RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > On 14 Jan 2003 at 23:45, Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > It hasn't been that long since the late gr

P.A.

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=37231 Converts To Christianity In Fear Of Death From P.A. Two brothers, former residents of the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas who converted from Islam to Christianity, are now in Israel. They have thus found refuge from possible "death senten

Re: Paul Harvey story: Autonomous Navigation

2003-01-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/14/2003 10:52:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ahh. The trick IME is to know where online to advertise. I've had > some fantastic bidding wars on rare and signed scifi books I've sold > on ebay. One book I bought for 50p at a second hand stall

Re: Paul Harvey story: Autonomous Navigation

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 15 Jan 2003 at 0:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/14/2003 9:01:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Published at $185.00, sold at $58, my cash value to purchase $6. > > > > > > [Wish I could do that more often.] > > > > Ebay! > > > >

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 23:45, Jon Gabriel wrote: > It hasn't been that long since the late great unpleasantness and the > list has once again started debating abortion. Perhaps I'm a little > jittery. *snorts* WHICH late great unpleasantness? There have been three in my memory. Lemmie make it clear

Re: Paul Harvey story: Autonomous Navigation

2003-01-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/14/2003 9:01:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Published at $185.00, sold at $58, my cash value to purchase $6. > > > > [Wish I could do that more often.] > > Ebay! > > Andy > Dawn Falcon Wrong. Amazon.com is best for technical books

Re: Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Trent Shipley
On Tuesday 2003-01-14 21:31, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Jon Gabriel wrote > > >I would think that would depend on whether or not the Kiqui go well > >with saffron flavored rice and Episiarch gravy... > >They're not recognized sapients, after all, so they might just be > >good eatin'. > > I bet they can p

anthrax

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030114-104448-1119r ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Nick Arnett > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf O

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 10:04 PM 1/13/2003 -0800 Deborah Harrell wrote: > Beating, sodomizing and starving a >first-grader is not within multiple orders of >magnitude of aborting a 10-week fetus. I see that this issue is very near and dear to your heart. However, I don't believe that the presence of one problem sho

RE: Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
Jon Gabriel wrote >I would think that would depend on whether or not the Kiqui go well >with saffron flavored rice and Episiarch gravy... >They're not recognized sapients, after all, so they might just be >good eatin'. I bet they can pass whatever tests are necessary for pre-sentience. They h

Re: SciFI, Origami and Brin-L

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
Sean Kane wrote: > Just saw this... > http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue299/site.html > It's the SciFi.com site of the week. This week it's Star Wars > Origami. The reviewer was "particularly taken with the Darth > Vader creation by one Eileen Tan. Who ever knew a simple sheet > of black paper cou

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 22:20, Steve Sloan II wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > True. Frex, would I advocate killing (lethal injection, > > say) a comatose stroke victim who best medical judgement > > and experience calls "essentially terminal?" No. Would I > > advise withholding nutrition and dru

RE: Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
I would think that would depend on whether or not the Kiqui go well with saffron flavored rice and Episiarch gravy... They're not recognized sapients, after all, so they might just be good eatin'. I better go eat dinner before I start contemplating what a Kiqui Dessert would taste like. Jon Ir

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
Deborah Harrell wrote: True. Frex, would I advocate killing (lethal injection, say) a comatose stroke victim who best medical judgement and experience calls "essentially terminal?" No. Would I advise withholding nutrition and drugs, except what seemed needful for comfort? Yes. If on a ventilator

Re: rfid

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 23:13, David Hobby wrote: > The Fool wrote: > > > > http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html > > > > Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even > > our cash in the future? > ... An > > MIT-affiliated standards group called the Auto-ID Center said in an >

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Nick Arnett > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 7:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of

Re: rfid

2003-01-14 Thread David Hobby
The Fool wrote: > > http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html > > Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our > cash in the future? ... An > MIT-affiliated standards group called the Auto-ID Center said in an > e-mailed statement to News.com that they have "designed a ki

A new type of brain scanner

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/brain_imaging030114.html A L B U Q U E R Q U E, N.M., Jan. 14 — The machine looks like a giant hair dryer, or perhaps something the Bride of Frankenstein might fancy. It is one of the most powerful brain-imaging devices in the world. Scientists call

Re: Paul Harvey story: Autonomous Navigation

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 18:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday, I sold my copy of: > > Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles, Autonomous Navigation Research at > Carnegie Mellon. > > Priority to southern California. > > Published at $185.00, sold at $58, my cash value to purchase $6. > > [Wish I could

