Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Use Proposal

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

Moz and CoHo (ho, ho):

IEEE, I stand corrected! I have jeered at the AAAS for it's "download fees," 
disrespectfully re-naming it the AARS, and forcing me and other "free-loaders" 
to bug authors for copies of their publications, which used to be done by 
postal cards until the Internet came along. I have "belonged" to the Friends of 
the Pleistocene in the distant past, which had no dues, no officers, and no 
charges for annual meetings--folks just paid their own way and for their own 
hotel or campsite (if any), boarded with local members, and/or otherwise took 
care of themselves. Students would be sometimes supported out of their 
professor's pockets on occasion and otherwise made do. Dick Vogl and I started 
a similar "Grasslands Study Group," but that was soon taken over and made a 
"regular" organisation. 

WT

PS: Various others have studied the nature of bureaucracy, e.g., Hans Weber. 
Another reference of possible interest to other heretics might be Johan 
Huizinga's Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element In ["of," erroneously, in 
the English translation] Culture. 

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Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Common House Use Proposal


> 
>> In addition, I am equally curious about the electric engineering
>> applications,
> 
> The IEEE runs largely on volunteer labour and because it's made up of
> engineers they have a tenency to look at the large number of meetings and
> go "there has to be a better way" (or other, more earthy statements to
> that effect). I once read a very carefully worded study to the effect that
> adding money to many of the standards committees in an attempt to counter
> what I think they called "corporate sponsorship" did not have the expected
> effect, and that committees which responded by publishing everything did
> best. It was more sociological than electrical except that it tried to
> evaluate effectiveness of published standards, and was hence interesting
> to users of said standards. And, of course, it was done by IEEE members.
> Sorry if you were thinking more Abu Gharib than just another meeting.
> 
> Personally I have kept that approach because it appeals to me as much
> because it's shown to possibly work in some circumstances. I cheerfully
> accept most bribes and tell anyone who might be interested that I have
> done so (and when I'm speaking for the bribe, or not). Disappointingly, I
> don't get many repeat bribes :(
> 
> Moz
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