Reading 'Critical Path'

Mortgage Credit Situation

Submitted by jon_van_meter on Thu, 2007-08-16 14:31.

In light of the recent media coverage of the home mortgage credit situation, I am wondering as the stock market reacts by selling off mortgages. Are the FINCAP and LAWCAP financial illusionists working their shell game again?

Are these mortgages being picked up for pennies on the dollar? Are low/median income earners being blamed for the greed of those companies, that bet on the pyramid scheme of a (falsely sustained) booming housing market?

When will we demand fair lending laws and corporate accountability?

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why buying a mac is good for the economy

Submitted by marlanrosa on Mon, 2007-07-02 11:59.

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here it is, i was tripping over my amp to put on my shoes…. and the thot arose…. in the midst of why a mac wuld be better for me, i realized…..
the system is more secure, which means it’s better for the customers, and better for the software programers as well….

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critical path, ecology, decay

Submitted by marlanrosa on Mon, 2007-07-02 07:44.

i am in fuller's shadow..

essay enclosed from a book i'm writing. . .
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in writing this book - i discovered independently, what fuller had discovered in 'critical path' over a matter of years, and published on the cusp of the carter/reagan administrations. i reread my copy of critical path. yup, fuller was right. the critical path occurred.

for the most part, sadly. .
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findings being - laws, economic laws, had pulled us away from ecological stability . . though my findings are much more raw and primal in nature, an example being that i was studying decaying trends and styles - most notably: tim allen movies, bad architecture, candy, graffiti, new wave, punk rock, big momma's house - basically, that which is subversive, yet somehow publicly accepted. ephemera.
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studying the consumerist trends, essentially - i discovered the loopholes of capitalism and socialism, often in the most mundane circumstances . . often playing off each other. . . the purpose of the mundane is to make these findings more useful, somewhat poetic, so as to find anticipatory logic in the very pull away from anticipation - this is key - in contradistinction, and complimentary to fuller's "holistic" approach.

this pull is key in sustaining ecology, as well as the critical path. this pull is a part of what is called "precession. . " which is to say, decay serves a purpose, especially in countries with an infrastructure. . . .

i have used the word ecology loosely in this book, for an almost anthropological purpose, to include humans with regards to the very things that ecology negates: materialism. .

anyways, the excerpt is mostly for comedy . . a bit overly social . . but it addresses things in different ways. . .

the title hasn't been "made up" yet. . this particular essay is in the form of poetry, it was put into a language translator thru various languages, and spit out, in incomprehensible spurts . .
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I cannot [eilikrina] understand because the persons make what they make, what it may be, this thing. Anyways, the policy of dissemination, that which exists elsewhere, this thing, concern a lot the way that we speak in one other, or talk to one another, if they are our exceeded opinions with regard to the religion, or a myriad of other things, the basic action of politeness they pass [aparatirites], [perifronimenos], and in order to we continue the further privilege weither, we find the babies making the babies [who make]. Novel, ty. And the nature of prosperity becomes itself, a nature. . . . this nature of prosperity, since I have brought above elsewhere is idealist first, and a subject of speculation elsewhere, that is, it says this is a collective hope .. marxism is merely superficial to this end, and that is one of the beginnings of foundation of modern political dissemination, and in the western thought, something consented, by tone within universities, professional avenues things, tv or public radio, is of a collective tone of agreement, or promise. this very promise is the critical path. Within most societies, you do not have one radio station calling an apple a chicken, while another more prominent radio station calling an apple is a theory. Yet, one may say, there is a collective justified consent that says an apple is a chicken. Just the same, It is enough to say, there is a tone of agreement in most media related outlets as to what is discussed which is called a courtesy, the likes and dislikes. .
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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" – Ludwig Wittgenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . .

If the nature of babies is crude, and the American culture does not like this, それは高い中学校の二次1つのの、流出の未成年者の反映された1の1の暴動買収する, so our knowledge is waylaid in favor of sports, as Gilles delueze had shown, was drawn for pipe of feeding, so that we say, we cannot break exempted from the familial structure since we see him. [I will explain]

in ourselves, 1. preposition dans; whatever it is.

2. adverb (at home, in the building etc) là; (arrived: train) arrivé; (in its position) dedans; in here ici; when the diskette is in quand la disquette est à l’intérieur

3. adjective (fashionable, popular) à la mode

however [perifronoyme] those that cannot break exempted from the familial structure, as mentally the sick, in reality, because homelessnesses are as sports, and the poor concern in this the nation are waylaid in favour of the logic of babies [pacifier], are cuz we cannot see in us that [dipote] other than what is familial than within the family. This is what I was about to explain: What was orally spoken, the oral tradition as authority, was given to media, was given to sports, with films, often in the narrative form which had been abandoned in books.

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Buckminster Fuller Influences...

Submitted by ksnyikes on Mon, 2006-09-25 21:12.

I'm looking to write a paper on the obvious similarities between Buckminster Fuller's philosophies and that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. I learned that Fuller's great aunt was Margaret Fuller, which ties him to the transendentalists, but I'm looking for the smoking gun that ties both thinkers together. If anyone has any suggestions of where to look for this smoking gun, I would be very appreciative.

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Cosmography book by Bucky

Submitted by DDeden on Mon, 2006-05-22 18:25.

Is Cosmography more or less a continuation of Synergetics 1 & 2?
I've read or skimmed most of Bucky's books, but I've never seen Cosmography anywhere. Are parts of it online...diagrams, notes?
Just wondering. [I didn't know which forum to put this question] DD

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The Orcale God that Buckminter Fuller used

Submitted by wdy723112 on Sun, 2006-05-07 16:19.

My name is Jeff Wood, and I have read that Buckminster Fuller used rune stones as a oracale to do divinations. But he a Man and didn't see the female aspect in his work because of that reason. So if you would look in the receptcal prospective on Synergy you will find a complete whole. I have seen people trying to us this knowledge that he brought onto the Earth without looking at the whole race just man's prospective and the women should serve him is where manny man fall to look at the whole picture.

Chapter 3 - Legally Piggily

Submitted by amolenaar on Wed, 2006-05-03 17:47.

I was very interested to learn that the original currency was derived from the shipping of cattle along trade routes. Ships that carried this physical currency were identified by a pair of bull horns on the front. As a monetary system was adopted, currency was shaped like bull horns. Shipping was funded by an investor who put up collateral in the form of cattle or other livestock and on the course of the voyage these livestock had offspring and the investors were given these offspring as the first form of interest, in this case regenerative interest. All this was fascinating to read about. BF's storytelling as it relates to the evolution of economic practice is compelling. I wonder how he was able to learn all of these things and make all of these interconnections.

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Chapter 2 - Heaven, Hell, Earth, Religion, Politics

Submitted by mbarron on Fri, 2006-04-21 12:57.

His section about the flat-earth theory and the unwillingness of many religious and political leaders to let go of it is really telling. The flat-earth idea allows us to envision a heaven, earth, and hell all parallel to one another, so ascending to heaven is really possible, as is descending to hell. In a spherical world this really doesn't hold up. I think the power structures realized this and it scared them.

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Chapter 2 - General thoughts and Computers

Submitted by admin on Wed, 2006-04-19 16:09.

I thought this chapter was interesting in general, my earlier frustration with this book wasn't that I didn't like it, just that it was difficult to get into. What put me off at the beginning was that the introduction seemed a bit dated so I approached it from a more critical perspective. I was able to follow chapter 2 much easier.

Artist-scientist section was interesting especially in the way that they opened eras and were then exploited by power structures: geometry - da Vinci -- Catholic Church