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Pat Conroy and Vietnam - TB - 11/20/2006 9:09:07 PM
- Heroes of all stripes. And a teeny tiny connection with "The Great Santini". - Bowser - 11/20/2006 10:58:00 PM
  - Serving at home - Laurie Street - 11/21/2006 2:51:46 AM
    - Today's Doonesbury - Laurie Street - 11/21/2006 4:29:43 PM
      - Odd... - TB - 11/21/2006 6:33:29 PM
        
        Stink tanks - azstrummer - 11/21/2006 11:46:23 PM
        
        The references are at the bottom of the article. - TB - 11/22/2006 12:45:30 AM
        
        re: The references are at the bottom of the article. - azstrummer - 11/22/2006 10:23:14 PM

Yeo submarine... - RobVG - 11/21/2006 3:36:36 AM
- MELLOW Submarine - carl - 11/22/2006 9:25:36 PM
- Photos - TB - 11/21/2006 6:31:51 AM
  - Cool. Now how about finding the plans...;) (n/t) - RobVG - 11/21/2006 6:52:58 AM
    - First, take 3.5 tons of cocaine. The rest will follow, I'll bet. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/21/2006 6:13:45 PM
      - Entrepreneurs - Don't drink the water. - 11/21/2006 11:57:07 PM
        
        DEA has the BEST DOPE!!!! - carl - 11/22/2006 9:26:38 PM

"War of the World" - TB - 11/16/2006 7:34:03 AM
- What obvious parallels? - Robert - 11/16/2006 7:40:37 PM
  - Holy catfish. - TB - 11/16/2006 8:45:29 PM
    - "aw jeez" - Robert - 11/16/2006 11:08:39 PM
      - Talking points. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 9:14:49 AM
        
        Do you use the word "[oil] interest" to mean asset? - alcaray - 11/17/2006 4:38:22 PM
        
        re: Do you use the word "[oil] interest" to mean asset? - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 11:26:51 PM
        
        I guess we must do whatever it takes to keep the Saudis happy. - alcaray - 11/18/2006 12:40:30 AM
        
        re: I guess we must do whatever it takes to keep the Saudis happy. - Annoyed Yeti - 11/19/2006 7:04:28 PM
        
        I'll be happy... - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/19/2006 10:53:59 PM
        
        Its not my job to refute anything - Yeti - 11/20/2006 7:06:50 AM
        
        I hate to say it... - TB - 11/20/2006 5:41:43 PM
        
        Morality - The USA is the only "Good Guy" left. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/18/2006 1:08:06 AM
        
        Goggle: "Iraq", "Abu Ghraib", "Guantanamo", "Secret prisons", "torture", "rendition". Get back. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/19/2006 8:08:35 PM
        
        I'm back. - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/19/2006 11:45:35 PM
        
        "Bottomline.........." - Lindy - 11/20/2006 1:08:54 AM
        
        Reality Check! - Lindy - 11/18/2006 10:32:56 PM
        
        Lindy... - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/19/2006 10:40:48 PM
        
        The French and Islamofascism - Lindy - 11/20/2006 1:00:44 AM
        
        Whom do you think grabbed whom's hand? - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/20/2006 1:18:14 AM
        
        re: Whom do you think grabbed whom's hand? - Lindy - 11/20/2006 3:03:50 AM
      - Remarkable. - TB - 11/17/2006 2:03:19 AM
        
        " You have no conception of ......what we are up against." - Lindy - 11/18/2006 11:24:59 PM
        
        "And your reason for staying is??" Good grief. - TB - 11/18/2006 11:56:53 PM
    - The best use of military forces is to have them and not use them... - alcaray - 11/16/2006 9:52:31 PM
      - Neocons, people who think of nothing but win-lose, will never understand. - Bowser - 11/16/2006 11:07:55 PM
      - re: The best use of military forces - TB - 11/16/2006 10:52:47 PM
        
        "We were probably in trouble the day we decided nobody was going to shoot the looters. " - azstrummer - 11/20/2006 11:45:02 PM
        
