Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-08-19 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 05:46 PM 8/19/07, Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking clearly and logically is hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it. He's signed off, so he didn't see any of that. What a waste of effort. Thanks for your comment and your sentiment, Eric, but, if you look closely

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-08-21 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 08:48 PM 8/19/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, can I call you Bob? Well, they often call me Speedo, but my real name is Mister Earl. As someone who's probably been over the top on more than one occasion in my years on the list, I don't remember you being over the

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-08-25 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 07:02 PM 8/21/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess then you were only kidding about that 100 moderators comment. Not in the slightest. You don't want to be moderated, 1. I don't want listmembers to attempt to censor others, but label such behavior moderating the

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 04:43 PM 8/25/07, Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of my Brobdingnagian package, I've never been in what you could call a contest. All other entrants got beaten like a Sunday boner. Are you talking about your ego? No, I'm not. However, for a modest additional fee,

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-09-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 08:08 AM 9/4/07, Tomás de Torquemoderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This list is moderated. If I don't like your posts we send thugs to your house. [snipparoonie] In any event, the offending party is never heard from again. So! Youse gonna send your thugs around, or what? I got

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-09-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 06:01 AM 8/22/07, Paul Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did not take particular offense to your rant Mazel tov. Neither did I. Possibly because, your characterization notwithstanding, it wasn't a rant. and thought it reasonably harmless given that the person in question had left

Re: [CGUYS] Bill Nye, the anti-God Science Guy

2007-09-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 03:39 PM 9/4/07, chad evans wyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, everyone. We've heard all of bob's variations. Ignorantly and erroneously spoken. Boo! Time to ignore him. Arrogantly and presumptuously spoken. Yay! It appears that you have taken it upon yourself to decide

Re: [CGUYS] Test

2007-09-10 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 06:41 PM 9/7/07, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I been banned from the list? No, but make it worth our while, and we'll see what we can do for you. What's happened is that you've been getting what is known as the Paul McCartney Treatment. That is, you've been banned

Re: [CGUYS] SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 04:35 PM 1/3/2008, William Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please discontinue my subscription. Hell, no! You're not running out now. WE tell YOU when you leave. YOU don't tell US. Who do you think you are, anyway? Thank you, Your superficial display of politesse doesn't

Re: [CGUYS] How To Unsubscribe

2008-01-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 06:12 AM 1/4/2008, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No virus found in this outgoing message. This is a lie. Well, you got me there, Tex. But it wasn't a very BIG lie, now, was it? That entire post was a virus. You say that as if it was a BAD thing. Bob

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet

2008-02-16 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 05:01 PM 2/16/2008, Steve Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia, is refusing to remove medieval artistic depictions of the Prophet Muhammad, despite being flooded with complaints from Muslims demanding the images be deleted. http://tinyurl.com/2f9q7w

Re: [CGUYS] Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 08:57 AM 2/18/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't dispute your basic premise, however I think it's unfair to label those who are offended by the public display of these images as extremists. Islam (to my limited understanding) has a fundamental objection to graven images and depictions

[CGUYS] Music from Minidisc to PC

2008-03-11 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
Before I go to Best Buy or Circuit City with this issue, I'd like to bounce it off folks who I trust to give me reasonable answer, if they have one, and who will say so if they don't. Here goes: I run WinXP (SP2, IIRC) and have RealPlayer 11.01 (Build 6.0.14.794, but who's

[CGUYS] Music from MiniDisc to PC

2008-03-11 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
A friend of mine on another list came up with these links: http://www.sweetadelines.org.uk/docs/how_to_minidisc.pdf http://forums.minidisc.org/ Even though I'm still open to any other suggestions, the first link might just do the trick, and the second seems like a nice

[CGUYS] Music from MiniDisc to PC

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 11:44 PM 3/11/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot about Audacity...good free program also. I downloaded Audacity 1.2.6 (rather than the ß-version upgrade), and will try to install it later today. Thanks very much for the suggestions in your previous post. I'm

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-07-31 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 06:49 PM 7/31/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wasn't that settled by Potter Stewart who said, I can't define it but I know it when I see it!! I don't think anyone with an adult level of cultural and sociological sophistication (which, if you trust most of the opinions of those who

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-02 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 08:54 AM 8/1/2008, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bluenoses are merely looking for some way to justify hating you... I is not at all limited to sexually explicit material. I agree completely with you, which uses up my Agreement With Tom quota for the decade, but I only

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-02 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 02:32 PM 8/2/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed..so we should allow the posting of 50 year old men having sex with nine year old boys? Interesting image. How/Why did you come up with it? Have you ever actually seen anything like that? Do you know anyone who has? How can you

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
Beginning: At 08:22 PM 8/2/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can everyone here do me a favor and quit bashing religion. No. When religion deserves not to be bashed, people, generally speaking, I predict, will stop bashing it. But this is America, Stewart. You're

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
Conclusion: China which is not a Christian nation has a very strict moral code on what is allowed and what is not. I can give you many examples out there. I don't think there are any examples to give. Just because you, or they, call it a moral code doesn't make it one. Particularly

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-03 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 07:43 PM 8/3/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sociology 101 Morals = Ethics. Extant mammals = Unicorns. I gave you examples of clearly unethical behaviors that might have been moral, assuming morals exist, but, rather than consider them on their merits, such

