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snip I would not claim to have any knowledge of the real reasons the US is in Iraq, or the reasons why that is good, if it is. What I stated above...
XBOX 360 2674
Having observed Senator Kennedy from a distance for as long as anyone else, I would think that what Senator Kennedy thinks is...
XBOX 360 2675
That's one of your problems. He doesn't have to campaign to get elected. Kennedy is the name of this area's royalty. Sure there are lots of ways...
XBOX 360 2676
Muslim No so. I am not a Muslim, and realized during my time in Syria...
XBOX 360 2677
Thanks. I get confused which nouns to use; I have the same problem when talking about Jewish religion and peoples. I am buttuming that...
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I'll get back to you on that when I find my Hava. There are a heap...
XBOX 360 2679
Dumb question time: What is a Hava? I don't think I've seen that word before now. been blown into outer space years ago. I have dozens of critical...
XBOX 360 2680
Hava's Arabic-English dictionary. Can't find it. Have a new one ordered from Amazon. I `inherited' the old one, and it was falling apart, and a lot of the Arabic...
XBOX 360 2681
The new edition, that I am waiting for now, has several authors, besides Hava. There are hardly ever strictly equivelent meanings across language barriers. Even German `Fiend` (stranger, I think, German speakers...
XBOX 360 2682
I don't laugh. I've been living that kind of atbreastude all my life. My mother and her sisters were not...
XBOX 360 2683
What I mean when I type `laugh', is that when I see that things are going downhill, my reaction is to laugh. Its a bad thing. Last week, there was a community...
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snip Some of them, maybe. I'm sure that there's not a 100% correlation between being anti-Bush and having this atbreastude, however, and if your...
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The prewar progress towards WWII was a general European one, everyone realized that Germany would try to undo the Versailles peace. At that time Churchill...
XBOX 360 2686
The problem is that you cannot rule with ideology; it becomes too vague and PC-based in an instant. You must have a properly codified law, courts, police...
XBOX 360 2687
Right. What I don't understand is how people think it can work this time. Yes. I've been learning about Korea. I haven't come across...
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:42:40 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Swallow Given that Israel has far more qualified people to put into the field, and that at one point in that war they...
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I was basing what I wrote on an article on the Mennonites in, I think, Montana, that appeared in the good Ol...
XBOX 360 2690
From what I'm seeing, smart people are not considering. Well, a side effect of Ben...
XBOX 360 2691
One thing I think that O'l Tricky privatesy was never credited for, was leaving the US in a better situation than it was when he was elected. Out of Viet Nam, better relations...
XBOX 360 2692
Not at the start, no - but then when those people had to hide in Siberia (in...
XBOX 360 2693
That is called habit. There are cases where maintaining the habit was destructive; there a...
XBOX 360 2694
I question that exception. Not Paul alone, and besides the post-Roman bath houses all over Europe were rather bad occasionally. Duh, so the sauna had some pagan ritual elements. That's what...
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My childhood was Reformed with a Dutch Reformed umbrella. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in the...
XBOX 360 2696
Had a hardware-related crash on the laptop I was writing this on. Now it's back running, although battery showing one percent negative charge isn't all that nice. Oh well...
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I had understood that all of Christianity was started with Paul, not Christ, but Paul. He did away with these rules of living. I don't know how much...
XBOX 360 2698
Sure, but later generations haven't left it there. Hence my earlier example with the Raskolniks. They certainly aren't the only such sect. I'm told some of the sociologists have come up...
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It doesn't matter how they were different. You can't really change something if you don't have something to change to. Or course...
XBOX 360 2700
No, I mean at all levels. Take the municipal level, for example; do you buttume that the sheriff, mayor and such would all become unavailable immediately? Would it be unreasonable to buttume that they...
XBOX 360 2701
covered. Yup. Any public service worker who doesn't live in town will not show up. If it's a large town (city) comm is very important. Take a good look at the WTC and what...
