On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:56:14AM -0600, The Fool wrote:
> And yet most fractals including the mandelbrot set and electricity,
> rely on the 'square root of -1', in fact i is very necessary for
> electrical engineers.
No, it is not necessary. But it is often expedient.
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--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20021101faessay9993-p0/barry-rubin/the-real-roots-of-arab-anti-americanism.html
"...The overall tally, in fact, is staggering: during
the last half-century, in 11 of 12 major conflicts
between Muslims and non-Muslims, Muslims
> From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Logic question: if an answer to a question relies on
> > changing a principal axiom of the Universe, is the
> > answer then irrational (or otherwise invalid)?
Is the answer arrived at logically from
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[I wrote:]
> > Partly because I find open conflict
> very
> > difficult - and disturbing - to deal with. [Duh.]
>
> As you can guess, I'm far different than that. I
> cannot stand papering
> over a problem, the dynamics of denial, etc. I've
> seen
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20021101faessay9993-p0/barry-rubin/the-real-
roots-of-arab-anti-americanism.html
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--- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Logic question: if an answer to a question relies on
> changing a principal axiom of the Universe, is the
> answer then irrational (or otherwise invalid)?
My grasp of formal logic is tentative at best, but I
never understood why one should propose
> After nearly 18 years of appeals up through the courts, the Supreme Court
> of Canada today decided, in a 5-4 split, that a higher life form is not
> patentable because it is not a "manufacture" or "composition of matter"
> within the meaning of "invention" in the Patent Act. Harvard had been
> t
--- Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does a truly democratic society need police, or is
> there some other, better
> way to handle disruptive behavior and those who
> behave disruptively?
In a large open society, I think police will always be
necessary because there will always be a
Nick Arnett wrote:
> This should explain:
> http://www.mccmedia.com/pipermail/brin-l/Week-of-Mon-20021118/004507.html
It did, sadly enough. Thank you for the reply.
All those personal attacks had to stop. I see now why you started moderating
him.
Let's hope he sees it soon.
> But there are re
A 2-fer response
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From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Admin: Server Access Blocked
>
> However little 'our' pond is, though, what goes on in
> it is important to 'us' (else why wo
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:37:46PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> p.s. I have PMS -- how's *that* for a disclaimer?
A more practical disclaimer than most that I've read...
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Deborah Harrell wrote:
> Partly because I find open conflict very
> difficult - and disturbing - to deal with. [Duh.]
Me too. In the chat yesterday, I promised to write an email
that would at least *attempt* to smooth things over. I've
been working on it all day, and I'm still not satisified
w
--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> K. Feete wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's just that between school and bad work
> habits coming back on
> > me and a truly incredible streak of bad luck I'm
> closer to a nervous
> > breakdown than I've ever been,
>
> Interesting preface for someone who goes on
Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:44:40PM -0500, K. Feete wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's just that between school and bad work habits coming back on
> > me and a truly incredible streak of bad luck I'm closer to a nervous
> > breakdown than I've ever been,
>
> Interesting preface for so
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:44:40PM -0500, K. Feete wrote:
> Maybe it's just that between school and bad work habits coming back on
> me and a truly incredible streak of bad luck I'm closer to a nervous
> breakdown than I've ever been,
Interesting preface for someone who goes on to offer advice...
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Erik Reuter wrote:
> How can you take a film originally shot in 2D and show it in 3D? For 3D,
> you need a parallax view of some sort, two cameras or a special camera.
>
> Marvin, you'll have to go and report back. You have your assignment...
Not that I'm averse to the assign
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:30:01PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
> Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> >How can you take a film originally shot in 2D and show it in 3D? For 3D,
> >you need a parallax view of some sort, two cameras or a special camera.
> >
> I have a very vague recollection about some of these
--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=26483
>
> True believers are incapable or coming to correct
> logical conclusions.
Kneem, you keep insisting on equating fundamentalists
with "all believers" - that is not logical! ;)
Imaginary Numbers
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>I begin to understand why Jeroen was singled-out to
>be the victim-of-the-day. Some reasons are obvious:
>he *was* a listowner, so our meme of challenge
>authority took control. Others are subtle.
>
>And his behaviour in the past days, with mailbombing,
>lawsuits, a
--- Russell Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quote:Wal-Mart is now the world's biggest
> corporation, having passed
> ExxonMobil for the top slot...
