Re: Teen to be arrested for "blaster" attack

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, Dan's aunt is getting a used computer from one of her sons. Last I heard, she wanted Dan to help her get set up with that, but that hasn't happened yet; maybe her son helped her. Everyone in the family was hoping she'd get an internet connection so's

Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:19:53 -0500 At 08:02 PM 8/24/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.dru

Re: Brin: Religion is Funny and Must Be Enjoyed

Hi, Dr. Brin!! Thanks for the reminder. Much, very much to my dismay my schedule won't allow me to make it to the Con. I would've loved to see the Hugo awards presentation and everything else. :-( Thanks for the offer, though. JJ From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discuss

Re: If you aren't careful in Brazil.....

From: "Jon Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=3315021 Say What? Man with Ear Ache Gets Vasectomy Excerpt: A manager at the Doctor Jose Carlos de Espirito Santo clinic in the town of Montes Claros in southeastern Minas Gerais State to

Re: Scouted: 10 ton whale leaps aboard British sailboat

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo" wrote: > > >Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > >>http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/20/holiday.wale.reut/index.html > >> > >>Excerpt: > >>Whale Leaps Aboard Sailboat >

Re: Scouted: 10 ton whale leaps aboard British sailboat

Jon Gabriel wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/20/holiday.wale.reut/index.html Excerpt: Whale Leaps Aboard Sailboat Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Posted: 11:15 AM EDT (1515 GMT) The 10-ton humpback whale leapt out of the water onto the boat. Sea World escapee maybe? ;-) JJ __

Re: Worm Week

From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And you can't even blame some banned ex-listmember... O:-) Alberto Monteiro .. H... Could it be? Nh.. JJ _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http:

Re: Worm Week

From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:15:53PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else > getting hits? I've had about 10 today on my Linux box. Stupid worms, don't they know they can't run on Linux? :-) You compla

Re: insomnia

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doesn't GNC have some kind of card or something you pay to get, and on certain days you get a %age off? I used to get papaya tablets there, to take if I got bruised badly. It helped some. I'd be very cautious about taking it right now, though. Julia try

Re: insomnia

Hi, Julia! Thanks for the kind reply. :) From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tryptophan got pulled from a lot of places sometime around 1990. (1989? I was using it in late 1988, early 1989, and it helped me some -- but it could have been placebo effect, for all I know.) Never tried Melaton

Re: Tryptophane and eosinophilia myalgia syndrome, was Re: insomnia

From: Sonja van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Contaminated tryptophan killed a couple of people. The FDA tracked the problem I think. Did find this on the subject http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-tryp1.html http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-ltr1.html

Re: insomnia

From: Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- "Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you wish to experiement with a non-drug solution for a sleep > disorder,have you tried Melatonin? Doesn't do much for me, but I hear it > does wonders for others.

Re: Drugs (was Most Dangerous States)

From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ronn!Blankenship wrote: The wrongness of our approach to this problem seems so blatantly obvious to me that I have to be suspicious of the real motives behind drug prohibitions. Doug According to your theory, which would these be? JJ _

Re: insomnia

Hi, Kevin! :) From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm saying insomnia, because I should be asleep, but not tired at all. I sympathize strongly. I seldom sleep more than 4 or maybe 5 hours a night. I only sleep 7 or 8 hours on friday nights, but by saturday and sunday I'm back to my insomniac

Re: Vatican told bishops to cover up sex abuse

From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/ 0,6903,1020400,00.html?=rss "The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church. The Observer has obtained a 40-year-o

Re: This Tiger Has No Teeth

From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll say again, the story is slow and ponderous, perhaps in an attempt to build suspense, but, instead, it builds boredom. The plot is contrived and the conclusion, while screaming loudly and clearly "sequel", is empty and unsatisfying. This is Clancy's leas

Colorado Is For... ??

