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No dia 12 de Jan de 2011, ?s 23:23, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> escreveu: I'd say it's easy to attribute strange stuff in Gene Wolfe's work to his fallibility, and to the dist…
13 Jan 2011, 02:02
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Jeff Wilson wrote (12-01-2011 15:09): What if the whole universe is a kind of Moebius strip? Has that currently been ruled out?…
12 Jan 2011, 15:16
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No dia 12 de Jan de 2011, ?s 01:18, Jane Delawney <jane_delawney at sky.com> escreveu: Pericyan or perichlore :)…
12 Jan 2011, 01:52
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No dia 11 de Jan de 2011, ?s 23:32, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> escreveu: Someone with more motivation would have to sift the data for it.…
11 Jan 2011, 23:42
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No dia 11 de Jan de 2011, ?s 19:58, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Well... No matter who ends up in it, let's not forget whose body it is.…
11 Jan 2011, 23:38
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No dia 11 de Jan de 2011, ?s 19:09, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: Could it be Mars? I suppose in that case there would be some awful tides. I also don't see T…
11 Jan 2011, 23:34
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No dia 11 de Jan de 2011, ?s 21:48, Jordon Flato <jordonflatourth at gmail.com> escreveu: This is a very important point. Let's repeat: Severian's Urth becomes Ushas, so, by Rolle…
11 Jan 2011, 23:28
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No dia 11 de Jan de 2011, ?s 21:05, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> escreveu: Space-time is a strange place. Observers may be looking at their own star system far, far …
11 Jan 2011, 23:09
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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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