http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/ ExtroBritannia Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:58 GMT bbenzai http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9857 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9857 Thanks, Dirk, nice one. Unnervingly familiar situation. I just wish I was as eloquent as Tim Minchin! "The blinding headlights of vacuous crap" LOL Ben Zaiboc Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:08:49 GMT Amon Zero http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9856 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9856 ... I couldn't attend 99% of Sundays, but like Ben would have no objection to Sundays as long as there were still Saturday meetings. - A Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:04:53 GMT bbenzai http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9855 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9855 My Sunday afternoons are reserved for other activities, providing it's not raining. But I've no objection to having a few sessions on Sundays, as long as the Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:08:15 GMT Amon Zero http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9854 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9854 I meant Alex *Jones*! I have nothing bad to say about the bass player from Blur!! ;-) ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:05:41 GMT Amon Zero http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9853 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9853 Oh good - Alex James is a well-known right wing conspiracy-theorist nutter... so if he were to become the voice of Neo-Luddism, then he'd inadvertently be Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:59:59 GMT adamcsummerfield http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9852 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9852 He mentions Ray Kurzweil, life extention, LHC, transhumanists, GMO crops etc... It's frightening that he has a sizeable audience. Since he has such an Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:20:40 GMT estropico http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9851 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9851 There's no specific reason why our events, historically, have been held on Saturdays rather than Sundays. We just started that way and it kind of stuck. One Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:51:23 GMT David Wood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9850 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9850 Red Dwarf Toaster Sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZslRQvv5zM (2 mins 34 seconds - point well made) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:37:24 GMT Chrissie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9849 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9849 Hello David, "Pros include: people who work on Saturday afternoons might be able to attend on a Sunday afternoon." =Yes I think it's a good idea. I'd like to Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:50:42 GMT Dirk Bruere http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9848 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9848 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_htqDCP-s&feature=related Dirk -- Homepage: www.neopax.com Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:11:04 GMT David Wood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9847 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9847 I'm encouraged to find http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=265828309853 which already lists 48 members of "Oxford Transhumanists" The majority of the members Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:03:57 GMT Michael C Price http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9846 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9846 Sundays are better for me. ... -- - Michael C Price Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:35 GMT David Wood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9845 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9845 The monthly Extrobritannia meetings in London have been held on Saturday afternoons for the last few years. It's been suggested that we should consider holding Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:53:14 GMT Bruce Adams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9844 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9844 Hi, Just thought I'd drop a note about a programme about the use of robots in combat that I heard some of the other day. Taking a slightly different (more Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:21:35 GMT alistair tweed http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9843 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extrobritannia/message/9843 "Study assumes that telomeres at the root of aging. Just like other studies assume free-radicals cause aging." True.  Yet both are highly successful theories