        A small point: - TB - 11/21/2006 6:46:52 AM
        
        Collective guilt - azstrummer - 11/21/2006 6:29:08 PM
- What obvious parallels? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/16/2006 6:17:02 PM

Triage in the education system - Laurie Street - 11/21/2006 5:51:36 PM

52 Dictatorships Worldwide in 2006, and the 10 Worst Dictatorships - SDF - 11/21/2006 1:22:45 PM
- Typo: That would be 42 dictatorships worldwide in 2006 (n/t) - SDF - 11/21/2006 1:24:48 PM

A cool little "rock" video: - podrock - 11/18/2006 4:30:25 PM
- Excellent! Thanks, podrock! (n/t) - Laurie Street - 11/20/2006 7:41:29 PM
- re: A cool little "rock" video: - TB - 11/18/2006 9:55:32 PM
- Pssst....podrock - Lindy - 11/18/2006 8:05:31 PM
  - I don't trust polished crystals - podrock - 11/20/2006 2:11:30 AM
    - Gems and minerals - Lindy - 11/20/2006 2:54:29 AM
- re: A cool little "rock" video: - Lindy - 11/18/2006 5:31:27 PM

Peer Review on Talk Reason - LJK - 11/20/2006 4:02:03 PM

Bloodless war strategy for Afghanistan - SDF - 11/16/2006 2:26:13 PM
- Could have been negotiated. Bush wouldn't negotiate. - Bowser - 11/16/2006 7:17:02 PM
- re: A strategy for Afghanistan - Raoul - 11/16/2006 3:08:23 PM
  - Afghanistan Rural Microcredit Programme - TB - 11/16/2006 5:56:55 PM
    - I was suggesting something a little more ambitious - SDF - 11/17/2006 6:29:41 AM
      - Those are called "bonds." - TB - 11/17/2006 4:53:14 PM
        
        Oh yeah, I forgot about "bonds." - SDF - 11/18/2006 3:24:08 PM
    - Sounds like an excellent way to go (n/t) - Laurie Street - 11/16/2006 6:52:30 PM

Neandertal Park? - LJK - 11/18/2006 5:21:29 AM

Would a prudent lame-duck President go hunting with Dick Cheney? (n/t) - Bowser - 11/17/2006 3:33:33 AM
- "'Lame duck' my ass, he didn't duck at all." - President Cheney, 44. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/17/2006 7:26:12 AM
  - LOL...is 44 his age or calibre? (n/t) - McFly - 11/17/2006 2:38:45 PM
    - D'oh, age! You know what I meant... - McFly - 11/17/2006 4:45:26 PM
- MODERATOR - please move. I posted this to Off-Topic. Thanks. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/17/2006 3:34:47 AM
  - done and did. (n/t) - modpod - 11/17/2006 4:00:06 AM

Why Scientists Don't Have All the Answers - Big Fat Yeti Eating Anomalist - 11/16/2006 11:11:15 PM
- re: Because they doubt and that's what they all the time should do in their search - Raoul - 11/17/2006 9:14:37 AM
- Why Scientists Don't Have All the Answers - Robert - 11/17/2006 5:41:35 AM
- Scientists may not have all the answers... - ER - 11/17/2006 12:11:52 AM
  - In a way, science IS a religion. - ER - 11/17/2006 12:29:27 AM
    - 2Pi is the ratio between radius and circumference of every circle - not just all the ones we've measured. - alcaray - 11/17/2006 12:33:32 AM
      - There is a proof, - ER - 11/17/2006 12:45:42 AM
- Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. -Mark Twain - alcaray - 11/17/2006 12:11:27 AM
- If you can't replicate it, it ain't good science. - TB - 11/16/2006 11:45:30 PM
  - Theories and facts - Lindy - 11/17/2006 12:50:51 AM
    - Bob Dylan commented on this... - ER - 11/17/2006 2:01:33 AM
      - But seriously... - ER - 11/17/2006 2:17:11 AM
        
