On 03-Sep-06, at 3:58 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
"But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a
matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by
an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from
God." (NAS, 2nd Peter 1:20-21)
I do
On 03-Sep-06, at 1:11 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i don't think blair said anything about aborting potentially
problem kids, rather he suggested that teenage mothers who are
going to live off welfare should take parenting classes.
Surely enforced abortions can't be far behind.
Also, tho
On 02-Sep-06, at 10:14 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
My point was that this [seems to me like it] is all about the state
bearing the costs of
said kids, both through the overwhelming majority of them being
raied by parents on
teh dole, as well as the cost of incarcerating them later.
Classic
On 02-Sep-06, at 9:15 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Where is your quote from? Too lazy to Google!
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/novdec/feat3.htm
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On 02-Sep-06, at 7:30 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/
DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf
This paper only points out a link between legalized abortion and a
drop in
crime. Legalized abortion allows human beings _more_ choice over their
On 02-Sep-06, at 4:26 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Out of curiosity, I assume you're aware of these?
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/biased-sample.html
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html
They do not apply. Genius, by definition, is exceedingly rare, and
On 01-Sep-06, at 10:38 AM, ashok wrote:
some years back there was a certain archbishop of a rather extreme
church in nairobi, who interpreted,
mathew 19:12 literally
Of-course, the Bible is _meant_ to be interpreted literally, being
the word of "God".
It says so in the Bible itself:
"Bu
The bid history sure looks weird, with a handful of (0) rep users
apparently bidding
against themselves (and against others, with irrationally huge jumps)
in pretty blatant
attempts at bid inflation:
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=120024164593
The final buyer ha
101010!
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On 28-Aug-06, at 9:32 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
For those who need a present for the geek in their life:
http://www.instantattitudes.com/shirts/t042.html
Udhay
--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
So I guess this song is now officially anachronistic:
Yeah I'm hung like planet Pluto hard to see with the naked eye,
But if I crashed into Uranus I would stick it where the sun
don't shine,
Cause I'm kind of like Han Solo always stroking my own wookie,
I'm the root of all that
On 10-Aug-06, at 11:14 AM, ashok wrote:
Any suggestions for more comfortable alternatives?
Check out
http://tinyurl.com/kywqe
and
http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad
Cheers
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On 10-Aug-06, at 8:33 AM, Martin Senftleben wrote:
Of course is meeting my maker
a reason to look forward to dying (for me), but the worth of a longer
process of dying lies elsewhere (as mentioned above).
OK. Those other reasons you mentioned are a lot more intelligent (and
intelligible)
tha
On 09-Aug-06, at 10:04 PM, Martin Senftleben wrote:
Surely I don't want to die a long death, but if
it has to be, it's ok, too, because I know: it's worth it.
And how is that? What would make it worth it? Meeting your maker?
Sad to say, but it seems to me long past time to change the silk-lis
On 06-Aug-06, at 1:36 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
At 12:17 05/08/2006, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
The existence of diseases or viruses for which there is currently
no defense
doesn't contradict this.
in fact, it fully supports the argument: after all, the defence
against new disease
On 05-Aug-06, at 3:22 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
By reading the right books, I suppose you are talking about the
book "The Selfish Meme" by Kate Distin ;-).
As far as I can make out from some quick browsing around, "memetics" is
a set of far-too-literal-minded attempts to map ideas from genetics
Hi Vinayak
By reading the right books, I suppose you are talking about the
book "The Selfish Meme" by Kate Distin ;-).
Haven't read it. Might, when I get a chance.
Wasn't one of the ones I was thinking about.
Serendipitously, I just finished
reading the book. Even in the book the author arg
On 05-Aug-06, at 2:38 PM, sastry wrote:
If I said what I really think - I would say that you are bullshitting.
Just out of curiosity, would you say Freeman Dyson is also bullshitting?
Or is it just me? (Even though FD has said exactly the same thing I'm
saying).
Cheers
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On 05-Aug-06, at 2:38 PM, sastry wrote:
I am willing to take the discussion further - but my disagreeing
with you
entirely has become "ad hominem" to you.
Your making assumptions about "what I think I know" is certainly ad
hominem.
Since you bring up the word ad
hominem - I beg to di
On 05-Aug-06, at 2:29 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
It's very simple: reading the right books conveys a much greater
survival benefit to a human being than does pretty much anything
biological. As does access to good medical care.
Evolution is about survival of a population, not an individual.
T
On 05-Aug-06, at 2:09 PM, sastry wrote:
With respect and without intending to hurt I would classify this as
a very
naive, very short term view.
