Re: Keyboard fetish.

2005-11-03 Thread Julia Thompson
Gary Nunn wrote: An interesting article on the flu on MSN Health today. Typical stuff don't go to work sick, wash your hands, yadda, yadda, yadda.. My favorite part, was the last line in a string of things to prevent spreading the flu: -> During flu season, never let anyone lick your

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2005-11-03 Thread The Fool
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Re: Brin: predictions

2005-11-03 Thread Nick Arnett
Perhaps a better question is, are some *communities* right more often than most? On 11/1/05, David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree that most market computer models wind up > screwing themselves because the market has an immune > reaction, adapting to one participant's success. > > Stil

Re: Brin: predictions

2005-11-03 Thread The Fool
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "David Brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Holy incestuous Feedback Batman! > > > > > > It'll never work. Heisenberg had it right. > > > > > > SO you are saying that nobody is right more often than > > other people? > > > > Or that some people

Keyboard fetish.

2005-11-03 Thread Gary Nunn
An interesting article on the flu on MSN Health today. Typical stuff don't go to work sick, wash your hands, yadda, yadda, yadda.. My favorite part, was the last line in a string of things to prevent spreading the flu: -> During flu season, never let anyone lick your keyboard. http://

Re: Brin: predictions

2005-11-03 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "David Brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Brin: predictions > > > Holy incestuous Feedback Batman! > > > > It'll never work. Heisenberg had it right. > > > SO you are saying that nobody

Re: Revelation: 'Star Trek' Actor George Takei Comes Out

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Sharkey
Warren Ockrassa wrote: >But what really surprises me is that Takei was able to stay >closeted for so damned long. How can ANYone make it to nearly seven >decades in Hollywood without *someone* spilling the story? Well, it may have something to do with the fact that outside Star Trek circles, oc

RE: Michael Piller

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Sharkey
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: >Of course, Piller also gave us Voyager, for which there isn't much >excuse. But at least he gave us (in my opinion) the best pilot of >any of the five Treks, even if subsequently it was all a bit of a >mess. Quoted for truth. The Voyager pilot was so good, I quiver

Irregulars query: world map units sized by GDP

2005-11-03 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Please, can anyone tell me where to find online maps that display the world distorted so that countries, or better, provinces or counties, are shown according to the size of their economies (GDP or purchasing power parity or, better, in different maps, both - the one being a proxy for national infl