> On Aug 7, 7:03 pm, lefty_the_r...@yahoo.ca wrote:
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>> On Aug 6, 10:25 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>> On Aug 5, 11:53 pm, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>> On Aug 5, 5:09 pm, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>> On Aug 5, 6:53 pm, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>>>> On Aug 5, 7:33 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>>>> On Aug 5, 1:07 am, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>>>>>> On Aug 4, 2:15 pm, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>>>>>> On Aug 4, 3:55 pm, Siobhan Medeiros wrote:

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>>>>>>>>>> On Aug 4, 7:44 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:

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>>>>>>>>>>> I was reading the Nebula Awards stories for 2008 recently and was
>>>>>>>>>>> struck by two of them:  "Echo", apparently aboutGlobalWarming; and
>>>>>>>>>>> "The Woman in Schrodinger's Equations."   They seem to be related,
>>>>>>>>>>> somehow.  The first presents a woman living in the Canadian arctic in
>>>>>>>>>>> the near future watching the earth grow much warmer, and all
>>>>>>>>>>> civilization disappearing from the rest of the planet.  No explanation
>>>>>>>>>>> given.  We're just expected to "know", that this is the inevitable
>>>>>>>>>>> result ofGlobalWarming.  Canadian wishful thinking, perhaps.  The
>>>>>>>>>>> second describes the amorous adventures of a Ph.D. student in Physics,
>>>>>>>>>>> and how there is very little difference between art, love, and
>>>>>>>>>>> mathematical physics.  Presumably, then, there is very little
>>>>>>>>>>> difference between science fiction, and the mathematical physics
>>>>>>>>>>> underlyingGlobalWarming.  Get the picture?

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>>>>>>>>>> LOL, that's your argument againstglobalwarming?  That science
>>>>>>>>>> fiction writers are writing about it?  Damn, you're pathetic.

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>>>>>>>>> Slob!  I heard you'd been travelling Greyhound Canada lately.  Is that
>>>>>>>>> true?

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>>>>>>>> About as true as the rumour that you've stopped whining about getting
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>>>>>>> Slob!  But, clearly, beheadings on Canadian buses are central to the
>>>>>>> entire concept ofGlobalWarming.  After all, what other explanation
>>>>>>> could there possibly be?  Canadians are such "nice" people.  They
>>>>>>> would never lie, attack, and socially isolate people so as to drive
>>>>>>> them completely insane, would they?   So, obviously, when someone
>>>>>>> beheads a total stranger for no reason on a Canadian Greyhound bus,
>>>>>>> why the "GlobalWarmingDefence" is the one that comes to mind.
>>>>>>> Clearly, he'd never been exposed to hot weather before, and he was
>>>>>>> just trying to bathe in his seatmate's blood, in order to cool down.
>>>>>>> Indeed, he even offered this opportunity to his fellow passengers.  He
>>>>>>> was, obviously, concerned about their welfare, in that wonderful
>>>>>>> Canadian way, and wanted to give them the opportunity to cool down in
>>>>>>> human blood as well.  Indeed, I'm sure dozens of Canadian scientific
>>>>>>> expert witnesses could be called to testify on the traumatic effects
>>>>>>> ofGlobalWarmingon the Canadian psyche.  All based on the soundest
>>>>>>> application of the current scientific method.

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>>>>>> So, you're practically jumping for joy over this poor sap's murder.
>>>>>> Have you no shame?

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>>>>>> I hate to burst your bubble, but how many Yanks got wasted in the same
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>>>>> The critical point here, Slob, is that this guy was driven crackers by
>>>>> your useless society.  He didn't commit a crime.

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>>>> Killing and beheading someone isn't a crime?  Retard.

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>>>>>He was totally
>>>>> crackers to an extent NO ONE in any other country is.  And people in
>>>>> other countries know this.  That's why it attracted so much
>>>>> attention.  In the U.S., people just shoot each other.

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>>>> Oh yeah, that's sooooo much more civilized.

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>>>>>For a reason.
>>>>> They don't behead total strangers in public places while people
>>>>> passively look on.  That's a Canadian specialty.

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>>>> The passengers surrounded the bus and prevented the murderer from
>>>> escaping.  I know you're disappointed they didn't risk their lives to
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>>> Uh...Slob...did you ever notice those "emergency exit" windows on
>>> Greyhound Buses?  You know, you just push them out.  This guy had a
>>> hunting knife he just cut someone to pieces with.  You don't think he
>>> could have pushed a window out, if he wanted to?  You think he was
>>> trying to "escape" from his "crime", and was heroically prevented by
>>> the courageous Canadian crowd?

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>>> BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH!!!!

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>>> No wonder you believe inglobalwarming.  You also believe in the
>>> tooth fairy!

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>> Of course we all know that you, in the same situation, would have
>> heroically wrestled the lunatic to the floor of the bus and saved the
>> day. After all, you're brave enough to post on usenet.
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> In the U.S. questions would be asked about the passengers.  Why didn't
> they intervene?  Were they involved?
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> In Canada, they'll sweep it under the carpet.  "Just isn't done, you
> know!"