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keesan
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response 75 of 134:
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Jan 12 18:29 UTC 1998 |
Humans are tool-using animals. Are hands tools?
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aruba
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response 76 of 134:
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Jan 12 20:56 UTC 1998 |
What if you just borrowed the scissors from someone else? :)
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rcurl
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response 77 of 134:
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Jan 12 21:16 UTC 1998 |
Depends on whether you return them or not....
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remmers
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response 78 of 134:
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Jan 12 22:25 UTC 1998 |
Sounds like an excellent topic for the philosophical
ramblings item in the new Do It Yourself conference. :)
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keesan
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response 79 of 134:
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Jan 12 22:44 UTC 1998 |
I was going to suggest that very same thing. When do we start the conference?
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keesan
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response 80 of 134:
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Jan 13 01:34 UTC 1998 |
Arbornet has a Fixit conference, defined as Home Fix-It for Do-It-Yourselfers.
Someone linked a VCR repair question between Fixit and Advice. Otherwise
Fixit was indeed home fix-it. Is there anything else that I should be doing
before someone starts this conference, so we can talk about what a Do It
Yourselfer is in the proper conference?
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lilmo
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response 81 of 134:
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Jan 13 02:16 UTC 1998 |
If you haven't already, check out item:info 26 for fw commands
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arthurp
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response 82 of 134:
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Jan 13 03:42 UTC 1998 |
Fairwitnesses hear this: It is so. :) Have at it with the startup
stuff screens and such.
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keesan
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response 83 of 134:
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Feb 8 20:19 UTC 1998 |
I looked for a conference on multiculturalism or ethnicity or even race
relations, and did not find one. Is there one? Grexers are clearly not all
from the same cultural group. I would be especially interested to learn about
interethnic problems or concerns in Mexico, India, the Netherlands, etc, where
the various groups have coexisted for far longer than in the US. And of
course also about the relations between people of different ethnic or cultural
groups in this country. Would someone from another country or one of the many
non-majority ethnic/cultural groups in this country want to be FW? (Assuming
of course that there is not already a conference that I missed).
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e4808mc
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response 84 of 134:
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Feb 9 02:07 UTC 1998 |
Perhaps entering a few items in agora to gauge the level of interest in such
a conference would be useful. While we have one person from the Netherlands
and a few from India who participate, Im not sure we're really diverse enough
to support a well-informed discussion, especially from the minority cultures
in those countries.
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keesan
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response 85 of 134:
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Feb 9 04:32 UTC 1998 |
Isn't everyone in India from a 'minority culture', considering the number of
ethnic groups there? Is anyone in this country interested? Are most grexers
of European ancestry?
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valerie
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response 86 of 134:
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Feb 9 12:59 UTC 1998 |
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keesan
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response 87 of 134:
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Feb 9 19:05 UTC 1998 |
Will do. Thanks both of you.
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mta
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response 88 of 134:
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Feb 9 20:47 UTC 1998 |
I like the idea, too. But also whether we have the diversity here in the
conferences to support a conference.
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remmers
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response 89 of 134:
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Feb 10 00:51 UTC 1998 |
(An advance demonstration of interest has not been necessary
in the past for starting a conference.)
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raven
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response 90 of 134:
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Feb 10 07:07 UTC 1998 |
I would be very interested in a conference that discussed different cultures.
I think it could help be a draw to conferences for some of our people
who log in from around the world.
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valerie
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response 91 of 134:
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Feb 10 13:34 UTC 1998 |
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keesan
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response 92 of 134:
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Feb 11 20:13 UTC 1998 |
Please see the test item in Agora on intercultural relations, as of yesterday
there had not been too much interest. Anybody interested, please respond to
that item (95?). Raven, have you experience as a FW? My one and only
conference (DIY) seems to be doing fine without me, I suppose I could FW
another but I still want an experienced helper or two. I feel a lot more
qualified on this subject than DIY, as I lived in two parts of former
Yugoslavia for a few years and, as a neutral outsider, met people from
possibly every ethnic group there, all of whom had odd stereotypes about the
others. My other question in the agora item was whether to include genetic
groups other than ethnic, such as tall or short people, and whether to include
age minorities.
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keesan
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response 93 of 134:
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Feb 13 00:25 UTC 1998 |
My attempt to start an agora item on cultural differences has quickly turned
into a discussion of blood typing and DNA fingerprinting. If anyone really
wants a conference on ethnic, racial, or even social groups, speak now.
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keesan
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response 94 of 134:
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Feb 16 15:13 UTC 1998 |
The test item on cultural differences rapidly turned into issues of race and
DNA fingerprinting. My next suggestion is, instead, a conference on genetics.
I have found genetic issues in agora (human cloning), health (transgenic
rapeseed, cancer), femme (colorblindness, depression), and nature (cloning
again, birth of agriculture, gene for emphysema). This is a very rapidly
growing field that affects many areas of life. There are genetically-related
diseases and disabilities (cancer, some of it due to loss of the ozone layer
and freon, AIDS, manic depression), human variation (races, heights and
weights, there is a gene for sexual orientation), agriculture (plant and
animal breeding, transgenic industrial and commercial plants, cloning), law
(DNA fingerprinting, and blood typing), ethics (cruelty free testing of
cosmetics, use of chimps in AIDS research), biodiversity and habitat
preservation, genetic effects of electromagnetic radiation (ELFs) and common
chemicals, in vitro fertilization and surrogate motherhood (genetically
different birth and legal parents)... Any interest?
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rcurl
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response 95 of 134:
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Feb 16 20:43 UTC 1998 |
I'm inclined to think these arise not so much because of an interest in
genetics as an interest in medicine, health, behavior, nature, science,
law, ethics, environment, etc. Users would not be likely to go to a
genetics conference to discuss what really interests them. However such
a conference could be created as an archive of items related by having
a genetics thread. It could be useful for persons looking for genetics
information. Are any other cfs used this way?
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mta
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response 96 of 134:
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Feb 16 20:44 UTC 1998 |
Yup. And I bet you'd get a lot of takers if you announced it in all those
conferences you mentioned.
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mta
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response 97 of 134:
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Feb 16 20:46 UTC 1998 |
Rane slipped in.
I know I'd be interested in a genetics conference where i don't participate
in any of those other conferences.
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keesan
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response 98 of 134:
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Feb 16 23:51 UTC 1998 |
re #96. I announced it in agora and I think it was health, and got Rane.
I will take your suggestion and put in a few more announcements. The science
conference seems to be mostly applied physics, as in Popular Science.
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cmcgee
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response 99 of 134:
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Feb 17 01:04 UTC 1998 |
So why couldnt the science conference be augmented with genetics items?
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