Separating the man from the politics

2004-11-15 Thread Nick Arnett
I talked at some length with Chayla and with Wes' mother this morning. Both of them were holding up well when we talked, but of course it is up and down for them. Last night, I talked with one of my trusted friends, who helped me to separate the pain I'm feeling about Wes from the politics of

Re: Heavy computer use linked to glaucoma

2004-11-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Damon Agretto wrote: I wonder what effect using backlit LCD monitors have on this...? They are much lighter, so it should help, I would think, since apparently it is the heavy computers that cause the problem. Nick (flailing around for any humor I can find)

Re: The announcement

2004-11-17 Thread Nick Arnett
Gary Denton wrote: Condolences. My nephew was a ranger in Iraq but made it back safely. Thank you. There is great comfort in knowing that we are in the thoughts and prayers of so many. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

A way to support the troops

2004-11-18 Thread Nick Arnett
From the Any Soldier web site: Want to send a care package to Any Soldier in Harm's Way, but have no idea of what to send, who to send it to, or how to send it? http://www.anysoldier.com/ Pretty cool. Cindy and I will fly to Houston on Saturday for Wes' funeral on Monday. At the risk of

Capture streaming video from the net?

2004-11-18 Thread Nick Arnett
Okay, web wizards... I'd like to capture the video (for time-shifting purposes, of course) of a story about Wes that was on one of the Houston television stations. Anybody who can figure out how to do it wins a big thank-you from me. There's a link to their video page here:

Re: Capture streaming video from the net?

2004-11-18 Thread Nick Arnett
Robert Seeberger wrote: I wish the NBC affiliate here had their story from monday on the web. It featured ex-teachers and neighbors talking about Wes and how he was such a wonderful person. What was interesting and amazing to me was how these people smiled when they spoke of him. That by itself

Re: Capture streaming video from the net?

2004-11-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Nov 18, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Dave Land wrote: For those who are interested, I used the -dumpstream option of MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.3. It built and installed on my 15 Aluminum PowerBook with ease (if only my work projects compiled as easily). You gotta love open source

Re: Capture streaming video from the net?

2004-11-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: But the fact stands that it was open source code running on Macintosh that accomplished what could not otherwise be done. You've leapt to an unwarranted conclusion... I had already downloaded one of at least three packages for Windows that would do it. I used to be a

Hatred (was Re: So it begins.... )

2004-11-29 Thread Nick Arnett
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Actually, Timothy Noah from Slate, who absolutely hates George Bush, I'm curious about this. I don't read Slate much, never heard of Timothy Noah until just now. Is this a guy who writes things like, I hate Bush, or is his hatred something you infer from his writings?

Won what? (was Re: So it begins....)

2004-11-29 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: Again, the only conclusion I can draw from using loaded language like so it begins is that religious conservatives either shouldn't be allowed to participate in the political process, or that if they are, they shouldn't ever be allowed to actually *win* and maybe enact some portions of

Re: WHAT? Five dead in deer hunting dispute

2004-11-29 Thread Nick Arnett
Dave Land wrote: What's really sad is that my wife gets this here in California. Does... she... speak... English??? (Inside joke, but perhaps it comes across to the rest of y'all.) Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Hugs (was Re: So it begins.... Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time)

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: ... Depends on the joke and context too. In the 80s movie _Bill ted's Excellent Adventure_ Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves hug briefly after a fight, then eye each other and shout, Fag! It's a pretty damn funny moment, I think. A roommate (straight) and I did a similar

Re: Won what? (was Re: So it begins....)

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: In a fair election, there are no losers. Sadly, it seems that hardly anyone is willing to look at it that way these days. In a fair election, there are no losers? Consider the case of a referendum we had three on the ballot here in Montgomery County, Maryland. One in particular

Re: Won what? (was Re: So it begins....)

2004-12-02 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: I must have missed the part where the 2004 election wasn't fair or are you buying into David Brin's Area-51 conspiracy theories as well? I haven't offered an opinion about whether not the 2004 election was fair. I wrote that in a fair election, there are no losers. I was hoping

Re: Won what? (was Re: So it begins....)

