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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (25750)	8/18/2003 11:31:34 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

An analysis that supports the thesis that we're headed for third world status unless there's a change in direction. As for The 13th? The 19th? Clearly, he's not fit for the 21st Century. I understood the 19th reference, because he certainly behaves like a 19th century west Texas sheriff with his get'um dead or alive talk. telegraph.co.uk I had to think about the 13th. I knew there were Mongols roaming around, but then I realized the obvious - the crusades. As for the 21st, he doesn't have a clue. The implications that Moore's law has for 2030, the biological revolution that has already begun, the mass extinctions disrupting the fabric of life, who thinks Bush is pondering these matters at the ranch? JMO lurqer

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (25750)	8/19/2003 1:40:48 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

"Low prestige assigned to work". That is the societal killer.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (25750)	8/19/2003 8:50:32 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

<font color=brown>In the search for the source of Thursday's blackout, the underlying cause has been all but ignored: deregulation. In principle, deregulation of the power industry was supposed to use the discipline of free markets to generate just the right amount of electricity at the right price. But electric power, it turns out, is not like ordinary commodities. Electricity can't be stored in large quantities, and the system needs a lot of spare generating and transmission capacity for periods of peak demand like hot days in August. The power system also requires a great deal of planning and coordination, and it needs incentives for somebody to maintain and upgrade transmission lines. Deregulation has failed on all these grounds. Yet it has few critics. Evidently, even calamities like the Enron scandal and now the most serious blackout in American history are not enough to shake faith in the theory.</font> nytimes.com The electric grid (as contrasted to the pieces from which it is made) is a good example of a commons. When the Bush administration and it's friends try to scam the commons instead of treating it as an inherintly common interest of the public, the result will always be tragedy. <font color=brown> When the blackout hit on Thursday, many of us first thought of terrorists. What hit us may be equally dangerous. We are hostage to a delusional view of economics that allowed much of the Northeast to go dark without an enemy lifting a finger.</font> constitution.org TP