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* Second, there is a philosophical argument, taken from Hegel. Very briefly, Fukuyama sees history as consisting of the dialectic between two classes: the Master and the Slave. Ultimately, this thesis (Master) and antithesis (Slave) must meet in a synthesis, in which both manage to live in peace together. This can only happen in a democracy.

* Finally Fukuyama also argues that for a variety of reasons radical socialism (or communism) is likely to be incompatible with modern representative democracy. Therefore, in the future, democracies are overwhelmingly likely to contain markets of some sort, and most are likely to be capitalist or social democratic.

* Shocked - 13,900
* Stunned - 10,400
* Outraged - 6,480
* Perplexed - 1,760
* Astonished - 1,500
* Astounded - 872
* Mesmerized - 841
* Mystified - 736
* Aghast - 652
* Dumbfounded - 535
* Befuddled - 513
* Flustered - 510
* Agape - 496
* Perturbed -492
* Flabbergasted - 492
* Mortified - 488
* Bamboozled - 316
* Awe-struck - 262
* Stupefied - 179
* Discombobulated - 49
* Pusillanimous - 45
* Thunderstruck - 40

Among these was a book called Post-Scarcity Anarchism which had a profound early influence on my own political thinking. I was deeply inspired by Bookchin's advocacy of a radical democracy inseparable from sustainability, his advocacy of an ecological consciousness inseparable from a demand for emancipatory technoscience. I drew abiding clarity and confidence from his uncompromising repudiation of corporate-militarist vocabularies of global "development," from his repudiation of uncritical technophobia or nostalgic luddisms, and from his refusal of the facile biological determinism that freights so much of the discourse of technoscientific culture to this day. My own insistence that technoprogressives should never speak of "technological development" but always of "technodevelopmental social struggle" (despite the gawky awkwardness of the phrase) derives ultimately from Bookchin's own insistence that technologies are never politically neutral.

An online archive of works by Bookchin is available here , and I can think of no better tribute to Bookchin than to encourage those who do not know his work already to begin an exploration of his thinking online today.

Here are the opening paragraphs from a piece published in 1969, Toward a Post-Scarcity Society:

The twentieth century is the heir of human history -- the legatee of man's age-old effort to free himself from drudgery and material insecurity. For the first time in the long succession of centuries, this century has elevated mankind to an entirely new level of technological achievement and to an entirely new vision of the human experience.

Technologically, we can now achieve man's historical goal -- a post scarcity society. But socially and culturally, we are mired in the economic relations, institutions, attitudes and values of a barbarous past, of a social heritage created by material scarcity. Despite the potentiality of complete human freedom, we live in the day-to-day reality of material insecurity and a subtle, ever-oppressive system of coercion. We live, above all, in a society of fear, be it of war, repression, or dehumanization. For decades we have lived under the cloud of a thermonuclear war, streaked by the fires of local conflicts in half the continents of the world. We have tried to find our identities in a society that has become ever more centralized and mobilized, dominated by swollen civil, military and industrial bureaucracies. We have tried to adapt to an environment that is becoming increasingly befouled with noxious wastes. We have seen our cities and their governments grow beyond all human comprehension, reducing our very sovereignty as individuals to ant-like proportions -- the manipulated, dehumanized victims of immense administrative engines and political machines. While the spokesmen for this diseased social 'order' piously mouth encomiums to the virtues of 'democracy,' 'freedom' and 'equality,' tens of millions of people are denied their humanity because of racism and are reduced to conditions of virtual enslavement.

Viewed from a purely personal standpoint, we are processed with the same cold indifference through elementary schools, high schools and academic factories that our parents encounter in their places of work. Worse, we are expected to march along the road from adolescence to adulthood, the conscripted, uniformed creatures of a murder machine guided by electronic brains and military morons. As adults, we can expect to be treated with less dignity and identity than cattle: squeezed into underground freight cars, rushed to the spiritual slaughterhouses called 'offices' and 'factories,' and reduced to insensibility by monotonous, often purposeless, work. We will be asked to work to live and live to work -- the mere automata of a system that creates superfluous, if not absurd, needs; that will steep us in debts, anxieties and insecurities; and that, finally, will deliver us to the margins of society, to the human scrapheap called the aged and chronically ill -- desiccated beings, deprived of all vitality and humanity...

