Re: feel a draft coming on?

2003-11-06 Thread David Hobby
Dan Minette wrote: ... I was considering it too. But my guess is that American politicians know that an actual wartime draft would be political suicide. (And unlike some other countries (e.g. Germany) we don't have it in our culture to accept a peacetime draft. Maybe if unemployment

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-06 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Andy-- I've done a little research, and I still don't buy it. You do mean EMP, and not HERF? (high-energy radio frequency) Even then, it doesn't sound like something you can just throw together in the field. You do seem to be a bit reticent on the details

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-06 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: ... Look, I don't want PLANS! I just don't believe you made it, and you've done nothing to dispel this. How about 20 questions? 1) Did it use an explosion? A capacitor. Which expoded once when I was test firing it. This design flaw fortunately was

Re: feel a draft coming on?

2003-11-05 Thread David Hobby
Miller, Jeffrey wrote: ... http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/sss092203.html Hmm.. maybe I'll try to get a spot on the local draft board, just in case... I was considering it too. But my guess is that American politicians know that an actual wartime draft would be political

Re: EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-05 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: On 2 Nov 2003 at 22:45, David Hobby wrote: Andrew Crystall wrote: ... My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like me) are trying to sleep, ... My reaction to s

EMP device? was 'The Burning Man'

2003-11-02 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: ... My reaction to such behavior was to inform the offender sweetly that if he uses that bullhorn one more time while people (like me) are trying to sleep, ... My reaction to s similar incident involved the one and only time I used an EMP generating device in the

Re: First Timers Telescope

2003-11-02 Thread David Hobby
Robert J. Chassell wrote: ... Do not buy anything with less than a 6 inch (150 mm) aperture (diamter of the lens or, more likely, main mirror). Smaller telescopes don't gather enough light, so they are only good with bright objects like the moon and planets, and even then, they are not so

Re: First Timers Telescope

2003-10-31 Thread David Hobby
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: My son Nathaniel (6) is asking for a telescope for Christmas this year. I am looking to spend about 100-150 dollars for it (I have always wanted one too!). What would be a good new model in that price range? What would be a good used telescope in that price

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

2003-10-23 Thread David Hobby
... So what about screen capture utilities? Microsoft has been making changes in the API's / DirectX to be able to give programs the ability to prevent this. The framework has been in place for quite some time. They can change all they like. As long as it is displayed on the

Re: [Listref] Microsoft launches self-destructing email (false)

2003-10-22 Thread David Hobby
The Fool wrote:. My understanding is that only outlook can open these messages. Microsoft has said it would also provide a small stand alone (DRM) app to open messages for users of other software. The Whole point is that it disallows other software from reading it. So what about

Re: Archbishop of Canterbury defends Terrorism

2003-10-16 Thread David Hobby
ritu wrote: The Fool forwarded: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10 /15/wbish15. xmlsSheet=/news/2003/10/15/ixnewstop.html Terrorists can have serious moral goals, says Williams ... So where, when and how does he defend terrorism? I have read the entire

Re: ATL: one cup coffee makers

2003-10-08 Thread David Hobby
Russell Chapman wrote: David Hobby wrote: You don't say if she brews once or twice a day. Unless she is a purist (whole beans in the freezer, ground fresh each time), she might be able to use a thermal carafe to save half the morning coffee to drink at night. Again, depending what a cup

Re: [Scouted] Maggots, Leeches, and Now -- Worms?

2003-10-07 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: ... at least with maggots or leeches they eventually LEAVE your body! ---David It's not a parasite, it's a symbiote! : ) grin Well, in most cases the worm eggs have to be taken every three weeks to keep the disease in remission;

ATL: one cup coffee makers

2003-10-07 Thread David Hobby
Kevin Tarr wrote: Change the header if it's wrong. (Could someone list the special headers we have/use/could use?) I have never drank coffee, but a relative does. She normally only drinks two cups, one in the morning and one at night. She buys one shot coffee pouches. Of course they are

Re: [Scouted] Maggots, Leeches, and Now -- Worms?

