From: Albertus Magnus Area: Mundane To: Gwenny The Pooh 17 Apr 94 19:02:56 Subject: greenhouse UpdReq GTP> Yeah, they were blaming Mount Pintaubo (spelling?) for the recent bout GTP> of cold winters, but even they are admitting that it couldn't have GTP> caused this last winter. OH well, back to the drawing board. Volcanic eruptions can certainly add to the 'problem', but you're right... not to the level we saw this winter. GTP> they gonna realize that the Earth is much more complicated than they GTP> can ever understand. After all, as George Carlin says, she's been GTP> around for billions of years....what makes us think we can have any GTP> lasting affect on her? If we cease to be a viable part of her system, GTP> we can go the way of the dinosaurs....I vote that we'll be replaced by GTP> cockroaches. Good sentiment, that. I agree... even on the bit about cockroaches. Besides, they can eat anything... what better 'master race' to have? .\ .\.\ ... When human it's abortion; when it's a chicken, an omelet. - Carlin 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Mundane To: Overlord 17 Apr 94 19:04:00 Subject: Kurt Cobain & Resh UpdReq Ov> personally i got kinda offended that Rolling Stone rated him as equals Ov> with Jimmy Hendrix, John Lennon, and Janice Joplin. Myself as well. It was a sad story and all, but he was not of the calibre that RS seemed to want to compare him to. .\ .\.\ ... I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - Mauldin 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Thomas Izaguirre Area: Mundane To: Ace Lightning 15 Apr 94 12:44:06 Subject: Goldwaters Comes Out Of T UpdReq AL> I started out as a Goldwater Republican, before I AL> was even old enough to AL> vote. Then someone turned me on to Ayn Rand. I slipped further and AL> further to the "right" on the political spectrum, AL> until the addition of AL> sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll led me to realize that I'd wound up on the AL> "left" (it's not a straight line, it's a circle!). About the only AL> difference between right-wing libertarians and left- AL> wing libertarians is AL> that the lefties tend to smoke more weed ;-) There are some Randroids however, who have recidivist tendencies towards a kind of "rational" objectivist puritanism, as if it hadn't occured to them that the basis for their philosophy (merely Thomistic Scholasticism made secular; Ego replaces God as the supreme good) is on rather shaky ground. Then again, Anarchist Bob Black wrote a scathing essay called "The Libertarian as Conservative," where he characterized them as merely Republicans that smoke pot. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Wizard Area: Mundane To: Albertus Magnus 16 Apr 94 05:22:00 Subject: Re: Greenhouse UpdReq Greetings Albertus Magnus. AM> Funny that during this rough winter we never heard a peep about the AM> greenhouse effect, isn't it? Violent weather is the result of steep temperature gradients. This phenomenum appears to be increasing in regularity on a global basis. Study of core samples retrieved from glacial fields in Antarctica suggest that the long held idea of Ice-ages taking millenia to come and go may well be false. Research currently indicates that an Ice-age could occurr in less than 100 years, possibly as quickly as 35 years. There are those who seem to think we're overdue for the next Ice-age. Our tinkering with the Biosphere may in fact (however unwitingly) be maintaining an artificial balance. Enjoy the Spring, Regards ~Wizard. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Star Hawk Area: Mundane To: Albertus Magnus 18 Apr 94 16:28:36 Subject: greenhouse UpdReq [> Star Hawk [> And it tells me that the process isn't fully understood [> and needs a whole lot more study before making conclusions about [> outcomes. [> Albertus Magnus [> Quite emphatically true. Unfortunately many seem [> to have politics in mind when it comes to this issue, so it's [> doubtful we see anything of this sort in the near future. Too many people use incomplete science to justify their political views and programs; especially if they can declare a crisis and get most people worked up without thinking things through. This is just one of the ways tyrannies get their start. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Grendel Grettisson Area: Mundane To: Overlord 17 Apr 94 02:35:00 Subject: Kurt Cobain & Resh UpdReq >> KB> when i heard that kurt cobain was dead, i got surprisingly bummed out. >> >>Never cared for the band, never cared for him... won't miss him. >>If it had been Chris Cornell from Soundgarden, then I'd have >>something to say. Of course, Cornell is thankfully no Kurt Cobain. > personally i got kinda offended that Rolling Stone rated him as equals > with Jimmy Hendrix, John Lennon, and Janice Joplin. I didn't but then I'm from Seattle and I liked him and listened to him LONG before anyone outside of this area knew who he was. Wassail, Grendel Grettisson Internet:mimir@io.com 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Rose Dawn Area: Mundane To: Spider 16 Apr 94 09:07:40 Subject: Re: SECRET SOCIETY/GANGS POLICY UpdReq 93 Spider, Well, I dunno...I'd be interested fer-sher, but depending how long it is, some of the Sysops might not be too enthusiastic? Is it really loooooong? (the ridiculous parts should be fun, at any rate!) 93's! 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Mundane To: Charles Senescall 18 Apr 94 22:11:40 Subject: enviro-fun UpdReq CS> So this is the stimulating posts we can look foward to in Fido_Debate! Some people were born to be clowns, some just learn to act that way. I never cared for clowns myself, so I just treat them all equally... with general disregard. :> CS> BTW I agree with the thrust of your arguements...give it to em! I do like following that Christian belief of giving rather than receiving. :> .\ .\.\ ... This country belongs to the people who inhabit it. - Lincoln 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718