        re: But seriously... - Lindy - 11/17/2006 2:35:06 AM
        
        re: But seriously... - ER - 11/17/2006 4:18:56 AM

Another quiz. "Are You a Gearhead?" - Bowser - 11/15/2006 8:59:42 PM
- 35...barely a geek pulse - Robert - 11/16/2006 6:45:58 PM
- I'm a gearhead wannabe - McFly - 11/16/2006 4:05:42 PM
- 25. Made me feel old. (n/t) - Tony - 11/16/2006 2:08:56 PM
  - Also scored 25. - Fox - 11/16/2006 6:43:52 PM
- I scored 99. I wonder what the highest possible score is? (n/t) - SDF - 11/16/2006 1:42:28 PM
- Scored a lowly 17 - Alan G. Archer - 11/16/2006 1:41:21 PM
  - yes...well...no... - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 3:04:18 AM
- Quiz spazzed out on question 17, but I got 21 points. - TB - 11/16/2006 5:20:33 AM
  - I'd like the big screen, too, but I don't know what Tivo is. - Bowser - 11/16/2006 6:27:02 AM
    - DVR (Tivo) is great. - TB - 11/16/2006 7:32:02 AM
    - PS I am almost certain I have relatives that have remotes that have remotes. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/16/2006 6:28:45 AM
- Gearhead? - RobVG - 11/16/2006 1:37:28 AM
  - My thoughts too. - REB - 11/16/2006 3:53:20 PM
  - I had no idea either. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/16/2006 2:30:38 AM

A + B = infinity - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 12:03:33 AM
- SDAI discovers formal generative grammar! - Yeti - 11/17/2006 1:17:30 AM
  - corrected HTML - See if that shows up correctly - 11/17/2006 1:22:34 AM
    - Rambling thoughts - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 2:46:23 AM
    - re: corrected HTML again - Yeti - 11/17/2006 1:25:49 AM
- ABACAB - ER - 11/17/2006 12:08:13 AM
  - And don't forget ABBA... - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 12:16:28 AM
  - ABBAACCDDC - ER - 11/17/2006 12:10:40 AM
    - ABBA - alcaray - 11/17/2006 12:15:01 AM
      - Must've been posting simultaneously ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 11/17/2006 12:17:56 AM
        
        Synchronicity!? (n/t) - ER - 11/17/2006 12:32:25 AM

10 Photos....which ones are real? - Lindy - 11/15/2006 11:52:47 PM
- Frickin' BMW. (n/t) - et - 11/17/2006 12:14:55 AM
- 8 out of 10 - SDG - 11/16/2006 3:46:33 PM
  - Same here - Yetster - 11/16/2006 7:43:02 PM
- Fluky 8 - Tony - 11/16/2006 2:07:05 PM
  - Just took it again, and got a diiferent 8 :-) - Tony - 11/16/2006 3:36:15 PM
- 7/10 - Alan G. Archer - 11/16/2006 1:16:36 PM
- 3. But it was the hard 3. :-) - Bowser - 11/16/2006 4:52:35 AM
- I only got six out of ten. - TB - 11/16/2006 4:29:18 AM
  - And it's Autodesk - Robert - 11/16/2006 6:53:36 PM
  - 6/10 - FrankC - 11/16/2006 5:21:11 AM
    - 5/10 - Lindy - 11/16/2006 2:41:28 PM

Why us Yeti hold out hope for humanity - Yeti - 11/16/2006 10:09:01 PM

Centralized control interface technology - ER - 11/14/2006 4:00:01 AM
- Integrating a variety of systems. - Bowser - 11/14/2006 11:48:05 PM
- I'll settle for... - TB - 11/14/2006 5:58:52 AM
  - The Reclus family solution... - ER - 11/14/2006 4:21:34 PM
    - a friend's solution - SDG - 11/14/2006 7:02:38 PM
      - We have a basket, and an alarm. - Mary Anne - 11/14/2006 8:52:13 PM
        
        Only 3?? - Laurie Street - 11/14/2006 11:09:32 PM
        
        A remote for a FAN? How decadent. (n/t) - ER - 11/14/2006 11:47:28 PM
        
        Well-built young adults wielding large feather fans: THAT'S decadent. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 11/15/2006 2:13:41 AM
        
        Close as I could get.... - Laurie Street - 11/15/2006 5:00:26 PM
        
        he he he... What, no stock shots from a production of Aida? - Mary Anne - 11/16/2006 1:27:58 AM
        
