Re: [silk] Interesing Nonsense

the definition of hack was a spirit of harmless, creative fun. etc. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] a big step for linux?

to be crumbling slowly, and Apple has always (since the release of the original Macintosh in 1984, anyway) been way too fond of vertical monopoly for my tastes. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world

Re: [silk] How does one unregister from Hinduism?

with monotheistic religions is that they're *monotonous*. You're always running up against the edge of the tent, and then you're out in the desert with a pack of dogs on your heels. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love

[silk] no news is good news (was: Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan))

of my voice. It was not a productive time in my life, but it was a time of growth and experimentation. I vividly experienced what was going on around me. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world

Re: [silk] no news is good news

the waterfront, bald eagles dive for fish scraps from the canneries. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] no news is good news

product to every news outlet. The news has been carefully spun to direct your attention and keep you bringing your advertiser-valuable eyes back for more. Mass media news works best for me in small doses. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

(The Dollmaker might just be the most intense book I've ever read), and Thomas Hardy (Return of the Native). -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

The Kite Runner was depressing too, but in a different way. I really wish I hadn't read Life of Pi. Ugh ugh ugh. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

as well, and sitting next to him on the shelf, Robin McKinley. Very different, but another author people seem to love or hate. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

formula -- high adventure, suspense, drama, emotional scenes, and lots and lots of unresolved sexual tension. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] The Rock Album as Science Fiction

never exist but that nonetheless shows us a direction that we ought to think hard about before abandoning. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Techno-literacy and its implications

*to* them; it's always been done *by* them. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Techno-literacy and its implications

. Homeschooling is a return to our primate roots, to the way humans have always reared their young in the heart of the family and the community. It makes sense in all sorts of ways. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change

Re: [silk] Techno-literacy and its implications

-- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] test

across where a test message turns into a thread. What does this say about the list, Udhay? ;-) Surely not. All quality lists turn test posts into threads. Udhay has broken test post rule 1, however list test post rule 1: all test posts must contain a really bad haiku -- Heather Madrone (heat

Re: [silk] test

, it wouldn't be 5-7-5, and yes, it would have juxtaposition and a seasonal reference and all that. But the kind of haiku you find in test posts are pretty much 5-7-5 doggerel. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change

Re: [silk] The subaltern studies collective?

that reality demands of the hard ones. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Antimatter

. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

and yourself who didn't show up. But yes, very good question: where are the women? Udhay ~ Starting on page 3, there are two women pictured, one rather more than the other. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change

Re: [silk] nettime US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

of this was probably real, but a number of statisticians believe it to be exaggerated). -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

by the acronym SLYT, which certainly sounds like it ought to be dirty but in fact stands for Single Link YouTube.] -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

if they were doing something where they couldn't wear them. I kept glasses cases in the car for a similar purpose. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

can you tell whether your new lenses _are_ anti-glare, scratch resistant and what-not? -- b ~ After your children test-drive a few pairs, you can tell. :) -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

. And some of us were just born cool. We can't help it -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

and Islam as being far better managers of larger numbers of people over longer periods of time than any previous organization. I think that Ancient Egypt still holds the longevity record: http://tenthletter.com/Timeline.htm -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

of very many things to put there. What's on *your* bucket list? Udhay ~ I am fully intending to dance at my 130th birthday party. You are all invited. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

read about it. The technological singularity seems like pure science fiction to me, with a lot of wishful thinking standing in for evidence. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.madrone.com http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give

Re: [silk] fuel from grass

if there is a promise to cultivate 2 acres of food crops for every acre of biofuel. Cheeni ~ Or if they use the non-edible parts of food crops to make the biofuel. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

, and increased sugar consumption is a very likely culprit. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

, there is sense in the age-old endearments of sugar, honey...in every language and culture I know of, to be sweet is to be something good. So...I will stick with sugar...in small amounts, as well as fruits and honey. I think “in small amounts” is the operative phrase here. -- Heather Madrone (heat

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

worldwide. There are lots of abstracts but you can't get at the data unless you go behind a pay wall. There's quite a bit of evidence that refined sweetener use is rising worldwide, partly due to increased consumption of soft drinks. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http

Re: [silk] Is sugar toxic?

On 4/20/11 12:46 PM April 20, 2011, Radhika, Y. wrote: welcome to your unAmerican life! Thank you. Growing up in the time and place I did, I've never felt like an American, anyway. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world

Re: [silk] Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?

rusts the body from the inside out. We should all go into cryogenic suspension until they figure this health stuff out. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?

On 4/22/11 10:23 AM April 22, 2011, Aadisht Khanna wrote: On 22-04-2011 21:15, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 08:41:23AM -0700, Heather Madrone wrote: Oh, and for some reason people are down on this whole euthanasia thing. Beats me. I'm not sure about the usage of your

Re: [silk] fish^N

This whole thread seems a little fishy to me. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] (no subject)

, or thread drift. Nothing, said masterfully enough, is often an appropriate response. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me access to the source code.

