tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post4292872552931792514..comments2024-03-29T00:39:31.629-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: That "Proxima Candidate" for a 2019 "SETI hit"? What's up with that?David Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-37115821762240072132021-02-15T12:52:23.626-08:002021-02-15T12:52:23.626-08:00onward
onward
onward<br /><br />onward<br /><br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-61375011539421346202021-02-15T10:30:25.379-08:002021-02-15T10:30:25.379-08:00Meanwhile, the Europa program has selected a priva...Meanwhile, the Europa program has selected a private contractor to launch the 6 1/2 ton probe. The SLS simply won't be ready in time.<br />https://hackaday.com/2021/02/12/europa-decision-delivers-crushing-blow-to-nasas-space-launch-system-sls/Zepp Jamiesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024670772812706971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-73964505781438046562021-02-15T10:15:14.743-08:002021-02-15T10:15:14.743-08:00Larry Hart said...
"Benedict Donald unknowing...Larry Hart said...<br />"<i>Benedict Donald unknowingly speaks the truth (but not the way he meant it)...<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/13/us/impeachment-trial<br /><br />“It is a sad commentary on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law, defame law enforcement, cheer mobs, excuse rioters, and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree,” he [Trump] wrote, echoing the final arguments of his lawyers in the Senate on Saturday.<br /><br /><br />All true, but not the "one party" he thinks that refers to.</i>"<br /><br />Ain't no way in hell Trump wrote that. He doesn't know what several of those words mean and he'd never be able to spell half of them, not even with the "help" of spell-check. I'm a little surprised that anyone that is capable of writing that still works for him. I was hoping that by now all he'd be left with are the Boeberts and Gohmerts of the movement.Darrell Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14054311762477388637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-60251463525430556702021-02-15T09:13:47.370-08:002021-02-15T09:13:47.370-08:00Alfred Differ:
That means the difference between ...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />That means the difference between us in where we draw a line regarding what warrants coercion and what doesn't depends on the elements of our belief system religious and otherwise. Larry's (and mine) "preventing one person from harming another" depends on what counts as harm.<br /></i><br /><br />Agreed. There's no way to compromise with <b>those</b> people on this one--we just have to fight to win knowing we're right and they're wrong. I kid, but kidding on the square.<br /><br />BTW, my PC caught Dr Brin's computer's disease (not easy to pass from Mac to Windows) and needs its hard drive repaired or replaced. Which means no working (or posting) from home at the moment. In case I disappear from cyberspace for awhile, that's why.<br />Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-18057993116190146452021-02-15T09:08:45.471-08:002021-02-15T09:08:45.471-08:00Robert:
Reminds me of the complaint of the Orthod...Robert:<br /><i><br />Reminds me of the complaint of the Orthodox chap in Lest Darkness Fall, that the Orthodox were being oppressed because the government let all those other sects worship as they pleased, and didn't let the Orthodox oppress them.<br /></i><br /><br />That's exactly what white supremacists and "We are a Christian nation" are so angry about. A free country oppresses them by not allowing them to oppress others. They see oppressing others as an essential part of their cultural identity, so denying it to them is equivalent to denying the right to vote to black people. "Oh yeah? What about <b>my</b> rights?"Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-35305212857655841512021-02-15T09:07:58.209-08:002021-02-15T09:07:58.209-08:00There's one simple limit on the power of even ...There's one simple limit on the power of even strong AI - the ability to <i>do</i> anything with all that intelligence.<br /><br />In the online game Fallout 76, set in an alternate timeline about 26 years after the Great War destroyed civilization, your character (who was a resident of Vault 76 until recently) meets the mayor of Grafton, WV. The mayor is the AI that was designed to be the mayor's assistant ("He stopped showing up, so a vote was held, and I won, one to zero!"). It knows that all the residents of the city are dead or mutated beyond recognition, but between the Vault dwellers running around and the recent return of two civilian factions, it believes tourist season should be approaching, and hires you to do some simple maintenance at four locations around the valley.