Re: Brin: Forget global warming, let's make a difference

2005-06-14 Thread Erik Reuter
that in most human cultures. We should be surprised they are doing it now? Talking about shoes fitting, this ranting sounds a lot like a rich, spoiled teenager shouting save the whales while millions are dying from lack of clean water. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: Brin: Forget global warming, let's make a difference

2005-06-14 Thread Erik Reuter
will leave you out of any future discussions that involve reality. [Rest of off-topic rant deleted...] -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Brin: Re: Forget global warming, let's make a difference

2005-06-14 Thread Erik Reuter
* David Brin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please drop dead. Eventually, perhaps. You are a bona fide asshole and I want to hear from you never again. I can keep playing these games as long as you can. I was going to let it drop, but you obviously don't want it to drop. You want to play games.

Brin: Re: someone

2005-06-14 Thread Erik Reuter
to your emails, well, there is an easy way to stop me from doing that. As soon as you stop replying to me, I'll stop replying to you. Meanwhile, I ask that he be ejected. It is him or me. I mean it. What a prima donna you are! Okay, I'll take the fall for the big sissy. Kick me off already! -- Erik

Brin: Forget global warming, let's make a difference

2005-06-13 Thread Erik Reuter
http://tinyurl.com/aom39 http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/06/13/ccpers13.xmlmenuId=242sSheet=/money/2005/06/13/ixfrontcity.html Personal view: Forget global warming. Let's make a real difference By Bjørn Lomborg (Filed: 13/06/2005) Last Tuesday, 11 of the

Re: Brin: Forget global warming, let's make a difference

2005-06-13 Thread Erik Reuter
with other solutions to important world problems, then I am sure that Lomberg would be all for it. Shilling for the neocons? Feh. You have conspiracy theory on the brain, Brin. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

trolling for trolls

2005-05-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've been asked to ask you to tone it down on personal attacks on-list. If you make many more personal attacks on-list, the probability of your being placed on moderation will be non-zero. It seems we have more nattering ninnies! But a new breed,

Re: Just for the record...

2005-05-17 Thread Erik Reuter
not yet). Guys (you know who you are) feel free to pile on here and whine and exchange nonsense. Maybe it will occupy you enough to stop distracting the few remaining people who are interested in reasonable discussion. But probably not. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: Just for the record...

2005-05-17 Thread Erik Reuter
How disappointing! Julia started a whining thread just tailor-made to draw the nonsense-spouting whiners, like flies to shit. My left middle finger is raring to go, it needs excercise. Come on, where are the cry-babies when you need them? What happened to the posturing pudding heads? Nick,

Matt Miller on SS reform

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Reuter
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/opinion/11mill.html?pagewanted=print New York Times, May 11, 2005 Wanted: Responsible Demagoguery By MATT MILLER You'd never guess from the Democratic hysteria that President Bush's plan to progressively index Social Security is an idea we liberals may one day

Jane Galt on retirement risk and pensions

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Reuter
http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005309.html May 11, 2005 Regulating risk There's a debate that we should be having in this country, about risk, but aren't, because everyone's trading scare stories about Social Security. In a follow-up post, Matthew Yglesias argues with Alex Tabarrok

Re: Jane Galt on retirement risk and pensions

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Reuter
. Although she did endorse Bush, which subtracts a few points...but her blog is well worth reading. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The American Political Landscape Today

2005-05-15 Thread Erik Reuter
and the Republicans is that the Republicans spend more and tax less, and the Democrats spend more and tax more. Granted, the latter is better than the former, but hardly frugal. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman

Lawrence Lindsey on SS reform

2005-05-14 Thread Erik Reuter
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=printfriendlyid=2627 House Committee on Ways and Means Statement of The Honorable Lawrence B. Lindsey, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Lindsey Group, Fairfax, Virginia Testimony Before the House Committee on Ways and Means May 12,

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-09 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hmm. Sounds like the weighting function which is supposed to make the random reply sound at least a little like it makes sense is not working properly . . . Sounds like it is adapting itself to be like your program...

