Re: Religiosity correlates with poverty

Doug said the following on 11/6/2007 12:49 AM: > Ronn! wrote: > > >> So what would most folks think of someone who professed a belief in >> God and spent his evenings and weekends drinking and carousing? > > > Wouldn't that depend on what particular brand of God this person believed > in an

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

Deborah Harrell wrote: > Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_ > IIRC, about a race of telepathic > interstellar-travelling cats...hmm, maybe we've > mentioned that here previously. Oh my. I own a copy of that book. :-) --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebrat

Internet Privacy and "Earth"

Here's an interesting interview about privacy in the age of Facebook and other social networking sites. Immediately reminded me of the net and the anti-secrecy viewpoints in "Earth". http://www.switched.com/2007/11/05/can-privacy-exist-on-the-internet/ --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

Mauro Diotallevi wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 2:03 PM, Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Deborah Harrell wrote: >> >>>Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star Cat_ >>>IIRC, about a race of telepathic >>>interstellar-t

Re: Uplift at Yellowstone

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following on 11/10/2007 2:07 AM: > > In a message dated 11/9/2007 11:43:03 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Yellowstone is rising. > > > The word "uplift" makes me think the tytlal have been > pouring bicarbonate of soda down Old Fait

Re: Uplift at Yellowstone

Always fun to arrive in the middle of a cultural movement and have to play catch-up. Thanks for the comments on maru-ism. Matt Grimaldi said the following on 11/10/2007 11:21 PM: > > This whole thing started because, for a time, there were > a large number of brin-lers that also belonged to the

Re: Tattoos - Scientifical

Now that's certainly a lady believer in Darwin! --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

Re: Br*n: Uplift at Star Trek

Deborah Harrell wrote: >>"Lance A. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Deborah Harrell wrote: > > >>>Andre Norton wrote a children's book called _Star >>>Cat_ IIRC, about a race of telepathic >>>interstellar-trave

Re: Where the web is heading?

Just reading that gave my eyeballs hives I *really* hate marketing speak. 20% to 200% uplifted customers... Damn, can't they get their clients right? Weak Joke Maru --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritque

Re: Religion and greed

jon louis mann wrote: > they do seem to go together. there are greedy liberals as well, > although their religious beliefs are generally more progressive than > evangelical. hopefully, there may be a way to medicate all varieties > of social and behavior disorders, some day... Welcome to Brave

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Jim Sharkey wrote: > >>I'm sure some of you knew this, what with your big brains and all, >>but I found it interesting: >> >>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=grass-makes-better-ethanol-than-corn >> >>_Scientific American_ is saying grass as a source o

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Robert Seeberger said the following on 1/10/2008 8:56 PM: > The problem with corn is that it produces a lower energy ethanol. > Sugarcane *is* much better in that regard. > But why are you worried about sugarcane? We don't use it all that much > in the US, even for making sugar. Last I heard, sug

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Alberto Monteiro wrote: >>Unused land suitable for corn or sugarcane? >> > > You didn't parse my e-mail address. Do it now. > There's plenty of suitable land for sugarcane here... :-) Yer right. I didn't. Assumption has once again worked against me. :-) --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Alberto Monteiro wrote: > This is not necessarily true - if there's unused land and > the new crop grows into that land, then this would have no positive > impact in the food price. The reverse would even be more likely, > since if it becomes not viable to turn the food crop into fuel, > the new cr

Re: Take that, Iowa!!

Trent Shipley wrote: > How much private land is there that could be converted from lower yield to > cellulose production? Could ex-farms on the Montana and Dakota prairies be > put back into production as cellulose ranches? (In AZ we can grow agave on > some private ranch land.) I dunno. We

Re: Young Earth Math?

David Hobby wrote: > An interesting find! That's the first I've heard of the > Conservapedia. It's sometimes hard to tell, but my sense > is that it's not actually meant as humor? Conservapedia is 100% serious in its intent. There have been occasional articles in various places about it. --[L

I do love me some xkcd

http://xkcd.com/386/ --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/ My LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/ GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org

Re: A little too close to home...

