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From: lucasea on 6 Oct 2006 10:26 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eg57go$8ss_010(a)s831.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <qkrai2hvpp43t4lpu1ttca9tpq8ueb94qr(a)4ax.com>, > John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:03:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >>>Which one would that be, the dangers of driving on the nation's highways? >>>That's at least 3 orders of magnitude greater of a real threat to every >>>person in the country than is terrorism. >> >>3000 people died at the WTC. Three orders of magnitude from that is 3 >>million. We kill about 40K people a year in car accidents. > > ISTR that Bin Laden's next goal is to kill 3 million people and > he's not fussy about who they are. I'd like to see evidence of a *credible* threat. Basing foreign policy on what someone *might* do is fear-mongering of the worst variety. Eric Lucas
From: Jim Thompson on 6 Oct 2006 10:52 On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:20:51 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <eg3f0u$j7l$8(a)leto.cc.emory.edu>, >Lloyd Parker <lparker(a)emory.edu> wrote: >[.....] >>>Yes, from *OUTSIDE* the country (i.e. foreign intelligence). There >>>were no domestic calls "tapped", without warrant. >>> >> >>First, we don't know that. Secondly, when did the 4th amendment get repealed >>for an American citizen calling, say, France? > >They may be ordering some of that yucky French wine instead of the nice >californian stuff. The NSA should not listen in; they should disconnect >the call. > Bwahahahaha! ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: Jim Thompson on 6 Oct 2006 10:54 On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:13:13 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >In article <45254611.542B0FC1(a)hotmail.com>, >Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>Ken Smith wrote: >> >[...] >>> >Sounds like the sign of the liar to me ;-) >>> >>> On (2) we have external evidence that he did try to get OBL. It was all >>> over the news and the Neocons yelled "wag the dog" about it. >> >>The neo-cons are terminally clueless. > >No, they aren't. Many of them are quite well educated and on other >subjects can think through problems very well. They are more like a PC >that has a virus installed. The program for thinking about politics is no >longer able to care through logical thought. > But Democrats ARE dirtbags. Try and deny that ;-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
From: John Fields on 6 Oct 2006 11:03 On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:00:08 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Robert Latest wrote: > >> ["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.] >> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:41:27 -0700, >> John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote >> in Msg. <k4a8i29r7fefoc7u4d8ja0k5psaubo2s76(a)4ax.com> >> >> > The history of Europe is the history of war. The earliest Greek >> > writings that survive are tales of war. Europe has been at war for >> > most of the last 3000 years, >> >> The history of the US is no less war-ridden than that of Europe except >> that it is much shorter. This is as unfair a comparison as that between >> a single nation (the US) with only two borders and a not very >> well-defined conglomerate of dozens of nations and cultures (Europe). > >Considering how the USA treated its indigenous ppl, I'm appalled that >mention should even be made of the history of war. --- If you want to go there, Google "Australian Aboriginals" for a glimpse at your part in uplifting mankind. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: John Larkin on 6 Oct 2006 11:14
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 07:54:44 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: > >But Democrats ARE dirtbags. Try and deny that ;-) > > ...Jim Thompson My wife is a Democrat, and she is not a dirtbag. She just doesn't understand system dynamics as well as I do. John |