Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Tom Vogt
Marcel Popescu wrote: > Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not > interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred > years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion > people, and there's room for much more tha

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Tim May
> >at the current standard of living for canada, we would ALREADY need two >ADDITIONAL earths to sustain the CURRENT world population. > >even without a change in standards of living, given current growth and >the nature of exponential functions, we will exhaust this planet's >resources ca. 200 y

Re: Janet Reno Needs an Exploding Dildo

2000-04-26 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Patrick Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> As far as the raid goes, I support it. A 6-year-old child belongs > >> with his father or mother. The uncles and cousins had no standing, > >> period. > > >You're a fucking idiot. > > Pleas

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yep. Good bye. Look, everyone, I'm putting him in my killfile too! [I can't do that without saying it publicly, this would ruin the effect, right?] Tim, I used to admire you. Sadly, it looks that I'm the only fucking anarchist left on Ea

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread David Honig
At 01:04 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: >Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. The difference between bacteria and humans is that some humans think they're different. Meat is meat. And some of the humans think that, because a few percent has achieved z.p.g. a

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Jim Burnes
Tom Vogt wrote: > > Marcel Popescu wrote: > > Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not > > interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred > > years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion > > people, and t

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread David Honig
At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote: >Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven >years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the >planet. Polynomial vs. exponential growth. Exponential wins every time. Besides, the genes are m

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Jim Burnes
David Honig wrote: > > At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote: > >Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven > >years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the > >planet. > > Polynomial vs. exponential growth. Exponential wins eve

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Reese
At 03:34 AM 26/04/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote: >Marcel Popescu wrote: >> Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not >> interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred >> years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 bill

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Reese
At 04:09 PM 26/04/00 -0400, David Honig wrote: >At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote: >>Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven >>years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the >>planet. > >Polynomial vs. exponential growth. E

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Tim May
At 12:42 PM -0400 4/26/00, Jim Burnes wrote: > >Starvation and privation in most of Africa is almost a stereotype. > >Stick with a minimal government and something approaching english common >law and we have goods and happiness aplenty. There are some interesting issues normally neglected in the

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-26 Thread Marcel Popescu
X-Loop: openpgp.net From: "David Honig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 01:04 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: > >Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. > > The difference between bacteria and humans is that some humans > think they're different. Meat is meat. I'm a Christ