RDTRN Archive - RDT Right Now #1924

RDT Right Now #1924

From: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 00:28:11 -0800
Subject: RDT Right Now #1924
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Do not hit reply to unsubscribe. To unsub, send a message to: <rdtrn-request@torithoughts.org> with "unsubscribe" in the subject and body. o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 04 : Issue #1924 . o - O - O - O - O - O - O - O - o . o o . o o O "Thoughts right now... O o What will become of me, o o Become of her, become of we?" o . o o . O O O - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - O o . o o o Tori Amos, "Thoughts" In this issue: o-o-o-o-o-o-o Re: RDT Right Now #1923 [ Teunis Peters <winterlion@greycloak ] Zoe Koplowitz [ John Bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.n ] sad news. [ Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@ju ] Missed a digest? Pick up a copy at the RDTRN archives: http://www.torithoughts.org/rdtrn/archives -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:35:35 -0800 (PST) From: Teunis Peters <winterlion@greycloaklabs.ca> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Re: RDT Right Now #1923 To Jessica Parsons on corsets: Now I'm in the SCA and corsets are -verry- popular there amongst the ladies. A well made corset (apparently) helps back support and the like. Comfortable if made well. 1800s if made badly. Not everyone looks like Queen Elizabeth I. Not that I would know. A new friend I just found has just got one for her wedding + wearing casually afterwards - she likes 'em. Not that I suggest them to anyone. I mean, I hang out with medievalists - it's a different world. I do suspect they might be more comfortable for "overly endowed" people though. Actually my friend got hers on ebay. Wonder if she helped support RAINN? That'd be cool. on Tori book + new album: *praying for work so I can afford it* and the ever loquacious Simon Booth: Brief reply to Olympics: Vancouver's advertising 'em and suing people over them already.... and they're not happening here 'til 2010. *sigh* We DO need another hero. Or lots of them. Not stupid advertisements. again North Korea: >> They haven't been pounded into the stone age by a >> previous war and 10 years of sanctions. Of the two, North Korea is the >> biggest risk to world peace as their leadership is insane. > > Kim Jong-Il is more insane than his father. The concept of nuclear > deterrence is lost on despots. It's -political- not despotism. Nuclear weapons development started one week following US pulling it's nuclear power people OUT of North Korea. The US had a treaty with North Korea promising support for nuclear power development in return for North Korea NOT developing nuclear weapons. Note that the nuclear power was installed by USSR but the US had the treaty. Anyways, when the US broke the treaty, North Korea immediately countered. It's just politics. Incidentally, the US breaking treaties EVERY election is why that country is called "The Great Satan" in the middle east. Satan = Speaker of falsehoods, and probably the original source of the english name of the Judeo-Christian devil. Mind you it's also the arabic nickname for one of their equivalents... (they've got a few different prime evils from what I remember) Politically it's safer to trust a long-term dictator than it is to trust a country that switches winds every few years... It may be bad, but at least you know who you're dealing with. There HAVE been benevolent dictators in the past btw. A good example is Franklin D. Rooseveldt... There have been others I remember too but that would spark debate I don't feel like dealing with (besides I'm missing my history books for those places) and on RIAA: Canada: Downloading legal. Sharing not legal. Borrowing (and copying) a friend's copy is legal though... providing you're copying it onto appropriate media (tapes, videocassettes, dvds, cds but I think NOT hard drives). One of the reasons the RIAA is not welcome here. A lot of these are protected in our constitution.... under our "freedom to listen" area that looks like it might cover satellite receivers as well. We don't have freedom of speech, but we have the freedom to listen to anything spoken publically. Go figure... > > *** Just Plead The Fifth. Or Drink It. Either Way. digest *** > > Yet another funny one from Violet :) Agreed! And the 1.4.6 constitutional equiv in Canada's not as funny... *sigh*... (if I remember rightly. Come to think of it I should look that up) and Galactica but I think this can be applied elsewhere: > The problem with the "Galactica" purists, and the hardcore purists of > other old shows for that matter, is that from reading their various > sites, it's as if those old shows are still in production in some > parallel universe. Well, some shows really were superior in the past. Doctor Who is a funny example - Doctor Who IV was really one of the best for personality and settings... but one of the