Chris,
You say: Currently the largest problems of Switzerland are due to
Americanization.
What are the problems?
Also, you say: Perhaps America would be criticized less if it could get
rid of its obsession of forcing its own system (and the resulting problems)
upon everyone else (with
Chris,
Thanks for the information. I enjoyed reading it.
Harry
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Christoph wrote:
REH asked:
There are some points that you don't make in your statements about the
peacefulness of Switzerland. Those points may seem strange or even
unfair but I do believe they need to be
Interesting.What I hear you saying is the same thing as Bush. That the
fundamentals are OK, that it isn't a Casino and that it was just a bunch of
bad guys cheating. Am I reading you right?
REH
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Hi Karen,
Whenever one goes out on a limb, as I did yesterday in my piece (Move
over, America), one immediately retreats mentally and wonders whether it's
so. At least I do. For the rest of the day, as I went about my normal jobs,
I wondered whether I had gone too far in saying that if America
Keith Hudson wrote:
Hi Karen,
Whenever one goes out on a limb, as I did yesterday in my piece (Move
over, America), one immediately retreats mentally and wonders whether it's
so. At least I do. For the rest of the day, as I went about my normal jobs,
I wondered whether I had gone too far
Ed Weick wrote:
Sometimes I wish we could regress and evolve all over again.
[snip]
There was a science article in the NYT a while back
that said that reptiles were on their way to
evolving into upright bipeds with big brains -- until
that big asteroid changed everything.
One can
Harry Pollard asked:
You say: Currently the largest problems of Switzerland are due to
Americanization.
What are the problems?
The largest problems are
- the decay of our (once world-class) public services due to privatization
- the decay of our cultural diversity due to Americanization of
Christoph Reuss wrote:
Harry Pollard asked:
You say: Currently the largest problems of Switzerland are due to
Americanization.
What are the problems?
The largest problems are
- the decay of our (once world-class) public services due to privatization
- the decay of our cultural
REH wrote:
American's quality of life in the outdoors will be considerably more
dangerous and all due to technological manipulation of the Environment
through Science. I can't believe the Better living through Science Myth
is still being preached.
The problems in the examples you mentioned
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Chris,
You make it seem that Americanization is an exogenous force. It isn't. The
people seem to want it. Or at least enough want it that it has come to pass
as progress.
Or, perhaps, Americanization more in the form of an addiction. You get some
and you
Arthur,
I guess I just don't get it. What golden goose? What case after
case? Please explain to me how the market...harness(es) greed. In
what cases do you grant that the state running things does work? (Just
trying to establish a base-line of agreement.) And, lastly, do you see
any
Alan,
You said:
ALAN: It is easy to find many exceptions. My desires are not unlimited. In
fact I don't want any more than I have.
HARRY: Apparently you will have no desire for food tomorrow (or tonight).
ALAN: In fact I would like to reduce what I have; e.g. I would like to
dispense with
Bruce,
A New York bank decided to set up a program to hire minority kids. They
were ill-educated, so the bank set up a program to teach them the basics of
literacy and numeracy.
On average, the 6 week course raised the students by two grades.
This is why in California, caring minority
Lawry,
Quite so.
We should remember that these national statistics are of no use to anyone
but governments. We don't need them and wouldn't even if they were accurate.
Harry
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Lawrence wrote:
This is reminding of Hernando de Soto's remarkable book and theses, that
Chris,
The US Consumers Reports is excellent. I don't know how good its equivalent
in the UK is (Which?).
The computer magazines are also excellent in turning thumbs up, or down
impartially.
But, there are lots of other sources that provide good appraisals of
consumer goods.
Harry
Bruce,
This the Economist in March:
Even before the latest disaster, Argentina's story is that of a decline
unparalleled in modern times. Blessed with some of the world's most fertile
land on the endless pampas, Argentina in the 19th century attracted a flood
of British capital and European
Harry Pollard wrote:
Alan,
You said:
ALAN: It is easy to find many exceptions. My desires are not
unlimited. In fact I don't want any more than I have.
HARRY: Apparently you will have no desire for food tomorrow
(or tonight).
I said my desires were not unlimited, which is correct. I did
Harry Pollard wrote:
Chris,
The US Consumers Reports is excellent.
You're just not critical enough, Harry.
I have just skimmed thru their website now, and found a significant mistake
within a few minutes:
In their article[1] on bike helmets:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
http://www.columbia.edu/~sr793/count.pdf
The estimates of the extent, distribution and trend of global income
poverty
provided in the World Bank's World Development Reports for 1990 and 2000/01
are neither meaningful nor reliable. The Bank uses an arbitrary
international poverty line unrelated
Nice clean thought.Do you have any comments on solutions?
REH
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Great site
REH
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http://www.besthistorysites.net/
a portal created for students, history educators, and general history
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ray Evans Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting.What I hear you saying is the same thing as Bush. That
the fundamentals are OK, that it isn't a Casino and that it was just a
bunch of bad guys cheating. Am I reading you right?
Hmmm. I was answering in
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