Re: [silk] How can we call him Sachin?

On 6/27/11 9:14 PM June 27, 2011, ss wrote: Lighten up people Sheryl Crow - Soak up the Sun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ivz7cqXHKc shiv Oh, if you're going to be listening to Sheryl Crow, you really need to listen to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FseuxxcTlvA -- Heather

Re: [silk] thunderbird conversation view

is something that I still need to get used to. I've used the vertical view layout for a while and I like it, especially after customizing the message header columns. The default column ordering was definitely not useful for me. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

with each other as to whether they are secular enough or not. This is definitely true in the US as well, and might also be true in Canada. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

On 8/4/11 7:18 PM August 4, 2011, ss wrote: What is a secular democracy? How would a non secular democracy work? Does anyone have any examples of a non secular democracy? Israel. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Work like you don't need the money

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

a different matter where religious views seek to seriously limit the rights of individuals or require specific religious observances on the parts of individuals. In those cases, religion and secularism are opponents. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Work like

Re: [silk] some notes on frugality

liquid flowing through the pipes to keep the shit moving on down the line. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love

Re: [silk] Speed of light broken?

looking forward to the day they repeal the 2nd law of thermodynamics. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. - Martin

Re: [silk] Speed of light broken?

Ursula Leguin's The Dispossessed. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. - Martin Luther King

Re: [silk] Speed of light broken?

that deep property, whatever it is. I realize this is worth what you paid for it. :D -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love

Re: [silk] Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - New Scientist - New Scientist

to the possibility that there is real, meaningful work for you to do here. Wake up. This is your life. There are no dress rehearsals. If you're not living the life you want to live, you still have time to change things. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power

Re: [silk] Query on Indian-made wines

feeling for champagne is somewhat different from my feeling for other wines. I truly enjoy a fine champagne, and am quite willing to pay the price for it the next day. Once or twice a year, anyway.) -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its

Re: [silk] Niall Ferguson v Pankaj Mishra: battle of the historians

somewhere in the sticks? I have heard that it was the result of an influx of precious metals from the New World, which increased the money supply and allowed the European economy to boom. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love

Re: [silk] What is the greatest human invention?

. The scientific method is about extending mathematical reasoning beyond syllogisms. Going from induction to deduction. Again an entirely new way of thinking rigorously about the world. I'm fairly certain we're not the only animals capable of deductive reasoning, either. -- Heather Madrone

Re: [silk] What is the greatest human invention?

understand. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. - Martin Luther King

Re: [silk] aqvavit

it very difficult to format interpolated text correctly. It omits vertical spacing that I've added and seems to randomly wrap lines. This is pushing me in the direction of top-posting. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting

from Eudora), and it is exactly this sort of hidden formatting/unexpected behaviour that leads me to top post instead of properly interleaving text. I am not interested in moving onto Gmail or the cloud. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting

with a completely undelimited block of text. This message has not been approved by the Thunderbird team. It looks fine right now, but I imagine that Thunderbird will screw it up at least once in translation. WYSINWYG. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its

Re: [silk] Fwd: Life and Love in Bangalore

, but it so quickly became the norm that it's hard, now, to move in the other direction. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands

Re: [silk] English expressions that irritate me

. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. - Martin Luther King

Re: [silk] Whose morality is being protected?

On 4/30/12 9:05 PM April 30, 2012, Deepak Shenoy wrote: An immortal quote by Joy-da - Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. G.K. Chesterton from “Orthodoxy,” perhaps? -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love

Re: [silk] Just So Stories

class when a classmate was ordered to read it aloud and he read: And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch Sloth and Heather's Folly Bring all your hope to nought. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love

Re: [silk] LOTR and Ayn Rand

they encountered on the war, much as WWI veterans died slowly due to gas exposure and other aftereffects of trench warfare. So, for me, _The Lord of the Rings_ is mostly interesting because of what it reveals about the interior experience of early industrial warfare. -- Heather Madrone (heat

Re: [silk] LOTR and Ayn Rand

wished they all could be California girls? -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. - Martin Luther King

Re: [silk] LOTR and Ayn Rand

On 8/9/12 7:19 AM August 9, 2012, John Sundman wrote: As to Rick and what's-his-name in Casablanca, sure, Rick has slightly higher rank. But it's not as if he's a royal or Mitt Romney or something. Humphrey Bogart was extremely good at acting entitled, however. -- Heather Madrone (heat

Re: [silk] quiz help

Civil War than I am with the Cromwells and Charleses and Jameses and Roundheads and others who figured in it. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting

Re: [silk] Top-posting

@ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all

Re: [silk] Any pet-hate subjects? ...why is Mathematics so frequently hated?

son's grade up. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com Live sweetly in bitter times.