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-09 Thread Erik Reuter
* Gary Denton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is never any factual content he indicates he is disagreeing with and Never? There is something stated as fact which is incorrect. The Brin-L archives provide ample evidence. Of course, if Gary hadn't used the word never, but rarely, then Gary

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-09 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dave Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It also fails even to construct decent logical arguments. Interactions And another low S/N poster heard from. This thread may set some records. Dave, at least, is funny. Accusing someone of not constructing decent logical arguments. Ha!

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-08 Thread Erik Reuter
that are expected to create improvements in the future, as opposed to the way the term is used by people managing savings portfolios). I expect the NIPA guide could tell you exactly what is included, if you are interested in finding more details: http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/an/nipaguid.pdf -- Erik Reuter

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-08 Thread Erik Reuter
has seen or heard somewhere, like Eliza. Incidentally, if the numbers I posted had demonstrated any flaws in his partisan liberal politics, then he would not have agreed with the methodology at all. The methodology is only good if it produces a message that can fit with his party line. -- Erik

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-08 Thread Erik Reuter
And then, of course, we have Warren, who apparently values political correctness, false politeness, and his own emotions over anything real and useful like knowledge, clear thinking, or taking time to learn about a subject before spouting an opinion on it. One of the few Brin-L posters with a

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-08 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sometimes I suspect the existence of an Eliza-like program called Don Rickles which generates a random selection of insults in response to any post that almost sound as if they are coming from a human being . . . Maybe the same-tired-old-jokes

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-08 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 04:22 PM Sunday 5/8/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: Eliza: Is it because of your life that you are going through all this? [NameWithheld]: It is because you are afflicted by the virus of religion that you say that. Is it because of your

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-08 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 06:53 PM Sunday 5/8/2005, Erik Reuter wrote: * Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 04:22 PM Sunday 5/8/2005, Robert J. Chassell wrote: Eliza: Is it because of your life that you are going through all this? [NameWithheld

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-07 Thread Erik Reuter
... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-06 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dave Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for reminding me: the other pathetic logical fallacy that you frequently engage in is ad hominem attacks. Awww, poor Dave. Can't think. Likes to whine. Aw. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-06 Thread Erik Reuter
* Erik Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Productivity data is from: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/OPHPBS/2/Max You can see a graph of productivity growth here: http://erikreuter.net/econ/ophpbs.png *I did not include years 1953, 1961, 1969, 1977, 1981, 1993

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Reuter
rate. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Reuter
and there are no babelfish are not equally statements of faith. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Reuter
* Erik Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What causes productivity growth? Capital deepening (i.e., more machines per worker, better equipment, etc.) and more skilled (or more efficient) workers. From 1947 through 2004 (the years for which I have productivity data), average annualized

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Reuter
^ foolish -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dave Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On May 5, 2005, at 6:44 PM, Erik Reuter wrote: The statements There is [a/no] God matter to people so much so that ^ some ^ foolish Another argument from conclusion. Also, it apparently matters

Re: Psalm 14:1 (53:1), was Re: Permission Slips Re: blah, blah, blah . . .

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Repetition does not establish veracity. You have repeatedly established what your thoughts are worth, Ronn. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: why thinking bad

2005-05-04 Thread Erik Reuter
* d.brin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Today, I registered to vote as a Republican And if that does not help, he could always join a church... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-03 Thread Erik Reuter
-- this is similar folly to that of speculators during the 1999-2000 stock market bubble. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE:Removing Dictators Re:Peaceful changeL3

2005-05-02 Thread Erik Reuter
are not so fortunate. More co-dependency. Which I am sometimes guilty of, too, but it would be the worst enabling behavior for me to ignore all the religious nonsense that scrambles people's thinking. The invisible pink unicorns told me to help out here. God, I hate them! -- Erik Reuter http

Re: US riches, actual and hypothetical

2005-05-02 Thread Erik Reuter
if applied continually. Or any other of a large number of similar explanations. So the conclusion you are looking for from such an ambitious extrapolation will be likely to lead to a false sense of security. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: The Root of All Evil

2005-04-30 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 12:53 PM Saturday 4/30/2005, William T Goodall wrote: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/ Cute (though hardly original) use of Photoshop, but who has a cost- and spam-free link to the actual article? That would be

