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

2008-01-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Trent Shipley wrote: How much private land is there that could be converted from lower yield to cellulose production? Could ex-farms on the Montana and Dakota prairies be put back into production as cellulose ranches? (In AZ we can grow agave on some private ranch land.) I dunno. We

Re: Young Earth Math?

2008-01-17 Thread Lance A. Brown
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? Conservapedia is 100% serious in its intent. There have been occasional articles in various places about it.

I do love me some xkcd

2008-02-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
http://xkcd.com/386/ --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9

Re: A little too close to home...

2008-02-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dave Land said the following on 2/20/2008 9:36 PM: Folks, Two videos, definitely NSFW (and maybe NSFH, if you have kiddies in the room or a partner with extremely delicate sensibilities) showing what happens when online community behaviors find their way into the corporate boardroom...

Re: Fwd: CNN Breaking News

2008-02-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 2/21/2008 12:31 AM: So . . . if they shot it /down/ before it crashed to Earth, where is it going to fall now? (Yes, I know . . . just seems they could have phrased that better . . . ) The point of shooting the satellite was to disrupt the fuel

Re: Wal-Mart and more L4

2008-02-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dan M said the following on 2/21/2008 12:44 AM: Nationwide, Wal-Mart pays just under average for retail workers. Here near Houston, it pays a bit better than average. So, exploiting the worker by paying far less than the next guy for a worker does not seem to be the MO. Indeed, as the

Re: Let us all pause for 2d8 seconds

2008-03-05 Thread Lance A. Brown
Martin Lewis wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Gygax has died... Really? Realy. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html It seems somehow peculiarly fitting CNN placed his article in the Technology section. Gary, Rest

Schneier vs. Brin

2008-03-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
Bruce Schneier has a column up on WIRED talking about the myth of the 'Transparent Society'. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/03/securitymatters_0306 --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest

Re: Schneier vs. Brin

2008-03-08 Thread Lance A. Brown
jon louis mann said the following on 3/8/2008 5:33 PM: I do feel that spying on the government will prevent some of these abuses, but there are times when matters of national security require secrecy. Nevertheless, I like the idea of being able to listen in on high government officials

Re: Schneier vs. Brin

2008-03-09 Thread Lance A. Brown
Julia Thompson said the following on 3/9/2008 10:53 AM: In Texas, if you're an adult, you cannot be outside your residence without an ID. Is that a state law or the way it is? --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest

Re: Brin: The Latest In Dolphin Technology

2008-03-16 Thread Lance A. Brown
David Brin said the following on 3/16/2008 11:29 PM: this showed a scientology minister at a city council meeting. What dolphins? Was wondering if this was some new kind of rickrolling... --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest

Re: 'Lost'

2008-03-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jim Sharkey said the following on 3/21/2008 11:22 AM: Not sure I agree. I've seen so many LO episodes over the past 10+ years that the twist is almost always obvious and it kind of ruins the show for me. And the mini-sermon wrap up at the end of the show has gotten grating. Might be

Re: An interesting response

2008-04-17 Thread Lance A. Brown
hkhenson said the following on 4/17/2008 5:16 PM: At 12:00 PM 4/17/2008, Dan M wrote: And what kind of a deal would the Russians give you if you wanted to launch 110 of these a day? Perhaps this is naive of me, but who is going to want to build the multiple launching facilities 110

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

2008-04-24 Thread Lance A. Brown
Curtis Burisch wrote: This kinda backfired, where I'm from. Sensor II razor was so popular they were forced to continue selling the blades ever after. I'm on a 15 year old razor, buying a blade every 2 months. The modern innovations do not impress. I give gilette like around a dollar a month,

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

2008-04-24 Thread Lance A. Brown
I've had my beard longer than I've had my professional career and a software applications developer and then sysadmin. My and my moderately fuzzy chin do just fine professionally. :-) -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

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

2008-04-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dave Land said the following on 4/25/2008 2:15 AM: Well, as long as the answer to Nick's frustrations with Office 2007 is to suggest an entirely different office package (Open Office, which I was forced by Sun Microsystems to use, and found it to be a turd, but that was about 5 years ago), it

