Gidday there futurework group
I seem to be getting double-ups of most of the postyings from this
group ... is anyone else getting the same problem?
cheers
vivian Hutchinson
vivian Hutchinson
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Does "The Public" mean all of us, equally?
Keith Rankin, 24 January 1999
We have become accustomed to thinking of "the public" as a collective term
for all of the people who make up a nation. Furthermore, as members of the
public, we all belong equally to that collective entity.
Pinning down
just one more...
Eva
Scientists do not as a rule observe and then theorize. They typically do
it the other way round. When they find the data does not confirm the
hypothesis, the usual reaction is not to reject the hypothesis, but to
assume it was a bad set of data and proceed to draw
another one from skeptics
Eva
...
These observations are well born out in the following article about
scientific heretics and particularly Thomas Gold, because he generated new
data on the origins of oil and gas and geophysicists are not rejecting the
conventional theory but Gold's data. Gold
a response from skeptic,
Eva
Scientists do not as a rule observe and then theorize. They
typically do it the other way round. When they find the data does not
confirm the hypothesis, the usual reaction is not to reject the
hypothesis,
but to assume it was a bad set of data and
If energy (oil?) is in short supply, can one afford to be "fair"?
we can be only fair if the decision is made collectively on
how to use a scarse resource, especially if the all
the information and the options are well known
by everybody.
Eva
Just wondering ... !
Bob
Eva Durant
I passed it on again, I hope you won't mind,
those people seem to have time to read
every article...
I just respond to a few things:
(Mike H.)
It was methane that was detected on Pluto and in the tails of comets,
according to Gold.
methane is the very simplest CH compound.
I belive
I am reposting the following report which shows that Corporations are
gaining control of our public services at an alarming rate for several
reasons. These are:-
1) It seems to tie in with the lead article in the local newspaper of
26/1/99 headed up:- "STAFF CUTS ON CARDS FOR COUNCIL" I would
WHY (SHOULD WE) WORK?
Are there sustainable moral reasons? Neva Goodwin wrote:
The reasons to work are, as I see it,
1) Because there are things that need to be done
Let me recaste this reason in 'language game' terms - to reveal some of
the unrevealed logic jumps or
sorry if it is a duplicate
Eva
--
I passed it on again, I hope you won't mind,
those people seem to have time to read
every article...
I just respond to a few things:
(Mike H.)
It was methane that was detected on
--
If energy (oil?) is in short supply, can one afford to be "fair"?
we can be only fair if the decision is made collectively on
how to use a scarse resource, especially if the all
the information and the options are
--
just one more...
Eva
Scientists do not as a rule observe and then theorize. They typically do
it the other way round. When they find the data does not confirm the
hypothesis, the usual reaction is not to
London Free Press Columnist: Judy Rebick
January 22, 1999
The criminalization of Ontario's poor
By JUDY REBICK
I am hearing from Premier Mike Harris a lot more than I want to. Every
time I turn on the TV or radio, there he is, pitching his government's
From: Dennis Raphael[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
From Poverty to Societal Disintegration:
How Economic Inequality Affects the Health of All Canadians
For most Canadians real income decreased during the 1990's, and by 1996
the level of child poverty had begun to set ever-increasing
At 11:50 AM 1/26/99 -1000, Jay Hanson wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Edward Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and social complexity grew. While hunting and gathering societies needed
only transitory hierarchies, more complex societies needed permanent ones.
However, there is no reason on earth
Jay Hanson writes:
Democracy makes no sense.
Right, democracy is the worst system except for all the others, since power
will always corrupt.
Government by popularity contest is a stupid idea.
So is the corresponding straw man form of any kind of government. Government
by age? Government
- Original Message -
From: Edward Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Democracy makes no sense. If society is seeking a leader with the best
skills, the selection should be based on merit -- testing and
xperience --
not popularity. Government by popularity contest is a stupid idea.
Somehow I'm
- Original Message -
From: Victor Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On this thread I'll have to agree with Eva against Jay's contention that a
mind is predisposed [by evolution] to reproduce the genes that created it.
A human being is predisposed to get laid, which in bygone ages usually had
the
- Original Message -
From: Peter Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Government by popularity contest is a stupid idea.
So is the corresponding straw man form of any kind of government.
Government by age? Government by family name? Government
by bank account? Government by narrow technical
-Original Message-
From: Eva Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: list futurework [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 27, 1999 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: (Fwd) RE: (Fwd) How science is really done
[snip]
I believe there was a chap around that also
had the same general idea as Darwin.
I also believe
Jay:
How about an explicit definition of the job and explicit qualifications?
We do that with every other job, why not politics?
God will write them? Theocracies worked for a while, but they too had their
problems -- e.g. the classic Mayas screwed up their environment just as
badly as we
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