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] Date Posted: 23:49:28 11/04/04 Thu In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Talents..." on 23:07:05 11/04/04 Thu Now if you had said "eating and sleeping for 160 years" I could have said something witty. Damn. As far as Hobbes and liberty, yes, I think he got it right. "Mutual self-restraint, based on mutual self-interest" is as good a definition of society as I can think of. Giving everyone a decent education should produce a cleverer society, because you get more people sufficiently trained to be capable of coming up with bright ideas, so it is also self-interest on the part of the society as a whole, if we can abstract that far. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:52:47 11/04/04 Thu And what would have been the witty comment? And, by the way, you seem to be moving around rather a lot! [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:47:34 11/05/04 Fri Having said that, I can't argue with your choice of location... Rio Grande do Sul, Gauchos, churrasco, all that stuff. Top hole. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (southern hemisphere) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 01:38:53 11/05/04 Fri Well, actually I live in Porto Alegre and have done for ages, but I normally identify myself as "Ian (Australia)" to indicate what my perspective on Commonwealth things is. Have you been to Rio Grande do Sul? After eating an enormous churrasco, sleeping for 160 years is quite a reasonable thing to do. This Sunday a good friend of mine will be having a 40th birthday churrasco, so my intestines will have a rough start to the week. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:55:42 11/05/04 Fri Never been to Brazil... am attempting to avoid being inhaled by alligators, shot full of poisoned darts, kidnapped by communists etc. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:56:50 11/05/04 Fri Also, having sweated away like a slave in an attempt to learn Castellano Spanish, I'm damned if I'm learning Portuguese! I'd keep getting confused and start to think that I was speaking Croatian or something... weird-sounding language. On the other hand, I met some extremely pretty Brazilian girls when I was in India... perhaps there's something in it after all... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Dave (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:59:13 11/05/04 Fri On the other hand, I met some extremely pretty Brazilian girls when I was in India... perhaps there's something in it after all... You are in Italy though - bella bella and all that... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |