Re: USA bashing is fun

Steve Sloan wrote: > > I'll grant you that doing day-month-year dates makes more > sense than what we do, but only slightly. Day-month-year is > still stupid, because it makes more sense for the highest-order > to be first, so it should really be year-month-day. That way, > you can sort on a comput

Re: Irregulars Question: mod format in Linux

Maru Dubshinki wrote: > >> Does anyone know wtf is a .mod file in Linux? How can I get useful things >> out of it? It seems like it's a zip-like bundle of stuff. > > Really, Alberto. I'm somewhat disapointed in you. > I tried to google it, but information overload sucked any chance I had to get a u

Re: USA bashing is fun

On 22 Aug 2005, at 1:35 am, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Today's biggest br newspaper has a huge story about the return of Creationism to USA classes. It has the general flavour of "look how those USAns are stupid to believe this nonsense". Alberto M

Re: Does the NYT EVER print anything that isn't dogawful tripe or Propaganda?

The Fool wrote: > [snipped nice list] Sluggy Freelance is my main daily strip. I would add: VGCats (.com) to your list; nothing like weird video game cats. Kevin and Kell (herdthinners.com) was started by a syndicated print comic artist and is purely online. Girl Genius (girlgeniusonline.co

Re: FLCL and Paranoia Agent

Steve Sloan wrote: Maybe it's just a way of passing the torch to The Batman. The Batman isn't a bad show, but it's not even remotely as good as Batman: Animated. The villains are much more shallow, for one thing. That sounds like the answer to me. There were a lot of people unsatisfied when B

Re: FLCL and Paranoia Agent

> From: Steve Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The Fool wrote: > > > Neon Genesis Evangelion (coming) > > That's good news. I keep hearing about that show, but I've > never seen it. > > > Gundam Seed > > Yup, that was worth watching. It reminds me of a Heinlein > juvenile, where kids have to le

Re: Irregulars Question: mod format in Linux

> From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does anyone know wtf is a .mod file in Linux? How can I get useful things out > of it? It seems like it's a zip-like bundle of stuff. It could be a music file. You could try finding linux mod player. ___

Re: Does the NYT EVER print anything that isn't dogawful tripe or Propaganda?

> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The Fool wrote: > > > Their are dozens of free / daily / archived webcomix. > > > > A few of the better ones: > > > > Pewfell (older behind barrier): > > http://www.moderntales.com/series.php?name=pewfell5&view=current > > > > Sluggy Freelance: >

Re: USA bashing is fun

Alberto Monteiro wrote: Steve Sloan wrote: I'll grant you that doing day-month-year dates makes more sense than what we do, but only slightly. Day-month-year is still stupid, because it makes more sense for the highest-order to be first, so it should really be year-month-day. That way, you can

Re: FLCL and Paranoia Agent

The Fool wrote: From: Steve Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CGI, I presume, like the other recent GI Joe movies? No. Anime. I don't watch / promote CGI. So I take it that Veggie Tales is right out as far as you're concerned? Julia ___ http://w

Re: FLCL and Paranoia Agent

> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Fool wrote: > >>From: Steve Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>CGI, I presume, like the other recent GI Joe movies? > > > > > > No. Anime. I don't watch / promote CGI. > > So I take it that Veggie Tales is right out as far as you're concerned?

Re: Physics question

- Original Message - From: "Maru Dubshinki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:48 AM Subject: Re: Physics question On 8/22/05, Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Minimum speed of time is the opposite: all possible acceleration, th

Pittsburgh Eagles

I went to the National Aviary in Pittsburgh on Saturday. They have two bald eagles there. Both of them are missing their left wings. Too darn ironic in Scaife's town. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voicemail: 408-904-7198 ___ http://www.mccme

Re: Mindless and Heartless

Is anyone interested in discussing GWB's accountability issue here? I'm getting more and more convinced that the powers that be want do defend him from interacting with anyone from the benighted masses in any situation that is not totally favorable to him. I think he deserves to spend a half-an-

Re: Mindless and Heartless

> Perhaps someone wants to argue that GWB > should *not* have to endure a half-hour > with her, and maybe even that he's not > accountable to her (or even the public). Why, because of her views, is half an hour with her more important than half an hour with her other son, or his father (both of w

Re: Mindless and Heartless

- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 5:39 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless > > > Perhaps someone wants to argue that GWB > > should *not* have to endure a half-hour > > with her, and maybe even that

Re: USA bashing is fun

Gautam Mukunda wrote: Now, the interesting question for me is, why does this essentially only happen in the United States? The US is the most religious industrial nation, so I have to ask - do Christian Third World nations even teach about evolutionary theory? Do they have debates over wheth

Re: Mindless and Heartless

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:39:30 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > Perhaps someone wants to argue that GWB > > should *not* have to endure a half-hour > > with her, and maybe even that he's not > > accountable to her (or even the public). > > Why, because of her views, is half an hour with her more importa

Re: Intelligent Design

On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: This site has lots of interesting rebuttals to those who promote ID, as well as claim global warming's a crock and so on. Cute. The guy behind the site seems to be a very decent guy. He's a nerd, too. I told him

Re: USA bashing is fun

On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:49 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: AM/PM is another weird way to express time. Why does 12 PM follow 11 AM? It makes no sense. Well, of course, meridian = middle, ad = before and post: after, so "ad meridian" means before the middle and "post meridian" after the middle. Of t