The debasement of social life -- all the more terrifying because its irrational, coercive, day-to-day realities stand in such blatant contradiction to its liberatory potentialities -- has no precedent in human history. Never before has man done so little with so much; indeed, never before has man used his resources for such vicious, even catastrophic ends. The tension between 'what-could-be' and 'what-is' reaches its most excruciating proportions in the United States, which occupies the position not only of the most technologically advanced country in the world but also of the 'policeman of the world,' the foremost imperialist power in the world. The United States affords the terrifying spectacle of a country overladen with automobiles and hydrogen bombs; of ranch houses and ghettoes, of immense material superfluity and brutalizing poverty. Its profession of 'democratic' virtue is belied daily by racism, the repression of black and white militants, police terrorism, Vietnam, and the prospect of Vietnams to come.

We are persuaded that Virtual reality is now entering, with other emerging technologies, an acceleration phase without bounds. Indeed, VR technology is in a phase similar to that of the Web of the early 90s, where some aficionados were already developing very interesting things with immature technologies, but the mainstream business world had not fully realized the potential of the new technology for "serious" applications.

Serious cognitive capitalism time y'all!

Modern society has access to highly advanced technology and can make available food, clothing, housing and medical care; update our educational system; and develop a limitless supply of renewable, non-contaminating energy. By supplying an efficiently designed economy, everyone can enjoy a very high standard of living with all of the amenities of a high technological society.

A resource-based economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, physical equipment, industrial plants, etc. to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all.

Consider the following examples: At the beginning of World War II the US had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war.

In a resource-based economy all of the world's resources are held as the common heritage of all of Earth's people, thus eventually outgrowing the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people. This is the unifying imperative.

We must emphasize that this approach to global governance has nothing whatever in common with the present aims of an elite to form a world government with themselves and large corporations at the helm, and the vast majority of the world's population subservient to them. Our vision of globalization empowers each and every person on the planet to be the best they can be, not to live in abject subjugation to a corporate governing body.

Our proposals would not only add to the well being of people, but they would also provide the necessary information that would enable them to participate in any area of their competence. The measure of success would be based on the fulfillment of one's individual pursuits rather than the acquisition of wealth, property and power.

At present, we have enough material resources to provide a very high standard of living for all of Earth's inhabitants. Only when population exceeds the carrying capacity of the land do many problems such as greed, crime and violence emerge. By overcoming scarcity, most of the crimes and even the prisons of today's society would no longer be necessary.

A resource-based world economy would also involve all-out efforts to develop new, clean, and renewable sources of energy: geothermal; controlled fusion; solar; photovoltaic; wind, wave, and tidal power; and even fuel from the oceans. We would eventually be able to have energy in unlimited quantity that could propel civilization for thousands of years. A resource-based economy must also be committed to the redesign of our cities, transportation systems, and industrial plants, allowing them to be energy efficient, clean, and conveniently serve the needs of all people.

What else would a resource-based economy mean? Technology intelligently and efficiently applied, conserves energy, reduces waste, and provides more leisure time. With automated inventory on a global scale, we can maintain a balance between production and distribution. Only nutritious and healthy food would be available and planned obsolescence would be unnecessary and non-existent in a resource-based economy.

As we outgrow the need for professions based on the monetary system, for instance lawyers, bankers, insurance agents, marketing and advertising personnel, salespersons, and stockbrokers, a considerable amount of waste will be eliminated. Considerable amounts of energy would also be saved by eliminating the duplication of competitive products such as tools, eating utensils, pots, pans and vacuum cleaners. Choice is good. But instead of hundreds of different manufacturing plants and all the paperwork and personnel required to turn out similar products, only a few of the highest quality would be needed to serve the entire population. Our only shortage is the lack of creative thought and intelligence in ourselves and our elected leaders to solve these problems. The most valuable, untapped resource today is human ingenuity.

