Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 9:17 AM, Rceeberger wrote: There are towns in southern Australia where they won't let people back in, due to the numbers of bodies still lying in the streets. They have to let the forensics teams in first. These towns are all quite rural, and there is just no way any

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Rob asked: Anyone know of a good way an American can be helpful? Probably not now. The worst problem in this kind of disaster is logistics, not money. Since December, the brazilian state of Santa Catarina - among the richest of Brazil, probable comparable with any european country in terms

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Charlie Bell
On 10/02/2009, at 9:50 PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: There were campaings to collect clothes, water, food, etc - and all the things that were donated were either stolen or incinerated, as the problem was not that they didn't have them, but that these goods couldn't get there - because the

Re: The trouble with conspiracy theories

2009-02-10 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 09:26 PM Monday 2/9/2009, Dave Land wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 06:53 AM Friday 2/6/2009, Pat Mathews wrote: http://counterknowledge.com/2009/02/the-trouble-with-conspiracy-theories/ Basic thesis: little conspiracies exist all over the place.

Re: Australian Fires and Floods

2009-02-10 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Feb 10, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Rob asked: Anyone know of a good way an American can be helpful? Probably not now. The worst problem in this kind of disaster is logistics, not money. Since December, the brazilian state of Santa Catarina - among the richest of

Re: The trouble with conspiracy theories

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Arnett
All global conspiracies are generated by a secret association of church officials and the Trilateral Commission, led byDick Cheney. Everybody knows that. I'm a registered participant in the truly evil, extremely secret top-posting conspiracy. Nick On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Pat Mathews

One way to get your name in print

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Arnett
Get laid off, get a mention: http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/careers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213001013 I'm on the second page. The author and I worked together 20 years ago at InfoWorld. Nick ___

Re: The trouble with conspiracy theories

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Land
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:26 PM Monday 2/9/2009, Dave Land wrote: On Feb 7, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 06:53 AM Friday 2/6/2009, Pat Mathews wrote: http://counterknowledge.com/2009/02/the-trouble-with-conspiracy-theories/ Basic

Re: One way to get your name in print

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Land
On Feb 10, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Get laid off, get a mention: http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/careers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213001013 I'm on the second page. The author and I worked together 20 years ago at InfoWorld. Evidently, you're following this

Re: One way to get your name in print

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Dave Land dml...@gmail.com wrote: Evidently, you're following this job-search rule: Don't be the looking-for-a-job guy, be the doing-interesting-things guy. Funny thing, the headhunter who recruited me for the position I'm interviewing for says that he

Darwinism

2009-02-10 Thread William T Goodall
With the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of _The Origin of Species_ this year there's been a lot of news coverage lately on 'Darwinism', and with the politicisation of the subject by religionists and the misdirection favoured by those trying to confound the matter

Re: Darwinism

2009-02-10 Thread Max Battcher
William T Goodall wrote: in _The New York Times_ 'Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live' is an example. Scientists don't talk about Darwinism, creationists do. I can't think of a recent example by just about anyone of the term darwinism that was outside of the phrase social

Re: Australian Fires and Floods, L3, ATTN Jo Anne

2009-02-10 Thread Doug Pensinger
Charlie wrote: Or give something to your local volunteer fire service. In a few months, it'll be the northern hemisphere on fire. So true. There were two fires in Santa Cruz county last June which, prior to that, had been known as asbestos county because of the lack of wildfires over the