Re: Winning the War on Terror

Folks, > Ah, but it is so easy to whip mobs into a murderous frenzy. > At least in some parts of the world, including my own. Sometimes, all it takes is the home team winning the SuperBowl. A friend of mine -- then a videographer for KRON in San Francisco -- was assigned to cover the crowds spil

Re: Dan says SS = SSA

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:41:28PM -0500, The Fool wrote: > If you consider 38years 'not too many years'. Yes, I do. If you are investing is stocks now, 38 years isn't that long because the market is at historically quite high valuations. For example, I would NOT advise 100% equities for anyone

Re: Winning the War on Terror

On Monday 2004-04-05 23:35, Andrew Paul wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Dan Minette wrote: > And I hope they are better off, cos that seems to be only shred of > justification left for this war, so it would be nice if we got that right. Justifications: -- Ene

RE: America the Theocracy

Nick, in hiding under the bed mode: > > A band of influential preachers is praying for the power to > rule America. > > For those who disagree, they have a solution -- stoning. They're not influential. I know a hell of a lot more about them than anyone else here. I have seen Rousas Rushdoony's

RE: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

Ok, we confess. John Doe and Mike Lee are the same person. Well, we're two personalities of the same person. If you ban us from this list, we will sue you under ADA. If you think it's hard listening to us fight, you ought to have to be in the bathroom in the morning with us. You're getting off ea

RE: Welcome to life in George W. Bush's America

Andrew, apologizating: > Yea, you are right. Sorry.. > > Must have been something I watched over dinner. One of the most enduring and archetypal of human behaviors is the hollow apology. Perhaps someone here who understands evolutionary psychology can explain the genesis of this phenomenon bette

RE: Winning the War on Terror

> From: Trent Shipley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 6 April 2004 5:27 PM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Winning the War on Terror > > > On Monday 2004-04-05 23:35, Andrew Paul wrote: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Dan Minette wrote: >

RE: America the Theocracy

Mike said: > Mainstream Islam is stupider, meaner, more racist, more authoritarian, > more genocidal than Christian Reconstructionism. Anyone care to debate > that? Hasn't it been established by careful, rational debate on Brin-L that all religion is Evil? Rich

RE: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

I'm so confused . . . At 03:30 AM 4/6/04, Mike Lee wrote: Ok, we confess. John Doe and Mike Lee are the same person. Well, we're two personalities of the same person. If you ban us from this list, we will sue you under ADA. If you think it's hard listening to us fight, you ought to have to be in

The Protean Enemy

<> Summary: Despite the setbacks al Qaeda has suffered over the last two years, it is far from finished, as its recent bomb attacks testify. How has the group managed to survive an unprecedented American onsl

Re: America the Theocracy

> From: Troll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Nick, in hiding under the bed mode: Nick wrote not the quoted text. > > > A band of influential preachers is praying for the power to > > rule America. > > > For those who disagree, they have a solution -- stoning. > > They're not influential. I know a h

Re: Winning the War on Terror

--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Law and order - They lived under a repressive state > but they were used to that set up. Currently, they > are not sure of who their enemies are or how to > reduce the risk factor in their lives. This > uncertainty can get tiring after an year.

Re: Birding In NM (was: Virus infection alert !)

From: JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Birding In NM (was: Virus infection alert !) Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:25:30 -0400 At 11:48 AM 4/5/2004 -0230 Travis Edmunds wrote: >You want birds? Then come

Re: America the Theocracy

The Fool said: > How many has Vatican killed throughout the years? Most of the people that the Vatican will have killed in the end are alive today, because the Vatican has impeded the progress of science to a large degree (and, to be fair, so have the other branches of Christianity). Let's make t

Re: Meta Level was Winning the War on Terror

> From: Keith Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 05:55 PM 03/04/04 -0600, The Fool wrote: > > > From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > snip > > > > So how does that square with the idease expressed > > > here? I'm not even sure, but evolutionary psychology > > > is a very, very, very thin r

Re: America the Theocracy

On 6 Apr 2004, at 9:42 am, Richard Baker wrote: Mike said: Mainstream Islam is stupider, meaner, more racist, more authoritarian, more genocidal than Christian Reconstructionism. Anyone care to debate that? Hasn't it been established by careful, rational debate on Brin-L that all religion is Evil

Re: The Politics of September 10th

What specifically do you think they could have been doing between noon on 20 January and midnight on 10 September which could have prevented (not simply delayed) the events of 11 September? "That's what the commission is supposed to find out" is not the answer. The commission's duty is to