With the elimination of debt, the fear of losing one's job will no longer be a threat This assurance, combined with education on how to relate to one another in a much more meaningful way, could considerably reduce both mental and physical stress and leave us free to explore and develop our abilities.

If the thought of eliminating money still troubles you, consider this: If a group of people with gold, diamonds and money were stranded on an island that had no resources such as food, clean air and water, their wealth would be irrelevant to their survival. It is only when resources are scarce that money can be used to control their distribution. One could not, for example, sell the air we breathe or water abundantly flowing down from a mountain stream. Although air and water are valuable, in abundance they cannot be sold.

Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for the scarce resources. Money is a social convention, an agreement if you will. It is neither a natural resource nor does it represent one. It is not necessary for survival unless we have been conditioned to accept it as such.

My brother is a patent lawyer and I've spent a countless hours time chatting about ideas to him and investigating the possibility of filing patents on designs and ideas I've had for magnetic nozzles etc.

One thing that has suprised me quite a lot is that basically, if you've had a great idea, you can almost bet your life that at least one other person is already onto something very similar or already filed for it. If you revisit the patent office with new ideas regularly, you'll see just how incredibly frequent this is - and how little most people appreciate the repetition of ideas. My brother, as someone who deals with the problems when the ideas cross over, can attest to the similarities and, often, almost insignificant differences between designs claiming to be unique.

Not being a particularly religious person, I don't have a lot to comfort myself when it comes to the idea of death.

But one of the few things* I do take some kind of strange comfort in is that even after I die, I'm sure there will be people with minds working in a similar pattern to my own. They won't be me, and they won't have exactly the same ideas, but they'll be approximations.

My point here is that I think people sometimes over emphasise on each individual being unique in a superior sense. We're each unique, but I think there are a lot more similarities than differences - the motto of the IP guys being "Evolution not revolution!"

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* Processes involved utilize the resources available to fulfill social needs rather than those dictated by the market
* Cognizance of value of labour and finding ways for its maximum utilization and preservation
* Focus is on self-sufficiency and cooperation rather than dependence
* Prudent use of resources based on needs rather than over-consumption
* Management strategies/systems are based on democratic processes like cooperation and participation rather than on control and decision
* Values and ethical principles play an important role in developing the models
* Sustenance of the culture, language and customs of the community

We're living in a time where more helpful new things tend to become available
almost like clockwork. But you still have to seek them out, stay up to date, and
decide whether to make use of them as they become available. The strategy of sit
back and just "eat healthy" may not be the best idea over the coming years as
more and more powerful techniques become viable. On the other hand of course
when it comes to new drugs and therapies, being the very first adopter may also
not be optimal due to incompletely known risk profiles. Your appetite for these
risks may depend on your age. If I was older I probably would lean more towards
being an early first adopter... for now I'm more in the middle of the pack.

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it is anti-Wagnerian — in this sense —                                         It opens.                                         Let me warn you: Lust never troubled me.                                         Maybe tomorrow.                                         — and the color’s flawed —                                         — so playing tennis won’t solve much of anything                                         — neither his own nor                                         My lazy glands will ever support me.                                         My sense is that one can find an analogy in poetry                                         Nation is easily placed on the axis of transnation  nation                                         — a headache in a ballroom                                         — constant —                                         — the trade of all sophists —                                         — slow tones that surrender themselves finally — in the mist —                                         Or hell                                         — certainly when —                                         “watch me getting fucked every which way” the thin hair of our information                                         Professionals.                                         Politesse with the finger bent.                                         be simply a diagram for memory —                                         — you can replace it if you’d like —                                         Fisher-Price joys now that the idea of the flood has subsided.                                        

— so — then — yeah —                                         description                                         falters                                         — they’ll never get anywhere —                                         — speaking among themselves with polysyllabic cardinals and heliocentric ordinals                                         pull the elastic back                                         before such robust confusion                                         More creativity lugged through weasel holes.                                         not tired —                                         governs the lack                                         — though with respect —                                         So few —                                         So said those Pop dudes.                                        