> Setting aside for a moment all the issues raised by
> this report, it
> makes one wonder a bit about the future. Will
> government at some
Erik Reuter wrote:
How can you take a film originally shot in 2D and show it in 3D? For 3D,
you need a parallax view of some sort, two cameras or a special camera.
I have a very vague recollection about some of these being done in 3-D
using red-blue separation. At one point in the 70s it was c
--- "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 'Trek' boldly beams down
>
> LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Watch out for Klingons
> on the starboard bow --
> the Starship Enterprise is landing in London's Hyde
> Park.
>
> Fans of the cult science fiction saga will be in
> seventh heaven with
--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Arnett wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/04/coolsc.coolsc.mousegenome/
> > >
> > > When it comes to DNA, it turns out there's not
> that much difference between mice and men.
> > > Mice and humans each have about 30,000 genes,
> yet o
At 11:51 PM 12/5/02 +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
So that brings us on to the toilet. It has to be installed into more or less
the space where the old toilet was, only now it is a hanging toilet
I'm not sure what you mean by a "hanging toilet" . . . can you amplify?
that is
pla
At 08:13 PM 12/5/02 +0100, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 08:46 05-12-2002 -0800, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
Nick, I think, has de facto authority over the list,
due to the fact that he is providing the hosting, and
it's on his equipment, with software he owns.
That does not give him authority over the
At 11:12 AM 12/5/02 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Miller, Jeffrey
...
> Police have important social roles as well as law-enforcement. I
> was pleasently surprised this morning to see a motorcycle cop
>
--- "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> The metric system wrong? That is heresy, heresy I
> tell ya!
>
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/alder.measure/index.html
>
> There is a message of hope near the end of the
> article, though:
>
> "Eventually, he says, Americans wil
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From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:05 PM
Subject: RE: Admin: Server access blocked
> > Speaking of childish, isn't doing more than tit-for-tat (i.e., rejecting
> > each one back to him just once) childish
--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Kneem wrote]
>http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s734326.htm
> >
> Nuts lower diabetes risk, not fattening
> Thursday, 28 November 2002
> Nuts can dramatically reduce your risks of
> developing type 2 diabetes
>
> Eating nuts substantially lower
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:27:03 -0500
To: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Jason Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Harvard can't patent mice in Canada
Declan,
After nearly 18 years of appeals up through the courts, the Supreme Court
of Canada today decided, in a 5-4 split, that a high
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:05:27PM -0600, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
> requisite gritty wah-wah guitar licks 100% LIVE IN THE THEATER! And
> if that weren't enough, our very first feature of this series is
> also in 3-D! That's right, 3-D!, and the third- dimension has never
> been so amply filled
Kevin Street wrote:
> Okay, what the hell is going on? For various reasons, I
> haven't been reading Brin-L much lately, but today I came
> back and scanned through the messages, only to find that
> Jeroen has become some kind of Typhoid Mary who has to be
> censored from the list for its own prot
The Fool wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3144
Eating too much refined bread and cereal, rather than chocolate and
greasy foods, may be the culprit behind the pimples that plague many a
youngster.
If it turns out that I spurned chocolate and chips (fries for you USAns)
The Fool wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3144
Eating too much refined bread and cereal, rather than chocolate and
greasy foods, may be the culprit behind the pimples that plague many a
youngster.
Very intersting. So after the connection between
diet and pimples has b
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3144
Eating too much refined bread and cereal, rather than chocolate and
greasy foods, may be the culprit behind the pimples that plague many a
youngster.
That is the theory of a team led by Loren Cordain, an evolutionary
biologist at Colorado Sta
This should explain:
http://www.mccmedia.com/pipermail/brin-l/Week-of-Mon-20021118/004507.html
But there are reasons to be hopeful that things will soon be back to
more-or-less normal.
Nick
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> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL
In a message dated 12/5/2002 3:44:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Who Will Be Our Napoleon?
>
And who will be the Beef Wellington?
William Taylor
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Oh for the younger Woody
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Okay, what the hell is going on? For various reasons, I haven't been reading
Brin-L much lately, but today I came back and scanned through the messages,
only to find that Jeroen has become some kind of Typhoid Mary who has to be
censored from the list for its own protection, or something. It isn't
My wife just called to tell me that one of our favorite people from church,
Fred Haber, died this afternoon. None of you probably know who he is, and
I'm not sure if you'll find his name in any histories of the space program,
but Fred was the launch control officer at Vandenberg and other places f
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> So lucky for us there is this very nice new stuff on the market with very
> nice rubber fittings that make it possible for any laymen to puzzle a
> suitable and airtight PVC pipeform together without having to glue the
> stuff. I loved doing that... I mean that
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
2) We'd like to keep the original waste pipe in place, just in case we'd
have to move and they are demanding restoring the old situation.