And, I notice, without assigning any reason either.
Sorry. What you think is wrong because you have simplified the
problem to fit
what you think
On 05-Aug-06, at 1:45 PM, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
My point is not that biological evolution has ceased in humans, but
that cultural / memetic evolution is more relevant to the survival of
human individuals (and cultures) than is anything biological.
Freeman Dyson expresses much the same view
On 05-Aug-06, at 10:29 AM, sastry wrote:
Would not agree with this without serious evidence. We just don't
know that's
all.
It's very simple: reading the right books conveys a much greater
survival
benefit to a human being than does pretty much anything biological. As
does access to good
Genetic evolution is pretty much irrelevant for human beings.
Cultural and memetic evolution is what's relevant in humans.
This is happening, though much too slowly. (e.g. humans keep
making the same mistakes repeatedly, such as collectivism).
Through intellectual evolution, we can, at high spee
On 17-Jul-06, at 6:01 PM, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
On 17-Jul-06, at 5:30 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Your mind has snapped shut as an oyster, and no amount of
facts will budge it either way.
IMO, you're describing yourself here.
More precisely, you seem to fall for just about any flimsy e
On 17-Jul-06, at 5:30 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
We've been through this before. This cuts both ways: you
just killed your own argument by admitting that there
are no free markets, period, and hence your arguments
are pure fantasy.
Not at all. Perhaps you didn't read where I wrote:
Let's take it
On 17-Jul-06, at 5:30 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Your mind has snapped shut as an oyster, and no amount of
facts will budge it either way.
IMO, you're describing yourself here.
#!
On 17-Jul-06, at 4:32 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
No, you're not listening. The price is volatile. The investments
required are enormous. This is a case where markets don't work at
all well.
They start working when you're removing volatility by artificial
means, such as e.g. making a fossil tax r
On 17-Jul-06, at 4:39 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Why does the free market not give us electric cars, or electric
ships, or electric planes, not even supersonic?
You are contradicting yourself. You just agreed in an earlier post
that once coercion is applied, it's no longer a free market. So exactl
On 17-Jul-06, at 1:07 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Known coal reserves: 200,000 Quads.
Same thing: Fischer-Tropsch plants. Same reason.
You can make electricity directly from coal, without making it oil
first. It's not oil we need, it's energy, and increasingly in the form
of electricity.
#!
On 17-Jul-06, at 1:07 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:13:02PM +0100, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
Peak oil is the purest rubbish. Propaganda created, as usual, to
promote an
atmosphere of fear and put more power in the hands of tyrants.
No, it's classic economics. No one
Here:
http://netropolis.org/silklist/
This only contains the messages from silk.mbox. New messages
aren't currently going into the archive. Will get that going soon.
Also, there's no search yet. Will add one asap.
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On 17-Jul-06, at 8:38 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Biju Chacko <[EMA
Peak oil is the purest rubbish. Propaganda created, as usual, to
promote an
atmosphere of fear and put more power in the hands of tyrants.
"Humanity uses 345 Quads per year of fossil fuel. Oil shale deposits
hold 10 million Quads." - Huber & Mills [1]
Known coal reserves: 200,000 Quads.
Th
On 04-Jul-06, at 4:41 PM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
1. I'm not sure who the "everyone" is who advised you Kiran against
drinking
the local water. My family (and about 5 million other families)
have managed
very well thank you without resorting to Bisleri in our taps.
Um, many of them do die of
On 04-Jul-06, at 11:18 AM, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
BTW I could have taken photo of Bommanhalli in Bangalore
or Chennai last year and claimed it is a gutter too.
And you would be absolutely right.
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On 03-Jul-06, at 11:07 AM, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
OK, imagine it another way:
Of-course, you wouldn't actually want to implement flying car
traffic this way. I'm just trying to illustrate using familiar metaphors
how having freedom of movement in 3D makes it easier to design
system
On 03-Jul-06, at 6:22 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
At 2006-06-29 19:32:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now use the same system for flying cars, but now they can also hop
over
each other or "switch lanes" vertically (rather than just
horizontally)
if space / speed profiles require it.
On 29-Jun-06, at 12:23 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Your problem is always that you're citing theory. Reality
unfortunately
doesn't follow textbooks, and idealized how-things-should-actually-
work
scenarios.
That's a meaningless objection. You do need valid abstract principles
(i.e. theory) in o
On 29-Jun-06, at 4:57 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
it is more complicated to build flying cars that automatically
avoid each other than it is to build cars on the road that avoid
each other.
