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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Okay, be patient with me. Jim and I have to go to
the emergency room, sigh. So I will not be able to get back to this until later
today. Gina`</FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">Hi
Gina,<BR><BR>I sent you a private response with just a couple of
comments. I think that<BR>the most important thing is to not take this
personally. (Spoken from<BR>someone who has been through this more than
once.)<BR><BR>Second, if you provide accurate, meaningful facts, just a few
will set her<BR>straight and show her that yellow-dog journalism is a cope-out
for her<BR>profession.<BR><BR>Here is one fact: Extropy Institute's
Board consistes of 6 members, 4 of<BR>whom as not American citizens (Canada,
Venezuela, Sweden and England make<BR>up the board) Greg Burch lives in
Houston and my home has been Telluride,<BR>Colorado (well, New York
originally).<BR><BR>Second, most membership of ExI is outside Califonria and
in fact, is global.<BR><BR>Drop a few names. For example:<BR><BR>1.)I
HATE THE extropians.<BR><BR>Then you must hate Eric Drexler, father of
nanotechnology; Marvin Minsky,<BR>father of artificial intelligence; Ray
Kurzweil, noted innovator and award<BR>winning inventor; Christine Peterson,
founder of Foresight Institute;<BR>Pamela Lifton-Zoline, founder of the
Telluride Institute; and Roy Walford,<BR>world-reknown scientist and author,
just to name a few.<BR><BR>If you keep your rebuttal short and factual, then
she will read it. If you<BR>respond emotionally she will toss it in the
trash.<BR><BR>By the way, I wonder where she did get her erroneous
information? Another<BR>reason why transhumanists have a responsibility
to author their FAQs<BR>accurately and not publically badmouth each
other. I hope we all can work<BR>toward this and stop others who are
doing it in their tracks.<BR><BR>My best to
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