How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2616 Location: The Entropisphere
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: New Title: Dunce Cap
Just a thought:
Could we have a new title, "dunce." the idea as I am thinking it would allow individual members to make wagers with one another about the future. The looser wears the "dunce's cap" for a week or month or what ever.
It would help to have a thread dedicated to "dunce's cap challenges" where formal challenges can be made and then accepted or denied. At the end of the challenge period, the wager would be settled and the looser given the new label.
What do you think? Good idea? Should I go have another cup of coffee? _________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
Joined: May 02, 2005 Posts: 3249 Location: One more question...
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: Re: New Title: Dunce Cap
Make your wager, and i'll be happy to tag the loser. The label will be Dunce of the Day with the cap underneath as an image.
Good enough? _________________ "Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."
Robert A. Heinlein
Joined: May 02, 2005 Posts: 3249 Location: One more question...
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:13 am Post subject: Re: New Title: Dunce Cap
I guess I "win" today. I'll have to work out the image later. I have to find one and get it loaded up...maybe if aaron sees this before i get it done he can find one and install it _________________ "Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events."
Robert A. Heinlein
Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: The Great Sonoran Desert
Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: Re: New Title: Dunce Cap
Precisely why people/politicians ride the fence.
Those who have balls that clank enough to make a wager should be rewarded - win or lose.
Those that sit on the sidelines and chuck stones at the players should be skull Fark. _________________ "There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins
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