From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #53 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, February 22 2004 Volume 13 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Addendum [Eb ] Re: Addendum ["Stewart C. Russell" ] CD MAP: the rest of the story? ["Roberta Cowan" ] reap ["Fortissimo" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:56:42 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Addendum Another bike question, based on today's sightings: What do you call those pedalless bikes where you sorta bounce up and down on a floorboard, and this propels a back wheel which has a decentralized axle? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:28:19 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Addendum Eb wrote: > Another bike question, based on today's sightings: What do you call > those pedalless bikes where you sorta bounce up and down Kickbikes. Or just plain stupid. Stewart (we forgot to reap Marco "Il Pirata" Pantani.) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:32:34 -0500 From: "Roberta Cowan" Subject: CD MAP: the rest of the story? Hey, does anyone remember the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation settlement issue that was posted on the web a year or so ago? You could go online and assert that you were cheated by the music industry and deserved a part of the settlement. I received a check in the mail today for $13.86! Justice is served!! Well, maybe...;-) Think I'll use it to buy me a CD... Cheers, Roberta ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:13:18 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: CD MAP: the rest of the story? on 2/21/04 6:32 PM, Roberta Cowan at robcow909@earthlink.net wrote: > Hey, does anyone remember the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust > Litigation settlement issue that was posted on the web a year or so ago? You > could go online and assert that you were cheated by the music industry and > deserved a part of the settlement. I received a check in the mail today for > $13.86! Justice is served!! Well, maybe...;-) Think I'll use it to buy me a > CD... > For $13.86 you can buy yourself exactly 14 tracks from the iTunes store. Not that I'm biased or anything... - -tc, who can't remember if he actually signed up for that class action. p.s. - Inline 10K? Next thing you know they'll allow Razor Scooters. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:14:02 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: reap Ralph Nader's credibility. I *wish* we had a voting system whereby people's votes for particular candidates actually ended up putting those preferences into play in the political arena, rather than deflecting into an opposing candidate's preferences (the inevitable result of a winner-take-all system dominated by two parties). And the lesson of 2000 was *not* that Bush "won" because it was Nader's "fault": the vote was close enough that *any* other candidate's vote would have tipped the election the other way. But: Nader's key argument, that there's no significant difference between the two parties, simply is not a viable option right now, with Bush standing for election (no "re-"). Whatever you think of Gore, I doubt his presidency would have displayed the imperial contempt for the rest of the world (i.e., anyone not a wealthy, white Republican) that Bush has. In every respect, Bush's presidency has been an unmitigated disaster. (Oh, okay: if you *are* a wealthy white Republican, maybe not.) Nader would be far more effective making his points loud and long to whoever will listen - but the more he makes such pointless, tactically idiotic, and apparently ego-driven lunges at "the presidency" (surely he knows he has no chance? and he can't even argue that he's trying to get the Greens on the ballot this time - he's running independently), the less anyone *will* listen, and the more his points of view will be sullied in the public eye merely because he, Nader, holds them. It's truly sad if Nader really thinks his run is going to make a positive difference. I just hope the mood of the country is such that Bush loses by a large margin. - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: "In two thousand years, they'll still be looking for Elvis - :: this is nothing new," said the priest. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #53 *******************************