On 2/25/2012 9:00 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
O RLY?
YA VERILY
Why does social signalling matter? One geek conceit is that only the
semantic content matters, and that the message is the medium.
Non-geeks find this amusingly naive verging on childish.
Us geeks are (stereotypically) not very
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:26:06AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
I am not interested in moving onto Gmail or the cloud.
For my work mail, I use notmuch on Emacs. I'd recommend it to anyone
willing to deal with the steep learning curve.
For old hands, ssh + screen + mutt does very well in
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
You mean it doesn't thread the way you like. It does do threading
just not in the model you're used to.
Which could be the case as I'm more familiar and comfortable with the
way offline mail clients handle and
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:26:06AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
I am not interested in moving onto Gmail or the cloud.
For my work mail, I use notmuch on Emacs. I'd recommend it to anyone
willing to deal with the steep
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:58 PM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
What's odd, depressing, and curiously interesting to me is that although
there are people in this country from all over the globe, Americans with
virtually every genetic marker borne by humans on earth, the race
question
Ok, so teach me. If I'm relplying to multiple mails in a thread, how do I
reply to individual thoughts in these mails without 'copying and pasting'
from the respective mails?
Adit.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, so teach me. If I'm relplying to multiple mails in a thread, how do I
reply to individual thoughts in these mails without 'copying and pasting'
from the respective mails?
Why not reply to each individual email you are
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:58 PM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
Wether we *will* address the origins and nature of American racism and get
beyond our horrible history remains, in my opinion, to be seen. On this
topic, on some days I'm optimistic, and on other days I think we're
May I also use this opportunity to link on here a Nursery rhyme
that was
available in shops in India in the early 1960s. I have the original
45 RPM
record of about 20 rhymes, but this one is about the Ten Little
Nigger Boys
cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None
One can
On Feb 27, 2012 12:06 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, if there is any country that can come closest to
achieving a post-racial society, it is the United States.
You make the case that the US is close, sure, but closest? I see many
countries with multi-racial societies,
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
On Feb 27, 2012 12:06 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, if there is any country that can come closest to
achieving a post-racial society, it is the United States.
You make the case that the US is
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
On Feb 27, 2012 12:06 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On the other hand, if there is any country that can come closest to
achieving a post-racial
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
I think in the case of Singapore race here might be more usefully
replaced with culture. There is a diversity of culture in Singapore
with Teochew/Hokkien/Nyonya chinese, Malay, Malaysian Indian, and
westerners
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote:
I used to think I was non-racist too, once. Now I'm just depressed by
how many of my prejudices keep crawling out and surprising me. You'd
think a guy who's lived his entire life in a multi-cultural milieu
wouldn't
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