Hi Andrius, That's a broad definition of rules. In a corrupt system, corrupt behavior is needed to keep things moving smoothly (you bribe the system on demand,...
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anetro11@...
Jan 1, 2003 9:32 pm
Why would anyone who is honest get into a business with cheats? I grabbed all my things out of shops that tried to cheat me. I only deal with honest ...
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Saulius Maskeliunas
mask@...
Jan 2, 2003 10:53 am
... Date sent: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 14:21:55 +0300 From: Eitan Kovarsky <eitan_k@...> Subject: HAPPY NEW YEAR ...
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Sandeep Jain
sj@...
Jan 2, 2003 5:31 pm
That's the right way to do it. In economies where cheating is not punished by an effective and sensible rule book, there is a lot of cheating. That's part of...
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anetro11@...
Jan 2, 2003 9:35 pm
That's correct. You have to have your own sense about people who cheat. I have a few rules. 1. Do they pay up front or do they stall making you come back a...
Here are ideas to encourage Structuring workspaces for fostering endeavors. - - - How are we interacting? - - - ...
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Gautam M Rao
gautam_mrao@...
Jan 3, 2003 2:43 pm
Annette, Hi A lot of points you wrote about poverty, got me thinking, and I am sorry to say I do not agree with most of it. I live in India, which is a poor...
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Natalie d'Arbeloff
augustine@...
Jan 3, 2003 4:16 pm
Dear Gautam, Thankyou for putting into words exactly my own response to this issue. Best wishes for a happy and peaceful new year. Natalie (in London) ...
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ruenterprise@...
Jan 3, 2003 4:37 pm
hai i belongs to India and proud to be Indian. but stop crtisizing others when they point out our own failures. we get the government what we deserve specially...
Here is my direction for this coming year: to jumpstart our economy for working openly, and to create a database of our wishes. I am looking intensely for...
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Sandeep Jain
sj@...
Jan 3, 2003 7:20 pm
Andrius, that's a neat initiative. A database such as ThinkCycle at the Media Lab contains a great many ideas that are research projects -- and many of these...
Here are ideas to encourage Uncovering the structure of everything. - - - What should we be learning? - - - http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/toe.html - - -...
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anetro11@...
Jan 4, 2003 5:07 am
Unless you have democracy which is part of the dream, you have great poverty. Part of the dream is spreading the wealth. The people in this country who end up...
... This is a flat-out lie. I know many drug-free, hard-working people who do not hate the country and they are still poor. They have not been privy to your...
Here are ideas to encourage Organizing an economy for working openly. - - - What are we learning? - - - http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?KnowledgeSharing ...
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anetro11@...
Jan 5, 2003 6:16 am
You are wrong. I lived with the Indians and taught their children. Many did very well, had good jobs, ran the reservation. The truth is that 70% of the ...
I am not wrong, nor do I claim to have a monopoly on truth. We have different experiences, different collections of facts, and different interpretations of...
Here are ideas to encourage Campaigning for ideas by exploring them publicly. - - - - - - http://www.openp2p.com/lpt/a/3015 - - - Interesting article by...
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anetro11@...
Jan 6, 2003 5:58 am
Be real. I have lunch with 8 seniors every day. We've been meeting at the Senior Center for years. We sit together and chat. We all came out to California...
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anetro11@...
Jan 6, 2003 6:01 am
By the way, I didn't have a house large enough. I had a small house with small rooms. I panneled half the garage and a tenant lived there and my daughter...
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anetro11@...
Jan 6, 2003 6:06 am
By the way, I couldn't afford child care for my children. I worked while they were in school and took my baby in a carrier from house to house when I taught...
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Saulius Maskeliunas
mask@...
Jan 6, 2003 10:53 am
Hello, I'm not American, but would like to add few ideas to this discussion. ... After the World War II there was big emigration to USA of displaced persons...
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Natalie d'Arbeloff
augustine@...
Jan 6, 2003 1:15 pm
In connection with this discussion, I would recommend that everyone read Michael Moore's book' Stupid White Men'. And also, if it's playing where you live, go...
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Saulius Maskeliunas
mask@...
Jan 6, 2003 2:01 pm
Dear Natalie, ... Could you say the short resume of this book in few your own words?.. Because - I guess - [almost] nobody can understand what you mean...
But you did have a house. A bigger start than most....
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ruenterprise@...
Jan 6, 2003 3:19 pm
indians should read this GOVT article - an Indian GOVT. Garber Overall Victimizing Tantra (SYSTEM) - this is my definition of govt a short form of Government. ...
I was going to drop this, but I will not stand for unfounded personal attacks. Annette, I don't hate this country. Neither does my family. I have faith in...
Hi! Thank you to everybody for letters. As Moderatorius, I am slowing our pace down by holding letters for just a bit so that we don't get overwhelmed. I...
Schuy, I'm not sure when the University of Chicago study was done, but the other study you mention was in the 1980's. I think that, thankfully, times are ...
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joe damal
jdamal@...
Jan 8, 2003 11:08 am
Ruenterprise: I work for a group that tries to hold gov't accountable. You may be interested is our web site at www.ncbg.org Joe Damal ... From:...