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 15 Jan 2003 at 1:50, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > In the past, many cultures supported the killing of babies who had > been born. The killing was sometimes direct, but often indirect. > Rather than kill them directly, the action was to abandon the babies, > like Moses. Sometimes the babies wer

RE: rfid

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 18:45, Gary L. Nunn wrote: > > > > > I can think of a half-dozen ways to kill them right off. > > > > Andy > > Do tell. Maybe that will be the next big business. I'd need to see blueprints before I could be sure. I assume they'll be (or are) patents filed. I don't really ha

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 16:51, Deborah Harrell wrote: > As I think I mentioned before, I have friends in the > special education field who have had to get counseling > and antidepressants to cope with the abused kids they > see - and report, only to have the children repeatedly > turned back to the abus

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 22:06, Jim Sharkey wrote: > > John D. Giorgis wrote: > Damon wrote: > >>I am shocked to see that you apparently believe that women would get > >>an abortion simply because they can get it for free. > >I think that it is a basic truism that when a service becomes > >cheaper, peo

Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world' L3

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:12 PM Subject: Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world' L3 > > Wanta make a bet on what will happen? I'll Bush will at least reinstate

Re: More on North Korea

2003-01-14 Thread Bemmzim
> You must be talking about Karl Rove, Gautam.. Bush's own political acumen seems >misoverestimated ;) > > I don't think Bush should be underestimated. He is much more than Regan (more of >front if you ask me). I think Bush has superb instincts and a deep understanding of >the political process

Re: More on North Korea

2003-01-14 Thread Bemmzim
> If so then, given the fact that he has consistently > outmanuevered his opponents in contest after contest, > time after time - just how dumb are the people he's > beaten? > > It always amuses me that so many liberals, having been > defeated time and again by the most tactically adept > Administ

Speaking of due process...

2003-01-14 Thread Erik Reuter
Here's an article from last week that I wanted to discuss: Court Rules U.S. Can Hold Citizens as 'Enemy Combatants': http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/08/national/08CND-DETAIN.html I hope this goes to the Supreme Court. Here are the sections from the Constitution that I think could be relevant

Re: Scouted: The Cyborger

2003-01-14 Thread Robert Seeberger
Robert Cyborger xponent Robert Seeberger Maru rob You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
Russell Chapman wrote >Jim Sharkey wrote >>Okay. I personally think that Earthclan should grant the Kiqui to >>their Kanten allies for Uplift. Opinions? :) >If we're gonna grant favours (and a client race is a pretty big >favour), we need to be doing it with more powerful allies. Someone >wh

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Reggie Bautista ... > In some cases, if you post on a "private" service such as > Compuserve or AOL, > then you and that service share copyright, and permission for > reposts must > be given both by yo

Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world' L3

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world' L3 > O.k., let me reflect on the DPRK situation assuming that all the facts you > have presented are true. >

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
John D. Giorgis wrote: Damon wrote: >>I am shocked to see that you apparently believe that women would >>get an abortion simply because they can get it for free. >I think that it is a basic truism that when a service becomes >cheaper, people demand more of it. Indeed, if provoding the >abortio

Re: Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/14/2003 6:42:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Miller, Jeffrey wrote: > >You win. Let's talk about uplift :) > > Okay. I personally think that Earthclan should grant the Kiqui to their > Kanten allies for Uplift. Opinions? :) > Good

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
on 14/1/03 4:58 pm, Steve Sloan II at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The voyages of the Vikings, Chinese, and Amerigo Vespucci > are all very impressive, but they all *quit going* after a > while, kinda like the US and the Moon. ;-) Columbus' trip > was different, because after he arrived, European p

Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world' L3

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
O.k., let me reflect on the DPRK situation assuming that all the facts you have presented are true. Then, if Clinton struck the DPRK deal with the knowledge that the DPRK had already produced enough plutonium with which to assemble two nuclear bombs, and yet did not arrange for this plutonium to b

Re: Orson Scott Card on Korea

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 03:56 PM 1/14/2003 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >Card's not right about everything (he overstates the >importance of the China situation, imo, and >understates the extent to which the Administration >seems to have been purposely putting the North Koreans >into a corner to force them to give up th

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Erik Reuter
At 02:43 PM 1/14/2003 -0500 Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: >It seems to me that there can be no solution to this dilemma until we >can garantee that no woman has to live 9 months of pregnancy against >her will, while on the other hand preserving the unborn's life. I'd >like to see the pro-life and p