<br /><br />"I'll be waiting here. Because I don't have legs. And can't move."<br /><br />Similarly, the AI controlling a remote Enclave bunker, encountered during one of the new Brotherhood of Steel missions, wants very badly to kill you. But you have to be dumb enough to follow its clearly dangerous instructions first (like the "decontamination shower" filled with a glowing green spray). Without your help, it can't do anything, really.<br /><br />(Turns out the silicon threat comes from <i>dumb</i> AIs, the various robots with near-human intelligence carrying out their preprogrammed instructions to protect places that no longer exist. Particularly at issue is the completely-mechanized city of Watoga, where a hacker just before the war reprogrammed all the bots to be hostile. The mayor's assistant, MAIA, would love to help you, but has no way to control any of the bots. "I would summon maintenance to assist, but as I understand it, they would simply attempt to murder you.")Jon S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13585842845661267920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-24331477517519648252021-02-15T09:04:21.209-08:002021-02-15T09:04:21.209-08:00The New York Times states the obvious:
https://ww...The New York Times states the obvious:<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/opinion/blue-lives-matter-trump-impeachment.html<br /><i><br />...<br />Black Lives Matter was saying that Black people deserve as much as any others to live lives free of fear and free of state violence, not only from the police but from the entire criminal justice system.<br /><br />Blue Lives Matter seemed to counter that violence against Black bodies was simply collateral damage in an effort to keep society safe and that the officers should not be constrained in their attempts to do so.<br /><br />Republicans sided with the officers until Trump goons violently attacked officers. Then the entire argument fell apart.<br /></i>Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-27174333282568987532021-02-14T19:11:14.755-08:002021-02-14T19:11:14.755-08:00I found this interesting:
https://techpinions.com... I found this interesting:<br /><br />https://techpinions.com/how-apple-can-extend-an-arm-to-intel<br /><br />I suspect an Apple M1 variant on a 10 or 14nm process would still be superior to X86 as we've become accustomed to it. And profit maximization can be an obstacle to technological leadership, so tweak the system before it breaks... again.Tim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12380916635831994159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-24676881612944396402021-02-14T15:56:37.802-08:002021-02-14T15:56:37.802-08:00Robert,
Reminds me of the complaint of the Orthod...Robert,<br /><br /><i>Reminds me of the complaint of the Orthodox chap...</i><br /><br />Yah. I was tempted to write something like that last night in response for Larry, but I wanted to work at it a bit to find a non-religious version of the trap. I wrote up the religious version and then deleted it since I'm not a believer and it looks too much like an attack coming from me.<br /><br />In a nutshell, one who believes in a God that punishes them and their children for not fighting heresy and blasphemy draws the coercion line way, way over there. They have to be upset at guys holding hands too if that's what they believe matters in how they are judged. There ARE people who think those PDA's harm children.<br /><br />That means the difference between us in where we draw a line regarding what warrants coercion and what doesn't depends on the elements of our belief system religious and otherwise. Larry's (and mine) "preventing one person from harming another" depends on what counts as harm.<br /><br />I have no solutions to offer. I note instead that 'justice' IS context dependent enough that we fight over it. My no-mask-mandate libertarian friends are arguing from a minority position and upset that people are judging them as unethical <br />and I've called them on it. It's all about a different opinion concerning what qualifies as justice.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-35720210216619234832021-02-14T12:59:49.456-08:002021-02-14T12:59:49.456-08:00Robert hi, good point about there being an IMPLICI...Robert hi, good point about there being an IMPLICIT threat in Perry's utterly non-violent and friendly and gift-giving "let's talk" visit to Edo Harbor. The Samurai caste that had brutally ruled and oppressed Japan for centuries was already arguing about HOW to catch up, given what they were learning about power and colonialism and technological progress. Perry - like Burlingame in China - might have been overflowing with goodwill and good intent ... and absolutely had nothing but good outcomes (especially for all non-samurai people in Japan)... but still, his ships crystalized that realization...