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To: Mad Bulgarian who wrote (78192)10/9/2001 9:41:34 PM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 116836
 
<<What disgusts me is that most people would rather ridicule BG than roll up their sleeves and turn some energy into prosperity (and heat).>>

A part of what is directed at BG is simply & only humor. Sure, some ridicule, but some are only jokes & should be taken as such.



To: Mad Bulgarian who wrote (78192)10/10/2001 12:23:39 AM
From: E. Charters  Respond to of 116836
 
People's lack of inclination to give off heat energy by doing useful work is because they believe in the magic of infinite potential energy or freefall in an infinite gravitational well, otherwise seen as the government cornucopia or economic freefall. This is evinced by their ultimate aspiration, which is to get a government job with their uncle Frank and their speech, which is pepper sprayed with the 3rd person pronouns "them" or they". In their lexicon "they" build all the computers, airplanes, make new silicon chips, write the books, cure diseases and control interest rates. "They" have figured out why you don't compete with MacDonalds, Microsoft, or Xerox. (How DO you get into management with those companies?) "They" generally wear white lab coats and work in mysterious government buildings, have PhD's and drive BMW's. Nobody ever went to school with any of "them" or knows any of "those people" in the first person.

This leads me to believe a long nagging suspicion, that appears to the only logical conclusion that one can come to after putting together this chain of seemingly unconnected but synergistically incongruous phenonomena. This is that we are actually run by a group of aliens, who have imitated human beings look from afar but are afraid to be seen up close. They all have foreign sounding names and long earlobes. If you zeroed in on "Their" press conferences with a Kirlian camera you would see that "they" have no aura or any physical substance at all. "They" are a holographic projection of a human. A synthesizer sits on a desk behind this TV image, imitating human speech. (This explains lapses in George Bush's English syntax, a sort that I have never seen in even the dullest grade 4 graduate - he's a space trainee.) A light beam operates the apparatus emanating from a space craft parked in orbit where a race of swamp slugs has us in a narcotized trance from the power of "their" hypnotic suggestion. (I know what you are going to say, "LGM from Tau Ceti". But it is necessarily the only way to explain advances in human science where " everyone you talk to says, "They" already do/know/have that or "it's been tried", when you propose any patent, idea or business.

Have you noticed that the only places that are able to resist the US suggestion that "they" are the font of all wisdom and good are places where TV is outlawed? ...

I wonder.

(Author's note: all speling mistakes, grammatical and typografical errors are on purpose. This is done partly to frustrate and annoy and partly to allow the reader to feel superior.)

EC<:-}



To: Mad Bulgarian who wrote (78192)10/10/2001 12:39:29 AM
From: Richnorth  Respond to of 116836
 
I believe your argument is flawed.

Bill Gates did, in effect, steal from his competitors and made them miserable. They complained of unfair competition and lost opportunities. Witness the law suit Microsoft is currently involved in.

BG is rich in that wealth happens to be concentrated (thanks in part to government policies) in a tiny segment of the population with BG as one of its members. Compare this with energy that is highly concentrated in certain parts of the universe. Even such concentrated energy will be dispersed eventually in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Ditto for money due to inflation and to the inflationary policies of the US government.

Inflation is a fact of life. While it can give the illusion of creating wealth indefinitely, it is also the nemesis of wealth. As I write Bill Gates and Larry Ellison have lost, due to inflation, billions of dollars which they made before 9/11 with the help of inflation. Only this time, the inflation is greater than ever before, thanks to Bush printing billions of fiat currency to help the airlines, Afghanistan refugees and the war effort, and it has diluted not only their wealth but everybody else's, too.