Brin: More privacy rights stripped away by the Fed Govt....

2005-03-30 Thread Gary Nunn
Dr. Brin, I thought you might find this interesting considering some of your recent posts concerning privacy, government and rights... This is an interesting and somewhat perplexing development in the rights to use private domain registrations with .US domains. As of Jan 6, 2006, one cannot use

Re: Brin: More privacy rights stripped away by the Fed Govt....

2005-03-30 Thread David Brin
--- Gary Nunn, Interesting I shall ask around about this at CFP Meanwhile thrive! db Dr. Brin, I thought you might find this interesting considering some of your recent posts concerning privacy, government and rights... This is an interesting and somewhat perplexing

Weekly Chat Reminder

2005-03-30 Thread William T Goodall
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

Re: reality glitches

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Alan Ackley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, David Brin mailed me the contact info for this mailing list group a few days back, Welcome to the list! I had a weird reality glitch reminiscent of the Matrix movie; Last month I visited Westaff, a temp agency I used to work for, at

Another case of Skiffy precience

2005-03-30 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/30mar_moonfountains.htm?list1119125 It's astonishing how prophetic some science fiction has been. Back in 1956, two years before NASA was even created, Hal Clement wrote a short story called Dust Rag published in Astounding Science Fiction, about two

Contract with America

2005-03-30 Thread d.brin
I've been looking for ways that Democrats could reach out rhetorically, using surprise and jiu jitsu. One that occurred to me seemed tasty... have a fresh look at Newt Gingrich's Contract With America. Why have the democrats done nothing about re-examining the Contract, 10 years later? In