Re: Welcome to life in George W. Bush's America

Mike Lee wrote: > The way humans apologize is to say I'm sorry, I was wrong. And then shut up. How about proving that *you* are human Regards, Ray. PS: I'm sorry, I don't know if I'm wrong, but I will shut up now! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/ma

Scouted: Universe Teeming with Elements of Life

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53110-2004Apr5.html The building blocks of life pervade the solar system, and probably the universe, locked up in planetary polar ice caps, crouching in the interstices of ancient volcanic rocks, zooming around on comets and meteorites, drifting

Re: Winning the War on Terror

Gautam Mukunda wrote: > At least the people > arrested aren't dropped into paper shredders now. Can you provide a (recent) reference to this having really happened? As far as I can find out, this is a furphy and has been shown to almost certainly be propaganda. See from a (not totally reliable

Re: Winning the War on Terror

--- Ray Ludenia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > At least the people > > arrested aren't dropped into paper shredders now. > > Can you provide a (recent) reference to this having > really happened? As far > as I can find out, this is a furphy and has been > shown to almo

RE: Winning the War on Terror

From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip >> democracy one day in the future. However, I doubt >> that makes living in such turmoil any easier on a >> day-to-day basis. >Again, _they_ don't think so. You don't think >midnight raids and large-scale arrests happened >before? Some t

Re: America the Theocracy

> Let's further suppose that the immortality breakthrough happens in 2100. > Then everyone who dies between now and then is dying solely because of > the past attitude of the Christian authorities: Christianity is > responsible for *billions* of deaths in the near future. (And you can > make a si

Re: America the Theocracy

Dan said: > So, I guess the fact that officially atheistic countries, such as the > USSR have had a much better track record in science than countries > with a large fraction of church going Christians, like the US > supports your contention. Of course not: it just means that such countries will

RE: Welcome to life in George W. Bush's America

From: Mike Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Andrew, apologizating: >> Yea, you are right. Sorry.. >> >> Must have been something I watched over dinner. >One of the most enduring and archetypal of human behaviors is the hollow >apology. Perhaps someone here who understands evolutionary psychology

RE: Winning the War on Terror

--- Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >You _can_ make this argument, I guess, but actually > >_making_ it makes you an apologist for one of the > most > >brutal dictators in human history - you have to > >believe all of the propaganda that he

Re: America the Theocracy

--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I guess the fact that officially atheistic > countries, such as the USSR > have had a much better track record in science than > countries with a large > fraction of church going Christians, like the US > supports your contention. > I guess I have to

RE: Winning the War on Terror

From: Ray Ludenia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you say it often enough, it must be true? Yea, Like Iraq=Osama Bin Laden It amazes me how this has become an accepted truth. Or Islam=Terrorist Or Refugee = Terrorist I suppose this sort of thing has a long history, but I thought we were gr

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I'm so confused . . . At 03:30 AM 4/6/04, Mike Lee wrote: Ok, we confess. John Doe and Mike Lee are the same person. Well, we're two personalities of the same person. If you ban us from this list, we will sue you under ADA. If you think it's hard listening to us fight,

Re: America the Theocracy

- Original Message - From: "Richard Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:16 AM Subject: Re: America the Theocracy > Dan said: > > > So, I guess the fact that officially atheistic countries, such as the > > USSR have ha

Re: Winning the War on Terror

- Original Message - From: "Andrew Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:08 AM Subject: RE: Winning the War on Terror > From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > snip > > >> democracy one day in the future. Ho

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

- Original Message - From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands > > Sonja > GCU: Top AND bottom posting is eviler still A sm

Shades of Grey (was Re: War on Terror)

--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You talked about Gautam thinking in black and white > terms. Having debated > with him over the years, I know that isn't true. A > number of conservatives > do; he doesn't. > Dan M. I wanted to thank Dan for his kind words, congratulate his excellent

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:47 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands Sonja GCU: Top AND bottom posting is evil

Re: America the Theocracy

> Of course not: it just means that such countries > will also be partly > responsible for some of the deaths this century, as > well as for many > millions of deaths in the last century. So how much blame should go on the Greeks then? Although their methodologies were sound, some of their theorie

Re: America the Theocracy

Damon said: > So how much blame should go on the Greeks then? > Although their methodologies were sound, some of their > theories were off the wall. I wonder how far science > was put back when people "re-discovered" this? Not so far as it was when those pesky Visigoths and Vandals and Huns wreck

