Dear Robert, Tom, and Marcus,
I am not sure how I would survive in this complicated world without this
ability to ask a quick question of friam and get a quick answer. The
problem I so often face is WHAT QUESTION to ask the web, when I plunge into
it. I had gotten seduced by the dramatic met
Hi Nick
Your old Earthlink site seems to comprise just about ten 'pages' of
content, with many of those pages (Published Works) listing many
bibliographic citations, each with a link to an image and further link
to a pdf document. Grabbing all the content manually is perhaps tedious
but doabl
Once you’ve got all the files (like below) Microsoft Word can import HTML
files. Editors designed to HTML editing (e.g. Kompozer) will often have a
“Open from web” option such that you can just type the URL. If you really
want systematic scraping, look at libraries like Beautifulsoup (Python
Nick;
You might try installing Firefox, if you don't already use it, and go here
to add-on DownThemAll. I recall that you can set how many layers deep you
want to go. Of course if you get ALL your content you will have to figure
out where and how you want to repost it.
https://addons.mozilla.org
Dear Phellow Phriammers,
I am in the uncomfortable position of being bound by threads of steel to
Earthlink. Many, MANY, years I go I started a website on Earthlink,
{http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
}, and put a lot of my writing, and some commentary up on it. The we
I don't know. I don't care about him or what he wants/thinks. To some extent,
he's part of our tribe and in that sense, we have an obligation to either own
the repercussions of his actions/statements _or_ rebuke him and police our
tribe. But other than that, he's a silly person and I just do
"[..] our education culminates with the knowledge that the broader education
of the body politic has become a fool’s errand.".
It is a plausible claim and he helped evidence it by supporting Trump. But if
the body politic does nothing informed or intelligent, then I would guess their
econom
Well, the cow<->Thielian boundary is ephemeral. 2 cows can reproduce to make a
Thielian. Thielian production is chaotic and polyphenic. And that's likely to
continue despite any widespread but non-catastrophic problem with the cattle
population. The Thielian epistocracy will need some thres
I was following you with the blood, but if they need fresh minds and, due to
their sabotage of the health care act, they get widespread microcephaly (say)
from their pool of baby makers, then that's a problem, no? Likewise if the
time and resources aren't given for education.It seems like t
Eric writes:
"I wish there were still many Indians alive who had experienced living through
the (Mohandas) Gandhi years. What was it like to coordinate hundreds of
millions of people so that, when the institutions were getting unwanted control
signals, they could, in a widely distributed fashi
The obvious answer is that the Thiels know they need fresh _minds_ as well as
fresh blood, at least for now. And this is more than simply growing
disrupter-smart cows who will ascend to full humanity in their ranks. They
need a delicate balance of suggestibility and intelligence ... cows who
As a technologist, I object to the crudeness of the strategy. If the blood
thing really works, figure out why and engineer an resource efficient
alternative treatment. All these cows unnecessarily adding methane to the
atmosphere can't be good; it certainly isn't an elegant solution. At lea
Well, again, the Thiel-as-vampire metaphor would argue that it's not in the
best interests of the libertarians to grow a herd of people completely unable
to take care of themselves. If the cattle is too dependent, then they'd be
forced to admit that they need universal healthcare in order to m
Marcus writes:
> I think #18 and #19 are pretty dark for most folks to consider so far, but
> I’m glad there are professors that aren’t sugar-coating it.
I certainly agree with the last clause (as with all you wrote before it). The
thing is that, short of death, the legal and criminal apparat
Some that suffer from microcephaly life to be 30-35 years!
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of gepr
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 4:31 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Political tangents
Naa. As
Naa. As the essay argues, Thiel's ilk trusts that those people are more like
cattle. Big families keep the labor pool stocked and keep plenty of fresh blood
available for the vampires' life-extending transfusions. There's no need for
universal healthcare because we only need the human commodity
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