2004-12-03 Thread Nick Arnett
Gautam Mukunda wrote: For God's sake, Nick, what he's saying is pretty obvious. Indeed. I was trying to express that he didn't seem to be getting what I was saying. The United States didn't become the property of the Republican party on Election Day. All that was won was the political

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-04 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: An interesting... and in my opinion all too gloomy for the Democrats... assessment of the future of the Democratic Party. From the article: During the fall campaign, many people said that this election was the most important of our lives. It was, and when the Democrats lost it, an era

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-05 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: Nick, if you think that the author was endorsing what you describe, then you completely missed the point of the article. Dan beat me to the punch here, but the author's point is that Republicans now control both house of Congress, have won the last two Presidential elections (despite

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-05 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: He's a Baptist. He fits within a broad category of born again Christians who know that they are already saved, so their actions cannot condemn them. What's critical, of course, is that he speaks like a born again Christian when he speaks of religion. He joined a United

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: And thus the Democratic party has no future? Ridiculous. So ridiculous, in fact, that I am not aware of anyone on this List who has said such a thing. Least of all me. Not that that apparently would stop you Do the words in my opinion all too gloomy for the Democrats...

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: which adds JDG's comment that this analysis, while quite interesting, is too gloomy. I'll put a beer down on my bet, Nick. :-) I don't even know what you're betting on, Dan. I read an article that suggested the Democratic party might never win another election (perpetual

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: You are reading it wrong. No Christians think that we earn salvation... Ah, but I'd hazard that we all act that way sometimes. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The Prospect on the Future of the Democrats

2004-12-07 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: Unless of course one is only allowed to post thought-provoking articles that one agrees with on this List. As if. This seems to me to be a straw man. In short, the future of the Democratic Party has been a topic for discussion on this List.I read this article, and thought that the

New release from the undisputed king of theoretical gangsta-astrophysics

2004-12-07 Thread Nick Arnett
MC Hawking's album, A Brief History of Rhyme, is out. http://www.mchawking.com/ And don't miss the trailer: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/172475 The Hawkman cometh, apparently. Salon says, It's hard to decide whether MCHawking.com is downright brilliant or borderline offensive... Hawking

Conflict, lessons learned (was Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz)

2004-12-12 Thread Nick Arnett
Gautam Mukunda wrote: If not pissing people off is an important concern of yours I'm wondering where you read this in Doug's words... I'm reading quickly, but the Doug's premise seemed to be that we ideally decide what is the right thing and then do our best to build a coalition around it. It

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Gautam Mukunda wrote: --- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it's another damned straw man, given that Saddam Hussein is in no position to acquire weapons. Nick Not _anymore_ anyways, thanks to the war you opposed. Did I? Apparently our memories differ. Nick

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Dan Minette wrote: I went back over the archivesyou appeared to not want to say what your opinion was. I took my time making up my mind. Tue Jul 29 23:34:29 PDT 2003 ... I've realized that there's a strong emotional component to this for me, which I suspect is shared by many others who grew up

How to thank a big company

2004-12-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Sometimes I'm particularly happy to have friends in the newspaper business. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/leigh_weimers/10429642.htm Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: One of the things we're constantly reminded of by the fossil fuel interests is how generally impractical, difficult, costly and, most of all, expensive any conversion will be. If this propaganda happens to be true, it could be decades before we have decent new military

Julia's Tommy

2004-12-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Everyone, Julia Thompson (who has been a manager of the Brin list for longer than anyone in history, as far as I know) just called me to say that she'll be off e-mail indefinitely. They're at Austin Childrens Hospital because one of the twins, Tommy, has been sick a lot and became very

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: Never attacked us?Tell that George Bush Senior.Tell that to the families of the hundreds of Americans who died in Iraq and Saudi Arabia over the previous 12 years. I'm confused -- surely you're not saying that we invaded them in response to the attacks they made on our troops

Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Nick Arnett
Nick Arnett wrote: I'm in one of those families. And to be a little clearer, I'll speak for our family -- please don't presume. I don't think our loss gives us special rights to justify or criticize this war, so I sure don't think it gives anyone else any. Nick

Re: our steep slide

2004-12-17 Thread Nick Arnett
d.brin wrote: And it goes on. Accelerating, every day. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002112639_diss08.html This is awful -- what constitutes publishing? For example, what if somebody from a sanctioned country posts to Brin-L? Am I now subject to a $1 million fine and a

Re: Brin: Call this Security?

