On Wednesday 2003-12-24 06:22, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
If we want 1MY mean life-spans, then 11% clients and 5% patrons might
provide for interesting but not grossly inequitble politics consistent
with existing sources on the Uplift Universe.
Uh?
I picked 11%
I got the 11%. I didn't
On Wednesday 2003-12-24 06:22, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
My estimate includes all five. Of course, as in Drake's equation,
each factor has an error from 10% to 900% :-)
* about 10 planets per race
* about 200,000 races
Alberto, as I recall Drake's Equation has
On Tuesday 2003-12-23 23:27, Deborah Harrell wrote:
jaw dropping
How can you *possibly* equate sexual activity between
consenting adults to abortion? Especially since
homosexual sex has *no* chance of leading to abortion?
With the disclaimer that I do not know JDG's personal views on the
the ur species was developed in part using the system in SeJ's Uplift 2nd
ed.
Zhuup ab-Lesh ab-Erbl ab-Kosh ab-Rosh ab-Tothtoon
ul-Zinth ul-Lotip ul-Byldur
The Lesh as members of the Tothtoon Superclan and clients of the Erbl began
their career in Galactic Civilization from a very
On Monday 2003-12-22 08:45, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
I have done some estimates on this. From data from GURPS Uplift and
from Contacting Aliens, I estimate:
* about 2 million populated planets at each time
Across how many galaxies?
All five of them.
(Note
We approximate the rate of uplift as an average of 1.1 client per mature
species. (The [fictional] real rate has to include non-reproducers and
mortality and some growth in the number of citizen species it must be
between 1.01 and 1.2.) Clients are not fairly distributed.
Lets assume
On Tuesday 2003-12-23 22:09, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 10:52 PM 12/23/2003 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
I think the point Tom is riffing on is that Rush has repeatedly
claimed that there is no constitutional right to privacy.
That would likely apply also to medical records.
Why does arguing
Your model seems to be
pre-uplift (stage 0)
- uplifting client (stages 1 to 4?)
- indentured client (stage 5?)
Since stage has the same population, and assuming mortality is minimal,
each stage must take the same amount of time.
Yes: the period where a species is under uplift may
Naturally, since I stopped publishing the Encyclopedia, I have had a burst of
creativity with Uplift Universe created topics. One topic leads to another.
In the course of thinking about the Tothtoon, the question arises of how
uplift, in a political and demographic sense works.
The first
On Sunday 2003-12-21 16:38, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
I read a note in a br newspaper yesterday, and it basically said
something like this: hey, folks, you think the USA is a christian
country, but it's not; in fact, christians have been persecuted
with violence, with the g*vernment approval
This was retold by VS Naipaul:
In days of yore the Shah is reviewing the troops.
He holds a rifle before a private and asks, Soldier what is your name?
Private Ahmed, your highness!
He takes Ahmed's rifle and examines it. What is this Private Ahmad?
It is my rifle Sir!
The Shah says No. it
On Saturday 2003-12-13 05:36, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
Lesh ab-Tothtoon ab-Rosh ab-Kosh ab-Erbl
ul-Zhuup ul-Vijls ul-Lith ul-Heebi
Erbl? Erbl uplifted them?
I picked Erbl because I thought it was an unused nonsense word. Has it been
used already for something
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I want our good Dr. Brin to contradict GURPS--again!
The Garthlings chose their own cohorts, numans and chimpanzees.
Clearly in violation of the rules as set up by GURPS.
I don't think its in violation of GURPS rules. Its just a violation of
standard behavior. Few pre-level-one clients
At least it is on topic.
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Lesh ab-Tothtoon ab-Rosh ab-Kosh ab-Erbl
ul-Zhuup ul-Vijls ul-Lith ul-Heebi
The Lesh are at the pinnacle of their career as a main-sequence species.
Staunch
Can the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs sue for the use of John Carter ... of
Mars?
On Thursday 2003-12-04 20:05, Davd Brin wrote:
Heh! tell me if he is... well... 'colored'
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the 10th season of E.R., one of the
student-medicals [I never
I have removed my site. If you have links, please update them to point to
Matt's site.
Congratulations to Matt Lundstrom, the new A4P Encyclopedia Editor in Chief.
As of now the Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia is available at
http://www.geocities.com/allianceforprogress (update your
: Fwd: Re: Fwd: Alliance for Progress Encyclopedia
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:04:55 -0700
Mr. Lundstrom
Please scan my exchange with Trent Shipley below.
In addition to other concerns expressed below, Trent is right that I
would require a bold and well placed disclaimer stating
Just my point.
Historically, upper-echelon IT workers have been very liberterian and
anti-union.
Serves 'em right.
(telecom workers are another matter)
On Sunday 2003-09-14 03:46, The Fool wrote:
From: Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah?
So join a union or quit whining
Yeah?
So join a union or quit whining.
On Saturday 2003-09-13 11:47, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
[[BTW: you were so angry when you replied that it
showed in many typographical errors...]]
You should never make such assumptions. I
What is your point?
That is economics, supply and demand.
You can try to do something about it, but in the end it will only make things
worse.
The real answer is a global market in labor. Nations and patriotism are evil
things.