worst for special effects... (well, I, II, and III were cheaper, but not a lot of copies have survived *sigh*). Star Trek versus TNG: Well, the jury is out.. *g*. I'll pick the original, as it was a lot more supportive of volunteers and fans.... Others? YMMV. Personally, I try to avoid shows that adopt Americana stereotypes as they usually lack real personalities. aside - from Tom Baker's autobiography - his stint as Doctor Who was a time of flat villains, flat everything really. He claims he couldn't act, so he overacted... Still I like those. *g* > why is MSN's mascot a butterfly? > > Because a creature with horns, tail, and cloven feet would have been > too obvious. and besides, BSD Unix has it already. *grin* > from winterlion: > > >X PRIZE WON! Now let's see who wins next year.... Another step > closer to > >a BIG step... *humm* step by step the longest march... > > Amazing how they did it so much cheaper than it would have cost NASA to > do. Slow and steady evolution towards something *really* cool. Yah me like. Me write space navigation software for interstellar travel one of these days.... started writing it in 1988... http://www.teachspace.org/news/unknownheroes.html Step by step the longest march Will be won, will be won Many stones may build an arch Singly none, singly none And together what we will Can be accomplished still. Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none. > *switch topics* > > >Simon Says the List is Mother, the List is Father and made a couple of > >comments that I couldn't help but answer *G* > >PS: wouldn't it be fun to wear one of those uniforms? Perhaps a > little tiny > >fairie as a 'logo'... > > cool....and who would be the Toriphile version of Bester? ;) > > We'd be piloting craft called "StarFaeires" ;) hrm... I like it... Black ones with irridescent wings :) I wonder who'd make a good Bester.... Well YOU could *g*. Or we could pick someone else... I'd be lousy - maybe we should have a request for people? hrm... idea for website.... > Musings about technology: > > I've come to the conclusion that society is far behind where it should > be in various technological areas. > > Aircraft/Space technology: 25 years behind where it should be. 'struth. But it's finally advancing in the world.... > Computers/electronics: 30 years behind. The software's definitely 30 years behind. What's needed on the hardware? I'm curious here because I'm looking to improve this area. > Medical Science: 40 years behind. No contest here. And blame social trends + politics. Early warning - it'll get worse before it gets better... > We live for The One, We die for The One. May we all be strong in the light G'day, eh? :) - Winterlion -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 06:21:34 -0500 From: John Bragazzi <utown@worldnet.att.net> To: RDT Right Now <rdtrn@torithoughts.org> Subject: Zoe Koplowitz I usually don't pay much attention to the New York City Marathon. It goes right past my house, so I have to pay it some mind, but it doesn't really interest me at all. Except for Zoe Koplowitz. Zoe has completed the last eighteen NYC Marathons, always in last place. She has Multiple Sclerosis, and walks with crutches. A Marathon takes her well over 24 hours. I met her several times many years ago, when we worked for the same company. That was when she first "ran" the Marathon, and it was a big event. Several people from the agency went with her, for the whole route. One time, many years later, I was coming home in the middle of the night and saw a woman walking down the middle of the street, on crutches, several people with her. This was some time after midnight. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on, and then I realized it was Zoe. Since then, every year I check to see if she's done another Marathon, and this year once again she completed it. In something over 30 hours. She holds, pretty much uncontested, the record of the slowest Marathoner ever, and in this case, the record for the slowest racer means a lot. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o [top] Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:01:39 -0500 From: Cyndi S Crawford <cyndi.crawford@juno.com> To: RDTRN@torithoughts.org Subject: sad news. I don't know if anyone else at this point has announced it on RDTRN or not, but according to the Dent, Tori's brother Michael died about two weeks ago from injuries suffered in a car wreck. (if anyone else has already made note of this, sorry for bringing it up yet again.) you can read his obituary here (thanks to the Dent for supplying the URL in the first place): http://www.legacy.com/washingtonpost/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&Pe rsonId=2855639 if anybody wants to send her and her family a card or a letter, the address that you can send it at is here: Tori Amos c/o Dr. Edison Amos P.O. Box 880005 Port St Lucie, FL 34988-0005 very sad news indeed.. :( Sincerely, Cyndi S. 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