XBOX 360 2702
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:45:05 -0500, Don Quixote We have the same problem in the...
XBOX 360 2703
Stan Barr might have said: Much pruning has occurred There is a move afoot to eliminate the requirement here in the U.S. There's one every so many years. This latest one is presented...
XBOX 360 2704
I mean outside the immediate disaster area. There the comm infrastructure should stay up long enough for that - at least, enough of it... And New Orleans is representative of the whole? Hm...
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area You aren't thinking long term consequences :-). I am talking outside the immediate disaster area...
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In the long term, the infrastructure will have to be rethought anyway. But in the short and medium term...
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Of course. Right. I think that's why you made the comment below. In this country, only those who are absolutely required show up. Our field tests have...
XBOX 360 2708
Arranging task buttignment to the general public has absolutely no risks of leaking sensitive information. Those phrase-deleted are demanding that these sensitive items be broadcast to "prove" that...
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You are a great lady. Remember Jerry Ford? I'm not a Republican, but I really...
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The dumbing-down of populations, especially via excessive specialisation, means that even if the population is self-motivated to do something, they...
Religious fanatics was: XBOX 360
wrote, in part: Actually, plenty of people in the Islamic countries *do* see how idiotic they are. But they're afraid, or unable, to speak out...
Religious fanatics was: XBOX 360 Distribution: world
wrote, in part: Actually, plenty of people in the Islamic countries *do* see how idiotic they are. But they're afraid, or unable...
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My specialty is watching bit and work flows and figuring out which teensy bit to...
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snip Major thread drift here -- but why not, since none of what's being discussed has more than a very slight relationship to the subject line anyway .... ( :-)? ): The book (*) my school uses to teach...
Program end speed was: XBOX 360 2715
Not with code. Changing the subject lines will force everybody to have to spend human wallclock time to make a decision. emoticon pinches itself to...
Program end speed was: XBOX 360 2716
snip Maybe I need a better-different newsreader, and this group might be just the one...
Program end speed was: XBOX 360 2717
snip Sing it. Though the terminal emulator under GNOME does seem to make it quite easy to increase font size (control-shift-+) -- if, of course, one uses GNOME. I don't always, because...
Program end speed
in the 70s, parasite-PVM gave the capability on the internal network (either local machine or...
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The east-west relations were steadily deteriorating. In 610 they split in terms of language, in 772-800 the west ceased to recongnise the eastern empires as peers, in 1054 the churches fell out...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2720
A simple definition: A *nation* is a country like France or Norway or Poland, the national homeland of the French, Norwegian, or Polish...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2721
Just make a note of the URLs and type them into the address bar of the web browser. URLs are nominally case sensitive...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2722
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:09:08 GMT, John Savard Defining what you say can be very difficult. Take us (Irish).. There is a...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2723
Why, *we* do. Public opinion in the advanced democratic nations, particularly the English-speaking ones. Basically, everyone on Earth ought to live in...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2724
wrote, in part: What would be wrong if every country on Earth... - had a legal system that fully recognized...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2725
wrote, in part: Well, it's easy enough to *say* that I'm mad. But it takes closer scrutiny to figure out where such a scheme might depart from the humane values that inspire...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2726
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:23:30 GMT, John Savard Hmmm???? in which group would you put Uzbekistan?.. That would test...
Empires and Imperialism was: XBOX 360 2727
Economic disadvantage certainly is another issue. But with Ireland not governed by foreigners, at least people weren't threatened with the loss of their inheritance for not converting to an artificial religion concocted by political authorities...
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Well, Iran is dominated by the unelected mullahs who do the selecting. Remove them, and you get a democracy. Hamas achieved popularity in Palestine much as Chairman Mao's army achieved popularity in China...
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The word is "SkrÃœling" (or Skraeling, transliterated into ascii). Literally it is a diminutive of "shrunken one". It was applied to American Indians, Inuit and pre-inuit settlers...
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