Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Klaus Stock wrote: And...we got the iPad, where you actually have to flip pages the old way. FYI -- you *can* turn pages the traditional way, but you can also tap the right edge of the page to turn it, so in effect, the whole right edge of the page is a next

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Nov 19, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Klaus Stock wrote: We need a black swan. Maybe we already have it. The wiki model is working for editing wikipedias (not only _the_ Wikipedia, but many other clones, parodies, porn sites or just silly stuff), It began with IMDB and if they hadn't been such

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 11/19/2012 4:56 PM, D.C. Frandsen wrote: But I also have a problem with the idea that creating new customers by which I guess, Kevin, you mean demand, is the only solution. I believe our problem has been that we have been fixated on creating demand only, not on the type of demand we are

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Minette
Perhaps the patent equivalen of GPL? Because the answer to why can't we apply the wiki idea to publishing information? was copyrights and licenses until GPL became a viable solution .. There is a difference. I have an unused trade secret in my back pocket. When I came up with it, it was a

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 11/20/2012 2:12 PM, John Williams wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: Right now, there is a ton of cash that is mostly on the sidelines because the people who have it do not see opportunities for productive investment. Cash on the sidelines is a

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Minette
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved banking and monetary issues. One of the best lessons I learned was that people who really understand what they are talking about can say it it plain English. Well, that just makes you as suspect as the non-financial faculty of

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread John Williams
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved banking and monetary issues. One of the best lessons I learned was that people who really understand what they are talking about can say it it plain

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread John Williams
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: OK, I'm not at all clear on how you got top-down management out of what I said. I'm getting tired of correcting all this nonsense, but I thought I'd respond to this at least. You are the one claiming you know better how

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Minette
BTW, my doctoral dissertation at the University of Michigan involved banking and monetary issues. One of the best lessons I learned was that people who really understand what they are talking about can say it it plain English. Which makes it ironic that you are potentially misleading people

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Minette
I didn't see this, so I'm resending it. Apologies if others had: -Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of John Williams Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:42 PM To: zwil...@zwilnik.com; Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread John Williams
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: You change the regulations of the parasites on Wall Street... ...You should read more. If only it were that simple. Regulators have been trying to manage things for decades. Between regulatory-capture and the law of

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Minette
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of John Williams Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 4:06 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: Where to now? On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Dan Minette

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread John Williams
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: And the suceeded for 60+ years. Ha, hahaha, ho ho ho. Very funny. You would benefit by occasionally listening to other people. How about Hayek? The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-20 Thread Dan Minette
OK, you found someone with a Nobel prize to follow. Why not the score of Nobel prize winners who don't believe in the gold standardsand wasn't he a cowinner of the prize with someone with strongly differing views. :-) Are you really that big a fan of deflation? An, how can you explain that