Nick Arnett wrote:
If the list disappears for a while, you'll know why, at least.
We're having to shut down for a while... but I probably won't bother
posting a message when we're back up, we'll just be back up.
nick
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The power company found a transformer off-line and had things repaired
around 1 a.m. Optimistically, I booted everything without monitoring to
see that all came back properly. As I was heading for sleep, our main
server came up with filesystem errors that made the OS refuse to boot
(despite
Current and future potential fallout from the
credibility gap WRT US intelligence, Iraq's WoMD, and
the presentation of 'likelihoods and unresolved
questions as facts:'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3996047/
The Bush administration's inability to find weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq -- after
As I see it there are three ways to get things into orbit (or a battle)
4) Space Elevator.
And Ye call yeself a brin fan.
But the point is to use existing, known technology. The goal is to
propose programs that will be seen by everyone as having a very good
chance of
We had quite a backlog of e-mail, which I think is now all processed
(this incident helped me find another choke point in the spam and virus
prevention stuff in our server)... but I see no Brin-L messages from the
time that the server was down. I certainly hope nothing was lost, but
if you
Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked
Why couldn't you build a lauch vehicle with a fan-jet 1st stage
(recoverable), Ram or scram jet 2nd stage (stage and recovery both
optional) and a rocket 2nd or 3rd stage (disposible)?
Yes, you could. Indeed, the Pegasus launch system uses
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Tarr
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 04:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SotU 2004 drinking game
http://www.drinkinggame.us/
I think they left one off. I'm not saying this to
I'm resending this
Dan M.
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From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Wining with Dan
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd thought of him as rather lugubrious before, but I
was pleasantly surprised by the way he carried himself
on one of yesterday's Sunday-morning political show
interviews -- he seemed animated and much more
dynamic.
I like Kerry, he was my early-on
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3996062/
Martha S. Jones has asthma, so whenever her husband,
Bob, lights up at their Woodbridge home, the agreement
is that he steps outside.
She used to think that protected her from exposure to
the more than 4,000 chemical compounds found in
cigarette smoke, 43 of
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kerry will never be a Clinton-type charmer, but he's
really not
the Gore-type stiff that he's gotten painted as.
Unfortunately,
some of his campaign PR appearance stuff apparently
designed to
make him seem more regular guy-ish, has had almost
the
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: religious/political question
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:18:05 -0600
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 12:58 AM 11/1/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote:
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston.
I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated,
hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had
met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small
state that running into a Senator is a
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston.
I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated,
hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had
met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small
state that running into a Senator is a fairly common
I sent this over an hour ago, but it didn't show up
(although the tobacco one made it through), hence a
resend.
Both low-level (the Carlsbad WHIP site) and high-level
(Yucca Mt. in Nevada) waste is considered at court:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3978367/
WASHINGTON - The Energy Department has
While I don't think that gender selection here will
result in the same skewed sex ratio as has occurred in
some parts of Asia, the lengths people will go to to
get the gender of child they desire are, IMO,
excessive and wrong-headed. I have no real objection
to sorting sperm, as there is no
Both low-level (the Carlsbad WHIP site) and high-level
(Yucca Mt. in Nevada) waste is considered at court:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3978367/
WASHINGTON - The Energy Department has not done the
necessary tests to justify relaxing the testing of
radioactive waste shipments bound for a New Mexico
Ditto for the hour+ this was first sent-
While I don't think that gender selection here will
result in the same skewed sex ratio as has occurred in
some parts of Asia, the lengths people will go to to
get the gender of child they desire are, IMO,
excessive and wrong-headed. I have no objection
Opponents of a planned nuclear waste dump in Nevada
argued in court Wednesday the U.S. government has
failed to ensure that the public will be protected
when radiation from the entombed waste reaches its
peak hundreds of thousands of years from now.
