Re: [PEN-L] query: laws of models

Asimov later added a fourth, which he decided he had to call the zeroth law. At 17:25 23/01/2008, you wrote: I made up the following list of The Three Laws of Models. 1. No model can be an exact representation of the complexities of empirical reality. 2. The predictions implied by

[PEN-L] Percentage breakdown of world GDP for past 500 years

http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/2008/01/20/share-of-world-gdp/

[PEN-L] ...And all I got was a lousy cammo t-shirt: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Baghdad.

Guardian UK: Ahmadinejad to challenge US influence with visit to Iraq Julian Borger, diplomatic editor Thursday January 24, 2008 The Guardian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to become the first Iranian leader since the revolution to visit Baghdad after the Iraqi foreign ministry announced

Re: [PEN-L] ...And all I got was a lousy cammo t-shirt: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Baghdad.

Has the visit been arranged by the Democratic party? Photos of Ahmadinejad in Baghdad won't play very well with the keynote Republican campaign emphasis on how the surge is working... - Original Message - From: Leigh Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Sent: Thursday,

Re: [PEN-L] query: laws of models

I wrote: I made up the following list of The Three Laws of Models. 1. No model can be an exact representation of the complexities of empirical reality. 2. The predictions implied by any model vary as the assumptions change. 3. No model applies to answer all questions (to predict in all

[PEN-L] Options for Responding to Short-Term Economic Weakness - CBO

Courtesy of Docuticker: http://www.docuticker.com/?p=18996 Options for Responding to Short-Term Economic Weakness Source: Congressional Budget Office The economy has recently been buffeted by several interlinked shocks, and the risk of recession is significantly elevated compared with what

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

ravi wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2lmeny Against Independent Voters We’re in that season now when we hear the same things being said over and over again, and nothing is said more often by political pundits than this election (it doesn’t matter which one) will be decided by independent voters.

Re: [PEN-L] Advice

Steve, I sent you a email off list with a Word file on annuities. My parents were also considering buy an annuity and so I did some research for them and put it together in a Word file. Rudy -- Rudy Fichtenbaum Professor of Economics Chief Negotiator AAUP-WSU Wright State University Dayton, OH

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

On Jan 24, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: ravi wrote: http://tinyurl.com/2lmeny Against Independent Voters We’re in that season now when we hear the same things being said over and over again, and nothing is said more often by political pundits than this election (it doesn’t matter

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:08 PM, ravi wrote: But to me (and I suspect a large segment of those befuddled by the ascendancy of pose over principle; not to forget the larger group falling prey to this seduction of independence) they were worth saying and I can think of few better writers than Fish to

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

On Jan 24, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: I forwarded the article not just because I think it was wittily written (as only Fish and a few others can do, these days) but also because it is quite correct. Fish is right, IMO, in his characterisation of independents above, and the

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

WTF? Marxist theory junkies are by their very nature are fundamentalists. My way or the highway. No compromise. The ones who do it to the fullest extent are called... THE VANGUARD (yeech!) OTOH, in practice, in the real world, the selfsame people are often the first to sell out,

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

On Jan 24, 2008, at 4:16 PM, ravi wrote: The problem with independents, as Fish brilliantly identifies, is not that they refuse to choose between Democrats and Republicans but: Consistent, wholesome, common vs. conflicted, divided, factional. Mutual interests – interest that are shared –

[PEN-L] new coins

the following is funny and sad, despite a dollop of right-wing nuttiness: http://blip.tv/file/520347 -- Jim Devine / Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti. (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.

Re: [PEN-L] new coins

On Jan 24, 2008 2:52 PM, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following is funny and sad, despite a dollop of right-wing nuttiness: http://blip.tv/file/520347 Consider that blogged: http://ooibc.blogspot.com/2008/01/humor-in-times-of-crisis-video-new.html

[PEN-L] The Two Faces of Bill Gates

Gates just gave a speech advocating a kindler, gentler capitalism, posing a good brother to the poor. At the same time, Microsoft is embarking on the most far reaching monitoring of workers ever contrived in which wireless sensors could read .heart rate, galvanic skin response, EMG, brain

Re: [PEN-L] Against Independent Voters - Stanley Fish

On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:45 PM, ravi wrote: [...] And what came after that ...? ...you end up with Ralph Nader. Enough in itself (but there's been so much more) to qualify Herr Dr. Fish as a total arshloch. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be

Re: [PEN-L] new coins

On Jan 24, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Leigh Meyers wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 2:52 PM, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following is funny and sad, despite a dollop of right-wing nuttiness: http://blip.tv/file/520347 Consider that blogged: