Re: [scifinoir2] NYTimes.com: When Pigs Wi-Fi
Hmmm...do I detect the plot of a short story or book you're crafting? -- Original message -- Maybe we might have to wait until 2045 after a war with South America... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There's an interesting editiorial in PC Magazine about this. Evidently the big carriers such as Verizon were upset by Philly's attempt to create free wireless for everyone. They lobbied the state congress, which passed a law that gives telecom companies the right to build competing systems. Somehow the law, which was hurredly signed by the governor of Pennsylvania, gives the advantage to Verizon. So basically there won't necessarily be the trully free wifi in Philly that was envisioned. Maybe that's changed, but this was the situation as of just a few weeks ago. It's something to watch, as wireless is an area that's rife with possibilites of free and cheap access, and I can see the big companies trying to squash that, the same way they've screwed us for years by preventing cable boxes from being standardized and sold in stores. Instead we get reamed having to pay rentals for tech that any Circuit City should be able to sell for a one-time charge. -- Original message -- This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking forward to the next big media tech development. OPINION | August 7, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: When Pigs Wi-Fi By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF If the first step was to get Americans wired, the next step is to make them wireless. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/opinion/07kristof.html?ex=1124078400en=ab2bd0a4499e9466ei=5070emc=eta1 -- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NYTimes.com 500 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12he615em/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123774157/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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: A Hip Hop Clothing Store Called 'Nigger'
Wow! Thanks for forwarding this. Yeah, we are all to blame. I think back to all of the Richard Pryor comedy and how many times I laughed at how he used the N word. George --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Tracey de Morsella \(formerly Tracey L. Minor\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from David Sylvester's Website Contribute2 via Kalamu's E-drum Nigger Store http://www.divinecipher.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=62 A Hip Hop Clothing Store Called 'Nigger' My name is David Sylvester and I recently completed a charitable bicycle trip in Africa, riding over 7000 miles from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa. The trip made me the first and only African American to cross two continents on a bicycle. I have plenty of great and fascinating stories. snip Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hs09550/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123778005/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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: Alternate Theory of Intelligent Design
Thanks for posting this. It is excellent. A good friend of mine (a female electrical engineer) summed up the situation well, Just as long as a person knows the difference between faith and scientific method and that religion (faith) and science address completely different sets of issues, you can be a person of faith and still appreciate the facts that science demonstrates. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, brent wodehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.venganza.org/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hqj95us/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123778162/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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/
Re: [scifinoir2] NYTimes.com: When Pigs Wi-Fi
That is the basis of most of my short stories called 'The Side Street Chronicles'. I would love to introduce new writers ideas into it one day... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hmmm...do I detect the plot of a short story or book you're crafting? -- Original message -- Maybe we might have to wait until 2045 after a war with South America... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:There's an interesting editiorial in PC Magazine about this. Evidently the big carriers such as Verizon were upset by Philly's attempt to create free wireless for everyone. They lobbied the state congress, which passed a law that gives telecom companies the right to build competing systems. Somehow the law, which was hurredly signed by the governor of Pennsylvania, gives the advantage to Verizon. So basically there won't necessarily be the trully free wifi in Philly that was envisioned. Maybe that's changed, but this was the situation as of just a few weeks ago. It's something to watch, as wireless is an area that's rife with possibilites of free and cheap access, and I can see the big companies trying to squash that, the same way they've screwed us for years by preventing cable boxes from being standardized and sold in stores. Instead we get reamed having to pay rentals for tech that any Circuit City should be able to sell for a one-time charge. -- Original message -- This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking forward to the next big media tech development. OPINION | August 7, 2005 Op-Ed Columnist: When Pigs Wi-Fi By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF If the first step was to get Americans wired, the next step is to make them wireless. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/opinion/07kristof.html?ex=1124078400en=ab2bd0a4499e9466ei=5070emc=eta1 -- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NYTimes.com 500 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group scifinoir2 on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. - __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h0cbpjm/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123781801/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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: Cosmic rays may prevent long-haul space travel