I disagree. It is easier to build collision avoidance if you have
freedom of
movement for each
On 29-Jun-06, at 5:41 PM, sastry wrote:
You are talking about building a robust operating system
from scratch.
Not really - it is quite possible to privatize public utilities, etc.
It is difficult,
but definitely possible. It's also possible to put private property
back in
the constitutio
On 29-Jun-06, at 5:00 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i addressed both points replying to devdas, i think - purchasing
power parity doesn't apply here
It sure does matter to the consumer: 10 CHF for 60KM (in luxurious
comfort)
is 1/6000th of the average Zurich resident's 60K CHF annual incom
On 29-Jun-06, at 11:23 AM, sastry wrote:
On Thu June 29 2006 15:31, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
Nothing "democratic" about this - it's just individual property
rights being
respected.
The judiciary, and the government are two pillars of democratic
process. In
this case the pill
On 29-Jun-06, at 12:07 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
private railways in switzerland account for about 15% of passenger
transport, often run today by local public authorities.
Somebody asked for an example of privately operated rail services
of a higher quality than the bombay metropolitan r
On 29-Jun-06, at 12:15 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
it may be possible for flying cars to automatically avoid each other
This isn't a very difficult problem to solve.
#!
On 29-Jun-06, at 12:58 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
If company A is overfilling trains, that creates an opportunity for
company B to win customers over to itself by offering better service.
How would it do that without having to lay a duplicated set of tracks?
(No, really, it's a serious ques
On 29-Jun-06, at 11:19 AM, Martin Senftleben wrote:
If a private company would run the railway system, they would very
likely not do it differently from how it is being run now.
It's not about _a_ private company running the railway. A free market
would see many private companies offering com
On 29-Jun-06, at 3:31 AM, sastry wrote:
1)result No 1: residents win a democratic battle against government
Nothing "democratic" about this - it's just individual property
rights being
respected.
But, as the right to property is not a fundamental right in India (i.e.
"democracy" trumps in
Gladwell describes why he has changed his mind here:
http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/02/gladwell_v_gopn_1.html
He only seems to have changed his mind about the specific issue of
employer-sponsored insurance.
Again, the US healthcare system is heavily regulated and hardly an
exam
On 28-Jun-06, at 9:32 AM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
What happens when resources are stretched far beyond their limits?
When
the critical resource is not the number of trains, but land area? When
you have to consider that new land isn't exactly creatable (you can
dig
only so many tunnels, build o
On 27-Jun-06, at 10:02 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
For very dubious values of "well"!
Care to show me better working mass transit in India which scales
up to
those levels?
India is a socialist, collectivist country. Even the Bombay mass
transit system
was not set up by the socialist stat
On 27-Jun-06, at 6:24 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Funny. The Canadians I correspond with say otherwise.
http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/socialized.html#canada
It's so bad, in fact, that there are plenty of Canadian health tourists
in India. India actually has fairly functional pri
On 27-Jun-06, at 5:24 PM, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
On 27-Jun-06, at 5:04 PM, sastry wrote:
Mahesh could well be right. a cursory check supports his statement
http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ldc/list.htm
Which of those countries would you say provides conditions amenable
to capitalism
On 27-Jun-06, at 5:04 PM, sastry wrote:
Mahesh could well be right. a cursory check supports his statement
http://www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/ldc/list.htm
Which of those countries would you say provides conditions amenable
to capitalism?
#!
On 27-Jun-06, at 4:45 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Counter evidence: The US and Canadian health systems.
The US health system is still largely private. The socialized Canadian
health system SUCKS. People wait years for critical surgeries and
transplants. They give labor-stopping injections to preg
On 27-Jun-06, at 3:47 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
So don't blame big bad business on big bad government.
If the shoe fits...
I could provide tons of examples, but I do have lots of other stuff
to do too.
IAC, big companies violating individual rights are no less criminals
in a
capitalist f
On 27-Jun-06, at 3:06 PM, Bernhard Krieger wrote:
Having lived in the widely socialist France and the often praised
capitalist UK
The UK isn't all that capitalist either.
I have to say that I prefer for above mentioned services definitely
in France. Don't belive me? Just catch the tube ne
On 27-Jun-06, at 12:41 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I'm intimately familiar with libertarianism. I will not argue with
you, but
simply stating that you're wearing rose-colored glasses. People can
do get hurt by big faceless governments, and big corporations alike.
Big corporations as they exist to
On 27-Jun-06, at 9:50 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Dictatorship is the best
possible organization form with the right person at the helm,
Not at all. This assumes that one person (or a small group of people)
can
possibly know the "one true way" to prosperity and happiness for all.