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

2008-04-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
David Hobby said the following on 4/25/2008 7:12 AM: Yes. So hunting up the right fonts and installing them everywhere would have solved it. I don't really understand why a word processor would ever have different screen and display fonts, though. I mean I can see how it would happen, but

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

2008-04-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
David Hobby wrote: Hi. I don't see that. I think the printer is capable of printing whatever pattern of dots it's told to, and these are supposed to be True Type fonts. You would be amazed. It depends entirely how the job is processed, especially if the printer is not attached directly

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

2008-04-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
Julia Thompson wrote: OK, so a good reason to keep every box in the house under the same OS, and specifically, this computer (which is acting as a print server) and the one in the guest room (which does not have a printer attached directly to it) It does tend to make things easier to

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

2008-04-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
David Hobby wrote: But that is the configuration. One computer, one printer, and an old-style cable between them. (It's unfortunate that it wouldn't work well over a network, but I've had problems too. Another story...) That sucks. I'd make sure you have the correct driver installed for

Re: A videogame that will make William happy

2008-06-06 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: If that videogame ever gets published, the purpose of it is to slay Muhammad and Abraham before they establish Islam and Judaism. I don't think there's a Jesus-slaying mode: it seems pointless, because he would also resurect if, instead of being crucified, he was mowed

Re: USA presidential race(ism)

2008-06-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Garcia wrote: technically, the first seven Presidents were born in what was at the time, colonies of the British Empire. the first President to be born after the US became an independent country was Martin Van Buren. John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone to a serving US Navy

Re: Gates without Microsoft

2008-06-23 Thread Lance A. Brown
Just for grins. Pictures of the founders of Microsoft, then and now: http://www.newsweek.com/id/142636 --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___

Re: Gates without Microsoft

2008-06-24 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jon Louis Mann wrote: if i had the tens of billions that gates has to work with, i really believe i could do a lot more good. i suspect a lot of that money is being used inefficiently. jon Yep. Here at Duke they recently opened the French Science Building. I mean, a WHOLE building devoted

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-14 Thread Lance A. Brown
William T Goodall said the following on 7/14/2008 2:53 PM: So how do you download the patches if you can't put an unpatched Windows computer on the internet? You don't hook it directly to the Internet. If you are on a broadband connection, get a router or wireless access point with an

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-15 Thread Lance A. Brown
Charlie Bell said the following on 7/15/2008 4:47 AM: ...and for the 95% of home PC users who buy a PC at PC World or Walmart or from Dell, and plug it straight in to their modem when they get it home? I don't have a good answer for them. Can't stop people from doing dangerous things.

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-15 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM: Now how about an actually helpful response for those who do not have access to another computer at home? Well, how about this: Before plugging your new computer into a network connection: 1. Go to Office Depot, Staples, etc. and

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-15 Thread Lance A. Brown
Nick Arnett said the following on 7/15/2008 9:47 PM: While we're on the subject, AVG's LinkScanner has created a lot of misery for me and other people who do web analytics. I've pretty well decided never to use their products again. *nod* Yeah. I uninstalled that damned component about 5

Re: Computer Security

2008-07-16 Thread Lance A. Brown
Don't be get started on that SOB. He's giving all IT professionals a black eye with his antics. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-16 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/16/2008 7:13 PM: None of which means anything to the average non-technical person who is buying a computer for his/her kids to use for school or a grandmother finally buying a computer to view pictures of her grandchildren who live out of state, who

Re: Chicken and Egg

2008-07-17 Thread Lance A. Brown
Charlie Bell said the following on 7/17/2008 3:32 AM: Welcome to my world. IT Support at a law firm at the mo... *banging head on desk* I love my job, I love my workplace, but bloody hell it can be frustrating at times! I feel your pain, brother. :-) I'm the sole in-department sysadmin

Re: Conspiracy theories

2008-07-28 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jon Louis Mann wrote: And what are those two idiots doing, that the oil price fell down so much in the past weeks? They should strike Iran right now! Alberto Monteiro fortunately those two idiots have lost all credibility and could not pull off a strike against iran at this time (unless

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

2008-08-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Pat Mathews wrote: I can't speak for other members of the list's silent majority. I, for one, see another news article on some cult or its members run amok,yawn, and hit Delete. Ditto. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

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

2008-08-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: If they are indeed _silent_, what makes you think they agree with you? He's a mind reader. Doesn't believe in religion, but does believe in telepathy. :-) The Amazing William Maru --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Garcia wrote: McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. So? What does that have to do with being President? My choice for President depends on which candidate I think will address all the issues facing the USA consistent with my values, not whether or not he has a cool Facebook page.