Dave Land said the following on 2/20/2008 9:36 PM: > Folks, > > Two videos, definitely NSFW (and maybe NSFH, if you have kiddies in > the room or a partner with extremely delicate sensibilities) showing > what happens when online community behaviors find their way into the > corporate boardroom.

Re: Fwd: CNN Breaking News

Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 2/21/2008 12:31 AM: > > So . . . if they shot it /down/ before it crashed to Earth, where is > it going to fall now? > > > (Yes, I know . . . just seems they could have phrased that better . . . ) > The point of shooting the satellite was to disrupt the

Re: Wal-Mart and more L4

Dan M said the following on 2/21/2008 12:44 AM: > Nationwide, Wal-Mart pays just under average for retail workers. Here near > Houston, it pays a bit better than average. So, exploiting the worker by > paying far less than the next guy for a worker does not seem to be the MO. > Indeed, as the ref

Re: Let us all pause for 2d8 seconds

Martin Lewis wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Horn, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Gary Gygax has died... > > Really? Realy. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/04/obit.gygax.ap/index.html It seems somehow peculiarly fitting CNN placed his article in the Technology section. Gary

Schneier vs. Brin

Bruce Schneier has a column up on WIRED talking about the myth of the 'Transparent Society'. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/03/securitymatters_0306 --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://w

Re: Schneier vs. Brin

jon louis mann said the following on 3/8/2008 5:33 PM: > I do feel that spying on the government will prevent some of these > abuses, but there are times when matters of national security require > secrecy. Nevertheless, I like the idea of being able to listen in on > high government officials pla

Re: Schneier vs. Brin

Julia Thompson said the following on 3/9/2008 10:53 AM: > > In Texas, if you're an adult, you cannot be outside your residence without > an ID. Is that a state law or "the way it is"? --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http://www.

Re: Brin: The Latest In Dolphin Technology

David Brin said the following on 3/16/2008 11:29 PM: > this showed a scientology minister at a city council > meeting. What dolphins? Was wondering if this was some new kind of rickrolling... --[Lance] -- Celebrate The Circle http://www.celebratethecircle.org/ Carolina Spirit Quest http

Re: 'Lost'

Jim Sharkey said the following on 3/21/2008 11:22 AM: > Not sure I agree. I've seen so many L&O episodes over the past 10+ > years that the "twist" is almost always obvious and it kind of > ruins the show for me. And the mini-sermon wrap up at the end of the > show has gotten grating. Might be

Re: An interesting response

hkhenson said the following on 4/17/2008 5:16 PM: > At 12:00 PM 4/17/2008, Dan M wrote: > > And what kind of a deal would the Russians give you if you wanted to > launch 110 of these a day? Perhaps this is naive of me, but who is going to want to build the multiple launching facilities 110 la

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

Curtis Burisch wrote: > This kinda backfired, where I'm from. Sensor II razor was so popular they > were forced to continue selling the blades ever after. I'm on a 15 year old > razor, buying a blade every 2 months. The modern innovations do not impress. > I give gilette like around a dollar a mont

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

I've had my beard longer than I've had my professional career and a software applications developer and then sysadmin. My and my moderately fuzzy chin do just fine professionally. :-) -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

Dave Land said the following on 4/25/2008 2:15 AM: > Well, as long as the answer to Nick's frustrations with Office 2007 > is to suggest an entirely different office package (Open Office, which > I was forced by Sun Microsystems to use, and found it to be a turd, > but that was about 5 years ago),

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

David Hobby said the following on 4/25/2008 7:12 AM: > Yes. So hunting up the right fonts and installing them > everywhere would have solved it. I don't really understand > why a word processor would ever have different screen and > display fonts, though. I mean I can see how it would happen, >

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

David Hobby wrote: > > Hi. I don't see that. I think the printer is capable > of printing whatever pattern of dots it's told to, and > these are supposed to be "True Type" fonts. You would be amazed. It depends entirely how the job is processed, especially if the printer is not attached dir

