Re: Interesting how little chatter there is on UBL

2011-05-05 Thread Gruss Gott
Robert Munn wrote: > > No, the big news for the present is that we killed four people deep inside > Pakistani territory without their government's knowledge Unless everybody's lying about that and the Pak's did know, but didn't want to publicly say so. Which is my guess. ~~

Holy Crap! "SEAL dog" has Titanium Fangs!

2011-05-05 Thread Gruss Gott
Of the 80 member team that was deployed to take down bin Laden, few draw more speculation than the one on four legs. Most likely a Belgian Malinois (though officials say it could also have been a German Shepherd), there was one non-human member of the SEAL team that raided Osama bin Laden's compo

Re: Who mourns for Bin Laden - a perspective

2011-05-05 Thread Gruss Gott
Judith Dinowitz wrote: > > The destruction of the West was a major part of his agenda, which includes > democratic countries...  That would include Israel. > Was it? I though Bin Laden's core aim was to take over Saudi Arabia. To do that, he needed to get the US out of there and to do that he

Re: Latest pet peeve

2011-05-05 Thread Gruss Gott
G Money wrote: > > Ridiculously long voice mail instructions after the message. > They do that to keep you on the line burning minutes. i.e., they've done studies that show the average time you wait for the four rings, hear the message, and leave a message are under 1 minute. By adding the long

Re: Gas and Election Season

2011-05-05 Thread Gruss Gott
Cameron Childress wrote: > > Welcome to the start of the 2012 election gas price increase / > decrease cycle.  Should go back down right before the elections... > Maybe, but in this case it's mostly due to George Soros selling gold along with the EU's chief banker's speech. Gas and comodities w

Re: maybe the dumbest form spam ive ever seen

2011-05-05 Thread Judith Dinowitz
Presumably you didn't answer. :) On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Maureen wrote: > > I got a spam email asking me to confirm that I was dead. > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > > > Contact form information: > > Name: Advetaestathy > > Email: camerondavb...@gmail.com > > C

Re: Who mourns for Bin Laden - a perspective

2011-05-05 Thread Judith Dinowitz
The destruction of the West was a major part of his agenda, which includes democratic countries... That would include Israel. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Not looking for a connection. I was simply wondering if the > destruction of Israel was part of his agenda. > > On Th

This is funny...

2011-05-05 Thread Eric Roberts
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Re: Who mourns for Bin Laden - a perspective

2011-05-05 Thread Maureen
Not looking for a connection. I was simply wondering if the destruction of Israel was part of his agenda. On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > > I'm scratching my head wondering what connection you're trying to draw by > asking if Bin Laden called for Israel's destruction. D

Re: Who mourns for Bin Laden - a perspective

2011-05-05 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
I read it as: Did Osama subscribe to and advocate for the first or second most important issue for these 2 groups? Or was their connection to him on other topics/points? Or did he not specifically agree on any topics, they just thought he was sexy? fwiw, Jerry On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:27 PM, M

Re: Who mourns for Bin Laden - a perspective

2011-05-05 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'm scratching my head wondering what connection you're trying to draw by asking if Bin Laden called for Israel's destruction. Does anything change if the answer is yes vs. no? And the answer is yes, Bin Laden wanted Israel destroyed. Did Bin Laden ever call for the destruction of Israel? > > On

Re: Latest pet peeve

2011-05-05 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jacob wrote: > > Me: (Thinking to myself, if she is asking, why did I have to enter it > > before...) > > And each time you are transferred to another person it happens all > over again > > From a s

Re: Latest pet peeve

2011-05-05 Thread Cameron Childress
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jacob wrote: > Me:  (Thinking to myself, if she is asking, why did I have to enter it > before...) And each time you are transferred to another person it happens all over again >From a social engineering and security standpoint, it does make some sense, but i

RE: Latest pet peeve

2011-05-05 Thread Jacob
Call your credit card company... Robot: Thank you for calling Bank of America, please enter your sixteen digit account number now then press pound. Me: (Dail 1234 5678 9012 3456#) Robot: Thank you, please wait.. your current hold time is four days... Live Person: Thank you for calling Bank of A

Re: maybe the dumbest form spam ive ever seen

2011-05-05 Thread Maureen
I got a spam email asking me to confirm that I was dead. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > Contact form information: > Name: Advetaestathy > Email: camerondavb...@gmail.com > Comments: > hello! somebody maybe use google? google > > i mean, it almost made me laugh. > > there w

Re: programming in the dark

2011-05-05 Thread Maureen
I hate the keyboard on my laptop. Could barely see the letters in low light so I painted them with glow in the dark paint. On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Ras Tafari wrote: > > laptop keyboard. all i code and design on now.  life has become far simpler. > the mbpro has backlit keyboard, and the

Re: Who mourns for Bin Laden - a perspective

2011-05-05 Thread Maureen
Did Bin Laden ever call for the destruction of Israel? On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. One group who is contesting 50% of the > Egyptian parliament and another group who has just 'rejoined' with their (so > called) more moderate Palest