Gang: I need your knowledgeable advice and opinions on a topic which, for me, is most sensitive. I have two very good friends moving to Golden, Colorado. How good is: a. Public education b. Quality of life c. Safety d. etc. For the residents of the state of Colorado? If you know about the part

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

From: David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip

From: "Jon Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:51:59 -0400 And now... an action figure. http://makeashorterlink.com/?M11532885 Jon GSV Just Can't Make This Stuff Up Personally, I'm holding on to my money until they release the "Heroes of Desert

Re: AOL has problems

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My initial reaction to the subject line: "No ***, Sherlock . . . " --Ronn! :) What goes up, must come down. Long Live Compuserve :-) JJ (I miss my Sysop Flags) _ Add photos to your

Re: Death of Saddam's Sons

From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/jul/22/072209695.html Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died in a blaze of gunfire and rockets Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on a tip from an Iraqi informant, stormed a palatial villa in northe

Re: Admin: Strange day for computers here

From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks like Brin-L was off the air for the last few hours, but I have no idea why. All I can imagine is that my business partner might have accidentally killed the list server software while we were scrambling to try to fix a totally different problem. Wel

Re: New pictures of Jose

From: Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've just added a couple of pictures of Jose to the memberpix page. Thanks to a lot of help from Dean and Dee, I came up with a silly title for the first picture. The other picture is a pretty cool cartoon: http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi?p

Thanks! (Was Re: Revealed: food companies knew products wereaddictive)

From: "Bryon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Revealed: food companies knew products were addictive Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:48:31 -0400 Welcome back, Jose! I'd been wondering why I hadn't seen any posts from you

Sources, Anyone? Memetics, etc...

Greetings from the warm Caribbean to all... I am currently developing essays with one of my students, for possible publication. I'm interested to know if any of our knowledgeable list members can point me in the right direction for information, resources, etc. on the following topics: 1. Memet

Re: Revealed: food companies knew products were addictive

From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Revealed: food companies knew products were addictive By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent (Filed: 13/07/2003) Multinational food companies have known for years of research that suggests many of their products trigger chemical reactions in the bra

Re: UT to have dropout as commencement speaker

From: Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But does an "honorary" degree mean anything? I got mine the hard way, and I would hope all those hours studying and selling text books for beer money mean something! Damon. I think they have nothing but sentimental value for those who receive it. Assuming they c

Re: The right to know: (was CNN morons.)

From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jon Gabriel wrote: > > There was a riot in Spain during a protest yesterday. > I love these riots to protest against violence :-) Alberto Monteiro These events always remind me of an obscure link in an early Python episode. Eric Idle, playing John Lennon,

Re: UT to have dropout as commencement speaker

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I read in today's paper that this year's commencement speaker at The University of Texas at Austin is someone that dropped out of that institution and never got a degree. Julia A large amount of college dropouts from very prestigious institutions are calle

Re: The right to know: (was CNN morons.)

From: Sonja van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You could say I suspect some of the reason for the war against Irak is, besides its strategic position in the middle east, the enormous amount of oil the country has. The fact that only humanitarian reasons are fronted for undertaking such very extr

Re: New list members

From: "Joshua Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm an old folk, returning after a year's hiatus. I'll mostly be lurking but I might jump in occasionally. The world is in desperate need of some intelligent discussion right now. Given the nature and range of topics covered on this list, I would be bold

Re: The World's First Brain Prosthesis

From: "Han Tacoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The World's First Brain Prosthesis By DUNCAN GRAHAM-ROWE Posts like these are one of the reasons for being addicted to the list. Thanks, Han. Any device that mimics the brain clearly raises ethical issues. The brain not only affects memory, but your mood,

Re: Tropical US Politics [Was Re: br!n: Re: a call to theirregulars!]

From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How about some numbers? Why not? Take your pick. You have infinite choices!! JUST KIDDING! ;-) (A little math humor..) What percent of your income goes to various taxes (social security, medicare, equivalent of Federal income tax, equivalent of state income t

Re: Re: Tropical US Politics [Was Re: br!n: Re: a call totheirregulars!]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to review, the US regularly lets the Puerto Rican vote on their status, and they have chosen the status quo every time. Like I stated on an earlier post, this is just not a correct assesment of the situation. We have yet to see the final referendum in which we have

Re: Tropical US Politics [Was Re: br!n: Re: a call to theirregulars!]

