I'm going to disagree a little bit here. While food aid can have some
immediate positive benefits compared to doing nothing, it can also
create a long-term problem for the recipient countries. Food aid as it
is currently structured is primarily a way of benefiting farmers in the
donor
David Brin wrote:
But of course I am distracted by the elections, hoping
we'll at last save America and civilization from a
criminal gang. (What we're seeing -- including the
outright and direct theft of half a trillion dollars
-- goes far beyond regular issues of mere left or
right.)
Now
Now I'm curious - what's so wrong about McCain (beyond his
killing of McAbel)?
Well, I'm not sure if you meant that as a serious question -- but for starters,
how about the fact that McCain has shown himself to be a shallow, venal,
opportunistic political hack who is willing to cozy up the
On 24 Aug 2008, at 22:42, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
David Brin wrote:
But of course I am distracted by the elections, hoping
we'll at last save America and civilization from a
criminal gang. (What we're seeing -- including the
outright and direct theft of half a trillion
On 24 Aug 2008, at 21:19, Dan M wrote:
If the land produces enough food for the people in a country to live
on,
then the problem of actual starvation goes down. Zimbabwe is a good
example
of this: it was a food exporter before governments took the farms
away from
experienced
While I see far more to dislike about John McCain than
there is to like... his history of vicious anger, the
fact that he never administered more than 60 men,
once, for a year and did badly, the fact that he has
always acted like an
entitled-though-oedepally-frustrated son of a high
achieving
Hey, so no one has remarked on the mention of David
Brin's _The Transparent Society_ in Scientific American?
The September issue is about privacy, and the editor's
introduction says:
...In his book _The Transparent Society_, David Brin
argues that the modern conception of privacy is historically
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