        I keep thinking about that un-PC scene in Brooks' History of the World. (n/t) - alcaray - 11/16/2006 4:06:57 PM
        
        How about a remote for well-built young adults? (n/t) - ER - 11/15/2006 2:41:53 AM
        
        Gibson's meat puppets (n/t) - alcaray - 11/15/2006 5:06:25 PM
        
        Which button are you going to press first? - Laurie Street - 11/15/2006 5:02:36 PM
- You'd have to take turns... - podrock - 11/14/2006 4:58:34 AM
  - Someone could build a whole exercise program around this! - Mary Anne - 11/14/2006 8:58:17 PM
  - I have a remote for my alarm clock radio. - ER - 11/14/2006 5:50:12 AM

Latest entry into the private space market. - Lee - 11/16/2006 9:21:27 AM
- re: (removed from space) - Raoul moderating - 11/16/2006 9:34:18 AM

Delayed synchronicity - ER - 11/11/2006 4:34:02 PM
- ponderings of kindergartener - SDG - 11/14/2006 7:16:04 PM
  - re: ponderings of kindergartener - Lindy - 11/14/2006 8:48:41 PM
    - EVERYBODY is a product of their parents' explorations. (n/t) - ER - 11/14/2006 9:17:02 PM
    - LOL - SDG - 11/14/2006 8:56:23 PM
  - Out of the mouths of babes - ER - 11/14/2006 8:31:28 PM
- Kurzweil's interview on C-SPAN2 Book TV now online - LJK - 11/13/2006 4:30:48 PM
- I read a short story with that premise LONG ago... - R.L. - 11/11/2006 5:40:04 PM
  - "Construction Shack", Clifford D Simak, Short Story, DAW books '74 (n/t) - RNE - 11/13/2006 2:00:15 PM
    - "Delivery" - Fox - 11/15/2006 3:12:07 AM
      - re: "Delivery" - Lindy - 11/15/2006 4:06:51 AM
  - Of all man's atifacts, the Universe most resembles a computer model. - ER - 11/11/2006 6:22:12 PM
    - Think of this... - R.L. - 11/12/2006 5:29:21 AM
      - In languages like C - C Yeti++ - 11/14/2006 4:33:34 PM
        
        re: In languages like C - ER - 11/14/2006 4:37:29 PM
      - re: Think of this... - ER - 11/12/2006 6:35:33 AM
        
        Scientific Anomalies and other Provocative Phenomena - Lindy - 11/15/2006 2:54:20 AM
        
        Only 40,000? - ER - 11/15/2006 5:10:16 AM
        
        re: Only 40,000? - Lindy - 11/15/2006 2:33:32 PM
        
        One artist's take on all this - ER - 11/15/2006 5:07:01 PM
        
        In Buddhist Metaphysics - Meditati Yeti - 11/14/2006 4:45:33 PM
        
        "Consciousness seems to be somehow connected to physics, as if consciousness plays some sort of role in the cosmos" - Lindy - 11/12/2006 4:07:31 PM
        
        Sentient Plants: Old results, based on bad science, long since disproven - Yetster - 11/14/2006 4:47:05 PM
        
        Plant consciousness. - ER - 11/12/2006 6:35:07 PM
        
        re: Plant consciousness. - Lindy - 11/12/2006 8:33:07 PM
        
        Back to Backster - Lindy - 11/13/2006 12:26:19 AM
        
        re: Back to Backster - ER - 11/13/2006 12:48:29 AM
        
        Stamp Collecting - Lindy - 11/13/2006 1:16:06 AM
        
        re: Plant consciousness. - R.L. - 11/12/2006 6:42:42 PM
        
        Maybe psychic phenomenon does have a footing in science. - Lee - 11/12/2006 7:14:35 AM
        
        re: Maybe psychic phenomenon does have a footing in science. - Lindy - 11/12/2006 4:17:04 PM
        