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
Chris Frandsen wrote: I totally agree with Olin's comments. I am not sure how Obama will support the scientific community other than getting out of the business of trying to make scientific reports match political agendas. I suspect his economic social and foreign policy initiatives to

Re: monotonous posting

2008-10-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
Olin Elliott said the following on 10/19/2008 5:59 PM: Or maybe it was because each one of his monotonous posts elicit dozens of responses from people telling him how monotonous and irritating he is. I find everyone's responses to William, and the energy that goes into villainizing him to

Re: monotonous posting

2008-10-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
William T Goodall said the following on 10/19/2008 7:27 PM: First rule of dealing with trolls: Don't Feed The Troll. That's a very sound policy I've been following for years. Don't post in a thread you don't like, especially to complain that you don't like it. Did I say I didn't like

Re: Two Weeks To Go

2008-10-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
And folks are voting by the drove already. My girlfriend and I voted early yesterday afternoon and they had had almost 2,500 people through the system for just that day. If enough people vote early, no October surprise will make a difference. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF

Re: No more feeding the troll (was Re: Debunking B.S. from the so-called debunker )

2008-10-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
William T Goodall said the following on 10/20/2008 6:59 AM: Do you think it is reasonable that someone should participate in a discussion they are also moderating? Absolutely. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

Re: No more feeding the troll (was Re: Debunking B.S. from the so-called debunker )

2008-10-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
William T Goodall said the following on 10/20/2008 9:03 AM: On 20 Oct 2008, at 13:56, Lance A. Brown wrote: William T Goodall said the following on 10/20/2008 6:59 AM: Do you think it is reasonable that someone should participate in a discussion they are also moderating? Absolutely

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

2008-10-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
I had this thought before lunch and thought I'd share it with the list. I googled it and found that I'm not the first to think of it so I can't claim it as my own. I'd been thinking about Powell's endorsement of Obama this weekend and how much impressed with him I've always been, even after his

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

2008-10-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
Euan Ritchie said the following on 10/20/2008 3:38 PM: I think Barack Obama shoud make Colin Powell his Secretary of Defense. One elegant speech does not magically change a person or their responsibly for their past. Plus a long and distinguished career in the military, Chief of the Joint

Re: Secretary of Defense

2008-10-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jon Louis Mann wrote: I would prefer Wesley Clark as Sec'y of Defense and give Colin Powell a chance to redeem himself as Sec'y of State. Clark would be a good choice for Sec. of Defense as well. I'm not sure I'd put Powell back in at State. Seems like asking a bit much of the world's

Re: Redistribute the wealth

2008-10-26 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro said the following on 10/26/2008 8:44 PM: This is something I don't understand. If Obama is the anti-corporation candidate, how he gets 2-3x more money for the campaing than McPalin? About 90% of Obama's fund raising comes from individuals. After withdrawing

Re: Redistribute the wealth

2008-10-26 Thread Lance A. Brown
William T Goodall said the following on 10/26/2008 10:38 PM: The internet candidate. McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. The Future Maru Pigs Flying Maru! We agree on something, William. :-) --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9

Re: Redistribute the wealth

2008-10-27 Thread Lance A. Brown
William T Goodall said the following on 10/27/2008 7:23 AM: Their could be highly efficient and competitive private militias instead of the inefficient government monopoly paid for by taking the money of people who don't want to pay for it. You mean like Blackwater? Greed and Corruption

Re: Redistribute the wealth

2008-10-27 Thread Lance A. Brown
Andrew Crystall said the following on 10/27/2008 8:40 PM: On 27 Oct 2008 at 18:52, Lance A. Brown wrote: William T Goodall said the following on 10/27/2008 7:23 AM: Their could be highly efficient and competitive private militias instead of the inefficient government monopoly paid

Re: Health Care (the same damn topic all f-ing week!~)

2008-10-31 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Williams wrote: It is obvious that no system is perfect. No matter whether it is a centrally controlled system, or a completely decentralized system, there will be decisions made by people, and people do make mistakes. I'd rather have a fault-tolerant system that tends to evolve toward

