Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 08:24 pm, The Fool wrote: There is no security hole in the sofeware on this one. Just user stupidity. And yet you try and blame it on

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: I'm sorry I can't agree with you. Java is evil software. If people and corporations are so stupid that they can't install patches which have been out for 2 1/2 months or click on attachments sent to

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:08 AM 8/30/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 05:45 PM 8/29/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: He's under house arrest now. Article at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyncid=e=2u=/ap/20030829/ap _on_hi_te/internet_attack Links to related articles on

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:11 AM 8/30/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:34 pm, Kevin Tarr wrote: (I know, English isn't his first language)(And I'm not assuming he is Democrat, but 41 percent of the other teacher's failed and I'd lay odds that more

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:04 PM 8/30/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: The Fool wrote: From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 04:14 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: William T Goodall wrote: On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 11:45 pm, Julia Thompson wrote: He's under

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread The Fool
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, there is the argument that I paid about as much for this computer as I did for my refrigerator, and all I had to do with the refrigerator was bring it home and plug it in and it worked fine for the next ten years without my doing anything to

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At one institution where I was filling in for their astronomy prof while he was on sabbatical, someone had posted an article from some education newsletter on the bulletin board in the faculty office area in which the author explained why it was inconceivable that one

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-31 Thread TomFODW
In a message dated Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:19:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read Gaiman's Neverwhere, but had no idea they made a series out of it until I saw it listed at Amazon.  Is the series any good?  Faithful to the book?  Worth buying the DVD set?

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-31 Thread TomFODW
But a question for our UK comrades, were shows with a more commercial orientation such as The Professionals, Makepeace Dempsey et al made by the BBC, or were they made by third party production companies and simply shown on BBC? Neither. Both were shown on ITV. -- Tom Beck

Re: Global Warming

2003-08-31 Thread Doug Pensinger
Robert J. Chassell wrote: Fortunately, the graphs I have seen for carbon dioxide in the air and the like, and reports from people whom I respect, have all suggested that the problem is human-caused and that therefore the solution is not hugely expensive. But what if it's both and we are

Re: Something else for the Fool....

2003-08-31 Thread Doug Pensinger
Jon Gabriel wrote: Doubleplus ungood. http://www.all-the-other-names-were-taken.com/tipstips.html Perhaps we could just mark their emails with this instead: o / \ Good NYT article linked: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/opinion/26KAYA.html?ex=1062475200en=c90e0fabaad4b6b1ei=5070 or

ATL: Taxes

2003-08-31 Thread Doug Pensinger
Why does the richest, most powerful, most privileged society in the history of mankind object so vehemently to investing in the infrastructure that sustains them? Why, rather than insisting on a smaller government, don't we insist on a _better_ government? Doug

diebold voting machine CEO wants to fix elections

2003-08-31 Thread The Fool
http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xm l Voting machine controversy 08/28/03 Julie Carr Smyth Plain Dealer Bureau Columbus - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is committed

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:12 PM 8/30/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, there is the argument that I paid about as much for this computer as I did for my refrigerator, and all I had to do with the refrigerator was bring it home and plug it in and it worked fine for the next

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:21 PM 8/30/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At one institution where I was filling in for their astronomy prof while he was on sabbatical, someone had posted an article from some education newsletter on the bulletin board in the faculty office area in which the

Re: ATL: Taxes

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:44 PM 8/30/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: Why does the richest, most powerful, most privileged society in the history of mankind object so vehemently to investing in the infrastructure that sustains them? Why, rather than insisting on a smaller government, don't we insist on a _better_

Sawyer webpage....

2003-08-31 Thread Medievalbk
Yup, It's already up there. IN BIG BLUE LETTERS!!! I read Hominids. Good enough. But I still say Sawyer's webpage reads like an advertisement for K-mart. I prefer the more upscale Nieman Marcus look of the webpage of our good Dr. Brin. William Taylor Still pageless.

RE: 34 weeks - 14-28 days to go

2003-08-31 Thread Jim Sharkey
Good luck, Julia! It looks like you're going to have your hands seriously full very soon. You need to get one of those machines that translates voice into text just so you can post to the list. :) Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The

Recall?

2003-08-31 Thread Doug Pensinger
http://www.bushrecall.org/petition/ Republicans in California have initiated a recall against the governor, giving three reasons for their effort: 1. The state's budget has gone from a sizable surplus to a substantial deficit in a few short years. 2. Gov. Davis did not tell the truth to voters

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:21 PM 8/30/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At one institution where I was filling in for their astronomy prof while he was on sabbatical, someone had posted an article from some education newsletter on the bulletin board in the

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:34:45AM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: So the parent was putting up the articles 'cause he was proud of his son, why were you putting the loosing articles up? Fair and balanced reporting? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/

A Fool For All Seasons

2003-08-31 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://www.infowars.com/goodphotos.html You seen this Kneem? You just gotta wonder sometimes. xponent Cross Pollinating Invasions Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: ATL: Taxes

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: Why does the richest, most powerful, most privileged society in the history of mankind object so vehemently to investing in the infrastructure that sustains them? Why, rather than insisting on a smaller government, don't we insist on a _better_ government? At the

Re: Sawyer webpage....

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, It's already up there. IN BIG BLUE LETTERS!!! URL? TIA! Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: 34 weeks - 14-28 days to go

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Jim Sharkey wrote: Good luck, Julia! It looks like you're going to have your hands seriously full very soon. You need to get one of those machines that translates voice into text just so you can post to the list. :) Oh, like it's going to be QUIET enough often enough for that to be

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:12 PM 8/30/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: And then there are the cases where Junior uses Daddy's computer while Daddy is out of town (despite explicit instructions not to do so), and of course Junior opens the e-mail promising an Awesome screen-saver . . .

