Re: bikes v. cars

2007-10-04 Thread Charlie Bell
On 04/10/2007, at 11:13 AM, jon louis mann wrote: > > i ride a bike and drive so i can see both sides. i am of the > opinion that both groups exhibit extremely hostile and discourteous > behavior, at least in los angeles. Some do. The biggest problem with car driver in car-based cities is

Re: Cat free London?

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
> Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > >> Julia Thompson wrote: > >> But what about the Cat Who Went To Heaven? > > Is this another version of the joke about "The > Lawyer Who Went To Heaven" > > or "The Engineer Who Went To Hell"? > > No, i

Forget children's health, and the troops upon return...

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
Golly gee willikers, we *can't* pay for kids to get vaccines when we're at war! And we sure can't pay for those troops, coming home after so long, to get any better education either...heck, we hafta libel - uh, I meant LABEL - those with PSTD as having "personality disorder" to prevent that pesky

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
> Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Watching a Deep Space 9 episode, something caught my > attention. > > Quoting from: > http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vorta#History_and_Politics > > The Vorta believe, perhaps apocryphally, that they > previously > existed as small, timid, ape-lik

bikes v. cars

2007-10-04 Thread jon louis mann
The biggest problem with car driver in car-based cities is the general ignorance of rules applying to bicycles. Two abreast is legal just about everywhere, and a bicycle is *entitled* to the *whole lane*. Even in LA. Most cyclists stay towards the gutter out of courtesy, not because they hav

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-10-04 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Deborah Harrell wrote: > > Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance, > but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get > intelligent servants/companions is not His invention: > the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about > gengineered cats and was written sometime in the lat

Re: Forget children's health, and the troops upon return...

2007-10-04 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/4/07, Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Golly gee willikers, we *can't* pay for kids to get > vaccines when we're at war! And we sure can't pay for > those troops, coming home after so long, to get any > better education either...heck, we hafta libel - uh, I > meant LABEL - thos

It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far, and in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from missions: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19425/ ...Salmonella grown onboard the space shuttle was many times deadlier than its terrestrial c

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
> Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > and what about _Planet of the Apes_? > This is not Uplift, this is time-travel paradox. The > apes become intelligent because they inherit from > Caesar, > and Caeser is intelligent because his parents com > from > th

Re: Hybrid Cars: An unexpected complaint

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
> PAT MATHEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding a nice little purr to the hybrid motors might > prove to catch the > public's fancy, so maybe we're not just accomodating > 0.5% of the population. I've already been startled (and so was the horse, thank goodness it was Darby and not Cezanne) by

Re: It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
> I wrote: > Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far and > in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine > post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from > missions: I'd meant to look up a more technical article for those so-inclined; here is one: http://www.sciencedaily.com/release

Re: Forget children's health, and the troops upon return...

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 02:55 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: >http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=71741 >When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the >Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than >any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 >months and had been extended

Re: Cat free London?

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:08 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: >And Of Course King Of The Wind! I've heard that Beano can help with that . . . ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: bikes v. cars

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:55 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, jon louis mann wrote: >The biggest problem with car driver in car-based cities is >the general ignorance of rules applying to bicycles. > >Two abreast is legal just about everywhere, and a bicycle is >*entitled* to the *whole lane*. Even in LA. Most cyclists stay >to

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 03:34 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: >Not to underplay Himself's importance or brilliance, >but genetic engineering of 'lower' animals to get >intelligent servants/companions is not His invention: >the book I just referenced, _Breed To Come_ is about >gengineered cats Do you t

Re: It Came From Outer Space (sorta...)

2007-10-04 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 04:06 PM Thursday 10/4/2007, Deborah Harrell wrote: >Looks like the astronauts have been lucky so far, and >in retrospect justifies the extremes of quarantine >post-return (well, and pre-flight too) from missions: > >http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19425/ >...Salmonella grown onboard the