On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Or would translating into modern language remove much of the magic of
Shakespeare, much like translating Catholic mass from latin to english
or moving the Hebrew prayers into english. Seems to
at something more profound,
they do attract whackos, and some of the web pages out there
reflect that, but there are a few solid sites, as well.
-Pete Vincent
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Have a look at the robotic teacher I'd like to hire from King's
College, London:
http
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete, I am an amatuer at all of this, and you have obviously read more
than I have. However, what I don't understand is why, if we had
essentially modern brains 160kya, did it take us 80,000 to 100,000 years
to demonstrate that we had
, and when we had developed a
distinct gracile phenotype, we appear to have displaced, rather
than absorbing into each other hominid type we encountered
as we spread south into africa and north into the rest of the
world, spreading our meager but potent genetic legacy.
-Pete Vincent
that the continued liberty of
bin Laden and Hussein are not so much due to their cleverness,
but rather the restraint of american agents tracking their locations,
who will only move at the politically opportune time in the weeks
before the election. Well, we'll see, I guess.
-Pete
(I'm sure you've seen
the stats correlating health with _relative_ income), and had
more prompt attention to any health issues they may have
confronted.
A real health care system must look after the whole population,
not just the upper sixty percent who can manage the premiums.
Pete,
None
issues they may have confronted.
A real health care system must look after the whole population, not
just the upper sixty percent who can manage the premiums.
-Pete
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present too many inconvenient implications to be
countenanced...
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I'm seeing posts from Harry via their responses, and apparently the
responders are getting them via cc's directly to their addresses,
but Harry's posts aren't showing up on the Futurework distribution,
again. Whatever was done to fix it last time needs to be done again.
-PV
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
Thank you for your information regarding the use of Titamium dioxide
catalysis of solar radiation capture.
What bothers me is that despite large sums being spent on solar cell
research, the likely conversion-efficiency
cheaply and in large enough
quantities to sustain a world-wide population on a continuing basis will
be by the use of bacteria, powered by sunlight.
When you suggested this last winter, I pointed out the work being
done with direct catalysis using TiO2 and sunlight:
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, pete
Reading a few days behind, as usual...
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Karen Watters Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted:
VOTUM SEPARATUM - DISSENTING OPINION
Of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE'S) observers
mission from the OSCE/ODHIR Preliminary Report about the Presidential
Elections of
or 10 cents [US], not counting fits of Enron price gouging.
So I can make all the numbers work if I assume she meant 2 cents per kWhr
not $2, and she used an estimate of 1.2kW consumption over a 720 hour
month (864 kWhr per month).
-Pete Vincent
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
You say:
People have been wringing their hands about the profligate breeding
which has led to this situation for over forty years.
And:
Now, suddenly the message is getting through, and people are curbing
their fecundity
that time, I don't think
the situation will degrade enough to matter. I expect it will all work
out quite well.
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, apparently the majority of contemporary research
economists, are idiots.
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of comfort.
So, I would be greatly surprised if the result were otherwise.
Revolutionary thought has always been somewhat of a luxury,
everywhere. I can't think of a single revolutionary leader who
had a dirt poor background.
-Pete Vincent
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Subject: [Futurework] Re: [Futurework] FW: Spiritualität macht fr ei ?
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
I echo Selma - an excellent piece that I enjoyed.
[...]
This came in this morning from my eldest
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Selma Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The other is the distinction between mind and brain which, IMHO, has been
avoided, disdained on this list, because the idea of mind as something
separate from the brain's workings being held as akin to discussions
about 'soul'
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
I echo Selma - an excellent piece that I enjoyed.
(Here come the but.)
It didn't make the case against linear thinking. We can have a bunch of
linear thinking going on at the same time. A skilled mind can do a lot of
things
about
how this mechanism works, it should be clear that this
narrative is essentially propaganda, a convenient myth to
keep the individual from collapsing into an existential
chaos of fractured identity. In truth, the brain works
massively in parallel, and is not linear at all.
-Pete Vincent
I'm seeing several responses to Harry's posts over the last four or five
days, but the original posts are not showing up. Am I the only person
having this problem, and what other posts might I be missing?