Re: The Root of All Evil

2005-04-30 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Or the behavior of one who simply refuses to be an enabler to spammers. No spam. Pay attention. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: RhetoricalQuestionsRE:RemovingDictatorsRe:PeacefulchangeL3

2005-04-29 Thread Erik Reuter
. This is more hilarious than the 3 Stooges! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Permission Slips Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: PeacefulchangeL3

2005-04-26 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm quite sure that you don't know what I actually mean. I'm quite sure that NOBODY knows what you actually mean. Nobody, not even Nick. Because it is NONSENSE. Damn that brain-destroying religion! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: Balkans background

2005-04-26 Thread Erik Reuter
, then is not difficult to identify who may have cheated. The only way to avoid being identified this way is to copy from someone who correctly answers all the questions. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: US voting reform idea

2005-04-25 Thread Erik Reuter
* Frank Schmidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: However, the fact that no system is perfect doesn't mean no system is better than the current one. Who claimed otherwise? The problem is with deciding criteria. You didn't explain what criteria you were using to decide what is better, and why. As

Re: US voting reform idea

2005-04-24 Thread Erik Reuter
There has been a great deal of work on voting science over the past ~200 years. Unfortunately, the conclusions are it depends. Is the system you describe better than the current system? It depends on what is considered important. Here is a summary of vote aggregation methods and some ways to

Re: One more!

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:42:47 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote Yeah, how could you ever in a million years have guessed that the function for calculating a factorial was called factorial? I'm having trouble getting your joke. No doubt. -- Erik Reuter

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It seems paradoxical, if Africa has starvation, why sell food. But, the It does seem odd. But what if most poor countries are net importers of food? The subsidies obviously hurt the food exporters, since subsidies depress prices, but if the country as a

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Reuter
is not what I said. Sufficiently high absolute minimum standard of living would do it, even if the gap between the top and bottom increases. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Reuter
$3 in the poorest nations, then manufacturing switches from manual labor to automation. I said nothing about the gap between rich and poor nations. That was your statement, wrongly attributed to me. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http

Re: Peaceful Change L3

2005-04-21 Thread Erik Reuter
denial) every time someone explains what you are saying is nonsense. By the way, nice fire analogy, Gautam. If that wasn't clear enough, then it is hard to imagine what could be. Patience may be a virtue, but recognizing a lost cause is surely one, too! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
namespace std; using namespace GiNaC; int main() { ex poly; poly = factorial( 5565709 ); cout poly ; return 0; } -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
* Erik Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 5565709! has 35 126 456 digits and took 7 minutes 57 seconds to Oops, that's what I get for trying to type instead of copying. As you see below, it is actually: 35126452 digits. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
the CD and you are running the OS from the CD, without having to install the OS on your hard drive. When you are done, just take the CD out and reboot and you will be back running your usual OS on your hard drive (or whatever). -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
://maxima.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml There are several other free programs that may be better depending on what you are trying to do, but Maxima is the most general purpose free math system that I know of. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
minutes is too quick for you and you'd rather wait several days for Mathematica to calculate 5M!, then that is of course the best solution if it makes you feel better about all the money you spent on Mathematica... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
more than a minute on my machine. Also, 1! was only a couple seconds, so it looks like it is much worse than linear time. I'd hate to see what happens if you try 5M! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:29:57 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote Scipy, a Python module that uses native libraries, seems to perform quite well at such things once it one muddles through the documentation to figure out the right way to attack the problem

Re: One more!