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 11:44 PM 8/3/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this to say the censoring of anything only comes from the religious? I was addressing the forms of censorship that Stewart was discussing. Those are, for the reasons I described, motivated by religious beliefs, on the one hand, and

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 08:16 PM 8/3/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have a problem with organized religion. What problem is that, Stewart? Please enlighten me. I happen to ADORE both the free exercise and establishment clauses of the First Amendment. Your right and my right to

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 03:57 PM 8/4/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are correct about the fairness doctrine, it has nothing to do with censorship but rather a free market vs government regulated market. I disagree, Mike, because of your use of the term market. The legal philosophy in this country,

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 07:07 AM 8/4/2008, John Emmerling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert, Bob, please. As a fellow secularist, I have to point out that this type of confrontational arguing serves to discredit us in the eyes of most US citizens. No, it doesn't. And, even if it did, how would you

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 07:14 AM 8/4/2008, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way some would view secularism as its own religion. Which just goes to show you how desperate some theocrat wannabes can get. In order for secularism, whatever in hell THAT means, to be a religion, it must

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-04 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 03:43 PM 8/4/2008, Chris Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our federal government is supposed to reflect that choice by the laws it passes. This is not always the case and people may disagree with it. I disagree with the supposed to part. They have a number of democratic ideals, and a

Re: [CGUYS] Puritans at the helm...

2008-08-06 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 10:12 AM 8/5/2008, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order for secularism, whatever in hell THAT means, to be a religion, it must have some set of relatively well-settled articles of faith which have been organized into a more or less formal, and, in any event,

Re: [CGUYS] Tom Piwowar for President

2008-09-01 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 01:10 PM 9/1/2008, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who should I pander to? You should pander to me: Your old pal, Bob. Should I consider a hermaphrodite who uses a PC at work and a Mac at home? No, you shouldn't. Proper pandering requires you to give me cash, not

Re: [CGUYS] Tom Piwowar for President

2008-09-03 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 03:21 AM 9/3/2008, John McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should only be one name on the short list for VP John Gilroy! The Piwowar/Gilroy ticket would be like a reunion of Lennon and Macartney. Between John and Tom, which one is the dead guy? Hard for me to tell, just by

Re: [CGUYS] LHC

2008-09-09 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 05:04 PM 9/9/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I get the msg before

Re: [CGUYS] Fwd: Large hadron collider views...

2008-09-13 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 04:31 PM 9/13/2008, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html Black hole, schmack hole! I refuse to let this European fuck-up harsh my weekend mellow. I mean, just because the world is about to end in an unstoppable gravitational collapse

Re: [CGUYS] Wi-Fi foe sues neighbor for using electronics - The Santa Fe New Mexican

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
On Jan 9, 2010, at 1:47 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote: Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican Posted: Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 1/8/10 A Santa Fe man who says he suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity is suing his next-door neighbor for refusing to turn off her cell phone and other

Re: [CGUYS] Why Not Be Evil?

2010-01-13 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 06:08 PM 1/13/2010, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Owners of the BlackBerry Storm 2 and other Verizon smartphones woke up one day last week to find that they could no longer specify a preferred search services in the Search box on the BlackBerry's browser. It's Microsoft Bing or nothing.

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

2010-02-20 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
Update: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/school-backs-off-on-laptop-spying-policy-in-lieu-of-lawsuit.ars Bob I'm on the case, from outer space! OK End * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Creepy or what?

2010-02-21 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 09:41 AM 2/21/2010, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 1:18 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Well, yeah, the school said that the only intended purpose for any remote viewing was to help them retrieve stolen or lost laptops, but that was not what they were doing. So if

Re: [CGUYS] This is worth a look

2010-02-23 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 11:27 AM 2/23/2010, Tom Piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK ENGLISH LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE! ¡Porque! Bob I'm on the case, from outer space! OK End * ** List info, subscription

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-02-28 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 07:20 PM 2/28/2010, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Lutheran Theology is unique on this one. We believe in Simul Justus Et Picatur Luther's oft quoted Latin phrase means Sinner yet at the same time Saint! So yes they are contradictory, but also reality. If it

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 10:07 AM 3/1/2010, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: There is no federal guidelines on Hospitals. That isn't true, Stewart. You have overlooked the respective sections of both the US Code, and the CFR, which deal with military hospitals and VA hospitals.

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 09:35 PM 2/28/2010, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Bob I have no need to convince anyone of what I believe, but when asked I will explain it. Thank you for responding, Stewart. However, I didn't mention the act of convincing others of what [you] believe. I spoke,

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 05:35 AM 3/1/2010, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Yes the regulator is divine but people often have the wrong view of the 10 commandments. I was about to get to that. They were also prescriptive telling the Israelites how they were to live with one another and

Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 10:30 AM 3/1/2010, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Our duty to God and our Duty to one another. There is a multi-billion dollar industry, in organized religion and televangelism, chock-full of people, limited, biased, ignorant, stupid, fallible, vain, gullible,

Re: [CGUYS] Evil people [Was: Re: [CGUYS] FCC head calls for broadband availability]

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
At 03:59 PM 3/1/2010, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Only those [VA and military] hospitals and they are minimal at best. What do you mean minimal? Do you mean few in number? If so, how many are there, and how do you know? All other hospitals that you or I would

[CGUYS] Your house is a dump!

2010-03-14 Thread Robert Michael Abrams
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