RE: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline

2015-07-22 Thread Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson
I find it interesting to view this entire process as an interesting game in how humans go about redistributing units of wealth across the planet. The entire process, the mechanisms currently installed to initiate “wealth distribution” has become so incredibly convoluted and obfuscated

Re: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline

2015-07-22 Thread James Bowery
The original libertarians in the US -- the 1800s frontier libertarians like Lysander Spooner, understood legitimate government as a mutual insurance company. An insurance company operating as government would charge an insurance premium for the protection of property rights. This is essentially

RE: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline

2015-07-22 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
...and as Robert A. Heinlein said: an insurance company is just a bookie-- let's call it what it is -- you make bets that something will go wrong. From: James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:19 AM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in

Re: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline

2015-07-22 Thread Lennart Thornros
I disagree with you that it is a zero sum game, Steven. development and inventions do create wealth and as a society we can decide if the wealth should be distributed and how to distribute it. Life is not fair. Some person might enter the software market and get hold of a rather antiquated program

[Vo]:PLEASE ACCEPT COMPLEXITY OF LENR!

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Gluck
See here why: http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2015/07/lenr-complexity-dispute-plus-some-info.html Some things cannot be changed but can be used well. Greetings, Peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

[Vo]:Coal Mining and more

2015-07-22 Thread Chris Zell
I continue to wonder about the pace of change and the fact that some change is nonlinear, even catastrophic - unlike slowly fading coal mines. Such as: 1) Any antiaging breakthrough that adds even a few years to common lifespan 2) Any 'free' energy or really cheap new source 3)

Re: [Vo]:Coal Mining and more

2015-07-22 Thread Ruby
Old stuff goes out slowly as obsolete technology is elevated to Art. The new stuff is released without thought or planning regarding the effects on society, and can storm through culture like a virus. Read Marshall McLuhan's War and Peace in the Global Village for more on this idea.

Re: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline

2015-07-22 Thread Ruby
We march backwards into the future. --Marshall McLuhan Ruby On 7/21/15 2:19 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated. - Wilfred Trotter

Re: [Vo]:Coal Mining and more

2015-07-22 Thread Lennart Thornros
I agree with you Chris. I believe the solution is: To think about it before - make a plan - act. If you hang back and just try to stop evolution it will be like the Russian revolution. A poor solution, did not solve anything and the end result is a new situation just as bad, which nobody deals

RE: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline

2015-07-22 Thread Chris Zell
The sheer zeal and thoroughness of GM’s effort to remove all traces of the EV1 from human consciousness tells us all we need to know about their feelings concerning profits and parts sales. They were forced – kicking and screaming – into improving car reliability by Japanese manufacturers –