On Thursday 2003-09-11 21:59, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Alberto
On Sunday 2003-07-20 18:54, Kevin Tarr wrote:
From: Trent Shipley
In the US a huge problem with all 'trickle up' policies is that they
require legislative intervention. Laizie Faire (sp?) economic systems
stabilize with huge income and wealth disparities. In the US a
combination
On Monday 2003-07-21 03:57, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:15:47AM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
The real problem with share the wealth, trickle up programs, besides
the fact that it might be immoral to tax the rich, is that they slow
growth.
Do you have any data to support
On Sunday 2003-07-20 14:36, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
trickle down: more money to the rich
The argument for giving more money to the rich than to the poor is
that the rich save more. (That is to say, they save a higher portion of
additional income; in
?
http://personal.vineyard.net/robinson/library/welcome.htm
gives a message that it moved to
http://www.islanderis.net/users/timbo/library
but that URL does not work at all.
--
Trent Shipley
phone:602.375.8683
cell:602.413.9837
mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tshipley
On Tuesday 2003-06-17 12:37, d.brin wrote:
Dear Trent,
I am sorry to hear about the employment situation. Wish I could help.
I can well understand wanting to move on to other interests. Is A4P
stored and available online? If so, would you like to allow gamers
access to its trove of
On Saturday 2003-03-15 09:54, Julia Thompson wrote:
The Fool wrote:
More problematic is the fatalistic worldview of apocalyptic thinking,
Hill said. Many who obsess about the end of the world fail to enjoy the
life they have or reach out to help others in an effort to improve
society, he
Aerospace has hit a technological wall, as far as I can see. 30 year old
designs are still competitive in the commercial market head to head against
modern designs. Contrast that with computers.
I do not think this is true. There are certainly some vernerable designs for
airframes--for
Have allocations changed?
I can see the 1960's budgets going to Cold War theatre.
There are (at least) three big parts to the NASA budget:
1) Manned space flight.
2) Unmanned solar-system exploration.
3) Basic Research (my favorite). Eg: fluid-dynamics, propulsion for civil
aviation, and
You give Trent website with scripting and database access..and maybe nice
domain name, Trent give you SovereignStates knock-off of Nation States game
with way more detailed political-economic simulation. Many fun dials and
toggles for administrators. Make GPL code!
Hokey-dokey! nifty deal!
Hamsters. They have very dexterous (if somewhat small) hands, the *love*
exploring (my wife and I can put our hamster in her hamster ball and she'll
run around the house for hours), and they are quite smart and strong, as
evidenced by their ability to escape from any cage. Ours escaped
On Tuesday 2003-01-14 21:31, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote
I would think that would depend on whether or not the Kiqui go well
with saffron flavored rice and Episiarch gravy...
They're not recognized sapients, after all, so they might just be
good eatin'.
I bet they can pass
Arab pop-music and Quran recitation are definitely prominent in the
audioscapes of Cairo and Amman.
On Sunday 2003-01-12 13:17, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2076531/
Imagine it were possible to stem the rising tide of anti-Americanism in the
Arab world. (I like to think
On Saturday 28 December 2002 07:14 pm, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 08:16:59PM -0600, Robert Seeberger wrote:
I would imagine the Segways internal gyroscopic system would make it
*hard* to trip.
Want to bet? It it is going 10mph and hits an unmoving object at the
right
I do not believe that technology strongly influences moral norms.
Psychiatrists and psychologists did not de-medicalize homosexuality or
inversion until the 1970's (I think).
If we could have played with our genes in 1950 or 1900 we would have targeted
the disease of sexual inversion. Many
On Friday 13 December 2002 06:34 pm, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
Stefan Jones posted this link on another board to which I subscribe:
http://gning.org/skiffy.html
In light of recent discussions, I thought this result was interesting:
You are:
John Brunner
His best known works are
their eternally immature and ungrateful species.
On Friday 06 December 2002 11:40 pm, Trent Shipley wrote:
No.
In the Fi.. er Four Galaxies a Greepeace style doctrine is solidly
conservative--in no way reactionary. Most Thennanin would be encouraged
and hopeful that even a t-i-n-y fraction of Human
On Friday 06 December 2002 08:48 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote:
William Taylor wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debbi
Galactic Moderate? Maru
See, that's your problem. No one in the Four Galaxies listens to
the moderates, you should know that! :-)
Moderates?
Moderates don't exist.
Any
remains unopened, the bomb will not explode.)
On Friday 06 December 2002 10:45 pm, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
The Tymbrimi are on the Looney Left of Galactic politics. They
scare the @#$% out of moderates.
So they're like Greenpeace, only without the flannel and Birkenstocks
For a first order approximation you would throw away topography as
irrelevant (after all, it starts at only 30% and gets smaller as you add
water) and you would treat the Earth as a proper sphere using distance from
the center of the sphere to mean sea level as diameter.
Assume a constant
Last week, being then employed and interested in social activity and exercise,
I took a free dance lesson from an acquaintance.
The main thing I learned was that music is a scarce and precious commodity in
a dance studio. You can only put one, or at most two, sets of music over the
loud
my friend _might_ want to practice by herself, but at the studio, and
using her mini-cast receiver.
2e -- Audio 6:mini-cast OR audio stored in reciver unit.
On Wednesday 04 December 2002 11:37 pm, Russell Chapman wrote:
Trent Shipley wrote:
WANTED: a wireless audio system for very local
No. There is a point. Killing lots of people because they are enemies of the
regime is state terrorism.
It qualifies as simple mass murder.
Killing lots of people, or even forcibly displacing them, because they are
Bosnians or Croats, not Serbs is at best ethnic cleansing and at
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