[silk] Oil prices a bigger short-term threat to business than climate change

2007-10-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
In other words, duh. I especially love the bit in the end from the oil industry shill: However Eugene Whyms, Finance Director of oil and gas explorer EnCore Oil (EO.L: Quote, Profile, Research), said he did not think either issue was of much concern. The threat from climate change -- I'm

[silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers

2007-10-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
... or doesn't. I don't normally forward /. trash along, but in my defense, I saw this link elsewhere, by which time it appears heavily /.ed. The US House Judiciary Committee recently emailed all of its potential whistleblowers information about how it was restructuring its whistleblower

Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers

2007-10-28 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 10/28/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... or doesn't. I don't normally forward /. trash along, but in my defense, I saw this link elsewhere, by which time it appears heavily /.ed. So you still read /. ? huh... Cheeni P.S. I figured that there'd surely be other comments

Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers

2007-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:23:50AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: P.S. I figured that there'd surely be other comments about the news worthy parts of Suresh's message, but reading /. is well interesting. I thought not too many did that these days. I do occasionally (when I ocassionally pass

Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers

2007-10-28 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 10/29/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I used to live on reddit, but it's gone all to shit in hyperexponential time. They now even killed my.reddit.com, and recommended is full of crap as ever. I can't believe we

Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers

2007-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:43:32AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: I stopped reading reddit when they decided they were too grown up for nsfw.reddit.com I wouldn't really care for a NSFW reddit (both because it's boring, and because I have no problems to view anything I want at my work, but

Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers

2007-10-28 Thread Madhu M. Kurup
Hi, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: On 10/28/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... or doesn't. I don't normally forward /. trash along, but in my defense, I saw this link elsewhere, by which time it appears heavily /.ed. So you still read /. ? huh... Still do. Also read

[silk] the days the routers died

2007-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 Har-di-har-har. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779

Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR

2007-10-28 Thread Charles Haynes
On 10/27/07, Jeff Bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Didn't know that they were the US Military's contribution to English... A bit OT, but --- mil jargon is fun: I knew that SNAFU and FUBAR came from the military, since I learned them from my

Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR

2007-10-28 Thread shiv sastry
I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F in SNAFU is not fckued as suggested, but fouled shiv On Monday 29 Oct 2007 5:07 am, Charles Haynes wrote: On 10/27/07, Jeff Bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Didn't

Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR

2007-10-28 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On 29/10/2007, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F in SNAFU is not fckued as suggested, but fouled On a tangent, I don't really understand the need to spell fuck fcuk. If you are going to use it, you (a general

Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR

2007-10-28 Thread Charles Haynes
On 10/29/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F in SNAFU is not fckued as suggested, but fouled That what they would tell civilians sometimes, but trust me - they Navy guys did not use fouled. -- Charles

Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR

2007-10-28 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On 29/10/2007, Madhu M. Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm: I suspect that it is a well intentioned effort to avoid over zealous spam filters from consuming the message[1]. Cheerio, M [1] will this make its way through? :) Not just on email. On blogs, on orkut profiles, on places where