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

Julia Thompson wrote: > OK, so a good reason to keep every box in the house under the same OS, and > specifically, this computer (which is acting as a print server) and the > one in the guest room (which does not have a printer attached directly to > it) It does tend to make things easier t

Re: What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

David Hobby wrote: > But that is the configuration. One computer, one printer, and an > old-style cable between them. (It's unfortunate that it wouldn't > work well over a network, but I've had problems too. Another > story...) That sucks. I'd make sure you have the correct driver installed fo

Re: Creationism Creeps into U.S. Classrooms

"Creeps into U.S. Classrooms"? I daresay it's been there all along and people just weren't looking for it until relatively recently. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://www

Re: approaching L2 at last...

David Hobby said the following on 5/22/2008 1:49 PM: > Dave Land wrote: >> On May 22, 2008, at 7:01 AM, David Hobby wrote: > ... >>> I figured somebody would propose taking out the battery, >>> and then putting it back in at just the right time. >>> But we agree that's cheating? >> Oh, no, that's n

Re: A videogame that will make William happy

Alberto Monteiro wrote: > If that videogame ever gets published, the purpose of it is > to slay Muhammad and Abraham before they establish Islam and > Judaism. I don't think there's a Jesus-slaying mode: it seems > pointless, because he would also resurect if, instead of > being crucified, he was m

Re: USA presidential race(ism)

John Garcia wrote: > technically, the first seven Presidents were born in what was at the time, > colonies of the British Empire. the first President to be born after the US > became an independent country was Martin Van Buren. > John McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone to a serving US Navy of

Re: Gates without Microsoft

Just for grins. Pictures of the founders of Microsoft, then and now: http://www.newsweek.com/id/142636 --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Gates without Microsoft

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > if i had the tens of billions that gates has to work with, i really > believe i could do a lot more good. i suspect a lot of that money is > being used inefficiently. jon Yep. Here at Duke they recently opened the French Science Building. I mean, a WHOLE building devoted

Re: Chicken and Egg

William T Goodall said the following on 7/14/2008 2:53 PM: > So how do you download the patches if you can't put an unpatched > Windows computer on the internet? You don't hook it directly to the Internet. If you are on a broadband connection, get a router or wireless access point with an int

Re: Chicken and Egg

Charlie Bell said the following on 7/15/2008 4:47 AM: > ...and for the 95% of home PC users who buy a PC at PC World or > Walmart or from Dell, and plug it straight in to their modem when they > get it home? I don't have a good answer for them. Can't stop people from doing dangerous things.

Re: Chicken and Egg

Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM: > Now how about an actually helpful response for those who do not have > access to another computer at home? Well, how about this: Before plugging your new computer into a network connection: 1. Go to Office Depot, Staples, etc. and b

Re: Chicken and Egg

Nick Arnett said the following on 7/15/2008 9:47 PM: > While we're on the subject, AVG's LinkScanner has created a lot of misery > for me and other people who do web analytics. I've pretty well decided > never to use their products again. *nod* Yeah. I uninstalled that damned component about 5

Re: Computer Security

Don't be get started on that SOB. He's giving all IT professionals a black eye with his antics. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Chicken and Egg

Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/16/2008 7:13 PM: > None of which means anything to the average non-technical person who > is buying a computer for his/her kids to use for school or a > grandmother finally buying a computer to view pictures of her > grandchildren who live out of state,

Re: Chicken and Egg

Charlie Bell said the following on 7/17/2008 3:32 AM: > Welcome to my world. IT Support at a law firm at the mo... *banging > head on desk* I love my job, I love my workplace, but bloody hell it > can be frustrating at times! I feel your pain, brother. :-) I'm the sole in-department sysadmin

Re: Conspiracy theories

Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> And what are those two idiots doing, that the oil price >> fell down >> so much in the past weeks? They should strike Iran right >> now! >> Alberto Monteiro > > fortunately those two idiots have lost all credibility and could not pull off > a strike against iran at this t

