[FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I am curious to know if anybody in Friam-land will recognize the following passage. No Fair using google. It is NOT from the Gettysburg Address. "Our work is guided by the sense that we may be the last generation in the experiment with living. But we are a minority--the vast majority of our

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread David Mirly
I'll play. Theodore Kaczynski? Now I have to go see if I am right. It's scary playing this game and quite possibly making a fool of oneself. On Apr 11, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I am curious to know if anybody in Friam-land will recognize the following passage. No Fa

Re: [FRIAM] predictive models v. causal mechanisms

2007-04-11 Thread Phil Henshaw
Well, getting on to the 2nd half : On 4/10/07, Phil Henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I'll start now and probably need to get back to it tonight... On 4/10/07, Stephen Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, yea, you're onto a parallel design there. I'm > > usually referring

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > I am curious to know if anybody in Friam-land will recognize the > following passage. No Fair using google. > > It is NOT from the Gettysburg Address. > > *"Our work is guided by the sense that we may be the last generation > in the experiment with living. But w

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Mikhail Gorelkin
Yesterday was non-linear Clausewitz, today is this passage! Please allow me to add my favorite painter Pino - http://www.fineartandsoul.com/Artist-Pino.htm & http://www.chasengalleries.com/pino/index.html Any art references? --Mikhail - Original Message - From: Nicholas Thompson

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
> Does anyone remember the Port Huron Statement? I'm reaching > here, and I don't remember the date. Hell, most of you > probably weren't even BORN yet! I cheated with Google and still didn't know who it was. Yep, 6 years before I even saw light. Thankfully, things have turned out nothing lik

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Gus Koehler
Port Huron Statement Gus Koehler, Ph.D. President and Principal Time Structures, Inc. 1545 University Ave. Sacramento, CA 95825 916-564-8683, Fax: 916-564-7895 Cell: 916-716-1740 www.timestructures.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of M

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Gus Koehler
Lets see, patriot act, citizen phone taps without knowledge, bank taps without knowledge, Bush manipulation of fear by terror buggy man, electronic voting subversion resulting from subversion of two presidential elections, "privacy get over it" as the creed of the internet and of all the new

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Stephen Guerin
Gus, As I was reading through the full Port Huron statement at http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111hur.html I was thinking, hmm, maybe if we actually developed some of the distributed net tools we've been talking about it could help. But then I cam across this passage near the end: "L

Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

2007-04-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
> "Loneliness, estrangement, isolation describe the vast distance between man > and > man today. These dominant tendencies cannot be overcome by better personnel > management, nor by improved gadgets, but only when a love of man overcomes the > idolatrous worship of things by man." > Oddly eno