[Futurework] Very close now

2002-12-21 Thread Keith Hudson
Bush's press conference yesterday: If his body language is any guide, Bush is under great stress, I'd say. He's having to front for policies/strategies that are quite outside his personal competence. The US refuses to admit that Iraq might not have any WMDs. Hans Blix, the UN Chief Weapons

[Futurework] Re: Ice sheets, etc

2002-12-21 Thread Stephen Straker
Here's a good account of the causes and likelihood of an abript cooling event. - SS The Great Climate Flip-Flop, The Atlantic Monthly, 281 (January 1998), pp. 47-74. by William H.Calvin http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98jan/climate.htm [Excerpts:] Climate change is popularly understood

[Futurework] Re: Adjuncts (was Whining)

2002-12-21 Thread Harry Pollard
Brian wrote: Hi Harry, Did you cut and paste this lecture from one of the courses that you taught? Or perhaps from a paper you presented at AAAS? No, it was written in as it came to me. The problem with this is that I am likely to miss something out. The good thing is that I will copy it for

RE: [Futurework] Re: Not ideological (was More crap again)

2002-12-21 Thread mcandreb
Hi Harry, Shotter is doing his best to follow Wittgenstein and he is stuck with the academic tools that he and his audience is most comfortable with: the essay. You like theory, great. I'm intrigued by Wittgenstein's 'social poetics'. Here is one poet's truth: Kathy's Song I hear the

Re: [Futurework] Rupert Ross continued:

2002-12-21 Thread mcandreb
Hi Ray, You are certainly adding a ray of hope and ancient possibility to our discussions on justice and education! To really appreciate what brought about Ross' conversion people should read his first book: Dancing with a Ghost. In it Ross describes how an aboriginal fishing guide in northern

Re: [Futurework] Re: Not ideological (was More crap again)

2002-12-21 Thread mcandreb
Hi Ray, you wrote: 2. The Universe is so vast that chaos is probably closer to what it is than our thoughts. Breaking free from our ways of thinking is the real problem. Wittgenstein supports this: The remarkable thing is not that the universe is as it is, but that it is at all! That

Re: [Futurework] Very close now

2002-12-21 Thread mcandreb
Hi Keith, The game of colonization to steal the natural resources from the 'natives' is much more chess like these days! Take care, Brian ___ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework

Re: [Futurework] Re: Ice sheets, etc

2002-12-21 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
From the Article: California coastline, and Santa Barbara must have been as cold as Juneau is now. (But the regional record is poorly understood, and I know at least one reason why. These days when one goes to hear a talk on ancient climates of North America, one is likely to learn that the

RE: [Futurework] Very close now

2002-12-21 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Keith, translating into casual American English you wrote: I think Bush is under great stress, I'd say he's way over his head. To paraphrase African American Vernacular English's very expressive verbing: Bush been way over his head, or, for a long time now. And did you mean by 'denouement': 1.

Re: [Futurework] Very close now

2002-12-21 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Keith, translating into casual American English you wrote: [snip] Bush's press conference yesterday: If his body language is any guide, Bush is under great stress, I'd say. He's having to front for policies/strategies that are quite outside his personal competence. [snip] When is this

[Futurework] Re: Revolution in Military Affairs

2002-12-21 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
eric stewart wrote: [snip] Lifting the Fog of War http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/bookrev/owens.html by Adm Bill Owens with Ed Offley Reviewer: Maj Peter W. Huggins, USAF [snip] I find the rview of this book disturbing, as if Jack Boyd is becoming the latest Prophet to be

[Futurework] RE: The Solar Economy

2002-12-21 Thread Harry Pollard
Bruce, If the presenter was correct, the $27,000 cost of each wind turbine was written off with special tax advantages. That was the point I was making. I would be happy to have no subsidies of any kind for any method of producing power. As it is, how does that $27,000 mix into the cost pkh?

[Futurework] RE: Whining (Stop it! And say: 'Thank you'! .... ) + TheInvisib le Hand

2002-12-21 Thread Harry Pollard
Arthur, I think Moral Sentiments may be better than Wealth. Of course, Smith was strongly influenced by the Physiocrats, whose Impot Unique was a century earlier than Henry George's Single Tax. They erred in stressing agriculture and downplaying more advanced production - but that doesn't