[scifinoir2] Re: September 11th National Firefighters Day?
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Amy Harlib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After you read below and you wish to add your name, please click forward, add your name to the bottom of the list and send it on to others. This is a nice idea but here is a better one, according to snopes.com' For those still interested in establishing a National Firefighters Day, sponsoring a petition on the web rather than via e-mail is much more practical. Also, taking a few extra minutes to send letters to Congressional representatives rather than simply adding names to an e-petition would be a worthwhile effort. http://www.petitiononline.com/91101/petition.html Meta Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] NYTimes.com: The Rumsfeld Stain
Title: E-Mail This This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The kind of up-front honesty we desperately need. OPINION | May 23, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: The Rumsfeld Stain By BOB HERBERT Much of what has happened to the military on Donald Rumsfelds watch has been catastrophic. 1. Op-Ed Columnist: Its All Newsweeks Fault 2. Is Le Marche the Next Tuscany? 3. Can You Catch Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? 4. Class Matters: On a Christian Mission to the Top 5. Op-Ed Columnist: The Rumsfeld Stain Go to Complete List Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Re: Netflix/Walmart Marriage - What do you think?
Since I am boycotting Wal-Mart due to their questionable business practices, this just insures that I won't do business with Netflix either. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys. What do you think about all this? Tracey Netflix, Wal-Mart Unite; Blockbuster Attacks The brutal war over online DVD rentals accelerated Thursday as Netflix and Wal-Mart announced an agreement, which was followed by an announcement by Blockbuster offering incentives to anyone switching from Netflix and Wal-Mart. Under the Netflix-Wal-Mart deal, Netflix will take over Wal-Mart's online DVD rental business beginning June 16 while at the same time promoting Wal-Mart's sell-through business. Wal-Mart is believed to have about 300,000 subscribers. Shares in Netflix rocketed up 24 percent following the announcement. Later in the day, Blockbuster offered to give Netflix and Wal-Mart online rental subscribers two months of online rentals free, a free DVD of their choice to keep, and two coupons for free in-store rentals. In a statement, Blockbuster chairman and CEO John Antioco said, We remain committed to growing our online rental business and plan to continue to compete very aggressively in online DVD rentals. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[scifinoir2] Re: Bollywood 'Oscars' Honour Hasselhoff
And, of course, everyone knows Hasselhoff should have been oscar nominated for his transcendant performance in the Sponge Bob Square Pants movie. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Carole McDonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiled when I saw this. Am not a great Hasselhoff fan myself but he has an interesting kind of fame. And really, who knows what kind of fame we all might have? Hasselholff is arguably one of the biggest most famous international American stars. And musician. He's always having some big hit in Germany or wherever. Am not sure what kinda fame I'll have. Small little group of high-brow devotees -- akin to those who watch only art films. A creative or spiritual ghetto where only people of a certain race or spirituality read me? Heck I've heard people pick on this guy but it seems Hasselholf transcends. And what is that saying about a prophet not being accepted in his own country? (not that he's a prophet, mind you...but why should we judge fame and art by American standards? If the French, or the East Indians or the Germans or the Japanese see something in someone we don't much acknowledge, should we think they're wrong? After all, the US isn't the last word on creative approval. -C --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, keop6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,12078-4338531-52_12252_true,00.html 02/05/2005 07:41 AM Claudia Parsons India's movie industry has handed out its version of the Oscars at the Bollywood Movie Awards, which saw a veteran director take top honours and a US actor best known for Baywatch named international star of the year. Dancers in shimmering costumes, Indian beauties in saris and sultry heartthrobs sporting long black coats crowded the Taj Mahal for the occasion. The Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, that is. The event was held in the US East Coast gambling resort as part of Bollywood's bid to be a global force in cinema. It was a fitting backdrop for a show that mixed the glitz of a major movie industry with the retro feel of variety-show dance numbers, the likes of which were long ago excised from the Oscars. An audience composed largely of Americans of Indian origin cheered as veteran Yash Chopra was named best director for his film Veer- Zaara, which also picked up the award for best film and best actor for its star Shahrukh Khan. Rani Mukherjee, one of the few major divas to take the stage, won the best actress award for her role in Hum Tum. The winner is the Spielberg of India ... Yash Chopra, said former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff as he presented the award for best film, referring to star US director Steven Spielberg. Bollywood has a reputation for colorful kitsch - melodramatic plots, young lovers battling cruel fate, wicked villains and sentimental, but chaste, song-and-dance routines. Whether it's comedy or romance or action, films should touch your heart, Chopra said, explaining the appeal of his films and the genre, which despite efforts to expand its audience has so far made few inroads into the US market. Big Cheers For Baywatch Star Though an array of stars including former Miss India Lara Dutta entertained the crowd, Hasselhoff provoked some of the night's biggest cheers when he picked up his statuette. The Bollywood awards - which resemble a slim-line Oscar holding what could be a torch or a bunch of flowers - are chosen according to a popular vote by fans. Baywatch and Knight Rider, in which Hasselhoff co-starred with a car named Kit, may raise sniggers from highbrow critics at home but they are still going strong in India, and the actor said he had much in common with the escapism of Bollywood. I'm proud of shows like Baywatch and Knight Rider because it's about saving lives, not taking lives, he told Reuters. It's entertainment, it's tongue in cheek, it brings the world together, he said, adding that the entertainment industry was a powerful force for good in the world. I think it's responsible for a lot of world peace, Hasselhoff said, adding that he was hoping to work in India soon on a project based on a series of romantic novels. I never knew exactly how to get there. Now I've got this (award) it's like my key to India, he said. Bollywood churns out around 1,000 movies a year. But despite a fan base that extends to the Middle East and Europe, few films make money. But Shammi Kapoor, who was given a lifetime achievement award, said better technology and funding were leading to more and more better films. They're getting to be more topical, he added. They aren't the happy happy movies of yesteryear. Bollywood still has comic heroes and dastardly villains, however, and the
