environment voters website

1998-11-28 Thread Victor Milne
A site that may be of interest to members of this list who live in Canada and who want to take some immediate political action on environmental issues. http://environmentvoters.org/ Below is a brief extract from their mission statement: "Due to the political conditions that prevail in Canada, th

Re: simulation -- and Jay Hanson's comments on it

1998-11-28 Thread Jay Hanson
- Original Message - From: Douglas P. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'll try to find a way to include such complicated matters in my >model, but it won't be easy. And that's really what's wrong with >Jay's argument. He is absolutely certain beyond a shadow of a doubt >that we're just goin

Re: "lesson of the cake"

1998-11-28 Thread Douglas P. Wilson
I don't know if there is anyone out there who believes Jay Hanson is actually right about things. But if there is, I'd suggest you look carefully at his posting "lesson of the cake" and then take Jay to task for being so irresponsible. If Jay is right, then the survival of humanity as a specie

Global Modelling

1998-11-28 Thread sk
Greetings All, (Jay, please fwd to list if my remote posting fails. I'm in Ottawa although return addr is normal) The Global System Simulator project is still evolving under The Canadian Assoc. for the Club of Rome. I'm on a loose committee which is exploring funding ideas for a Global Systems C

Re: "lesson of the cake"

1998-11-28 Thread Jay Hanson
[ By the way, this is not personal in any way. Debating this stuff on the internet is my idea of having a good time. ] From: Douglas P. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I hate to see him make such a fool of himself. I'd still like to put his >theories to the test by writing and running a similat

[Fwd: Cremate Monsanto!!]

1998-11-28 Thread U.P.secr.
  ** please distribute as widely as possible ** Dear friends, Monsanto's field trials in Karnataka will be reduced to ashes, starting on Saturday. Two days ago the Minister of Agriculture of Karnataka gave a press conference where he was forced by the journalists to disclose the three sites

Re: simulation -- and Jay Hanson's comments on it

1998-11-28 Thread Douglas P. Wilson
I'd like to thank Jay Hanson for taking the time to write an intelligible message that makes sense in places. That's not to say that I agree with him, but at least we can now carry on a discussion. I wrote: > >I'd like to write a program to run a simulation of the world economy, > >first

Int. Conference on "Universal Rights and Human Values"

1998-11-28 Thread Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein
Dear list memebers, Please allow me to cross post the Nobel Peace prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's message to the International Conference on "Universal Rights and Human Values: A Blueprint for Peace, Justice and Freedom Edmonton, Canada, 26-28 November. Thank you for your time, attention an

World AIDS Day

1998-11-28 Thread Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein
Message from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary for the National League for Democracy (Burma) and 1991 Nobel Peace Laureate To Mark World Aids Day 1998, December 1st [for release on saturday, november 28, 1998] The control of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is about the control of

Re: simulation

1998-11-28 Thread Edward Weick
Jay Hanson: > >I will save you some trouble Douglas, the most important variable is >ENERGY. Economists are trained to believe that the world runs on money -- >but they are wrong. In fact, the world runs on energy. This message, the lesson of the cake, etc., etc., etc,. etc., is getting tiresom

test

1998-11-28 Thread Cordell, Arthur: DPP
test Sat. 1

C4LDEMOC-L: SkyDome I - and SkyDome II (fwd)

1998-11-28 Thread Michael Gurstein
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 10:58:11 From: Michael Shapcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: C4LDEMOC-L: SkyDome I - and SkyDome II Globe sports columnist Stephen Brunt has a very interesting analysis of SkyDome I - Toronto's financially disastrous sports

A clip from Ken Wilbur

1998-11-28 Thread fran^don
First, thanks to Brian McAndrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Havel's speech is very long but relevant to recent postings. That speech was very inspiring! The following was passed to me from a friend - also relevant to recent postings.. >Don, >A clip from Ken Wilbur - I think it catches e

Re: simulation

1998-11-28 Thread Jay Hanson
From: Douglas P. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'd like to write a program to run a simulation of the world economy, >first to see if Jay's conclusions follow from his own data, and then >to do a sensitivity analysis to see what are the most important >variables. I will save you some trouble Dougl

"lesson of the cake"

1998-11-28 Thread Jay Hanson
- Original Message - From: Douglas P. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'd like to write a program to run a simulation of the world economy, >first to see if Jay's conclusions follow from his own data, and then >to do a sensitivity analysis to see what are the most important >variables. No ne

simulation

1998-11-28 Thread Douglas P. Wilson
It is very tempting to just jump in and argue with Jay Hanson, but I'd be surprised to find a single person on this mailing list who believes that could ever be productive. So let me propose an alternative. I'd like to write a program to run a simulation of the world economy, first to see if Ja