Um - are you leasing/renting this place? I'd always assumed from the
sheer amount of hard work (not mentioning expense) th
In a message dated 12/5/2002 1:50:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Punch, the 161-year-old satirical magazine that closed down earlier this
> year, is being reborn on the Web.
Ah, memories. I used to have 20 bound volumes of it. One being a Volume
Twenty with 3/4 of
> Speaking of childish, isn't doing more than tit-for-tat (i.e., rejecting
> each one back to him just once) childish? :) Wouldn't it be a lot more
> effective to set up some sort of system that just bounces everything he
> sends you back to him, so you never have to worry about it after setting
>From our local independent movie theater, this ad is too good not to
share...
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:35:55 -0600
Subject: Alamo Drafthouse Showtimes and events 12/06/02
[snip]
SWINGING STAG NIGHT!
vintage 70's stag films - live sound effects!
DISCO DO
Russell Chapman wrote:
> Russell Chapman wrote:
>
> >> Sonja
> >> GCU smileys are our friends
> >>
> > And that's the best news I've heard all day... I'd hate to miss out on
> > your next plumbing adventure. I'm waiting to hear that having sorted
> > out the water supply, the drains are all broken
Debbi said:
> I just got TEN of these in a row - what is going on?
Some might view it as a mailing list equivalent of the French
Revolution. Others may well consider it escalating childishness.
Rich
GCU Who Will Be Our Napoleon?
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--- "Adam C. Lipscomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
I just got TEN of these in a row - what is going on?
I realize that
I wrote:
> That should be "lose," of course. Darn that Nyarlathotep.
Erik replied:
Darn that WHAT? I can't find it in my dictionary. Maybe I'm missing a
play on words?
Nyarlathotep is one of the "elder gods," along with
Cthulhu and others, in the stories of H. P. Lovecraft.
In a message wit
In a message dated 12/5/2002 11:36:54 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>
> > Every analogy is flawed
>
> All generalities are false. :-)
>
All generals who flaunt their falsies are anal. [Gee.]
William Taylor
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Logic server blocked.
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"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
>
> Please accept my apologies for this - I have started sending at least
> 5 replies to Jeroen for every spam I get, and he has apparently,
> through a simple (and childish) trick, ensured they come to the list
> as a whole.
Speaking of childish, isn't doing more than t
> From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >But what about attempts to hack the server?
>
> That is something that happened *only* because Arnett
> willingly violated
> list policy again, so he has no right to take any action
> against me anyway.
Isn't that a bit like saying tha
Erik Reuter wrote:
> I wouldn't mind having a *prehensile* tail. A useless drooping one
> wouldn't be so useful, though.
It could be the newest fashion statement however. Comparing ta ... oops ... ah
well. Let's not go there.
Sonja
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> -Original Message-
> From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Ouch! (was RE: Open question to the list)
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> You are a very evil person...
I try, thank you.
[blinks innocently]
> My point is that it's not fair to ban Jeroen without
> the consent about the list rules. We didn't agree to
> what would be the list rules, and which was the minimum
> set of
Is available online at:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/the_two_towers-teaser/
It's even available for download, although you need apple Quicktime to
play it. :-)
Jon
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"Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
> Please accept my apologies for this - I have started sending at least
> 5 replies to Jeroen for every spam I get, and he has apparently,
> through a simple (and childish) trick, ensured they come to the list
> as a whole.
I don't think it was intended as a trick. And
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
> > That should be "lose," of course. Darn that Nyarlathotep.
Erik Reuter wrote:
> Darn that WHAT? I can't find it in my dictionary. Maybe
> I'm missing a play on words?
Nyarlathotep was the name of a chaotic god-like character
f
Erik wondered:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Reggie >
Bautista wrote:
> > That should be "lose," of course. Darn that
> > Nyarlathotep.
> Darn that WHAT? I can't find it in my dictionary.