From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, let me quote from http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=2&query=puerto+rico+taxes+&rsource= INK&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwelcome%2Etopuertorico%2Eorg%2Fgovernment%2Eshtml Hi, Dan. Thanks for bringing these sources to my attention. I love it when I read th

Re: Tropical US Politics [Was Re: br!n: Re: a call to theirregulars!]

From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So, you pay taxes to the US government, but you don't get a say in who will be in that government, and you don't get a say in how your tax dollars are spent. No insult intended, but this sounds like Puerto Rico's primary function is that of a milk cow

Re: br!n: Re: a call to the irregulars!

From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 18:24 13-03-03 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: Roughly, it was 200 pages. I normally read in the 100-125 ppm range, but this was faster. . Reading at over 125 pages per minute? Wow! I've heard of speed-reading, but this redefines the whole concept!

Tropical US Politics [Was Re: br!n: Re: a call to the irregulars!]

From: Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo" wrote: > Well, P.R. has been a proud colony/commonwealth of the United States for > more than a century, so :) This reminds me of a question that came up in a discussion I was just having with a co-worker.

Re: SCOUTED: Kid Fiction from Roddenberry

From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Future question: suppose someone develops a voice system that can take all that DeForest Kelley said in movies and the TV show, and can translate any dialogue typed in to sound like him. I'm not talking about clipped, obviously computer speech, but perfect s

Re: br!n: Re: a call to the irregulars!

From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Wait.. does that mean that all Ph.D's are *not* two-dimensional? No, just the ones from PR. Dan M. Well, P.R. has been a proud colony/commonwealth of the United States for more than a century, so :) JJ

Re: br!n: Re: a call to the irregulars!

From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So let's discuss it. Do any of you have access to more information > about this awful thing? A web site? A list of the producers? Plot > summaries? I actually took an hour to read the novelization of THE CORE. That's all it took? All of one hour? Wow.

Re: SCOUTED: Kid Fiction from Roddenberry

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-03/12/09.15.tv or http://makeashorterlink.com/?L287219C3 Digital Production Solutions, a division of IDT Media, has acquired two stories by late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to turn into 3-D anima

Re: Elizabeth Smart Found Alive

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is incredibly wonderful news. I didn't have much hope for her last summer, a few days after she was taken. I am *so* glad this story has an ending not involving the death of a child! Julia I just saw it in the news, and I couldn't be happier for tha

Re: PC-Vgames and Eye Problems: Help!

From: Matt Grimaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've had similar problems with 1st-person shooter style games, though I got used to it after a while. One thing that helped is to change the POV to be just over the shoulder, behind the character, instead of the default view from the eyes of the character. T

Funky Musicals Was [RE: BR!N: Re: a call to the irregulars!]

From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or even worse, the upcoming "Batman: The Musical". Adapted > for the stage by > Tim Burton himself. Ew. Tell me you are kidding. Please. Pretty please. -

Re: Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am greatly offended by the above tread title. Can we change it to Snail Eating Surrender Apes instead? I happen to like cheese and feel it hurts the cheese-producing centers of the world to link cheese JUST to the French. MANY European nations make cheese. I also thi

Re: BRIN: Re: a call to the irregulars!

From: "d.brin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> While we're at it, here's a query from a friend of mine. Dear Dave, Do you remember the Arthur C. Clarke story about "skydiving from space" that is written as if it's an emergency, and then it turns out to just be a new form of competitive skydiving? Rick Tu

Re: BRIN: Re: a call to the irregulars!

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BRIN: Re: a call to the irregulars! Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:55:17 EST In a message dated 3/8/2003 8:41:18 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And any good idea can turn

Re: Book Suggestions: The Best of Current SciFi?

From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> William T Goodall wrote: BTW, just wrapping up James Gunn's "Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction." This is a great read for any Asimov fan. George A If you're an Asimov fan, I ask: what did you (or anyone in our audience) think of Asimov's "

RE: PC-Vgames and Eye Problems: Help!