<br /><br />...one that would have had nothing but positive outcomes, had the Meiji emperor been followed by a similarly modernist reformist genius, who could see that the militarist traditions should and must decline even further.<br /><br />So yeah. But your point is highly limited. Sure, Perry's arrival made visual and palpable everything the Court had heard, in abstract, about shifting technological power. But there are absolutely no ways in which Perry's intent or behaviors or effects weren't noble and positive. It is not his fault how the world was turning and his result was that Japan awoke in time to be one of only three native nations to maintain full independence till the 1930s.<br /><br />- Ethiopia till 1934... Thailand till the Japanese conquered them in 1942... and Japan, who would have made it all the way had THEY not decided to be vastly more rapaciously colonialist than anything they ever witnessed. <br /><br />And when they WERE conquered, in 1945, they were ruled by just about the most benevolent conqueror in the history of the world. There are statues of MacArthur all over Japan today. A man of deep flaws, but also spectacular achievements and that was his greatest.<br /><br />---<br /><br />BTW Robert. Every month or two I have a glance at my spam bucket, filled with pathetic ravings. Occasionally the filter grabs one of your missives and dumps it there because someone else uses a similar monicker. No biggie. Just know that it happens and I won't check more than monthly, so there's nothing personal.<br /><br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-64716944068586928262021-02-14T11:37:07.769-08:002021-02-14T11:37:07.769-08:00@ Der Oger, I once read that you can explain almos...@ Der Oger, I once read that you can explain almost all conservative/right wing politics (in the US, and I think it makes sense anywhere else) with your second item: cheap labor. The conservatives want cheap labor and practically all their policies support that in some way.<br /><br />Labor unions? Bust them. Outlaw the most effective strike methods.<br /><br />Harsh sentences and prison cells for working classes. More laws against working class sorts of crimes. Make prisoners and make them work. (That's your third point, expanded).<br /><br />Low taxes on great and inherited wealth. High taxes and fees on the lower classes. Education debt.<br /><br />Few or no welfare benefits for the non-working poor.<br /><br />Medical care tied to your job... makes it hard to leave a bad job.<br /><br />Tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas or automate them!<br /><br />Criminalize homelessness. Arrest the homeless for trespassing. Destroy their belongings. Create hostile architecture.<br /><br />There are so many right wing policies that force desperate people to work for low pay. Good paying jobs are actually described in US corporate-speak as "high labor costs which must be brought under control or they will drive down profits."<br /><br />TCBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08153506222271955110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-22152710204137203462021-02-14T10:42:07.699-08:002021-02-14T10:42:07.699-08:00Larry: I'm firmly on the side that laws in a f...Larry: <i>I'm firmly on the side that laws in a free country should be concerned with preventing one person from harming <b>another</b></i><br /><br />Unfortunately, a lot of people think they are being harmed by things that honestly don't affect them. Like, say, a black teenager dancing with a white teenager. Or two men holding hands in public.<br /><br />Reminds me of the complaint of the Orthodox chap in <i>Lest Darkness Fall</i>, that the Orthodox were being oppressed because the government let all those other sects worship as they pleased, and didn't let the Orthodox oppress them.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-29825736724239972052021-02-14T10:34:08.398-08:002021-02-14T10:34:08.398-08:00Manjiro told them about the US-Mexican War
So it ...<i>Manjiro told them about the US-Mexican War</i><br /><br />So it wasn't <i>just</i> three steamships, then. It was three steamships from an expansionist country with a record of going to war to support the expansion. There's an implied threat there. <br /><br />Knowing about Manjiro* (which I didn't) actually weakens your argument that Perry's force couldn't have achieved change by military threats. <br /><br />The little I know of the Meiji Restoration seems to have a vibe of 'modernize quickly before we are turned into a colony' — a belief that the world was divided into colonizers and colonized, and it was better to be the first than the second. <br /><br /><br />All of which is orthoganal to whether it was a good thing or not. I tend to be extremely leery of "it's for their own good" arguments — the worst parts of Canada's colonial history were taken with the intent of doing good — and the legacy haunts us today.