        NO (n/t) - R.L. - 11/12/2006 4:00:27 PM
        
        Maybe not that far - ER - 11/12/2006 12:48:45 PM
        
        Or maybe it's the other way around. - Lee - 11/12/2006 7:38:21 PM
        
        Maybe the universe needs consciousness... - ER - 11/12/2006 8:00:17 PM
        
        ...or maybe that is the conciet of conciousness - R.L. - 11/12/2006 10:46:46 PM
        
        Saving the Epiphenomenon - ER - 11/13/2006 12:36:02 AM
        
        re: Saving the Epiphenomenon - Pilo Yeti - 11/14/2006 5:01:10 PM
        
        We dont even have a working definition of 'conciousness' - R.L. - 11/13/2006 5:48:43 AM
        
        re: We dont even have a working definition of 'conciousness' - ER - 11/13/2006 2:34:11 PM
        
        re: Saving the Epiphenomenon - Lindy - 11/13/2006 1:21:48 AM
        
        " If consciousness plays a role in the universe, it is a property of the universe itself" - Li ndy - 11/12/2006 4:25:17 PM
        
        "Do thoughts influence outcomes? " - ER - 11/12/2006 6:48:14 PM
        
        "I don't believe our thoughts can make things happen by affecting matter and energy directly" - Lindy - 11/12/2006 8:40:11 PM
        
        Lindy, this guy's a flake. - ER - 11/12/2006 9:20:44 PM
        
        Randi performs a public service... - R.L. - 11/12/2006 11:37:51 PM
        
        I would not consider Randi and expert on anything - Lindy - 11/12/2006 11:04:39 PM
        
        Yup - R.L. - 11/12/2006 9:47:36 PM
        
        The idea of a virtual universe goes way back... - LJK - 11/13/2006 4:07:55 PM

A whiter shade of pale - Raoul - 11/14/2006 1:08:41 PM
- "We'll get Bach to you with a decision..." (n/t) - Fox - 11/15/2006 3:03:10 AM
  - re: "We'll get Bach to you with a decision..." - Bowser - 11/15/2006 3:18:31 AM
    - re: Lol lol! Good ones!! (n/t) - Raoul - 11/15/2006 8:00:29 AM

A trade seems to have sprung up on one of my earlier works - E.P. - 11/14/2006 8:12:14 PM
- [Reply and responses to it deleted] - Mary Anne (moderator) - 11/15/2006 2:10:15 AM
  - Bravo. - RobVg - 11/15/2006 4:59:02 AM
    - Unless you're the one who's tied on to the tracks. (n/t) - ER - 11/15/2006 5:12:04 AM
      - Good point. - RobVG - 11/15/2006 5:16:00 AM

The boys are awright. - ER - 11/14/2006 11:59:48 PM

Check out Quark Park - alcaray - 11/14/2006 10:23:28 PM

On Yankee Station - ER - 11/14/2006 1:39:34 PM
- Well done. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/14/2006 2:23:26 PM

Wonder what the price of gas will do. - Bowser - 11/11/2006 7:03:24 PM
- Gasoline Price Charts - SDF - 11/14/2006 12:41:01 AM
  - I should also point out... - SDF - 11/14/2006 1:15:58 AM
- Relativistic economics - ER - 11/12/2006 3:34:54 PM
  - Assumes a relatively free market. - Bowser - 11/12/2006 6:44:27 PM
    - re: Assumes a relatively free market. - ER - 11/12/2006 7:45:11 PM
      - Economic activity is at least as complex as the ecosystem of a rain forest. - TB - 11/13/2006 4:14:09 AM
        
        Google: "Price-fixing". "Anti-trust". "Monopoly". Come back. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/13/2006 5:42:35 AM
- One sure prediction... - TB - 11/11/2006 7:13:57 PM
  - Talk to me about "the media" and paranoia, will you? - Bowser - 11/11/2006 7:19:03 PM
    - re: Talk to me about "the media" and paranoia, will you? - Lindy - 11/12/2006 7:03:48 AM

Funny pics contest... - et - 11/11/2006 9:44:14 PM
- Funnier'n hell! (n/t) - Bowser - 11/11/2006 10:20:59 PM
- Thanks ET - azstrummer - 11/11/2006 10:20:54 PM
  - re: Thanks ET - Fox - 11/12/2006 4:39:49 PM

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