Isocracy AGM, VPAC Supercomputer Project, Socialising

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Prepared the committee report for today's Isocracy AGM with Race Matthews speaking afterwards on worker's cooperatives. For an organisation with a mere 26 members, we made extraordinary achievements this year (two branches established, seven forums, two Senate submissions, etc). Most recent post on the website is Stephen Spirgis' review of Rising Up and Rising Down, an excellent assessment of political violence in politics. Will take his opportunity to thank sebastianne for her great work over the years as VP, as she's unfortunately standing down.

Very pleased this week with the efforts on the new supercomputer. We've managed to get an enormous amount of the software installed, with numerous nodes installed with various DNS wars. imajica_lj deserves special recognition for his herculean efforts. Indeed, despite the swearing, cursing, and glazed-eyes from trying to get the system to an excellent state, there has been a high level of camaraderie from those on the project. First "real users" expected early next week. The most amusing media coverage compares our little 45.9 teraflop machine with Titan, the world's fastest at 20 petaflops.

Thursday night was another excellent Call of Cthulhu session, playing out the Zargeb and Belgrade chapter of Horror on the Orient Express; one character is increasingly insane, but the others are actually improving! Second chapter of our game-play posted. Last night attended the weekly multicultural gathering organised by Keith P.; some thirty (mostly) students crammed into his flat to discuss community. Will be presenting at the group in a fortnight's time on the topic "The Worst Features of the English Language", which I imagine fluffyblanket would have a few comments to make!

Comments

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Actually, Richard Lederer isn't the original author of this poem. It's actually Gerard Nolst Trenité who entitled it (most appropriately!) "The Chaos" ( "The Classic Concordance of Cacographic Chaos") and first appeared in his 1920 textbook..

There have been several elaborations since then.

http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Fassinayting staf !
Some of my favourite sites-
http://equitism.org/Equitism/Equitism-entry.htm
http://struggle.ws/anarchism/index.html
http://chomsky.info/
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/kropotkin/lawauthority.html
Can you please see if I can receive the posts on the Anarchist LJ community?I AM a member !!!
:D

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Can you please see if I can receive the posts on the Anarchist LJ community?

I can't check that. It's a user-defined option whether they receive posts; check your own settings at:

http://www.livejournal.com/manage/settings/?cat=notifications

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Sorry to be such a drag but look -
http://anarchists.livejournal.com/profile
http://anarchisttheory.livejournal.com/profile

How anarchic !!!!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Yes, your point being? Those are the profile pages for the two communities. They have absolutely nothing to do with whether you receive notifications of responses. The link I provided you previously does that.

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

The link has a section in the top right ,saying "leave"(not " join") as an option-implying surely that the robot acknowledges that I am already a member, surely?

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Yes, you are already a member.

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Well WHY don't I EVER receive any posts then?
I solemnly swear that I'm not a police spy !!!!
: (

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Either;

a) Your settings aren't right.
b) Nobody has responded your posts.

Either way, it's completely outside my control.

[fluffyblanket.livejournal.com]

Ok,I resign myself to unalterable defeat by the deus ex machina . I see AM listed as a member .I assume that , like all other LJ communities , Anarchism and Anarchist Theory display posts to their members . Strange though . Those are the only two out of 126 communities, to which I belong,that never send me any posts. Oh well .....