Re: Health Care (the same damn topic all f-ing week!~)

2008-10-31 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Williams wrote: Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Williams wrote: there will be decisions made by people, and people do make mistakes. You are assuming everyone is a rational actor. By no means is everyone a rational actor. People make mistakes, act emotionally instead

Re: Health Care (the same damn topic all f-ing week!~)

2008-10-31 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Williams wrote: Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's different between the ability of government actors to make large mistakes vs. the ability of private actors to make large mistakes? Government legally requires actors to behave in certain ways. Private actors must use more

Balancing the bad actors (was Re: Health Care (the same topic all week!~))

2008-11-01 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 11/1/2008 12:24 AM: At 11:05 AM Friday 10/31/2008, John Williams wrote: Lance A. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Instead, we are faced with actors who will collude with each other to manipulate markets, subvert systems, and for the short term gain without

Re: polarization

2008-11-12 Thread Lance A. Brown
Warren Ockrassa said the following on 11/12/2008 10:33 PM: To me it seems that there's no real reason, if you're so motivated, to continue attacking the GOP. It's in the middle of its own self- destruction. A better approach might be to talk to the moderates, the centrist Republicans,

Re: peace offering on the brinlist

2008-11-13 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 11/13/2008 6:45 AM: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.htmlhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html *Idaho students chant 'assassinate Obama' on school bus: Report *

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

2009-01-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
Dan M wrote: Look at http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Battery-Energy.html And if you RTFA, you'll see a not implausible argument made by Sherry Boschertthat Cabasys is squelching the market for large-format NiMH batteries: In her book, Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge

Re: My robot is more popular than I am

2009-01-29 Thread Lance A. Brown
Looks like you've blown out your account, Nick. :-) -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Google Operating System

2009-07-11 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Other than by breaking the M$ pay to play licensing paradigm and leveling the playing field for open source developers? Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible that the worse nightmare of the free-software sjihad/s community happens: M$ may

Re: WeChooseTheMoon

2009-07-30 Thread Lance A. Brown
dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote: An interesting aside on this. It took the Mercury program a bit over 9 months to go from the first sub-orbital flight to the first orbital flight. The big private enterprise sub-orbital flight happened almost 5 years ago (5 years this coming November

Re: WeChooseTheMoon

2009-07-30 Thread Lance A. Brown
And here is my reply: Very good. I should have dug deeper on their website before opening my mouth. :-) --[Lance] Dan M wrote: Somehow this just went to the author instead of the list. So, I'm reposting, even though I got a nice reply from Lance. -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D

Re: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

2009-08-02 Thread Lance A. Brown
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 8/2/2009 8:17 PM: And the mandated DTV changeover was just another excuse to get money out of people who were satisfied with things the way they were, even those who have little or naught to spare. Never mind the need for that freed up airspace for

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-12 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Williams wrote: There are billions of people around the world with worse healthcare than virtually everyone in the United States. If the goal is to redistribute wealth to improve healthcare because of the belief that everyone should have a chance to live and be healthy, then why not

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-13 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jo Anne said the following on 8/12/2009 9:04 PM: Also, when we had a H.S.A., it expired after a year. We had to use everything in the account within the year or it was gone. You have to look deep into your crystal ball to decide exactly how much heath savings you need each year. Jo Anne,

Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market

2009-08-13 Thread Lance A. Brown
Bruce Bostwick wrote: I still think version control, requirements management, and user acceptance testing have very definite roles to play in the development of legislation, and I'd still like to see alpha and beta level testing with bug tracking, or a very close analogue, employed in the

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-16 Thread Lance A. Brown
John Williams said the following on 8/16/2009 5:08 PM: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: It does strike me as a kludge, though. To continue your example of car insurance, I don't believe that anybody markets insurance against having your car insurance

Re: List administrators: list broken!

2009-08-21 Thread Lance A. Brown
Heh. I thought the list had just taken a deep breath. Instead it appears something has gone awry. I, too, am not receiving everything that is listed in the archive. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

Re: List administrators: list broken!

