Haiti
Tian
according to a voice heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation just now.
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Tian
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Don Stockbauer
> To an aid worker, SUV is an acronym for Spontaneous Untrained Volunteer,
> according to a voice heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation just now.
Wouldn't it be so much better if the Earth were not geologically
active?
Mudge
> On Jan 14, 3:01�pm, Tian wrote:
>> To an aid worker, SUV is an acronym for Spontaneous Untrained Volunteer,
>> according to a voice heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation just now.
>
> Wouldn't it be so much better if the Earth were not geologically
> active?
According to one of your religionists Haiti caused its own problems by
making a deal with the debbil.
And those volcanoes just gotta stop emitting ash and smoke into the
atmosphere !
--
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Fix the biosphere - eliminate people
Don Stockbauer
> On 2010-01-14 16:04:34 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > On Jan 14, 3:01 pm, Tian wrote:
> >> To an aid worker, SUV is an acronym for Spontaneous Untrained Volunteer,
> >> according to a voice heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation just now.
>
> > Wouldn't it be so much better if the Earth were not geologically
> > active?
>
> According to one of your religionists Haiti caused its own problems by
> making a deal with the debbil.
>
> And those volcanoes just gotta stop emitting ash and smoke into the
> atmosphere !
Mudge, mudge...my religionists? I'm more the opposite.
Mudge
Isn't he a Texican ? I fort he was from your state !
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Save our precious CO2 - plant many trees
Tian
> On 2010-01-14 17:06:58 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>> On Jan 14, 5:18 pm, Mudge wrote:
>>> On 2010-01-14 16:04:34 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 14, 3:01 pm, Tian wrote:
>>>>> To an aid worker, SUV is an acronym for Spontaneous Untrained Voluntee
>> r,
>>>>> according to a voice heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation just now.
>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be so much better if the Earth were not geologically
>>>> active?
>>>
>>> According to one of your religionists Haiti caused its own problems by
>>> making a deal with the debbil.
>>>
>>> And those volcanoes just gotta stop emitting ash and smoke into the
>>> atmosphere !
>>
>> Mudge, mudge...my religionists? I'm more the opposite.
Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>
> Isn't he a Texican ? I fort he was from your state !
>
>
Ummm... Texicans have a Latino quality. Crackers like the one you're
referring to are Texans. (Hoping Don isn't offended by this remark.)
Don Stockbauer
> Mudge wrote:
> > On 2010-01-14 17:06:58 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
> >> On Jan 14, 5:18 pm, Mudge wrote:
> >>> On 2010-01-14 16:04:34 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> >>>> On Jan 14, 3:01 pm, Tian wrote:
> >>>>> To an aid worker, SUV is an acronym for Spontaneous Untrained Voluntee
> >> r,
> >>>>> according to a voice heard on NPR's Talk of the Nation just now.
>
> >>>> Wouldn't it be so much better if the Earth were not geologically
> >>>> active?
>
> >>> According to one of your religionists Haiti caused its own problems by
> >>> making a deal with the debbil.
>
> >>> And those volcanoes just gotta stop emitting ash and smoke into the
> >>> atmosphere !
>
> >> Mudge, mudge...my religionists? I'm more the opposite.
Uh - I've been living in a cave the past few days, and I hadn't heard
that news story, thus my inappropriate comment.
>
> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>
> > Isn't he a Texican ? I fort he was from your state !
>
> Ummm... Texicans have a Latino quality. Crackers like the one you're
> referring to are Texans. (Hoping Don isn't offended by this remark.)
No, not offended at all. No big fan here.
Mudge
> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
Ummm... Texicans have a Latino quality. Crackers like the one you're
> referring to are Texans. (Hoping Don isn't offended by this remark.)
Hmmm - in my past intercourse with Don I didn't read him as a "Cracker"
- at least I didn't hear any Parrots chasing him around through the
sage !
Don Stockbauer
> On 2010-01-14 18:30:53 -0700, Tian said:
>
> > Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
> > too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
> > of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>
> I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
> all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
> subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
I suppose you're joking, but actually California is staying on top,
the LA area is slipping north compared to the rest, and in like
5,000,000 years CA and SF will be sister cities.