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

- Original Message - From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands > Dan Minette wrote: > > >- Original Message - > >Fr

Re: Scouted: Universe Teeming with Elements of Life

I saw Scouted: Universe Teeming with Ele... and hoped it would turn out to be elephants. I was disappointed. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use a

RE: Winning the War on Terror

From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >--- Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >You _can_ make this argument, I guess, but actually >> >_making_ it makes you an apologist for one of the >> most >> >brutal dictators in human history

Re: America the Theocracy

- Original Message - From: "Damon Agretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:21 AM Subject: Re: America the Theocracy > > Of course not: it just means that such countries > > will also be partly > > responsible for some o

Re: America the Theocracy

> Not so far as it was when those pesky Visigoths and > Vandals and Huns > wrecked the Roman Empire, I imagine. The Roman Empire was not exactly the bright and shining bastion of knowledge of the ancient world either (especially at the time the Germans and Asiatics were doing their thing). The Rom

Re: America the Theocracy

> Your point is mostly valid, but I think even you > give the Greeks a bit too > much credit. Physica has horrid methodology, for > example. I think it has > to do with the concept that a gentleman doesn't > dirty his hands by doing; a > gentleman thinks. Doing is for slaves. Dan, I don't know

RE: Winning the War on Terror

From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] snip >What mild questioning? Your arguement that its hard to tell whether the >people in Iraq are better off than under Hussein indicates that either >Hussein wasn't such a bad fellow after all or the US is engaged in torture, >wholesale murder, insti

RE: Winning the War on Terror

Andrew, Your allusion to Barbarossa is flawed. When the Germans rolled into the Soviet Union, there were plenty of people that welcomed them as liberators, not the least of which were the Ukranians. Had the Germans been less racist and didn't look at the Ukranians and other ethnicities in the Sovi

Re: Winning the War on Terror

To add more fuel to the fire, anyone see this?: http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/ Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist "Monday, April 05, 2004 A coup d'etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. Al-Shu'la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and Kadhimiya (a

Re: America the Theocracy

Rich yapped thus: > Most of the people that the Vatican will have killed in the > end are alive today... > Christianity is responsible for *billions* of deaths in > the near future. Cool. You must have loved "Minority Report." Let's arrest the Pope. Dave __

RE: Winning the War on Terror

--- Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--- Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Gautam Mukunda > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gautam, its terrible what is happening in Iraq. I > dont deny your feelings on the subject, > and I dont

RE: Winning the War on Terror

--- Andrew Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Dan Minette > Firstly, I just cant subscribe to the view that I > have to give wholesale support > to the US actions or wear a "I Love Saddam" badge. > Cant I be upset why whats happening > in Iraq? Cant I ask questions without bing a > traitor?

Re: Winning the War on Terror

At 08:55 AM 4/6/04, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Ray Ludenia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > At least the people > > arrested aren't dropped into paper shredders now. > > Can you provide a (recent) reference to this having > really happened? As far > as I can find out, this

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

And I'm just LOL over the quantity of response I was able to generate. At 10:36 AM 4/6/04, Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [A

Re: Winning the War on Terror

- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:07 AM Subject: Re: Winning the War on Terror > Out of curiosity, you mentioned one year ago that if the number of dead crosses the 10,000 mark, you would consider

Re: Century City

Cancelled. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ "It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX." - Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1984. _

Re: Winning the War on Terror

- Original Message - From: "Andrew Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:25 AM Subject: RE: Winning the War on Terror > From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > snip > > >What mild questioning? Your arguement th

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

- Original Message - From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:51 PM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands > And I'm just LOL over the quantity of response I was able to generate

Re: Winning the War on Terror

- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: Re: Winning the War on Terror I missed writing a line. To clarify, My suggestion was/is: > 1) Increase efforts to rebuild Afghani

Re: Meta Level was Winning the War on Terror

Keith Henson wrote that times of trouble tend to make for a spread in xenophobic notions. He said that idea came from evolutionary psychology. Regarding evolutionary psychology, Gautam Mukunda wrote My problem ... It struck me as a "just so" story. This is true. I like the notion of `xeno

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

Ronn!Blankenship wrote: A> I'm so confused . . . n> d> At 03:30 AM 4/6/04, Mike Lee wrote: > t>> Ok, we confess. John Doe and Mike Lee are the same person. Well, h>> we're two e>> personalities of the same person. If you ban us from this list, we >> will sue m>> you under ADA. o>> s>> If you t

[ADMIN] Flakey network

We got an upgrade to our Internet connection yesterday, which seems to have pushed the line somewhat beyond its capacity. Thus, the list will be slow and flakey until this is resolved. Not sure when this message will even manage to get out, as the flakiness seems to have gotten worse in the l

Re: America the Theocracy

- Original Message - From: "Damon Agretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: Re: America the Theocracy > > Your point is mostly valid, but I think even you > > give the Greeks a bit too > > much credit. Ph

Re: Welcome to life in George W. Bush's America

Mike Lee wrote: Andrew, apologizating: Yea, you are right. Sorry.. Must have been something I watched over dinner. The way humans apologize is to say I'm sorry, I was wrong. And then shut up. Must be an Aussie thing - I found Andrew's obviously fake apology both made a point and amused me. May

Re: [ADMIN] Flakey network

In a message dated 4/6/2004 4:25:32 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > . Thus, the list will > be slow and flakey until this is resolved. Well, just don't point out who is more flakey than others! As for slow..I've been closing and reopening AOL for about an hour. Wi

Re: Winning the War on Terror

--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, the war met that criterion. Further, it is > clear to me that the number > dying every year is less than it was before...far > less. The US does have > some moral responsibility for the civilians killed > by the insurgents, but > not the same type

Re: Square Wheels

Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Interesting. And maybe useful in some specific cases. A train able to traverse steep inclines could be very useful, say in mine extraction. You could even nest conventional rails inside the "bumpy" tracks so standard rolling stock could be hauled out and handed over to a

Re: Square Wheels

Russell Chapman wrote: A train able to traverse steep inclines could be very useful, say in mine extraction. You could even nest conventional rails inside the "bumpy" tracks so standard rolling stock could be hauled out and handed over to a conventional train. Baked: http://www.cog-railway.com/

Re: [ADMIN] Flakey network

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus, the list will be slow and flakey until this is resolved. It *seems* to be resolved (if I may announce that on Nick's behalf.) His ISP "upgraded" his service, thereby rendering it completely non-functional for most of the day. Well, just don't point out who is mo

Re: Century City

>David wrote- >Did Brin cover whether or not dittoes could be jurors? On >the one hand, it seems as if jury duty would not be something >that actual people would want to do. On the other, there >could well be legal issues involved. > I don't specifically recall, however it would seem that if

RE: America the Theocracy

From: Fool > Let do some numbers. Al Qaida has killed how many people, > total? Lets be generous and say 10,000. How many did Saddam > kill? Lets be conservative and say 300,000. How many has > Vatican killed throughout the years? Lest be conservative > and say tens-of-millions. If you

RE: Welcome to life in George W. Bush's America

From: "Andrew Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Welcome to life in George W. Bush's America Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:24:50 +1000 I should not really be replying, but the verbose and witty way you

Re: Scouted: Universe Teeming with Elephants???

William T Goodall wrote: >I saw Scouted: Universe Teeming with Ele... and hoped it would >turn out to be elephants. I was disappointed. I have it on reasonably good authority that there are at least four of them out there... :) Jim And don't forget the giant turtle Maru

Re: Scouted: Universe Teeming with Elephants???

In a message dated 4/6/2004 6:30:24 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have it on reasonably good authority that there are at least four of them > out there... :) > > Jim > And don't forget the giant turtle Maru > And the stone monkey with the wooden mallet to drive

Re: Scouted: Universe Teeming with Elephants???

William Taylor wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>I have it on reasonably good authority that there are at least >>four of them out there... :) >> And don't forget the giant turtle Maru >And the stone monkey with the wooden mallet to drive the four corks >back in. >I mean otherwise he'd be for

Re: Winning the War on Terror

- Original Message - From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 1:27 PM Subject: Re: Winning the War on Terror > --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, the war met that criterion. Further, it is >

Re: Scouted: Universe Teeming with Elephants???

