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   by raintrees 13y ago

   I'm an optimist, by preference...
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   Apparently, we are working on it. Just read "The Crash Course" by Chris Martenson, PHd. The era of cheap X (X=oil, silver, food, soil, US dollar, Euro, lead, gold, etc.) is over, resources are going to get revalued fairly soon,
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   I would think Upton Sinclair's statement would more likely apply: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" And entrenched power interests rarely choose to
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   I live next to the Oregon border in California (along the coast) and our local papers carry stories at least once per month about drastic budget problems north of us. Our local Sheriff gave a Neighborhood Watch talk and mentioned the drasti
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   At some point along this future, the question might be "What grandkids?"
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   "This violates the very premise of a free press..." I am thinking it would be far wiser for the Press to assume that there is no such thing... Just like we caution our clients to treat email the same as postcards...
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   > Using Vincent van Gogh as an example, the author declares that the artist’s “creativity came into being when a sufficient number of art experts felt that his paintings had something important to contribute to the domain of art.” So how
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   Inspiring, seductive... I sound like the back of any book reviewed by the main stream, but _the work is good_! To me, at least...
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   by raintrees 13y ago

   Hey, maybe we will get to ObjectVision all over again, only this time it can work! Or continue to be developed, at least. I remember putting in around 30 hours on a consulting project trying to use ObjectVision 2.1 (I think that was the ve
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    "Never borrow money" excludes Smart Debt: Debt someone else pays for you, such as Investment Property, or Big Business (not small business. This definition of Big Business is where you have a controlling interest and you can leav
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    This is a bit thematic, but maybe we could get Jellyfish to eat the coffee bean cherries? Two problems, one answer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6347557
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    Time management versus Bandwidth management(ideas.time.com)

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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Yes. Also, heat is another way of consuming power...
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Both. I write small business custom databases, previously in Access (Office) Basic and now in Django. I enjoy both UI design as well as database/business logic design.
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Here is a British/US conspiracy version from the 1970's: http://www.syti.net/GB/SilentWeaponsGB.html Caveat: The website in general has pretty "out there" ideas, and that I concluded from just the E
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Based on the url, I thought it was about design, then decided it wasn't, and now realize that it also was :) Very good, thank you!
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    But maybe that would buy enough time for other parts of the equation to shift... It seems to me that we humans tend to change things up faster than our environments can keep up, but our environments do eventually change. Maybe if we are par
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    There are several movements afoot to regain locality as a source of power. Here in the US Pacific Northwest, there are a number of groups traveling and speaking about bioregions. I have heard from several eloquent speakers of first nation
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Well, it seems that we humans need to figure out how to do what we do best - Eat a species back down to acceptable numbers. Last time I tried jellyfish tentacles (American Chinese food restaurant), they were rubbery and very chewy - Maybe f
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    One of the posters re-posted a comment that this is a fragment of: "The Internet was built on, and runs on, trust. Every postmaster, every network engineer, every webmaster, every system admin, every hostmaster, everyone crafting stand
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    I agree on the last - From what I have read, boys are now strongly recommended to be vaccinated against human pappillomavirus to address potential throat cancer... Due to oral sex with infected females? http://www.cbsnews.com&#x2
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    And possibly rumors of additives to vaccines (adjuvant - Squalene, Mercury, etc.) I have been made aware anecdotally how may times profit is chosen over safety when critical decisions are made... It has lead me to question some decision mak
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Thanks!
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    I wish there was a speed control, I would have liked to slow it down in places, having never traveled to the UK yet...
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    I cannot agree with you here. Although I do not claim to be smart now, I am definitely farther along than when I was younger. And I hope to be working only because I enjoy it in about 9 more years, happy to be also looking forward to quit
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    And I would be unhappy if I forgot to mention Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson...
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Book by Nancy Kress: Beggars of Spain (series, actually). Great exploration of some of the social costs of this type of enhancement...
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Yes! I still own all three sets of Connections (I, II, and III) as well as the game. He is _so_ good at taking ideas from many sources and presenting them, showing how they might fit together or did fit together to create whole new ideas..
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    George Carlin had it right yet again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsQ7jJJcEA
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    by raintrees 13y ago

    Fertile ground for David Suarez' Daemon...