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It's our Missing Link come

Desider — Tue, 03 May 2011 06:20:14 +0000

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It's our Missing Link come home at last, to lead us to the next phase of evolution.

Is your parents lurning yet? Try the windowpane - it's clear. Blotter just blots out the sun.

Lesson #2.... using a computer while tripping your brains out....

Hogtrough??? Izzat you???

quinn esq — Mon, 02 May 2011 23:06:24 +0000

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Hogtrough??? Izzat you???

You from Hogworts? Use a

we are stardust — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:50:57 +0000

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You from Hogworts? Use a spell on us; I'd settle for doubling learning... LSD just makes you believe you're learning exponentially, dude.

"How do we ourselves achieve

Capt. Link Hogthrob — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:40:53 +0000

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"How do we ourselves achieve exponential learning?"

Acid in the public water supply?

I was just thinking after

Richard Day — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:33:40 +0000

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I was just thinking after reading your last paragraph about parallel universes.

bin Laden is going to be like Elvis....he is going to be seen in a thousand different places throughout the world over the coming months!

yes, I listed variants 1-4,

Desider — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:29:38 +0000

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yes, I listed variants 1-4, others possible, like the Cheney #5 "ram whatever you want down someone's throat and lie your ass off" technique. Which leads to 6, "do whatever Dick likes", similar to 4.

we wanted info from Sudan, they had it, and were willing, but instead we were mistrustful and we forced hardball on them, and ended up with nothing from Sudan and a major terrorist threat on our hands.

in the 2nd case, post-9/11 we just created our own virtual reality, and plugged in whatever we wanted. #5 above.

Looks like I'm OUT (I meant

we are stardust — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:14:48 +0000

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Looks like I'm OUT (I meant to say...) the $40 trillion; I sent his piece to myself to try to grok another day. Thanks for the Sudan/bin Laden links; fascinating stuff, none of which I knew. But there's that Susan Rice again. I remember critics at FP Magazine sqawking about little she got from Russia on nuke reductions, and how much better the Bushies did. Arrggh. I see her sorta like a kid playing adult, in the same way that puttin' a suit on Jimmy Fallon never has worked for him. They shouldda stuck with the irreverent big kid thing. But for God's sake, not made her UN Ambassador.

This: "Deciders want decisions, and a decision usually favors the information you know over what you don't - i.e. what you should find out, or safer vs. riskier." I'd think from what you said before it that you'd want to include "...favors the information you want or are pre-conditioned to believe', too, and that's where it seems to me that 'Intelligence' ususally goes wrong.

You leave out the possiblility, IMO, in favor of the notion that some of the things the leaders do are just unwitting mistakes; I think some are willful, and discount the better intel because of some other covert agenda they don;t share with us, like the Cheney Energy Policy, though that's just one example.

Anyhoo, could you say more about what uyou mean here? "In one case, it looks like we couldn't find a way to trust our proclaimed enemy, and in the other, we used our distrust to create a completely different system, one antithetical to our supposed values and courage."

You meaning the way our failures helped create a better batch of organizations to create terror to change the way the world works? Or something? I get skittish about 'jihadist movement' terms...

Don't grasp the last half, so "I couldn't possibly comment." -- F.U. Urquart

Ayup, desire moves mountains,

Desider — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:24:35 +0000

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Ayup, desire moves mountains, for better or worse.

Not to your basic subject

Flavius — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:02:43 +0000

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Not to your basic subject but to your minor one of "the winners of the day".

In The Masters CP Snow reflects on who won in a minor election for a minor position at an Oxford college. Not the most likeable candidate. Not the most competent.Not the most qualified. Not the most unscrupulous. The one who wants it the most.