Re: Detroit Pushing Diesel Hybrids

2005-03-24 Thread Nick Palmer
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:- Note that the people at http://www.dolphinaci.com/technology/technology.html are already getting 90+ mpg in some tests, and outperforming the Prius in all tests, and all they have done is somewhat modify a conventional engine Be careful about believing these results

Re: Detroit Pushing Diesel Hybrids

2005-03-24 Thread Jones Beene
--- Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful about believing these results from one of the Joseph LaStella stable of companies... I absolutely agree !! This is DISinformation, pure and simple, and poorly done to boot. AND it is not even Detroit, by 1500 miles. Without any doubt this

Re: Detroit Pushing Diesel Hybrids

2005-03-24 Thread leaking pen
no, the support the troop ribbons are all magnetic. next time you see one, peel it off to see. (or, do like i do. i printed up several 8x10 sheets of bumpersticker paper with small sections that say bring them home now. i simply put that on their car right underneath support our troops. ) On

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread thomas malloy
Keith Nagel and Horace Heffner responded; J. Swift writes: Our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other My first reaction was to say that I fail to see the connection between this part of Gulliver's Travels and the the question at hand. On further reflection You have the

Re: Wikipedia

2005-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: So far. There is no telling when a skeptic will come and erase it. There is no control and no recourse. Say what? Is this the same Wikipedia I'm familiar with? There is control and there is recourse. A page which someone deletes for personal reasons can be retrieved.

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Horace Heffner
At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substitute for Torah. I thought I'd made the case adequately, but apparently I didn't. You completely failed to address the issue and you seem to

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: At 11:14 AM 3/24/5, thomas malloy wrote: The idea that Yehovah, and Allah are the same entity is pure nonsense. Ditto for the idea that Shariah is a substitute for Torah. I thought I'd made the case adequately, but apparently I didn't. You completely failed to

RE: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
There is a general solution. If G-d is Omnipresent, there is but One by exclusion; and,all monotheistic religions are worshiping the same G-d by definition. "I am that I am"Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jews and Christians worship the god of Abraham. Islamists worship the godof Abraham.

OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread orionworks
From: thomas malloy ... My first reaction was to say that I fail to see the connection between this part of Gulliver's Travels and the the question at hand. On further reflection You have the misguided idea that the difference between Judeo Christianity and Islam is the same difference

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
I think you might find this of interest: "There are certain striking similarities between the Hindu god Brahma and his consort Saraisvati, and the Jewish Abraham and Sarai, that are more than mere coincidences." http://www.hermetics.org/Abraham2.html"Stephen A. Lawrence" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: There is a general solution. If G-d is Omnipresent, there is but One by exclusion; and, all monotheistic religions are worshiping the same G-d by definition. I am that I am Um ... You are assuming all those who _think_ they are worshiping the One God are indeed doing

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
Nope, I make no assumptions about the worshiper. The condition is that G-d is Omnipresent. This is an interesting philosophy in that before there was a Creation, there was only the Creator. The only material to compose the Creation must come from the Creator; therefore, all that is, is G-d

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: Nope, I make no assumptions about the worshiper. The condition is that G-d is Omnipresent. This is an interesting philosophy in that before there was a Creation, there was only the Creator. The only material to compose the Creation must come from the Creator;

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: I think you might find this of interest: There are certain striking similarities between the Hindu god *Brahma* and his consort *Saraisvati,* and the Jewish *Abraham* and *Sarai*, that are more than mere coincidences. http://www.hermetics.org/Abraham2.html Thanks --

Garbage from space.com

2005-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/shostak_daring_050324.html Quote: . . . So a researcher has to make a choice of whether to interpret the data and gamble on discovery, or keep quiet, continue the slog, and risk being trumped by a competitor. In other words, there's a fine balance between

Okay article in Guardian

2005-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
A lot of garbage, mixed in with some truth: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1444306,00.html - Jed

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
LOL! You shouldn't read my posts. Sometimes my NLP goes haywire. :-) Have you ever heard of the Cathars? It's my own gnostic variation. Well, actually, I got it from a Playboy article about 30 years ago. It goes something like this. G-d got bored so he created Man for his entertainment. Man does

Re: Garbage from space.com

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
I think you can reach the author at; [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsEb=179047 Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you contact these idots?!? I do not see a contact page or editor. Let's everyone write to them, and set them

Re: Garbage from space.com

2005-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: I think you can reach the author at; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm . . . Let's have some of the big guns write him. Or everyone?!? - Jed

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: First, how can something which is all good spawn something evil? How can pure evil come from pure good? Clearly it can't -- if the good gives birth to the evil then the good must have incorporated the evil to start with and the good must not have been pure good, after

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
Oops! That should read 'Nora Baron'. "Onegod dogone it!" - Me, after an insane day on the nutfarm.Terry Blanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should ask Nora Barton eg. site! Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

Re: OT: The will of God

2005-03-24 Thread orionworks
From: Terry Blanton ... I further conjecture that to be the Creation, it must be not G-d; therefore, all that lives is separate from G-d. If G-d is all that is Good; then, all that is must be Evil and the end of Creation is the return to G-d. Is this why 'live' is 'evil' spelled

Re: Garbage from space.com

2005-03-24 Thread Steven Krivit
done - thanks for the address At 02:52 PM 3/24/2005 -0800, you wrote: I think you can reach the author at; [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsEb=179047 Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you contact these idots?!? I do not see a contact page or editor.

A Stirling Solution

2005-03-24 Thread Terry Blanton
If the project succeeds, the DOE predicts that by 2011, Stirling solar-dish farms could be delivering electricity to the grid at costs comparable to traditional electricity sources, thereby reducing the U.S. need for foreign sources of fossil fuels.