Re: Apology (was Re: Off-topic., monotonous posting (was Child-killing religion))

Pat Mathews wrote: > I can't speak for other members of the list's silent majority. I, for > one, see another news article on some cult or its members run > amok,yawn, and hit Delete. Ditto. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___

Re: Apology (was Re: Off-topic., monotonous posting (was Child-killing religion))

Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > If they are indeed _silent_, what makes you think they agree with you? He's a mind reader. Doesn't believe in religion, but does believe in telepathy. :-) The Amazing William Maru --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACe

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

John Garcia wrote: > McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. So? What does that have to do > with > being President? My choice for President depends on which candidate I think > will > address all the issues facing the USA consistent with my values, not whether > or not he has a cool Facebook p

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

Chris Frandsen wrote: > I totally agree with Olin's comments. I am not sure how Obama will > support the scientific community other than getting out of the > business of trying to make scientific reports match political agendas. > I suspect his economic social and foreign policy initiatives

Re: monotonous posting

Olin Elliott said the following on 10/19/2008 5:59 PM: > Or maybe it was because each one of his "monotonous posts" elicit > dozens of responses from people telling him how monotonous and > irritating he is. I find everyone's responses to William, and the > energy that goes into villainizing him

Re: monotonous posting

William T Goodall said the following on 10/19/2008 7:27 PM: >> First rule of dealing with trolls: Don't Feed The Troll. > > That's a very sound policy I've been following for years. Don't post > in a thread you don't like, especially to complain that you don't like > it. Did I say I didn't l

Re: Two Weeks To Go

And folks are voting by the drove already. My girlfriend and I voted early yesterday afternoon and they had had almost 2,500 people through the system for just that day. If enough people vote early, no October surprise will make a difference. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF

Re: No more feeding the troll (was Re: Debunking B.S. from the so-called debunker )

William T Goodall said the following on 10/20/2008 6:59 AM: > Do you think it is reasonable that someone should participate in a > discussion they are also moderating? Absolutely. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer

Re: No more feeding the troll (was Re: Debunking B.S. from the so-called debunker )

William T Goodall said the following on 10/20/2008 9:03 AM: > On 20 Oct 2008, at 13:56, Lance A. Brown wrote: > >> William T Goodall said the following on 10/20/2008 6:59 AM: >>> Do you think it is reasonable that someone should participate in a >>> discu

Gen. Colin Powell, Pres. Obama's Secretary of Defense

I had this thought before lunch and thought I'd share it with the list. I googled it and found that I'm not the first to think of it so I can't claim it as my own. I'd been thinking about Powell's endorsement of Obama this weekend and how much impressed with him I've always been, even after his

Re: Gen. Colin Powell, Pres. Obama's Secretary of Defense

Euan Ritchie said the following on 10/20/2008 3:38 PM: >> I think Barack Obama shoud make Colin Powell his Secretary of Defense. > One elegant speech does not magically change a person or their > responsibly for their past. Plus a long and distinguished career in the military, Chief of the Joint C

Re: Secretary of Defense

Jon Louis Mann wrote: > I would prefer Wesley Clark as Sec'y of Defense and give Colin Powell a > chance to redeem himself as Sec'y of State. Clark would be a good choice for Sec. of Defense as well. I'm not sure I'd put Powell back in at State. Seems like asking a bit much of the world's natio

Re: Redistribute the wealth

Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro said the following on 10/26/2008 8:44 PM: > This is something I don't understand. If Obama is the anti-corporation > candidate, how he gets 2-3x more money for the campaing than > McPalin? About 90% of Obama's fund raising comes from individuals. After withdrawing

Re: Redistribute the wealth

William T Goodall said the following on 10/26/2008 10:38 PM: > > The internet candidate. McCain doesn't know how to use a computer. > > The Future Maru Pigs Flying Maru! We agree on something, William. :-) --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACe

Re: Redistribute the wealth

William T Goodall said the following on 10/27/2008 7:23 AM: > Their could be highly efficient and competitive private militias > instead of the inefficient government monopoly paid for by taking the > money of people who don't want to pay for it. You mean like Blackwater? Greed and Corrupti