2004-12-10 Thread Nick Arnett
David Brin wrote: Events of 9/11 stunned me because of how blatant and unhidden most of the links were. As if they felt so safe - once W was in office - that they could do anything with impunity. W may have felt briefly betrayed, since he ordered GO on Clinton's Afghanistan plan. It worked so

Re: SoCal Brin-L members question

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Russell Chapman wrote: Legoland, San Diego to LAX question Friends, I seek the advice of anyone who frequents Southern California. I have been planning my Christmas holidays using both Microsoft's Streets Trips (no way it was written in Redmond - it's brilliant!) and Mapquest. They have given

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: Even so, once Saddam Hussein were to, say, acquire a nuclear weapon from the A. Q. Khan underground network, isn't it a little too late at that point to do something about the problem? I bought the nuclear threat pitch the first time around. It reminded me of the nightmares

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Russell Chapman wrote: When do you mean by bought it the first time - I assume you're not talking about 1962 - 1978? Did you mean the lead up to the 2003 invasion? Yes... the aluminum tube nonsense, etc. Nick ___

Re: Are You A Neocon? Neocon Quiz

2004-12-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Damon Agretto wrote: You'll be happy to know, then, that the DoD is looking to dump the AAVP7A1s in favor of a new vehicle to be fielded after 2008: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/aaav.htm Yeah, the AAV is expected to be phased out in favor of the AAAV in 2012. I'll just

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-17 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: So, you would disagree that firing shots with the intent of bringing down a country's aircraft ordinarily constitutes an act of war against said country? It now seems inescapable that you are saying the very thing I imagined: We invaded Iraq. They shot at our airplanes that were flying

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-18 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: I don't think that I would describe Gulf War I as an instance when we invaded Iraq. I think the label is appropriate any time one nation's military enters the other's territory uninvited, destroys stuff and kills people. Refusing this ordinary way of talking strikes me as less than

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-18 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: Later in this post, you make a distinction between tactical and strategic language.Do you agree that while US actions in Iraq in Gulf War I could be called an invasion in the tactical sense, they would not be described as an invasion in the strategic sense? I think that anything

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-18 Thread Nick Arnett
Gautam Mukunda wrote: I hope this all doesn't seem hopelessly pedantic. I believe that language is one of the most important tools for peacemaking. Geez, Nick, then stop using it as a tool to hinder communication. What's the antecedent of it in that sentence? Are you saying that it appears

Re: Happy Holidays

2004-12-20 Thread Nick Arnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I recall correctly, Christmas was illegal at one time here in America until the 1870's. Wow, if you can remember *that*, I'm tempted to speculate that the cause of your illness might have been old age. What do you recall about it? Nick

Update on Julia Tommy

2004-12-20 Thread Nick Arnett
Got a note from Julia... better news. Tommy has reflux and is on medication. An MRI of his brain showed nothing (I'm slightly sorry to make that joke... I've been around Dave Land and his wonky brain too long to not make it, but hope it takes nothing away from the seriousness of parents

ADMIN: Mail hiccup

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Arnett
Our mail server was misbehaving for a little while this afternoon. If you had a message to the list come back to you, please re-send it. However, I think that probably didn't happen, but some messages have been delayed while the sending server retries. Nick

Re: ADMIN: Mail hiccup

2004-12-22 Thread Nick Arnett
Travis Edmunds wrote: I had one bounce back on me last week. Sadly (sad as in - y'all missed a funny post from me!!!), I had the original message that I was replying to deleted by the time the mailman hit me back, so I was too pissed/lazy to do anything but nothing about it. That made sense

Re: Usenet

2004-12-22 Thread Nick Arnett
maru wrote: I feel like following in the steps of others using this list for tech support... Lately, using Thunderbird 1.0, I've been having serious problems connecting to Optimum Online's USENET server after a while of doing just fine. It's not my bandwidth, I still receive all my other

Tommy going home soon

2004-12-22 Thread Nick Arnett
Julia says it looks like they'll be going home with Tommy in a couple of hours. Yay! Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Irregulars question: hardware suckz :-/

2004-12-27 Thread Nick Arnett
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Keith Henson wrote: But then I will not be able to _buy_ a new one! Why not? You know what kind of processor you have and there are only a few kind of heat sinks. But what is the point of buying a new one if I don't fknow how to remove the old one? The instructions for

Re: Acts of War Re: God Is With Us L3

2004-12-27 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: O.k., I presume that you believed then and continue to believe now that Baathist Iraq had the capability to mass produce chemical weapons. I also presume that you believed then and continue to believe now that Baathist Iraq had the capability to mass produce anthrax, and possibly other

Re: Always read your EULA . . .

