RE: credit history

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Damon ... > Well, the company I did collections for was a wireless provider. > I got this > question fairly often. The long and the short of it is that the wireless > service provider is not responsibl

RE: credit history

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Damon ... > >Any company with decent finances looks at its aging report now > and then. A > >customer whose bill hasn't been paid in a long time should raise > a red flag, > >one would think. This we

RE: A Problem For Conservatives

Does this person actually have any kind of following? There are plenty of liberal wackos, too... It doesn't seem quite fair to hold him up as a voice of conservatism. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: A Problem For Conservatives

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Richard Baker ... > The thing is, it's not possible to prove the Big Bang. How would one > even go about trying to prove it? But this guy is questioning the very notion of order arising from chaos, as

RE: A Problem For Conservatives

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Seeberger ... > xponent > More Than You Wanted To Know Maru And less, too! (Since I was asking about his talks on science and religion...) Nick __

RE: Greenville, was Re: A Problem For Conservatives

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship ... > >Where's Greenville? > > > > The western corner of SC, between Georgia and North Carolina. The northwestern corner... near Spartanburg. I usually fly into GSP -- Greenville-Sp

RE: A Problem For Conservatives

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship ... > If you have a chance to go, your mission, of course, is to return > and report. I usually get paid for that! (I shut Steve Jobs up with that line once, when he sarcastically s

RE: A Problem For Conservatives

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Richard Baker ... > Our recent troubles may have been an unpleasant reminder of the > imperfection of the world, but surely they weren't bad enough to > disprove the existence of God? Troubles sure wo

Beyond money ( was RE: SCOUTED: "Doc Knows Best"...)

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:41 PM ... > IOW, can medicine be both a 'calling' AND a _business_? If not, > which one > will it actually be? Is there really anything special about medicine in this regard

RE: Spot On

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Gautam Mukunda > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 5:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Spot On ... > Clinton was probably the most governed by the Secret > Service, as he was the first Presiden

RE: Alpha Mails (Was: Re: Scouted: Last of transplanted wolveskilled)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel ... > >>I was just curious. :-) > > > >Be careful with your curiosity, Jon. Remember what happened to > the cat... Me, too. So I queried my database, which appears to have no obvious big

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

I went through the nearly 700 Brin-l addresses in my database (84,752 messages, about 502 people with 612 addresses) and mapped the ones that I'm fairly sure belong to the same people. Here's how the Top 25 standings come out (still affected by my apparent missing data from October -- anybody got

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

Here's my monthly Alpha Mail count, showing the top 3 posters for each month (ascending order). Some of the folks who've been in the top 3 the most: Gord Sellar -- 22 months JDG -- 18 Jeroen V.B. -- 13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 13 **(Oh, heck, I just realized that's Julia, raising her to 21 and chang

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

Already done done that. That's why they have same same Person_ID of 678. But thanks for taking the time! Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Steve S

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

And now, what I hope will be my final posting of the evening... Now that I figured out two more of Julia's e-mail addresses, that puts her at the top of the all-time list, according to my database. Now, if I can update with the October data. Nick ___

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

I'll take you up on that if there's nobody with a real mbox archive already. Thanks... Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel > Sent: Fri

RE: Extremely irregular question: Any idea what this means?

My guess is that it is "hoochies" (as in "hoochie-coo" and all that) misspelled. Or maybe "hunchies" misspelled, for some sort of very unusual fetish. Or not. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > Fr

Unfortunate searches (was RE: Extremely irregular...)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship ... > There's certainly a wide, wide world of them out there, just > waiting to be > discovered by the unsuspecting web surfer . . . Oh, yes. My granddaughters, who are 3, wanted to

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of William T Goodall ... > I have a .mbox file from Entourage containing the 10/02 Brin-L mail. It > contains 1931 messages and is 6,901,821 bytes. Well, I realized where the most convenient mbox archive

RE: borg

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool ... > http://www.gate.com/~zardoz/heaven.htm > > I can't imagine a more frightening story than that of the Bible's heaven. > Unfortunately most Christians believe heaven as a pleasant eternal

RE: Scouted: The Cyborger

I'm a Networked Individual Calibrated for Killing, so watch out. My wife is a Construct Intended for Nocturnal Destruction and Yardwork. Handy. Good team. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jon Gabriel wrote: > > >One of my favorite websit

RE: Extremely irregular question: Any idea what this means?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Amanda SubbaRao ... > I expect it's a deliberate misspelling designed to sneak past the spam > filters... > > They get more and more creative with the spelling every day, sigh. I'd have been much happ

RE: Alpha Mails

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Horn, John > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:36 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails > > > > From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > > >Is this significantly differ

