4/25/98, boddhisatva [??? give me a break] wrote:
C. Jones wrote: "as Eugene Odum says, the tendency that seems to
characterize natural ecosystems is that of maximizing the quality of the
overall environment for the mutual benefit of all species within it." This
is untrue and it
4/25/98, boddhisatva wrote:
The only reason that African savannah predators don't wipe out
their prey species is that they can't catch them.
You are ignorant, pure and simple. But then theororists of your ilk
never worry much about reality, they see facts a clay, to be selectively
molded
in the beginning there was a chaos of uninterpreted empirical data.
to the rescue came theory, ie, the identification of patterns inherent
in the data, and, lest we forget, the observer.
human understanding being what it is, the theory and the data become
confused in the mind, with theory,
Dear Louis list,
I understand where the analysis (at bottom of this message) is coming from,
and what information it is based on, but I suggest it is in error, based on
important facts not taken into consideration.
To begin with, the New Left was not overly marxist at all. It was quite in
4/13/98, boddhisatva wrote:
It might be interesting to speculate what interests would be
served by a move against the Yen. ... In
general such a move would "teach a lesson" to the Japanese about the
"superiority" of the American way of doing business. A big down move in
the Yen now