What do ya mean? This could be a boom for us older folks! Read: This is enough to give 10% of men and 17% of women aged between 25 and 34 lethal cancers later in their lives, it concludes. The risks are much higher than the 3% maximum recommended for astronauts... The risks are smaller for older people because cancers have less time to develop. So maybe the first long-mission astronauts will be us older folks, who have already had kids? George --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Amy Harlib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is really depressing! http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn7753 Cosmic rays may prevent long-haul space travel 15:01 01 August 2005 NewScientist.com news service Rob Edwards The radiation encountered on a journey to Mars and back could well kill space travellers, experts have warned. Astronauts would be bombarded by so much cosmic radiation that one in 10 of them could die from cancer. The crew of any mission to Mars would also suffer increased risks of eye cataracts, loss of fertility and genetic defects in their children, according to a study by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Cosmic rays, which come from outer space and solar flares, are now regarded as a potential limiting factor for space travel. I do not see how the problem of this hostile radiation environment can be easily overcome in the future, says Keran O'Brien, a space physicist from Northern Arizona University, US. A massive spacecraft built on the moon might possibly be constructed so that the shielding would reduce the radiation hazard, he told New Scientist. But even so he reckons that humans will be unable to travel more than 75 million kilometres (47 million miles) on a space mission - about half the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This allowance might get them to Mars or Venus, but not to Jupiter or Saturn. Risky business Helped by O'Brien, the FAA's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute in Oklahoma City investigated the radiation doses likely to be received by people on a 2.7-year return trip to Mars, including a stay of more than a year on the planet. The study estimated that individual doses would end up being very high, at 2.26 sieverts. This is enough to give 10% of men and 17% of women aged between 25 and 34 lethal cancers later in their lives, it concludes. The risks are much higher than the 3% maximum recommended for astronauts throughout their careers by the US National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. The risks are smaller for older people because cancers have less time to develop. But women are always in more danger than men because they live longer and are more susceptible to breast and ovarian cancers. The study warns that cosmic rays would also increase the risk of cataracts clouding the eyes. Furthermore, men exposed to a solar flare might suffer a temporary reduction in fertility, and the chances that any children conceived by travellers to Mars will have genetic defects are put at around 1%. snip Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hcbj72m/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123799191/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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] Today on the World Ebon
Lisimba 20, 10031 Believing himself divinely inspired, visionary Nat Turner will found the band Southampton Insurrection. He will be best known for the song Sixteen Hanged from the band's debut album Chosen by God. His voice and charisma will turn the raid sound into an international rage. __ The Black Prince. The Black Church. A State of Mind. http://www.theworldebon.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12htddi75/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123828013/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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] Was Clone Movie Cloned from Another Clone Movie?
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-08-11/#2 The producers of the 1976 independent movie The Clonus Horror have filed suit against DreamWorks and Warner Bros., claiming that the plot of their film, about a colony of clones kept on an island as spare parts for ailing rich people was cloned for the recent flop The Island. The Clonus producers claim that there are 90 instances in which the two films are identical. Indeed Premiere magazine recently wrote, The first hour of The Island plays like a much more expensive albeit scene-for-scene remake. The Clonus team, producer Myrl A. Schreibman, director Robert S. Fiveson, and screenwriters Bob Sullivan and Ron Smith, are asking for unspecified damages. DreamWorks issued a statement saying, The Island was independently created and does not infringe anyone's copyrights. Tracey deMorsella, Managing Producer Convergence Media, Inc. Home of The Multicultural Advantage Phone: 215-849-0946 E-mail: tdemorsella @multiculturaladvantage.com http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.5/67 - Release Date: 8/9/2005 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12h4dsn80/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705034827:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123829291/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOOcmpgn=GRPRTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/;What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good/a./font ~- 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/
