[Taxacom] Rocket science, not?

[Paul Kirk]

Jim,
 
My mantra has always been keep things simple to make them work ... so in the absence of [too much] detail we should not come unstuck ... ;-)
 
Paul

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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Jim Croft
Sent: Mon 11/05/2009 23:03
To: Doug Yanega
Cc: TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Rocket science, not?



Responding to Paddy's
> ... If all players
>register and contribute and players 'watch', then we can achieve the
>currency that is being  sought and do so with a communal infrastructure
>rather than rely on individual projects and the vicissitudes of their
>funding.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:
> This, more than anything else, seems to me where we face the greatest
> roadblock; getting ALL players to contribute to the development of a
> single communal resource, rather than having a cluster of individual
> projects with different goals and different contributors and
> different methodologies, all trying to figure out how to coordinate
> after-the-fact.

This is the Holy Grail we seek (trying really hard not to think of Monty Python)

> ... Or do the realities
> of politics and funding truly mean there is no other way?

and this is the Black Beast of Aaaarrrgghh we fear...

The unfortunate human condition - it has bedeviled us for decades and
will probably do so for decades to come.  That is not to say the
struggle is not worthwhile.  Rod and others amply demonstrate each day
that suitable technology is already there.  It would be nice if we
could say the same for collective will.

Actually I think we probably can in principle.   It is in the detail
it all seems to come unstuck.

jim
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