Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-21 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
I'm top-posting this for a reason. In the "Please don't Top Post" thread, the reason given for not top posting was because you lose the context of the discussion. I am hoping, no, *BEGGING* that this discussion get's lost. *QUICKLY* On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:58, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > [EMAIL P

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-21 Thread pll
In a message dated: 21 Mar 2003 09:58:55 EST Kevin D. Clark said: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Understood, however, Mike stated he does not want OT posts, and >> whether an OT posts is interesting or not is technically irrellevant >> by Mike's standard. > >So, it is your contention that anyb

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Understood, however, Mike stated he does not want OT posts, and > whether an OT posts is interesting or not is technically irrellevant > by Mike's standard. So, it is your contention that anybody who is subscribed to this list can send anything they want to this lis

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-21 Thread pll
In a message dated: 20 Mar 2003 16:47:48 EST Kevin D. Clark said: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? > >If Mike did this, he would have missed out on Eric Price's "[OT] help >w/ bitwise comparison operators" thread, which I think is sufficien

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Randy Edwards
As for making sure to hear all sides of anything, listening to senseless propiganda like this song doesn't usually help with that. This is part of the reason I make sure to get at least half of my news from sources outside of the US. This is one topic that amazes me -- the narrow range of US cor

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Erik Price
Kevin D. Clark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? If Mike did this, he would have missed out on Eric Price's "[OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators" thread, which I think is sufficiently interesting to be discussed on this mailing li

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? If Mike did this, he would have missed out on Eric Price's "[OT] help w/ bitwise comparison operators" thread, which I think is sufficiently interesting to be discussed on this mailing list. Regards, --kevin

RE: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
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Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 4:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I strongly disagree with the please don't do it again statement. We >> need to hear both sides to this so since it is off topic do as you >> please. > > Off topic posts are, by their very nature, inappropriate, and don't belong > h

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Since it's an abuse to inflict one's non-Linux-related views on this captive audience (gathered here because we value this channel's blessedly high *LINUX-RELATED* S/N ratio) and since there are eleventy-bazillion other channels (email lists, blogs, barrooms, etc) where war-talk *is* welcome, and

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 3:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I strongly disagree with the please don't do it again statement. We need > to hear both sides to this so since it is off topic do as you please. Can we please *NOT* get into a political debate on this list? The only thing less productiv

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:51:34 EST mike ledoux said: >Look at my history. Off topic posts piss me off, as they defeat my >filters and waste my time. So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ? -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07

RE: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Travis Roy
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Casey Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:54 PM To: mike ledoux Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune > Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and > tries to connect the war we've just begin t

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Casey
Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by accident, and intended this for another list, but the source address and OT subject tag make that hard to

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Erik Price
Paul Iadonisi wrote: WARNING: You may love it, or you may hate it. I'm just sick of Clear Channel's monopoly and want to spread the access to this song and let people judge for themselves, instead of allowing the media mogul's to act as faulty filters for our

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, mike ledoux wrote: > Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and > tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on > the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by > accident, and intended this for another list, but the sour

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Bob Bell
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:47:30PM -0500, Paul Iadonisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WARNING: You may love it, or you may hate it. I'm just sick of > Clear Channel's monopoly and want to spread the access > to this song and let people judge for themselves, instead > of a

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:07:56 EST mike ledoux said: >Wonderful. A pro-war song that completely misses the point, and >tries to connect the war we've just begin to the 9/11 attack on >the WTC. I'd like to believe that you posted this crap here by >accident, and intended this for

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:55:46PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 2:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's an asx file, but the asf file contained within is playable with xine > > (and probably with mplayer), though you might need the win32 codecs available > > at the mp

Re: OT: Good (but probably controversial) tune

2003-03-20 Thread bscott
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, at 2:47pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's an asx file, but the asf file contained within is playable with xine > (and probably with mplayer), though you might need the win32 codecs available > at the mplayer site. And for those of us who don't have all that crap on our PCs,