2005-01-03 Thread Nick Arnett
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Were you aware that it is a violation of the license to use WordPerfect 12 to develop nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction? If it's like many others, you probably should't use it for air traffic control, either. Nick

Re: Where is the Wand?

2005-01-06 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:20:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we try and start the new year without doofus, idiot, pathetic, insert other generally disparaging words Can we try and pay attention and not act like a bunch of pathetic doofus's without a clue posting

Glenn Beck???

2005-01-06 Thread Nick Arnett
So... I like this: http://www.glennbeck.com/tribute.htm It's a montage of photos from Iraq and some beautiful music by a Mormon choir. But as I look at Glenn Beck's web site, I can see that he's a radio commentator... and so odds are, he's conservative... but I sure can't get a handle on his

Re: Where is the Wand?

2005-01-06 Thread Nick Arnett
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Or, to reduce the answer to what I believe is its simplest form... No. I thought I was poking fun, but some didn't get it... Not the first time I've been misunderstood, nor the last. And now, a serious amplification. No, we can't all just get along, so I try to take

Re: Social Security

2005-01-06 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: I wasn't aware that Social Security was an investment.;-)Do you know what these investments are in? People! My parents, fer example. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: E-mail program questions

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:45:44PM -0500, maru wrote: But more importantly, were you running mutt as root, you naughty person? No, that is a bug in PuTTy. And how come your cwd is etc? Just curious, though I'm tempted to bombast about how nobody belongs in etc unless they're

Re: E-mail program questions

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: Thunderbird manages to get threading mostly correct, but it sometimes places replies in the wrong place in the tree. It looks like the threading code is basing much of its decisions on the Subject: header, when it really should be using References: and In-Reply-To:. It

Re: E-mail program questions

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: You'll have to bombast someone else. Perhaps you could bombast the author of PuTTy, if you're so keen to bombast someone. Nah, I like PuTTy. Use it just about every day... I probably have at least two sessions going all the time. What version are you using? I haven't

Re: E-mail program questions

2005-01-09 Thread Nick Arnett
Robert Seeberger wrote: So it was a bit of a mixed bag for Thunderbird. It replicated all my settings accurately and seems to possess a superior functionality overall (in comparison to OE at least). The downside was that it didn't replicate my filters (which I find problematic since the filtering

Re: [Listref] How the Earthquake affected Earth

2005-01-11 Thread Nick Arnett
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/10jan_earthquake.htm?list11191 25 NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet's shape, shaved almost 3 microseconds from the length of the day, and

Re: Free to a good Bay Area home...

2005-01-11 Thread Nick Arnett
Russell Chapman wrote: Tyre-Chains (wait - that would be Tire Chains) to suit SUV. Sorry that this is waaay off-topic, but I am about to throw away a brand new, never opened, set of chains, with tensioners, purchased 2 weeks ago. It seems a shame to just leave them sitting on the footpath (oops,

[Fwd: ABC Muddles the Social Security Debate]

2005-01-14 Thread Nick Arnett
Original Message Subject: ABC Muddles the Social Security Debate Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:37:33 -0800 From: FAIR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAIR-L Fairness Accuracy

Re: Social Security

2005-01-15 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: One question I would love to ask, and I apologize if this sounds a little harsher than it really is, but here is my question: And how can a neutral, fair-minded observer distinguish the above answer from Because I am bought and paid for by the Democratic Pary, and there is simply no way

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-16 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: ... But Social Security is broke, Pretty hard to continue reading after that sentence. Unless, of course, I hear that all the Social Security checks are bouncing and find out that it's true. Nick ___

Re: Brin: Holocene Chat

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Steve Sloan wrote: David Brin wrote: Below is the list of those I already see interested. Anyone else? [EMAIL PROTECTED],Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED],Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED], Please include Steve Sloan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Me, too, even though I've

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: He could equivalently have said the system is broken. The forecast is that SS will not be able to pay scheduled benefits in the future without an increase in funding. If that's what he meant, then that's what he could have said. I hear a world of difference between broke and

Re: Social Security

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
JDG wrote: I hear Bush warning us of financial instruments of mass destruction and I remember how lousy the analysis was the last time he offered a big warning about mass destruction. Fool me once, shame on me... Oh good grief.Does noone in the Democratic Party have any shame? About what?

