[Futurework] [META] Re: Bill Gates, Rockefellers Africa's biopiracy

2007-06-22 Thread Mike Spencer
Hello all -- I dropped off the FutureWork list a couple of years ago, not only because Harry was trolling [1] the list, trying to provoke opportunities for his condescending barbs and his free-market-cures-all polemics but as well because all the other bright folks on the list were politely

Re: [Futurework] [META] Re: Bill Gates, Rockefellers Africa's biopiracy

2007-06-22 Thread Harry Pollard
The discussion under this subject is between Chris and Pete. But keep trying. You'll get it right eventually. Harry ** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles. Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 **

Re: [Futurework] Bill Gates, Rockefellers Africa's biopiracy

2007-06-22 Thread Christoph Reuss
Pete Vincent wrote: I made a general observation about flax oil, and you reply with a rampage of personal insults. What happened to Netiquette and soberness? I say I was involved in helping to bring flax oil to north americans who have a serious dietary shortage of essential fatty

Re: [Futurework] [META] Re: Bill Gates, Rockefellers Africa's biopiracy

2007-06-22 Thread Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Futurework is a big tent. Many views. Like meeting with a group of colleagues some will annoy and some will enlighten and some will be neutral. But there is a possibility for new learning. arthur -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

Re: [Futurework] [Ottawadissenters] US Nat'l Acad Science: Not so much coal in US

2007-06-22 Thread Ed Weick
A very long time ago I was told that we should leave the world in better shape than we found it. There's little hope of that. There are walls to run into everywhere we look and the truth is that we don't look very much -- too depressing and we want to get on with our day to day lives, a thing

Re: [Futurework] [META] Re: Bill Gates, Rockefellers Africa's biopiracy

2007-06-22 Thread Ed Weick
I too have come back to this list after being absent for a few years. What was once a great list seems to have degenerated into people taking little pokes and shots at each other on a variety of topics that have little to with the real world of work and its future. Let's try to get closer to