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Mon. 7/13/09 6:01pm From: Charles-A.

Hello and welcome peeps. Squat on...

Mon. 7/13/09 6:01pm From: sven

Yeaa!

Mon. 7/13/09 6:03pm From: Charles-A.

You got it Sven. :-)

Mon. 7/13/09 6:04pm From: sven

the middle class lives like only kings did hundreds of years ago.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:05pm From: Brian Oregon

Douglas -- don't "consense" too much -- suicides go up as societies "develop."

Mon. 7/13/09 6:06pm From: Charles-A.

An economy based on real and metaphorical rape is of dubious sustainability.

But look at your HMOs, (not Naples anymore,) and die.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:06pm From: Brian Oregon

There's no nice way around it -- our high-material, high-energy way of life depends on harming others.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:08pm From: Charles-A.

And some people don't see the harm...

Mon. 7/13/09 6:09pm From: Brian Oregon

Right Charles-A -- most don't see it. The extra sad part is that some who do or could be made to see the harm would still not want our society to change.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:09pm From: Charles-A.

Limits to growth is hard to predict, & to handle.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:11pm From: Brian Oregon

For one different, no-longer-based-on-growth model, see "Plan C" by Pat Murphy.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:11pm From: Charles-A.

The enemy of change is fear. Of what I have no idea.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:14pm From: Brian Oregon

The problem DR is talking about is based on people's lack of imagination and failure to understand the inherently-creative nature of humans -- we're not limited to some spectrum of what has occurred so far!

Mon. 7/13/09 6:15pm From: Charles-A.

The problem is a misapplication of economic models where they don't help but do harm instead.

Health care is fundamentally a profitless endeavor. But that doesn't mean its not essential to have.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:17pm From: annie

not sure if this is still true, but i knew there were provinces in china where the medical people were not paid unless the populace was HEALTHY! so... illness = no pay!

Mon. 7/13/09 6:19pm From: Charles-A.

(Sorry to keep going on about health care but its been my obsession for a while,) the nature of humans is to grind themselves into paste without rhyme or reason.

The level of dehumanization and desensetization is appalling.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:23pm From: Charles-A.

Chinese medicine and medical practices are prone to much policization. Its a question of trust and while I don't trust Western medical apparatus, I trust Western medicine.

Its just that I don't trust the salesmen. My father worked for Merck and he taught me a lot of tricks which were neat, but BAD!

Mon. 7/13/09 6:26pm From: Brian Oregon

Arthur sounds like dj/rupture.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:27pm From: Aidan

This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom: a future society in which money is all based on reputation. It works a lot better in the novel than it probably would in real life.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:30pm From: Charles-A

I rermember "The Anarchistic Colossus" (I must be older than the lot of your. :-)

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Mon. 7/13/09 6:34pm From: Charles-A

The Amero. :-)

It doesn't matter, just as long as I could have some.

Mon. 7/13/09 6:42pm From: Charles-A.

Sorry I didn't mean to come off quite so facetious but the actual medium of exchange doesn't matter just as long as there's only ONE. (Cut the currency speculators off at the knees.)

Mon. 7/13/09 6:47pm From: Charles-A.

I once almost worked for the Chicken and Egg Marketing Board of Canada. (Do you know it costs farmers MILLIONS to get the licenses to grow some chickens? No wonder they all look for ways to fed them cheap food and don't have time to worry about your health, like with Mad Cow as an example.)

Mon. 7/13/09 6:55pm From: Charles-A.

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Sat. 7/18/09 12:01am From: joeynorml

Did one of you say that MIT have all their courses online for free??

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