Re: Scouted: Programming Language Inventor -OR- Serial Slayer

2003-08-23 Thread Jan Coffey
Dispicable. A more appropriate test would be to see if you can pick the salesmen, project "managers", and CEO's out of a linup of mass murderers and rapeists. No, sorry that wouldn't be appropriate either, it would be compleatly unfair to the rapeists. --- "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-23 Thread Jan Coffey
I am sure we will all agree this algorithum is somewhat flawed. In practice, only half were acurate. This algorithum does not seem to work. In practice it was acuate only %50 of the time. --- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > Very cool, even t

Global Warming

2003-08-23 Thread William T Goodall
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4072 "Europe may be breathing a sigh of relief as its record-breaking heatwave eases, but there is still plenty to worry about. Temperature changes caused by global warming are likely to transform agriculture on both sides of the Atlantic. Whi

Re: Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad

2003-08-23 Thread Alberto Monteiro
John Horn asked: > > I hope Alberto is OK. > I have nothing to do with this program. BTW, I may have some good news on Tuesday. People here blame USA sabotage for the failures of the VLS rocket... Alberto Monteiro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/l

Cool Stuff

2003-08-23 Thread William T Goodall
"Monkey Picked Tea - £13.95 Why not paws for a cuppa? This deliciously delicate brew has been hand - or rather paw - picked by specially trained monkeys. No, really! The industrious little fur balls are famous in China, and the leaves that they pick produce a wonderful, pale golden tea." http:/

Creative spam

2003-08-23 Thread Gary Nunn
Spammers can certainly be as creative as they can be annoying. With MailWasher, I am bouncing and deleting an average of 30 messages a day, probably twice that on weekends. I am assuming that those weekend spammers have real jobs during the week. :-) I received an email in my box today, but be

Ads with the word "spleen"

2003-08-23 Thread Julia Thompson
http://www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?word=spleen I hit it a few times. It was amusing. Probably more amusing to people who've had an inside joke with "spleen" than those who haven't Julia and the ultimate punchline in that joke was "the mommy gun" _

Re: Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad

2003-08-23 Thread Steve Sloan II
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > I have nothing to do with this program. BTW, I may have > some good news on Tuesday. Good news on both counts. > People here blame USA sabotage for the failures of the VLS > rocket... That's ridiculous. We're far too busy sabotaging our *own* space program to worry about

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-23 Thread Julia Thompson
Jan Coffey wrote: > > I am sure we will all agree this algorithum is somewhat flawed. In practice, > only half were acurate. > > This algorithum does not seem to work. In practice it was acuate only %50 of > the time. What's interesting is that it had me pegged correctly for 70% of my responses,

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-23 Thread Julia Thompson
Gary Nunn wrote: > > Spammers can certainly be as creative as they can be annoying. > > With MailWasher, I am bouncing and deleting an average of 30 messages a > day, probably twice that on weekends. I am assuming that those weekend > spammers have real jobs during the week. :-) Actually, I ge

selling a few worldcon memberships

2003-08-23 Thread d.brin
Anyone want to buy an attending and three child memberships to Torcon? Cheryl & the kids are staying home this time. With cordial regards, David Brin www.davidbrin.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l