From: "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any good suggestions on specific titles? Saffron has been hogging the xBox for the past 4 weeks playing Morrowind - 5-7 hours a DAY for the last month -j- Okay, I'll take the bait. For the PS2: upon re-acquiring the console, this reviewer was lucky to

Re: PC-Vgames and Eye Problems: Help!

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" Doctor: "Well, stop doing that!" Fresh Out Of More Helpful Suggestions Maru -- Ronn! :) But how am I going to get my game fix? By replaying the original "Prince of Persia" for the umpteenth time??

Re: PC-Vgames and Eye Problems: Help!

From: Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've heard of people complaining of this before. I think it's a vertigo-type reaction, not an eye condition. You might even want to check the back of your game manuals, I remember seeing health warnings in some games about how to reduce/mitigate this effec

PC-Vgames and Eye Problems: Help!

Boys and girls: Given the knowledgeable nature of our audience, I have a question to ask. Perhaps someone here can steer me in the right direction or offer some advice. I've experienced serious dizzy spells and nausea bouts while playing computer/video games. The type of games that seems to af

RE: Latest Beatles News..

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It was announced recently (sorry, can't find a weblink or the brin-l post -- from Jose, I think -- which is where I heard about it) that _Let It Be_ was going to be rereleased and remastered, removing all of the Phil Spector add-on garbage. Hence, "de

RE: garbage patents

From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I make it a point > to show it > to my students at least once every couple of years. Be sure to teach them to spell Steve's name "Jobs" and the location "Silicon Valley. And Jobs rhymes with "robs," not "robes." Sorry, Nick. I was writing that message wi

Re: Latest Beatles News..

From: Steve Sloan II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I feel kinda stupid myself, because I didn't realize that the B-Sharps' final rooftop concert on Simpsons was a parody of a real-life event... Especially since the rest of the episode had a lot of Beatles take-offs, including a Yoko clone... ;-) ___

Re: garbage patents

From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bullshit. Both Jobs and gates stole those "idea's" from xerox. IP is a bad idea. Historical footnote: It should be noted that according to the tv movie of the book "Pirates of Silicone Valley", Steve Jobbs motto at the time he started was: "Good artists cop

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That's odd. I took Computer Science AP in 1988 and we used Pascal. Is your AP Exam different than ours (mainland US)? Or did it switch from Pascal to BASIC and back after I took it? That's odd indeed. I remember when I started teaching (late 80's) when BASI

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GOTO as well. Anybody remember the term "spaghetti code"? > > JJ An how. My instructors had no qualms about GOTOs in languages that had no other way to implement the standard control structure. However, they had BIG qualms about the uncontrolled use of GO

Re: garbage patents

From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:40:17 -0600 > Well, judging by the amount of money that Apple and Steve Jobbs lost by not > having patents on "their ideas", such as the GUI, etc. I'm not surprised > they are *finally* trying to secure their piece of the pie. Ha

Latest Beatles News..

Hi again, John! Brin-L members probably won't find this interesting, but perhaps you will. Pass this on to your wife and family. I find the news regarding the recreation of the Rooftop Concert (the second item on the list) interesting, to say the least. Have fun!! :) --- "Ringo S

Re: garbage patents

From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml + pictures ___ Well, judging by the amount of money that Apple and Steve Jobbs lost by not having patents on "their ideas", such as the GUI, etc. I'm not surpris

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GOTO was the reason my father would not let me take programming in high school; all the programming classes were BASIC, except that if you'd had 2 courses of BASIC, you could then take Pascal. I didn't get to take a programming class until I could have one

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ahh, GOTO. I remember what a big deal it was when they installed a new version of BASIC at the high school I was attending at the time, and it had two brand new commands (new for us, anyway); GOSUB and RETURN. The programming teachers immediately ba

Re: Genghis Khan, super-stud

From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/science/11KHAN.html http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,906044,00.html "Genghis Khan, super-stud: One in every 200 men alive today is a relative of Genghis Khan. "One thirteenth century Persian historian cl

Re: All Things Trek was Re:YourFavoriteSci-Fi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?

