Victor Milne wrote:
> It occurred to me that it might be fun and useful to write "A Devil's
> Dictionary of Economics" especially for the "motherhood" words like
> "investment."
I haven't read John Ralston Saul's _The Doubter's Companion_ but what
I've hear about it leads me to believe that it
Hugh McGuie wrote:
> The Sun Microsystems person suggested that if the e-mail cost were
> increased, by charging customers in a way similar to how cell phone
> calls are billed, with people paying for both receiving and sending
> messages, then the conditions that permit a "denial of service" a
> Whats the diffrence between Chechnya and Kosovo?
> How is it that the US can smash one yet is poweerless to act on behalf of
> the Chechins?
Easy one:
Greater Serbia doesn't have a stupendous strategic nuclear arsenal.
- Mike
s of biomass.
Until they get that we can go on annoying them, however mixed our
collective motives and devious or corrupt our governments.
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oach further,
beyond the narrow cases that he describes? (I regret that I'm not
keeping up -- it's been 4 years since I've been able to spend a whole
day in a first class bookstore.)
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of family demographics.
Ed, do you have a median family income figure? Or other numbers that
would make this a little clearer?
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n it.
I can't see that revolution is the answer but I don't think I'm ready
to offer a stone bug-f*** psychopath a shot at me without a fight, in
the hopes that he/it will have a twinge of conscience and see the
light.
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"john courtneidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One ?significant? comparison between the US and Canada lies inthe
> Constitutions:
>
> * The US focus on "Life, liberty and the pusuit of happiness."
>
> As compared to:
>
> * The Canadian focus on "Peace, order and good government."
>
Most of us have seen the bumper sticker that says, "I'd rather be
fishing." I saw an interesting variation this week with pleasing
ambiguity:
WORK is for people who can't FISH
I'd give a purty to know whether the driver of that car was an
idle-hours sports fisherman or a commercial fisherma
Sally fowarded a Georgia student's "Corporate Bill of Rights".
Before the Bill of Rights came the Declaration of Independence. Here's
my take on an up to date reading. (Non-USA readers unfamiliar with
American historical documents and who are sufficiently entertained may
want to look up the ori
onality that they
promote matches up nearly point for point with the official clinical
diagnostic criteria for a psychopath.
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ts to the extent
taht I always think of an art object as an embodiment of mind and
process. Umm...better (or worse, much worse from the perspective of
efficiency and profit) I think of all satisfying work that way.
Probably why I drive the same model of Porsche the Ray does. ;-)
- Mike
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t;.
Report from Iron Mountain was knocking about the net for years on
conspiracy groups. I have an ASCII copy here somewhere. Isn't it's
"commissioned report" status fictional? Somthing like Jonathon
Swift's piece about the solution to the Irish famine? Hair-raising
reading
r the best model for building human affairs.
- Mike
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To muddle an aphorism, a purely
scientific solution to intrinsically social problems will likely be
little more scientific than Soviet "scientific socialism" and not much
less evil than this century's rational attempts to make the world safe
for the master race.
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Um, this is straying kinda far off topic, but when Pete Vincent wrote:
> As to "cellulosic biomass", that is protein,...
I hope you were making a thinko/typo. I suppose any aggregate biomass
contains some protein but cellulose is a polysaccharide -- a sugar
polymer -- not protein -- amino acid
(read healthy, diverse
biome) with monoculture replanting of fast-growing plantation species.
Feh.
Anybody have the numbers on acres of woods per supertanker-load of
crude equivalence?
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the world and
an incisivly analytical ability based on extensive and detailed
scientific knowlege.
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and have no drum to beat for or against the
MIT economics department.)
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Caspar Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> remarked:
> Michael Spencer recently noted (on the futurework listserv) the
> sociopathic nature of the publicly-held corporation. The correct word
> is sociopath ("a person who lacks social or moral responsibility
> because of a ment
se it for other enthusiastic supporters to hack on can
entrain a huge quantity of diverse expertise with minimal management
or startup overhead. Moreover, agenda conflicts tend to get hashed
out in public.
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ogy domain. With positive feedback, the first corporation to own
and implement such a model is highly likely to own it all after a few
ticks of the clock.
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elevant, support or act on behalf of the psychopathic corporate
persona is a related ethical issue but not for this post.
- Mike
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Ed Weick wrote:
> Many writers have refered to the Soviet system as "state capitalism".
A fellow blacksmith who lived near Prague said to me (in 1980),
Es gibt kein Communismus! Es gibt nur Staat Capitalismus.
There is no communism! There's only state capitalism.
With regard to "who was
This response to Mike Hollinshead is a little tardy but it took me
awhile to reacquaint myself with what I have at hand. In the
meantime, others have had more sensible things to say but I'll post
this anyhow.
> ...from what I can determine in Waldrop's book about Santa Fe,
> they can't break fr
me care and make it
increasingly hard to attract competent and responsible people to do
the work.
Further info ardently sought.
Regards,
- Mike
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ing net entropy within the biosphere. An energy or entropy
balance sheet for the discovery of a wonderdrug and its inrtoduction
could be estimated but a dialog on the subject would be subject, at
best, to numerous digressions and backtrackings as contradictions
engendersd by mungled metapho
Russians have grasped the fundamentals of capitalism and global
finance far better than we've given them credit for. :-)
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y. The practical
effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the
areas that matter and non-conformism in the areas that don't.
- Mike
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Eva hit the wrong key and sent to me privately what she meant to send
to FW, viz.,
eva> From: Eva Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eva> Subject: Re: FW: ...what's wrong with the ideologies we have so far?
eva> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:02:26 +0100 (BST)
eva> so give us - or me - a summary.
ev
Eva remarked:
> Should we not first analyse what's wrong with the ideologies we have
> so far?
John Ralston Saul's book, _The Unconscious Civilization_, was on the
Toronto Globe & Mail bestseller list for somthing like a year and a
half, yet I don't recall that anyone has mentioned or quoted him
"pay" for their eats instead of going on Ship's
Welfare.)
- Mike
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ad in mind, Richard? This is somthing
I do in my head. I dunno how it'd play out as a multiperson exercise
on the net and it looks at, rather than dumps, the word you wanted
to dump. But then, you asked for lateral somthing-or-other. :-)
- Mike
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wn boss. If you answered yes
to any of them then we have the answer for you.
[blah blah blah]
Everyone who makes a lot of money, or wants to
make more money can benefit from this powerful
information booklet.
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jay> I have long been ambivalent about the MAI. These kinds of
jay> international agreements have the potential to contain the
jay> transnationals, which is something national governments can
jay> not do.
The problem with the MAI is that it commits signatories *not* to
contain the TNC, to submi
her tits for one...but only right now this second. Tomorrow, all
the dumpsters will be full of necklaces.
Madness.
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racters long.)
You'll probably find more stuff more quickly on the web at, say:
http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/maisite/
- Mike
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ertilizes the other. It's a
messy problem and were we able to boil our discussion down to a pithy
one-liner or a narrow thread, it would surely be a lock too small for
the ship.
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ystem. In our case, the
system is most certainly not "The Global Economy", but the highly
evolved biosystem of which we and all our social institutions are
inescapably part. I submit that our implementation of coporatist
capitalism and it's drive for "completely free market
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