> Maybe I'm missing a play on words?
http://www.deliverance.mcmail.com/lovecraft/nyarl
> -Original Message-
> From: Erik Reuter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
> > That should be "lose," of cour
> -Original Message-
> From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:32 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
>
>
> >From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
> >Date: Thu,
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
> That should be "lose," of course. Darn that Nyarlathotep.
Darn that WHAT? I can't find it in my dictionary. Maybe I'm missing a
play on words?
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From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:52:47 -0600
- Original Message -
From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
> Dan Minette wro
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Miller, Jeffrey
...
> Police have important social roles as well as law-enforcement. I
> was pleasently surprised this morning to see a motorcycle cop
> helping a man to change a tire on I-5 (instead
> -Original Message-
> From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 08:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Open question to the list
>
>
> Nick wrote:
> >I'm always open to suggestions on how to make
> >the difficult trade-off between list g
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> Dan Minette wrote:
> >
> >> Why was he suspended in the first place? AFAIK,
> >> it was for some reason that *did* have a precedent
> >> before, from other people.
> >
> > Who else has repeatedly posted offline email in its entireity?
> >
> Jeroen.
>
> And wtf does the
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if we need to set up a three or five
> person committee (perhaps with rotating membership) to
> deal with stuff like this. Either elected or
> volunteer membership would do, but I'd nominate
> Alberto for sure.
>
Takeover Plan Part Three - comp
- Original Message -
From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: analogies are evil, why they must be eradicated
> Every analogy is flawed
All generalities are false. :-)
Dan M.
Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
>> If there's no law against drinking alchool, then
>> there's no law against getting drunk
>
> This is a flawed analogy.
>
Every analogy is flawed
Alberto Monteiro
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Logic question: if an answer to a question relies on changing a principal axiom of the
Universe, is the answer then irrational (or otherwise invalid)?
-j-
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In a message dated 12/5/2002 9:16:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Subj: Re: Toilets! Re: DIY bathroom troubles, Re: Fwd: Religion, thegood side
> Date: 12/5/2002 9:16:40 AM Eastern Standard Time
> From: Ronn! Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PRO
Bill Nash wrote:
Battery powered, multi-channel FM transmitters (Radio Shack, ~$20) Battery
powered portable FM sport radio (yellow) in compact headset style, or
wristband belt clip. (Radio Shack, ~$20).
Going low tech because high tech is overkill: Priceless.
DOH! Why didn't I think of this!
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro
...
>
> My point is that it's not fair to ban Jeroen without
> the consent about the list rules. We didn't agree to
> what would be the list rules, and which was the minimum
> set of
on 5/12/02 4:14 pm, Reggie Bautista at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does a truly democratic society need police, or is there some other, better
> way to handle disruptive behavior and those who behave disruptively?
Slap drone them.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wtgab.demon.c
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From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
> Dan Minette wrote:
> >
> >> Why was he suspended in the first place? AFAIK,
> >> it was for some reason that *d
I wrote:
If I make a really big mistake and
cause a customer to loose several thousand dollars
worth of business, I could get seriously reprimanded
or possibly even fired.
That should be "lose," of course. Darn that Nyarlathotep.
This, by the way, would count as a really small mistake. :-)
M
Battery powered, multi-channel FM transmitters (Radio Shack, ~$20) Battery
powered portable FM sport radio (yellow) in compact headset style, or
wristband belt clip. (Radio Shack, ~$20).
Going low tech because high tech is overkill: Priceless.
- billn
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Trent Shipley wrote:
>
Sorry, I meant to include this in my previous email
but it got deleted somehow.
Alberto wrote:
Jeroen's behavious was no different than any other
listmember, except for magnitude or intensity.
But magnitude and intensity make all the difference.
Many U.S. cities have noise ordinances. With so
Alberto wrote:
> Jeroen's behavious was no different than any other
> listmember, except for magnitude or intensity.
> If there's no law against drinking alchool, then
> there's no law against getting drunk
That's true, but, at least in the US, there are laws
against being drunk & disorderly i
Alberto wrote:
If there's no law against drinking alchool, then
there's no law against getting drunk
This is a flawed analogy.
In the U.S. at least, there's no law against drinking
alcohol, and no law against getting drunk, but there
are laws against driving while drunk and many
jurisdictions ha
Dan Minette wrote:
>
>> Why was he suspended in the first place? AFAIK,
>> it was for some reason that *did* have a precedent
>> before, from other people.
>
> Who else has repeatedly posted offline email in its entireity?
>
Jeroen.