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

in part because you believe you can do it. If it doesn't work, the right attitude can help you keep trying different things until you hit on something that does work instead of giving up when you hit the first snag. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] A radical new teaching method?

not simply lay eggs and slither off into the sunset. We teach our children to become adult human beings by spending lots of time with them helping them learn everything they need to do to become successful adults. -- Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.sunsplinter.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] and your bird can sing

Beautiful post, Shiv. I don't know if I agree with your interpretation of the Beatles song, but I enjoyed reading your thoughts on it anyway. --hmm

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

I'm addressing some of the links Suresh forwarded to the list. Bennett: If we’ve learned anything at all about from the history of Internet-as-utility, it’s that this strained analogy only applies in cases where there is no existing infrastructure, and probably ends best when a

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Having, in India, started off with an internet which was exclusively a government monopoly and only turned over to private enterprise some years down the line, I would say that making it a utility is something that most people here, given the local conditions,

Re: [silk] Fwd: [IP] Re The internet is fucked

Shortly after my last post on this topic, I spent some time reading the notices on the bulletin board outside the market in our little mountain town. One of them asked if people in remote mountain areas are tired of slow dial-up Internet speeds. The county has set up a Line Extension Fund to

Re: [silk] Fwd: Question from the Washington Post

SS wrote: Surely US immigration policies should allow in 100,000 of the poorest, illiterate low caste Indians every year so that they can taste freedom and opportunity in the land of milk and honey? BWHAHAHAHAHA! Pull the other one. It's got bells on. --hmm

Re: [silk] Fwd: Question from the Washington Post

John Sundman wrote: This country now spits on people like those who came here in the condition of my forebears and built the damn place. It spit on them then, too. Probably more literally than today. I wonder how many truly poor people ever emigrated to the Americas. Aside from those who

Re: [silk] What You Learn in Your 40s

with grace and loving support. Many religious communities are also involved in various worthy projects to which we can contribute. -- In appreciation, Heather Madrone (heat...@madrone.com) http://www.friend-in-need.blogspot.com Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.

Re: [silk] A woman's reaction to England's world cup knock-out

Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: On 01/07/14 14:52, SS wrote: The increase of domestic violence during football seasons has a serious impact on police forces as it pulls officers off of their other duties to deal with the domestic violence calls. Who cares about the damage to abused spouses

Re: [silk] Any thoughts on the subject?

Srini RamaKrishnan mailto:che...@gmail.com July 1, 2014 at 9:36 AM July 1, 2014 Truly salvation lies within. Or it could be that salvation is just another pretty fairy tale that human beings use to paper over death. Perhaps there is nothing to be saved from, no true enlightenment, no great

Re: [silk] Any thoughts on the subject?

Srini RamaKrishnan mailto:che...@gmail.com July 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM July 12, 2014 All reality is mental perception. We each believe that which is true for us in that moment. I am familiar with that idea. There is an area where it's a terrific operational strategy. The edges of that area are

Re: [silk] Any thoughts on the subject?

SS wrote: No. I was joking. What? You've been trolling? Am I the only person on this mailing list who didn't know that? --hmm

Re: [silk] Any thoughts on the subject?

And, because this particular discussion reminded me, here are the Last Rites of Bokononism as transmitted by Kurt Vonnegut: God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, “Sit up!” “See all I’ve made,” said God, “the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.” And I was some of the

Re: [silk] The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After, 30 Years Later

I am watching this thread with fascination. My husband and I will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of our non-arranged marriage in December. There have been times when I have thought we married for all the wrong reasons and lucked into compatibility in areas that weren't on the radar.

Re: [silk] The Moral Molecule

Charles Haynes wrote: The physiology of oxytocin (and to a lesser degree vasopressin) are really fascinating. Indeed. A cautionary note. I know at least one person who's tried intranasal oxytocin as a treatment for attachment issues (short of a formal diagnosis of attachment disorder) but

Re: [silk] Long Now's Manual for Civilization Lists

Selection bias cuts a number of ways. While there are a lot of thoughtful selection in the lists I skimmed, there was a notable bias towards traditionally male skills. I saw one book on sewing and none on spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, or felting. I saw nothing on education, childcare,

[silk] moving past the religious straw man

or integrating God into a mind informed by science When I see an article like the one sent by Udhay a few days ago, I sigh and think that the author has never really thought much about God and religion. I settle back and read a series of knee-jerk reactions to the more absurd religious

Re: [silk] The Real Existential Threat

Reductionism rules! Udhay Shankar N mailto:ud...@pobox.com October 13, 2014 at 9:08 PM October 13, 2014 As far as it goes, absolutely true (IMO). I'm interested in conflicting opinions, however. Udhay http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2014/10/the-real-existential-threat.html