Re: USA bashing is fun

On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Today's biggest br newspaper has a huge story about the return of Creationism to USA classes. It has the general flavour of "look how those USAns are stupid to believe this nonsense". Now, the

Re: Mindless and Heartless

- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 6:23 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:39:30 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > > Perhaps someone wants to argue that GWB > > > should *not* hav

Re: Mindless and Heartless

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:56:45 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > > Others in the family bitterly opposed Cindy's stance. In a statement, > her sister-in-law - Casey's aunt - said that "the rest of the > Sheehan family supports the troops, our country and our president." > Cindy's surviving son begged h

Re: Mindless and Heartless

Dan Minette wrote: > > Finally, remember I didn't vote for him for president (I did pick > him > over a yellow dog for governor in '98). > What, Ann Richards? Why didn't you like that wonderful woman? xponent Rove Lies Maru rob ___ http://www.mcc

Moog dies

Synthesizer innovator Moog dies at 71 RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71. Moog died Sunday at his home in Asheville, according to h

Re: Mindless and Heartless

- Original Message - From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 8:43 PM Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless > Dan Minette wrote: > > > > Finally, remember I didn't vote for him for president (I did pick > > him > > over a yello

Re: Mindless and Heartless

Dan Minette wrote: Finally, remember I didn't vote for him for president (I did pick him over a yellow dog for governor in '98). Who was running against him then, again? (Does anyone remember the name?) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/ma

Re: FLCL and Paranoia Agent

The Fool wrote: From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Fool wrote: From: Steve Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CGI, I presume, like the other recent GI Joe movies? No. Anime. I don't watch / promote CGI. So I take it that Veggie Tales is right out as far as you're concerned? Searc

Re: Mindless and Heartless

Robert Seeberger wrote: Dan Minette wrote: Finally, remember I didn't vote for him for president (I did pick him over a yellow dog for governor in '98). What, Ann Richards? Why didn't you like that wonderful woman? W. defeated Richards in 1994. Sheesh! I voted for Richards at every ava

Re: USA bashing is fun

--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 21, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > --- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > In part, it is because there are well-organized, > well-funded groups behind the USA's anti-evolution > crusade. > > Dave This is, however, a resp

Re: Mindless and Heartless

On 8/22/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 6:23 PM > Subject: Re: Mindless and Heartless > > > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:39:30 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > >

Re: Mindless and Heartless

On Aug 21, 2005, at 7:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/20/2005 10:30:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then this is a big difference between you and me. While you've been going on and on about subtle anti-semitism, you probably haven't felt its effects,

Re: Moog dies

At 09:53 PM Monday 8/22/2005, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: Synthesizer innovator Moog dies at 71 RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- Robert A. Moog, whose self-named synthesizers turned electric currents into sound and opened the musical wave that became electronica, has died. He was 71.

Re: Moog dies

In a message dated 8/22/2005 8:59:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone yet suggested that it was caused by exposure to EM fields? No, but he did have a high FFRR. Vilyehm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/li

Re: USA bashing is fun

On Aug 22, 2005, at 8:11 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: A couple of the other posters suggested an answer, though. It is a truism said so often that people forget its meaning that American politics are far less elite-driven than those of other democracies (see, for example, the death penalty debate

This post made in honor of Ronn

An example of the true value of a Harvard education, drawn from a recent post on the Harvard Boston recent grads email list, as part of a request for a roommate: "Looking for someone similar to the two of us already in the house: mid-20's young professional or grad student. Someone who is clean, r

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: So, does anyone have any ideas as to new _roles_ for toilet paper? Apparently the old one isn't sufficient anymore :-) Well, the second most common role for toilet paper has been petty vandalism of neighbors' houses. (Years ago a friend of m

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An example of the true value of a Harvard education, > drawn from a recent post on the Harvard Boston recent > grads email list, as part of a request for a roommate: > > "Looking for someone similar to the two of us already > in the house: mi

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: Thusly, we must change the "role" which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such as the nostrils, or the mouth, other bodily orifices. Oh, I see, so its proper role, according to you, is cleaning? What a typically phallocentric white-ma

Re: Physics question

On 8/22/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If a physicist were here, > > There are at least two physicists here: Rich and myself. I've only been > active on the list for about six years, so maybe you didn't notice that I'm > here. :-) I did not know that. There really should be a sho

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

--- Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive > youngster, a shining > example of the further march of liberty: this > wimmin, or persun, is > advocating that toilet paper be liberated from its > constricted role of > cleaning our bottoms. They ho

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On 8/23/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: > > > Thusly, we must change the "role" > > which toilet paper plays to clean other areas, such as the nostrils, > > or the mouth, other bodily orifices. > > Oh, I see, so its proper role,

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On 8/23/05, Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clearly what we have here is a rather progressive > > youngster, a shining > > example of the further march of liberty: this > > wimmin, or persun, is > > advocating that toilet paper be libera

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

--- Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didja like how I threw in some legitimate > scholarship like Freud's > anal fixation theories of sexual maturation, and the > Great mother > religious motif, and Jung's shadow, just to > camouflage the nonsense? > > ~Maru Heck, judging by some of th

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: Didja like how I threw in some legitimate scholarship like Freud's anal fixation theories of sexual maturation, and the Great mother religious motif, and Jung's shadow, just to camouflage the nonsense? Since that's how it's usually done by gr

Re: This post made in honor of Ronn

On 8/23/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 22, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote: > > > Didja like how I threw in some legitimate scholarship like Freud's > > anal fixation theories of sexual maturation, and the Great mother > > religious motif, and Jung's shadow, just t