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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy)
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Date: 08 Dec 1996 01:54:25 GMT
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Article: 17074 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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In-reply-to: jwas@ix.netcom.com's message of 8 Dec 1996 01:02:28 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.agriculture.misc, alt.org.earth-first, alt.politics.economics, alt.politics.greens, alt.save.the.earth, alt.sustainable.agriculture, sci.agriculture, sci.econ, sci.energy, sci.environment, talk.environment, tor.general
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
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In article <58d434$4vo@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> jwas@ix.netcom.com(jw) writes:
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> In <Pine.A41.3.95b.961205151120.42692A-100000@dante24.u.washington.edu>
> "D. Braun" <dbraun@u.washington.edu> writes:
> >On 5 Dec 1996, John McCarthy wrote:
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> >> I consider [...] and many of the people he
> >> quotes to be crackpots.
> >
> >Hmm. The illustrious, logical John McCarthy name-calling?
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> Yes, he lapsed here. But it took that lapse for you
> to pass him the backhanded compliment.
> If messrs N, K, F *stopped* name-calling,
> that would likewise raise some eyebrows...
My opinion was specifically requested about the pages in question.
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John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.
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