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2006-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:47:31PM +1000, Daniel Rose wrote: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List! It looks like the young man who started all this was at least partly successful!! People who don't like off-topic threads need a thread-aware email reader, then the problem goes away No, the

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-26 Thread Paul Scott
Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: The impression of impropriety in politics is as bad as impropriety itself. I'm not going to go into detail, since if you weren't following the news for the last six years, going over it again won't help you. Oddly enough, Paul, I have

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-26 Thread cr
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:45, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 21:14, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid. The Florida

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 21:45, Steve Lamb wrote: I'm betting in your world view Joseph Lieberman was the first. I'm not convinced Joe Lieberman could be that original on his own. Still gonna say I don't keep up with current world events, Paul? No, I just don't know history as well as

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 21:40, Steve Lamb wrote: The UN is insignificant. For if *you* were watching the news in the past 6 years you would know that the UN has done nothing to curb the tide of terrorism, it has been implicated in a massive money laundering scandal that goes up to

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 02:40, Ron Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Mailbox
I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb - Original Message - From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:38 AM Subject: Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 22:08, Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: And what is the member status of those states again? Do they matter? Does anybody on the UN give them more than token attention? NO! Why? Because the UN realizes they're as nutty as they really are, too!

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpcJUhQ4kqA7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 25 August 2006 00:05, Hal Vaughan wrote: You try it and I'll close the pod bay doors. And the emergency airlock hatch too, just in case. Explosive bolts, manual overrides and remembering to exhale entirely instead of holding breath before getting launched into a vaccuum still gives

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-25 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: Katipo wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Yes, because Government has nothing better to do than fritter it's citizens money on something that probably nets them no gain. Sorry, that's a huge negative in my book. That would seem to be somewhat inconsistent,

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:29, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:05, Hal Vaughan wrote: You try it and I'll close the pod bay doors. And the emergency airlock hatch too, just in case. Explosive bolts, manual overrides and remembering to exhale entirely instead of holding

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) That was in bad taste. Really bad taste. Unless you add a nice chianti. Hal --

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 and by probable act of sabotage on Diebold's part in Ohio in 2004. Candidate B becomes president, people have no say. And where, exactly, is the proof? I mean the real

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-25 Thread Katipo
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:29, Katipo wrote: You're in the States, and therefore classified as American market source. I'm in Australia, and it's all China and Korea here. Very little from South America or EU. I used to get a *lot* from Korea, almost all of it

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Like the US is any better, then. So far, the only weapons Iraq's been able to use to inflict any real damage on US life is with IEDs. You mean Syria, Iran and Lebanon? All of those were looked at and in pretty much every case refuted. I'm not so sure about

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 22:08, Steve Lamb wrote: You know, if Iraq invaded us, and called us terrorists for defending ourselves, you'd be pretty pissed off, too. The UN isn't so shortsighted as to say you aren't allowed to ream an occupying force a new one.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: No, I just don't know history as well as you, and the 1970s were in that too-old-for-current-events, too-new-for-US-History gap when I was in school save for the order of the presidents, the gas crisis, Vietnam and Korean Wars. Ah yes, ignore the fact I had already

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: Perhaps your experience of government is, but Brazillian government doesn't answer to the description of coercive. Government, by definition, is coercive. That is why it should be limited in scope. They're not giving away money. They simply don't have it to give away.

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: But in many cases, they're not knock-offs. They're simply 'Black and Gold', or 'Home Brand' wrappings of the same product, while corporates disguise the act with screams of 'Patent theft'. Cites? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?

