Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
On 02/03/2015 06:34 PM, s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: Re IS releases a highly polished and glitzy video of the burning of a Jordanian pilot in a cage. The Nazis and Communists committed horrific crimes but though their nightmare deeds were sometimes filmed the footage was

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Re IS releases a highly polished and glitzy video of the burning of a Jordanian pilot in a cage. The Nazis and Communists committed horrific crimes but though their nightmare deeds were sometimes filmed the footage was never shown to the public. It was all done behind closed doors as the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Emily, Are they going to use light trains for the tunnels in downtown Seattle? As I remember, they were using regular buses in the tunnels 2004. But they've planned the tunnels to be convertible to light rail trains in case the city decided to use that option in the future. ---In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Another word for sniper is coward. And snipers are considered one step up from the lowest form of coward -- drone pilots -- because they actually have to go out into battle and hide behind a tree, whereas the drone pilot gets to sit in a safe building somewhere and play video games. 

[FairfieldLife] Church of Scientology targets film critics over Going Clear documentary

2015-02-03 Thread eustace10679
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/church-of-scientology-attacks-film-critics-going-clear-documentary?CMP=ema_565 http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/church-of-scientology-attacks-film-critics-going-clear-documentary?CMP=ema_565

[FairfieldLife] Church of Scientology targets film critics over Going Clear documentary

2015-02-03 Thread eustace10679
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/church-of-scientology-attacks-film-critics-going-clear-documentary?CMP=ema_565 http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/03/church-of-scientology-attacks-film-critics-going-clear-documentary?CMP=ema_565

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Dixon mdixon.6...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
 Meanwhile, IS releases a highly polished and glitzy video of the burning of a Jordanian pilot in a cage. Google  Shepherd Smith and Fox News for a graphic description of the video.BTW, I thought I saw an article (that I didn't take time to read) that was accusing Kyle's murderer of having been

[FairfieldLife] Journey from the Sun to Jupiter at light speed

2015-02-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Fascinating, if you've got the time. The whole journey takes 45 minutes; it takes 3 minutes just to get to Mercury. Bottom line is that space is really, really, really empty. This Video Takes Place At Lightspeed,  |   | |   | |   |   |   |   |   | | This Video Takes Place At LightspeedAs

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is going to sound like one of those Barry non-sequitur cafe raps, and to some extent it is. I finally have enough spare time in my schedule to start a book and have hopes of being able to finish reading, so I've belatedly started reading Bruce Cockburn's autobiography, Rumours Of Glory.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

2015-02-03 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO promoted science as a matter of course. TMO promoted science is about 1% reliable based on various reviews of study size, controls, and experimental design. It's the dumbing down effect of religious memes that prevent

[FairfieldLife] Only an hour and a half away from Fairfield

2015-02-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
1278 US Highway 30, Mt Vernon, IA 52314

[FairfieldLife] The vote is in..

2015-02-03 Thread salyavin808
Looks like our MP's got good advice. MPs vote in favour of 'three-person embryo' law http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/03/mps-vote-favour-three-person-embryo-law http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/03/mps-vote-favour-three-person-embryo-law MPs vote in favour

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread salyavin808
I had a wild west moment in Egypt in '92. I was backpacking around while taking a break from working in Israel and the first Muhajeed's from Afghanistan had returned home filled with zeal for re-spreading the word of the prophet and killing as many unbelievers as they could. A few tourist

Re: [FairfieldLife] Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
That would mean that all club musicians are highly intelligent. ;-) On 02/02/2015 10:25 PM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: */You can never fully trust science. Take this study, for example. If Fairfield, IA's claimed reputation as an early-to-bed, fairly drug-free,

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
You live in a dense population. The US is spread out. There are areas where you would be well advised to carry a gun just like the folks in the TV series Fortitude carry rifles. Don't want to be eaten alive by a bear do you? On 02/03/2015 04:18 AM, salyavin808 wrote: Is the NRA a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

2015-02-03 Thread salyavin808
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb@... wrote : As much as I may agree with you about the trustworthiness of TM science, my science-writing gig the last couple of years has given me a similar distrust. Not of science per se, but certainly of science journalism, how science is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

2015-02-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
As much as I may agree with you about the trustworthiness of TM science, my science-writing gig the last couple of years has given me a similar distrust. Not of science per se, but certainly of science journalism, how science is reported in the general press. It's caused me to realize that the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
A lot of Seattlelites have dibelief in the place and are moving out. It isn't the city I knew in the 1970s. My last visit in 2007, the downtown resembled something out of Bladerunner. On 02/02/2015 12:52 PM, jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: I predicted for a friend in Seattle that

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Science backfires for Fairfield :-)

2015-02-03 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I certainly agree about that. I always try to find the original paper if I can, or at least the abstract, so I can evaluate how much the writer is glossing over or whether they are giving it a particular slant, or exaggerating what was found. That is in addition to lower level scientists who

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I saw this article drift past on some forum not long ago, and at first assumed it was fiction. Since then I have learned that PRI.org is a non-profit news organization, but not one known for fiction, so there is a possibility that the 2013 statistic cited in the article is true. A Wikipedia

