Will they please stop publishing great books!

Student
Profoundly learned I would grow,
What heaven contains would comprehend,
O'er earth's wide realm my gaze extend,
Nature and science I desire to know.

Mephistopheles
You are upon the proper track, I find;
Take heed, let nothing dissipate your mind.

- Goethe, Faust, Part I, 1543-48
 
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Although I like books, electronic format just has too many advantages. You can have hundreds of novels/volumes of poetry/plays AND all your work books on a damn iphone or kindle, AND you can take notes while you are in the plane, train, coach, subway etc. You just can't beat that kind of convenience and use of time.

Downloading them in about 10 seconds is pretty cool too. And moving house has now become far easier for me, since my book collection took about 3/4 of the volume each time, the rest of my stuff fits in a few suitcases.

So, I'll keep a few books since it is nicer read a physical book than an electronic device, but for most that I plan to only read once, e-books it is.
 
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I just spent another $100 on books.

I am going to go broke if they keep publishing books I want to read :mad:


Seriously, this is the golden age of the transfer of information of those that know and want to tell to those that don't know and want to know.

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if you like reading book like that, I think you can read all this book that they post in some website a bout book
 
I'm reading Hanks Paulsons new book.

I didn't know he worked for the Nixon admistration before GS, small wonder he was reluctant to become TS.

It's comparitively easy to implement the best solution to a problem when you are top dog in a company, quite another when you have >500 members of Congress with conflicting agenda's as part of your desicion making process.

I suppose as an adult citizen we have to cut some slack for the children that run the country. Can't be too hard on them.

Most of the financial defects in the system were well known by the powers that be yet only a "crisis" can motivate action.


Heck of way to operate but it is what it is.
 
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Most of the financial defects in the system were well known by the powers that be yet only a "crisis" can motivate action.

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Professor: “There must be alternatives. You must have some technology that can solve our problem.”
Klaatu: “The problem is not technology. The problem is you. You lack the will to change.”
Professor: Then help us change…”
Klaatu: “I cannot change your nature. You treat the world as you treat eachother.”
Professor: “But every civilization reaches a crisis point eventually. [...] Only when your world was threatened with destruction that you became what you are now.”
Klaatu: “Yes.”
Professor: “Well, that’s where we are. You say we’re on the brink of destruction, and you are right. But it’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
This is our moment, don’t take it from us. We are close to an answer.”

- The Day the Earth Stood Still
 
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
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I hadn't read that before.

I suppose this is just human nature. Why should gov't be any different? Our gov't is just collective human nature. Individually we really don't change until something motivates us, usually a crisis. Ie death divorce accident, maybe anger.

Going back to your "live to be a thousand thoughts". I guess we would be unrecognizable after a few hundred years and several dozens crisis.

What makes us think we'll still like ourself, living all those years.
 
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