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert J. Chassell wrote: A few years ago, I look into the reported statistics of abortion. The reported statistics are not very accurate, but are interesting. Do you know what the stats are like where pregnancy is illegal? I imagine it is virtually impossible to compile statistics on abortio

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 02:43 PM 1/14/2003 -0500 Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: >It seems to me that there can be no solution to this dilemma until we >can garantee that no woman has to live 9 months of pregnancy against her >will, while on the other hand preserving the unborn's life. > >I'd like to see the pro-life and p

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 02:09 PM 1/14/2003 -0500 Damon wrote: >>I am shocked to see that you apparently believe that women would get an >>abortion simply because they can get it for free. Really John, making such a >>decision is a hell of a lot harder than that. I think that it is a basic truism that when a service be

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 10:19 AM 1/14/2003 -0500 David Hobby wrote: >Trolling again, are we? : ) Ahem. Uhhh. no.Is Doug trolling everytime he posts a criticism of George Bush? I was simply seeing if one of the numerous pro-choice denizens of this List, who frequently claim that abortion is a deeply int

Re: Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Russell Chapman
Jim Sharkey wrote: Okay. I personally think that Earthclan should grant the Kiqui to their Kanten allies for Uplift. Opinions? :) Jim If we're gonna grant favours (and a client race is a pretty big favour), we need to be doing it with more powerful allies. Someone who is going to make a b

Relgion Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 04:56 PM 1/14/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote: >It wasn't so long ago that genocide and human sacrifices was 'the will of >god'. >Judges 11:30-40: We have: Murder/human (Virgin) sacrifice, ancestor >appeasement, and this is the will of god. Ummm the book of Judges is about 5,000 years old. Is t

Re: More on North Korea

2003-01-14 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:16 PM Subject: Re: More on North Korea > At 13:18 14-01-2003 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > >This is a very good time to point out a language difference, because it

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
Jon Gabriel wrote: >This list is often sadly fascinating. Or fascinatingly sad. I can't decide which. ;-) Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ http://ww

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Robert J. Chassell
A few years ago, I look into the reported statistics of abortion. The reported statistics are not very accurate, but are interesting. Excluding the 1/3 or so of conceptions that are `aborted by God' (i.e., are still births, often not noticed by the mothers, and to say that God is omnipotient is t

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
I wrote: > Ghalad Or Galad - Etymologically 'Bright' Maru I think that should have been "Galadh Or..." Where's my Tolkien dictionary when I need it? :) Quenyanaly Challenged Maru __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up n

Uplift (was RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?)

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
Miller, Jeffrey wrote: >You win. Let's talk about uplift :) Okay. I personally think that Earthclan should grant the Kiqui to their Kanten allies for Uplift. Opinions? :) Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal o

Medical Terminology in USA (was: Re: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- "J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > over here a "miscarriage" is a premature termination > of a pregnancy that > happens spontaneously (that is, without medical > intervention), while an > "abortion" is a premature termination of a pregnancy > through medical intervention. That is correct. Albert

Re: Definition of Abortion and what is not abortion

2003-01-14 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 05:39 PM 1/14/2003 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: > >- Original Message - >From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Not quite, as the definition of where in the process life begins is the >>lynch pin of the whole damn argument. >> >>I would say that abortion is when pregnency is terminat

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Sharkey
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: >It seems to me that there can be no solution to this dilemma until >we can garantee that no woman has to live 9 months of pregnancy >against her will, while on the other hand preserving the unborn's >life. I'd like to see the pro-life and pro-choice activists pour

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Reggie Bautista
Jon wrote: > Nick, how exactly do you hold a copyright on your posts to the > list? As a > public net forum, I would think that copyrights don't apply here? Nick replied: In any Berne Convention country, an author/creator automatically has copyright in any work that is (1) original, (2) creati

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Irishman? Maddog was Welsh! > > > > If you mean "Maddoc" he was Welsh, not Irish. > > Maddog was a nickname corruption. > > Brave His Soul, I think is the name of the book > easiest to > find about him and the Welsh speaking Ind

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't plan on writing on abortion. But, this > post was so stident, I felt I had to. :( I didn't plan on writing about it either, but when an issue I see as dreadfully complex (and no happy ending) is repeatedly placed in purely Black and White te

