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Here we ask ourselves - our world: Why is it not relatively easy to start and achieve cruising speed with an intellectuals-allowed study group cms site portal community, open for opining. A virtual coffee and wine/cheese house online? Ages must be between 14 (no virtual wine) and 141. Not want only 15 � 25 year-olds. Half of the group in that range? fine, sure. But all presenting as the 'right kind' of people, Viz.: without regard to race, sex, age, nation, all would be ethically and morally informed � not a part of The Problem. No Ebonics education advocates/usurpers, or "urban poets" (crime drug gansta rapspter-aniacs) with cultural flame-throw motivation, if any, or affirmative- action-addicted people, yes, in the ghetto far too long (but let's look at other answers; that Aristotle could live with. Okay?) Borders, language, culture: patriots. That's part of our mandate, then, helping people become politically sane. Super-greedy capitalists? We "just say 'no'". Illegal "guests" taking health care from senior CITIZENS, not in good conscience � which is a major mandated theme of this information cms SIG portal. We seek one new member at a time (who then agrees to hang around and tidy-up and welcome the next new member, etc, as more join...slowly. [Even though that's contra-internet-dogma-pace-"spin".].). Your thoughts?

[1.c] ...[Schrödinger] proposed an argument, different from that of [Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen], against the completeness of quantum mechanics. He famously illustrated his point by means of a thought experiment involving a poor cat confined in a chamber with an amount of radioactive material and a diabolical device which, when triggered by disintegration, would release deadly vapors of hydrocyancic acid. Schrödinger's paradoxical conclusion was this: "If one has left the entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The [psi-function] of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts" (Whitaker 1996, 234). If it followed from the Copenhagen interpretation that a cat could be "half-dead" ... would that not indicate that some other interpretation must be preferred? /... Bohr did not respond to it, perhaps because he found its premises so evidently flawed. After all, according to his view, a macroscopic body such as a cat or a bottle with sodium cyanide, could not be assiigned a wave function. Within the framework of the Copenhagen interpretation, there was no paradox to solve. Neither did Schroödinger seem to have considered the cat paradox very paradoxical at all. He describer it as a "quite ridiculous case" and considered its lesson to be a warning against the naive acceptance of a "blurred model" as representing reality. As he pointed out: "In itself [the cat example] would not embody anything unclear or contradictory. There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fogbanks" (ibid). (�from Helge Kragh's excellent, scholarly, buy/read without fail, Quantum Generations, a History of Physics in the Twentieth Century, Princeton University Press, 1999)

Henri Poincaré

Which is the quintessence of Gob-Igloo.com / Cabaret Voltaire! Group's club pi mailing list: reconciling those too long pestering antipodes of tech and poetics � if only because, from this reporter's only point of view, both obtain in concert � and with no dilution of either, rather, synergistically � where my head has been � at present and at the creaton. So quit driving me to distraction, geeks_only_types, and join club pi. Oppie would have. (Okay maybe; in principle he would have).

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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
—Michel Foucault
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." —Mahatma Gandhi
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"It is never too late to become what you might have been." —Ms. George Eliot

"I was unable to track down a source for the quote. However ... shortly after I had just finished reading a novel, John Halifax, Gentleman, that frequently touched on the theme of the alleged Eliot quote. A search of the on-line text produced the following scrap of conversation:

'You mean, Mr. Halifax, what I might have been. Now it is too late.'"

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