Re: Who to send back

2000-04-28 Thread Tom Vogt
> I won't copy the entire text of "The Ultimate Resource" here. Anyway, the > notion of "finite resources" is dumb. All resources are infinite. The Earth > is round. Deal with it. "all resources are infinite" - may I quote you next time my machine runs out of memory? maybe it'll be impressed. I'

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-28 Thread Tom Vogt
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. while my source was not malthus, I'd be interested in what you mention. any sources? URLs or ISBNs? > Rehashing

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-28 Thread Tom Vogt
Reese wrote: > If he doesn't want the title, author and ISBN for this (from memory) quote > below, > I certainly do, so I can see what sort of drivel you've been mushing up > your skull with. here you are: Title: The New Renaissance : Computers and the Next Level of Civilization Author: Douglas

Re: Insurance GPS System To Monitor Vehicle Usage

2000-04-28 Thread David Honig
At 03:35 AM 4/28/00 -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote: >I can already imagine the cottage industry springing up to send false >signals to the system... > >Regards, Matthew Gaylor- And legislation making that a crime, as well as the civilian interception of those signals.

Re: "Harmonized Packet Data Intercept Standards"

2000-04-28 Thread David Honig
At 12:02 PM 4/28/00 -0400, Daniel J. Boone wrote: >Smarter search engine spiders, ones that are persistent and ignore /norobots >and similar flags, may be part of the solution. Such spiders could be >linked to software that can parse and index word processing documents, .pdf >documents, and even

Re: Who to send back

2000-04-28 Thread Reese
At 04:00 PM 28/04/00 +0200, Tom Vogt wrote: >Reese wrote: >> If he doesn't want the title, author and ISBN for this (from memory) quote >> below, >> I certainly do, so I can see what sort of drivel you've been mushing up >> your skull with. > >here you are: > >Title: The New Renaissance : Compute