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:49 AM 8/31/2003 -0500, you wrote: At 09:21 PM 8/30/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At one institution where I was filling in for their astronomy prof while he was on sabbatical, someone had posted an article from some education newsletter on the bulletin board in

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Doug Pensinger
Kevin Tarr wrote: Did anyone write a rebuttal? Was it obvious who posted the article? Where I have worked, everything had to be pre-approved, with a set posting date. Even if you were selling a car or announcing a co-worker having a baby. Where I'm at now, there are no rules. Postings go up

Re: Something else for the Fool....

2003-08-31 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon Gabriel wrote: Doubleplus ungood. http://www.all-the-other-names-were-taken.com/tipstips.html Perhaps we could just mark their emails with this instead: o / \ Good NYT article linked:

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Joshua Bell
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, there is the argument that I paid about as much for this computer as I did for my refrigerator, and all I had to do with the refrigerator was bring it home and plug it in and it

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Erik Reuter wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:34:45AM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: So the parent was putting up the articles 'cause he was proud of his son, why were you putting the loosing articles up? Fair and balanced reporting? If there's a limited amount of bulletin board space

Re: Sawyer webpage....

2003-08-31 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, It's already up there. IN BIG BLUE LETTERS!!! Julia Thompson wrote: URL? TIA! http://www.sfwriter.com __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Julia Thompson
Joshua Bell wrote: From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or, there is the argument that I paid about as much for this computer as I did for my refrigerator, and all I had to do with the refrigerator was bring it

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 12:52 PM 8/31/2003 -0500, you wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:34:45AM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: So the parent was putting up the articles 'cause he was proud of his son, why were you putting the loosing articles up? Fair and balanced reporting? If there's a

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:43:33PM +, Joshua Bell wrote: [Sent from PocketPC 2002 with WiFi] Apparently the PocketPC doesn't know how to insert carriage returns. Each of your paragraphs was one very long line with no carriage returns. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Doug Pensinger
Julia Thompson wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:34:45AM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: So the parent was putting up the articles 'cause he was proud of his son, why were you putting the loosing articles up? Fair and balanced reporting? If there's a limited amount of bulletin

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
BTW, Dan's aunt is getting a used computer from one of her sons. Last I heard, she wanted Dan to help her get set up with that, but that hasn't happened yet; maybe her son helped her. Everyone in the family was hoping she'd get an internet connection so's she could be in the e-mail loop with

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:32 PM 8/31/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:43:33PM +, Joshua Bell wrote: [Sent from PocketPC 2002 with WiFi] Apparently the PocketPC doesn't know how to insert carriage returns. Each of your paragraphs was one very long line with no carriage returns. -- Erik Reuter

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:48:19PM -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: Apparently your e-mail doesn't know how to format incoming text. Joshua's e-mail looked fine on my computer, much better than most peoples. Apparently you don't know what you are talking about. -- Erik Reuter

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 02:58 PM 8/31/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:48:19PM -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: Apparently your e-mail doesn't know how to format incoming text. Joshua's e-mail looked fine on my computer, much better than most peoples. Apparently you don't know what you are talking about.

Re: Sawyer webpage....

2003-08-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/31/2003 9:16:56 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, It's already up there. IN BIG BLUE LETTERS!!! URL? TIA! Julia _ I didn't 'url, but I did get a bit queasy looking at it.

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:27:27PM -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote: When you type in Word (or anything on your computer), do you have to hit Enter when you get to the end of a line? I don't. A paragraph is a long string of text. Not in email standard practice. Email paragraphs are a string of lines

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/31/2003 12:04:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently your e-mail doesn't know how to format incoming text. Joshua's e-mail looked fine on my computer, much better than most peoples. Apparently you don't know what you are talking

Alvin's Little Shottle Bop Where Thimgs Are Always Sold.

2003-08-31 Thread Medievalbk
Alvin and Fred, the human director brought in to help with the Mikado, got to talking about how relatively easy it was to stage Gilbert and Sullivan. You never needed a scene change in the middle of an act. Fred talked about some of the more unusual things that he had worked with when the

Robots in 2015

2003-08-31 Thread The Fool
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robots-in-2015.htm Robots in 2015 [Part 2 of the Robotic Nation series] by Marshall Brain Imagine that you have a time machine and you are able to travel back in time to the year 1950: If you walk into a restaurant, hotel or store in 1950, it would be nearly

Re: Global Warming

2003-08-31 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Robert J. Chassell wrote: Fortunately, the graphs I have seen for carbon dioxide in the air and the like, and reports from people whom I respect, have all suggested that the problem is human-caused and that therefore the solution is not hugely expensive. Doug Pensinger

RE: 34 weeks - 14-28 days to go

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:33 AM 8/31/03 -0400, Jim Sharkey wrote: Good luck, Julia! It looks like you're going to have your hands seriously full very soon. You need to get one of those machines that translates voice into text just so you can post to the list. :) What makes you think the list wants to read,

Re: ATL: Taxes

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:05 AM 8/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Now, I wouldn't mind personally paying a little more in county taxes for the county-maintained roads to be in somewhat better shape; on the way to my house, you can tell just where the county line is, by where the smoother paving job and

Re: Teen to be arrested for blaster attack

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:09 AM 8/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:12 PM 8/30/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: And then there are the cases where Junior uses Daddy's computer while Daddy is out of town (despite explicit instructions not to do so), and of course Junior opens the

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-31 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 12:52 PM 8/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:34:45AM -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: So the parent was putting up the articles 'cause he was proud of his son, why were you putting the loosing articles up? Fair and balanced reporting? If