X-Message-Number: 33306
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:22:17 -0800
From: Mark F Connaughton <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33295
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On 2/1/2011 2:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
> Message #33295
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:42:09 -0700
> Subject: When does that other 21st Century start?
> From: MARK PLUS<>
>
> ....
>
> What happened to that other 21st Century I read about as a youngster?
Lawyers, politicians, regulators and beancounters happened.  Too many PhDs
and not enough nut-and-bolt people.  The parasites of Hugh's Law - 
"Successful
systems breed parasites."  Eloi, the narcissistic voice-synthesized 
mannequins
that populate the big screen, amass large sums of money and political 
power and
use it to pamper their needy vanity.  This is what happened to Rome.

These we must overcome to reclaim our lives, our present and our future.

We should be planning a permanent manned colony on the moon by the middle
of the 2020s.  Instead we have the ultimate empty suit giving us hollow 
"great visions"
of a manned mission to Mars 35 years from now.  An academic's dream 
project -
years and years of paper studies, org charts, fishbone diagrams, 
schedules and
budgets, and no need to show anything real for at least 2 decades.  
These Eloi
need to be excised from our body politic and sent packing.

-Mark F Connaughton, PE

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