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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Mar 4 16:43:42 1993
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 93 16:43:25 -0500
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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pshuang (Ping-Shun Huang):
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SPRING 1993 TIMESINKS
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>> 6.033 (Computer System Engineering)
>> 6.041 (Probabilistic Systems Analysis)
>> 6.046J (Introduction to Algorithms)
>> 6.163 (Strobe Lab)
>> 21.601 (Fundamentals of Music)
>> 8A06 (Corridor Lab "seminar")
>> UROP (Scheme group, AI Lab)
>> Part-time work outside MIT
>> No APO officerships, amazingly enough, but doing other stuff
>> Baker Foundation stuff
>> Maybe some Associate Advising Program stuff, if I have time
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rjbarbal (Richard J. Barbalace):
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
"That's what the critics really complain about -- that under
capitalism, consumers get what they want rather than what the critics
think they should have. It's always amused me that the intellectuals
who talk loudest about the waste of competition in business are the
loudest defenders of the waste of competition in the intellectual world.
"Isn't it absolutely wasteful that millions of writers should be
deciding what to write on their own -- a hundred writers might be
writing on the same subject -- with no social priorities being imposed
on what subjects they write about? Isn't it deplorable that thousands
of scientists should each be picking his own own subjects for
investigation? Shouldn't there be a central planning board that
decides which subjects have the highest social priority and assigns to
those subjects to the researchers most suited to persue them, to see
that there is no duplication?
"Suggest this to any of the intellectuals who whine about the
waste of competition in the business world and almost all of them will
be horrified. Most of them would recognize that it would be terrible.
It would be terrible because the essence of the intellectual world is
that it's a search for the unknown, an attempt to find new things by a
process of trial and error in which you have a great deal of
duplication. For every nine people who go off on a bum lead, one
person's going to go on a right lead. The same thing is true in the
business world."
-- Milton Friedman
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
Or Put To Sleep
Mayor Donald Master of Charles Town, West Virginia, a veterinarian:
"These bleeding hearts, mothers that you read about in the Washington
Post... they've got twelve kids and no father. They should have
been spayed ten kids ago."
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therese (Therese):
I sink like a stone that's been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion.
Stop before you start,
Be still my beating heart.
-- Sting
Nothing Like the Sun
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