Re: Gmail

2008-01-21 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Oh, sorry, it's now the little arrow next to the reply link/button on the individual email. Used to be more options when I first wrote down the instructions. (I ended up not deleting things really.) One thing I'd like is a way to split threads, or close them to force them to restart... But I

Re: Gmail

2008-01-19 Thread Amanda Marlowe
On Jan 13, 2008 3:31 PM, jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with yahoo i can delete e-mails i don't want to save, but with gmail i lose the whole bundle. other e-mails i thought i deleted turn up in sent. the whole thing is a mess so i am back to using yahoo where i can click on photos

Re: USA bashing is fun

2005-08-22 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Now, the interesting question for me is, why does this essentially only happen in the United States? The US is the most religious industrial nation, so I have to ask - do Christian Third World nations even teach about evolutionary theory? Do they have debates over

Re: Overweight who diet risk dying earlier

2005-06-27 Thread Amanda Marlowe
William T Goodall wrote: *Analysis of the data showed that those who wanted to lose weight and succeeded were significantly more likely to die young than those who stayed fat* I'd really like to know how *methods* of losing weight correlated here. In particular, was this true no

Re: Imax 'shuns films on evolution'

2005-03-22 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Trent Shipley wrote: Fore example, after reading the article, the reader is no closer to understanding why the fictional Jurasic Park makes money and the educational Volcanoes does not. Because one is fiction, and can therefore be readily dismissed as harmless. Besides, it shows man walking

Re: first dark galaxy discovered?

2005-02-25 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16226 A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area in the universe containing a

Re: first dark galaxy discovered?

2005-02-25 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Amanda Marlowe wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16226 A British-led team of astronomers have discovered an object that appears to be an invisible galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter - the first ever detected. A dark galaxy is an area

Re: E-mail program questions

2005-01-11 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Erik Reuter wrote: Because when I su, it is frequently to configure something in /etc. And here I thought when people su-ed, they went to /court, not to /etc... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: So it begins.... Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time

2004-11-30 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Erik Reuter wrote: Another thing that amused me was that despite all the talk about Pullman killing God, it seemed to me that the entity in the story most similar to God (i.e., sharing many of the properties attributed to God, albeit one exception being that it can be seen) is Dust itself. One

Re: new hypercommentary.

2004-11-20 Thread Amanda Marlowe
- Original Message - From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip But I do need pre-readers to look it over before posting. If you are interested willing, let me know and I'll send a copy. ONLY THOSE WHO SPEAK UP TONIGHT, PLEASE. We'll endure. Accountability and enlightenment will survive.

Re: The Electoral College (Was: Re: 2004 Presidential Race Analysis)

2004-10-11 Thread Amanda Marlowe
I lost a chunk of my email over the weekend, so please forgive me if someone's posted this article before in this thread. This is a mathematical argument about why we should keep the electoral college that I stumbled across quite by accident the other day:

Re: Keeping America Afraid

2004-10-06 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Dave Land says: Folks, *Very* well-edited footage from the Republican convention answers the question How do you run a convention on a record of failure? http://www.coggins.org/gopconstrm.mov (Can't get the movie to load, but I'm assuming it's about your subject heading) This is an

Re: Brin: needing to set up a blog

2004-10-05 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Dr Brin wrote: On a Mac I am now looking at it using Netscape and MS/internet Explorer. Netscape cuts off the upper part including the blog title. Explorer crams my initial posting in a long column only a couple of words wide, at the right. In neither case is it easy to see any controls Some

Re: X-Prize Won!

2004-10-04 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Ronn!Blankenship asks: Anyone note the significance of the date? Sputnik! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Europe to study Pioneer gravitational anomalies

2004-09-01 Thread Amanda Marlowe
While the pendulum misbehaving during an eclipse seems, from what I've gathered, to be non-reproducible, I can't help hoping something comes of the Pioneer anomalies... Pioneer anomaly put to the test Physics in Action: September 2004 The European Space Agency is considering a unique experiment

Re: Speaking of Quantum.........

2004-06-20 Thread Amanda Marlowe
- Original Message - From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan, have you a link to a better description of what exactly was accomplished? TIA! Actually, I expected someone to shoot down this story. This proves 2 things: 1 That people don't understand QM very well. (Talking

Re: Latest Mars pic

2004-02-17 Thread Amanda Marlowe
thought you'd get a chuckle out of this from the sci.space.* newsgroups: http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~motl/mars_spiritcolor.jpg They look too large to be the same species that left the skull over by Spirit in the older NASA press release pic. The head shape is about right, though. You can

Re: Spot the fake smiles

2004-02-08 Thread Amanda Marlowe
I got 14/20, and my wrong answers were evenly split between genuine and fake. I found it interesting that I was predisposed to an answer even before clicking the play button, and that predispostion had a definite gender bias - Original Message - From: William T Goodall [EMAIL

Re: Newest spam tactics

2004-01-18 Thread Amanda Marlowe
On my 12th day on the internet, the spammers gave to me... 12 Porno promos 11 little blue pills 10 large fund transfers 9 password stealers 8 cheap perscriptions 7 Debt erasers 6 inch enlargments MAKE MONEY FAST! 4 hottest stock tips 3 cable descramblers 2 spyware finders And a spam filter for a

Re: Newest spam tactics

2004-01-18 Thread Amanda Marlowe
I quipped: On my 12th day on the internet, the spammers gave to me... snip And a spam filter for a small fee! Reggie asked: Which really has nothing to do with my question. If you don't mind me asking, are you the same Amanda Marlowe who wrote: http://www.toasted-cheese.com/ezine/1-5

Re: Stephan King

2004-01-07 Thread Amanda Marlowe
A friend had introduced me to King's Gunslinger series recently. Prior to that, I'd read Carrie, The Dead Zone, and The Stand, and decided I wasn't much of a Stephen King fan. After working through the earlier books in the Gunslinger series, I came to these conclusions: 1. King is a better

Spirit has landed!

2004-01-03 Thread Amanda Marlowe
It's even talking! http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/01/03/mars.rovers/index.html and http://www.marsdaily.com for latest news. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: 'nother riddle

2003-12-30 Thread Amanda Marlowe
- Original Message - From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: Re: 'nother riddle On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:29:15 -0700, Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Doug Pensinger

Re: You Know What Pisses Mo Off...

2003-12-30 Thread Amanda Marlowe
The actual link clicked was probably this one (or one like it): www.seehecht.com/see_vh_tsoc/see_vh_11092.html This redirects you to the amazon page. Isn't amazon's fault. (Can you tell I'm doing some serious procrastining here?) By the way, clicking very quickly and repeatedly on the back button

Re: You Know What Pisses Mo Off...

2003-12-30 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Amazon to kick back a bit to the seehect.com owner if someone buys. Amanda On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 06:34:59 -0600, Amanda Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual link clicked was probably this one (or one like it): www.seehecht.com/see_vh_tsoc/see_vh_11092.html Yea, that was it exactly

Re: You Know What Pisses Mo Off...

2003-12-30 Thread Amanda Marlowe
I previously said: -- The redirect link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304535376/bestellung-20/104-8042032-00 15944 The just Amazon link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-8042032-0015944 -- Hmm, sorry, didn't pay enough attention, that second link was just

Re: Very interesting emails....

2003-12-08 Thread Amanda Marlowe
Sorry to destroy a perfectly good consipiracy theory, but I suspect your code is merely random letters put there by whatever mass mailer the person used as an automatic defense against spam filters. In trying to set up a site's spam filter to actually be useful, I've been learning more about the