The world needs both more electricity and less pollution.
In the current heat wave in Europe, nuclear power plants can only choose
between shutdown (to avoid overheating) and illegally discharging too hot
cooling water (hotter than 30°C) into dried-out rivers. So, in a time
of high consumption
Interesting article in today's Sunday Times -- no doubt syndicated
elsewhere over your side of the water. Implicitly, Stelzer presents a
dilemma to American voters. If they re-elect Bush, they can expect more of
the same gathering deflation and increasing unemployment and if they elect
a
Brad said:
I hypothesize there are still a lot
of persons in the former USSR, who never sent
anybody to the Gulag or did any other evil,
who would gladly trade what they've got now for what
they had under Khruschev. I also believe there
was a different way that the USSR could have
transitioned
From the NYT:
In fact Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, has made a
lucrative sideline out of helping management to get
its message across. In his consulting capacity,
Dilbert has enabled Honda of America to develop
the key message [that] quality is a core value
and helped
I was waiting for you to weigh in Chris.
What is anti-Israel but not anti-semitic? I guess a clear thinking Swiss
citizen.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Futurework]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/06/national/06VULT.html
No, the chickens are not coming home to roost here
in the U.S. of A.
The *vultures* are coming!
Perhaps they know what's coming, or
they are delivering it? --A ghostly army
is on the move, traversing Sheridan's path* only
in the reverse
Karen Watters Cole wrote:
Who could overlook that title? I must say this did make me think of all
Keiths posts about salt and trade routes and status goods. It also
repeats another (in)famous theme: ignoring the lessons of history.
I found this interesting. I continue to be amazed by
how many
Salvador R. Sánchez Gutiérrez wrote:
The man in black is thinking how to make money with a device like that
and/or how to use it against the palestinians.
(Call it a Rohrschach(sp?) picture)
I thought the orthodox jew was puzzling about
how the traditional religious laws would be
extended to
This reminds me of the story of how monkeys were caught in that mythical
South Sea Island. A hole was put in a coconut. The monkey put his hand in
the coconut to take out the meat. But having made a fist to take out the
meat, the monkey was faced with the choice of releasing his fist thereby
Quote: There are vendors everywhere They are besieging
everyone.
Question: Who benefits? The voters or Diebold? Or the RNC? - KWC
Jolted Over Electronic Voting: Report's
Security Warning Shakes Some States' Trust
By Brigid Schulte, Washington
Post Staff Writer, Monday, August 11, 2003;
Passing along
an update from a hawk-eyed FWer: Merci
beaucoup. Domo arigato.
Ha'aretz - Article Sharon warns of financial sanctions over
security fence
The U.S. State Department has
prepared a proposal, awaiting the approval of President George W. Bush, that
calls for cuts in loan
Perhaps community is itself changing. FW is a sort of community and has
appeared and persisted over time. Entirely voluntary this group could be
sitting around the cracker barrel in a general store in Vermont but sits
around cyberspace.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: Keith Hudson
Keith Hudson:
To prevent prolonged inflations or deflations, all that needs to be done
is
for governments to say that their currencies should be exchangeable
against
things of tangible value -- whether this is expressed in terms of ounces
of
gold, or platinum, or a package of more ordinary
Reducing demand at source should be our first option. Technological
fixes always seem easy at the outset but the unanticipated costs soon
mount.
arthur
-Original Message-From: Ray Evans Harrell
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:04
AMTo:
I guess they are moving out of the beltway to the burbs.
-Original Message-
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 5:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Futurework] That someday is today...
re-sending
-Original Message-
From: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:34 AM
To: FUTUREWORK (E-mail)
Subject: something for everyone
Name Statistics - How Popular are your first and last names?
http://www.namestatistics.com/
The data here
This kind of thing gets even worse in a large organization. In my days as a
policy wonk in the Canadian public servant I spent very little time
wondering what I believed and a great deal of time wondering what the
Minister, his Deputy and his Assistant Deputy believed, and whether they all
Who could
overlook that title? I must say this
did make me think of all Keiths posts about salt and trade routes and status
goods. It also repeats another (in)famous
theme: ignoring the lessons of history.
- KWC
Salt of the Earth
By
PAUL KRUGMAN, NYT, Aug 8 2003 @
Christoph Reuss wrote:
[snip]
Karen Watters Cole wrote:
Remember it was Reagan who said to Gorby, take down this
wall. Now we are assisting in raising another one
Ronnie IV (or whoever will reside in the WhiteHouse then) will never shout
Tear down this wall, Mr Sharon!, because the Israel
The man in black is thinking how to make money with a device like that
and/or how to use it against the palestinians.