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > At 19:19 10-01-2003 -0800, Nick Arn

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel ... > Nick, how exactly do you hold a copyright on your posts to the > list? As a > public net forum, I would think that copyrights don't apply here? In any Berne Convention country, an a

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Reggie Bautista ... > In some cases, if you post on a "private" service such as > Compuserve or AOL, > then you and that service share copyright, and permission for > reposts must > be given both by yo

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > If a message to this forum has any "potential commercial value", then that > value has already been impacted by the fact that said message is already > available for free in at

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) ... > No. Selling it at *cost* will be fine. Try to make ONE PENNY

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall ... > deal. Kick me off if you want. I'm NOT going to put up with his > rubbish. I won't hold it against you, it's the price of doing > business. *shrugs* My tolerance for fools has all

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall > Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 5:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > On 15 Jan 2003 at 21:03, Richard Baker wrote: > > > Rich, wh

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > > If you're serious about publishing a CD-ROM, you might want to talk to > > an intellectual property lawyer before assuming that you're not exposing > > yourself to liability b

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > As someone pointed out earlier in this debate, music is a rather special > case, as there are fees to be paid every time a piece of music is > performed > or recorded. There are

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > You know, you could save the list admins some work and at the same time do > this whole list a huge favour: get the fuck off this list and never come > back. We don't need intol

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> Importance: High > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > > Van: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Verzonden: woensdag 15 januari 2003 21:03 > > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Onderwerp: RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > > I should ment

Enough!

me in abandoning such efforts. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

Would you ask your clone not to send copies of the same messages that you send? Please? -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

It just means that the close is 5 seconds slower... deterioration of the DNA encoding and all that. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Julia Thompson > Se

RE: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Dan Minette > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Alpha Mails (fun with SQL - L3ish) > > > > - Original Message -

Kiln People review

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1451237&mode=thread&tid=99 -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Kiln People review

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Dan Minette ... > Its not an unreasonable review. However, I would differ on the > second half > being too long. Although David has a significantly different take on > things than I do, I think I saw

RE: Wank.

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Marvin Long, Jr. > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Wank. > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > >Oh, sorry. Got caught up in the moment. > > >

FW: Possible virus detected - Re: A new type of brain scanner

Anybody here have any idea what this indicates? -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Possible

Faith-based initiative (was RE: creationist laws)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Deborah Harrell ... > "When a need is expressed, you don't have to be the > proverbial rocket scientist, a theoretical > mathematician. You don't have to be a Ph.D.," Ashcroft > told a luncheon audienc

RE: FW: Possible virus detected - Re: A new type of brain scanner

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk ... > A quick check reveals that the rejected message was sent by Bob > Zimmerman. > I suspect that there is some (hidden?) code in his message that > the scanner > on our mailserver

RE: About My Copyright Notice

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Richard Baker ... > I for one would not like to see Jeroen (or Erik, Nick, John Giorgis, > Andy or anyone else) leave the list, and I don't think we should be > considering solutions that involve peopl

RE: FW: Possible virus detected - Re: A new type of brain scanner

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > >So what should I do to stop this? My computer is clean as far as > I can tell (I ran my antivurs program two days ago). I have been > emailing through aol web portal and the me

RE: bush denies emergency room access to medicaid patients

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Deborah Harrell ... > While good primary care should be able to greatly > reduce need for ER visits in many (perhaps even most) > cases, there are, frex, brittle diabetics who - > despite best medical

Satellite evidence of UFOs

And why aren't they trying to communicate with us??? Are are they? Could of our list members be from other species? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1955238&mode=thread&tid= 160 -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EM

Scouted: Self-organizing stones

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0005BEE2-3FE9-1E28-8 B3B809EC588EEDF -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Brin: Slashdot discussion of top 10 new SF authors

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=51269&threshold=1&commentsort=3&tid= 134&mode=thread&cid=5120753 Several mentions of David Brin in the ensuing discussion. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ htt

RE: [Scouted] Big Brother in Dallas County?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 7:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Scouted] Big Brother in Dallas County? > > > > From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > http://www.dalla

RE: [Scouted] Big Brother in Dallas County?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Dan Minette ... > But, from my experience, Linux is a nightmare for commercial use. For > example, I'm working for a customer who has flavor X of Linux running on > company Y's portable computer. Wh

Firewall (was RE: Scouted: Self-organizing stones)

(Sorry for the slow response; I was traveling.) It's not porn... just a "false positive," a term I'm sure you know! But I can't quiet imagine why your firewall would dislike it. Perhaps it is just a content-type that it doesn't know about, so it conservatively bl

RE: [opinion] America Under Siege

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Alberto Monteiro ... > I am surprised that the article never mentions "nazi" > anywhere. Or maybe using Communism is an equivalent? Definitely not synonymous. But I'm sure someone, somewhere, is usin

RE: god and the brain

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool ... > Todd Beamer said, "God help me. Jesus help me. Are you ready? Let's > roll." But the deified 1st century carpenter > and Galilean lay preacher apparently wasn't available for the call.