Re: Redistribute the wealth

Andrew Crystall said the following on 10/27/2008 8:40 PM: > On 27 Oct 2008 at 18:52, Lance A. Brown wrote: > >> >> William T Goodall said the following on 10/27/2008 7:23 AM: >>> Their could be highly efficient and competitive private militias >>> instead of

Re: Health Care (the same damn topic all f-ing week!~)

John Williams wrote: > It is obvious that no system is perfect. No matter whether it is a > centrally controlled system, or a completely decentralized system, > there will be decisions made by people, and people do make mistakes. > I'd rather have a fault-tolerant system that tends to evolve toward

Re: Health Care (the same damn topic all f-ing week!~)

John Williams wrote: > Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> John Williams wrote: >>> there will be decisions made by people, and people do make mistakes. > >> You are assuming everyone is a rational actor. > > By no means is everyon

Re: Health Care (the same damn topic all f-ing week!~)

John Williams wrote: > Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> What's different between the ability of government actors >> to make "large" mistakes vs. the ability of private actors to make >> "large" mistakes? > > Government legall

Balancing the bad actors (was Re: Health Care (the same topic all week!~))

Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 11/1/2008 12:24 AM: > At 11:05 AM Friday 10/31/2008, John Williams wrote: >> Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Instead, we are faced with actors who will collude with each other to >>> manipulate markets, subvert sys

Re: polarization

Warren Ockrassa said the following on 11/12/2008 10:33 PM: > To me it seems that there's no real reason, if you're so motivated, to > continue attacking the GOP. It's in the middle of its own self- > destruction. A better approach might be to talk to the moderates, the > centrist Republicans

Re: peace offering on the brinlist

Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 11/13/2008 6:45 AM: > http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Idaho_students_chant_assassinate_Obama_on_1112.html > > *Idaho students chant 'assassinate Obama' on school bus: Report >

Re: Scouted: U.S. to collapse in next two years?

Dan M wrote: > > Look at > > http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Battery-Energy.html And if you RTFA, you'll see a not implausible argument made by Sherry Boschertthat Cabasys is squelching the market for large-format NiMH batteries: > In her book, "Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge Ame

Re: My robot is more popular than I am

Looks like you've blown out your account, Nick. :-) -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Google Operating System

Alberto Monteiro wrote: >> Other than by breaking the M$ "pay to play" licensing paradigm and >> leveling the playing field for open source developers? >> > Who says M$ won't have users pay to play M$-Linux? It's possible > that the worse nightmare of the free-software jihad community > happens:

Re: WeChooseTheMoon

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

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: Brin: On Incomprehensibility'

Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 8/2/2009 8:17 PM: > And the mandated DTV changeover was just another excuse to get money out > of people who were satisfied with things the way they were, even those > who have little or naught to spare. Never mind the need for that freed up airspace for ot

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

John Williams wrote: > There are billions of people around the world with worse healthcare > than virtually everyone in the United States. If the goal is to > redistribute wealth to improve healthcare because of the belief that > everyone should have a chance to live and be healthy, then why not

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

Jo Anne said the following on 8/12/2009 9:04 PM: > Also, when we had a H.S.A., it expired after a > year. We had to use everything in the account within the year or it was > gone. You have to look deep into your crystal ball to decide exactly how > much heath savings you need each year. Jo Anne,

Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market

Bruce Bostwick wrote: > I still think version control, requirements management, and user > acceptance testing have very definite roles to play in the development > of legislation, and I'd still like to see alpha and beta level testing > with bug tracking, or a very close analogue, employed in the r

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

John Williams said the following on 8/16/2009 5:08 PM: > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Hobby wrote: > >> It does strike me as a kludge, though. To continue >> your example of car insurance, I don't believe that >> anybody markets insurance against having your car >> insurance premiums ri

Re: List administrators: list broken!

Heh. I thought the list had just taken a deep breath. Instead it appears something has gone awry. I, too, am not receiving everything that is listed in the archive. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer _

Re: List administrators: list broken!

