Well Chris it looks like you're right. You asked for more
informatin, I asked for more information, and Steven asked for more
information.
I even did a google search and while I found something, I doubt it is
relevant. What I found had to do with cooperative game theory and is
related to the Shapely Value of cooperative games (I am not that
familiar with cooperative games so don't ask me what it all means).
Anyhow, it is a pretty heavy duty math thing.
Perhaps it is the same thing, but given the lack of response below, I
think that it is fair to dismiss this stuff about the impossibility
principle as being nonsense...at least until we get more information.
Steve
--- Michael Harris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There are only a limited amount of resources
> available. We here in the US use a disproportionate
> amount of these nonrenewable resources. What then is
> left for the third world countries?
>
> At 04:00 PM 3/25/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >Michael B. Harris wrote: "The impossibility principle states quite
> >clearly that raising the standards of third world countries is
> not
> >possible to a great extent."
> >
> >Bissell here: Did you make that up or is someone else responsible
> for
> >such idiocy? This seems to be saying that there is no obligation
> to even
> >attempt improving standards in the "third world," whatever that
> is. Is
> >that actually what you are saying? If so, you should be ashamed,
> if you
> >are quoting someone else, they should be ashamed.
> >
> >Steven
> >
> >Quietly they moved down the calm and scared
> >river that had come down to earth so that its
> >waters might flow over the ashes of those long
> >dead, and that would continue to flow long
> >after the human race had, through hatred
> >and knowledge, burned itself out.
> > Vikram Seth
> > A Suitable Boy
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