2003-10-03 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: Among the higher Eeeu!-factor medical treatments are the use of maggots to clean gangrenous wounds, and leeches for therapeutic blood reduction; now comes the lowly pig whipworm for imflammatory bowel disease(IBD). Good link. For me, it is grosser than

Re: RFID chips, was Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-30 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: On 29 Sep 2003 at 23:37, David Hobby wrote: destroy by washing machines and dryers. Or how about the printers that require specific brand ink cartridges that must have a chip from their own products to work (printer ink is 17 times more expensive than

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-29 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:02:26AM -0400, David Hobby wrote: Betting that dark glasses really are dark at all reasonable wavelengths. You'd lose that bet. Most dark tinted glass passes light above about 1000-1100nm. Oh. Good to know. Just to clarify

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-29 Thread David Hobby
So you think that would be the method? Just pick a wavelength where glasses/contacts are probably transparent, and work there. No idea. Like you, I wonder about resolution. It seems it would take some really good (expensive) optics to get adequate resolution from a distance.

Re: Names

2003-09-29 Thread David Hobby
Julia Thompson wrote: Catherine: We just liked the name, and there were a number of options for nicknames from it, so we could pick one to suit her personality once we had a feel for it. As it is, my mother is calling her Cathy, I'm calling her Catherine, and Dan is using one or the other,

RFID chips, was Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-29 Thread David Hobby
The Fool wrote: their keys, wouldn't work well if encased in a metal key, and if it is on the surface it is easy to remove From my experience they are keys with large black plastic encasings. Either way, they are required by the new cars to be able to start them. Yes, but

Re: Movie/TV related books: was (A bit of a rant)

2003-09-28 Thread David Hobby
G. D. Akin wrote: Wait a minute, I read _Fantastic Voyage_. It was a year or two before the film came out. Does that count? Not sure. The Star Wars and Star Trek (and the like) are franchises. Not really the same as novels that eventually become movies. But it wasn't. Here's

Re: Welcome to the Thompson Twins!

2003-09-28 Thread David Hobby
Jon Gabriel wrote: Congratulations Julia and Dan! Welcome too! But the title scares me--let's hope the group is completely forgotten by the time they grow up... ---David ___

Re: Opinion of split between the two Brin-Ls?

2003-09-28 Thread David Hobby
Nick Arnett wrote: d.brin wrote: Which is the official one, and what do you think of the split? Really? Are both active? I was not aware of this. I will pass this on to the people on the latter of the two, in hopes they will clarify. *This* list certainly is active... and

Re: The Eyes Have It

2003-09-28 Thread David Hobby
Marc Erickson wrote: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030515.html again. Morton's system can identify iris patterns through dark glasses or contact lenses and can do so almost instantly for thousands of people Sorry, I don't believe it. I guess you could use infrared or

Re: A bit of a rant (was SFBC)

2003-09-27 Thread David Hobby
G. D. Akin wrote: Top posting--deliberate. ... But, give me a break! I asked if the trilogies are worth reading. I get one non-answer and one, that does say yay or nay, but also informs me of the perils of CD clubs. I really expected some worthwhile comments about the trilogies since

Re: A bit of a rant (was SFBC)

2003-09-27 Thread David Hobby
David wrote: Got me, to my knowledge I've never read books set in a universe created for a film or TV series. Wait a minute, I read _Fantastic Voyage_. It was a year or two before the film came out. Does that count? ---David P.S.

Re: Derivation vs. Memorization

2003-09-21 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula... Can you derive it? Trivial. I ddn't memorize Cardano's formula, but I can derive it easily: eliminate term in x^2, x = u + v then eliminate term with uv. He did say quadratic,

Re: memorization vs. idea space position

2003-09-21 Thread David Hobby
... Thinking some more about it, it seems that new forms of math are as likely a candidate as any for ideas that cannot be expressed symbolically. But, I've never heard of a mathematical system who's rules exist, but cannot be described in terms of things already know to other mathematicians.

Re: No baby?

2003-09-21 Thread David Hobby
I'd like to have this over with, because it gets kind of tedious keeping track of the time of the last N contractions. Of course, in general, they've been in clusters where they're roughly an hour apart. 12-15 minutes apart is when we head out. The closest 2 were 25 minutes apart, and

Re: My sanity questioned

2003-09-21 Thread David Hobby
You're given a crossword-puzzle-grid, a list of numbers grouped by the number of digits in each one and then sorted in numerical order, and one number placed in the grid. You then try to logically figure out where each of the rest of the numbers fit in the grid. ... So, am I nuts? Or just

Derivation vs. Memorization, was Re: Girls more confident of success

2003-09-20 Thread David Hobby
Julia Thompson wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: --- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you have to memorize math too - you don't just figure things out every time you do a problem do you? Actualy yes, I do. OK, 2-part question: 1) Did you take Differential Equations?

