Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-08-05 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > > Behalf Of John D. Giorgis > > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 12:46 PM > > To: Killer Bs Discussion > > Subject: Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words > > > > At 09:25 PM 7/22/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Wh

Brin: the next wave in IT outsourcing: chimps

2003-08-05 Thread The Fool
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/32143.html Outsourcing firm hires chimps By Drew Cullen Posted: 04/08/2003 at 12:41 GMT Did you know that Visual Basic 6.O is the preferred programming language of chimpanzees? No, what about "recent research in primate programming suggests computing is a

Re: The seven habits of highly ineffective list-subscribers

2003-08-05 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:52:03PM +0530, Ritu wrote: > > > Nope. Orders don't begin with 'Try'. Had that been an order, it would > > have read: 'Listen more and argue less...'. > > Bzzzt. Try again. Orders can begin with "try". Try means to do someth

RE: Polish, stupidity myth

2003-08-05 Thread Damon
Ouch! At what point during the war did this happen? Very early in the war (like Sept 1939). After the Fall of Poland I don't think the Polish deployed large units of horse cavalry...at least not the Free Polish serving in Western Europe. Damon.

Re: More Fiber

2003-08-05 Thread Reggie Bautista
George A wrote: I also drink 4 ounces of prune juice a day . . . hey, I'm almost 53 and it HELPS! "Prune juice... a Warrior's drink." from Yesterday's Enterprise. :-) By the way, while trying to find the name of the episode, I ran across this website of Martha Stewart meets Trek: http://www

Re: [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-05 Thread William T Goodall
On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 10:11 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: --- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: That's not obfuscationist babble, that's jargon! The Chomsky Hierarchy Regular languages<-> Finite automata Context-free langua

Re: Hyperion - The Motion Picture

2003-08-05 Thread TomFODW
> Maybe I Should Read The Book Maru > No maybe. I'd put Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion up there with The Anubis Gates, His Dark Materials, and just a very few others as among the ten best books I've ever read. I consider Hyperion/Fall of Hyperion to be essentially one book that got published in tw

RE: Scouted: Bester News

2003-08-05 Thread Horn, John
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In a message dated 8/5/2003 8:41:32 AM US Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Didn't they already make this movie? The one with Tom Cruise? The > > name of which escapes me at the moment but I'm sure you know what I

Re: More Fiber

2003-08-05 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: More Fiber Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 15:45:11 -0500 "G. D. Akin" wrote: > > Robert SeebergerWrote: > > > > > Debbi > > > who despises bran cereal, howev

Re: good olde fashioned bible burning

2003-08-05 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: > Church leaders say any Bible besides the King James version that they > use, are distractions. Gee, nothing like a group of people so ignorant that they favor a less-accurate translation to the point of *burning* a more-accurate one Julia ___

Why Dumb Commentators Sell Books

2003-08-05 Thread iaamoac
Anne Applebaum reviews Ann Coulter's _Treason_ and muses: Still, it isn't hard to imagine using the same methods to write the same book from precisely the opposite point of view, and indeed someone has already done it: Michael Moore, in Stupid White Men. Moore's book calls for U.N. observers t

Re: Scouted: Bester News

2003-08-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:07 PM 8/5/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/5/2003 8:41:32 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Didn't they already make this movie? The one with Tom Cruise? The > name of which escapes me at the moment but I'm sure you know what I > mean... > >

Re: The seven habits of highly ineffective list-subscribers

2003-08-05 Thread Erik Reuter
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:07:13PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > Okay, POSITIVE point: Try listening more and arguing less. You might > learn something. Nope, I learn more by arguing. By the way, that isn't really a "point", it is more of an order. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Scouted: Bester News

2003-08-05 Thread Patrick Schlichtenmyer
Reggie Bautista said: >>From scifi.com: > > Australian director Andrew Dominik (Chopper) will develop and > direct > Paramount's > The Demolished Man, based on SF author Alfred Bester's best-selling > > book of the > same name, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The book tells the

Re: More Fiber

2003-08-05 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "brinl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:19 PM Subject: More Fiber > Debbi > who despises bran cereal, however good it is for her :P > Have you ever tried Cracklin' Oat Bran? I eat the stuff like ca

RE: Scouted: Bester News

2003-08-05 Thread Horn, John
> From: Reggie Bautista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >From scifi.com: > > Australian director Andrew Dominik (Chopper) will > develop and direct Paramount's > The Demolished Man, based on SF author Alfred Bester's > best-selling book of the > same name, according to The Hollywoo

Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson on Iran and Iraq

2003-08-05 Thread Bryon Daly
Holy cow - not at all what I'd have expected the Ayatolla's cleric grandson to say. It gives me a bit more hope for Iran's future. (Funny - I found this article while surfing through a chain of blog links, but it's from a local newspaper from where I grew up.) http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/ind

Re: The seven habits of highly ineffective list-subscribers

2003-08-05 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:18 PM 8/4/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:01:25PM -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: > If it is obvious that someone interprets your comments as insulting, > why not change tack and use a different approach? Bad question. I won't answer questions like this beginning with "

Re: Did you catch the noon Paul Harvey, Debbi?

2003-08-05 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/4/2003 3:00:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And does the > owner end up "broken on the wheel" or some similar > hideous medieval torture? Yes to wheel, no to Chuckie Baby. I think even the remake was an all German cast. IMDB info is rather sp

Scouted: Bester News

2003-08-05 Thread Reggie Bautista
From scifi.com: Australian director Andrew Dominik (Chopper) will develop and direct Paramount's The Demolished Man, based on SF author Alfred Bester's best-selling book of the same name, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The book tells the story of a future society in which t

Rush Limbaugh Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil ofprice discrimination

2003-08-05 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 02:21 PM 8/4/2003 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >I don't doubt that Limbaugh makes mistakes. He speaks >for, what, 2 hours a day, five days a week, 40+ weeks >a year, without a script? Actually, it is three hours a day. FAIR, by the way, is a partisan organization whose sole purpose in life is

[Listref] Vitamin C and the Heart

2003-08-05 Thread Deborah Harrell
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/71/81186.htm "...The data come from 85,118 healthy women studied since 1976 in The Nurses Health Study. Boston Children's Hospital researcher Stavroula K. Osganian, MD, and colleagues found that those women who took vitamin C supplements had lower risk of heart