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2014-08-19 Thread Jan Whitaker
Has anyone experienced the supposed problems? Have you uninstalled these updates? I haven't had anything happen that I'm aware of. Is it problematic to just leave the updates in place? I'm on Win7.

Re: [LINK] What Today's Economic Gloomsayers Are Missing

2014-08-19 Thread Janet Hawtin
On 19 August 2014 08:41, Kim Holburn k...@holburn.net wrote: http://online.wsj.com/articles/joel-mokyr-what-todays-economic-gloomsayers-are-missing-1407536487 What is wrong with this story? The one-word answer is technology. Meanwhile in AU cuts to CSIRO, science, renewable energy.

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2014-08-19 Thread Stephen Loosley
Kim writes, From: k...@holburn.net Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:11:59 +1000 Subject: [LINK] What Today's Economic Gloomsayers Are Missing Technology is not our enemy. It is our best hope. Yes, agreed. And going forward, I think technology and specifically communications technology