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Brin watch

2008-08-24 Thread David Hobby
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

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-24 Thread David Brin
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 fathe

Re: World Trade

2008-08-24 Thread William T Goodall
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

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-24 Thread William T Goodall
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 tr

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-24 Thread Olin Elliott
>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 v

Re: Brin: What's in the works?

2008-08-24 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
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.

RE: World Trade

2008-08-24 Thread Dan M
> > 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 > dono