In a message dated 4/6/2004 7:25:27 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > That's still one of my all-time favorite jokes. I think I'll have to tell > that one to someone tomorrow. > > Jim > Potty humor Maru > > You know, I didn't know it was an old established joke. But

Re: Winning the War on Terror

Andrew Paul wrote: > You have lost me here. I either love Saddam and want him extradited to Australia > so I can vote him in as President, or I want him drawn, torn and quartered in front > of the > Lincoln Memorial? Cant I have something in between? Like something sensible? Doing it in front of

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands

Dan Minette wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands > > > > > Sonja > > GCU: Top AND

Re: Winning the War on Terror

Dan Minette wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:25 AM > Subject: RE: Winning the War on Terror > > > From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > snip > > > > >

Re: Meta Level was Winning the War on Terror

"Robert J. Chassell" wrote: > (And I cam up with the notion that a society would permit those savy > men to find out more about the enemy, to enable more spying, so as to > be better able to kill them -- in effect, to enable a few to be more > obvious about their xenophilia than before.)

Re: Meta Level was Winning the War on Terror

At 05:01 PM 06/04/04 -0400, you wrote: Keith Henson wrote that times of trouble tend to make for a spread in xenophobic notions. He said that idea came from evolutionary psychology. Regarding evolutionary psychology, Gautam Mukunda wrote My problem ... It struck me as a "just so" story. Thi

Re: Square Wheels

Dave Land wrote: > > Russell Chapman wrote: > > > A train able to traverse steep inclines could be very useful, say in > > mine extraction. You could even nest conventional rails inside the > > "bumpy" tracks so standard rolling stock could be hauled out and handed > > over to a conventional trai

Re: America the Theocracy

At 01:42 AM 4/6/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote: >Hasn't it been established by careful, rational debate on Brin-L that >all religion is Evil? > >Rich At 03:59 AM 4/6/2004 -0700 Richard Baker wrote: >Most of the people that the Vatican will have killed in the end are >alive today, because the Vatic

Re: Winning the War on Terror

- Original Message - From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:13 PM Subject: Re: Winning the War on Terror > Dan Minette wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Andrew Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Meta Level was Winning the War on Terror

At 05:01 PM 06/04/04 -0400, Robert J. Chassell wrote: snip By the way, evolutionary psychology tries to account for human psychology traits that were adaptive for hunter gatherers. These traits may map into modern conditions, but it's just happenstance. Some of them like capture-bonding--bet

Re: Winning the War on Terror

At 10:00 AM 4/6/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: >Estimates before the war were of >100,000 people dying every year as a result of Hussein's policy. Allow me to add to that. UNICEF estimated that 4,000 *extra* children per month were dying in Iraq because of Saddam, over 1.1 million since 1991

Re: America the Theocracy

At 07:29 AM 4/6/2004 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >Or, for that matter, the so-often forgotten major >contributions of the Catholic Church to scientific >research. At some point, there is a fine line between stupidity and trolling. I am not sure where that line is, or if its been crossed in th

Re: America the Theocracy

JDG wrote: > > At 07:29 AM 4/6/2004 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >Or, for that matter, the so-often forgotten major > >contributions of the Catholic Church to scientific > >research. > > At some point, there is a fine line between stupidity and trolling. I > am not sure where that line is,

Ringworld Miniseries on SciFi

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Re: Winning the War on Terror

> From: Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Al-Jazeera says that policemen in these cities have > sided with the Shia insurgents, which doesn't come as > a surprise to me since a large portion of the police > forces in these areas were recruited from Shi'ite > militias and we have talked about tha

Ditto Jurors, was Re: Century City

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >David wrote- > >Did Brin cover whether or not dittoes could be jurors? On > >the one hand, it seems as if jury duty would not be something > >that actual people would want to do. On the other, there > >could well be legal issues involved. > > > > I don't specifical

Long Drives and Open Roads

One of my favorite things in life is driving down the road less traveled. If I could figure out a way for people to pay me for driving around, getting lost, and drinking coffee in remote places...life would be good. If you have some free time, follow the link to THE road less traveled. And probab

Re: Winning the War on Terror

> From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You cannot equivocate between God > and the Devil, as Catholics used to (still?) say. > Just saying "grey area" over and over again like a > mantra is not judgment - it is a substitute for > judgment. You're right. Dog killed dozens of orders of magn

Re: Winning the War on Terror

Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > Law and order - They lived under a repressive state > > but they were used to that set up. Currently, they > > are not sure of who their enemies are or how to > > reduce the risk factor in their lives. This > > uncertainty can get tiring after an year. > > Perhaps, but t

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Re: Square Wheels

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Re: Dan says SS = SSA

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:03:24PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > > The mean length of the investment is just under 7 years from the site I > quoted. BTW, I tried clicking on my own reference, and it didn't work > properly. You need to go one level up to > > http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/invest