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Employment, Gaming, Meetings
My contract at IVT is over; nothing to complain about, it was only supposed to be for one month and went on for four or so. One of sites being developed by said people is Choisir, who are selling Le Faguays bronze "tireuse a l'arc", which I have a reproduction of. I dread to think of the price of the original.
Somewhere along the line I've been converted into a computer game; check the copy for CoA-Prologue. "A fantasy roleplaying game (RPG): join Lev on his travels through secret passages and an old mine that’s not as empty as it appears... Solve riddles; survive battles and help the goblins as they try to rid themselves of a colony of Cave Spiders." OK, so I'm not the only Lev on the planet by any means but still, sounds just like the thing I'd get up to.
On related news, I've had an article published in the Rolemaster zine The Guild Companion which takes up the nature/nurture argument in simulation gaming. Recently reviewed Mythweaver, a likeable 80s style dungeon crawler. Played the classic Hacker on Friday night and finished the Rogue Mistress campaign on Sunday.
Last Tueday I gave a presentation at IVT on routing and netmasks, which was diverted to some basic material during the discussion (classful addressing and OSI layering). The Tuesday prior presented at the Existentialist Society on the topic Towards an Existentialist Political Economy, which had a good turnout and was well received. The following week attended the Atheist Society to hear Russell Blackford of Monash University speak on "Religious Vilification and Freedom of Speech". Pleasingly, his comments vindicated remarks I have been making on the subject.
Oh, I have a Facebook. Not sure what it's good for (apart from the fact there's a lot of people there who aren't here). Apparently it's a waste of time. Please stop the stupid; man jailed for two years for possession of drugs which he had a prescription for. From![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankynick
Somewhere along the line I've been converted into a computer game; check the copy for CoA-Prologue. "A fantasy roleplaying game (RPG): join Lev on his travels through secret passages and an old mine that’s not as empty as it appears... Solve riddles; survive battles and help the goblins as they try to rid themselves of a colony of Cave Spiders." OK, so I'm not the only Lev on the planet by any means but still, sounds just like the thing I'd get up to.
On related news, I've had an article published in the Rolemaster zine The Guild Companion which takes up the nature/nurture argument in simulation gaming. Recently reviewed Mythweaver, a likeable 80s style dungeon crawler. Played the classic Hacker on Friday night and finished the Rogue Mistress campaign on Sunday.
Last Tueday I gave a presentation at IVT on routing and netmasks, which was diverted to some basic material during the discussion (classful addressing and OSI layering). The Tuesday prior presented at the Existentialist Society on the topic Towards an Existentialist Political Economy, which had a good turnout and was well received. The following week attended the Atheist Society to hear Russell Blackford of Monash University speak on "Religious Vilification and Freedom of Speech". Pleasingly, his comments vindicated remarks I have been making on the subject.
Oh, I have a Facebook. Not sure what it's good for (apart from the fact there's a lot of people there who aren't here). Apparently it's a waste of time. Please stop the stupid; man jailed for two years for possession of drugs which he had a prescription for. From
crankynick
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Yet caps, quotas and other forms of legal restrictions have a good track record (e.g., CFCs and SO2 emissions).
Capitalism is ... predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet.
Umm... No it isn't. Capitalism is predicated on private ownership of an industrial means of production. This does not necessitate infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production although those things are certainly an inclination.
.... as long as it continues to be so it will automatically undo (with its invisible hand) every single green initiative anybody cares to come up with.
Except for a market mechanism which charges for resources used rather than taxing production achieved.
The corporation will outflank every puny law and regulation that seeks to constrain its profitability.
Well, it will try no doubt; however few would suggest that anti-trust legislation and the like has been completely ineffectual. Hence there is always a conflict between capitalism and democracy.
Only by breaking up corporate power and bringing it under social control will we be able to overcome the global environmental crisis.
Again, this is by no means evident. Social control itself does not mean that the environmental crisis will be tackled.
Ultimately I'm not really sure what the poster is proposing as practical action. Abolish capitalism and then deal with the environmental issues? Sure sounds like it. Problem is that we may not have sufficient time to do that.