Feh Robert Heinlein said it best. "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh." No, I do NOT have to respect someone's beliefs simply because they have them. Stupidity is stupidity, and the idea that everything is valid and equal is the worst rot yet. Bullshit! Sorry, Queen, but I disagree completely. I may be polite when someone discusses ritual cannibalism, astrology or scientology, but that is as far as I am willing...

Diana Galletly wrote: In article <tsadnfdIp4iwbs7VnZ2dnUVZ_rDinZ2d@scnresearch.com>, Pat Kight <kightp@peak.org> wrote: More specifically, they all appear to be Mr. Heinlein's own personal wish-fulfillment characters. Like Ayn Rand, he had such strong opinions about the world and what he thought was wrong with it that nearly everything he wrote has the same strong and unmistakeable point of view. Ah, you've just ...

... writes: Actually, it's my understanding that many of his female characters were modeled on his third wife, Virginia Heinlein. Reading his non-fiction book "A Tramp Royale" gives quite the clear picture of her personality. I've read that for one to disbelieve in Heinlein's female characters, you'd have to disbelieve in Ginny, too. Frex: Would she be the one who couldn't ...

...> writes: Actually, it's my understanding that many of his female characters were modeled on his third wife, Virginia Heinlein. Reading his non-fiction book "A Tramp Royale" gives quite the clear picture of her personality. I've read that for one to disbelieve in Heinlein's female characters, you'd have to disbelieve in Ginny, too. Frex: Would she be the one who couldn't have ...

... in a Strange Land." *splort* Hah! . . . or old ditto-sheets of Green Egg I, too, read Heinlein as a kid and was amazed and enlightened. But then, I was a 10 y/o white boy raised on the Cushion ... at all as erotic as you once recalled it to be. i remain firm in my conviction that someone has rewritten all of heinlein's novels since i was in high school. because when i was in high school, they were amazing, and now, uh, ...

.... If your ideas work in the cold, harsh, reality of a released title, you've proven your point. Until then, fancy graphs on blogs mean nothing. Nathan Mates -- <*> Nathan Mates - personal webpage http://www.visi.com/~nathan/ # Programmer at Pandemic Studios -- http://www.pandemicstudios.com/ # NOT speaking for Pandemic Studios. "Care not what the neighbors # think. What are the facts, and to how many decimal places?" -R.A. Heinlein

.... If your ideas work in the cold, harsh, reality of a released title, you've proven your point. Until then, fancy graphs on blogs mean nothing. Nathan Mates -- <*> Nathan Mates - personal webpage http://www.visi.com/~nathan/ # Programmer at Pandemic Studios -- http://www.pandemicstudios.com/ # NOT speaking for Pandemic Studios. "Care not what the neighbors # think. What are the facts, and to how many decimal places?" -R.A. Heinlein

... they all appear to be Mr. Heinlein's own personal wish-fulfillment characters...in the days I did read Heinlein. I thought they were very much...modeled on his third wife, Virginia Heinlein. Reading his non-fiction book "...that for one to disbelieve in Heinlein's female characters, you'd have...to take an advanced degree, where Heinlein had already relocated after the ... improbably talented women in Mr. Heinlein's stories." In the late ...

...handbasket. You can find complaints as far back as Socrates about how things aren't like they were in "the good old days" and how the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Either hell is a lot farther away than we thought, or that handbasket is moving *really* slowly. -Chris Zakes Texas Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. -The "Old Man" in "The Puppet Masters" by Robert Heinlein

Frank Küster wrote: Alexander Heinlein <alexander.heinlein@web.de> wrote: Frank Küster wrote: Alexander Heinlein <alexander.heinlein@web.de> wrote: /tmp/fmtutil.QIq31264 contains: warning: kpathsea: No usable entries in /var/lib/texmf/ls-R. Hm, what is the output of ls -l /var/lib/...