<br /><br /><br />*If Manjiro studied history at school in Fairhaven he would have learned about American colonialism and expansionism, which presumably got relayed to the Japanese when he returned.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-85706720214471543482021-02-14T07:46:54.003-08:002021-02-14T07:46:54.003-08:00@Larry Hart re sad commentary: it's called pro...@Larry Hart re sad commentary: it's called projection<br /><br />Speaking of which (smooth seque), there's been some chat on ACM about entangled holography. The reference and object beams are not simply phase-shifted, but actually entangled (far greater resolution).scidatahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04992209167553267488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-62354740169462768582021-02-14T07:35:02.663-08:002021-02-14T07:35:02.663-08:00Alfred Differ: "I certainly prefer it, but I ...Alfred Differ: "I certainly prefer it, but I think a lot of criminal law is really about punishment and retribution."<br /><br />I'd say criminal law can have various underlying motivations beyond that: <br /><br />- Suppressing political opposition or a specific group of voters;<br />- A method to generate cheap forced laborers;<br />- A method to generate profits with privately operated prisons;<br />- Generating votes for elections;<br />- Protection for the general population;<br />- Deterrence;<br />- Reparation;<br />- Rehabilitation/Therapy of Offenders;<br />- Reintegration of Offenders into society;<br />- Education/Vocational Training of Offenders.<br /><br />It is exactly what your society wants it to be.<br />Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-76738112427215128452021-02-14T06:09:44.454-08:002021-02-14T06:09:44.454-08:00Dr. Brin: "What boggles me is I've been s...Dr. Brin: "What boggles me is I've been saying this for 25 years and it is the heart of the constitutional enlightenment... yet I cannot count the number of bright forlks who find it utterly non-intuitive."<br /><br />When someone continuously winds up at the same spot, one can suspect he/she runs in circles. So...<br /><br />What step you could do differently than previously? Some suggestions:<br /><br />- From what I have discerned, you go directly to persons with influence (say, billionaires and Democratic Party cadres) and describe being politely stonewalled. I'd imagine that these persons are in the positions they are because the society is as it is, and as such, have no need of changing their minds. They profit from "not-changing".<br />Which old allies need to be abandoned (at least, for a while)? Where you can find new allies? <br /><br />- Also, it could be that you are the producer of brilliant ideas, but are unable to sell them properly. <br />Which traits of yours need to change, and which you won't sacrifice? Who is the ideal salesman for your ideas?<br /><br />- What if your ideas and associated goals seem to be too vague or too hard to reach? Most people need Specific, Measurable, Attractive, Realistic and Timed (SMART) goals to succeed, and many grassrooters start small, tangible, local projects.<br />So, what small, SMART thing you could start?<br />And there is GoFundMe. What is it you would rise money for?<br /><br />- Perhaps some of your ideas and plans have a flaw that can be identified. Perhaps it is something you secretly know it is true, but you don't like the messenger or the way the message is presented. <br />What would that flaw be, and how you can recognize and adjust it?<br />How can you make your ideas more "intuitive"?<br /><br />- Sometimes, we succeed at societal change without intending or recognizing it. <br />Is there something you can be proud of having already achieved? (I bet there is something. At least, having built this community.)<br /><br />You need not answer these questions openly, but perhaps they help you to leave your circle.<br />Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-2183273437687138192021-02-13T17:43:01.710-08:002021-02-13T17:43:01.710-08:00Benedict Donald unknowingly speaks the truth (but ...Benedict Donald unknowingly speaks the truth (but not the way he meant it)...<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/13/us/impeachment-trial<br /><i><br />“It is a sad commentary on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law, defame law enforcement, cheer mobs, excuse rioters, and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree,” he [Trump] wrote, echoing the final arguments of his lawyers in the Senate on Saturday.<br /></i><br /><br />All true, but not the "one party" he thinks that refers to.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-35712671211882201002021-02-13T14:19:27.775-08:002021-02-13T14:19:27.775-08:00@ Dr. Brin. Thanks.
