At 19:29 29/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
cut to ---
True imitation is extremely rare in animals other than humans, except
for birdsong and dolphin
vocalisation, suggesting that they can have few or no memes.
I'm not so sure about this. I once kept fantail doves. I'd built a dovecote
Hi Ed,
At 19:15 28/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
Cordell...
One way to get rid of the underground economy and control counterfeiting
is
to get rid of cash. With all transactions going through one charge card
or
the other it will be easy to track and easy to tax. In the US now
depositing large
For more on memes see the following:
Meme: Definition
But do we have to go to distant worlds to find other kinds of
replicator
and other, consequent, kinds of evolution? I think that a new kind of
replicator has recently emerged on this every planet. It is still in
Another take on memes:
Imitation and the definition of a meme
Abstract: The dictionary definition, and Dawkins's (1976) original conception
of the meme, both include the idea
that memes are copied from one person to another by imitation. We
therefore need to be clear what is
meant
Keith you said:
As I see it, governments will increasingly have to concentrate on the
taxation of property and visible goods -- as they did in the Middle Ages.
I don't get that. In an age of virtual knowledge imitating art you are
going to only tax property? Do you plan to tax patents
-From Brad McC
(snip,)
Example of the positive social
unconscious of permissions: In any competition,
there is a winner and there are
losers. Everybody consciously tries to
win. But the spirit of
competition grows stronger no matter who wins or loses.
Only when nobody shows up for the
To paraphrase Woody Allen who said most of life consists of just showing
up,
maybe the most profound social change will take place when people don't
show
up.
arthur
That is the reason for immigration. When the second and third generations
would refuse to work for garbage or tolerate a
Hi Ray,
Once again, I've taken the liberty of modifying Downturn . . .
Without wishing to be offensive because you're too nice a chap for all
that, but I don't at all understand what you're saying below.
Sorry!
Keith H
At 11:55 28/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
To paraphrase Woody Allen who said
with that kind of exchangability.
arthur
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Arthur,
Getting rid of cash would not eliminate
Hi Ray,
I've taken the liberty of modifying the Subject because so many sub-threads
have developed under Downturn . . .
At 02:45 28/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
Keith you said:
As I see it, governments will increasingly have to concentrate on the
taxation of property and visible goods -- as they
Cordell...
One way to get rid of the underground economy and control counterfeiting
is
to get rid of cash. With all transactions going through one charge card
or
the other it will be easy to track and easy to tax. In the US now
depositing large amounts of cash (I believe over 10, 000
From Cordell commenting on a posting by Brad McC
This is really at the heart of many issues. What if they had a war and no
one showed up. Stopping the virus of competition, or fashion, or one more
iteration of this or that product line is only stopped by people somehow
finding
Hi Ed,
At 17:35 26/05/01 -0400, you wrote:
Keith:
(KH)
But little bit by little bit I am becoming increasingly convinced that we
will see the emergence of a single universal currency. Whether this will
come about via some new grouping of large companies starting an
asset-backed bank
Peter Challen wrote:
Perhaps this beautiful rhetoric is pertinent to most
modern currencies as well as to the measurement of GNP
'Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children,
the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play.
[snip]
It measures everything
Hi Peter,
Your Robert Kennedy quote was a refreshing change from the usual stuff on
FW. It is beautiful all right, and is certainly rhetorical. But, really, it
won't do at all!
Please don't think I'm being captious, but pretty well all of the
sentiments and institutions mentioned came into
Hi Ed W:
I agree with you regarding the pervasiveness of the US $.
The one thing about a dominant currency (dominant money) is that nobody is
permitted to audit the collateral value that supposedly substantiates it.
Regarding absolute value, we have to keep in mind that money is not a value
However, this accidental birth of a new currency is less likely than a
proactive decision to start one. This is much easier to imagine. For
example, if, say, Microsoft, General Electric (the finance division
thereof), VISA, IBM, Citibank, WalMart and one or two more of the biggies
decided to
Tom Walker wrote:
brad,
Have you forgotten, then, the story of the O ring on the space shuttle
Challenger?
brad mccormick wrote,
Remember the Titanic.(I cannot conceive of any vital
. . .
Remember the Concorde. (Cheaper not to install wheel flaps
Keith Hudson wrote:
[snip]
The lofty sentiments of Robert Kennedy came from someone who was supported
by family wealth of dubious origin and who could afford the best research
assistants and speech writers. We're hearing much the same spin-doctor
stuff from Tony Blair, William Hague and
At 09:26 27/05/01 -0500, you wrote:
(KH)
However, this accidental birth of a new currency is less likely than a
proactive decision to start one. This is much easier to imagine. For
example, if, say, Microsoft, General Electric (the finance division
thereof), VISA, IBM, Citibank, WalMart and one
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