Some of this screaming from Tan Dun seems to reflect this impassiveness —                                         cathartic but recorded —                                         Bob Mould — in Cleveland — insensate.                                         — bad gums —                                         Stamping.                                         Standing in the zone.                                         — lyrical — in expanded volumes; this scum records dutifully the you of us and should live.                                         Surprise!                                         — perhaps —                                         speaking — worth nothing.                                         jimmy the lock — vandalize the key —                                         — don’t sing what is well made by Irish —                                         — retract everything                                         — words don’t know these physical boundaries —                                         — as Duchamp famously quipped                                         “dataflow — ”                                         not to anticipate a later critical attitude toward the finished work so much as to maintain the aura (or era) of exploration                                         — you will have no success                                         — so Providence awaits                                         global cellular rates —                                         the number of croutons baking away —                                         bruiser                                         some complicated punctuation                                         — some embryonic female who could make sense of all this.                                         Of course!                                         Tom Stinkmetal is man.                                         Too Much Entropy?                                         DVD — with a razor and beer —                                         — screamed Calibanic fortune-cookies at Studio 54 —                                         — unawares of our zeitgeisty question looming like Woody Allen’s brassiere over the fields with a slurp-slurpy sound (special effects);                                         — though —                                         kemosabee                                         — like some presidential candidate                                         — the beach delivered the body of Malcolm X                                         — waltzing so softly                                         — this action                                         — to be skies edible as text daily to determine it —                                         relax                                         — so long as you are aspiring to love                                         — but as love is inspiring the atmosphere                                         — we’ve turned a corner                                         Usually —                                         borders of Dumbo —                                         Very fine — thank you.                                         Very fine — thank you.                                         — flowing down in predictable cascades for all to see —                                         set out for them                                         With a million things to remember —                                         Wanking — the boy returned to his home not crying                                         larger definition                                         healthy breakfast merely that —                                         and given an “Asian mom” perm.                                         — there clomb a tree                                        

barely able to lift the chin                                         — that teething                                         We are both conformists if I understand you correctly.                                         though it sounded like French soufflé fed through a Kaos box —                                         The dullness receding —                                         the gritty matter; to deposit this egg in a brown bag on the reader’s doorstep —                                         — I don’t know how to                                         the “realms” and one more sure argument for literacy amongst those who don’t know —                                         Weeping consolations.                                         — cross-legged —                                         — ratted on products —                                         — quality of printed production — etc.                                         When writing — making the fishbowls round.                                                                                                                        
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at stake is the cultural excreta, the better part of a chipotle burrito along with a few undigested kernels of corn (sub-cultural waste), a reminder of past glories. in the same sense, much of what the barbarians find will be looted, raped, or destroyed. it's not a happy matter, nor a sad one, it's a biological process. people eat and shit everyday. several languages die every year. the loss of ones cultural heritage is an ongoing biological process. with every defecation, every urination, we expel more of the mother's milk, the metric of the authenticity of one's own identity. we transform our physical identity with food.

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Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
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No-one knows whose friend he is,
He's always there,
He's the big man restless, like forty indians.
I'm in the third group,
we push for humour,
We're so relentless, like forty indians.

Chorus
The legal quarter of tight-lipped men
Pushed for order
And repeat again
Anyway, the lot regarding the funny man
The big man restless
Are so relentless
They scratched about
And like forty indians
The lot turn on the funny man,
The big man restless

And what can he say

If the sun's all gone and we're wafer thin
And we could scratch around in our so frail skin
You could say
You could say

No flags in here, no cause to wave,
Just the slow, slow scratch in the final cave
You could say
You could say

Computer engineer man, a researcher for the anarchist studies group., is
working on just such a mechanism. He's trying to devise what amounts to
a digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versions
of nearly everything in his life

There are two parts to the project. The first is the experiment with
life storage -- capturing his papers, faxes, phone calls, photographs
and home movies in digitalized form. The second part focuses on
developing software that would support this type of lifetime library on
anyone's computer.

