There has to be an award for one-word replies. I nominate Zenkitty.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 5:28:11 pm PDT #3673 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
JoeCrow - Sep 10, 2005 7:14:56 pm PDT #3674 of 10001
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Well, unless they build the levee first, most folks are unlikely to build their houses 8 feet underwater. As for the search and rescue situation, private folks got to NO first and were doing a fairly effective job of pulling folks out until FEMA told them to beat it and began stopping anybody heading into the city with supplies and rescue equipment. FEMA seems to have wanted to coordinate all rescue efforts according to a master plan they didn't actually start writing until a few days after the storm. By and large, most disaster rescue and relief tends to be done by the folks actually there rather than by outside authority figures. As for the profit motive, it's been my experience that most folks are perfectly willing to absorb some degree of financial damage to help folks who really need it. Why would this change in the absence of governmental coercion? Or do you only give money to the homeless when the government tells you to?
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 7:58:28 pm PDT #3675 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I am not trying to set up a political flame-fest.
Here is my take: Individual effort (non-governmental) was and is more effective in the Katrina thing. Everything government has done around this has been a disaster, impeding individual effort.
Government? Bad, in this situation.
Here, however, is my question: What natural forces of the marketplace were missing for the people in the Domes?
sumi - Sep 10, 2005 8:19:16 pm PDT #3676 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Goods? Services? Capital?
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 8:22:48 pm PDT #3677 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
What sumi said, boiled down to "Capital".
Polter-Cow - Sep 10, 2005 8:40:55 pm PDT #3678 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Interrupting the political flame-fest for a Tim quote from the latest EW, regarding the fan-based marketing for Serenity:
"I just hope he didn't f--- it up," he deadpans. "I want to direct the next movie."
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 8:46:35 pm PDT #3679 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
"he" being Joss?
DavidS - Sep 10, 2005 8:49:28 pm PDT #3680 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"he" being Joss?
Yeah.
Polter-Cow - Sep 10, 2005 8:59:17 pm PDT #3681 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Actually, he was referring to me. I ghostdirected the movie.
Gus - Sep 10, 2005 9:03:46 pm PDT #3682 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
You read it here first. If it goes wrong, it is P-C's fault.