From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IIRC, Ezri was an "only choice" for the Dax symbiont b/c it was dying on the way back to Trill, and Ezri was the only Trill around; she never went through Symbiont Candidate screening or school, so she was a less-than-ideal host. And if a symbiont can swit

RE: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Just to join the fun, I've also worked in with a bit of Visual Basic, had Pascal in school and learned just enough C/C++ to decide I *really* liked Java and the lack of pointers and memory math!) - jmh And speaking of languages, is it me, or is BASIC makin

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On at least one of those times, didn't he have to save the Enterprise from some goof-up that he himself was responsible for? You *don't* let a kid goof around with a starship. Period. Julia How a starship that represents the prime technological advance o

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd love to have one, but I'm afraid the electricity bill would be too high. Playing the Holodeck version of games such as Half-Life or Unreal would make gaming so much more... interesting... :-) Not to mention the Holodeck Interactive Edition of t

Re: "Patriot" II

From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I agree with all of these policy decisions.Indeed, isn't it ironic that this news is being published in the "*Yellow* Times?"I almost wish that I had made it up myself :) Those idiots who are travelling to Iraq to be human shields *are* commi

Re: "Patriot" II

From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "Patriot" II In fact, if the current administration had its way, the confidentially and quietly drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed Patriot Act II, would already be the supreme law of the land. Under this law, U.S. citizens

Re: NSA spying on U.N. Members

From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members The ghost of Nixon hovers above the UN Building... JJ

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: "Han Tacoma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I'll focus on "Getting to know you". Just joined the list and got caught up in this thread, nostalgia suddenly waking up in me. Han: Welcome aboard. Have fun!! :) JJ _ Protect your PC -

Re: UNO

From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JDG wrote: > >I presume that you are referring to the "United Nations Organization" in >Portugeese?I'm guessing this is it, because I think that it is how it >is done in Spanish. > That is correct. ONU = Spanish meaning "Organizacion de Naciones Unid

Re: All Things Trek was Re:YourFavoriteSci-Fi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> George A. wrote: Had no use for Jadzia the Macho, Jadzia "I I did like the Dax/symibont aspect. Me too. That was a nice twist for a Trek show. Yeah, Jadzia was very macho and very interested in showing herself to be as capable as anyone else. Also, i

Re: All Things Trek was Re: Your Favorite SciFi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LOL! I had completely forgotten about that. How did they explain *that* particular mutation? I guess that was another prime example of Gene's twisting the physiology of humanoids. Another example is found in Gene's description of Vulcan sexual orga

RE: Official: Iraq Agrees to Destroy Missiles

From: "Gary L. Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't disagree with you at all. But I think that Saddam is winning the propaganda campaign in this war. Marketing and perception are powerful tools in this war as evident by the position of countries that are normally our allies. Which will take Saddam n

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If I have to choose between coding COBOL and coding RPG, I would much rather go for COBOL. I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a computer programming language that uses instructions that resemble natural language. RPG is not really a prog

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And TOS doesn't have holodeck episodes. One of the things which made it better than TNG, IMO. I can see why you say that. The lack of another piece of technology that can go wrong will force the writers, if they are competent enough, to come up with c

Re: Star Trek [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> There is novel titled "Q-Squared" by Peter David (I think) where Q and Trelane battle it out. Not bad as far as Trek novels. I seem to remember seeing a report from some STcon where they had both John de Lancie and William Campbell as GOHs and they wer

Re: All Things Trek was Re: Your FavoriteSci-Fi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> First of all, José, I've been referring to you as JJ and realized I haven't asked; do you prefer JJ or José or something else? José or something else will do. :) I use JJ for emails because it's short, and so do most of my work colleagues, so I'll cho

The Ten Writers' Commandments According To the Trek Bible...

Browsing thru the discussions the other night, I saw a reference to the "Star Trek TNG Writer's Bible". The thought stuck in my mind, until I remembered that in the last Star Trek Convention I attended (back in '97 or '98) I did sign up, and attend, a "How To Write For Star Trek" seminar hosted

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No, I disagree, seriously. Assembly language was the easiest language I have learned. Tedious to use, but easy to understand. It followed what was going on in the CPU in a straightforward manner, little abstraction. True, Assembler is a very powerful tool. To

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:34 + When my wife was doing a two-year computing course she had to learn COBOL. I'd never used COBOL, and when I saw it I found it close to incomprehensible. You have to agree, though, that the *mother* of all incompre

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?]