-PV
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so exuberant it seems to flag about half my mail anyway). Ray
has confirmed not seeing your posts, is anyone actually seeing
them through FW? Well, now I've mentioned it, perhaps the tech
wizards at uwaterloo will be able to sort it out...
-Pete Vincent
On Mon
is
www.westcoastexpress.com, and the program was called brain train.
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required by the boundary population for communication
with the two outgroups.
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Got this today from Selma (I presume) with a 100k mail worm attached.
It seems able to get by our site's virus detector, but it only
affects microsoft machines, so it was no problem for me. That
will not be the case for many of you. Please note that the worm works
by hoping you will confuse .pif,
, 20 Aug 2003 15:30:06 -0700 (PDT)
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Futurework] New mail worm in .pif file - Re: That movie
Got this today from Selma (I presume) with a 100k mail worm attached.
It seems able to get by our site's virus detector, but it only
affects
.
-Pete Vincent
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getting within hailing distance of their true
masters.
Note to Ray: Beware those who are excessively creative. Somehow got
to dampen their enthusiasm.
arthur
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a ubiquitous and prolific species like lawn grass, with
THC or mescaline or... I wonder if anyone involved in suppression
of recreational psychochemicals has contemplated this scenario.
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Darryl and Natalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Calling the Pete Entity,
If you are talking to me, you can refer to me by my name, it's
really quite painless.
We can't seem to re-programme the wrap, using Outlook Express. If you
can enlighten us, great.
Sorry, I'm
? Thought is the
fastest energy possible, but being magnetically attracted (for lack of a
better analogy) to the brain's electrical energy, it gets a bit filtered
in time by our memory data.
I trust you realize that last sentence is just painfully content free.
-Pete Vincent
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a philosophical scaffolding for their
secular position. For the baby boom, that later in life is
happening now.
I'm afraid I have nothing to back up this notion beyond my
rather limited observations of society.
-Pete Vincent
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Pete, I believe I understand what you are saying, but doesn't
Gaia imply some form of direction and purposefulness? An item on the
James Lovelock website puts the matter this way:
James Lovelock argues that such things
As usual, Brad, I find we are right in tune on this subject... -PV
On Tue, 03 Jun 2003, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Selma Singer wrote:
If one argues that mind has an existence of its own, why does it then
follow that min is unfettered by physical laws?
[snip]
The way
selection operating on a macrosopic scale on populations.
You have to distinguish the hardnosed core Gaia Hypothesis from
the froth whipped up around it by the soft-of-thinking.
-Pete Vincent
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each case individually
and working out their interactions. It would seem the metatheory
implies a more extensive set of conclusions than you get from
treating its components as autonomous, but I don't know if they've
ever been articulated, let alone demonstrated.
-Pete Vincent
, and used awls to bore into
wood and bone. Which is not to say that the subsequent Aurignacian
toolkit of the european Hs was not substantially more elaborate
yet, but you slander the poor Neandertals, who never seem to
be able to get good press.
-Pete Vincent
high numbers of prey fish habitually feed.
...just trying to knock down a few bits of disinformation while
I'm at it...
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On Tue, 27 May 2003, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
Here's a different look at a Health Service. It's by someone who quotes
libertarians so is probably a libertarian.
He doesn't mention the $400 million necessary to get a new drug approved
by the FDA - something that stops small
no one home. This is a useful
distinction to introspect on, to explore the nature of the bare
essence of being, which is where one can apply one's attention to
pry open the secrets of the true nature of reality.
-Pete V
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action, I consider how it looks through the filter of the adage:
do I not destroy my enemies if I make them my friends?
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On Wed, 02 Apr 2003, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
This was police station operated by the Saddamites. Not really very
portable, but obviously if you are a true believer, a case of anthrax
isn't as portable as a police station made of stone.
If I had a mind to, I could conduct
On Wednesday, April 02, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted:
future of work???
THE HUMAN TOUCH WITH A VIRTUAL RECEPTIONIST
A virtual receptionist who can read the emotions of visitors and make the
appropriate verbal responses has been launched in Japan. According to the
Kyodo news agency, the
are constructing your analogy. If the vertical
axis is time, then everything of relevance is at the height of
the current time slice, and things below do nothing but reveal
history. As I don't really know how you mean your analogy to
work, I won't say more.