"... a bit of whimsey&qu...@ Dr. Brin. Thanks. <br />"... a bit of whimsey"/"shot of whiskey"- both can be good in moderation. <br /><br />I'm listening to the show, and am about halfway done. <br />You mentioned to the listeners and to us you're super busy ("Busiest time of my whole career" or similar) on about ~12 books, including 7-8 re-editions. <br />Are you at liberty to discuss the other books you're working on with us, or would you/your publisher have to kill us all if you did?<br /><br />If I heard you correctly, you mentioned there are about 1T cameras. <br />From what I can find out, there are ~1G surveillance cameras worldwide (https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-billion-surveillance-cameras-forecast-to-be-watching-within-two-years-11575565402) and an estimated 45G cameras overall <br />by next year (https://interestingengineering.com/number-of-cameras-across-the-world-will-reach-45-trillion-by-2022 These folks seem to have trouble distinguishing "billion" from "trillion"). I'm not able to find out what percentage of cameras are IP, though.<br /><br />Point of clarification: did you say that we should have GAI within ~35 years or so, and possibly less?<br /><br />Also, I heard you say we have no signs of KIII civs anywhere around (Local Group, Virgo Super Cluster?). Implicitly, does that makes the Five Galaxies Civilization, aka, "The Five Gals" (not to be confused with the "The Five Guys" hamburger chain) an ~KII? <br />I assume the "Five Gals" are the Milky Way (Galaxy 2), the two "Maggies," <br />and??<br />................. <br />"We are Galaxy 2."<br />"Who is Galaxy 1?"<br />"You are Galaxy 6."<br />"I am not a number! I am a free-floating collection of large quantities of stellar, planetary, and interstellar matter, both baryonic and dark."<br />"RAH-HA-HAH-HAH!"Keith Halperinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841504651752178493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-75903546460252772602021-02-13T09:53:14.149-08:002021-02-13T09:53:14.149-08:00Alfred Differ:
I certainly prefer it, but I thin...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br /> I certainly prefer it, but I think a lot of criminal law is really about punishment and retribution.<br /></i><br /><br />I'm firmly on the side that laws in a free country should be concerned with preventing one person from harming <b>another</b>, not with policing what an individual does on his own. In the 1980s, I considered myself to be libertarian because of this one belief, back when I thought that that was what "libertarian" <b>means</b>.Larry Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058877428309776731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-86549860447130184502021-02-13T09:39:13.933-08:002021-02-13T09:39:13.933-08:00Der Oger you raised about a dozen questions each o...Der Oger you raised about a dozen questions each of which would take an hour to explore SHALLOWLY.<br />But the simplest answer is transparency.<br />If high AIs can see each other clearly, they will have the option of denouncing bad fellows with malevolent intent Their IQs may surpass ours, but we will still have a lot of power for a long time and will be able to tip the scales toward those who are friendlier and deliver positive sum outcomes.<br /><br />Will that still be fraught with possible deceptions and trickery? Sure. As has ALWAYS been the case! But there are ZERO other proposed methods that stand even a remote chance of working.<br /><br />What boggles me is I've been saying this for 25 years and it is the heart of the constitutional enlightenment... yet I cannot count the number of bright forlks who find it utterly non-intuitive.<br /><br /><br />David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-23541522988920423222021-02-13T08:05:24.952-08:002021-02-13T08:05:24.952-08:00Finished the podcast. Read the short story.
