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No dia 10 de Jan de 2011, ?s 22:16, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> escreveu: David actually didn't quote you, he simply included your text and added his. Maybe yahoo is to blame,…
10 Jan 2011, 22:28
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Lee Berman wrote (10-01-2011 18:05): I'm not sure that we're communicating. Your previous message was a reasonable exposition of the way you see things, and I tried to address wha…
10 Jan 2011, 18:33
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Lee Berman wrote (10-01-2011 10:06): Well, first of all, let me say that it's nice that we're talking now, kind of at least. I think you forgot to say somewhere that you're stil…
10 Jan 2011, 16:06
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No dia 9 de Jan de 2011, ?s 12:36, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: Other than a recent allusion to something to do with tetrapod phylogeny, I'm afraid It must …
09 Jan 2011, 15:06
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No dia 9 de Jan de 2011, ?s 04:30, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: I think I've asked more than once whether or not you understand the concept of falsifiability…
09 Jan 2011, 04:58
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No dia 7 de Jan de 2011, ?s 20:11, Tony Ellis <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> escreveu: What I find curious here is the contrast with the inhumi. Those seem so keen to imitate hu…
09 Jan 2011, 04:28
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No dia 7 de Jan de 2011, ?s 18:34, "Gerry Quinn" <gerryq at indigo.ie> escreveu: This so called hard sf always leaves me with a smirk.…
09 Jan 2011, 04:23
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No dia 6 de Jan de 2011, ?s 22:09, DAVID STOCKHOFF <dstockhoff at verizon.net> escreveu: In non-literate cultures, anything older than one's grandfather belongs to the Age of Myth…
09 Jan 2011, 04:15
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Erm... Nice Quote Colors indeed is (esp. if the time to customise it one takes), but *Quote Collapse* I meant.…
07 Jan 2011, 22:42
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Well, it's open to debate just what that means - I assume the enlightenment itself may be considered miraculous in not having been the work of anyone and giving Silk correct inform…
07 Jan 2011, 22:36
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But that's spantastically wrong. Reasoning is a complex process with many more inputs than just the data and more mechanisms than just intelligence. There is no reason to suppose…
07 Jan 2011, 21:16
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But what if they're secondarily tailed apes? Or tailless monkeys? Or something descended from boulders with an ability to imitate men? Or incarnate genies?…
07 Jan 2011, 20:45
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I suppose 'macaque' would be too far off to be usable. Well, good luck: dogs have been reclasssified as a subspecies of wolf (i.e. not all wolves are dogs, but all dogs are wolves…
07 Jan 2011, 20:37
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No, I don't mind those folks visiting every once in a while, but I don't think I'd like to live there. I'll take your word for it that the distinction stuck... (though I doubt biol…
07 Jan 2011, 20:33
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Lee Berman wrote (07-01-2011 15:26): It would seem that you feel calling an ape a monkey is demeaning to the ape, and calling a monkey an ape is demeaning to the word 'ape'. That…
07 Jan 2011, 16:42
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Lee Berman wrote (07-01-2011 14:21): So 'monkey' and 'ape' are synonyms of 'simian', popularly speaking? Scientists can't expect the general public to follow their terminology a…
07 Jan 2011, 16:28
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Aren't 'monkey' and 'ape' synonyms of 'simian', popularly speaking?…
07 Jan 2011, 13:51
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David Stockhoff wrote (07-01-2011 13:25): Of course nobody got it. You said something 'might well be' but that you had only 2 options in TB. As of yet no one knows what part of t…
07 Jan 2011, 13:50
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I should emphasize that 'threadtiquette' is just a set of guidelines which may* help improve communication on the list. It's not moral judgement. (*) Corollary: whenever followin…
07 Jan 2011, 13:06
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Lee Berman wrote (07-01-2011 08:15): What you think is older technology is actually the way users who know how to do it efficiently like to do it. Complaining about the list and …
07 Jan 2011, 13:00
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Ryan Dunn wrote (07-01-2011 05:59): How come? David said something which nobody understood, though apparently pertaining to the discussion (and the reason nobody understood it se…
07 Jan 2011, 12:50
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Those who use TB may be interested in an add-on caled Quote Colors.…
07 Jan 2011, 12:42
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What is it that may well be?…
07 Jan 2011, 02:18
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Gerry Quinn wrote (06-01-2011 20:01): To answer Dave's question, the interview was Gene Wolfe's and in relation to Long Sun / Short Sun. The list discussed how some interviewers …
06 Jan 2011, 20:08
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (06-01-2011 19:20): If only! I work at a software company and you'd be appalled at the amount of people for whom interleaved replying is utterly alien. …
06 Jan 2011, 19:32
