From thinkit8@lycos.com Sat Jul 21 12:26:18 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: thinkit8@lycos.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 21 Jul 2001 19:26:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 60884 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2001 19:25:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 21 Jul 2001 19:25:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO n6.groups.yahoo.com) (10.1.10.45) by mta1 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2001 19:25:47 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: thinkit8@lycos.com Received: from [10.1.2.117] by hm.egroups.com with NNFMP; 21 Jul 2001 19:25:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:25:47 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: how can i help lojban? what can $ do? Message-ID: <9jckvr+lvhb@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010721141942.00c5d100@127.0.0.1> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1550 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 24.5.121.32 From: thinkit8@lycos.com --- In lojban@y..., "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" wrote: > At 07:48 PM 07/20/2001 -0600, you wrote: > >On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bob LeChevalier (lojbab) wrote: > > > We did prepare an AI research proposal aimed at bigger bucks to support a > > > few technical people full time, and indeed we have ideas on how we would > > > spend larger amounts, but no one has even thought about $1 million, much > > > less $10 million. > > > >Where would you submit such a proposal to? NSF? > > In our case, yes. > > >(I was wondering, just this morning, if you'd consider doing grant > >proposals and such. :) > > We tried that once. Did not even make the cut to get feedback on why we > did not win, unfortunately. Probably because the job was too hurried. > > But JCB sought 3 different NSF grants in the late 70s and we know what > feedback he got, and thus we know a lot of errors to avoid. well i guess that's the way the world works. i just can't help see money as such a primitive concept, though. that's why i asked if it would even help. i think the best it could do would be to remove individuals from their need to make money. and getting grants...working the system, i could never put up with that. anyways, lojban is one of the only things i ever thought to donate money to (i don't even tip). so if you ever see a huge donation, it might be me. i floated the $10-million dollar value out but even that seems small. what's more important--lojban or social security? and social security dwarfs $10 million.