My wife is an International Student advisor. INS has dumped a major
workload on them. They also have to keep track of where students are.
When I was a student, not even the teachers knew where I was.
What is funny re the quote below:
Moore's Law will save us from social change: The
processing
speed of computers will increase faster than
the amount of clerical work to be done.
is that INS is receiving 30,000 address changes A DAY from those with
VISAs. Staff have simply given up.
Bill Ward
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:08:09 -0400 "Brad McCormick, Ed.D."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Harry wrote,
> >
> > Arthur,
> >
> > You are probably too right about this.
> >
> > From where outside will succor come?
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > Arthur replies,
> >
> > Harry,
> >
> > I think that much of the conversation that has taken place on FW
> over the
> > years has the makings of what the change will be like.
> >
> > Shortened work weeks
>
> Lengthened workweeks except for the growing industrial reserve
> army.
>
> > Telework
>
> In people's "off hours".
>
> > Local Currencies
>
> Scrip (company IOUs that are worthless if you try to
> leave)
>
> > Self employment
>
> Every man for himself
>
> > Guaranteed Annual Income/Basic Economic Security
>
> In Germany and France
>
> > New forms of taxation
>
> (You got me on this one.)
>
> > Georgist initiatives
>
> Bushido
>
> > Better training and broadened education
>
> A return to indentured servitude for most students
>
> > Worker engagement (perhaps through direct ownership)
>
> Bad attitude will be punished by immediate termination
>
> > Strengthened and enlightened unions
>
> Where? In Norway?
>
> > Full cost accounting (to avoid pollution)
>
> The accounting industry is looking for
> unexploited markets
>
> > Energy friendly production and consumption
>
> Enron redux! (Cheney to the rescue!)
>
> > A gradual move to sustainable growth
>
> Total elimination of capital gains and inheritance taxes
>
> > Re-regulation (which will be called "smart regulation")
>
> Stronger reins on union avtivity
>
> > Broadened governance to allow the inclusion of more
> voices/concerns
>
> Broadband
>
> > Valuing activities more broadly
>
> Monetarization of the underground economy.
>
> > New pricing mechanisms
>
> An end to anti-trust regulation
>
> > Treating workers as assets rather than costs which can be cut
>
> Above the Vice President level
>
> > Worker sabbaticals
>
> You'll have Sundays off unless your Sabbath falls
> on a different day (work 6 of 7).
>
> > etc.
>
> More of the same.
>
> >
> > In fact it is hard to imagine a novel idea that needs to be
> unearthed. The
> > ideas discussed on FW all have to be developed for impacts and
> implications.
> > And someday they will. Some amalgam of the above and some others
> that have
> > been discussed will come to pass.
>
> The living will envy the dead. (Sorry, this is supposed to be
> humorous)
>
> >
> > It will happen when there is a system break, either economic,
> political, or
> > environmental. In the rush to salvage the system there will be a
> sudden
> > appetite to listen to and implement these ideas. In much the same
> way that
> > Keynes was suddenly listened to during the 1930's.
>
> Moore's Law will save us from social change: The processing
> speed of computers will increase faster than
> the amount of clerical work to be done.
>
> >
> > So we are doing something on this list. We are presenting and
> discussing
> > new forms of organization appropriate to a new economy. Those who
> are
> > currently at the helm are content to play out all the options. At
> one point
> > while foundering on the shoals of reality they will cast about for
> new
> > options. On FW we have been discussing possible alternatives.
> Forgive me
> > if I have left out some FW ideas from the above list.
>
> Q: Why did the foetus fight to prevent itself from being born?
>
> A: Because it didn't want to forfeit its right to life.
>
> >
> > So, I guess I am an optimist after all.
>
> I have written probably the world's shortest Science Fiction
> novel/history of the future:
>
> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/moreEtc.html#fu
>
> I believe it was in 1927 that Ettore Schmitz (AKA Italo Svevo)
> ended his novel _Confessions of Zeno_ with the vision of a man
> tunneling to the center of the earth and placing an explosive
> charge
> there and detonating it and purging the universe of the pestilence
> that is the human species. (I did not think of this -- I just
> read the book).
>
> >
> > There is no undiscovered economic theorem out there that will
> offer a
> > magical solution: There only needs to be leaders (elected and
> appointed)
> > willing (or needing) to listen and act.
>
> In all seriousness, I concur with Elias Canetti, as he wrote
> in his _Crowds and Power_, that the continued worship of power
> is a threat to humanity in our time, and that power needs to
> be demystified: Neither leaders nor followers. (Oh, yes,
> Canetti did win the nobel prize for literature, and I believe
> it was less than 50 years ago, so there was at lesat one
> winner in the past 50 years who was at lesast somewhat deserving,
> although neither Broch nor Musil won a Nobel, and both
> were greater than Canetti, but Canetti is still a substantive
> writer -- as the title of one of his books has it:
>
> The Conscience of Words
>
> >
> > arthur
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harry Pollard [mailto:henrygeorgeschool@;attbi.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:19 PM
> > To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: To survive or not to survive.
> >
> > Arthur,
> >
> > You are probably too right about this.
> >
> > From where outside will succor come?
>
> Ray is right: Brooklyn -- there's nothing like it back home.
>
> Language is a virus from outer space
> (--William S Burroughs)
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
> <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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>
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