-Pete Vincent
eventually
assemble the necessary attention to achieve the little satori they need to
get it.
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On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incidentally, I think that the US should go along with the International
Court when it arraigns the bosses of Iraq and Korea - come to think of it
they would have a lot of business in Africa. (Leave China alone - they're
too big.)
carefully chosen as I've described, that the infinite nature
of the pattern, disappearing into the page in from of you,
becomes overwhelming.
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of magnitude.
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embarrassed to point it out...
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).
Not according to our African participant.
Pete, could your crippled food production be caused by something else -
say drought, or African politicians, or food aid?
Maybe inertia caused by adherence to traditions which have always
worked up until now, when epidemic is disrupting all systems
them suffer and die without treatment.
They'll be gone so much sooner, and then we'll have access to all
that land, that they never seemed to know how to put to proper use.
We need a fine follow up post here by Dean Swift. I'm too disgusted
to try.
-Pete Vincent
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, eric stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
i am not sold on high-tech energy extraction
it would seem to me that it takes a lot to make the items that process
the clean hydrogen
someone told me one time that there was a plan to press two similarly
charged magnets together and
player/recorder and monitor. I expect the recorder to be
rather like a specialized computer, with a whacking great hard drive
and a fancy ROM writer. It may cost a few bucks, but it should keep
me in good stead for the next 20 years or so of video technology.
-Pete Vincent
Tao Te Ching in an afternoon.
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Mike Hollinshead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
If you should remember anything that would allow me to track down the
source of this information, please let us know.
Yeah, I figured I should root about and see if I could find it.
Here's where I saw it, this is from
, and the
retreat of the glaciers continued. This may be because the
conveyor was probably not running during the ice age anyway,
or at least not in the configuration it has now.)
-Pete Vincent
(still trying to catch up from the weekend...)
preliminary, but offering the potential to make H2 production
about equal to the cost of water pure enough to not clog the
reaction surface. Well, I don't need to elaborate the implications
if this can be successfully freed from the lab.
-Pete Vincent
.
-Pete Vincent
or the prisons. Where ought the money come from to fix all
those problems in your best of all possible worlds?
-Pete Vincent
a picture of how the brave new world ahead will be
an improvement...
-Pete Vincent
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Karen Watters Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the feedback, Pete. Does this mean that the theory is
debunked
or just not entirely accurately described? Karen
Oh, simply the latter. It's just that the well-meaning but
somewhat obtuse reporter managed to obscure
undertaken by the cell,
a little heat tax is always deducted, not just in those dedicated
heat-producing activities undertaken by more efficient mitochondria.
-Pete Vincent
confidence in it by (financial industry) currency speculators that
keeps it ridiculously overvalued while the US trade deficit continues
to mount. It seems to me the dollar is riding a bubble long after
the market bubble has popped.
-Pete Vincent
On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete,
At 20:49 18/09/02 -0700, you wrote:
(PV)
Every dictator wants a mechanism to control the minds of the people via
their early youth. Wasn't it a Jesuit who said give me a child before
the age of seven The virtue of our
, with all this age and abuse, if it stays at wrist temperature,
it keeps time accurate to about eight seconds per year. And it tells
me the day of the week and the month. What more does one need?
-Pete Vincent (not immune to materialism
. They presumably contain
the necessary appeals to deep motivations which enabled them to
persist in hostile environments. Perhaps the same needs which keep
religions alive foster ethnocentricism and bigotry
-Pete Vincent
(I say, the proper way to approach the ultimate
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted:
`The
`MEME
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`HISTORY
`MTTH, Santayana and the War On Iraq
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`Back in the days before the Worldwide Web, the action on the Internet
`happened in newsgroups. There, people
if this is an indication of rampant diabetes, resulting from
excessive sugar in the diet. Would have been more appropriate if
it was a pop bottling plant...
-Pete V.
On Mon, 02 Sep 2002, Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a curious case of a man who has been found innocent even before he
goes on trial.
Curious indeed.
Kerim Chatty, who arrested by Swedish police as he attempted to board a
Ryanair with a handgun in his washbag, along with a
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: pete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I would say a third thing as well.How old is this that
limbic lobe?Is it found in Cro-Magnon skulls?
