As Steve said,
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of
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Reminder re: my 3rd final political essay at:
http://www.davidbrin.com/realculturewar1.html
It's getting a lot of traffic. Now if only I could get into the
heads of the old-style moderate conservatives like George Will, who
are looking for a new approach..
Next
On Dec 7, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On Dec 7, 2004, at 3:15 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Interesting analyses of the Decalogue from many PsOV:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_10co.htm
Thanks, Warren.
:D
I think sometimes that there is a feeling among those with faith that
atheists
Big Blue is going red: IBM has sold its personal computer division to a
Chinese company.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45273-2004Dec7.html
Excerpt:
IBM Sells PC Business to Chinese Firm in $1.75 Billion Deal
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 8,
On 8 Dec 2004, at 7:55 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Big Blue is going red: IBM has sold its personal computer division to
a Chinese company.
I guess Dell is now making 'Lenovo-compatible Personal Computers'
instead of 'IBM-compatible Personal Computers' ...
--
William T Goodall
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Possibly in a few more years the company will be
able to hire cheap
technical labor from some third-world economic power
to keep everything
competitively profitable. Wonder if the US will be
the third-world
economic power in question.
There's a lot of that going on...my company is
On Dec 8, 2004, at 11:42 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
I think sometimes that there is a feeling among those with faith that
atheists are underinformed or don't know what they're turning away
from,
or why, etc. Also that an atheist regards religious teachings as
worthless. I don't; I consider them
On Dec 8, 2004, at 3:00 PM, Dave Land wrote:
Sometimes it takes someone outside a system of thought to help those
within see it clearly. One of the things I like about being a Methodist
is that the denomination prides itself on open-mindedness. I'm certain
that my pastor would appreciate the
That might or might not be true. Doesn't do a g*ddamned thing for anyone
who's lost employment, benefits and so on as a result of cheap-bastard
money-grubbing CEOs.
HAH! They kept me in temp status since I started there so they WOULDN'T
have to give me benefits. Although the temp agency
On Dec 8, 2004, at 4:48 PM, Damon Agretto wrote:
Compassionate Conservatism doesn't look so good when you've spent more
time unemployed or underemployed than otherwise...
I've been dying to post the following quip for some time, but it seems
especially apt in reply to this comment:
A large
At 10:58 AM 12/8/2004 -0800 d.brin wrote:
Now if only I could get into the
heads of the old-style moderate conservatives like George Will, who
are looking for a new approach..
Of course, George Will is so self-evidently looking for a new approach that
he publicly endorsed George W.
On Dec 8, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
Thanks again, Warren, for getting me out of my usual ruts of thinking.
I hadn't thought you were in a rut, but you're welcome.
I get a little too attached to my ideas, and it's always good to have
someone shake 'em up a little.
(BTW did you look
On Dec 8, 2004, at 6:46 PM, JDG wrote:
(Did I just hear right? We put in charge of the agency charged with
defending the US against terrorism, a man who was a lackey for the
only country and regime that ever succeeded in perpetrating a major
terror attack upon our soil?
Funny, I thought that
At 06:51 AM 12/7/2004 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
Unless of course one is only allowed to post thought-provoking articles
that one agrees with on this List.
As if. This seems to me to be a straw man.
Straw Man?I was accused of the following:
JDG may want to have both ways: he posts (I read:
At 06:59 PM 12/8/2004 -0800 Dave Land wrote:
(Did I just hear right? We put in charge of the agency charged with
defending the US against terrorism, a man who was a lackey for the
only country and regime that ever succeeded in perpetrating a major
terror attack upon our soil?
Funny, I
- Original Message -
From: JDG [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: Brin: Call this Security?
No, Dr. Brin, it was not a mistake. For some reason unbeknowst to
me, I
actually clicked on the
On Dec 8, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
What's really disturbing is the fact that this is hardly reported in
our own country and you have to go to foreign papers to get any news
at all about the election.
No, what's disturbing is that when these facts are reported, they're
blown off
On Dec 8, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Dave Land wrote:
(BTW did you look over the stuff from the tencommandments.org kooks?
Spooky. They're ready to crash a few airplanes themselves, it seems
like.)
I've heard about various let's replace the Constitution and laws of
the USA with the 10 Commandments types,
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Dave Land wrote:
Sometimes it takes someone outside a system of thought to help those
within see it clearly. One of the things I like about being a Methodist
is that the denomination prides itself on open-mindedness.
Not open-minded enough to refrain from defrocking a
Dave Land wrote:
Which Ten Commandments? From Positive Atheism:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
Dave
How interesting that Catholisism has deleted the graven image commandment
altogether. I wonder what the history behind that is?
--
Doug
On Dec 8, 2004, at 11:54 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Dave Land wrote:
Which Ten Commandments? From Positive Atheism:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/crt/whichcom.htm
Dave
How interesting that Catholisism has deleted the graven image
commandment altogether. I wonder what the history behind that is?
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