Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-04 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 10/3/05 11:49 AM, "Gibson Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the topics covered I'm going on my merry way knowing you disputed > very little of what I put forth. As I find my morning unexpectedly > free of responsibility I can turn some attention to this and I'll > respond to what you

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-04 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 10/3/05 6:30 PM, "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fortunately the original purpose has prectically no relation to DBAs > current purpose, now that racism is no longer in vogue. I'm still not all that hip on the "it was conceived for the wrong reasons, but now it's OK" line of thi

Fear The Future[tm]: View-Once DVDs From Microsoft Promise More Petroleum Waste

2005-10-04 Thread David Land
Folks, Some ideas are so stupid that they should be quietly killed before they see the light of day. I think I found one: View-Once DVDs. Reminds me of a very funny piece by Colin McEnroe: "Why Gasoline Costs So Much" (http://tinyurl.com/czvfu). The DVD story is below, with link to original

Re: Action Alert: Ensure Fair Wages for Hurricane Victims!

2005-10-04 Thread Matthew and Julie Bos
On 10/3/05 6:52 PM, "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know what you are saying. Electricians in NO make $22.09 /hr. This > is comparable with Houston and is a fair wage for skilled electrical > work in the commecial enviroment here in a Southern city. Compare that > with the $40.00/

Murder Capital Of the World

2005-10-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Chuck was sitting in an airplane when another guy took a seat beside him. The new guy was an absolute wreck... pale, hands shaking, biting his nails and moaning softly in fear. "Hey, pal, what's the matter?" Check asked. "Oh, man... I've been transferred to Detroit," the other guy answered. "Th

Re: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-04 Thread Robert Seeberger
Horn, John wrote: >> Behalf Of Robert Seeberger >> >> I definately agree, but suggest that spiders should be treated with >> caution in every case. Rattlesnakes tend to run from you also, but >> I >> wouldn't suggest to anyone that they are mostly harmless. But >> that >> is the gist of Snopes BR

Re: Brin: So it's come to this . . .

2005-10-04 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On 10/4/05, Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I stopped by a local Dollar Tree. Didn't find > the main thing I was hoping to find there today, > but they did have a whole bunch of hardback copies of _Kiln People_. Am I imagining this, or did I read somewhere that there going to be a

RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders

2005-10-04 Thread Horn, John
> Behalf Of Robert Seeberger > > I definately agree, but suggest that spiders should be treated with > caution in every case. Rattlesnakes tend to run from you also, but I > wouldn't suggest to anyone that they are mostly harmless. But that > is the gist of Snopes BR article. No, definitely no

Brin: So it's come to this . . .

2005-10-04 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
I stopped by a local Dollar Tree. Didn't find the main thing I was hoping to find there today, but they did have a whole bunch of hardback copies of _Kiln People_. (I also went to a Wal-Mart which is not the closest one to where I live because I wanted to get something I had seen in the pa

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-04 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On 10/4/05, Mauro Diotallevi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip} > That, of course, should be either [snip] or {snip}. Mauro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The dark side of faith

2005-10-04 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On 10/3/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The LA Times has picked up on the story... > > http://tinyurl.com/7fxny > > "The dark side of faith > By ROSA BROOKS > IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much religion may be a dangerous thing. [snip} He found that the most religious democracies exhi

Re: Arachnophobia (was RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders)

2005-10-04 Thread Jim Sharkey
Mauro Diotallevi wrote: >On 10/3/05, Jim Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe I should have taken Psych 101 as an elective in college >>instead of Shakespeare. :-) > Both classes would cover much of the same ground... :-) I had much the same thought after I sent that message. There's pro

Re: Arachnophobia (was RE: Help!: fleas, dogs & spiders)

2005-10-04 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On 10/3/05, Jim Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe I should have taken Psych 101 as an elective in college instead of > Shakespeare. :-) Both classes would cover much of the same ground... :-) Mauro ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinf

TRIPPED over: Exo-psychology

2005-10-04 Thread Leonard Matusik
For those who like that sort of thing. I haven't read it since I was in high school For most though, Doctor Leary is an aquired taste ..and the site it's posted on is just ,well; diversionary...to say the least... http://www.futurehi.net/docs/Exopsychology.html LJM [EMAIL PROTECTED]