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: * Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: He said it perfectly correctly. Present value of liabilities exceeding present value of income is as good a definition as I know of broke. Do you consider broke to mean insolvent? That's what it means to you. Your formula means

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: I see. What you are saying is you see a big difference whether YOU have to pay for the crisis, or whether you can foist it off on someone else by doing nothing now. You see like a blind man, as if there were no difference at all in how to respond to a present crisis v. a future

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: * Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I haven't said do nothing. But I don't see how we can possibly reach any sort of consensus about what to, since we don't agree on whether this is a present or future crisis. So you agree to taking the cut to 73% now for your generation

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: Your stated choice is to do nothing now because it is only a future crisis. Really? When and where did I state that as my choice? I can clearly recall saying that how we respond to an impending crisis is different from how we might react to a present one. Aren't you saying

Re: Analog Story

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Robert Seeberger wrote: Care to tell us a little bit about yourself? What do you do for a living? What are your interests? And quick, what are you doing about the Social Security Crisis? ;-) Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Kotlikoff's PSS plan

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: Think again. I am not by any stretch of the imagination a Bush supporter. Kotlikoff, the person I was quoting originally (which Nick replied to) is a college professor, not in the Bush administration. Nick has Bush on the Brain. In this particular issue, you are making the same

Re: Analog Story

2005-01-20 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: No; he's also a blowhard. Please, no *personal* attacks. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Blow up Jupiter?

2005-01-24 Thread Nick Arnett
Dave Land wrote: Need I say more? I think not. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Nothing but magnificent (was Re: Googlism _ kind of L3)

2005-01-24 Thread Nick Arnett
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.googlism.com david brin is a transparent eyeball david brin is a transparent eyeball the sci david brin is mesa college?s commencement speaker david brin is a top bloke himself david brin is one of the few people thinking and writing about the social problems

Re: Piloting Social Security

2005-01-26 Thread Nick Arnett
Erik Reuter wrote: I've asked you before, and you have repeatedly failed to answer. Our conversation on this topic ended when my perception was that you were using abusive language. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Holocene chat, the weekly

2005-01-27 Thread Nick Arnett
It's real -- we used it, with a couple of interludes of unhappiness from the server. And David will make it available to us each week around the same time -- 5 p.m. Thursday, Pacific time. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Holocene chat, the weekly

2005-01-27 Thread Nick Arnett
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Nick Arnett wrote: And David will make it available to us each week around the same time -- 5 p.m. Thursday, Pacific time. How does that mean in metric units? Three wickets past a furlong. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

Re: Holocene chat, the weekly

2005-01-27 Thread Nick Arnett
maru wrote: So how was it? Was it really a major improvement over trusty ol' IRC? I've seen it and heard about it for several years now, so better to ask people who just got their first taste. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Pete Seeger signature Chinese characters

2005-01-29 Thread Nick Arnett
Any Pete Seeger fans here? Or Chinese readers? I have finally gotten around to scanning the album cover of Darling Corey, which was his first solo album, which he autographed for me in 1977 when my brother and I helped produce a benefit concert where he performed. I've been wondering for

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Arnett
Horn, John wrote: This is one of the most terrifying things I have read in a long, long, LONG time. Me too. Especially coming from Bill Moyers. The statistics really stopped me. I'm religious, but I know the difference (I think) between what is irrational and what is non-rational. I'm

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: That's a good point. I'd ask you to think about something else, though -- why do you consider yourself religious? I mean, if you have some kind of faith, *why* do you have that faith? Well, there's the question. An honest answer has to include, I don't know. I choose to

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Arnett
Maru Dubshinki wrote: I think that's a bit disingenous- saying 'God created evolution' is on par with 'God created 2+2' or 'God created the Law of the excluded middle'. Evolution naturally falls out of things, like 1=1. How can a statement of my belief ever be disingenuous? Doesn't that

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: A self-centered answer is, I'm happier. But are you really? Oh, yes. A non-rational answer is, It feels true. Ah, but how much of that is it feeling true versus your sense of fair play being appealed to? IOW how much of it is more I *want* it to be true than it feels