Attorneys for Nevada and an
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From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: brinl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:03 PM
Subject: Scouted: Home test kit for second-hand smoke exposure
[Snip bad science for commercial purposes]
And Martha then vacuums her new carpet, uses
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From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Scouted: Home test kit for second-hand smoke exposure
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From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deborah Harrell wrote:
This is a disturbing article (with some graphic
description) about gender selection in Asia:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3990133/
Have you read Elizabeth Bumiller's May You Be the Mother of a Hundred
Sons ? The methods of female infanticide mentioned by her are rather
The evident enthusiasm of a certain list member has given me cause to ask
myself whether Hoon, as a literary creation, might have broad-based apeal. I
think the answer must be affirmative. Indeed, Hoon characters could have
such strong psycho-cultural charisma that they would be the key to
On Tuesday 2004-01-20 17:29, ritu wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
This is a disturbing article (with some graphic
description) about gender selection in Asia:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3990133/
Have you read Elizabeth Bumiller's May You Be the Mother of a Hundred
Sons ? The methods of
- Original Message -
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Scouted: Home test kit for second-hand smoke exposure
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From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Dan wrote
I've looked up the total risk, and after 200 years
it approaches that of
the ore that was originally mined. After a million
years, the risk of
radiation damage should be far less than that
incurred by spending the night with someone.
(System's still slow)
Ah - my recall may
Wow Trent!
Amazing thoughts. Just goes to show that You and the
gang are the smartest fans a guy could ask for.
Seriously cool stuff.
Alas, Life with 3 small kids (age 6,9,11) -- plus
many speeches and deadlines -- has left me with less
time for writing and a need to focus. This is
--- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What was it about Kerry?
I'm often seized with a desire to vote Green.
Nick
Hi Nick. I think that the common complaint is that he
is nothing but ambition. That's the phrase I've
heard. There are a bunch of stories about that. He
started signing
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Just what is in that underarm deodorant anyway?
Mine? Mostly a petroleum-based gel, as well as coriander oil, lichen
and aloe. (I'd have to go upstairs and grab a stick to give the *full*
list, but that's a good chunk of it. And nothing extra added for
fragrance.)
At 05:21 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Hi Nick. I think that the common complaint is that he
is nothing but ambition. That's the phrase I've
heard. There are a bunch of stories about that. Kerry
started signing his name JFK when he was 19 or 20 to
make himself seem more
Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Snip bad science for commercial purposes]
I clearly stated that these kits will have to be
tested against medical laboratory standards to be
considered reasonable. Frex while home pregnancy kits
are reasonably accurate after ~6-8 weeks, they are
In a message dated 1/20/2004 6:14:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Seriously, could you two act as an archive of these
cool hoonish ideas? Maybe organize them? I hope to
find more time someday.
Act?
Well Trent has to be the Mary, because I'm certainly the
In a message dated 1/20/2004 5:42:45 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The evident enthusiasm of a certain list member has given me cause to ask
[Drool slobber run in cir--oh, wait. Taz comes later.]
myself whether Hoon, as a literary creation, might have broad-based
At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston.
I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated,
hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had
met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small
state that running into a Senator
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Snip bad science for commercial purposes]
I clearly stated that these kits will have to be
tested against medical laboratory standards to be
considered reasonable. Frex while home pregnancy kits
are reasonably
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston.
I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated,
hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had
met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small
Planet Easter
Humans discovered that the second planet from Alpha Centuri A had life in
197_BxY. They sent a probe to the planet in 166_BxY and a near-light speed
manned mission in 151_BxY. In the wake of Human exploration, Humans started
calling the planet Easter after a desolate island in
At 09:18 PM 1/19/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote:
So should we consider mouth / intestinal bacteria to have human rights
because they have unique and individual genetic codes different from the
host?
I only assign human rights to organisms classified in homo sapiens.
JDG
Sorry, forgot this:
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN
HTML
HEAD
META HTTP-EQUIV=CONTENT-TYPE CONTENT=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
TITLEEaster Seasons/TITLE
META NAME=AUTHOR CONTENT=Trent Shipley
STYLE
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ritu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
This is a disturbing article (with some graphic
description) about gender selection in Asia:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3990133/
Have you read Elizabeth Bumiller's May You Be the
Mother of a Hundred
Sons ? The methods of female
Man, if people have as much trouble trying to find
decent medical info on the net as I am about nuclear
waste, they must get mighty frustrated! Navigating
the DOE or NRC or EPA sites ought to be a mini-course.
And from a Dogpile search I've learned that Yucca
Mountain is going to explode like an
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/79.html
Trent Lott on recess appointments:
THEN
Any appointment of a federal judge during a recess should be opposed.
- Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) opposing the appointment of an African American
judge, December 2000
NOW
Judge
In a message dated 1/20/2004 7:09:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After the disaster, the GIM dropped the ball. Easter was never surveyed
again. Researchers speculate that whatever caused the powers-that-be to
loose track of Earth also effected Alpha Centuri
I don't watch South Park very often, but every time I do, they seem to
reach all new levels of wrongness. The episode where Santa was taken
captive in Iraq and they recruited Jesus to help save him in a commando
raid was so over the top, I was speechless.
Gary
Julia Thompson wrote:
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston.
I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated,
hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had
met) John Kerry
On Monday 2004-01-19 01:55, The Fool wrote:
From: Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12 MYA: The last recorded wolfling race, the Paranaj, is discovered.
Within
1000 years it is extinct.
52 KYA: The last recorded wolfling race, the Paranaj, is discovered.
Within
a thousand years,
All way-cool observations!
Kurosawa Japanese... har!
=
.
.
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From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: South Park - all new levels of wrongness.
From: Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't watch South Park very often, but every time I
In a message dated 1/20/2004 8:04:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lost track of which galaxy is which number here.
Just in case...
141 MYA: [Contacting Aliens entry ignored.]
I don't have a copy handy. I don't remember which entry this is.
But I do know that
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)
Julia Thompson wrote:
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda
In a message dated 1/20/2004 8:33:04 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
All way-cool observations!
Kurosawa Japanese... har!
Our artist of Contacting Aliens has not yet answered back.
If Brin does not do it, I'll have to try to fill in.
We have to have a hoon
Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
snip
Frex while home pregnancy kits
are reasonably accurate after ~6-8 weeks, they are
*not* 99% as claimed on the first missed menses
cycle day (2-4 weeks).
Huh. I never had a problem with a false negative.
I'm
At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
It's not that
far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have
run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in
the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking out people who had
been active in
The Fool wrote:
If you want to reach new levels of wrongness you need to watch sealab
2021 or Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Or the state of the union
8^)
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On Tuesday 2004-01-20 20:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 1/20/2004 8:04:38 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lost track of which galaxy is which number here.
I didn't so much loose track of each Galaxy as give up on tracking them. I
just tried to keep a
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Debbi
It's snowing outside right now...
Well, at least the snow is water-based, right?
In a RPG once (Traveller), I heard a story about a party that landed on
a planet and asked the GM about the weather.
It's snowing. Ammonia.
Julia
Robert Seeberger wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)
(I never ran into my own Congressional representative from that
time,
What ever happened to Tug. He left Kazzkark with Alvin for Hurumphta, but
he/it/they (whatever) didn't make the cut for Alvin's last journal entry.
Didn't the Neo-Fin kill him by accident (shoot on sight as a Jophur) when the
Streaker rescued the kids?
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
It's not that
far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have
run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in
the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking out
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
snip
Frex while home pregnancy kits
are reasonably accurate after ~6-8 weeks, they are
*not* 99% as claimed on the first missed menses
cycle day (2-4 weeks).
Huh. I never had a problem
In a message dated 1/20/2004 9:31:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But I do know that as presented in Contacting Aliens, Earth's entire age
of
dinosaurs occured outside of the current Galactic Civilization.
What do you mean by outside?
The galactics never
Julia wrote:
Uh, yeah. How hard can it be to pee on the correct part of the thing,
anyway? :)
Depends on how far awy you stand. 8^)
--
Doug
ROU Target Practice
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In a message dated 1/20/2004 9:59:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What ever happened to Tug. He left Kazzkark with Alvin for Hurumphta, but
he/it/they (whatever) didn't make the cut for Alvin's last journal entry.
Didn't the Neo-Fin kill him by accident
In a message dated 1/20/2004 9:59:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Re: Attn Brin: Hoon Genius
Date:1/20/2004 9:59:20 PM
Ooops. I ment to give the poor man a break.
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In a message dated 1/20/2004 11:20:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Julia wrote:
Uh, yeah. How hard can it be to pee on the correct part of the thing,
anyway? :)
Depends on how far awy you stand. 8^)
The introduction of the strategically
Various Terragen Confederation Territories by GIM Leasehold Type
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I have altered the entry on Horst. I no longer think SeJ's GURPS Uplift 2nd
ed and the A4P Encyclopedia are incompatible.
An entry for Easter has been added.
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Terragens have 10 colonies and their homeworld lease on
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