From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a > computer programming language that uses instructions > that resemble natural language. This is your feeling, but not mine. I think a computer language that adds unnecessary symbols make it harder to unde

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?]

From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is RPG? I know two things that use this AFT, but none of them are computer languages. RPG stands for Report Program Generator. When I began my Computer Sciences courses in the mid-late 80's, the order in which languages were taught was: BASI

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't particularly have a problem with COBOL; in fact, I like it a good sight better than some *other* languages to which I've been exposed, like FORTRAN (I know, I know, they do completely different things). Reggie Bautista If I have to choose be

Re: Octopus

From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zoo Octopus Learns To Open Shrimp Jar By Watching MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A common octopus in a German zoo has learned to open jars of shrimp.. "Depending on how tight the lid is, it takes her anything from 10 seconds to an hour to get it off," said Frank

Re: All Things Trek was Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy MovieSoundtrack?

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wonder if some of that decline in popularity (of Trek) might have something to do with market saturation. I don't think any other story universes had more than one show on at a time back when DS9 first started (now there are several). And DS9 *was

Re: All Things Trek Was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy MovieSoundtrack?

From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Of course, "TOC" could be construed to be the crew of the Enterprise under Captain Robert April, the first captain of a Federation Starship Enterprise, or Captain Johnathan Archer, the first captain of an Earth Starship named Enterprise, pre-Federatio

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:15:01 -0500 Reggie Bautista wrote: Well, JMS wrote probably 80% (or more

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Of course, by the time ST:TMP came out, the original cast already included a number of cultural icons - putting them on the big screen just confirmed that status. TNG was a popular show, but as you've pointed out earlier, it was not a cast of iconic ch

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And TOS doesn't have holodeck episodes. Marvin Long Does the continuity of The Animated Series count? They did have the holodeck there! Courtesy of DC Fontana, I believe. :) TAS also boasted the first "holodeck goes bananas and tries to kill the cr

Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?

From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ahhh...I had the 1701 ERTL model for a long time - I still have a die-cast TOS Enterprise that shoots little yellow round photon torpedos and has a detachable shuttle. I bought it from Sears in the seventies with a $20 bill I found lying on the ground

Re: Star Trek [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I think the problem with both TOS and TNG - and this is attenuated in DS9, Voyager and Enterprise - is the number of God-like creatures they meet. I guess 1/4 of the TOS episodes have Kirk against God, a

Re: Boeing scenerioed them rosely: Wishful thinking engineering

From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/5247837.htm we see a very disturbing statement by Boeing engineers. Engineers who designed the risk analysis software package that was used to assure NASA that the shuttle could safely re-enter the atmosphere

Re: Head Injuries (was Re: Anger ...) and a bit on ADD etc.

From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physical modalities like exercise, nutrition, and meditation/focusing work (I count things like tai chi and yoga in this category), which others have written about, are also essential; in quite a few cases, they are sufficient therapy. Debbi There Is No Gif

Re: ADD/ADHD

From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I saw a TV program about ADD/ADHD. The schoolkids [from a school in Colorado, IIRC] were diagnosed with ADD after they failed to concentrate on a reading of The Great Gatsby, but this was easily cured when all kids took Ritalin. Alberto Monteiro A very

Re: Head Injuries & ADD (was Re: Anger )

From: "Jim Sharkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wow. I went through that list and it was basically "check, check, check..." I wonder if I should look into this a little more closely? Jim If you think you should, then by all means do. You'll be in good company. :) JJ

Re: ADD/ADHD (was RE: Head Injuries (was Re: Anger)

From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The important things are the degree to which you have them and the degree to which they interfere with your life. And it depends on what you call "interfering." Interfering of ADD into a life includes situations such as addictive personalities, subs

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