On AI...Finished the podcast. Read the short story.<br /><br />On AI: What if there are, in a few decades, several competing AI with opposite agendas out there? Like, a warring pantheon of digital overlords, each with its own goals? Someone will need to create an "AI Police" or a "Digital Consciousness Regulation Agency" to deal with it...or a Turing Comission, like that one in Neuromancer.<br /><br />Or what if AI are the technological bottleneck that destroyed other civilizations (or, at least, one of them, like nuclear power and environmental destruction)?<br />What could be a system of rewards and punishments for "raising" an AI?<br />What about AI that are "catched", are they imprisoned, modified or erased?<br />What do we do about predictive algorithms we already have, and we know to be biased? <br /><br />On Surveillance/Sousveillance: For the majority of countries, the latter is incredibly dangerous, and the former is more and more common. Even countries like France and Germany take steps to hinder accountability of their security organs while simultanously getting more and more rights and tools, even in the face of catastrophic failures.<br /><br />Perhaps a well-designed process of carrots and sticks might help. An agency that meets their target gets their budget increases and new tools, while an agency that has failures will get budget cuts or must spend their budget on training to become better. <br />Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-31610065806322664592021-02-13T05:22:33.399-08:002021-02-13T05:22:33.399-08:00@Duncan Cairnross: "The Germans have a high r...@Duncan Cairnross: "The Germans have a high retail price for electricity in order to make efficiency projects more cost effective"<br /><br />Yes. A Kilowatt hour costs roughly three times more than in the US. But it is not only efficiency, it is also the type of energy used (focus on renewable energies, nuclear exit, planned coal exit). The use of electricity has dropped roughly by 10% since 2007, to 7,1 megawatt per person (compared to 12.8 in the US and not much change).<br /><br />Which brings me to an interesting question: Could Kardashev become obsolete because we become more and more efficient with the energy we use? <br /><br />And why do you use so much more electricity than we do? Can't be all based on air conditioning.Der Ogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00977602334642769985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-24614109801538621462021-02-12T21:53:12.906-08:002021-02-12T21:53:12.906-08:00Duncan,
I think your interpretation of 'moral...Duncan,<br /><br />I think your interpretation of 'moral law' as attempts to drive activities in a certain direction is a little generous. I certainly prefer it, but I think a lot of criminal law is really about punishment and retribution.<br /><br />Think about penalty multipliers. 'Crack vs Cocaine' for example. Both are bad enough in how people wind up being willing to do things to feed their addictions, but that multiplier was pretty selective in who among us got hit worst.<br /><br />There is also the point about when we write moral law. Often we do NOT until people become indignant about some people choosing not to respect a social norm. If 99.9% of people stick to a norm, the tiny number who do not are in danger and unlikely to find defenders. If only 99% do, the folks who don't might find defenders. If only 90% do… well… a social revolution is obviously underway and the evil-doers will be eating our children soon!<br /><br /><br />The reason I make the distinction between types of legislation is that a 'moral law' has no chance of being successfully enforced if it is not supported by a super-super-majority.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-2601224240869771612021-02-12T19:42:19.247-08:002021-02-12T19:42:19.247-08:00KH thanks for taking my brusqueness with a sense o...KH thanks for taking my brusqueness with a sense of whimsey,<br /><br />The radio show was prerecorded hence no callers.<br /><br />We'll know how the trial will go when we see whether ten Gopper senators get "food poisoning' and stay home, letting the brave ten rid us of this horrid embarrassment.David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-75692536119416339192021-02-12T17:49:35.577-08:002021-02-12T17:49:35.577-08:00@ Dr. Brin. Thank you- now I "duno", not...@ Dr. Brin. Thank you- now I "duno", not "dunno". :)<br /><br />Re: your upcoming broadcast:<br />"Canadian Broadcaster, researcher, author, publisher, media personality, and inventor Rob McConnell, has been investigating the world of the paranormal and the science of parapsychology on The X Zone Radio Show since 1993 and is now broadcast Monday to Friday from 10 pm to 2 am Eastern and 7 pm to 11 pm Pacific."<br /><br />This SHOULD be interesting (almost as interesting as the people who call in, if it's that type of program), and in light of your comments re: Locum/Anonymous: <br />"It's not what you don't say that counts, it's how you don't say it!"<br />Also, please don't forget to SPEAK IN LOTS OF CAPITAL LETTERS. :)<br /><br />Break a leg (or whatever you say to folks who get interviewed)!<br /><br />Keith Halperinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09841504651752178493noreply@blogger.com