>
> Ummm... Texicans have a Latino quality. Crackers like the one you're
>
> > referring to are Texans. (Hoping Don isn't offended by this remark.)
>
> Hmmm - in my past intercourse with Don I didn't read him as a "Cracker"
> - at least I didn't hear any Parrots chasing him around through the sage !
I think "Crackers" refers to one of our former beloved pressydents,
now in exile at Crawford. And there no sage around Victoria. Pecan
tress, yes. One guy keeps telling me to look out for rattlesnakes. No
RS's here.
Mudge
> On Jan 15, 12:55�pm, Mudge wrote:
>> On 2010-01-14 18:30:53 -0700, Tian said:
>>
>>> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
>>> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
>>> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>>
>> I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
>> all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
>> subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
>
> I suppose you're joking, but actually California is staying on top,
> the LA area is slipping north compared to the rest, and in like
> 5,000,000 years CA and SF will be sister cities.
Hmmm - I must check the geology of the San Andreas fault - I fort the
stuff east of the fault was rolling over the stuff west of the fault
which I understood to be the subduction zone so the LA will eventually
lie somewhere under Tulsa - whatever, I won't be here to see it - nor
you, I suspect
> I think "Crackers" refers to one of our former beloved pressydents,
> now in exile at Crawford. And there no sage around Victoria. Pecan
> tress, yes. One guy keeps telling me to look out for rattlesnakes. No
> RS's here.
We have lots of them wee boogers up here all rattly and evil, hiding in
the warm moistyness of our drilling rigs cellars ! Shudder
Tian
> On 2010-01-14 18:30:53 -0700, Tian said:
>
>> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
>> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
>> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>
> I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
> all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
> subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
>
Silicon Valley, the Central Valley, Death Valley (appropriately named),
and who knows how many other unChristian things.
Tian
> On Jan 15, 12:55 pm, Mudge <Nos...@never.ever> wrote:
>> On 2010-01-14 18:30:53 -0700, Tian said:
>>
>>> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
>>> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
>>> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>> I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
>> all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
>> subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
>
> I suppose you're joking, but actually California is staying on top,
> the LA area is slipping north compared to the rest, and in like
> 5,000,000 years CA and SF will be sister cities.
SF is already and island, politically speaking... (in my mind Dobie Gray
sings "gimme the beat boys and play away I want to get lost in your rock
and roll and drift aways...")
>
>> Ummm... Texicans have a Latino quality. Crackers like the one you're
>>
>>> referring to are Texans. (Hoping Don isn't offended by this remark.)
>> Hmmm - in my past intercourse with Don I didn't read him as a "Cracker"
>> - at least I didn't hear any Parrots chasing him around through the sage !
>
> I think "Crackers" refers to one of our former beloved pressydents,
> now in exile at Crawford. And there no sage around Victoria. Pecan
> tress, yes. One guy keeps telling me to look out for rattlesnakes. No
> RS's here.
On the other hand, above and to the right of the monitor I'm typing on
there is a (plastic) snake in the grass. It's been not exactly flicking
its tongue at me for many years.
Mudge
>
> On the other hand, above and to the right of the monitor I'm typing on
> there is a (plastic) snake in the grass. It's been not exactly flicking
> its tongue at me for many years.
Hmmm - I have a wee grey mousey sitting looking at me whilst covering
an ooooolllllllddddd Atari mouse from a very bygone age
Tian
> On 2010-01-15 12:07:31 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>> On Jan 15, 12:55 pm, Mudge wrote:
>>> On 2010-01-14 18:30:53 -0700, Tian said:
>>>
>>>> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
>>>> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
>>>> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>>>
>>> I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
>>> all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
>>> subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
>>
>> I suppose you're joking, but actually California is staying on top,
>> the LA area is slipping north compared to the rest, and in like
>> 5,000,000 years CA and SF will be sister cities.