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-02 Thread Nick Arnett
Kevin Street wrote: I don't know. Somehow, I suspect human nature is basically the same today as it was ten thousand years ago, and it will remain that way for thousands of years to come if the species survives. I was talking about human knowledge, not human nature. Specifically, with regard to

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-03 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: I think what Kevin was intimating -- and definitely what I was thinking -- is that human nature, which wants things to be polar and simple, is rebelling against all these fuzzy logics. I was saying that that's how people are. But I think that's cultural. People in other

Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow

2005-02-04 Thread Nick Arnett
Kevin Street wrote: In regard to the current American political situation with its split between red and blue states, I agree with you. The division between teams of Us and Them probably has more to do with basic human nature than the political philosophies practiced by each party. Consider this

ADMIN: Server glitched

2005-02-04 Thread Nick Arnett
Something went wrong on our server around 5:30 Pacific time... I'm still not quite sure what, but it seemed to wipe out some essential directories for the mail server. I suspect a disk problem, of course... Seems to be working now. I'll take a closer look in the morning. Meanwhile, our backup

Vanity press SF hoax

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Arnett
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/1/prweb202277.htm Science Fiction Authors Hoax Vanity Publisher Atlanta Nights, by Travis Tea, was offered a publishing contract by PublishAmerica of Frederick, Maryland. Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 28, 2005 -- Over a holiday weekend last year, some

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-06 Thread Nick Arnett
Robert G. Seeberger wrote: And that comes right after AOL claimed that spam was going down and that everybody was saying that spammers had given up It seems that spammers have adapted. How can they use the ISP's infrastructure and why can't the ISPs prevent them from doing it? And in case anyone

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
Trent Shipley wrote: Nick, is this what you are saying? Spammer compromises customer's computer (actually many customers' computers, preferably through a Trojan EULA that makes the whole thing legal). No, not legal. Spam isn't legal! I really do not get that angry with spammers. They are just

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of Nick Arnett I really do not get that angry with spammers. They are just rational entrepreneurs. Bleah. If spamming isn't unethical, what is? Whoever said that rational entrepreneurs are all ethical? An awful lot of business people I have seen seem to have

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: The ultimate source of these problems is at least partly a corruptible operating system. A class-action suit against Microsoft would go a long way toward addressing spam, since UNIX, Linux, BSD and Mac systems don't have these kinds of security issues. I wish it were

Re: NASA envisions Mars warmed up for life

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: Um. Years ago I had a button that read, Dear lord, please protect me from your followers. However, I'd appeal to something a little closer to material reality for help. ;) Hmm. Despite... or perhaps because... I'm Christian, I think I could wear that button, too. But I'd

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
Warren Ockrassa wrote: I often get emails spoofed from unsecured mailers, many of which seem to report as being 'nix. That's just plain sloppiness on the part of those machines' sysadmins. And that's different from Windows' security issues how? ;-) I'll guess that the answer is that at least

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-07 Thread Nick Arnett
William T Goodall wrote: The main human error being at Microsoft, in the design of Windows. An OS deliberately designed to ignore the accumulated wisdom of decades in regard to computer security. Deliberately??? Nick ___

Re: JEOPARDY! LAUNCHES THE ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS

2005-02-08 Thread Nick Arnett
Travis Edmunds wrote: And for those of you who don't keep up to date with the date, it starts tomorrow... And cousin Bob (Harris) is part of it, of course: http://www.jeopardy.com/howdies/thumbs/utoc_4708_2r2Up/bio_harris_2r2Up.php Monday night, Feb. 15... I suppose I'll give up on giving up on

Live video of Texas Legislature Marine recognition

2005-02-08 Thread Nick Arnett
On Thursday around 10 a.m. Texas time, there will be a live video feed of the Texas state legislature honoring our niece's husband, Wes Canning. Chayla will be there with her parents, Wes' parents and grandparents. They're passing a resolution and giving the family the flag that will fly over

Re: NASA envisions Mars warmed up for life

2005-02-09 Thread Nick Arnett
Dave Land wrote: It's as if they are saying We have to destroy our faith in order to save you. It seems to be closely related to the focus on ownership v. stewardship. Nick ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: SpamAdaption

2005-02-11 Thread Nick Arnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, perhaps the solution is to use the technology to paint scarlet letters on people who respond and buy goods via spam. These are the people that deserve scorn. Forget the spammers, fight the consumers! I couldn't disagree more. If I understood correctly, this sounded

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