OT: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Blah blah blah. Please note the change of the subject line to include OT. Thanks. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 25 August 2006 00:44, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) That was in bad taste.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:05, Hal Vaughan wrote: You try it and I'll close the pod bay doors. And the emergency airlock hatch too, just in case. Explosive bolts, manual overrides and remembering to exhale entirely

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:44, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 18:58, Hex Star wrote: ewww...who eats a liver? it looks sooo nasty...how can you even look at it much less eat it? Top posters. Ugh! It's a joke and movie reference. Guess that plane took off without you. On 8/25/06, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hex Star wrote: ewww...who eats a liver? it looks sooo nasty...how can you even Guess you've never been hunting or fishing. Too bad. Dressing a freshly killed deer is a learning experience. look at it much less eat it? The look isn't bad. It's

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 25 August 2006 19:07, Ron Johnson wrote: Hex Star wrote: ewww...who eats a liver? it looks sooo nasty...how can you even Guess you've never been hunting or fishing. Too bad. Dressing a freshly killed deer is a learning experience. That's more or less why I have only ever gone

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Top posting is considered harmful. Please read http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting before sending another email. On Friday 25 August 2006 15:58, Hex Star wrote: ewww...who eats a liver? it looks sooo nasty...how can you even look at it much less eat it? It's a quote from The Silence of the Lambs¹,

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 19:07, Ron Johnson wrote: Hex Star wrote: [snip] walking vegetable. :o) Now if the USDA would get over their hangups with irradiated beef, I could safely eat that raw again But, but, but, it's

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) You know, I never did ask you: did you eat his liver before, or after it was run

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 25 August 2006 21:14, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) You know, I never did ask

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Mihira Fernando
Ron Johnson wrote: Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. Practically, though, no. Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors who are pledged to vote for a specific candidate. So if the Electors suddenly decide to vote for candidate A while being

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mihira Fernando wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. Practically, though, no. Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors who are pledged to vote for a specific

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There's also the case of the Libranet help list that had a number of quite knowledgeable people on it, but when Libranet started censoring them (I won't go into the entire story, I'll

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Aug 23 22:55 -0500]: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 19:35, Mihira Fernando wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: ¹ For those not of US origin, the US has had an electoral college to decide it's soverign since it's inception, the popular vote for president is

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. Practically, though, no. Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors who are pledged to vote for a specific candidate. So if

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:26, Steve Lamb wrote: Uh, gas prices ring a bell? Of course you didn't reply to that, you blindly skipped over it. Just like you go amazingly silent any time someone nails you with cold hard facts. s/cold hard facts/rock-stupid morons/ and you would have a

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. Practically, though, no. Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 24 August 2006 04:24, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:26, Steve Lamb wrote: Uh, gas prices ring a bell? Of course you didn't reply to that, you blindly skipped over it. Just like you go amazingly silent any time someone nails you with cold hard facts.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Aug 23 23:00 -0500]: Steve Lamb wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Nevermind that he was impeached for lying under oath in an investigation Er, sorry, Faced Impeachment is what I meant. point of fact, like him or not he WAS

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Aug 23 22:55 -0500]: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 19:58, Steve Lamb wrote: ¹ For those not of US origin, Ignore Paul as he slants his posts to cast the most negative light on any non-socialist administration. Given this is a Capitalist society

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Chris Mattern
Paul Johnson wrote: ¹ For those not of US origin, the US has had an electoral college to decide it's soverign since it's inception, the popular vote for president is legally nonbinding in nearly all states: the electoral college can and does vote for whoever it wants. Out of a quarter

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-24 Thread Katipo
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 03:22, Matt Johnson wrote: - Original Message From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-24 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: Katipo wrote: Nothing, even remotely close to the volumes generated by Americans and their contracted bodies in Korea and China. They hire out entire ISPs for the purpose. Which would be China and Korea's problems respectively and does not excuse Brazil's ills.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: That's not true. The UN has a similarly negative view of our electoral college. So? Any non-elected group which caters to terrorism, has been proven corrupt time and again and is against free speech is a group I should care about how

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!) Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] Corporates employ off-shore spammers because they have the cheap labour resources ( a lot of the ISPs clients get free online in return for spamming), act as an identity buffer for public image

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Yes, because Government has nothing better to do than fritter it's citizens money on something that probably nets them no gain. Sorry, that's a huge negative in my book. That would seem to be somewhat inconsistent, coming from somebody that supposedly

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 and by probable act of sabotage on Diebold's part in Ohio in 2004. Candidate B becomes president, people have no say. And where, exactly, is the proof? I mean the real proof, not Paul's made up

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: s/cold hard facts/rock-stupid morons/ and you would have a pretty good summation of that thread. I quit because I got tired of the refusal for others, like you, to see the bloody obvious. Just because you're sore you pay more for less doesn't mean my logic is flawed,

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 07:59, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. Practically, though, no. Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 and by probable act of sabotage on Diebold's part in Ohio in 2004. Candidate B becomes president, people have no say. And where, exactly,

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:06, Nate Bargmann wrote: With illegal immigration and with attempts to allow illegal immigrants to vote, this trend may well be reversing. It may be, but as far as I am concerned they're not people. They become people again around the time they go back to where

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:23, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Aug 23 23:00 -0500]: Steve Lamb wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Nevermind that he was impeached for lying under oath in an investigation Er, sorry, Faced Impeachment is what I

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 07:59, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. Practically,

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:06, Nate Bargmann wrote: With illegal immigration and with attempts to allow illegal immigrants to vote, this trend may well be reversing. It may be, but as far as I am concerned they're not

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 10:36, Nate Bargmann wrote: A great number of the UN member states have an equally negative view of such concepts as our Bill of Rights, government of the people, by the people, for the people, and that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:29, Katipo wrote: You're in the States, and therefore classified as American market source. I'm in Australia, and it's all China and Korea here. Very little from South America or EU. I used to get a *lot* from Korea, almost all of it from Kornet. I have to

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:04, Chris Mattern wrote: No. Paul has no idea what the hell he's talking about. Most electoral college members are bound by state law to vote for the presidential candidate they were elected to vote for. So less than half suddenly constitutes a majority? I'm

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:04, Chris Mattern wrote: No. Paul has no idea what the hell he's talking about. Most electoral college members are bound by state law to vote for the presidential candidate they were elected to

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid. The Florida problem was that little old ladies could not figure our how to use a paper ballot. Take your own advice: Don't be stupid.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:57, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:06, Nate Bargmann wrote: With illegal immigration and with attempts to allow illegal immigrants to vote, this trend may well be reversing. It may be, but as far as I am concerned

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread charles norwood
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:13 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:D Gak! We agree!! We usually do, though this summer you seem to have gone temporarily insane. Any chance the list is dealing with one schizophrenic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid. The Florida problem was that little old ladies could not figure our how to use a

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charles norwood wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:13 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:D Gak! We agree!! We usually do, though this summer you seem to have gone temporarily insane. Any chance the list is dealing with one schizophrenic? No. He lives in

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid. The Florida problem was that little old ladies could not figure our

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: The impression of impropriety in politics is as bad as impropriety itself. I'm not going to go into detail, since if you weren't following the news for the last six years, going over it again won't help you. Oddly enough, Paul, I have followed the news. I have

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: That paragraph contradicts itself because the second sentence assumes third parties don't exist, whereas in the EC, it doesn't matter how many votes third parties get, the EC won't vote for them. They haven't voted for a third party since last time we had a Whig

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: And what is the member status of those states again? Do they matter? Does anybody on the UN give them more than token attention? NO! Why? Because the UN realizes they're as nutty as they really are, too! However, the UN does allow everybody to have their say. It

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread cr
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so, but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more problems adding packages when I had to. I just got it because it had an easy

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Matt Johnson
- Original Message From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!) Steve Lamb wrote: Furthermore (not to you Hal) I find it mildly Ironic

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Johnson wrote: - Original Message From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Matt Johnson wrote: Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from only certain nationalities on this list? You've lost me here, lads. Perhaps you could exlain this clearly. Just as I wrote. It is ironic that someone from Brazil, which is notorious for it's black-hacker

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: Nothing, even remotely close to the volumes generated by Americans and their contracted bodies in Korea and China. They hire out entire ISPs for the purpose. Which would be China and Korea's problems respectively and does not excuse Brazil's ills. ...and to counterbalance

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Matt Johnson
- Original Message From: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 2:18:56 PM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!) Matt Johnson wrote: Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from

ON TOPIC: comparative distros (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))

2006-08-23 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:49:18AM +1200, cr wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39, Steve Lamb wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I tried Mepis for a while. It was fine for the 1st six months or so, but once the testing and unstable got out of sync, I had more and more problems adding packages when

Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Steve Lamb wrote: Matt Johnson wrote: Excuse me? You are joking, right? Relevant opinion from only certain nationalities on this list? You've lost me here, lads. Perhaps you could exlain this clearly. Just as I wrote. It is ironic that someone from Brazil, which is notorious

Re: Off Topic Topics (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))

2006-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip nice Start Trek story] LOL, that just made my day :))) Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 03:22, Matt Johnson wrote: - Original Message From: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2006 1:32:52 AM Subject: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!) Steve Lamb

Re: Off Topic Topics (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))

2006-08-23 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 21:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip nice Start Trek story] LOL, that just made my day :))) Andrei Yeah, that was impressive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
was rude complaining about recent OT trafic, which started with the Osama Bin Laden Take Over List! stuff, and continues with the Pumping Gas in Oregon emails. As I said, it was not my intention to be rude with these OT's debianners. I am very sorry for that. I have nothing to do with the black-hacker

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Angelina Carlton
obtain continuosly from this list. Ditto I apologize very much if I was rude complaining about recent OT trafic, which started with the Osama Bin Laden Take Over List! stuff, and continues with the Pumping Gas in Oregon emails. As I said, it was not my intention to be rude with these OT's

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Marc Shapiro wrote: But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington (D.C., not state) say? Are YOU responsible for the SPAM that

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Angelina Carlton wrote: Again, Marcelo, please do not feel the need to apologize, you are only echoing the same thing many of us feel: we want to to keep this list focused one Debian, simple as that. Then here's a pop quiz. Why is it in the years that this list has existed there pretty

Baxk on the off-topic (was Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon))

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington

Re: Baxk on the off-topic (was Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon))

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:35, Ron Johnson wrote: Let's remember people, that the focus of this thread is laughing at those stupid Oregonians who can't pump their own gas. You can pump your own gas, that's fine, but remember, NJ and BC also have mini-serve, and in BC, mini-serve competes

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] I'm of the world opinion, which is more or less why I want out. You can agree with Jacques Chirac, I'll have the correct opinion. :o) - -- Ron

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 20:24, Steve Lamb wrote: Angelina Carlton wrote: Again, Marcelo, please do not feel the need to apologize, you are only echoing the same thing many of us feel: we want to to keep this list focused one Debian, simple as that. Then here's a pop quiz. Why is

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington (D.C., not state) say? Are YOU

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:05, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] I'm of the world opinion, which is more or less why I want out. You can agree with Jacques Chirac, I'll have the correct opinion. I

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:35, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this post. I never said that you, or any of the rest of us from the U.S. should be shameful of our country. I also don't think that Brazilians need to be shameful of THEIR country. I DO think

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:05, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:19, Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] I'm of the world opinion, which is more or less why I want out. You

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Mihira Fernando
Paul Johnson wrote: ¹ For those not of US origin, the US has had an electoral college to decide it's soverign since it's inception, the popular vote for president is legally nonbinding in nearly all states: the electoral college can and does vote for whoever it wants. Out of a quarter

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:35, Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm not sure what you're trying to say with this post. I never said that you, or any of the rest of us from the U.S. should be shameful of our country. I also don't

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:13, Hal Vaughan wrote: I never even knew there were moderators until one showed up a few months ago (or sometime within the past 6 months or so) and started censoring posts that were critical of moderators. Other than that one incident, I thought this was a case

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 19:35, Ron Johnson wrote: Spammers are a tiny group of people, and the ISPs who allow spam are also run by a small number of people. Likewise, many people don't hold harmless anybody in California for the power crisis, as all of their elected officials unanimously

RE: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-23 Thread Daniel Rose
Osama Bin Laden Take Over List! It looks like the young man who started all this was at least partly successful!! People who don't like off-topic threads need a thread-aware email reader, then the problem goes away

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: I don't agree with Jacques Chirac, I disagree with the Republican Party, So do I, don't see me wanting to slap everyone else down for it, do you? Certainly don't see me revising history to fit my own illusional worldview. college crap-shoot, which has resulted in hugely

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: Nevermind that he was impeached for lying under oath in an investigation Er, sorry, Faced Impeachment is what I meant. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...

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