>
going to fall into the sea. It didn't work because I just couldn't see
getting excited about such a remote threat.
Don Stockbauer
> On 2010-01-15 12:07:31 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > On Jan 15, 12:55 pm, Mudge wrote:
> >> On 2010-01-14 18:30:53 -0700, Tian said:
>
> >>> Sometimes I feel like that whole "representative" thing just goes
> >>> too far. But then, I'm proud to be from the banana shaped secular state
> >>> of California. Texas is full of Christians, and they can't deny it.
>
> >> I seem to recall Calyfornyah having a whole lot of Churchy type places
> >> all praying for being saved when "the big one" causes the state to be
> >> subducted into the Earth's mantle !!
>
> > I suppose you're joking, but actually California is staying on top,
> > the LA area is slipping north compared to the rest, and in like
> > 5,000,000 years CA and SF will be sister cities.
>
> Hmmm - I must check the geology of the San Andreas fault - I fort the
> stuff east of the fault was rolling over the stuff west of the fault
> which I understood to be the subduction zone so the LA will eventually
> lie somewhere under Tulsa - whatever, I won't be here to see it - nor
> you, I suspect
I'll be here: in the form of thes epostings (my "wek" version).
Here you go:
Assuming the plate boundary does not change as hypothesized, projected
motion indicates that the landmass west of the San Andreas Fault,
including Los Angeles, will eventually slide past San Francisco, then
continue northwestward toward the Aleutian Trench, over a period of
perhaps twenty million years. Transform fault boundaries: Boundaries
where tectonic plates slide past one another in a horizontal fashion.
The San Andreas Fault of California is one of the longer transform
fault boundaries known.
And that came from here, where there is more.
Don Stockbauer
>
> I'll be here: in the form of thes epostings (my "wek" version).
>
Forgot to proof:
I'll be here, in the form of all my cyberspace postings (my "weak"
version).
Tian
> On 2010-01-15 12:50:01 -0700, Tian <tnha...@aceweb.com> said:
>>
>> On the other hand, above and to the right of the monitor I'm typing on
>> there is a (plastic) snake in the grass. It's been not exactly flicking
>> its tongue at me for many years.
>
> Hmmm - I have a wee grey mousey sitting looking at me whilst covering an
> ooooolllllllddddd Atari mouse from a very bygone age
>
>
books with a copy of The Prize on top of it. I think the mouse is in the
closet behind me....
Mudge
> I can look across the room at my Atari 1040 sitting on top of a row of
> books with a copy of The Prize on top of it. I think the mouse is in
> the closet behind me....
Hmmm - my old MegaSTE went to a school wot wanted old cumputers when I
switched to the Mac in 1999 - in many ways, the Atari was better than
the Mac !
Tian
> On 2010-01-16 13:02:34 -0700, Tian said:
>
>> I can look across the room at my Atari 1040 sitting on top of a row of
>> books with a copy of The Prize on top of it. I think the mouse is in
>> the closet behind me....
>
> Hmmm - my old MegaSTE went to a school wot wanted old cumputers when I
> switched to the Mac in 1999 - in many ways, the Atari was better than
> the Mac !
>
>
Games had accepted theirs from people that were just getting rid of the
things. I took it because I've the space for it, and there was a time
when I had one on my desk. I went to an Apple in '90ish, and I gave that
Atari to my sister and brother in law. Haven't seen it since.
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
I gave away my Hawaiian Trigger fish (HI State Fish). Had it a yearish.
Don Stockbauer
> Mudge wrote:
> > On 2010-01-16 13:02:34 -0700, Tian said:
>
> >> I can look across the room at my Atari 1040 sitting on top of a row of
> >> books with a copy of The Prize on top of it. I think the mouse is in
> >> the closet behind me....
>
> > Hmmm - my old MegaSTE went to a school wot wanted old cumputers when I
> > switched to the Mac in 1999 - in many ways, the Atari was better than
> > the Mac !
>
> I was given mine in the '02ish time frame. A guy that worked at Atari
> Games had accepted theirs from people that were just getting rid of the
> things. I took it because I've the space for it, and there was a time
> when I had one on my desk. I went to an Apple in '90ish, and I gave that
> Atari to my sister and brother in law. Haven't seen it since.
