> On Aug 8, 10:13 am, Jerry Kraus yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>>>>>>>> flunked out of university.- Hide quoted text -

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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
>>>>>>> day? Be sure to include the ones in Iraq.- Hide quoted text -

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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!"

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> What you're saying is that Americans like to scapegoat, and you're
> proud of it.
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> What kind of a deranged conspiracy nut would imagine the rest of the
> passengers were involved? In what kind of a sick society would that
> pass for a reasonable suspicion?
> I hope to hell you're wrong about that, Jerry,

>because if you're
> right, your country is as fucked up as you are.