RE: Is this thing on?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall ... > Well, something's going on. Mail's coming in surges tonight it seems > to our server (E America). A quick look at the server logs and I don't see anything unusual.. but I only ha

RE: Is this thing on?

It appears that the server was acting up, though I can't quite see what happened. For now, at least, it seems to be back to normal. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: [Listref] Environment

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter ... > Maybe someone would volunteer to referee the debate? > > What do you say, Andy, can you handle a scientific debate on the issue? Erik, I don't think this is intended to be a place f

Whoops!!

last three days, that I don't know what I'm doing. (For example, I didn't know that the list server didn't restart with the rest of the server...) -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Whoops!!

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter > Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Whoops!! > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 08:01:56PM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: &

Backups (was RE: Whoops!!)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk ... > I mean, what if Arnett goes on a three-week vacation, and his server > crashes right after he leaves the house? Brin-L could very well > be down for > the whole three weeks. For

RE: Whoops!!

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter ... > Since I assume by "effort" you mean hosting the list on his computer, > and not his effort at moderating the list, then you can remove me as > a "possible exception". I have stated be

RE: [Listref] Environment

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk ... > took control of the list. So, given your tendency to turn against me but > not against others in any flame war, I can only assume that the > phrase "the > usual suspect" refers t

RE: An Ebay question (was Re: First real post - Hugo Noms)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Andrew Crystall ... > How many of you, as a matter of interest, buy books on Ebay? > How many of you have SOLD them on Ebay? Never on Ebay, but I've bought and sold quite a few used books on Amazon wi

RE: An Ebay question (was Re: First real post - Hugo Noms)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Julia Thompson ... > How *do* you package books, then? I'm curious. I've received books in a > variety of packaging materials buying used at amazon.com, myself. (Never > sold anything.) I used padd

Welcome, Jose

tell everyone how we used to hog-tie flame-baiters and tickle them into submission. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: An Ebay question (was Re: First real post - Hugo Noms)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > This another fun thing that comes up all the time. The 1st edition 1st > printing is the big bucks. 1st edition 4th printing is common yawn. Oh, fine, right after I mention my

RE: The EU is utterly godless. Let's keep it that way

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool ... > For while there are many values on which believers and non-believers can > agree – democracy, freedom of expression, freedom from torture and other > degrading treatment – it is not the

Church and state (was RE: bush throwing away more tax dollars)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool ... > The Bush administration wants to give religious organizations access to > federal housing money that could be used to erect or refurbish buildings > where religious activities are held,

RE: Top 10 SF Characters

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool ... > SFX magazine has published a list of the top 10 science-fiction > characters of all time, as determined by a poll of readers. The results > of the poll include four characters from UPN'

RE: Brin-L Causal Relationships

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Brin-L Causal Relationships > > > Nick, > > Is there any chance you would be willing to re-do those neat graphi

RE: bush giving $600,000,000 for addiction [was "prayer therapy"]

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On ... > "Let us bring to all Americans who struggle with drug addiction this > message of hope: The miracle of recovery is possible, and it could be > you," Bush said in his State of the Union address. > > Many fede

RE: Red Hat Linux -- Help Wanted

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk ... > OK, it's not the latest version, but at that price, who cares, right? > Besides, the alternative would be to spend an entire weekend (note: my > weekends are *three* days long, n

RE: Church and state (was RE: bush throwing away more tax dollars)

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of The Fool ... > Furthermore, > what business does a religious group have providing services that they > can't pay for themselves? Agreed, if you mean they can't raise the money from private sources. M

RE: OUTRAGE!

lls in a pool hall. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

RE: Red Hat Linux -- Help Wanted

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk ... > I think it has more to do with the connection and the age of the > hardware. > The burner is an external one (Freecom Traveller CD-RW, about two years > old), which is connected

RE: Red Hat Linux -- Help Wanted

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Bryon Daly ... > - I don't know about RHL 7.2 specifically, but if you're going to > put the box > on the internet at all, some linux installations (at least in the > past) set up all > sorts of servic

RE: Red Hat Linux -- Help Wanted

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo ... > Now, that caught my eye!! Nick, I've experienced the same problem on > countless occasions. Could you be more specific on what should I > be looking > for on the burner settin

