two little 'stupid humor' stories I broke a bone in my foot the
next to last day of a week's travels (healing fine now it seems) got
good first aid at a local ER and because I was on the road traveled back
to NYC w/o a cast. In New York I spent literally 4 hours on the phone
to find a docto
I hear you!
Microsoft has taken it once step futher with Windows, licensing software to
*processors*, not computers, not people. So, if one upgrades the processor
in a computer (or one replaces an obsolete or damaged motherboard and
processor), you are "expected" to purchase a new Microsoft Windo
But when someone commits an act of road rage they are not only hurting
themselves, but also hurting the person they are acting out against,
so how can that be altruistic? Are we defining altruism as simply
trying to maintain the status quo? Also, Josh and I were having a
talk about this last week
I've got three satellite tuners and a Tivo that are surplus to requirements.
Anyone in town need them (gratis) for an exciting MAKE style project? The
local thrift stores won't touch these things so they need a home...
Robert
FRIAM Appl
It has to do with the conditions under which cooperative societies are not
destroyed by the selfish.
The research (which I'd reference if I had it handy) shows that a
willingness to inflict punishment on the selfish, even at a cost to oneself,
is one condition under which cooperative societies ca
If you guys haven't read Amartya Sen on altruism, it's worth a look.
The "seminal work" is Development as Freedom. Sen argues that sympathy
and altruism are not enough to effect change. Commitment (to action) is
the key. I was recently co-faculty at a retreat with a female Rabbi
who just p
Yes, I'd like to try the TiVo. I assume it is functional, yes?
-Tom Johnson
On 7/18/07, Robert Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've got three satellite tuners and a Tivo that are surplus to
requirements. Anyone in town need them (gratis) for an exciting MAKE style
project? The local thrift
This article in Science is the reference I'm probably remembering.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;312/5781/1767
A citation search would probably find the rest of this discussion, this
paper reports that 15 different cultures all show a willingness to punish
selfish behavio
Infoporn: Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed
Patrick di Justo 06.26.07 | 2:00 AM
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More than a decade after the Internet went mainstream, the world's richest
information source hasn't necessarily made its users any more informed. A
new study from the Pew Research Center
pointing them out all the time... was supposed to get your interest, and
get you closely watching all the organizational flows of time.It
hasn't worked worth a damn, though. There are cool surprises in it,
and the most common of common sense in *watching* things happen to learn
*how* things
Randy Burge wrote:
> A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
> shows that Americans, on average, are less able to correctly answer
> questions about current events than they were in 1989.
For a country of 300 million people there are as many current events.
I'm glad
On Jul 18, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Randy Burge wrote:
>> A new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
>> shows that Americans, on average, are less able to correctly answer
>> questions about current events than they were in 1989.
> For a country of 300 m
For those of you who might be interested, Sen was also one of the
originators of the UN's Human Development Index which measures and ranks
countries'
human development based on a series of social, economic and cultural
indicators.
See _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index_
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Randy Burge wrote:
> *More than a decade* after the Internet went mainstream, the world's
> richest information source hasn't necessarily made its users any more
> informed.
I don't think the article supports the subject line. The phrase "hasn't
nece
It is equally scary to know that until recently most Americans thought that
Iraq (if they knew what and where it is) had WMDs and prior to the invasion
was allied with Al Qaeda. No wonder Bush who calls himself an "ethicker" was
elected. Sigh Paul Paryski
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Oh, thanks much.I didn't know quite what to say since it did seem
dated (in thinking) somehow, and I wanted to complain that the article
had no date on it. Then I noticed that the file name had a 2007 date.
So I guess it had a falsified date... I study process, and it makes a
huge differenc
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