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel ... > Nick, how exactly do you hold a copyright on your posts to the > list? As a > public net forum, I would think that copyrights don't apply here? In any Berne Convention country, an a

Re: guilty until proven innocent in Louisiana

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: guilty until proven innocent in Louisiana Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:11:55 -0600 http://www.washtimes.co

guilty until proven innocent in Louisiana

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030114-73728234.htm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:25:03 -0800 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Child abuse (was: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Deborah Harrell
I wrote: > My view on child abusers has also been outlined > previously, and is severe to the point of capital > punishment... I should, of course, have noted that there is a range of abuse; the example I mentioned is on the severest end of punishment, but there are young/inexperienced parents/c

Orson Scott Card on Korea

2003-01-14 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Card's not right about everything (he overstates the importance of the China situation, imo, and understates the extent to which the Administration seems to have been purposely putting the North Koreans into a corner to force them to give up their nuclear weapons program), but it's a pretty good an

RE: rfid

2003-01-14 Thread Gary L. Nunn
> > I can think of a half-dozen ways to kill them right off. > > Andy Do tell. Maybe that will be the next big business. Gary ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/14/2003 4:26:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Irishman? Maddog was Welsh! > > If you mean "Maddoc" he was Welsh, not Irish. Maddog was a nickname corruption. Brave His Soul, I think is the name of the book easiest to find about him and the W

Re: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:25 PM Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of J. van Baardw

Paul Harvey story: Autonomous Navigation

2003-01-14 Thread Medievalbk
Yesterday, I sold my copy of: Intelligent Unmanned Vehicles, Autonomous Navigation Research at Carnegie Mellon. Priority to southern California. Published at $185.00, sold at $58, my cash value to purchase $6. [Wish I could do that more often.] Today on Paul Harvey I caught most of a story ab

Re: Definition of Abortion and what is not abortion

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:58 PM Subject: RE: Definition of Abortion and what is not abortion > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent:

Re: Scouted: The Cyborger

2003-01-14 Thread Sean Kane
S.E.A.N. - Synthetic Electronic Assassination Neohuman K.A.N.E. - Knight Assembled for Nocturnal Exploration I hope that last name doesn't mean I'm supposed to be doing my research at night ;-) -- ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > At 19:19 10-01-2003 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > > >Anybody who h

RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 03:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America > > > In a message dated 1/14/2003 1:10:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROT

Re: SciFI, Origami and Brin-L

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
> From: Sean Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Just saw this... > http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue299/site.html > > It's the SciFi.com site of the week. This week it's Star Wars > Origami. The reviewer was "particularly taken with the Darth Vader > creation by one Eileen Tan. Who ever knew a simple

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > No flames. I think you point out (correctly) that much of this is a > > > religious debate clothed as s

RE: Alpha Mails

2003-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Horn, John > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:36 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails > > > > From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > >Is this significantly differ

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 1/14/2003 1:10:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Not to Mention Legends of an Irishman Maru Irishman? Maddog was Welsh! Gawd I shoulda kept my moth shut. My gosh look at what a one line silly can lead too. Swiss. Let's talk about the Swiss. Yup, t

SciFI, Origami and Brin-L

2003-01-14 Thread Sean Kane
Just saw this... http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue299/site.html It's the SciFi.com site of the week. This week it's Star Wars Origami. The reviewer was "particularly taken with the Darth Vader creation by one Eileen Tan. Who ever knew a simple sheet of black paper could be so scary?!?" You hav

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Richard Baker
Jon said: > It's enough to make you wonder how many people receive their science > education from the National Enquirer. None, that's how many. Don't you know that America and all its artifacts are part of a gigantic hoax and anyone who claims otherwise is either a dupe or an actor? It's all fil

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 4:56 PM Subject: Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This? > > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > No flames. I thin

RE: Definition of Abortion and what is not abortion

2003-01-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 02:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Definition of Abortion and what is not abortion > > > > Dan Minette wrote: > > > >This is a very good time to point out a language dif

RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 02:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America > > A few months ago ex-Brinneller (...at least I think he's no > longer here...) > Adrian H

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > No flames. I think you point out (correctly) that much of this is a > religious debate clothed as secular morality. > > What is secular morality in your view? Do human rights exist, or just > political

RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:26:30 -0800 > -Original Message- > From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 01:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Definition of Abortion and what is not abortion

2003-01-14 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Dan Minette wrote: > >This is a very good time to point out a language difference, because it is >critical. The common US word for what you went through is a miscarriage, >not an abortion. > In Portuguese, it's called what translates to "interruption of pregnancy". It was done for two of my thre

