Re: [Fwd: [biofuel] VW presents new synthetic fuel strategy]

2001-10-29 Thread Jim Windle
ulose from agricultural sources to make useful polymers. They are a long way from replacing oil as the feedstock but the research they are doing is pretty interesting though not really focused on automotive fuel so much as other "petrochemicals". Jim Windle -- On Sun, 28 Oct 2001

Re: America needs therapy

2001-10-01 Thread Jim Windle
security payments and service on the national debt? Jim Windle Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

Re: Lawyers, Guns, and Money

2001-08-25 Thread Jim Windle
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:49:21 Tim May wrote: > > >Well, yes, there are many. I only even _tried_ to list a handful of the >most important folks in just that one field: nuclear. Every field has >its giants. > >And the ones I cited in just the nuclear field were not just scientists, >they were p

Re: Lawyers, Guns, and Money

2001-08-25 Thread Jim Windle
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:39:06 Tim May wrote: >as I think lawyers generally create entropy and >inefficiency, no matter their intentions. "Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, the other side has theirs, so I have to have mine. But once you use them they fuck everything up." 'Larry the Liquida

"Space War"

2001-08-05 Thread Jim Windle
ncreasingly the problem is not another superpower, but a guy with a credit card" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/05/magazine/05SPACEWARS.html Jim Windle Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

RE: Open 802.11b wireless access points and remailers

2001-07-27 Thread Jim Windle
w the chips outs, don't eat them they taste like cardboard). Jim Windle -- On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:18:16 Trei, Peter wrote: > >Two points: > >People interested in finding wireless access points, and >tech info about the same, should look at > >GAWD: http://w

Re: WHERE IS DILDO? (was: Vengeance Against Adobe)

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Windle
her prizes could be given for things like figuring out what hardware "Jim Choate" is running on. Just a thought since he doesn't seem likely to take the LSAT. Jim Windle > > > S a n d y > > /| > |/ \ >/ \ \ > / \ \ &

Choate Testing His ASAT Again?

2001-07-25 Thread Jim Windle
_dc_3.html Admittedly off topic, but did anyone see any of the meteors? Jim Windle Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com

Re: [isml] Facial-recognition tech has people pegged (fwd)

2001-07-18 Thread Jim Windle
There is a very interesting and pretty thorough article on iris recognition in the current (July-August) issue of "American Scientist". The site has an abstract of the article and some links: http://www.americanscientist.org/articles/01articles/Daugman.html Jim Windle -- On W

RE: lawyer physics (was taxing satellites)

2001-07-10 Thread Jim Windle
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:05:44 Phillip H. Zakas wrote: > > >you know one of the things i'd like to do is go into the waste removal >business in orbit. lots of junk up there...would like to launch a satellite >with a long finger attached to it and poke stuff out of orbit. the "nudge". >who'd pay?