Re: Derivation vs. Memorization, was Re: Girls more confidentof success

2003-09-20 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:49 PM 9/20/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: ---David Who somehow did memorize the quadratic formula... Can you derive it? -- Ronn! :) Certainly. Just complete the square

Re: W's_sneak_vote_on_Vouchers_during_presidential_debate_passes_by_1_vote_while_3_democrat_opponents_were_at_debate

2003-09-20 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Although I realize it's not the point the author of the article was trying to make, nor the reason it was posted to the list, a question which arises after reading the article is why there are apparently not any private schools available which emphasize that their

Re: 37 weeks plus

2003-09-19 Thread David Hobby
So, I made it to 37 weeks, and the babies seem to be quite healthy, which is what we wanted. Now, to just get them *out* Julia Good for you! Best wishes for the last big push. ---David ___

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-18 Thread David Hobby
Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:37:40 - David Hobby wrote: Germany had

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by a virus called Windows XP? THe procedure aborted when the partition thing didn't recognize the HD It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-16 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: David Hobby wrote: Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. : ) Not that that could happen any place else. Uh? Long democratic traditions??? Germany was a democracy from some time

Re: Irregulars Question: Linux over Windows XP

2003-09-16 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:47:35AM -0400, David Hobby wrote: It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP install second would probably work. But I bet there's a better way... The problem

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread David Hobby
Bryon Daly wrote: ... History never really does fully repeat itself. An American president has just announced almost a Marshall Plan's worth of spending on a country far poorer than Germany, two years earlier than Harry Truman did. But Iraq is far less stable and far more menacing, and the

Re: Scouted: reconstruction then and now

2003-09-15 Thread David Hobby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice find! Germany did have long democratic traditions to work with, though. It had just momentarily forgotten them. Not that long. Not really. What, 1848 doesn't count? Well, longer than Iraq, anyway. : ) ---David

Re: Trampoline bear

2003-09-14 Thread David Hobby
Andrew Crystall wrote: Almost as good as the flying cat... I'm not familiar with *that* one, but I'm intrigued now. Want it offlist? (it's 372KB) Anyone else? Andy Dawn Falcon Maybe. Is it this one? http://web.ms11.net/kittyclips/catfly.mpeg (More of a jump, really.)

Re: br!n: feudalism meme in america

2003-09-06 Thread David Hobby
Damon wrote: ... Of course I could go on to say that feudalism was an agreement between two men in which one did service for the other in exchange for land, and has nothing to do with rulership. But then, I don't think anyone really cares about history anymore, or getting it right... :(

Re: br!n: feudalism meme in america

2003-09-06 Thread David Hobby
Damon wrote: So feudalism was just a lot of private contracts? O.K.. But if one's choice is accept a serfdom contract or starve, isn't this in fact coercion? Technically serfdom is outside the bounds of feudalism because a serf does not do homage or swear fealty for his lands.

Re: those who can't, teach

2003-09-04 Thread David Hobby
Kevin Tarr wrote: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55 The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the

Re: Autism Article L3

2003-09-03 Thread David Hobby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to do a nice job capturing alot of previous discussion on list with the addition of some new angles Dee Nice article. Thanks! ---David — ’ “ ” ... ___

Re: Perfect Numbers

2003-09-03 Thread David Hobby
What is the smallest known odd perfect number? Is too! You could prove me wrong? There is a (large) lower bound, and no known upper bound. Do you have any idea about this lower bound? At least 10^300. See section 5 of: http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne/

Re: Test

2003-09-02 Thread David Hobby
Now, what can you tell me about the number 28? Julia It is nominally the number of days in a month. It is a perfect number, the only even perfect number that is a multiple of 7. (There are some LARGE odd perfect numbers that are multiples of 7, but they don't count. : ) )

Re: Perfect Numbers [was: Test]

2003-09-02 Thread David Hobby
Alberto Monteiro wrote: David Hobby wrote about 28: It is nominally the number of days in a month. It is a perfect number, the only even perfect number that is a multiple of 7. (There are some LARGE odd perfect numbers that are multiples of 7, but they don't count. : ) ) Uh? Really

Re: Test (28 perfect number)

2003-09-02 Thread David Hobby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I happen to be born on the 28th of May... And I on the 14th of December. Now, what can you tell me about the number 28? Julia ... All that may be true, but it certainly is not a 42, so who cares? As we have just demonstrated, the

Test

2003-09-01 Thread David Hobby
Sorry, just a test. My email is having problems, so I want to see if this message makes it into the archives. ---David What, you wanted content?! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-29 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem Personality Wheel,' with categories from Ortho-normal (your basic staid and sedate microbiology major

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread David Hobby
... I'm talking about sobig.f. I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And then they drop off suddenly at some point during the evening. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone *not*

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-28 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem Personality Wheel,' with categories from Ortho-normal (your basic staid and sedate microbiology major) on to Para-normal (included mushroom-tea drinkers) and Epi-normal

Re: ADMIN: Another test from Yahoo...

