I've begun discussions on various forums and blogs about a way to make alternative currencies more noticeable in popular culture. I know that the idea is...
Ernie, Questions you have always ducked: 1) How are CCs systems going to secure a real wealth base to make them mainstream when the current interest bearing...
marc, despite your rude ad hominem, for the record once again... ... quack ... by reclaiming the commonwealth - "...imagine a society and economy operating ...
3 Events for the Third Annual UsuryFree Week, November 13th to 19th (Ottawa, Toronto & Brantford, Ontario) NOTE: Please spread this email around and please...
All, First let me highlight one response made by Ernie with regards to my question on the definition of "community" in "community currency." EY: self-defined -...
Hello Marc et all, This issue of "What is a community" is hugely important. (*If someone wants the bare-bones definition without the explanation, move below.) ...
... you keep harping on "no answers", even when we go to the time and trouble of giving them to you, and not just in this one instance, but numerous others in ...
This listserve has been a great source of information for me here in Duluth, Minnesota, because it is concerned with how money effects the environment. Think...
Ernie, You did not answer why you ignore the difference between limited and scarce that I pointed out to you, that was the question that went unanswered and...
Dear Leonardo, Although I greatly appreciate your exposition of the notion of community and I sincerely concur with the importance of community in terms of...
absolutely my last words on this issue on ijccr... ... from last year around this time... mg: Thank you Ernie for trying to answer. ml: The cause of the...
Ernie wrote: That currency, however, continually drains out of communities, particularly from those most in need. This is inevitable, since conventional...
Dear Marc, ... Absolutely. However, we find ourselves in a Catch-22 situation in terms of creating “an unambiguous language.” If you read LOVE AND PLAY:...
Dear Leonardo, Thank you for your input. My immediate reaction is that the IWGCS Requirements Working Group Section (WGS) could incorporate much of what you ...
Dear all, in my humble opinion there is a point to consider about CREDIT: i.e. how can a CC mimicke the function of money without having a credit system? Most...
Marco, Credit has two meanings it means having or potential for having of obtaining a loan or it means the opposite of debit i.e. a positive account entry. In...
Sorry a correction Marco, Credit has two meanings it means having or potential for having of a loan or it means the opposite of debit i.e. a positive account...
As a 65-years-old, it pains me to have to say that I grow really impatient with the pedantry displayed by some participants (Marc!!!!) in this 'dialogue'...
Dear Jacques, You are gravely mistaken I am not of Spanish decent, I have not studied with the Jesuits and I hopefully won't convince anyone of anything but...
Dear Marc, Never mind. I should have known that people who believe in the possibility of 'flawless logic' standing 'out there' on its own, are probably not...
Dear Jacques, If not logic then what is my question. The problem is logic+human ego+incomplete data. The logic can always be checked and often it tells you...
JCT: I already hold the Records for "most elections contested" and "most elections lost" but now I'm claiming a share in a new record with my last winning...
I'm looking into starting a weekly alternative news show on Youtube and would like to know if there's a way to use something like community currency via the...
JCT: You'll remember that I have filed an application for judicial review of the CRTC's refusal to get me a fair share of time from Rogers Cable TV. I also...
Vale ijccr discussion group Amazing really, that nothing has been mentioned about the sub-prime meltdown in the US, and if when how why CCs would/wouldn't be...
The CC in Naples, Italy (SCEC), some numbers: experiment started: June 2007 total users: 957 of whom, shops: 174 total issued: 60,500 Euro equivalent website:...
Hi, Your post is very interesting and timely. Social networks (of which on-line games are a subset) are, as you note, are rapidly increasing in popularity. I...
Greetings TCN readers and/or otherwise: Our Third Annual UsuryFree Week is set to begin. There are three meetings planned for Ontario, Canada. A breakfast...
Dear All, I am writing to request your participation in the IWGCS that you can join by simply sending a mail to: standard_exchanges@yahoogroups.com. There are...