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Wormholes unlikely to allow time travel
Title: Message Don't despair. If God had consulted "experts", the universe would never have been created. I can see the reports now: "Can't be done, Oh Most High!"..."How you gonna make something out of nothing, Supreme One?""Our research shows a 78 percent probability that any attempt to create a self-sustaining cosmos would result in disaster". You go right on what whatever your mind can create. In a few millennia it just may come true... -Original Message-From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly WrightSent: Monday, May 23, 2005 21:43To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSubject: [scifinoir2] Re: Wormholes unlikely to allow time travelI am somewhat disappointed to read this as I love the notion of wormholes. While I have never used the premise of time travel through wormholes, I have woven a system of natural wormholes into the mythology of my World Ebon. These invisible wormholes, which I call pulse points, are used by adepts as a means of teleportation.~rave!--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Wodehouse" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Sciencearticle=UPI-1-20050523-18392800-bc-wormholes.xml Wormholes unlikely to allow time travel LONDON, May 23 (UPI) - Researchers say the idea of using "wormholes" to travel from one place in the galaxy to another is a "Star Trek" idea whose time may never come. A study by University of Oregon researchers shows a wormhole that would be capable of transporting someone would be fundamentally unstable, the BBC reported Monday. "We aren't saying you can't build a wormhole," said researcher Stephen Hsu. "But the ones you would like to build - the predictable ones where you can say, 'Mr. Spock will land in New York at 2 p.m. on this day' - those look like they will fall apart." A study by the University of York and Central Connecticut State University says even if it were possible to keep a wormhole's throat open with so-called exotic matter, the throat still would be too small for time travel. Cambridge astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has argued since the 1980s that fundamental laws of physics would prevent wormholes from being used for time travel. Copyright 2005 by United Press International. All Rights Reserved. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Fw: Scientists Warn Against Weaponizing Space
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Weaponizing space is as insane as nuclear arms! http://www.space.com/news/ap_050520_space_weapons.htmlScientists Warn Against Weaponizing SpaceBy Nick WadhamsAssociated Pressposted: 20 May 2005UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A scientists' group on Thursday warned the UnitedStates against weaponizing space, saying the move would be prohibitivelyexpensive and could set off a new arms race.The Union of Concerned Scientists, a watchdog group that opposes weaponsin space, said the United Nations should consider drafting a treaty thatwould prohibit interfering with unarmed satellites, taking away anyjustification for putting weapons in space to protect them."The United States has a huge lead in the space field - it can afford totry out the multilateral approach,'' said Jonathan Dean, a former U.S.ambassador and an adviser on global security issues.The Union's demand comes as the administration of President Bush isreviewing the U.S. space policy doctrine. Some scientists worry that thereview will set out a more aggressive policy that could lead to thegreater militarization of space.On Wednesday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters thatthe policy review was not considering the weaponization of space. But hesaid new threats to U.S. satellites have emerged in the years since theU.S. space doctrine was last reviewed in 1996, and those satellites mustbe protected."There are changes that have occurred over the last eight or nine years,and there are countries that have taken an interest in space, McClellansaid. "And they have looked at things that could - or technologies thatcould - threaten our space systems. And so you obviously need to take thatinto account when you're updating the policy.''The Bush administration has also included some money in the budget forspace-based weapons programs to defend satellites, strike ground targetsand defend against missile attacks, said Laura Grego, a scientist with theunion.Any complete weapons system in space would be very expensive, running intothe many billions of dollars. Developing a shield to defend against asingle missile attack would require deploying 1,000 space-basedinterceptors and cost anywhere between $20 billion and $100 billion, saidDavid Wright, a union scientists and co-author of a recent report on thefeasibility of space weapons.And such a system would require a huge expansion of U.S. launchingcapability. The United States currently launches between 10-12 largerockets a year, while with space interceptors, it would need to launchmany times more that each year.Wright argued that space-based ground attack systems were not yetpractical either. One, dubbed "Rods from God'' - which would fire rods oftungsten from space - would cost 50-100 times as much as a similar attackfrom the ground."The fact that it's still being considered I think suggests that there'ssome sort of emotional attachment to it for putting weapons in spacerather than a hard-nosed analysis,'' Wright said.Any such move would also likely draw swift international condemnation. In2002, after the United States withdrew from the 1972 Anti-BallisticMissile Treaty, China and Russia submitted a proposal for a newinternational treaty to ban weapons in outer space.But the United States has said it sees no need for any new space armscontrol agreements. It is party to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, whichprohibits stationing weapons of mass destruction in space. Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
