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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70235)	8/19/2008 1:36:14 PM
From: TWICK	Respond to of 74559

Great posts Maurice. They read like Spengler's reports.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70235)	8/19/2008 4:18:18 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain ... this is how you remember the colours of the rainbow, red orange yellow green blue indigo violet, just one of the things you have to know to impress little kids, got to get this done early they say, before kindergarten begins with all its peer pressure and generation gap widening Upthread you mention horseshoes - yes, excellent example of a technology superseded by other tech ... imagine holding shares of some hugely bloated stock promotion based on intellectual property of hoof protection, ho ho, somebody invents the motorcar and your shareholder value goes poof Whereas the material from which horseshoes were made is still used, bought and profitably sold every day .... so clearly, resources will always win in the end - ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, to everything there is a time, and a season, and It Too Shall Pass Actually there still are horseshoes, a regular at our local is a farrier and has been for over thirty years since leaving his only other job ever as lead guitar in a wild rock band, he clipped my next door neighbour for a seven hundred loonie bill this spring, and they remain on the best of terms, so it must be a reasonable business ... still, he is not dependent on patents, nor the lawyers to defend patents, he supplies a skill, a service, and a few pounds of material per animal, good solid stuff

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70235)	8/20/2008 7:43:57 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I thought the "fake" aspects of the opening ceremony were trivial and amusing, but I did fine the synchronized tai-chi routine vaguely unsettling. Turns out they were channelling the North Koreans... China's Olympic ceremony features sacrifices bloomberg.com Filmmaker Zhang Yimou, the ceremony's director, insisted in an interview with local media that suffering and sacrifice were required to pull off the Aug. 8 opening, which involved wrangling nearly 15,000 cast and crew. Only North Korea could have done it better, he said. ****** He told the popular Guangzhou weekly newspaper Southern Weekend that only communist North Korea could have done a better job getting thousands of performers to move in perfect unison. "North Korea is No. 1 in the world when it comes to uniformity. They are uniform beyond belief! These kind of traditional synchronized movements result in a sense of beauty. We Chinese are able to achieve this as well. Through hard training and strict discipline," he said. Pyongyang's annual mass games feature 100,000 people moving in lockstep.