The
most wel
On 27-Jun-06, at 9:41 AM, Mahesh Murthy wrote:
It's interesting that a vast majority of "poor countries" or LDC's as
they're called don't practice socialism or communism in reality but
are
Really? Not the last time I checked:
N. Korea - Commie.
China - Commie (diluted with bits of capitali
On 27-Jun-06, at 9:36 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Um, why are you all that huffed up about that Gates dude?
I tend to ignore any bit of news with his name of it
I guess I didn't quite realize just how incredibly idiotic he is.
Actually, I did, long ago, but then forgot somewhere along the line. I
On 27-Jun-06, at 7:21 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
On 27/06/06, Ashish Gulhati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Democracy is
simply a
disguised and especially dangerous form of tyranny.
/me sniggers nastily and heroically resists the tempation to feed
the troll.
[From http://en.wikipedia.or
[http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2803]
If you read way down to the bottom of a Wall Street Journal interview
with Bill Gates that ran yesterday, you'll discover that the
Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated movies on the
Internet. The confession came as he was talking ab
On 24-Jun-06, at 7:59 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
What does it say to you that of the 4 million babies who die within
their first month, 98 percent are from poor countries? What do
those statistics tell you about the world?
GATES: It really is a failure of capitalism. You know capitalism is
ashok wrote:
> An Ipod 60 is going for INR 26,500 = ~580 USDthat is some greedy
> assed margin.
That's not margin. It's greedy assed customs duty, @30% or so on MP3
players. Still, it's not 100% like it used to be a few years ago.
Laptops attract only 10% customs duty (thanks to the BJP),
On 19-May-06, at 2:49 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
on the First Monday conference on openness in chicago.
Way cool! Congratulations on FM's 10th.
But this batch of HTML code tucked inside a World Wide Web domain
Uh oh... Nits everywhere!
"Let a thousand First Mondays bloom," he says.
On 13-May-06, at 8:22 AM, Ashish Gulhati wrote:
Ummm ... Michelson-Morley [1]?
Was quite unnecessary.
(Unnecessary to prove the non-existence of aether, is what I meant.
It was, however, a necessary experiment for the proponents of the
aether theory to conduct, in order to collect evidence
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Ummm ... Michelson-Morley [1]?
Was quite unnecessary.
It was the proponents of the 'ether' theory who should have
supplied evidence for it.
And imaginers of imaginary entities such as the ether are
quite adept at making the imaginary entity be w
On 11-May-06, at 4:07 PM, Jeremiah S. Joseph wrote:
Intelligent Designer. If such a being exists, then their statement
does
not cause him to wink out of existence. While the burden of proof
of his
existence has been on the ID group, his non-existence not yet been
proved by those anti to the
On 09-May-06, at 9:08 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
My top two Rush tracks are Lakeside Park and Jacob's Ladder.
'La Villa Strangiato' and 'Closer to the Heart' would get my vote, along
with 'Freewill' and 'The Trees', of course.
The entire "Grace Under Pressure", "Caress of Steel", "Hold Y
www.animalscam.com
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On 05-Feb-06, at 3:54 AM, Carol Upadhya wrote:
I don't know about Indian malls, but in the US it's par for the
course to have some kind of surveillance system (cameras or such)
inside the trial rooms to check shoplifting. \
I very much doubt this. This was definitely not the case last time
Ann Ryand's Anthem which says, if memory serves me right (it
doesn't generally), "This is a sin to write" or some such thing.
s/Ann Ryand/Ayn Rand/;
"It is a sin to write this." (Anthem)
"Howard Roark laughed." (The Fountainhead)
"Petrograd smelt of carbolic acid." (We The Living)
and po
'Tis a great idea... From James P Hogan's short story Merry Gravmas:
http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/mmande/support/sample3.htm
Merry Gravmas!
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On Dec 31, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
happy new year, everyone... and i got a mail from richard stallman
wishing a merry grav-ma
On Nov 18, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Martin Senftleben wrote:
crux. Hitler has spread his ideas for years, until he finally reached
The ideas were originally Hegel's and Plato's.
But just because someone is spreading some bad ideas doesn't
mean they can be held responsible for some third party falli
On Nov 18, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Frank Pohlmann wrote:
To say that the support of Neonazis amounts to just
another opinion shows an interesting, but ultimately
fatal (50 million deaths...etc.) naivety.
By that logic, why not start with first rounding up all
supporters of communism and socialism an
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:23:27 + (GMT)
From: Nick Szabo
For those of you interested in software patents, the Supreme Court just
decided to hear a case that may have big
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For those of you interested in software patents, the Supreme Court just
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