All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
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Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
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I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
quote by Henry A. Wallace
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
quote by Charles de Montesquieu
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Oligarchy
No role to play
In oligarchy
Perverted form of
Democracy
You common people
Not eligible
For mercy.
poem by Gajanan Mishra
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We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals.
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Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.
In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.
quote by Sol LeWitt
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
quote by Henry James Sumner Maine
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All Systems Go
If you're ready to fall in love
Here's the thing you've been dreaming of
Scientific fact that you should know
If you're ready to give your heart
And you don't know which way to start
And you're afraid you'll go against the flow
Ask anyone who's ever been given the blow
If you'll know when all systems are go
All systems go
song performed by by Donna Summer from The Donna Summer Anthology
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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.
quote by Guido van Rossum
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That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.
quote by Paul Hawken
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We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.
quote by Michael Bennett
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Bilderbuggers’ Never Sleep
An evil “Oligarchy” bent on global destruction
Kill “Worthless Eaters”, whose souls’ they reap
Stated goal, “Plunder and population reduction”
Until “Mission accomplished” they won’t sleep
ROTMS
poem by Ray Lucero
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A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.
quote by Thabo Mbeki
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
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