2005-04-20 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:51:09 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote Incredible! Your inaction while wishing for a magical solution to drop from heaven extends even to simple programming tasks! No, no, no. I'm wishing for magical *documentation*. Yeah, how

Re: Peaceful change

2005-04-17 Thread Erik Reuter
the horrors of religious brainwashing. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Opinion Disclaimers (was Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments))

2005-04-15 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Welcome! Ronn's our welcome wagon for gmail trolls. Good job, Ronn. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-15 Thread Erik Reuter
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: * Robert Seeberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is a Just Lunch doctrine. At least where I work there is. Just lunch..no nooner..just lunch. Better to just skip just lunch and go straight to the chocolate cake

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-15 Thread Erik Reuter
, they have weapons of mass dest--er, biological weapons? Uhh, germ warfare, yeah, salmonella, that's the ticket! Send in the UN inspectors, er, I mean send in the health department inspectors! If the inspectors aren't shown the salmonella post-haste, we invade! Justice will be served! -- Erik Reuter

Re: Opportunity costs of war

2005-04-14 Thread Erik Reuter
* Robert Seeberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is a Just Lunch doctrine. At least where I work there is. Just lunch..no nooner..just lunch. Better to just skip just lunch and go straight to the chocolate cake and fudge brownies...get your just desserts! -- Erik Reuter http

Re: 24?

2005-04-13 Thread Erik Reuter
? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Change without war (was something else)

2005-04-09 Thread Erik Reuter
: Which is more resistant to transformation to the other, a democracy or a dictatorship? Or are they about the same? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
to judge this q Wrong again, Dan. You keep writing that, but repeating it will not make it true. Doug: Nickle \Nickle\, n. (Zool.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also {nicker pecker}. [1913 Webster] Good bet! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
: Right Pos: RP Born: October 2, 1974, Sonoma, CA Full Name: Douglas Alan Nickle College: UC-Berkeley Experience: 3 years -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
the question. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
* Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: And where are you whenever someone gets the its/it's thing wrong? Nowhere to be found! Sheesh! Its not easy to joke about that when ones own mistakes caused a dog to lose it's tail in a horrible punctuation accident. -- Erik Reuter http

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Original Message - From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:57 AM Subject: Re: New Pope? * Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: inevitable. Are you

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
will be developed in my lifetime. Maybe not, but my options are open. Many people would think those are good goals only as long as someone else is paying for them. Perhaps. If everyone acted that way, how long (if ever) would it take to achieve those goals? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sure, maybe the horse will learn to sing. : Much more likely than that. A lot longer. But, that has nothing to do with the question at hand. You Wrong again, Dan. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dave Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Apr 7, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Erik Reuter wrote: * Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: And where are you whenever someone gets the its/it's thing wrong? Nowhere to be found! Sheesh! Its not easy to joke about that when ones own mistakes caused

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-07 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Erik wrote: Why didn't you respond to the questions I posted last night? Because I did. :-) Wrong again, Dan. In your head doesn't count. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Erik Reuter
* Gautam Mukunda ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We all know how opinions that differ from today's orthodoxy are treated here, so why should today be any different? Actually, Dave just doesn't pay attention very well. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

2005-04-06 Thread Erik Reuter
whether Gautam was right: As to your assumptions about my motives (seems meant only to be a poor attempt to make me look...), -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: New Pope?

2005-04-06 Thread Erik Reuter
? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Amazing-but-True Facts

2005-04-01 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ronn!Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:18:31 -0600 That was 18 minutes and 30 seconds late! For shame, Ronn! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

GDP-linked bonds

2005-03-31 Thread Erik Reuter
Robert Shiller has been championing GDP-linked bonds for years. I agree that they are a good idea, both for developing countries and for mature countries. GDP-linked bonds also provide a partial answer to the question I posed some time ago, how does an entire generation save for retirement?

Re: quantum darwin?

2005-03-21 Thread Erik Reuter
* Ray Ludenia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hardly seems likely. Dan is from the famous shut up and calculate school after all. Huh? Could've fooled me. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Imax 'shuns films on evolution'

2005-03-21 Thread Erik Reuter
that is a more serious problem. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Imax 'shuns films on evolution'

2005-03-21 Thread Erik Reuter
...who was _the_ most influential doctor of the church (with Augustine a close second) almost 1000 years ago. Galileo may have had a different opinion. Your revisionist religious apologist attitude is really depressing. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: Imax 'shuns films on evolution'

2005-03-21 Thread Erik Reuter
. I didn't make the mistake of engaging you in a discussion about religion. I just made a comment with no intention of discussing with you. I will not be making the mistake, either. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com

Re: quantum darwin?

