Unocal Sale . . .

2005-06-23 Thread Terry Blanton
. . . to the Chinese could be a good sign.

[OT] A.I. or Conscious?

2005-06-23 Thread Terry Blanton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/interview/story/0,12982,1511931,00.html "A conscious robot, for example, should be aware of being a piece of tin with silicon circuits just as a person is conscious of being a biological organism. If an artificial device sophisticated enough to hold a discussion wi

RE: Is Big Brother watching?

2005-06-23 Thread Don Wiegel
Subject: RE: Is Big Brother watching? Microsoft's Longhorn has spyware plan Black box is Vole's 007 By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 27 April 2005, 07:05 PERVASIVE SOFTWARE giant Microsoft says that it is planning to install spyware into the next version of Windows to help it work out why its oper

Re: proposed fusion reactor

2005-06-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
thomas malloy wrote: Good at what? attracting funding? The last I heard, the last generation of Takamak's were producing .85 units of usable energy for each one input. This is a deal that only a bureaucrat, or an idiot liberal could love. Why do you ascribe this trait to liberals? Both partie

Re: Is Big Brother watching?

2005-06-23 Thread leaking pen
you mean like longhorn? On 6/23/05, thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted; > > >At 10:32 pm 22/06/2005 -0500, you wrote: > >>An E E took his new computer apart and found a chip which appears to > >>been placed in the circuitry by Home Land Security. > > > > >http://www.chiark.gree

Re: proposed fusion reactor

2005-06-23 Thread thomas malloy
Title: Re: proposed fusion reactor I posted, and Chris Arnold replied Tokamak has proven itself to be a winner, because for some reason it always gets funding. Good at what? attracting funding? The last I heard, the last generation of Takamak's were producing .85 units of usable energy for each

Re: Is Big Brother watching?

2005-06-23 Thread thomas malloy
I posted; At 10:32 pm 22/06/2005 -0500, you wrote: An E E took his new computer apart and found a chip which appears to been placed in the circuitry by Home Land Security. >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jdamery/archive/www.roflcaeks.biz/lol.html And Grimer replied; No he is not. The

Re: More on the iESi CF Technology

2005-06-23 Thread Jed Rothwell
RC Macaulay wrote: Looking at the Russian patent drawing in the link by Dr. Arrison . . . What is the URL for both, please? - Jed

Re: More on the iESi CF Technology

2005-06-23 Thread RC Macaulay
Looking at the Russian patent drawing in the link by Dr. Arrison, the nozzle configuration looks like a knockoff of DynaFlow Inc patented nozzles. DynaFlow has the advantage of SBA grants for innovative research because they know how to write a grant.   Richard  

Re: Is Big Brother watching?

2005-06-23 Thread Grimer
At 10:32 pm 22/06/2005 -0500, you wrote: >An E E took his new computer apart and found a chip which appears to >been placed in the circuitry by Home Land Security. >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jdamery/archive/www.roflcaeks.biz/lol.html No he is not. The clue is in the end of the URL (

Re: proposed fusion reactor

2005-06-23 Thread Christopher Arnold
Tokamak has proven itself to be a winner, because for some reason it always gets funding.thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was surfing and came across this link. These people are building a new Tokamak. Well, hope springs eternal.http://www.iter.org/index.htm Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Y

Re: Is Big Brother watching?

2005-06-23 Thread leaking pen
actually, thats faked. the pic was put together, and the letter was pulled from a political website. i mean, look at the bloody web address. lol.html. it was a prank, if you search elsewhere on the site, they talk about it. On 6/22/05, thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An E E took his

Reptoids

2005-06-23 Thread thomas malloy
In another interview ranking strange by Thomas Malloy standards, John Rhodes of www.reptoids.com , was interviewed on C to C AM this morning. With ideas befitting a Secular Humanist, Mr. Rhodes speculated that they evolved from the dinosars and live underground. Humans arrived here from else wh