Bruce Bostwick said the following on 8/22/2009 1:37 AM: > On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Lance A. Brown wrote: > >> Heh. I thought the list had just taken a deep breath. Instead it >> appears something has gone awry. I, too, am not receiving everything >> that

Re: Google Wave

Wayne Eddy said the following on 10/14/2009 6:07 PM: > Hi all, I just got access to Google Wave, and I was wondering if there > was anyone on the list who might be interested in helping my try it out > by joining a discussion about the future? > > Regards, > > Wayne Eddy I'd love to get an inv

Re: Google Wave

Wayne Eddy said the following on 10/14/2009 11:28 PM: > Hi Lance, have you got a gmail address you want to use? > I have sent Nick & Dave invites, and I am happy to you one too, but I > want to invite a few others from elsewhere so three invites for the Brin > List will have to do for now. >

Re: The worst

Nick Arnett said the following on 1/4/2010 4:47 PM: > My friends I hate to write this. Been putting it off for a while. > > My younger sister, Lesley, the youngest of the four of us, mother of my > five-year-old niece, Sarah, could not fight off the sepsis that attacked > her body. Lesley

Re: IPad

Andrew Crystall said the following on 1/28/2010 6:05 PM: > On 28 Jan 2010 at 11:28, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > >>> But how about the iPad???:-) >>> Kindle app does run on the iPad >>> so in just 60+ days. learner >> i have been hearing that apple is coming out with a netbook... > > It's not

Laser bug zapper at TED 2010

Yet another of David Brin's ideas comes to life: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/death-star-laser-zaps-mosqitoes-dead/ It's not exactly the africanized bee lazer zapper from _EARTH_ but its very similar. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 C

Re: Electric trains and Clipperships!

Jon Louis Mann said the following on 2/19/2010 8:30 PM: > Shucks, we're better of without aircraft, > heavy trucks and diesel powered ships. > It will force us to use alt fuels and > old tech, like wind and steam power!~) > We'll still need oil for lubrication, > but maybe the whale population w

Re: KJ6FOI

Cool! Congratulations! --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Univ of Calgary job opp

Hey, Check this out: http://workingvictoriajobs.canada.com/careers/jobsearch/detail?jobId=23245552 It's being hired at the Univ of Calgary. I wonder if Tannin or the Dean could put in a good word for me. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert

Re: Univ of Calgary job opp

Well, color me embarrassed. :-( That's what I get for trusting the quick fill feature in my mailer. Apologies for the misaddressed message, everyone. --[Lance] P.S. if anyone needs a highly-experienced Linux administrator / web programmer in Calgary, Alberta, I'm in the market. -- GPG Finger

Re: On Listmail

Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Doug Pensinger > wrote: > > > If anything good is to come out of this disaster, its that we'll be > taking a closer look at offshore drilling, and that nobody will even > be suggesting that we rape t

Re: On Listmail

*boggle* Peak Wind? --[Lance] Matt Grimaldi said the following on 5/3/2010 3:30 PM: > Funny thing, there's an anti-wind power movement as well, borrowing many > of the same arguments that anti-oil protesters use. -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.or

Re: Clash of Titans

Alberto Monteiro said the following on 6/4/2010 7:36 AM: > It's Evil, pure and simple Evil. Why they can't stick to History > or Mythology, or even stay close to the books the movie is > supposed to be based on, and just play with the visual? Those that > did that became classicals: Ben Hur, Caligu

Evony (was Re: Starting Engineer's Salaries)

Rceeberger said the following on 10/22/2010 9:23 PM: > I've been here...I read the conversations and more or less keep up. > I just havent had much worth adding recently. > Mostly I spend my online time playing Evony, where I am the host of Bavaria, > a top 10 alliance on SS51. > We use Skype in B

Interesting development in black hole theory

Stephen Hawking is upending the world of physics, again. http://www.nature.com/news/stephen-hawking-there-are-no-black-holes-1.14583 --[Lance] ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com