Re: [Vo]:Time is running out

2008-03-10 Thread R C Macaulay
Howdy Jones, FDR took us off the gold standard back in the 30'. LBJ displaced the silver coin in the 70's and Nixon removed pegging the US dollar to gold at 35 bucks, troy. Take away the underpinnings of a nation's currency and expect somebody's gonna figure out a way to sell ice to

RE: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit? Oragnization and performance

2008-03-10 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Good morning, everyone. Robin makes an astute observation: layers of hierarchy are also past of the problem. The best solution that we have been able to find is decentralization of large organizations, but decentralization with several sub-principles. 1. Each unit within the organization must

[Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview

2008-03-10 Thread thomas malloy
Whitley Strieber of Unknown Country .com was interviewed on C To C AM last week. The first topic was alien implants. There are surgeons who remove them. When they attempt to grasp them, the implant moves away from the instruments. One implant was chemically iron. When they irradiated it with

Re: [Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview

2008-03-10 Thread OrionWorks
Thomas sez: ... Whitley's views on the Space Brothers are charitable compared to mine. ... (I'm probably taking Mr. Malloy's comments out of context here.) I just wanted to offer the suggestion that a surefire way of determining whether you're dealing with a good alien or a bad alien is to

RE: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit?

2008-03-10 Thread Jed Rothwell
Lawrence de Bivort wrote: My general proposition is that when systems, like corporations, become 'too big' that due to the internal dynamics of bigness they come to act overall at a mediocre level of intelligence. This does seem to be the case. This and other related problems are described

Re: [Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview

2008-03-10 Thread Terry Blanton
Well, *I* duzznt think they are aliens. They are far too civilized. Now us, OTOH: http://www.constitution.org/abus/controll.htm Terry On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, OrionWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas sez: ... Whitley's views on the Space Brothers are charitable compared to mine.

[Vo]:Re: NET Issue #27

2008-03-10 Thread Jones Beene
Steve - Gotta Luv the spoof (item # 16) on Pierre Curie- i.e. being denied funding by a Gov'm't agency on account of the experiment being against the laws of physics ... but, hey, you didn't need to acknowledge it as satire ;-) Historical trivia note - which is especially funny in the context of

[Vo]:OFF TOPIC National ID in the Near Future .. Maybe

2008-03-10 Thread DonW
Check out the attached URL .. George Orville would roll over in his grave.   The sad part of it is that it’s not just in government hands. With the new National ID, pending it will be in private industry's hands. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pizzacall -DonW-

[Vo]:Moon bases

2008-03-10 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
Hi, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23346198-30417,00.html quote: Scientists hope to put a manned station on the moon before the end of the century. Hmmm - giving themselves about 100 years to do it in, now that what I call ambitious! ;^) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The

RE: [Vo]:Moon bases

2008-03-10 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Bah! Free-floating space stations and asteroid mining will free us from the tyranny of gravity and the competition for territory Lawrence -Original Message- From: Robin van Spaandonk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:22 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject:

[Vo]:New ENERGY TIMES (tm) March 10, 2008 -- Issue #27

2008-03-10 Thread Steven Krivit
Emacs! The leader in news and information on low energy nuclear reactions March 10, 2008 -- Issue #27 ISSUE #27 is available online at http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm EDITORIALS AND OPINION 1. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#FROMEDFrom the Editor: Will