And wtf does the list have to worry about something th
Dan Minette wrote:
> > PS - Apologies for all those repeated messages guys. My
> Outlook seems to
> > be acing up.
>
> If it were just acing up, we'd only get one message. I'd
> argue that it was
> treying up. :-)
:P
Ritu
GCU Acting Up
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- Original Message -
From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Admin: Server access blocked
> Reggie Bautista wrote:
> >
> >> And his behaviour in the past days, with mailbombing,
> >> lawsuits, and forged
This week, User Friendly (a great on-line comic strip) has had Cthulhu
responding to the "Nigerian 419 Scam." It's pretty funny.
The first strip is at
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20021202
and just click "next cartoon" for all of the subsequent ones.
Reggie Bautista
Let's hope Nyarl
Ritu Ko wrote:
>
> PS - Apologies for all those repeated messages guys.
> My Outlook seems to be acing up.
>
No problem. The server will block any repeated message.
Or not? O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
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Reggie wrote:
> I'd like to pose an open question to the list. I'm
> interested in responses that apply to governance in
> general, and also specifically to our current
> situation re: Jeroen.
*snip*
> Does a truly democratic society need police, or is
> there some other, better way to h
Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
>> And his behaviour in the past days, with mailbombing,
>> lawsuits, and forged headers, make him a very
>> tasty target! Who's better to be harassed as someone
>> who screams and shouts?
>
> So you don't think there should be consequences for
> his actions?
>
Y
- Original Message -
From: "Ritu Ko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: RE: Admin: Server access blocked
> PS - Apologies for all those repeated messages guys. My Outlook seems to
> be acing up.
If it were just acing up, we'd o
Dan Minette wrote:
> 2) You could start a good discussion with that 100k exposition on the
> morality of pacifism that you've been owning me. .
And which one would that be?
All I can see in my drafts folder is an unfinished 11k mail on a war
that looks nigh inevitable. :)
And since it took
Nick wrote:
I'm always open to suggestions on how to make
the difficult trade-off between list governance and free-ranging
discussion,
self-determination as a group, etc.
First, let me state on-list as I did privately in an email to Nick and Julia
that I support their decision.
In response to
Alberto wrote:
My point is that it's not fair to ban Jeroen without
the consent about the list rules. We didn't agree to
what would be the list rules, and which was the minimum
set of restraint that listmembers should show before
being suspended
And even 40 messages per day can't be considered
m
Richard Baker wrote:
My worst case scenario involves giant asteroids, gamma ray bursts,
all-out nuclear exchanges, plague, famine, brain-eating zombie
infestations, leaves on the line, and Steps reforming.
Have you been hacking into my home pc and reading my new novel? :-)
Reggie Bautista
GSV N
On Thursday 05 December 2002 04:01 am, The Fool wrote:
> Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even
consistent
> rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level
> above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to
> know about rainfall,
Alberto wrote:
I begin to understand why Jeroen was singled-out to
be the victim-of-the-day. Some reasons are obvious:
he *was* a listowner, so our meme of challenge
authority took control. Others are subtle.
And his behaviour in the past days, with mailbombing,
lawsuits, and forged headers, make
Trent Shipley wrote:
Yeah. Well that's not quite _it_.
The crucial feature is being able to *group* the receiver appliances into
groups.
Russell Chapman replied:
I *think* that's what these systems do. Some hear only the backing track
(ie the filler stuff not being played by anyone on stage
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From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:58 AM
Subject: RE: meeces
> In talking about humans with prehensile tails, Marvin wrote:
>
> >To hell with fashion. Porn!
>
> Kinda brings a whole new meaning to
In talking about humans with prehensile tails, Marvin wrote:
To hell with fashion. Porn!
Kinda brings a whole new meaning to "getting some tail..."
Reggie Bautista
Ducking very quickly Maru
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"Marvin Long, Jr." wrote:
>
>> PS: I am _also_ a meme-stereotype. If everybody is
>> against Jeroen, then I must stand to be the Defender
>> of the Lost Cause :-)
>
> Does that mean you don't actually disagree with
> Nick's decision, but are only protesting pro forma
> in your role as
unsubscribe jeroen-l
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- Original Message -
From: "Ritu Ko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:37 AM
Subject: RE: Admin: Server access blocked
>
> Rich wrote:
>
> > unsubscribe jeroen-l
>
> Me too.
>
Two comments on this:
1) Why doesn't Jerone start up his own ver
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