Re: [silk] The least random number

Chris Kantarjiev wrote: On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 5:45:42 PM Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: So when did you join silklist, and how did you hear about it? You have only yourself to blame for my membership, Udhay :-) That's true for me as well. --hmm

[silk] chips on our shoulders and bells on our toes (was: Renaming Aurangzeb Road)

Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: If you believe you have answers for everything When I was younger, I had answers for everything. I've come to believe, though, that questions are far more important than answers, especially if you want to have a discussion rather than giving a lecture. This and

Re: [silk] Not quite your dad's cup of tea

Udhay Shankar N wrote: Interesting thing I just noticed. I upgraded my water filter to an RO based system. The water tastes different, which is understandable. The tea made with it tastes different, which is also understandable. But the tea *looks* different. The liquor is lighter and more

Re: [silk] Not quite your dad's cup of tea

Charles Haynes wrote: I believe water treated with reverse osmosis may be better for you especially if the local water is suspect or hard and at worst does no harm. I think any concerns come from the realm of magical thinking. "It's a process I don't understand and it seems like magic. Maybe it

Re: [silk] Cable Cars - A viable urban rapid transport system?

Thaths wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:33 AM Heather Madrone<heat...@madrone.com> wrote: Thaths wrote: True, but I would not classify it as Mass or Rapid. Can you imagine a cable car system being able to deal with the NJ-NY traffic? Cable cars might replace some of the local s

Re: [silk] Cable Cars - A viable urban rapid transport system?

Thaths wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:42 AM Jude Britto wrote: I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but NYC has a working cable car system connecting Manhattan to Roosevelt island. The cars can apparently take 110 people, but they make only 115 trips a day.

Re: [silk] Eating Millet

Thank you and everyone else who shared millet recipes. I like millet, but rarely eat it because it doesn't fit into my meal plans. During this thread, I thought millet might make a good polenta, and found this recipe: http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-cards/t--3442/millet-polenta.asp I soak

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

Shyam Sunder wrote: "maintaining my serenity was critical to being a good mother" That sounds very profound, but I don't think I understood. Heather, could you please say more? To quote someone who said it better: Mothers are endless wells of stuff. Mothers are called upon to provide for

Re: [silk] In praise of slowness

Shyam Sunder wrote: Their family perhaps doesn't want them hanging around all the time. As in Sara Yogev's _For Better or for Worse, But Not for Lunch_? You make an excellent argument, Shyam, that a person should know what they intend to do with their time when they slow down. I switched

Re: [silk] Bump in the road, or end of the road?

Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: On 19/10/16 06:50, Bhaskar Dasgupta wrote: only issue is, how much will you get paid to just walk around? If we want to take an example, see the wages of waiters…without minimum wage floors, its impossible to survive. flip side, who will pay for it? the average joe or

Re: [silk] Hackers as political animals

Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biella Coleman (one of our list.lurkers) is uniquely qualified to write about the anthropology of the hacking underground. In her current paper, she asks an interesting question: why are hackers/crackers so much more political than people in other lines of work? Thoughts?

Re: [silk] Searching in google is a result of prior synapse - true or false ?

false Vasanth Kamath wrote: Id be glad to rephrase the question On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 at 22:53, Madhu Menon wrote: We're doing exam questions on Silk now?

Re: [silk] Kids and porn

Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: I probably sound like a porn apologist... I'm not. I think the idea of consenting adults sharing pictures/videos of themselves shagging, or factual or fictional written accounts, etc, for their own or their recipient's titilation or for money, is perfectly fine and even

Re: [silk] What's your primary computing device?

Udhay Shankar N wrote: As in, what do you spend the most time doing serious work/play on? For any definition of 'work' or 'play' that appeals to you? Since I broke my foot, I've done almost everything on my iPad. For the first 6 weeks, I could only sit at my desk for 20-30 minutes at a

Re: [silk] Kids and porn

Charles Haynes wrote: Given that "porn addiction" isn't any kind of scientific thing I would be extremely surprised at any scientifix studies at all linking it to anything. There have certainly been studies that link porn viewing/consumption to various minor ills, so I suppose you are

Re: [silk] Bangladesh, Nepal, and the UN

Vinayak Hegde wrote: "" Yet here’s the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe. "" I read similar quotes in English literature circa 1912. --hmm

Re: [silk] How many phone numbers do you remember?

I more recognize numbers these days than remember them, although I could probably manage most family members' numbers, and likely my own. Addresses are going too, as I increasingly delegate navigation to my phone. I'm trying to do less of that, although I do find it extremely helpful to have

Re: [silk] Building intelligent machines with casual reasoning

Charles Haynes wrote on 8/22/18 2:00 AM August 22, 2018: Pearl has been spruiking his causality formalisms for years, but they don't seem to have caught on despite widespread dissemiy of the ideas. I've read them and my reaction was "hm, interesting" rather than "oh! I see how this could be

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