So far, I've never bought a computer. Always bummed time offa other
people's one way or another.
Mudge
> I was given mine in the '02ish time frame. A guy that worked at Atari
> Games had accepted theirs from people that were just getting rid of the
> things. I took it because I've the space for it, and there was a time
> when I had one on my desk. I went to an Apple in '90ish, and I gave that
> Atari to my sister and brother in law. Haven't seen it since.
I bought my first Atari - an 800 with a whole 48K of Ram, a 5.5" floppy
drive and a tape drive in 1978 - along with a 300 baud modem - luxury
!!!! And it only cost me about 4,000 Canadian $$ at the time !
And there was no spam from on-line stuff, such as it was in them thar days !
Mudge
> So far, I've never bought a computer. Always bummed time offa other
> people's one way or another.
Hmmm - I was wondering who snuck in here at night !!!!!!
--
The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary)
Don Stockbauer
> On 2010-01-17 05:29:42 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > So far, I've never bought a computer. Always bummed time offa other
> > people's one way or another.
>
> Hmmm - I was wondering who snuck in here at night !!!!!!
No, not you, silly - you're too far away. I use Mommy's computer.
I've never grown up.
Mudge
> On Jan 17, 12:50�pm, Mudge wrote:
>> On 2010-01-17 05:29:42 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>>
>>> So far, I've never bought a computer. �Always bummed time offa other
>>> people's one way or another.
>>
>> Hmmm - I was wondering who snuck in here at night !!!!!!
>
> No, not you, silly - you're too far away. I use Mommy's computer.
> I've never grown up.
And what are doing on that "secret society's ng ???
Don Stockbauer
> On 2010-01-17 12:04:59 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, Mudge wrote:
> >> On 2010-01-17 05:29:42 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> >>> So far, I've never bought a computer. Always bummed time offa other
> >>> people's one way or another.
>
> >> Hmmm - I was wondering who snuck in here at night !!!!!!
>
> > No, not you, silly - you're too far away. I use Mommy's computer.
> > I've never grown up.
>
> And what are doing on that "secret society's ng ???
It's alt.slack - the subgenius people. We hate each other. I attack
them, They attack me. Recently a nice young lady tried to act as go-
between, but as you can see everythings gone to hell again. I really
need to stay away from it, but it's an addiction. I like seeing
mindless, group behavior act itself out.
Don Stockbauer
>
> > On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, Mudge wrote:
> >> On 2010-01-17 05:29:42 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> >>> So far, I've never bought a computer. Always bummed time offa other
> >>> people's one way or another.
>
> >> Hmmm - I was wondering who snuck in here at night !!!!!!
>
> > No, not you, silly - you're too far away. I use Mommy's computer.
> > I've never grown up.
>
> And what are doing on that "secret society's ng ???
See, a guy there makes fun of freemasons, and I attack him saying he's
a jerk, but he has xposts to the freemasons, who I have nothing
against, especially if they fix my bbq pit.
Don Stockbauer
Free, that is.
Don Stockbauer
Stasis.
Mudge
> It's alt.slack - the subgenius people. We hate each other. I attack
> them, They attack me. Recently a nice young lady tried to act as go-
> between, but as you can see everythings gone to hell again. I really
> need to stay away from it, but it's an addiction. I like seeing
> mindless, group behavior act itself out.
And I have my newsreader set to cut all crossposts - but it didn't on
this occasion - sighhhh
And "subgenius" people - wot's that then ?
--
The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary)
Don Stockbauer
> On 2010-01-17 13:21:15 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
> > It's alt.slack - the subgenius people. We hate each other. I attack
> > them, They attack me. Recently a nice young lady tried to act as go-
> > between, but as you can see everythings gone to hell again. I really
> > need to stay away from it, but it's an addiction. I like seeing
> > mindless, group behavior act itself out.
