From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 11:59 <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message news:eg5el9$8qk_011(a)s831.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com... > In article <452634AB.3341D603(a)hotmail.com>, > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote: >> >>> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote: >>> >>> >That said, you are nitpicking in the same manner. More than ten times >>> >as >>> >many people die every year as died as a result of the 11 Sep 01 attack. > That >>> >is TEN attacks of that scale (and that was a large scale attack by > anyone's >>> >standards) every single year. Year in, year out and accepted as a >>> >normal >>> >risk in life. >>> > >>> >Amazing really. >>> >>> So much for mess prevention. So how many people does Bin Laden >>> have to kill before you deal with this problem? 300,000? >>> 3,000,000? 300,000,000? A billion? >> >>What makes you think any of the above are even remotely possible ? > > Because I can think of one that will kill a billion in less > than 1/2 year. If I can think it, they certainly can. They > were brought in a culture that admires killing; I wasn't. I can think about space aliens invading and making everyone die their hair red. Doesn't mean it is going to happen. You can deal with things you _think_ will happen or deal with things which are happening. I know which makes more sense to me.
From: Jim Thompson on 6 Oct 2006 12:01 On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:54:15 GMT, Kurt Ullman <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >In article <6KuVg.13910$7I1.13144(a)newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, > <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > >> Yeah, I hate Ohio drivers, too. >> > Nothing compared to those jerks from Michigan... No one east of Missouri knows how to drive ;-) ...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: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 12:00 <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. Wow, 3 million.. Cool. Maybe he is going to turn himself into HIV. My next goal is to be the richest person on Earth. Who says either will happen.
From: John Fields on 6 Oct 2006 11:59 On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:50:51 +0100, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >John Fields wrote: > >> Graham was pooh-poohing Gordon's claim that there's a process going >> on to end terrorism, and I was pointing out that Graham has no clue >> about what's being done in secret, just like most of the rest of us. > >You have to be mad to think "anything is going on in secret" except more >stupidity. --- Well, there's certainly no secret about yours. -- John Fields Professional Circuit Designer
From: T Wake on 6 Oct 2006 12:01
"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message news:7fcbi2t7o8chj90omrt9n69qg4jqjiejq8(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:16:44 GMT, "Homer J Simpson" > <nobody(a)nowhere.com> Gave us: > >> >>"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message >>news:ros9i2tlko096r3d7cr9usjfl8f0kg25oe(a)4ax.com... >> >>>>Going from discussion to trying to find personal identification? Pretty >>>>much >>>>the definition. >> >>> This is Usenet, dumbass. "Finger" and many other trace utilities >>> have been around for decades as well as the right to utilize them. >>> >>> If you were any more clueless, you'd be the definition of >>> something... RETARDEDNESS. >> >>Many people write letters to the editor of the local paper. Few try to go >>to >>the address of the writers. Those few are stalkers. >> > > You're an idiot. People don't stalk idiots. You prove that one > *can* be wrong *all* the time. > > Doing a lookup on *your* IP address is NOT stalking, dipshit. Do you type one handed? |