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread salyavin808
It is rather rare thank god. They are usually called out to deal with armed criminals on their way to a job or people committing suicide by attacking the police with what looks like a gun (surprisingly true). But basically it's quite peaceful. The only shocker I remember was the Brazilian

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread salyavin808
Is the NRA a terrorist organisation? I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a couple of Floridians moved to my street and tried to set up a shooting range in their front garden. I'd give it ten minutes before there were armed police units surrounding the entire area and everyone concerned

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Xeno, let's use a little logic here. If you existed before you were born, you will continue to exist after you die. If you didn't exist before you were born, you will not exist after you die. The law of karma or balance is a very subtle law, compared to other gross laws of physics. That's

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Xeno, let's use a little logic here. If you existed before you were born, you will continue to exist after you die. If you didn't exist before you were born, you will not exist after you die. The law of karma or balance is a very subtle law, compared to other gross laws of physics. That's

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Seattle couldn't have changed that much since I left in 2004. From what I've seen on TV, they still have Pike Place Market. That's a tourist landmark for the city. IMO, they'd leave it the way it is for tourists and the culture there. I used to eat lunch there, at least, once a week.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread jason_gre...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Stop this bullshit willytex. No referendum was held in that territory. God is not a real estate dealer. The UN stole that land from indigenous people. They called other communities dogs for centuries. But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
Using inference as a valid means of knowledge, we infer that there is intelligence in the universe, otherwise logic would dictate to us that there is no order, only chaos. According to my logic professor, A.J. Bahm, if appearances derived through one sensory channel appear contradictory, it

[FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote : Is the NRA a terrorist organisation? I'm trying to imagine what would happen if a couple of Floridians moved to my street and tried to set up a shooting range in their front garden. I'd give it ten minutes before there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
You need to read some history books. The people of Judea were there long before the Arabs invaded the land and tried to kill all the Jews. Do you have any historical evidence that proves the Arabs were in Judea before it was called Judea? I think not. Judea and Samaria is the West Bank! They

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
My first long term time in Seattle was in the summer of 1962 when the World's Fair was on and I had a summer job with my brother. It was really a neat place then and easy to get around on even on a bus. Then 1965 as UW student through 1969. Then I came back again in 1972 and lived there

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
It might be helpful to define karma as used in Indian doctrine. The theory of karma is dirt simple: all things fall down; human excrement always flows downstream; gravity sucks. It's not a metaphysics - it's just an observation that holds true for everyone and everything. You strike a billiard

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
In computer science where random number generators are frequently used there has been a lot of study of this and many agree nothing is really random. Best random number generators were ones that took analog video noise for a number. On 02/03/2015 01:55 PM, inmadi...@hotmail.com

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife]
If you don't have a gun and don't know how to shoot straight, how are you going to kill the terrorists? AUSTIN — Two years after Chris Kyle's death, and days before the man accused of killing him goes to trial, the retired Navy SEAL depicted in the blockbuster movie American Sniper received a

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
This is not necessarily so. Comments in your text. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jason_green2@... wrote : Xeno, let's use a little logic here. If you existed before you were born, you will continue to exist after you die. If you didn't exist before you were born, you will not exist

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
but a backyard is not a place to have legal shooting ranges. The politicians in FL who allow this must be insane - we don't even have that kind of crap here in South Carolina and FYI Sal, the NRA is run by a megalomaniac demagogue named Wayne Lapierre who loves to be the power that has all the

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread emily.ma...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
Seattle has changed a lot in the last 10 years and will continue to. Planning for population is always a challenge. Should have gone the way of mass transit decades ago. Yes, the tourist landmarks will stay. Census: Seattle is the fastest-growing big city in the U.S.

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread jr_...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
You were in Seattle when I was there. I used to live in the Magnolia district. When I got to the city, I found an apartment near the top of a hill and the living room window was overlooking the Ballard Bridge. I was paying $600 per month for the place which was a steal compared to the San

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread s3raph...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
I've not seen this new Clint Eastwood movie yet - and I hadn't realized that Chris Kylie was dead - and indeed had been murdered. To show that nations will show pride in any record they can lay claim to, the other day I was half amused and half disturbed to see the British press crowing

Re: [FairfieldLife] Disbelief in Seattle

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
The northwest was a target market for Subarus which I first saw advertised probably in the 1960s. I had just a front wheel wagon in 1978 but could get around the area when others couldn't after snowstorms. In fact about the only other cars on the road after those storms were Subarus. In

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Why European tourists you meet in America are so polite

2015-02-03 Thread Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]
Yes, but I was addressing why we allow guns in the first place. I'm a Second Amendment supporter even though I own no guns. Governments are too fragile and crazy to allow to run herd over us and cops too crazy. On 02/03/2015 12:40 PM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]

[FairfieldLife] Re: Machinelike or Random?

2015-02-03 Thread inmadi...@hotmail.com [FairfieldLife]
Claiming some event is random just means the event is too complicated and we don't understand it yet. So there is no calling a thing random, that is only being lazy.