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.)
Nathan Saper wrote:
> I think the government has a right to do whatever it needs to do
> to maintain
> the health and well-being of its population. That is the purpose of
> the government.
What is going on? Where are all these communists and fascists coming from
that are populating our list nowa
It was said:
-- begin quote --
>As to care, as I've said a lot before, care is most often more
>expensive than coverage.
Clearly this can't be true or every health insurance company would be going
out of business. Coverage has to be more expensive than care of they
wouldn't be in the business of
>As to care, as I've said a lot before, care is most often more
>expensive than coverage.
Clearly this can't be true or every health insurance company would be going
out of business. Coverage has to be more expensive than care of they
wouldn't be in the business of providing coverage.
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
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R. A. Hettinga
The Internet Bea
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.
At 05:08 AM 10/20/00 -0400, petro wrote:
> It is "immoral" to commit murder. Is this because God Says
>So, or because it's generally better for society if we can assume
>that the vast majority of people *won't* be trying to shoot us?
Neither are worthwhile reasons. Others' right to exist
At 05:31 PM 10/19/00 -0400, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 12:25 PM 10/18/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
>>Some scandanavian countries have complete health records on all
>>their citizens and some are working on national DNA banks. Some of
>>these will be made available for research after some form
>>of a
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
>"Bob, I see here that you are "demanding" a copy of this test that I
>paid for, that you voluntarily provided a sample for, or that you
>were careless enough to leave some skin flakes for on my sofa over
>there in the office.
The first two parts: ok by all
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
>Maybe it's just me, but "suing their asses off" would hardly
>suffice...there's a long, and getting longer every day, list of
>abuses for which the only remedy I can imagine would be a car bomb
>incinerating one or all of the offenders.
You live in a unive
;Cc: "Cypherpunks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:23 AM
>Subject: CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?
>>
>> So these people are entitled to something for nothing?
>> (or in this case, $1500 of treatment for $1000 of premiums)?
>>
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From: "Marshall Clow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nathan Saper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Cypherpunks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:23 AM
Subject: CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?
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>
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
>While I agree that the limitations of current techniques do not
>dictate what is possible, it _is_ possible to show that a certain
>problem has a best-case order of growth (for something simple, think
>of gate-level addition; its best case is provably Th
In , on 10/17/00
at 08:08 PM, Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On the other hand, having heard that even getting a simple blood or
>saliva sample requires court action, I expect you are once again merely
>hand-waving.
Actually it is rather common practice for various jails/prisons to tak
Petro wrote:
> >P.S. I too would be interested in documented cases where DNA
> >collected by the police was given to insurance companies.
>
> It's (apparently) England where there is wide spread DNA
> collection for use in finding certain types of criminals.
The database exists but s
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