Re: Stop AOL from ruining email

2006-02-23 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Damon Agretto wrote: You know, with as many issues as I've seen with AOL at work, I'd just say the heck with 'em and tell people to get a REAL email service... They are closing activities in Brazil and South America. Nobody is crying for them :-) Alberto Monteiro

Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://wickedlasers.com/ For the last few months you have been able to buy lasers that could pop balloons, melt trash bags, cut electrical tape, and melt through plastic. It is a fairly interesting advance in materials science that allows consumers to do such things with an over-the-counter

Re: Hello...

2006-02-23 Thread Mauro Diotallevi
On 2/22/06, Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlie Bell wrote: I have this really weird urge to be ontopic. I'm sure it'll pass... ;) On topic? What's that? ;-) This list has a topic? Mauro D. All is Brin, even cuisine :-P ___

A Second Conviction

2006-02-23 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Several years ago, way back when the list was hosted by a major university, we had a conversation about our personal brushes with death or encounters with killers or somesuch. At that time I related 2 stories about my encounters with people who had or would soon murder others. The unrelated

Re: unbelievable

2006-02-23 Thread Klaus Stock
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created Yup. However, some people cannot tell a man from a bird - Klaus ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Stop AOL from ruining email

2006-02-23 Thread Klaus Stock
I've been on AOl since 1990, and my email address (my last name @aol.com) is something that I enjoy because I never, ever have to repeat it for anybody. So many people have stupid email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such nonsense. Mine is 12 characters, made up of two parts that

Re: Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Klaus Stock
For the last few months you have been able to buy lasers that could pop balloons, melt trash bags, cut electrical tape, and melt through plastic. And more easily blind people than the class 1 lasers. Want to kill someone? Wait till he drives past on th efreeway, point the laser at his eyes

Re: Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Charlie Bell
On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: To be clear, these particular devices have *some* potential for misuse, but I expect that the next generation of devices that will come on the heels of cheaper devices of this generation will have capabilities that could be problematic

Re: Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 09:12 AM Thursday 2/23/2006, Klaus Stock wrote: For the last few months you have been able to buy lasers that could pop balloons, melt trash bags, cut electrical tape, and melt through plastic. And more easily blind people than the class 1 lasers. Want to kill someone? Wait till he

Re: Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:54 PM Thursday 2/23/2006, Charlie Bell wrote: On Feb 24, 2006, at 12:15 AM, Robert G. Seeberger wrote: To be clear, these particular devices have *some* potential for misuse, but I expect that the next generation of devices that will come on the heels of cheaper devices of this

Re: Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Semi-OTC Lasers At 09:12 AM Thursday 2/23/2006, Klaus Stock wrote: For the last few months you have been able to buy