2003-08-27 Thread David Hobby
Nick Arnett wrote: Not sure if we're there yet or not. Somebody post to the list! If I weren't getting my own messages, this would be easier! I just got this--I'm posting right back. Yes, I read you loud and clear... Oops, it's dated Monday.

Re: Scouted: Programming Language Inventor -OR- Serial Slayer

2003-08-22 Thread David Hobby
Horn, John wrote: An aptitude test to determine whether you now the difference between a geek and a serial killer: http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz I got 6 out of 10. - jmh ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: [SPAM]Worm Week

2003-08-20 Thread David Hobby
Robert Seeberger wrote: I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else getting hits? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A16499-2003Aug19?language=printer New Fast-Spreading Sobig Worm Adds to 'Worm Week' ... I had about 60 come in, all nicely packaged as

Re: OT: Math and Science

2003-08-14 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: If one examines social realism, one is faced with a choice: either reject the subcapitalist paradigm of consensus or conclude that culture is used to reinforce hierarchy,... You lost me at subcapitalist! ---David

Re: Most Dangerous States--43 times

2003-08-14 Thread David Hobby
Dan Minette wrote: ... Mortality studies such as ours do not include cases in which burglars or intruders are wounded or frightened away by the use or display of a firearm. Cases in which would-be intruders may have purposely avoided a house known to be armed are also not

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-14 Thread David Hobby
I want the figure, and the plane, and the Evil Saddam Hussein Underground Fortress, ... I'd have a blast with the Falling Statue Playset, complete with Falling Statue Action. As for the Evil Saddam Hussein Underground Fortress, does it include an escape tunnel? JJ I think they

Re: Fight the Future: new RFID chips designed to withstanddrycleaning

2003-08-14 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: ... The only thing I can think of that might possibly work would be that each RFID chip delays a random amount of time before responding to a query from the reader (and this random time changes each time for each RFID chip that is queried). Then if the reader keeps querying

Re: Most Dangerous States, now 43 times

2003-08-14 Thread David Hobby
Robert Seeberger wrote: ... Evaluating the 43 times fallacy ...a study by Arthur Kellermann and Donald Reay published in the June 12, 1986 issue of New England Journal of Medicine (v. 314, n. 24, p. 1557-60) which concluded that a firearm in the home is 43 times more likely to be used to kill

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-11 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 06:57 PM 8/8/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: The United States should NOT have action figures of a sitting president. No, an _action_ figure should be portrayed as standing. -- Ronn! :) I swear I've seen a big stone one of Lincoln, sitting down. You

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

2003-08-11 Thread David Hobby
Jon Gabriel wrote: And now... an action figure. http://makeashorterlink.com/?M11532885 Jon GSV Just Can't Make This Stuff Up I kept thinking that it MUST be made up. But I still submitted the following review, which seemed to be a good line of attack: This is unprecedented,

Statistics, was Re: Politics, was ...

2003-08-09 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: ... deaths per hundred thousand per yearcause - 870U.S. death rate (total for all causes) So it would take 100,000 people alive today 100,000/870 = 115 years to all die? That's

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-03 Thread David Hobby
No, David, you proved my much larger point. Congratulations, _you_ are the perfect example for why the left has no relevance to American politics today. You pegged it in one - I do say you're an extremist too. If you really feel that it's reasonable to call the American flag a symbol of

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-03 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I feel it is reasonable to call the US flag a symbol of hatred, in the sense that many who wave it most fervently do so partially out of hate. You seem to have removed all of the modifiers from your

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-02 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: ... Katha Pollitt, among many other things, famously forbade her daughter from flying an American flag after September 11th because it was a symbol of, IIRC, jingoism and hate. If that _doesn't_ bother you, then it explains why the left has no traction in the United

Re: Clinton's Perjury *Again* RE: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-08-02 Thread David Hobby
John D. Giorgis wrote: ... Bob Z. said that no Democrat defended Clinton on this. In my mind, Bob Z.'s claim is patently absurd. Many Democrats did argue that any man would lie about adultery, and the only possible reason for making such a claim was to attempt to mitigate the charges

