Re: [Vo]:Time is running out
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 Eskimos using snow for money... The Dime Box Saloon financial advisory board, made up of some very astute and learned ex-bankers, ex-cons and some pretty good all around montebanks have just published their latest market analysis... quote... 50% of nothin' is nothin' when ya play poker with scared money. You can take this wisdom to the bank. For all the pollyana's left in the world, I don't suppose it would do to mention the gravity train with the biscuit wheels ..dun gone and run off da tracks. Richard Jones Beene wrote, Billions of put option contracts are betting that the stock market will crash by March 21st, signaled by the rouge put option trades on the NASDAQ-100 index through the Power Share () contracts
RE: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit? Oragnization and performance
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 have all the functions required for autonomous operation. (Overhead services can be shared among units too small to afford stand-alone services, with the shared services proportioned out per agreement among the units and those proportions under the management authority of each unit. This way the shared services cannot play one unit against another.) 2. Each unit is guided by a specified set of sensory specific outcomes negotiated with senior management; these outcomes are provided with explicit resource allocation agreements, with which the unit then operates to achieve the outcomes. After these agreements have been made, senior management goes away and lets the unit perform. 3. Each unit is free to negotiate with any other unit at any level within the organization for operational cooperation, agreements reached voluntarily by all. 4. Senior management is reintroduced into the situation upon request of any of the units, or if the overall position of the organization itself undergoes some change that requires it to renegotiate with its units. Such changes include market shifts, financing shifts, technological intelligence, etc. Well, there is a lot more to this, but this is the gist What do you think? Lawrence -Original Message- From: Robin van Spaandonk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 5:21 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit? In reply to Lawrence de Bivort's message of Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:52:34 -0400: Hi, [snip] Partly it is a matter of Reverting to the Mean, and partly a matter of there being only so many genuinely brilliant leaders and with size their net impact is diluted by the inevitable bulk of mediocre people in a large corporation. Partly it is a matter of administrative systems becoming so bulky and unwieldy that taking action and decision-making are themselves compromised by bureaucratic values and ponderous processes. There is another very subtle factor which plays a role in large organizations. Management naturally sees it as their role to make choices. A small organization has few people, and consequently few people proffering ideas. This makes it relatively easy for good ideas to be selected and tried (there aren't that many of them). However as an organization grows decisions are frequently shuffled up the hierarchy until they reach top management, which is then in the position of having to choose between many ideas, some of which would be good and some not. SNIP
[Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview
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 X Rays, it refracted them, then it became invisible. IMHO, this is quite anomalous. Whitley continued by commenting that he has come to regard the actions of the aliens to be, not in our best interests. No Sh_t Sherlock. The line continues, what was your first clue? Whitley went on about their invasion of peoples houses and their penetrating various bodily orifices. Sperm and eggs came up followed by the hybrids Whitley's views on the Space Brothers are charitable compared to mine. Get away from me, you scaly bastard! What's that? no not ketchup! --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
Re: [Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview
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 discern the amount of starch applied to their collars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
RE: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit?
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 in C. N. Parkinson's witty masterpiece Parkinson's Law and Other Studies of Administration. The problem is, some tasks can only be done by large organizations, such as armies, national governments, or automobile manufacturers. They cannot be done on a small scale. It is true that some tasks and parts of the organization can be subdivided, and they can be given some autonomy, as people here have suggested. In the end though, the subdivisions must come together because. A giant automobile company can only make a small number of different models, and an army must be run in coordinated fashion with a clear set of goals, which can only be decided by a single commanding general. The general must be skilled, or no matter how large and well equipped the army is, it will lose. The Union army was larger than the Confederate army, but it lost for the first 2 years of the war because it was badly led. Later, it had difficulty winning because it was so large, it became unwieldy. It took too long for orders and information to pass through the ranks, and too long to move the mass of men and equipment. Still, it is hard to imagine the Union could have won more easily by sending half the men home. Better too big than too little. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Whitley Strieber interview
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. ... (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 discern the amount of starch applied to their collars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
[Vo]:Re: NET Issue #27
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 that genius magician we all know and love as Randi. What a putz... Anyway - Papa Curie was undoubtedly a great scientist, plus - it was in the 'genes' - he, his wife, and daughter and son-in-law all won Nobel prizes, but that did not keep Pierre from being totally and incurably deceived by chicanery - to wit: a medium. Randi could no doubt fool him also, and then use that as proof that uranium does not create what up to then would have to be considered free-energy and pathological science. BTW the name of the medium was Palladino and this is another curious correlation to the palladium metal often used in LENR. Pierre was totally taken-in by a Parisian medium named Eusapia Palladino, and attended séances (when he was not making World changing discoveries in the laboratory). He said of her spooky performances: those phenomena exist for real, and I cant doubt it any more. It is unbelievable but it is thus, and it is impossible to negate it after the séances that we had in conditions of perfect monitoring. He added The only possible cheating would be an extraordinary ability of the medium as a magician. Randi, of course, knows this all too well. The point being that that anyone can be fooled, but the biggest fool of all is the one who knows how all the others except him were fooled. ... or something to that effect. Jones
[Vo]:OFF TOPIC National ID in the Near Future .. Maybe
Check out the attached URL .. George Orville would roll over in his grave. The sad part of it is that its 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
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 shrub is a plant.
RE: [Vo]:Moon bases
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]:Moon bases 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 shrub is a plant.
[Vo]:New ENERGY TIMES (tm) March 10, 2008 -- Issue #27
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 India Surprise the U.S. (Again)? 2. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#TOEDTo the Editor: Comments on Iyengar Video Interview NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS 3. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#docDoc Patterson, Light Water LENR Pioneer 4. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#forsleyMy Recollections of Jim Patterson by Lawrence P.G. Forsley 5. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#pioneersConversations: Pioneers of and Contributors to Cold Fusion, CMNS /LENR 6. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#apsAmerican Physical Society March 2008 Meeting 7. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#acsAmerican Chemical Society Fall 2008 National Meeting Exposition 8. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#iccf1414th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science 9. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#oralNew Energy Foundation Announces Cold Fusion Oral History Project 10. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#groupsNew Energy Times http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#groupsIndex of Commercial LENR Research Groups 11. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#enecoENECO Files for Chapter 11 Protection 12. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#d2fRuss George's D2Fusion Disappears; Planktos Runs Aground 13. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#psasPublic Service Announcements ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVES 14. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#indiaThe 2008 India LENR Lecture Tour 15. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#wikiDrama On Wikipedia Street 16. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#curieEnergy Agency Review Panel Decides Against Funding Curie Discovery 17. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#futureNews From the FutureCongress Makes History 18. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#koldamasovThe Koldamasov Cavitation Device 19. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#studentExcerpts of Student Paper: Report on the Work of A.I. Koldamasov 20. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#protonProton-21 Research Presented in University of Illinois Seminar 21. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#pubsPUBLICATIONS 22. http://newenergytimes.com/news/2008/NET27.htm#newsSCIENCE AND ENERGY NEWS http://newenergytimes.com/news/2007/NET24.htm#thewiz New Energy Times (tm) is a project of New Energy Institute, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation which provides information and educational services to help bring about the clean-energy revolution. The New Energy Times (tm) magazine, Web site, and documentary projects are made possible by the generous contributions of our sponsors and supporters. -- If you have received this announcement from a colleague and you wish to be added to the New Energy Times (tm) mailing list, or if you would like to unsubscribe, click here http://newenergytimes.com/news/news.htm. inline: 9a41762f.jpg
