David Guest wrote:
I have asked some experts but Tony L says I should consult the wisdom of
crowds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds).
Surowiecki and Tony obviously haven't read Jared Diamond's book 'Collapse'.
He clearly argues argues that many societies have collapsed simply
because they couldn't make collective decisions to change how they did
business in the face of environmental and other changes. Sounds
ominously familiar, doesn't it, as I'm sure Tim Flannery would agree.
'Clean coal' the new snake oil? What it doesn't emit CO2 when burnt?
Diamond has some telling examples of societies that survived, such as
Tikopea, because they had a leader who took the hard decision to kill
all their pigs that were ravaging their tiny environment.
What is the cheapest way for me to get a MS SQL 2000 server? It is
complicated (and apparently people do PhDs in Microsoft licensing :-). I
have a dying SBS 2000 / SQL 2000 server and an upgrade pack to 2003, but
that old OEM thing has got me again.
Not a problem with current MS OS licensing. You are now apparently
locked into the hardware [mainboard essentially] that the
install/activation is on. They can now refuse to reactivate on the basis
of a failure, I've read, though I don't know if they are enforcing this
new part of their licensing labyrinth.
Greg
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