Salvador Sánchez
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 7:01 AM
Subject: [Futurework] Picture juxtaposing tradition, advanced technology,
Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
Common media joke about Bill Clinton:
What is the difference between George Washington, Richard Nixon, and
Bill Clinton?
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and
Clinton doesn't know the difference.
[snip]
And when George W Bush tells a
attachment: Heaven.jpg
Name Statistics - How Popular are your first and last names?
http://www.namestatistics.com/
The data here may surprise you. With name information drawn from the entire
US Census, the bias is toward older names; Dorothy is still in the top ten,
but Madison didn't even crack the top 2,000.
Keith,
You were right on.
Another reason is that Saudi Arabia has been funding Palestinian resistance
for 40 years.
Re Robert Baer, I would feel a little embarrassed to hang out in a pub with
a guy who admitted
that he was out of the loop for 20 years while working for the CIA. Doesn't
Wonderful. A Family of Man photo.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:02 AM
To: futurework
Subject: [Futurework] Picture juxtaposing tradition, advanced
technology, and [benign] law enforcement
From today's
The man in black may be thinking that this is just one more technology
leading humanity down a slippery slope.
Thanx for your stereotyping Sr. Salvador.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: Salvador R. Sánchez Gutiérrez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:57 PM
To:
A friend of mine used to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
He called the latter one 'the permanent kind'.
Bill
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:51:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss)
writes:
http://www.iworkwithfools.com/index.php?itemid=74catid=2
Working With Idiots Can Kill
Better find a third way. But we don't seem to be able to imagine one here
so why should we expect politicians to?
REH
- Original Message -
From: Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 6:59 AM
Subject: [Futurework] Between a rock and a hard
Yes you did. You also wrote a nice thing about novelty and the human
spirit.
REH
- Original Message -
From: Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:00 AM
Subject: [Futurework] The real target of the war in Iraq was Saudi Arabia
It
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Harlan Cleveland most recently author of No One in Charge calls for less
government but more governance.
[snip]
Is this something like hoping for less oversights by
oversight committees?
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they
In response to The Wizard of Oz problem, where I had written:
Those who oppose currencies being exchangeable into gold fall into two
fallacies. Firstly, they assume that the supply of gold, being fixed, must
also necessarily fix its value. Secondly, they don't appreciate that
currency started
Karen,
Here is an interesting link re military spending and the economy:
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/miller2001_awl/medialib/download/ect/ect12b.html
Bill
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 08:09:44 -0700 "Karen Watters Cole" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Reuters: Defense
PROPHETOFPUBLICADMINISTRATION.doc
Attached is more on Harlan Cleveland and some of his interesting and
prescient views on governance, government and public administration.
PROPHETOFPUBLICADMINISTRATION.doc
Description: MS-Word document
As for central government superiority so was George Washington.Check out
his response to the Whiskey Rebellion. There is a balance here Keith.
Vermont and New Hampshire are societies where the rich folks from out of
state play while alcoholism is high as is incest in the out of city local
I believe its called The Party Line.
-Original Message-
From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; Stephen Straker
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Futurework] The Paroah Syndrome
This kind of thing gets even worse
I posted a cluster chart on Iraq before the war to the list when I put it
together for my family. The implications were in the chart. I don't know
why a music publisher from England and a voice teacher in New York could see
it but the rest could not. Could it be they weren't looking?Or
My former boss at the Science Council was the head of the Canadian
Meteoroligical Service. Many years ago he predicted perturbations in the
weather. Records would be broken both up and down, rainfall, snowfall and
freezing rain. He said that major changes in systems are preceded by
oscillations
I am glad to see the issue of community brought up again, and agree that it
is changing by definition.
There are many indications that a renewed sense of community is indeed
emerging, both in economic and social terms, that is, both in infrastructure
like towns built for greater not less human
Keith Hudson wrote:
Senile decay, I guess.
Rather, Freudian slip. Your subconscious wanted Harry to read your complaint.
;-)
Chris
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Reuters: Defense Spending Driving US Economy @ http://reuters.com/financeNewsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNewsstoryID=3196574
National Priorities Project @ http://www.nationalpriorities.org/
NYT: Senators Assail Pentagon Aide for lack
of postwar details @
I think you have to distinguish between conditions and problems. Fools are
a condition. Just take a deep breath and let things go.