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-02 Thread David Hobby
is an extreme Leftist. David Hobby is a Leftist. David Hobby did not criticize Katha Pollit. Therefore, Leftists do not properly criticize their extremists. This argument has many flaws, but the most important one is that I do not have any clear idea of who Katha Pollit is, and might well have

Re: Harry Potter 5 (no spoilers)

2003-07-29 Thread David Hobby
Jim Sharkey wrote: Tom wrote: S P O I L E R S P A C E Why does Snape, who clearly abhors Voldemort and all the Death Eaters, still show any favor at all to Slytherin just because it's his own house, when it is full of people who at the very least sympathize with Voldemort?

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-29 Thread David Hobby
Ahem. ... You have also forgotten Poland, which is the second-largest country in Europe O.K., second in what sense, then? Russia, Sweden, Finland, Norway... are all bigger by area. ... Sorry, I stand corrected on that one ... And despite you snide remarks about

Re: Who Are the US's Allies? Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-28 Thread David Hobby
John D. Giorgis wrote: ... You are kidding about this. We had one true ally in this Britain. The other are either not major players or are anxious to please us (not a bad thing. Ahem. ... You have also forgotten Poland, which is the second-largest country in Europe O.K.,

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-27 Thread David Hobby
John D. Giorgis wrote: At 01:08 AM 7/25/2003 -0400 David Hobby wrote: Why do you think that Osama bin Laden objects to the same things about American foreign policy that you do? That's not a fair tactic in an argument. Actually, I think that it is the most salient thing

America in the Middle East, was: Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-27 Thread David Hobby
Dan Minette wrote: - Original Message - From: David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... No. We are dealing with a pathological minority, backed up by a large sector of public opinion in the Middle East. If we clean up our act, public opinion there will change. I'm in the middle

Re: Genetic fractions, was Re: The Case for a Marriage...

2003-07-27 Thread David Hobby
David Hobby wrote: The above would have been easier to state if we had general kinship terms based on degrees of genetic relatedness. Sibling, parent and child are all halves. Grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, half-sibling, and so on are quarters

Genetic fractions, was Re: The Case for a Marriage...

2003-07-26 Thread David Hobby
Julia Thompson wrote: David Hobby wrote: The above would have been easier to state if we had general kinship terms based on degrees of genetic relatedness. Sibling, parent and child are all halves. Grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, half-sibling, and so

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-26 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you think that Osama bin Laden objects to the same things about American foreign policy that you do? That's not a fair tactic

Re: The Case for a Marriage Ammendment to the Constitution

2003-07-24 Thread David Hobby
John D. Giorgis wrote: While I am sure that many of you will not support the first half of the proposed ammendment, (although I would point out that this first half does not rule out civil unions - such as the ones currently embraced by the gay community in Vermont.) Nevertheless, I

Re: Iraq's Nuclear Weapons - Clinton's '98 Statement

2003-07-24 Thread David Hobby
Brad DeLong wrote: David said: If wombats were credible WMD, he would have included them too. : ) ...thus giving me the chance to point out that I was responsible for: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi/2002/Oct/22#wombat Rich VFP A Colder War Yes, and thank

Re: The Case for a Marriage Ammendment to the Constitution

2003-07-24 Thread David Hobby
Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: At 07:26 2003-07-24 -0400, John D Giorgis posted a text containing the following: Gay marriage would cut the final cord that ties marriage to the well-being of children. It is a step we should not take. Our cultural forgetting of the meaning of marriage has

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-24 Thread David Hobby
Jon Gabriel wrote: ... Like it or not, if your policies make some people angry enough to kill themselves to show their displeasure, you need to rethink your policies. But this is not a very popular thing to say, and the Left does have some political sense. How about killing

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-24 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it did do a lot to cause the attack. And not by harmlessly distributing Britney Spears videos, either. Some of being targeted was because America was walking point for the West in general. But the US has

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-24 Thread David Hobby
Like it or not, if your policies make some people angry enough to kill themselves to show their displeasure, you need to rethink your policies. But this is not a very popular thing to say, and the Left does have some political sense. ---David

