Platt, The accounting bit is easy - "least", but everything else just shifts the problem to the other words.
"possible" ? - how likely unlikley / how much downside risk, etc ? "eventually" ? - so how likely in what time-scales, what are the chances of achieving something in time, with a given investment pattern ? "reason / reasonableness" ? - Er yeah, that was the question, on what basis will you be judging what is "reasonable". I'm trying to get you to acknowledge the need to get to grips with dealing with uncertainty. Ian On 2/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > So Platt all bets are off - therefore do nothing ? > > Of all the "wrong" uncertain things to do is do nothing the least > > risky, the least uncertain ? > > The least costly, least loss of individual liberty, possible beneficial > outcome. > > > (What about meteor avoidance measures - say ? Find a new planet maybe > > ? Stick out heads in the sand ? It'll be alright on the night ?) > > Eventually this planet is a goner. So I favor the space program (within > reason). > > > Just trying to get the measure of your fatalism. > > Ian > > Not fatalism. Reasonableness and practicality. > > Platt moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
