fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
Why is local news done by television stations when most
other local programming (soap operas, game shows, talk shows)
is contracted out? . . .
Local talk shows are also done by stations, no?
What's an example of a local soap opera or game show?
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david friedman wrote:
Going a good deal further afield, _Plunkett of Tamany Hall_ is a
fascinating inside look at how big city political machines worked.
Mencken is a lot of fun.
Indeed, but i think you'll find that Plunkett of Tammany Hall is by
William Riordan.
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is,
the more it will be designed for novelty; a car designed to last twenty
years will, I imagine, be styled more conservatively than one designed
to last four years.
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John Perich wrote:
. . . here's a thought: in six billion years, the sun will burn out,
making all research into sustainability and environmental / resource
economics a waste of time. . . .
Not a complete waste; the study will be useful toward
setting up ecosystems elsewhere.
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) great enough to break any possible
material.
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. Comparison-based sorting can't use less
than O(n log(n)) comparisons, for example. [...]
Quantum computing will break some of the rules, but it won't remove all
limits.
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(it's often faulty) this was resolved by giving them a
price and a time-limit; as first conceived, they were to be supported
entirely by advertising.
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fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
3. They aren't as profitable as you think because people can frequently
use quasi-public restrooms such as fast food places, hotels, gas stations,
etc. Ie, there are real competitors.
But in the old days those also often had coin-locks.
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should the opening of competition in pricing c cause a shift from
one nonessential (eye candy) to another (coffee service)? Because more
families started flying?
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markjohn wrote:
. . . A year's course in economics can give you
the basics but it not transform them to homo economicus-es.
Homines economici, in case anyone wanted to know.
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
Accountants are now using imaginary numbers,
Good heavens. How?
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experienced)
and procedural (how to do stuff) -- and strength in one does not imply
strength in another. Social cooperation depends on episodic memory,
language on the other two.
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
Even indexes replace firms from time to time.
The SP 500 has just been purged of foreign firms, which apparently
means that scads of index funds will now follow suit - which strikes me
as a bit silly.
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Fred Foldvary wrote:
. . . During the US Civil War, there was a shortage of coins,
and postage stamps served as currency, and they could easily
do so again.
How big is the stamp supply, by the way?
How much `float' does the USPS have?
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) will believe
it, but a smaller firm must back it up. Designed presumably to
discourage phony enterprises whose principal purpose is to get a visa
for the owner's brother-in-law.
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Carl Close wrote:
Here's an interesting interview that may prompt some discussion
Next time could you put it in plain text so that the mail client treats
it as a link? Or, if you must send HTML mail, make it a proper link
yourself? Or refrain from putting the meat in size -3?
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fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
. . . lobbiests (sp?) . . .
Since you ask: lobbyists.
`y' changes to `i' before `-est' (superlative) and `-(e)th' (ordinal)
but not before `-ist' (agent).
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athier than thou
of people with wrong ideas about economics?
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the announcement of such a
plan constitute a taking?
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. . . suggests you mean eminent (rather than
imminent) domain . . .
What he wrote first was immanent, which makes
more obvious sense than either of the above. ;)
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has been for the benefit of foreigners. As for health/pensions/welfare,
when is a transfer entitlement not a transfer entitlement?
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is fraudulent.
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desire to escape oppression, get a better
job, or raise their children in a safer environment.
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and to hell with owning'')
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vocabulary never exceeded some 50 words.
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Bryan Caplan wrote:
. . . they get my name wrong (George Caplan?!) . . .
Wasn't that the name of the phantom agent in `North by Northwest'?
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Bill Dickens wrote:
I suppose cowboy extraordinaire Pecos Bill who was raised
by coyotes, tamed a tornado and rescued the drought-stricken
agricultural economy of Texas is more urban legend than fact. (LOL)
Rural, surely.
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as any unsigned mail.
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john hull wrote:
I'm in Michigan.
I could have sworn that there was a one cent deposit
in California. Maybe I'm mistaken.
I think it's a nickel - but either way,
there's no obvious way to recover it.
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But the borrower would still be personally liable.
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in the long run.
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'continue'.
Call me paranoid but I don't actually believe that Bryan wrote this.
I hope I needn't warn any of you to treat it with extreme caution.
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Alypius Skinner wrote:
. . . . It became
obvious to me fairly early in the '90's that resentment against US foreign
policy had made Americans overseas the preferred target of terrorists.
Not in the Seventies?
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/2002/12/15genome
That's funny. I thought there was a widespread notion
that the private sector cannot do significant basic research.
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suffering from a modifier shortage?
After neo- I suggest ter-.
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Alex Tabarrok wrote:
I am interested in the suggestions of list members as to
what the most important lessons economics has to teach.
This essay might be useful
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250CID=1051-013003A
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john hull wrote:
BTW, the person who called De Soto's book an
intellectual swindle gave it three stars.
Joe Bob Briggs seems to give every movie three stars.
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of curious details about the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and ghod knows
what else, and expected me to understand what it all meant.
(I saw Dianne Feinstein's face in the WTC smoke, but never mind that.)
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A punch in the throat.
No.
All right then, a kick in the kneecap.
No.
Mrs Scum, I'm offering you a boot in the teeth and a dagger up the strap.
Er...
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encouraging it.
In politics the appearance is usually more important than the reality.
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, but no big animal does.
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to be with a more
advanced entity.
If those mighty heavy `ifs' are acknowledged, I don't think the notion -
romantic as it is - can be dismissed as wishful thinking. Nor do I see
much value in it (Yeah, so what?).
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Right now, I'm putting up about 75 tons of timothy straw
How big a pile does that make?
alypius skinner wrote:
[answer]
Why do you ask?
Curiosity.
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September's mail.
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Christopher Auld wrote:
. . . Merchants who think
I might be keen to see Paris Hilton perform intimate acts are third on the
list. Followed closely by offers from extremely respectable officials in
Nigeria . . . .
For me these days, smut comes after services for insurance brokers.
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copied over, and insists that the copy be
exactly as tall.
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* an off-peak discount,
available to all comers, and a senior discount at all times?
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obsolete since 21 December 2001
obsolete since 21 December 2001
Robert A. Book wrote:
Huh?
Work has been embarrassingly sporadic since that date, though Necessity
has not yet bitten me hard enough to inspire me to think of a skill I
have that might still be marketable.
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obsolete since 21
separated in time); nor does he post often.
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obsolete since 21 December 2001
Speaking of Communism, is The Black Book worth having?
I saw several copies yesterday at a secondhand store in San Leandro,
marked about $8 if memory serves.
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private institution that could take their place.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots )
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