2009-08-22 Thread Lance A. Brown
Bruce Bostwick said the following on 8/22/2009 1:37 AM: On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Lance A. Brown wrote: Heh. I thought the list had just taken a deep breath. Instead it appears something has gone awry. I, too, am not receiving everything that is listed in the archive. --[Lance

Re: Google Wave

2009-10-14 Thread Lance A. Brown
Wayne Eddy said the following on 10/14/2009 6:07 PM: Hi all, I just got access to Google Wave, and I was wondering if there was anyone on the list who might be interested in helping my try it out by joining a discussion about the future? Regards, Wayne Eddy I'd love to get an invite

Re: Google Wave

2009-10-14 Thread Lance A. Brown
Wayne Eddy said the following on 10/14/2009 11:28 PM: Hi Lance, have you got a gmail address you want to use? I have sent Nick Dave invites, and I am happy to you one too, but I want to invite a few others from elsewhere so three invites for the Brin List will have to do for now.

Re: The worst

2010-01-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Nick Arnett said the following on 1/4/2010 4:47 PM: My friends I hate to write this. Been putting it off for a while. My younger sister, Lesley, the youngest of the four of us, mother of my five-year-old niece, Sarah, could not fight off the sepsis that attacked her body. Lesley died

Re: IPad

2010-01-28 Thread Lance A. Brown
Andrew Crystall said the following on 1/28/2010 6:05 PM: On 28 Jan 2010 at 11:28, Jon Louis Mann wrote: But how about the iPad???:-) Kindle app does run on the iPad so in just 60+ days. learner i have been hearing that apple is coming out with a netbook... It's not a netbook.

Laser bug zapper at TED 2010

2010-02-12 Thread Lance A. Brown
Yet another of David Brin's ideas comes to life: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/death-star-laser-zaps-mosqitoes-dead/ It's not exactly the africanized bee lazer zapper from _EARTH_ but its very similar. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9

Re: Electric trains and Clipperships!

2010-02-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
Jon Louis Mann said the following on 2/19/2010 8:30 PM: Shucks, we're better of without aircraft, heavy trucks and diesel powered ships. It will force us to use alt fuels and old tech, like wind and steam power!~) We'll still need oil for lubrication, but maybe the whale population will

Re: KJ6FOI

2010-02-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
Cool! Congratulations! --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Univ of Calgary job opp

2010-03-09 Thread Lance A. Brown
Hey, Check this out: http://workingvictoriajobs.canada.com/careers/jobsearch/detail?jobId=23245552 It's being hired at the Univ of Calgary. I wonder if Tannin or the Dean could put in a good word for me. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9

Re: Univ of Calgary job opp

2010-03-09 Thread Lance A. Brown
Well, color me embarrassed. :-( That's what I get for trusting the quick fill feature in my mailer. Apologies for the misaddressed message, everyone. --[Lance] P.S. if anyone needs a highly-experienced Linux administrator / web programmer in Calgary, Alberta, I'm in the market. -- GPG

Re: On Listmail

2010-05-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
Nick Arnett wrote: On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com mailto:brig...@zo.com wrote: If anything good is to come out of this disaster, its that we'll be taking a closer look at offshore drilling, and that nobody will even be suggesting that we

Re: On Listmail

2010-05-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
*boggle* Peak Wind? --[Lance] Matt Grimaldi said the following on 5/3/2010 3:30 PM: Funny thing, there's an anti-wind power movement as well, borrowing many of the same arguments that anti-oil protesters use. -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org

Re: Clash of Titans

2010-06-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Alberto Monteiro said the following on 6/4/2010 7:36 AM: It's Evil, pure and simple Evil. Why they can't stick to History or Mythology, or even stay close to the books the movie is supposed to be based on, and just play with the visual? Those that did that became classicals: Ben Hur, Caligula

Evony (was Re: Starting Engineer's Salaries)

2010-10-24 Thread Lance A. Brown
Rceeberger said the following on 10/22/2010 9:23 PM: I've been here...I read the conversations and more or less keep up. I just havent had much worth adding recently. Mostly I spend my online time playing Evony, where I am the host of Bavaria, a top 10 alliance on SS51. We use Skype in

Interesting development in black hole theory

2014-01-24 Thread Lance A. Brown
Stephen Hawking is upending the world of physics, again. http://www.nature.com/news/stephen-hawking-there-are-no-black-holes-1.14583 --[Lance] ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com