Re: WeChooseTheMoon

2009-07-30 Thread Lance A. Brown
dsummersmi...@comcast.net wrote: > An interesting aside on this. It took the Mercury program a bit over 9 > months to go from the first sub-orbital flight to the first orbital flight. > > The big private enterprise sub-orbital flight happened almost 5 years ago > (5 years this coming November I

Re: WeChooseTheMoon

2009-07-30 Thread Lance A. Brown
And here is my reply: Very good. I should have dug deeper on their website before opening my mouth. :-) --[Lance] Dan M wrote: > Somehow this just went to the author instead of the list. So, I'm > reposting, even though I got a nice reply from Lance. > -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D

Re: Why not discuss the topic?

2009-07-30 Thread Danny O'Dare
This, of course, is purely libertarian 'capitalist' egotistical selfishness. If everyone thought and behaved liked this - and it became governmental policy - then we would indeed be living under Barbarism. DANNY 2009/7/20 Alberto Monteiro > Nick Arnett wrote: > > > >> It seems odd to conclude

Re: Torchwood: Children of Earth

2009-07-30 Thread William Goodall
On 25 Jul 2009, at 04:02, John Williams wrote: I just watched the 3rd season of Torchwood, which was a 5 episode mini-series called "Children of Earth". What a disappointment. [snip] Then I looked at the Torchwood forum on imdb.com, and found that quite a few people posting thought Children

Health care (was Re: WeChooseTheMoon)

2009-07-30 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:40 AM, John Williams wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > Don't you know that government interference in markets is bad, > > but corporate interference in markets is good? > > Corporations do not have the power to compel people at gunpoint to d

Health care is civil law, not guns involved (Re: WeChooseTheMoon)

2009-07-30 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:21 PM, John Williams wrote: > > I have posted articles that list a number of state mandates for health > care plans. If a provider were to dare to sell a policy to a willing > buyer, and that policy did not, for example, cover acupuncture in > certain states, the provider