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Entry: ~ Blog: The Green Magician.
| Mike, hi!
Hope you do fine in this Tiger New Year! Hooaaahhh!!!
Pls, I need to put my name as your friend.
All the best!
Murilo
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murilo |
Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:22 pm |
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Entry: The art of persuasion Blog: scott's blog
| From which it must follow that there is no difference between persuasion and indoctrination. |
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nicbordeaux |
Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:43 pm |
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Entry: Still Cannot Sleep.. Blog: LustInBlack's blog
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Lightwave |
Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:45 am |
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Entry: Robots Blog: LustInBlack's blog
| We agree on the subatomic stuff. I can see ways of "transposing" the important part of this bahavior into a larger mechanical scale. It does not involve quantam physics, just plain common sense. If you are game, I'll willingly share with you (private email), and you can point out how wrong I am, or if I'm right, play along and exchange ideas. Your call :) |
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nicbordeaux |
Sun Dec 06, 2009 2:29 pm |
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Entry: Such a Shame Blog: scott's blog
| Remeber the experiment where some guys were paid to participate, they had to administer electric shock to people in a room below (visible to them) in increasing dosage every time the guys below answered a question wrong ?
It was bogus, the guys below were good actors, they deliberately answered wrong, the guys above turned a dial to deliver the electricity to them. The more electricity the "victims" received, the more confused they became, the bigger the shocks they were administered by the guys above. Nobody said "i'm not doing this, it's not right". Some got upset, but continued to obey orders.
I wish I'd been there, and would like to think that that would have made me exceedingly angry to the point of busting stuff. But who knows ? |
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nicbordeaux |
Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:29 pm |
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Entry: The Marquis of Worcester's proposal Blog: Grimer's blog
| Quite so, the main stumbling block is that people get stuck up one way streets. Once past a certain degree of work and emotional involvement with a design, all effort or available brain power is chanenlled into perfecting a given order of mechanisms. Even the obvious is discarded if it isn't part of the original design. Monomania. Generally leads to appeals for funding to buy enough material to build a offbalance wheel 60 meters high. Also environmentally unfriendly and antisocial because when the inventor passes away, there are tons of steel contraption to be carted away before the inheritors can sell the property. |
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nicbordeaux |
Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:44 pm |
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Entry: Cui bono Blog: scott's blog
| Thanks for the replies.
Grimer, I understand your viewpoint, a little. On the other hand this excerpt from the article makes even more sense to me:
"Asset inflation—ultimately, the debasement of the currency—as the principal source of wealth corrodes the character of people. It not only undermines the traditional bourgeois virtues but makes them ridiculous and even reverses them. Prudence becomes imprudence, thrift becomes improvidence, sobriety becomes mean-spiritedness, modesty becomes lack of ambition, self-control becomes betrayal of the inner self, patience becomes lack of foresight, steadiness becomes inflexibility: all that was wisdom becomes foolishness."
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_3_otbie-inflation.html |
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scott |
Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:24 am |
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Entry: Cui bono Blog: scott's blog
| One has to remember that a lot of debtors are not improvident or reckless.
For example, as a young man I took out a mortgage on a three bedroom house. I wasn't speculating. I was getting married and I wanted a decent home for the family I expected to have. Inflation helped me to pay off that mortgage earlier than I might have been able to otherwise.
People who have large sums in cash or cash equivalent are like the man in the gospel who buried his talent and was upbraided for it. The gospel shows that spare money should be either invested in doing something useful like buying a house to bring up a family for example, or given to people as alms.
I think moderate inflation is a good thing as it ensures that people don't just hoard money like misers. It forces people to get cash money doing something useful or else slowly losing it. |
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Grimer |
Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:10 am |
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Entry: Cui bono Blog: scott's blog
| You know what, around here, the gov is helping FAILURE .. He provides R&D funding for companies that fails to develop new products. .
It's perpetual madness on earth ..
Then, you wonder why there is no advancement in technology..
NO WONDER, the only survivors are the loosers.. |
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LustInBlack |
Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:56 am |
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Entry: The Vesica Cycle Blog: Grimer's blog
| Yep, I need to take the time and read it all. I've just been having to work so much I can't keep up with all the threads and posts. My apologies on that, Frank and I'll give it the time it deserves this coming week.
Steve |
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bluesgtr44 |
Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:12 pm |
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