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Son of Witz wrote (06-01-2011 18:56): Incidentally, I'm aware that it may be difficult not to toppost using an iThing. At least you're able to reply selectively - select the text…
06 Jan 2011, 19:15
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Son of Witz wrote (06-01-2011 18:56): Don't worry. The coloured pipes are just for display - they are > characters in the source, the iDevice just shows them as pipes. Of course…
06 Jan 2011, 19:07
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I think even the childrens may understand these: http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/using…
06 Jan 2011, 18:04
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Dave Muir-Bacon wrote (06-01-2011 16:18): Good luck trying to make sense of threading and subject lines on this list. It must be said: in what regards the proper technical usage o…
06 Jan 2011, 16:54
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Tony Ellis wrote (06-01-2011 10:21): Wolfe wouldn't put the French and Vernor Vinge in a timeframe much different from ours, so if someone came there millennia earlier, it wasn't…
06 Jan 2011, 12:42
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Jeff Wilson wrote (06-01-2011 01:19): Shoon't that be Eel Guards in this case? Now we know why stargates are round and there's one in Antarctica.…
06 Jan 2011, 12:38
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (05-01-2011 17:44): Dan'l, Dan'l, Dan'l! What if some people are both looking for truth and trying to win? (What kind of a name is Dan'l? Looks like Tea…
05 Jan 2011, 19:13
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Lee Berman wrote (05-01-2011 18:56): Come to think of it, the idea that we're dealing with 5 or 6 imitator subspecies is interesting.…
05 Jan 2011, 19:01
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Lee Berman wrote (03-01-2011 03:34): Ha. I'm beginning to think the abos may have travelled back to Earth...…
05 Jan 2011, 13:55
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No dia 2011/01/04, ?s 20:43, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> escreveu: I suppose this is rhetorical, but I'll bite: Eurth is St Croix.…
04 Jan 2011, 21:08
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Son of Witz wrote (04-01-2011 18:03): I think Lee's objection was to the term itself in not being dignified enough. And I think that comics present a different set of challenges …
04 Jan 2011, 18:29
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Lee Berman wrote (04-01-2011 16:18): 'Irregardless', that's how it's seen, a minor form of art.…
04 Jan 2011, 16:22
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Gaiman is, IMO, a superior comics author. Those are not so easy to come by. Of course comics are seen as a lesser art compared to proper Literature. Gaiman of course doesn't clai…
04 Jan 2011, 15:52
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I like the title. I don't think 'of the ... Sun' can get translated well into Romance save for that 'Soarelui ...'. I'm not keen on 'Cartea', but probaly none of the 'Scris-' wor…
02 Jan 2011, 03:34
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Hi Roy, You're right in your frustration at the way some behave sometimes; all the same I don't think everything is worthless fancy. If I bother pointing out problems in some th…
31 Dec 2010, 23:45
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Lee Berman wrote (30-12-2010 18:00): I think you're being tricked by your memory. The order of telling of events is not their order of occurrence. Fancies aside, the chronology …
30 Dec 2010, 19:08
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James Wynn wrote (30-12-2010 17:17): Just to clear it up: he has only one eye because he gave the other one to Pig. We learn of the giving-his-eye episode in RttW, but it happene…
30 Dec 2010, 17:43
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James Wynn wrote (30-12-2010 02:06): Unplausible. Again, it's one thing for unconsequential stuff to ripple across universes. Quite another for structured ideas to be imported w…
30 Dec 2010, 02:53
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Lee Berman wrote (30-12-2010 00:43): The Mediterranean dried up in recent geological history. Not human history, but there was no reason why it couldn't have been in human histor…
30 Dec 2010, 00:52
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Gerry Quinn wrote (29-12-2010 21:17): Then again, isn't it? What's the meaning of 'wrong' in this context?…
29 Dec 2010, 22:36
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Gerry Quinn wrote (29-12-2010 21:57): Almost makes one think of Mater Ash in his Red Sun Whorl. Well, one could argue Green is not surviving, as in there may be no intelligent l…
29 Dec 2010, 22:34
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Hey! That's not what I said. You'll seldom nail me revealing what I think about religion or religious figures. I ventured 'his teachings' in answer to your question 'what would a…
29 Dec 2010, 02:35
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If you had read what Thomas wrote, there's quite a bit there about characters dreamtraveling according to connections within their minds, e.g. wishing to go to Green while in the…
28 Dec 2010, 18:20
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James Wynn wrote (28-12-2010 16:59): No, the thread is about more than that and I was talking about the bit of Thomas's message to which you appended your comment. "The idea that…
28 Dec 2010, 17:07
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James Wynn wrote (28-12-2010 16:26): Sorry, you've lost me. You seem to be replying to Thomas's hypohtesis that dream travel occurs between books that are close to one another in…
28 Dec 2010, 16:53
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