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1999-02-16 Thread Eva Durant
(JAY:) These "egalitarian" societies work because they are small. Community members must be able to "recognize" other community memebers. That limits them to 300 or 400 individuals. me: If everyone have information about the trackrecord of somebody's capabilities in a directly any time open

Communism is just another stupid idea whose time has past.

1999-02-16 Thread Jay Hanson
- Original Message - From: Eva Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] People were not consciously structuring slavery, feudalism or capitalism. It happened to them as a consequence of the physical environment including technological/economical development and in turn, social relations. I am beginning

URGENT CALL

1999-02-16 Thread U.P.secr.
"URGENT NEED FOR $50,000 US IN ONE WEEK (BY THE 20th FEBRUARY) If we have 500-1000 people each donating 50-100 dollars (also bigger or smaller donations are of course very welcome !!!), we will have it ! " See bottom of e-mail for name of Bank and account for deposit~ je

Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-16 Thread Steve Kurtz
Hi Eva, You and I agree on one subject ( maybe a few others)! We're both atheists. Steve

[Fwd: Laissez Faire City Times - is not FREE forever.]

1999-02-16 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Lazy Fare is not always going to be free but today they can't give it away.They've been putting the Rupert Murdoch NYPost sleaze rag on my doorstep for over a month now and I have told them that it embarrasses me in front of the neighbors but they just won't stop. Now they're putting the same

Re: Y2K Specialists

1999-02-16 Thread Dennis Paull
-- Hi Thomas et al, I fear that all senarios discussed are true, depending on which computer system you are referring to. I suspect that many large systems with large programming staffs are well along the way to solutions, but not all. Supposedly, the DoD is only 30% prepared. On the

Re: expand/steady-state mkt. economy

1999-02-16 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Thanks for the reply Eva Durant wrote: Religious people believe in a god, whether it is a literal one with beard or an abstract one that supposed to be symbolising some sort of human feeling/thinking/valuing. There is nothing abstract about Ultimate Concern withthat which is Ultimate in

ethanol

1999-02-16 Thread Ed Weick
There is an article in the January - February Issue of Foreign Affairs (The New Petroleum, by Richard G. Lugar and R. James Woolsey) which argues that, given some support, cheap ethanol produced from cellulosic biomass (rather than feed grains, as at present) could greatly reduce American

Re: ethanol

1999-02-16 Thread Michael Spencer
A couple of interesting points: Brazil already has 3.6 million pure ethanol driven vehicles on the road... And they're turning the Amazon Basin into a wasteland at an alarming rate. Maybe Jay has the figures to do the accounting on this. Enough "cellulosic biomass" -- typically, that means

Re: Y2K

1999-02-16 Thread Neil Rest
At 04:43 PM 2/19/99 -0500, "Thomas Lunde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied to me: My goal is try and find out the truth! I don't care who is "right", I just want to know what the hell is going on! The Y2K problem is not the result of anything resembling a consipiracy; it is the result of a