Re: Iraq's Nuclear Weapons - Clinton's '98 Statement

2003-07-23 Thread David Hobby
John D. Giorgis wrote: ... On December 16, 1998, Bill Clinton informed the nation that he had ordered military action against Iraq. No less than three times Clinton referred to Iraq's nuclear arms or nuclear program. Example 1: Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-23 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: ... A lot of it probably has to do with collapse of an ideology. September 11th was the deathknell of the modern American left. It simply had no meaningful response to the attack other than to suggest - either openly or by implication - that the United States had

Re: Fw: Congratuations for winning our lottery

2003-07-23 Thread David Hobby
Chad Cooper wrote: This is new class of scam. They attempt to get your bank account info to put the winnings into It is very fraudlent. NFH Robert Seeberger wrote: The scams are getting deep these days Mr. JANZEN LOT ROBERT DAYZERS LOTERIJ NL. [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're

Re: List Etiquette Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-20 Thread David Hobby
John D. Giorgis wrote: One of the original principles of this List is that it should be open to rough-and-tumble adult conservation. So long as Gautam is employing a semblance of rasoning and attempting to engage in constructive discussion, I think that there is nothing wrong with him being

History of sodomy laws

2003-07-20 Thread David Hobby
Here's part of a New York Times article, covering claims that strong enforcement of laws against homosexuality first began about 100 years ago in America. Interesting, but I'm not convinced. Comments? ---David

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-19 Thread David Hobby
--- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since his actions are producing the conditions for MORE terrorism rather than less, this is asking a bit much. THERE IS NO WAR ON TERROR. The United States has fewer than 1 casualities, civilian and military, since September

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-18 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Well, I am sorry about that. This is an issue that is striking a little close to the heart, though. There is a pervasive dishonesty that has crept into this issue where we have people actively crippling American war efforts for short-term partisan advantage - and a

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-18 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: So where do you get off claiming that politics must stop? Is it then unpatriotic to criticize Bush, for the next few years of the occupation? major snip--writing more does NOT mean you are right : ) As for what war - Al Qaeda and its various allies are

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-18 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: ... I even called the US President Mr. Bush, which took great forbearance.) If it takes you great forbearance to display that minimal amount of respect to the President in wartime, then I'm not the one who needs to get some perspective, David. 1) It is NOT

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-17 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: ... Monica Lewinsky. The most harsh interpretation fo the facts available is that the Administration honestly made a claim that has now been called into question. Not proven false, just called into question. The most plausible interpretation of the facts available is

Re: Irregulars query: air pressure in spinning habitats

2003-07-17 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: ... That way we won't get caught in a loop with me making math mistakes and you saying the result doesn't make sense to you but you don't want to work out the math. But actually doing the math makes it like WORK for me. : ) By the way, how did you know, before

Re: Seth Finkelstein on 16 words

2003-07-17 Thread David Hobby
Gautam Mukunda wrote: So your belief, David, is that Saddam Hussein, having expelled all inspectors from his country, decided Yes! Now is my opportunity to get rid of all of my chemical and biological weapons without telling anybody so that I can keep sanctions on my country.?

Re: Irregulars query: air pressure in spinning habitats

2003-07-10 Thread David Hobby
Erik Reuter wrote: ... The same as in case 1. Yes, I agree. P/P0 = exp[ - ( h / R )^2 / 3.45 ] Since h/R = 1/5 = 0.2, P/P0 = 0.988 (Although a pressure of .988 bar seems a bit high--a kilometer of height makes a much larger pressure difference on Earth.) As I said

Re: Irregulars query: air pressure in spinning habitats

2003-07-09 Thread David Hobby
Robert J. Chassell wrote: We may have interpreted the configuration differently. I interpreted C as meaning a torus, or donut, or `like the inner tube of a tire'. Agreed. The short columns must have the same pressure distribution as the long columns in the spokes,

Re: Religion Discussion, was God, Religion and Sports

2003-07-08 Thread David Hobby
Agnostic means not knowing, right? I don't really see that there is much to DISAGREE with there. You might personally KNOW, but should be open to the possibility that others don't. I'm not sure what you are getting at in the last paragraph. Let's change the topic

Re: Irregulars query: air pressure in spinning habitats

2003-07-08 Thread David Hobby
Robert J. Chassell wrote: ... For those figuring out the air pressure question, would there be differences if a) the structure was disc like, completely open on the inside (other than support structures) b) wheel like, with the rim having air and four (or x) spokes

Re: Religion Discussion, was God, Religion and Sports

2003-07-07 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 01:23 PM 7/4/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote: iaamoac wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a serious discussion of religion, we should probably all agree to adopt an agnostic viewpoint for the duration

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