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From: Ken Smith on 7 Jan 2007 19:48 In article <45A0E100.62E7E990(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: > >> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message >> >> >> >> So you've already realized that privacy does not include landlines. >> >> Why do you think it is going to include broadcasts over thru the air? >> >> >> >> I don't understand this logic. >> > >> >The tap would have been put in place _after_ a warrant was issued. Do you >> >see how that is different. >> >> And that's how it works today. There is a difference between a phone >> tap and sampling hundreds of sounds for certain utterances. > >No there isn't ! Actually yes there is. The tap is the first step. This can then be followed by a person listening or a tape recorder or a computer processing the sound. What is done after the tap has been made has many options but in eveery case, those options require that the tap be done first. > >Graham > -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 7 Jan 2007 19:53 In article <79eb6$45a09260$cdd08524$25481(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: >> In article <459FA50D.3DE3D914(a)hotmail.com>, >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> [....] >> >>>The problem is heart disease and removing trans fats from ppls' diets >>>will reduce >>>that. >> >> >> Maybe we have ahold of the wrong end of the problem. Some people die of >> heart disease if they eat trans fats. Others only get a little sicker >> than they normally would be. A bit of "unnatural selection" could be at >> work here and eventually, only those who survive eating trans fats will be >> left. Outlawing them only prevents the breeding of this stronger race of >> humans. :) > >Not at all. By the time trans fats take their toll most >the reproduction has already taken place. Most vs all, still gives a bias in favor of one set of DNA over the other. We may just breed a version of humans that reproduce more quickly so they do it before the heart explodes, so it may not in fact make a healthier human. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 7 Jan 2007 19:56 In article <87lkkesjab.fsf(a)nonospaz.fatphil.org>, Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com writes: >> But fat is becoming illegal....or haven't you noticed? > >No, transfats are becoming illegal. That and tobacco. Don't >you see the trend? It's things beginning with 't' that are >under attack! Oh now I understand "the war on Terror" -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 7 Jan 2007 20:03 In article <459DF3B9.973CE5F7(a)earthlink.net>, Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >Ken Smith wrote: >> >> In article <459A00A0.DE70F2C9(a)earthlink.net>, >> Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> wrote: >> [...] >> > You too! How's the weather up your way? It is actually raining down >> >here for the first time in a long time. >> >> It never rains in sunny California. >> >> If we work at it we may even hit my suggested target of 1,000,000 posts > > > With a ten foot spacing between the posts, that will be one long >fence. ;-) Or enough to enclose 62.5 million square feet. > > >-- >Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to >prove it. >Member of DAV #85. > >Michael A. Terrell >Central Florida -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 7 Jan 2007 20:09
In article <b01ac$45a0f7f9$cdd08512$1347(a)DIALUPUSA.NET>, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote: [...] >> >> You have forgotten the most important part of education: access >> to the knowledge that's been written down. > >Nope, the most important part of education is eagerness >for knowledge followed closely by the ability to understand. > >Access to data is critical, while useless in the absence of >the two above. I own a three legged stool. Is one leg more important than the others? -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |