Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Nick, My daughter says, "It is a fourth declension noun like apparatus. The plural is the same as the singular, I believe." Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 9:47 AM wrote: > Thank God for not trimming. I was

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Rendering and parsing costs can be significant. In Microsoft Outlook for the web, I have had e-mails where it takes a full second​ between each keystroke. No, I haven't really investigated the detailed profile of where that cost was coming from. (It's not open-source software, so why would I

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Sheesh. I was talking about trimming the HUGE FriAM footer, not the content of the posts. You know, this part of every message you get: .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virt

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Thank God for not trimming. I was able to catch up on this . um .. Far flung conversation in one go without opening a thousand messages. Thank You Marcus. I have only one comment: Frank, I think it's feteri. Ask you daughter to make sure. Nick Nick Thompson

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

I used to trim everything, but I tend to get accusations that was trying to judo chop people and take them out of context. When really, I'm just trying to delete all distracting context. I think that larding is ridiculous. Reasonable people can soak up the meaning and respond without torturi

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Yeah, that's a good point. And it's relevant to SteveS' comment on the metaphorical neutering of stereotypically identified "men". (That category also would include the "lean in" females, i.e. those who adopt man-ish behaviors to combat systemic sexism.) Metoo and cancel culture are taken as Bl

Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics

Excellent, as usual. Thanks for donating that work to the list! Seriously. I know it's actual work. If I try to concisely reword what I read, the objective is: a monotonically increasing progression of complexity (maybe "plectic organization") absent the freezing out of prior stages of that pr

Re: [FRIAM] Cautionary Tales: CliFi

On 1/25/22 5:58 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: < It might not surprise anyone here that I have become a CliFi obsessionist with Kim Stanly Robinson's stuff well represented ("Ministry for the Future" standing out well above the others).  His Red/Green/Blue Mars series is a good complement with th