On 5/8/05, Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 8, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Erik Reuter wrote: > > > * Gary Denton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> There are a number of economists who point out that insurance > >> investments - military, police, insurance itself, have very low > >> economic value compared to public improvements. Above a certain basic > >> level of protection more money doesn't create or defend productive > >> capital. What is the minimum amount needed is the heart of politics. > > > > Gary likes to pretend that he knows what he is talking about. But he > > has > > repeatedly made postings lie this that show he doesn't have any real > > understanding -- apparently he just likes to string together terms that > > he has seen or heard somewhere, like Eliza. > > Wow. For a while there Erik seemed almost civil -- I figured the meds > must have been kicking in. > > Hey, Erik -- ask your doc to up the prescription again. The effects > have worn off.
I have suspected "Erik" is actually an Eliza-type program that responds to my statements with non-specific phrases that accuse me of lacking understanding and and stringing together phrases like an Eliza program. The program will be triggered by the preceding sentence. There is never any factual content he indicates he is disagreeing with and it can barely be called criticism. Just an insult program that states some people notably myself are putting phrases together in ways he is not familiar with or the reply had a certain proportion of words he uses in the response. What general items of GDP and GNP are actually non-productive investments is subject to debate. Some economists use all non-productive transfer payments as items which should be excluded and you get into the whole matter of depreciation. Perhaps this argument is simply too complex for the Erik program. -- Gary Denton Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
