From: T Wake on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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
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From: T Wake on

<jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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

"JoeBloe" <joebloe(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote in message
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> 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?