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...I love your concept of a suspension clause to sentences. Quite right, conversations are designed to...
It was either that or claim a 'sanity clause' and we all know the road that heads down.
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People don't read for fun. People read to learn. Learning is fun.
Mehbee there should be a sanity proof. [deadpan-e]
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Mehbee there should be a sanity proof. I thought we were. [deadpan-e]
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I thought we were. Proof for or against? [deadpan-e] jayshus I'm pishst!
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But in fifty years there won't be anything new to read except for the diatribes of polemicists or the random maunderings of amateurs whose egos are massaged by seeing their names at the top of a manuscript.In 50 years, you could be as famous as Charles H. Duell, TEd Rem. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
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I have been too flippant about what I truly believe is the nature of human learning so here is what I think... Learning in humans is simply "play" that continues beyond childhood and is perpetrated by evolution by the same device that makes play fun. Unfortunately this device is superseded by the social needs of all cultures as they compete with each other for continuance through time. (in other words a vibrant culture can't have all its denizens growing tulip plants when other cultures are raising their kids for aggressive war.) So therefore we have schools where learning is painful but collectively functional, but with the coming of the Liber-library on the Internet all that is about to change.
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Liber-library on the InternetTheoretically, all public libraries are "free". But they are not really free if you can't get to them. And University libraries aren't free unless you have paid your tuition. So your term "liber-library" is quite good. Perhaps it could be improved somewhat by calling it the "Libernet Library" because it is only accessible on the Net. TEd Rem argues that writers of quality will stop writing if they can't make any money at it. Will the Dostoyeskys stop writing, the Van Goghs stop painting, because there is no money in it? Can genius be thwarted by impecuniosity? Not if there is a "libernet library". The people who are most passionate about the possibilities of the Internet have always said "information wants to be free". Nature abhors a vaccuum. Information abhors a cage. One can understand TEd Rem's misgivings, as a published writer, about the "libernet library". And his concerns are certainly legitimate. But we should not assume that new models will not be created to compensate writers for their works commensurate with the demand for their work [other than self-generated demand, of course].
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"Libernet Library" Thanks, Plutarch, that's much better. You've a head like a glass of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. Libernet Library - Yeah, I like it.
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howz about just Libranet? or Webrary?
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LibranetLibranet is a dating portal for Libras. Some matches are made in heaven. Others are made in the zodiac.
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"Webrary" I like that, etaion, that's kinda cute. But I was trying to include a sense of "Liberty" or "Liberation" in the term, as well as a combo of library and web.
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