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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:33:43 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 64 Message-ID: <feb3djdv4v1fn0ianccostmcabvkc0npil@4ax.com> References: <h2vscjlvas4pdkj1clutgm2ehcli4drpe6@4ax.com> <valuvq$36fbc$1@dont-email.me> <vanb0n$3gcks$1@dont-email.me> <8rkvcjl23oci8ouf8b07jb4g18us8gjkpe@4ax.com> <vaon52$3qjup$1@dont-email.me> <pc20djpu4pdapi5sk8oojmjbrrfjfam0lf@4ax.com> <vaq9gp$1vab$1@dont-email.me> <vaqmv6$4bk2$1@dont-email.me> <var61q$6ku3$1@dont-email.me> <var6ae$69l5$1@dont-email.me> <orc2dj9gg9egaacvm11tu8ppo41fmqu6fa@4ax.com> <ij23dj54gpune4q5mm9l8oah5c5s3iapia@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:33:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0b6fba731d346d40135e7e208314b35"; logging-data="510060"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/nE5ev0z2MzkZfDJ7RV0XrmB97PjlRTk=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LVk8nUAD5T1GDUXn8IPVVxXXFbE= Bytes: 3604 On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:02:34 -0400, Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote: >On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:26:09 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> >wrote: > >>On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:12:47 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote: >> >>>On 8/29/2024 8:08 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>> On 8/29/2024 4:50 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>>>> On 8/29/2024 12:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>>> On 8/29/2024 1:47 AM, John B. wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If I read you correctly your definition of Democracy is >>>>>>> a government >>>>>>> in which each and every decision is decided by the >>>>>>> voters, A bit >>>>>>> cumbersome, isn't it? >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes. That was my point. >>>>> >>>>> OK, a kingdom with one unitary monarch is simple. >>>>> Simplicity may not be a desirable feature. >>>> >>>> Albert Einstein: 'Everything should be made as simple as >>>> possible, but not simpler.' >>>> >>>> >>I was curtness enough to research the Einstein statement, above, and >>apparently there is no evidence that he ever said it. The closest >>approximation seems to be "It can scarcely be denied that the supreme >>goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple >>and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate >>representation of a single datum of experience". >> >>From a lecture delivered "On the Method of Theoretical Physics" The >>Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933) >> >>> >>>If I were King I'd advocate monarchy! >>> >>>Our Constitution, in the cases and times where it's >>>observed, works pretty well. Good enough for me and we >>>ought to try that once again. Soon. >> >>Ah, but then you'd have to give up all those wonderful federal funds. >>It's a bit difficult to track down but in one place I found >>"Under the American Rescue Plan, Wisconsin will receive $2.5 billion >>in direct state fiscal aid and $1.9 billion in local government aid >>from the federal government." >> >>So... 4.4 Billion divided by 5.893 million last (census)is something >>like 746 for every man, woman and child :-) > >Recipe for inflation. Not "recipe"... today's reality. -- Cheers, John B.