Queen's Day (was RE: Blackboard, was Re: Official Feather)

veway) and threw it in a canal (where it presumably came to rest atop several feet of bicycles). In this country, if we shut down a city and served beer like Amsterdam does on Queen's Day, people would die, I'm afraid. (Anything to avoid thinking about the shuttle.) -- Nick Arnett Phone

RE: Shuttle

I wish the news folk would at *least* give some lip service to the fact that the video they're showing over and over reflects seven people dying... I'm close to turning off the television. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL

RE: Shuttle down pessimism, reality, and not a joke

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jim Sharkey ... > Does this mean, then, that terrorism works? If we're afraid > every day that every accident is terrorism, it certainly suggests > to this layman that despite our assertions to the co

RE: Shuttle down pessimism, reality, and not a joke

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter ... > Do we have any aerospace engineer lurkers here? What would happen if a > piece of the shuttle wing had a structural failure (dent, crack, piece > broken off, etc.) If the shuttle lost

RE: Shuttle

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of John D. Giorgis ... > U.. what exactly do you want them to say - especially > since NASA is > apparently still officially treating this as a "search-and-rescue" > operation?Should the media

RE: Shuttle down pessimism, reality, and not a joke

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of John D. Giorgis ... > >On balance, I'd say that 9/11, in particular, is working > somewhat, since we > >are allowing it to erode some basic choices the United States made about > >civil liberties. > >

RE: Shuttle Debris Trail

> - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Crystall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > Thats what I am thinking. Even the Challenger explosion left > large sections > of airframe intact. > I'm really interested in hearing the explainations behind the totality of > Columbias destruction. The speed an

Slightly unusual book suggestion request

People" on one of the guys' bookshelves... boy, was he surprised when I showed him my name in it. Don't ask... but I'm quite serious about the recommendations. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Slightly unusual book suggestion request

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship ... > > > Anything, as long as it is long enough to slip a (non-metallic) hacksaw > blade into the spine before sending it? > > Only if Barnes & Noble will ship it that way...

RE: Slightly unusual book suggestion request

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel > Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Slightly unusual book suggestion request > > > An intern in my office (Danny) is a skateboarder and a ska/pun

RE: Slightly unusual book suggestion request

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Richard Baker > Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 1:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Slightly unusual book suggestion request > > > Nick said: > > > If you were sending books to a 25-year-old y

RE: Slightly unusual book suggestion request

> I have two very unusual recommendations, but I base them on experience. > > The first one is "Lord of the Rings". Down here, it's flying off the > shelves. There is no kid or punk who is not seen in my school without a > copy of the book in their hands. I even see the college kids reading it >

Thanks for suggestions

Thanks, everyone, for all the book suggestions. Many were somewhat obvious (like the whole genre of cyberpunk) but the neurons weren't clicking. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/ma

RE: Three Scenarios of what happened to Columbia

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Seeberger ... > > The thing that got my attention is that he thinks there will be a stand > down > > of two years before the next shuttle flight. I certainly hope not. > > > > I'm willing to b

RE: Three Scenarios of what happened to Columbia

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Seeberger ... > I had to look to see if it was The Fool posting. > Seems more his style. Haven't you noticed that I frequently respond to The Fool's postings? You've never seen the two of us i

RE: Three Scenarios of what happened to Columbia

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo > Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 9:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... > Do you think that Columbia's final mission may have included a > secret agenda > related to Irak? I don't ev

Lousy reporting

guess it's too much to hope that network reporters would actually study what they're reporting on. More correctly, perhaps, it's too much to hope that they'd be given the time to do so. Nick -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

RE: Lousy reporting

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Erik Reuter > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lousy reporting > > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:04:56AM -0800, Miller, Jeffrey wrote: > > > I've been spoile

Pay no mind to "reminders" from test list

Some or all of the subscribers to Brin-l may receive two reminder messages about their list subscription. The extra one, if it arrives, is from the new server that I'm configuring and testing. By coincidence, today is the day they're set up to send out reminders. Pay no mind. Nic

RE: Lousy reporting

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship ... > The saying used to be: > > "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do > it over" In journalism, rule No. 1 is "Get the story right," and rule No. 2 is "G

RE: Test, was Re: Test

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jon Gabriel ... > Um... ask Nick? :) > > Sorry, the html ban is the only reason I know the server might devour > messages. But I don't know of any other reason, either. If they got caught in some sor

RE: Lousy reporting

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of John D. Giorgis > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lousy reporting > > > At 07:39 AM 2/3/2003 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote: &

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