'On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 05:23:27, "mark smith" <mgsntx@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Isn't it interesting that whenever a government agency is being cut back,
> they say It will result in cutting their most important function, or the
> "children" will suffer, or "I can't guarantee the nations safety if we
> can't have this", guess i'm just a little cynical. I never believe
> anything i read anymore, guess thats why i enjoy this NG
> --
> Mark Smith
That's called the "Firemen First" principle and is well documented as a
technique for protecting a horn-hair's budget. His very special assistant, the
one who looks like an escapee from Penthouse magazine, is never at risk...
neither is his brother-in-law's business partner's son, who is dragging down
$45K/year after being thrown out of a series of colleges.
What the hey, I'm typing, sipping coffee, so I'll keep on typing....
DD, Sturg, and a few others have almost cleared up the question that I've had
for years... which is, what is money?
It seems to represent human work accomplished as well as serve as a trigger for
future work. Kind of like kinetic and potential energy but transvertable
because we agree that it is, not because of any law of nature.
Oddly enough, there seems to be laws of nature inherent in money, the laws of
thermodynamics come to mind. Can money be created or destroyed? Is there
entropy of dollars? What happens if you step outside of the common frame of
reference and view an accellerating economy, does the value of the money shrink
or does its mass increase? Are there black holes into which money falls and
can't escape? Suppose a huge amount of Jewish savings falls into a Swiss
account and can't be reclaimed?
I wonder too about Greshem's law, is it a perpetual motion machine, suppose the
U.S. mint stamped a bunch of one oz silver dollars but put a face value of fifty
dollars on them, declared that these were legal tender at fifty dollars, and you
could get them at banks, spend them, circulate them freely... would they
vanish from circulation? Wouldn't the mint essentially be selling an oz of
silver for fifty dollars? How does this work?
About the Federal Y2K Grades... It's all fake, the only thing that matters is
running code. We still don't see panic hiring in DC, there are all kinds of
nut-ball software projects, where addled bubble-heads are dragging down a salary
because the contract has money to burn. I know underemployed and underpaid
geeks and supergeeks who would love to do Y2K work for a fair wage...
a few have even expressed an interest in doing a deathmarch, on a strict paid by
the hour basis.
And then there's our resident denial-head... who said in another thread, "I
liked Rhodes, who was the only honest guy there, not pretending like he knew
exactly what was going to happen. --bks" Hmmmm, who in c.s.y2k, is pretending
like he knows exactly what's gonna happen?
I'm eagerly awaiting comment from denial heads on ship2000.com,
Here's my troll... ships are a big problem, ships by themselves could wack our
global economy. There, I've made an unsubstantiated statement... or have I?
Ships, planes, trains, power, communications, it's all at risk and the work
isn't getting done. At this date, 575 days, it's not time for calming words,
it's time to crank code, to rip open the money bags and pay what ever it takes
to fix the systems.
I'm still waiting for denial-head comments on telco's. Ericsson's switches are
in the same state as, well, any product where the vendor says, uh, oopsie, we do
have a problem, surprise, but don't worry, our fix will be available real soon.
Oh, and the last time you sucke... customers, rolled out a major fix, you lost
the network, well, do it better this time. I'm waiting for the V90 flash
upgrade to my Hayes 5675 which was suppose to be available months ago. Yeah,
right, let's 'flash' the telephone system.
Come clean, c.s.y2k... wouldn't you pay twenty bucks to see milne, frank, and
timmy tag-team mud wrestle koshinian, david starr, and ... that writer from
popular mechanics. My pal is having his pond cleaned out and expanded, it's a
muddy mess, overgrown with weeds, we could sit up on the hill with coolers of
beer, bags of chips, hollaring rude comments, the crowd starts the chant...
mil-ne ... mil-ne ... MIL-NE! koskenian rushes but paul is ready, a leg sweep,
koskenian is in the mud.. he reaches out, tags dave starr, starr lumbers
forward, he's in his battledress, a three piece suit, BWAHAHAHAHA, a paul does a
back handspring, tags frank, frank tosses off the red velvet cape, fists
clenched over his head, he advances on starr... from the front row, pam
starts the cheer, go-frank, go-frank ... GO-FRANK...
cory hamasaki 575 days.
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Subject: Ramblings Was: NRC budget cut
From: kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
Date: 1998/06/04
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