f
water. I wonder what the correct number is...
-Pete Vincent
measured
consideration of the options.
.Just to put this discussion in appropriate perspective. :^)
-Pete Vincent
be a clear demonstration that
they are no damn good. To see an example, check out the International
Futures model which I believe can still be found at IFS.org.
-Pete Vincent
have the money and power necessary to change the system
are by that same criterion those with the greatest vested interest in
keeping things the way they are".
-Pete Vincent
em to live just comfortably without ever having to
work. That is a more relevant comparison for people who will have
a modest but secure income and freedom from financial worries.
It is possible that such security will lead to increased birth rate.
-Pete Vincent
as one might want to represent the variations in behaviour of the
market players in the laboratory economic universe. A robust model
might have a few hundred thousand such automata, and still be able
to provide useful experimental data before lunch.
-Pete Vincent
ing a multilateral environmental agreement. Coming soon: a
whole planet of stripmall hell.
-Pete Vincent
ound
65-70% that of gas, but You're still burning carbon, and you've
got to end up with CO2.
-Pete Vincent
Michael Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Um, this is straying kinda far off topic, but when Pete Vincent wrote:
As to "cellulosic biomass", that is protein,...
I hope you were making a thinko/typo. I suppose any aggregate biomass
contains some protein but cellulose is a poly
tic
choice, negotiation and compromise. I see it as part of the continual
advancement of the "goalposts" of civilized behaviour. As peace
becomes more widespread in the world, expectations of peaceful
behaviour become stronger.
-Pete Vincent
?
For a clue visit:
http://www.dynamist.com/
Sorry, I see nothing there but a new skin for the old ceremony.
"Douglas P. Wilson" wrote:
Thanks very much for your comments, Pete. You've done wonders for my
morale.
Good! And I liked your social technology page.
Bob
et
o an equitable share of the earth's resources with an understanding
of their responsibilities in maintaining the health of a fragile
and vulnerable ecosystem; where hope, art and intellectual freedom
can thrive. Easy for me to say, eh?
-Pete Vincent
megacities, with a resultant improvement
in social conditions. Communication technology will remain cheap,
and I expect there will emerge a high tech global village culture.
-Pete Vincent
rsion lead to
nothing but resistance, rebellion, and lots more bad karma down the line.
You have provided nothing to support your position.
-Pete Vincent
gine. Are you saying that the
speculators are playing with their own vast private fortunes?
Seems beyond credibility to me.
-Pete Vincent
ith-background-choir recording, and subsequent
National Lampoon parody recording, which started out
Go placidly amidst the noise and waste, and remember what peace there
may be in owning a piece thereof... ]
(just to clarify)
-Pete Vincent
it
on some newsgroups or you can visit the web site and read all
the postings to the list.
Does anyone have the names of the newsgroups where the MAI is being
discussed? I'd like to sample the flavour of the usenet discussion.
-Pete Vincent
don't
actually read this list, only post to it as a means of increasing the
readership of your views. I don't think that is appropriate use of
this forum.
-Pete Vincent
by multinational
corporate investors, I would regard that as an almost unassailable
argument for its adoption.
-Pete Vincent
is working without it becoming
the worst sort of commission/piecework employment system? These
are the usual alternatives to wage labour, and are usually associated with
sweatshops, or "boiler rooms", and fearsome exploitation.
-Pete Vincent
rs
building stubbornly clinging to life into the late seventies, and
diehard adherents preaching the virtues of expertocracy, voices
in the wilderness as isolated as the maoists and trotskyists,
probably even moreso. Theirs was an idea whose time clearly hadn't
yet come.
-Pete Vincent
. Now, it is $45cdn for an electronic entry, and $75 if it
requires an installer visit. As inflation has been almost nonexistent
during this period, these are real cost increases.
-Pete Vincent
e, insecure children, and one of poised and confident
adults.
-Pete Vincent
xample at the moment.
-Pete Vincent
, and then it will only affect DOS + Win xx
machines. If you have a mail reader which automatically runs .exe files
extracted as mail attachments, you should dig through the program's
configuration and disable this feature, as it is just begging for trouble.
-Pete Vincent
invaluable.
-Pete Vincent
ound a bit,
and found another site for the IFS simulation, at
demos.ps.arizona.edu/ifs/index.html
Hope to have more time to pursue this discussion next week.
-Pete vincent
er trials. Seems to
me a good simulation would not be valuable, it would be priceless.
-Pete Vincent
Caspar Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted:
From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Sender: papadop@kira
Subject: INVESTOR's newspaper glows about Pinochet
This may only be a published opinion, not the publication's
The author is --
Paul Craig Roberts .. the John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute
propagated "virus" would not be
worthy of comment, as it would be felt that anyone stupid enough to
open an executable from an unknown source shouldn't be operating a
computer, and deserved whatever resulted - sort of technological
darwinism.
-Pete Vincent
(tidying up the formatting a bit)
Michael Gurstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted:
From: Jim Peers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skilled talent leaving Canada,
Swiss study finds
High taxes blamed: Canada ranks 36th for ability to
retain
personnel who take the hit when the gas wars move
prices into the red. The oil companies and the various gov'ts are
all guaranteed their cut.
-Pete Vincent
mering out what those changes will be, and
accumulating the political will to implement them.
-Pete Vincent
oblem, but 25% and 80% are
two completely different levels of disaster.)
-Pete Vincent
seducation?
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com
-Pete Vincent
ct to vote by the UN. At present, the system is analogous to
a country whose trade ministry is unaccountable to parliament.
-Pete Vincent
d
reading-comprehension challenged.
-Pete Vincent
.
-Pete Vincent
re. Should we regard this as the moment when democracy
finally died in the US? Long live the Monetocracy.
-Pete Vincent
r breed some more so
at least some of my offspring will make it through...
-Pete Vincent
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