[ RadSafe ] Re: Government and money

[Dimiter Popoff]

Dale,
well yes, but the Seldon plan did eventually reasonably well, so I would not
claim even a tiny fraction of the credibitliy psychohistory predictions have :-) ....

Dimiter

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-------Original Message-------
> From: Dale Boyce <daleboyce at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Government and money
> Sent: Aug 16 '05 17:58
> 
>  Dimiter,
>  
>  If I remember correctly, the predictions of even psychihistorians proved to
>  be flawed due to the failure to take into consideration outside influences.
>  
>  Dale
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Dimiter Popoff" <didi at tgi-sci.com>
>  To: <jjcohen at prodigy.net>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
>  Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:05 PM
>  Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: Government and money
>  
>  
>  > Nice example about the bridge, I bet 10:1 this was about some particular
>  > company
>  > getting the contract. I guess the system is getting (has gone?) out of
>  > control all
>  > over the place. I had a local minister here (the local equivalent of the
>  > US DOE secretary)
>  > personally intervene against me (even wrote himself as one of a 3 member
>  > comission) on
>  > a decision for equipment purchase worth apr. US $60 k... Obviously he did
>  > just a favour
>  > to some of my enemies, I have no idea what he got out of this.
>  > Nowadays the goods are produced practically automatically and there is
>  > little if anything
>  > going on other than elbowing to preserve an inherited position. It will
>  > take at
>  > least one generation change before things perhaps begin to change (if
>  > ever,
>  > I am not a psychohistorian so I really cannot predict... :-) .
>  >
>  > Dimiter
>  >
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>  >
>  > -------Original Message-------
>  >> From: jjcohen at prodigy.net
>  >> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Government and money
>  >> Sent: Aug 14 '05 18:21
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  Maybe we should not complain so much about the needless squandering of
>  >> resources on low-dose radiation control. Note the following:
>  >>
>  >>  "The highway bill just passed by our Republican Congress (with the
>  >> president's blessing), at $286.4 BILLION is the most expensive public
>  >> works legislation ever passed," he writes.
>  >>
>  >>  "The National Taxpayers Union put it best when describing one of the
>  >> more offensive projects in the bill: $220 million for a 5.9-mile bridge
>  >> connecting Gravina Island (population 50) to the Alaskan mainland. The
>  >> cost of the bridge alone would be enough to buy every island resident his
>  >> own personal Lear jet.'
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