Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?) cpunk

2000-10-26 Thread David Honig
At 05:49 PM 10/25/00 -0400, jim bell wrote: My back-of-the-computerized-envelope calculation shows that it would take 5900 metric tons (2200 lbs) to load a volume of 100km by 100km by 100 meters of water with 100 nanomolar level of iron ion. (weight counts only that of iron, not the anion.)

Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?)

2000-10-20 Thread David Honig
At 04:00 AM 10/20/00 -0400, petro wrote: Lots of socialists to be dealt with and disposed of. I wonder who will stoke the furnaces? Robots? Amusing cross-language double-entendre there, Petro. Robot is from "slave", in Czech IIRC.

Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?)

2000-10-20 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 12:31 PM -0400 on 10/20/00, David Honig wrote: Amusing cross-language double-entendre there, Petro. Robot is from "slave", in Czech IIRC. Slave, being, of course, an Anglo-Latin(Italian?) derivation of, heh, Slav. ;-). Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL