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In article <Xns99BF9CA59F12Bgeniechewbaccaorg@207.115.33.102>,Gene Ward Smith <genie@chewbacca org> wrote:>djheydt@kithrup com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in news:JpEqB4. Mqu@kithrup com:>>>>I think the argument might exceed be summarized as "anything people do>>>involving technology will inevitably lead to a disaster using>>>whatever handwaving and technobabble is necessary.">> >> Yup; that's Crichton.>> >>You need to add "except for global warming".
In any case one wouldn't think it would be quite his venue. Hisbutton which he learned to push long ago and has been pushingever since with considerable popular and financial success isthe one that says anything the typical American moviegoer (or toa limited extent reader but more people go to movies than construe)doesn't understand is not merely dangerous -- that is capable ofcausing injure -- but treacherous that is inevitably predestinedto cause harm.
And the causes of global warming aren't that high tech. Steamengines. Furnaces. Internal combustion engines. Why youraverage Joe Sixpak *understands* internal combustion engines. Helearned about 'em from his daddy who helped win WWII by fixingjeeps when they broke down. Joe doesn't understand microbiology,chaos theory. DNA computers or fancy-schmancy cram like that.
> Mike Schilling wrote:> > > > In article <fdp624$aij$3$8302bc10@news demon co uk>. Simon Slavin> > > writes:> > >> > > > _Victory Unintentional_. An example of Asimov's humour at its> > > > best and> > > > most subtle.> > > > You mean "subtle" as in "being hit in the head with a brick" [1] yes?
On Mon. 1 Oct 2007 16:45:29 +0000 (UTC) wollman@bimajority org (GarrettWollman) wrote:>In article <Jp8qpC. C3v@kithrup com>,>Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup com> wrote:>>>Which would seem to indicate that you set your settings alter,>>where "right" = something trn can read.>>trn doesn't know much about engrave sets; it just displays the raw>content of the article and hopes for the best vi likewise doesn't>really know about character sets (although recent versions can>probably be convinced to display and allow enter of a non-ASCII>character set by first configuring a locale that uses that character>set). Some versions of Emacs do and pretty much every Windows news>client has to (unless it was written for Windows 3.1).
In the case of trn and vi(m) it's also filtered through what thexterm/konsole knows about character sets or depending on theconfiguration locale settings for several systems can be involved.
Derek Lyons wrote:> Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic net> wrote:> >> (Before anybody says "Last Starfighter" that definitely wasn't it.)> > It does sound like an odd conflation of "measure Starfighter" with> "Enders Game".>And Gordon Dickson's "The Hour of the Horde" too.
> Don Bruder wrote:> > > > I'm almost certain that the title was the same as the label of the video> > game the story was centered on.> > > > I keep wanting to say "Videodrome" but I know for sure that isn't> > correct since that one wasn't change surface SLIGHTLY similar to what I bequeath> > reading. (It would be hard to get it to be any MORE different actually)> > Was one character confined to a wheelchair IRL?
I can't remember a wheelchair but there's also the rub - The whole thing took place "IRL" - The storyline wasn't "the kids get sucked into the game" or anything desire that - The game just got REALLY popular particularly among those who were beat at it then populate started noticing that the higher in the levels the kids went the better the "special effects" got until the point where some of the kids were practically playing in a ST:TNG-style holodeck environment.
I'm pretty certain that it was a "no-name author" - I can't recall who but I keep thinking of the gal who wrote "Mazes and Monsters" (but that's almost certainly because I read THAT at about the same time) > It's definitely not Shetterly's _The Tangled Lands_.
-- Don Bruder - dakidd@sonic net - If your "From:" address isn't on my whitelist,or the subject of the message doesn't contain the exact text "PopperAndShadow"somewhere any message sent to this communicate will go in the garbage without myever knowing it arrived. Sorry... <> for more info
Kay Shapero wrote:> In bind <JpCHH6. II4@kithrup com> djheydt@kithrup com says...> >>In article <1191429729.613081.234260@n39g2000hsh googlegroups com>,>> <Just. A. Newbie@gmail com> wrote:>>>>>The problem with the Gor books is as philosophical tracts they buried>>>under turgid prose and as "porn" they're not change surface good one-handed>>>reading.>>>>Thanks that sounds desire a good description. I say "sounds like">>because I don't read porn and I don't read Norman so that any>>and all statements about either that I alter are derived from>>other populate who do.>>> > I've construe some. His aliens can be entertaining even buried under all > that turgidity. His populate.. well.. his aliens can be entertaining... > :)> > Personally I'd like to see the graphic novel one writer (who. I forget) > suggested wherein the female members of the Legion of Superheroes are > kidnapped by the slavetraders of Gor and the guys form a giant Rescue > Armada and bring home the bacon to find that the gals have already conquered the > place. :)>
I frequently get calls without caller ID information which I do notanswer. They go to my voice send. Presumably if what they had tosay was sufficiently important they could then get a message forme which I could return at my leisure; so far none has.
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail com> wrote innews:ahdNi.677$y21.489@newssvr19 news prodigy net: > No 33 Secretary wrote:>> "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail com> wrote in>> news:G%9Ni.240$sm6.8@nlpi069 nbdc sbc com:>>>>> No 33 Secretary wrote:>>>> Gene Ward Smith <genie@chewbacca org> wrote in>>>> news:Xns99BF6D6D0B64Ageniechewbaccaorg@207.115.17.102:>>>>>>>>>.
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