>
> And I have my newsreader set to cut all crossposts - but it didn't on
> this occasion - sighhhh
>
> And "subgenius" people - wot's that then ?
What aren't they?
Peruse to your heart's content:
Tian
> On 2010-01-17 13:21:15 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>
>> It's alt.slack - the subgenius people. We hate each other. I attack
>> them, They attack me. Recently a nice young lady tried to act as go-
>> between, but as you can see everythings gone to hell again. I really
>> need to stay away from it, but it's an addiction. I like seeing
>> mindless, group behavior act itself out.
>
> And I have my newsreader set to cut all crossposts - but it didn't on
> this occasion - sighhhh
>
> And "subgenius" people - wot's that then ?
>
>
start in a funny book. Still going as a way to pay the bills and laugh.
There was a cult of them a few cubes down from where I worked at Apple
Computer back in the late '80s time frame. Not what I would call a
dangerous religion in most cases.
Tian
Yup. I recognize that style and the guy with the pipe. He oversaw my
workspace in a huge version back then. They had made it testing the
printer's ability to print supersized blowups of small images.
He was a bit pixelated, but it worked visually.
Don Stockbauer
They are harmless, as you say. My mistake was to get in bad with
them. You get in bad with any clique and you'll get flack from it.
Mudge
> Mudge wrote:
>> On 2010-01-17 13:21:15 -0700, Don Stockbauer said:
>>
>>> It's alt.slack - the subgenius people. We hate each other. I attack
>>> them, They attack me. Recently a nice young lady tried to act as go-
>>> between, but as you can see everythings gone to hell again. I really
>>> need to stay away from it, but it's an addiction. I like seeing
>>> mindless, group behavior act itself out.
>>
>> And I have my newsreader set to cut all crossposts - but it didn't on
>> this occasion - sighhhh
>>
>> And "subgenius" people - wot's that then ?
>>
> That's the Church of the Subgenius. They worship Bob and slack. Got its
> start in a funny book. Still going as a way to pay the bills and laugh.
> There was a cult of them a few cubes down from where I worked at Apple
> Computer back in the late '80s time frame. Not what I would call a
> dangerous religion in most cases.
Not like "Scientology" then ???
I'll be having a boo at that site !
--
The Canadian Curmudgeon (in Calgary)
Don Stockbauer
Actually, the subgeniuses and scientology war against each other.
Tian
Scientology has a navy. The subgeniuses have much less.
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: Added a review of Albright's '08 book 4 d next President.
Don Stockbauer
Oh, the one ElRon used to evade taxes?
Mudge
> Don Stockbauer wrote:
>>
>> Actually, the subgeniuses and scientology war against each other.
>
> Scientology has a navy. The subgeniuses have much less.
Scientology has a Navy - I knew they had an Air Force, but then John
Travolta left the group in a huff, didn't he ???
Tian
> On 2010-01-20 13:09:50 -0700, Tian said:
>> Don Stockbauer wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, the subgeniuses and scientology war against each other.
>>
>> Scientology has a navy. The subgeniuses have much less.
>
> Scientology has a Navy - I knew they had an Air Force, but then John
> Travolta left the group in a huff, didn't he ???
>
>
eating at a greasy spoon with my girlfriend and she blew a fly off the
table. I was telling coworkers that was my idea of "air force" when I
got back to work. The joke gave the Air Force Veterans pause.
I think what they call their Navy is a big yacht. Nice thing to have a
seminar on or take the executives for a retreat in or whatever. My
information on it is second hand, a flier about it was given me by some
people protesting scientology in downtown Mountain View one day. What I
can say for sure is somebody thinks they have a navy and is offended by
that.
Don Stockbauer
I though that by "Navy" you meant him going to the high seas to evade
taxes.
Tian
I think of a boat as "a hole in the water you pour money into".
Tax dollars are additional, if paid. On that, I have no idea.
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
Latest change: The new Native-American $1 coin says "HAUDENOSAUNEE".
Don Stockbauer
That can be said of everything one owns, innit?
Tian
My condo is not a hole in the water! IT's a hole in the air.
Don Stockbauer
I agree.