Road rage arises from internalizing and reacting to the driving habits of
others. Choose your driving style and stick to it and avoid (or tolerate)
foolish
Since Keith has been reading the Financial Times all the time, is it any
wonder that he comes to the same conclusions as the FT ? G
No big clairvoyance required...
But that doesn't mean KH/FT is right... What about the long-term plans
(since long before 9/11) of the Free Trade fundamentalists
There's gold in a lot of places, but as you
suggest, its difficult to get at. For example there is
Gold in many minerals including Sphalerite the principle zinc
mineral. A beautiful golden black stone, you can see the gold but it
takes an extreme smelting process to get much out of it.
Sounds
like a "gated community"fashionable these days in many parts of the
US.
-Original Message-From: Karen Watters Cole
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:00
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:
[Futurework] Sharon's Wall
THE
STRATFOR WEEKLY:
Harlan Cleveland most recently author of No One in Charge calls for less
government but more governance.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: Karen Watters Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL
Keith, thanks for posting this.
The real test of our greatness and maturity as liberalized, democratic
nations will be whether we choose to know the truth and deal with the
consequences, or be like sheep and led astray.
History tells us that we will know the truth, eventually or quickly. Spin
It amazes me just how long it is taking the penny to drop. The following
(except for the penultimate paragraph) is much the same as I was writing to
FW roughly this time last year when it became apparent that, whatever the
UN or anybody else said, the US were going to invade Iraq.
KH
The
Just to let you all know what we are doing over
hereon Turtle Island.
Ray Evans Harrell
- Original Message -
From: Ray Evans Harrell
To: Robinson McClellan ; Bigar, Silvie ; Bilfield ,
Jennifer ; Bradskey, Teresa ; Brooks , Martin ; Castaldi, Peter ; Dunn, Darcy ;
Fran Richard
Here's an article from today's NYTimes from MIT that basically says what
Harry has been saying about Nuclear power's potential to cure the energy crisis
for a time.
REH
August 14, 2003OP-ED
CONTRIBUTOR
Nuclear Power Can WorkBy JOHN DEUTCH and ERNEST
MONIZ
AMBRIDGE,
Common media joke about Bill Clinton:
What is the difference between George Washington, Richard Nixon, and Bill
Clinton?
Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Clinton
doesn't know the difference.
The Presidential Infidelity Quiz
1. Which president smoked
KH wrote:
it is a status good to have an urban area to call downtown, even
if your city is only 25 or 30 years old and, for all practical intents and
purposes, a suburb. In America, why go patronize someone else's run-down
far-away urban core when you can build one in your own back yard?
What is very interesting about the focus on community is that the demise
of the federal and state control over the economy as a result of
Globalization is the resurgence of the Greek City State model in the US.
The lack of tax collection by the states from Internet sales means that
products move
Brad McCormick wrote:
Quoting Christoph Reuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
...obviously quoting Luciana Bohne. I thought I'd better quote it from the
horse's mouth, so Ray and Lawry can't accuse me of being too far away to
make a correct assessment.
Just to clarify: You aren't implying that the
So far, I have tended to concentrate on status and on hardware Status
Goods. Many other aspects of our culture are, of course, permeated by
status -- the arts, fashions, politics, etc -- even scientific hierarchies!
-- but there is no reason why we shouldn't consider what could be called
We are into a mail loop that is likely not to end.
Life is not about a or b. Life is about a and b.
I agree with some of Sharon's actions, some of Bush's actions, even some of
Clinton's actions.
arthur
-Original Message-
From: William B Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday,
As I sit typing this -- even at 6.00am in the morning -- the sweltering
heat is building up even now and my fingers are sweating. Yesterday,
England recorded the highest temperature for 130 years -- ever since
records began, in fact. We are certainly going through an extremely warm
period, and
Below are the
first and then the last three paragraphs of a commentary written by the editor
of National Review. The whole
piece is worth the brief read.
The question I
have is if the President keeps his distance on this issue and leaves it to the
Courts, why did he speak up and take
From today's NYT:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~lcp/segway.jpg
It somehow seems evocative to me Enjoy!
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
Karen and all,
The popularity of Bush administration news prompts that I urge
you to subscribe to Larry Morningstar's website. He seems to
pick up a lot of these stories ahead of the New York Times or
the Washington Post, for example. He is a columnist for a few of
larger publications, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe its called The Party Line.
-Original Message-
From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:02 PM
To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; Stephen Straker
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Futurework] The Paroah Syndrome
This kind of
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