2005-03-20 Thread Erik Reuter
in the mid-60s that eliminated hidden variable theories from serious consideration. That will be in the next installment. Ah, EPR coming? Are you saving these for your forthcoming _Physics for Poets_ book? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: the purge

2005-03-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Trent Shipley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [message without BRIN: in the subject] Unless you Bcc'd him or otherwise directly emailed him, it is unlikely Brin will read what you wrote. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http

Social Security Deserves Better Than Another Partisan Brawl

2005-03-18 Thread Erik Reuter
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB02071090881840,00.html CAPITAL By DAVID WESSEL Social Security Deserves Better Than Another Partisan Brawl March 17, 2005; Page A2 President Bush's campaign to create private Social Security accounts and to stabilize the popular retirement

Jobless Recovery Speculation

2005-03-07 Thread Erik Reuter
http://www.investorsinsight.com/article.asp?id=jmotb030705 The Mystery of the Awful Economists By Barry Ritholtz 2005 March 7 John Mauldin's Outside The Box I've been making a fortune lately. (No, I don't own any Google IPO shares). Each month, I've been betting on the outcome of the Non-Farm

Re: Physics query

2005-03-04 Thread Erik Reuter
is lambda = 1.5e-12 cm = 1.5e-14 m Energy = h c / lambda = 1.3e-11 J = 83 MeV Search the web for something that emits 83 MeV photons! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: brin:quantum darwin?

2005-03-03 Thread Erik Reuter
on decoherence a few years ago and found it to be rather interesting. Thanks, Dan M. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http

Arab satellite television

2005-02-25 Thread Erik Reuter
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3690442 Arab satellite television The world through their eyes Feb 24th 2005 | CAIRO, LAAYOUNE, QATAR AND RIYADH From The Economist print edition With 150 channels to choose from, Arabs are arguing, comparing and questioning as never

Re: What Social Security (and Its Reform) Say About America

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Reuter
, and then invest in all of them, proportional to the size of the market. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: What Social Security (and Its Reform) Say About America

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I guess I'll give you a chance to discuss this reasonably again Will you really? Go suck an egg, Nick. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Medical costs

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Reuter
groups. Half took 100 milligrams of CoQ10 three times a day for three months; the rest took a placebo. Ten of those taking the supplement compared with only 3 taking a placebo had at least a 50 percent reduction in monthly attacks -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net

Re: Real cost of living (was Social Security reform)

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Reuter
* Dan Minette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It would clearly be the lady with the alligator purse. Everybody forgets about that poor alligator... -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Medical costs

2005-02-20 Thread Erik Reuter
* Erik Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This reminded of an article I just read. I don't have an online link, but it is from _Consumer Reports On Health_ newsletter, March 2005. Here's an excerpt: Daily doses of the dietary supplement coenzyme Q10, or CoQ10, helped ward off

Re: Real cost of living (was Social Security reform)

2005-02-19 Thread Erik Reuter
people with the retirement most people would like. That is rather the point of a lot of the threads here. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: What Social Security (and Its Reform) Say About America

2005-02-19 Thread Erik Reuter
saying that most Americans are delusional and of the opinion that wishing makes it so? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: What Social Security (and Its Reform) Say About America

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Reuter
retreat to airplane metaphors. At least then you just look like you are avoiding the question, rather than appearing a complete fool. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Social Security cost of living

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: Except that, if you have an intelligent point at all, you are quibling on a minor detail The question of whether or not Social Security benefits have kept up with the actual cost of living of its beneficiaries is no mere detail

Re: Social Security cost of living

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: Which is not the question under discussion, Nick. This is really pathetic. For someone who is otherwise intelligent, you really have a blind spot or some weird defense mechanism against admitting you spoke out of ignorance and were

Re: Social Security cost of living

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Erik Reuter wrote: Assume what you like. Whatever lets you wallow in your blissful ignorance and inability to admit you were wrong.l What in the world are you suggesting that I admit I'm wrong about? Have Man, you've got it BAD, Nick. Now you

Re: Real cost of living (was Social Security reform)

2005-02-18 Thread Erik Reuter
* Nick Arnett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't care to discuss anything further. You call what you were doing discussing? Ha! -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

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