Re: Desktop Icon Utility

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
> From: Horn, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > Is there a utility out there for Win2K (or is there > > something build in) that > > > will save the look of your desktop and restore it when it > > gets screwed up. > > > > If you can find it try sa

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 08:00 PM 1/14/2003 +, you wrote: JDG wrote: > >Subject: Late Term Kansas Abortionist to Perform >Free Abortions >Source: Lawrence Journal World >January 13, 2003 > >Late Term Kansas Abortionist to Perform Free Abortions > No, I don't feel offended at all. If abortion is legal, why not

RE: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 01:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America > > > > William T Goodall wrote: > > > > So does that mean that the US Moon landings mi

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 02:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This? > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Latest pre-Columbus exploration of America

2003-01-14 Thread Alberto Monteiro
William T Goodall wrote: > > So does that mean that the US Moon landings might end up > *Might* end up? > getting disregarded in some future history books because > it's somebody else who eventually > establishes a permanent manned presence there? > The longer it takes to get back there, the more

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This? > No flames. I think you point out (correctly) that much of this is a religious debate clothed as secular moralit

RE: Desktop Icon Utility

2003-01-14 Thread Horn, John
> From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Is there a utility out there for Win2K (or is there > something build in) that > > will save the look of your desktop and restore it when it > gets screwed up. > > If you can find it try saving a copy of the file desktop.ini . Doesn't look like

Re: Abortion (Was: RE: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Abortion (Was: RE: More on North Korea) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:19:14 +0100 At 14:26 14-01-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: Might I politely remind you both that your debating this topic a

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

2003-01-14 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 19:19 10-01-2003 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: Anybody who has used remarkably different addresses over the years, please feel free to advise me. Jeroen, do you have some mappings that you use? We should compare our data. I am not going to share any data with you. I have neither forgotten abou

RE: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Crystall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This? > > > On 14 Jan 2003 at 14:36, Dan Minette wrote: > > > > >Dan M. > > > > > > And this is why the

RE: Alpha Mails

2003-01-14 Thread Horn, John
> From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > >Is this significantly different than posting the subscriber > list to the list? > > I doubt that Nick is going to remove himself from > his list-admin position for this... Well, that's certainly not what I was suggesting. I'll bet Nick

Re: rfid

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 15:30, The Fool wrote: > http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html I can think of a half-dozen ways to kill them right off. Andy Dawn Falcon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

rfid

2003-01-14 Thread The Fool
http://news.com.com/2010-1069-980325.html Could we be constantly tracked through our clothes, shoes or even our cash in the future? I'm not talking about having a microchip surgically implanted beneath your skin, which is what of Palm Beach, Fla., would like to do. Nor am I talking about John Poi

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 14 Jan 2003 at 14:36, Dan Minette wrote: > > >Dan M. > > > > And this is why the debate is going nowhere : sides don't even agree > > on what they're arguing about. > > This particular point I think can be resolved factually. A > fetus/embreyo is not the same organism as the mother. It is wi

Re: Abortion (Was: RE: More on North Korea)

2003-01-14 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 14:26 14-01-2003 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: Might I politely remind you both that your debating this topic adversely affects the list? You are never, ever going to see eye to eye and most desperately need to recognize that and move on. Which is exactly why I am not going to spend any more t

Re: More on North Korea

2003-01-14 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 13:18 14-01-2003 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: This is a very good time to point out a language difference, because it is critical. The common US word for what you went through is a miscarriage, not an abortion. I must disagree with you. I don't know how these terms are defined in the US (perh

RE: Alpha Mails

2003-01-14 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 12:57 14-01-2003 -0600, John Horn wrote: > From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > +--+--+ > | pseudonym| count(*) | > +--+--+ > Something abou

RE: More on North Korea

2003-01-14 Thread J. van Baardwijk
At 15:29 13-01-2003 -0800, Gautam Mukunda wrote: Go ahead and believe that if you want to. The fact that you guys won't admit just how remarkable this President is may be the single most valuable weapon in his arsenal. Oh, he's a remarkable president alright -- but not for the reasons people

Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This?

2003-01-14 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Jean-Louis Couturier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:43 PM Subject: Re: Is Anyone Else Offended By This? > > > >Dan M. > > And this is why the debate is going nowhere : sides don't even agree on > what they're argu

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