Re: SCOUTED: More Teenagers Say No to Sex, but Experts Aren't Sure Why

2003-12-28 Thread Reggie Bautista
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 12:13 AM Subject: Re: SCOUTED: More Teenagers Say No to Sex, but Experts Aren't Sure Why At 11:59 PM 12/27/03, Reggie Bautista wrote: Alberto

Re: SCOUTED: More Teenagers Say No to Sex, but Experts Aren't Sure Why

2003-12-28 Thread Jean-Marc Chaton
* Alberto Monteiro [Sat, 27/12/2003 at 21:46 +] Where are condoms sold in your country? France: - In hypermarkets and supermarkets along with health products (Vitamin C etc). That the easy way for teenagers - Automatic distributors in cafés toilets, night clubs, petrol stations, outside

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-28 Thread Jim Sharkey
Julia Thompson wrote: BN? hasn't been in a BN store for almost 2 years Hmph! Way to kill the joke, Julia. ;-) Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___

Re: Science Fiction In Music

2003-12-28 Thread Jim Sharkey
Either Ronn! or Reggie wrote Going For Completeness, Not Necessarily Quality Personally, I'm Going for the One. But that's just me. And on that note, let me add Machine Messiah by Yes to our little chat. Jim Never Met a Reference Joke I Didn't Like Maru

Pope Pushes Campaign Against Gay Marriages

2003-12-28 Thread William T Goodall
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=535ncid=535e=10u=/ ap/20031228/ap_on_re_eu/pope_gay_marriage In his weekly Sunday comments in St. Peter's Square, John Paul said marriage which the Vatican defines as a sacred union between man and woman was a human and divine gift that should

Snow Crash

2003-12-28 Thread Doug Pensinger
Well, he doesn't like to dilly-dally around at the end does he? Rather abrupt, but thats about the worst critisism I can come up with. The book is based on a very interesting idea, is fast-paced except for the bits about Ancient Sumerian language and culture (and they are informative), takes

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-28 Thread William T Goodall
On 28 Dec 2003, at 5:28 pm, David Hobby wrote: ... I place CP at the top of the list with UoW, Inversions and LtW very close behind. I need to reread Excession. I enjoyed it, but it was a complex story with many, many ships to keep track of. I agree that PoG is the weakest except for maybe

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-28 Thread Doug Pensinger
David Hobby wrote: I believe Player of Games is one of the best, certainly the best first book. Use of Weapons is probably best, but be warned, it's not a cheery book. The rest are all good, but I was not too impressed with Look to Windward, it seemed derivative. Derivative? Not sure

Another way to Reduce Global Warming

2003-12-28 Thread Doug Pensinger
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=31art_id=iol1072626956939S300set_id=1 or http://tinyurl.com/2l66t Soot makes global warming worse - study Technology is within reach that could greatly reduce soot, restoring snow albedo values to near-pristine values, while having multiple other benefits

Re: Snow Crash

2003-12-28 Thread William T Goodall
On 28 Dec 2003, at 8:48 pm, Doug Pensinger wrote: Well, he doesn't like to dilly-dally around at the end does he? Rather abrupt, but thats about the worst critisism I can come up with. Stephenson doesn't do endings very well. Zodiac might almost have one. The book is based on a very

Re: Filtering

2003-12-28 Thread Michael Harney
I just reviewed the archives back from the day I started filtering (I am recieving only OT and BRIN posts). I was only interested in seeing if someone had solved the riddle, but noticed several replies to my Filtering post. I realize that my request that noone post on environmentalist,

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-28 Thread Damon Agretto
I hated the second one. Hated, hated hated. What exactly didn't you like about it? I thought it was pretty good...not as good as the first, but somewhat better than the third. Damon. = Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qui

Re: RIDDLES: Yet another thread for fun.

2003-12-28 Thread Michael Harney
From: Travis Edmunds [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RIDDLES: Yet another thread for fun. Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:56:37 -0700 Ok, guess number two: A

Testing

2003-12-28 Thread Doug Pensinger
I'm seeing my messages an replys to them on mcmedia, but haven't recieved anything myself since 9:30 AM PST. -- Doug ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Filtering

2003-12-28 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 03:23 PM 12/28/03, Michael Harney wrote: I just reviewed the archives back from the day I started filtering (I am recieving only OT and BRIN posts). I was only interested in seeing if someone had solved the riddle, but noticed several replies to my Filtering post. I realize that my request

Re: SCOUTED: More Teenagers Say No to Sex, but Experts Aren't Sure Why

2003-12-28 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:38 PM 12/28/03, William T Goodall wrote: On 27 Dec 2003, at 4:12 pm, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/health/23TEEN.html December 23, 2003 More Teenagers Say No to Sex, but Experts Aren't Sure Why It's because they're bored of it. Sex is that boring thing that

Re: Snow Crash

2003-12-28 Thread Bemmzim
OK, what's next, The Sparrow? yes for sure. great idea successfuly completed Cryptonomicon? My favorite sci fi book of the past 5 years. Really cool stuff about cryptography past and future, neat history, etc. Begins his use of real historical figures in wild fictional stories. The

Re: Snow Crash

2003-12-28 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug Pensinger wrote: Well, he doesn't like to dilly-dally around at the end does he? Rather abrupt, but thats about the worst critisism I can come up with. The book is based on a very interesting idea, is fast-paced except for the bits about Ancient Sumerian language and culture (and they

Re: Science Fiction In General

2003-12-28 Thread David Hobby
Doug Pensinger wrote: David Hobby wrote: I believe Player of Games is one of the best, certainly the best first book. Use of Weapons is probably best, but be warned, it's not a cheery book. The rest are all good, but I was not too impressed with Look to Windward, it seemed