"The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that's
as good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and will
remember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears,
eyes, whatever," man said of his experiment.

With its combination of expertise in computer science, brain sciences, and management, anarchism studies group is uniquely suited to address this question. We hope this work will lead to new scientific understanding in a variety of disciplines and practical advances in many areas of community based production and self-management.

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'multitude': 'multitud',
'multitudes': 'multitud',
'multitudinous': 'multitudin',

Global multi_mode; ! Multiple mode
Global multi_wanted; ! Number of things needed in multitude
Global multi_had; ! Number of things actually found

multitube multitubes
multitude multitudes
multiuse multiuser multiusers

The noise of a multitude in the
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Kristi L. Swope(1,2), Paul Bieganski(2), Ed Chi(2), Elizabeth Shoop(2), Olaf Holt(2), John Carlis(2), John Riedl(2), Thomas Newman(3) and Ernest F. Retzel(1)

(1)Medical School and (2)Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN;
(3)DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

email: comments@lenti.med.umn.edu

Pattern #2 is described by the sequence:

at[ACGT]ac[ACGT](2)c[ACGT]tata[ACGT](8)tata[ACGT]g[ACGT](2)gt[ACGT]at

It selects for conservation of those base pairs in the lox-P site believed to be contact points for the Cre enzyme (underlined bases in the sequence ATAACTTCGTATA ATGTATGC TATACGAAGTTAT). This pattern is augmented by a mismatch parameter that allows up to 5 mismatches to be tolerated.

Pattern #3 is described by the sequence:

[ACGT](9)TATA[ACGT](8)TATA[ACGT](9).

It ensures that the TATA motif surrounding the core 8-bp spacer region is present. This pattern is augmented by a mismatch parameter that ensures no mismatches are tolerated.

A web service called Fuzznuc-Comparator was developed that compares the output from two fuzznuc processes and outputs only those sequences present in both. When the result of the comparison contains more than one sequence the Fuzznuc-Comparator tool performs a pairwise alignment of the core 8-bp spacer regions. The output file format consists of the result of the pairwise comparison (if any) followed by those sequences present in both input files (in fuzznuc’s seqtable format).

To isolate those sequences that match all three patterns two comparisons are required. First, a Fuzznuc-Comparator process is used to isolate those sequences that match patterns 1 & 2. A fileDivider process splits the output content and outputs only the fuzznuc seqtable section. Second, a Fuzznuc-Comparator process compares the output from the fileDivider process with those sequences that match pattern #3. The final step in the workflow is to write those sequences that match all three patterns to file.
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  cannot function without an active network connection

 may or may not be interactive

 may or may not be accessible on-line
 
  reflects contemporary culture
 
 

 cannot function without electricity

 is automated
  is not virtual

  is not dependent upon The World Wide Web 

This idea is familiar within transhumanist and cryonics groups. It is
mentioned in fiction; Joe Halpern, Greg Egan, Linda Nigata come to mind.
There is also Tipler's version of the "Omega Point" where everyone who
ever lived could be effectively reconstituted via latent information and
near-infinite computational power. I recall Robert Bradbury (on this
list) and John Smart in the last year talking about how personality
capture might be valuable to the survivors, if not for the deceased.

Making a living as someone with artistic talents of one sort or another is neither harder nor easier than making a living based on any other personal inclinations, save that one has to be competent, of course. Innovating in art is like innovating in any field -- acceptable if one's workmates agree on its merits and if the participatory plan find the workplace as a whole to be socially valuable.

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f you think that there is something called art which entitles something called an artist to live a life free of responsibility to the community, free of responsibility to co-workers, and remunerated at a rate above and beyond others, then parecon art will be a horror to your vision.

If you think that people doing art, like all other people, should contribute to the community and be supported for their socially valued labors, and that their endeavors should arise from their termperments and tastes, not from imposition by elites, parecon art will be a delight for you to behold.
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