The limbic
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tsalagi is what Cherokee people call themselves.
Which begs the question, who was calling them Cherokee? Is this like
eskimo - a somewhat derisive Dene word for Inuit, if I remember,
though now at least the alaskan Inuit take no
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I would say a third thing as well.How old is this that limbic
lobe?Is it found in Cro-Magnon skulls?
The limbic system underlies the cortex. It is very ancient, and goes back
to reptiles. In psychobabble slang, a
, and playing the blue chips
for a relatively solid income is sort of a bonus.
I guess I'm not really answering your question exactly, but this
ought to give you some idea of how I look at it.
-Pete Vincent
a conservative mutual
fund), then you should ultimately get a return reflecting the
market's average trend.
-Pete Vincent
by the high rpm spin on their pronouncements to
extract what litle actual fact is buried under it.
-Pete Vincent
It ranks each country according to how seriously various
factors
are taken, including small government and low taxes, protection of private
property from
,
using a Socratic technique in an economic/political context, rather
than just coming out with what you really think. So I've risen to your
bait. Now what?
-Pete Vincent
be involved in getting them embroidered on all my shirt collars...
In a spirit of inscrutible whimsy, -Pete Vincent (!)
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Harry Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pete,
Look out, here comes the neo-sophist!
Attempting to understand the meaning of life may be great fun, but it has
no reward other than the act itself.
Absolutely. A criterion which characterizes all the best things in life
the most important and useful work you can do.
But that's just me...
-Pete Vincent
. There will be no secular conversion
epiphanies for these hordes. We will be afflicted by their remonstrations
'til the last one finally dies of old age, and as they appear to be
indoctrinating their young, that may be a long long time.
-Pete Vincent
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Subject: FW Test
The FW server was down Friday through Monday. This is to test whether it
is now up and running. FWers, please let me know if you receive
the existence of a raw frontier
beyond the colony would allow room for expansion, and thus a simple
19th century american frontier capitalism model could be used.
-Pete Vincent
be expressed for rash social behaviour. It may
be that this is an arena where engineering solutions to economic
issues will first be exersized, ideas which may be scalable to
our world.
-Pete Vincent
I thought I'd better sort this out, as the name dentalium rang a bell,
from Ed's post, and I'd been expecting Ray to correct or elaborate my
comments, and his description of purple shells obviously didn't jibe with
the west coast tubes. so, a quick web search on +dentalium +wampum
turned up a
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think that what Pete is describing in the following is wampum,
which, I'm pretty sure is associated with the Iroquoian people of the
upper St. Lawrence and eastern Great Lakes (e.g. Ontario, Quebec, New
York State, etc.).
I can't
to consider contact. If you had the choice, would
you let us out of the playpen, particularly when you can observe
us, and harvest any useful ideas we come up with, without us even
knowing?
-Pete Vincent
, was never documented in those texts...)
-Pete Vincent
knowing that consciousness is profound and
ineffable and resides beyond the reach of any computer geek's
hamfisted flailings. Life's a mystery, innit?
-Pete Vincent
the total amount
of credit money available in an economy, the total amount of interest
owing, the growth of the money supply, and the expectation of growth in
the total wealth of the economy, for the maintenance of health in a market
economy?-Pete Vincent
'
empowerment, drives a reduction in world population, then the last
refuge for this sort of economic sleight of hand will have been
eliminated, and (barring some unforseen saviour) the whole house of cards
must then collapse.
-Pete Vincent
However, the borrower will also have
of the experiment, everyone
wants the paper to be bulletproof when it finally appears.
-Pete Vincent
, highrises, bridges etc.
-Pete Vincent
due to manufacturing
cost. And wind and solar properties of land would be regarded as free
money, and be more likely to be exploited...
-Pete Vincent
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Keith Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Pete,
Just to extract one paragraph from yours.
At 14:24 27/02/02 -0800, you wrote:
(PV)
The current corporate culture is now so bereft of a sense of social
responsibility that an entire entity like Enron can be so corrupted
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss) wrote:
On the contrary, the EU would be crazy to follow Keith's advice, because
then the EU's domestic producers would sit on their products and need
even higher subsidies (or lay off workers which then cost unemployment
subsidies).
It
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