about half-way before I gave up.
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Transition. Children are a net asset in poorer countries (they can be
put to work, can support you in old age, etc.). In richer economies,
children are a luxury good that cost you a lot and deliver no economic
return, hence you will tend to have fewer of them.
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Dan M wrote:
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The countries with high
variable. The related flow variable is income. The
relationship in general is that income that is not consumed constitutes
an addition to wealth.
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Q. What do you get when you cross a Mafioso
, even daily basis.
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People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that
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Andrew Crystall wrote:
And with something like a single payer system, the track record isn't
good. Again.. *points to Holland's system*
Which parts of the single payer system exhibit this bad track record you
refer to?
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their complete marginalization in the
political life of this country.
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I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all,
we've been voting for boobs long enough. -- Claire Sargent
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God made an idiot for practice. Then He made a school board. -- Mark
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spending, and don't point out where the money comes from.
The conclusion does not follow from the premise.
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Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -- Bertrand
Russell
are where we tend to do poorly. Which may be one of the reasons that
increasing numbers of Americans want a change.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who
reads nothing
money. There is an argument that the drug
companies cannot be trusted to test their own products, but even if you
moved all testing to the government, it would still cost a lot of money.
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Angels can fly
application.
In case you haven't noticed, John Galt is dead.
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America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the
system, but too early to shoot the bastards. --Claire Wolfe
attention.
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If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.--
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, attended Jesuit high
school, played stickball, grew up in Harlem or listens to Tito Puente.
But I'd give points for listening to Tito Puente, at least.
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There is much to be said in favor of modern
-President). In fact, back in June and July she was my number
one choice for the Democratic ticket. As Arizona has term limits that
prevent her from running again for Governor, she is likely going to go
for McCain's Senate seat in 2010.
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that goes A university is what a college
becomes when it stops caring about its students. I think a corollary
should be that a web forum is what a discussion list becomes when people
stop caring about the conversation.
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doubt.
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There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid -- Said to king Ptolemy I
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Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
http://groxx.com/ZeroTolerance/High_school_student_faces_felony_charges_for_writing_a_story_about_zombies-1/
Will civilization ever return to the United States? Some days I have my
doubts.
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Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:18 PM Tuesday 10/14/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
At this point I cannot rule out some stupid technical problem, like a
message that got caught in a queue somewhere and just now shook loose.
It *does* happen sometimes.
I wondered if that was what
,
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of
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, but there is no too-big-to-fail talk. Instead, he
makes the whole rush-to-bailout look like a very bad idea.
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. --
Confucius
is completely incompetent. But I can
understand the view that incompetent evil is better.
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Waldheimer's Disease? You grow old and forget you were a Nazi. -- Jon
Marans
, and that therefore
the price is not a good indicator of fundamentals, but in that case
there is no longer any reason to even think about this kind of policy to
begin with.
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How far you can go without
the fine
print. If you want to see how this process works in great detail read
the book of the year, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain
that they had laid off the risk
this way.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. --
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a revelation in recent days that evaluation and
pricing of risk was seriously wrong throughout much of Wall St.
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The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from
the point of view
for perhaps 5-7 years, followed by something
even worse.
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God made an idiot for practice. Then He made a school board. -- Mark
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(they are divided on corporate welfare) because
personal welfare is against their political philosophy.
Unless, of course, you are talking about farmers, who as a class are the
largest personal welfare recipients in the entire world.
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nit. The battle of Manzikert was in 1071.
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I have not failed. I have discovered 1,000 things that do not work. --
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spheres of the modern
world. We may well be in an era where 100 years would now be an upper
limit for empire. The British empire made it around 200 years, but the
American version looks like less than 100 years.
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years.
Oh, wait, I just checked my work, and I seem to have dropped a couple zeros.
That
should be 500 years. Sorry.
Well, that certainly explains a lot. Where did you find the evidence for
this opinion?
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not worry about the most efficient, market-based way of letting the
private sector respond.
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The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from
one graveyard to another. -- J. Frank Dobie
Dan M wrote:
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Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 9:57 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: Teaching multiple models of science
The problem with teaching
William T Goodall wrote:
On 31 Aug 2008, at 19:13, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
In a class that is about how science develops, that could well make
sense. I taught a class some years ago on History of Science, and that
is something I tried to bring into it. But I would (and did) insist
is the deluded one and which has the
true religion.
BTW, Dan, you were at the convention as I recall. Any good stories?
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means
government by the badly educated. -- G.K. Chesterton
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William T Goodall wrote:
On 20 Aug 2008, at 16:13, Olin Elliott wrote:
By that description, 99% of the postings are off topic.
And I'm not even the most frequent poster!
You are, however, the most monotonous and boring.
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. And then you could reduce the
tariff barriers you mentioned earlier, which would also have a strong
positive impact on those economies. I doubt that reducing the tariff
barriers before you have a strong local economy will do that much to end
dependency in those countries.
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dishonest
politicians. I think Colin Powell's Pottery Barn rule applies: If you
break it, you own it. So, how many coutnries do you think we should
break and own, Ronn?
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. - Dwight
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Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
Rising energy costs will probably cause a few problems, but
I don't see how Bush or Cheney for all their failings can
be blamed for that particular problem.
I'm thinking that causing massive instability in the major oil
producing
Dan M wrote:
So, as much as I consider GWB a bumbling idiot, I don't think that every
mess is his fault.
Theoretically I agree, but it is hard to think of any mess that he
*hasn't* had his fingers in during the last 7.5 years.
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with it. When you add in determined
opposition to any form of conservation, I think most of it is covered.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives. -- Abba Eban
for fusion, and they never seem to pan out.
Fusion is 30 years away, and always will be.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not
punished. -- Jeremy Bentham
ever met had PhDs and were teaching.
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I was never ruined but twice: Once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when
I won one. -- Voltaire
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like
to claim that social scientists are soft and incapable of real
science, but I instantly saw why his proposal was ridiculous.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
can understand
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Si hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
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that it won't play such a big factor this year. At least in the
primaries within the Democratic Party it looks to me like pre-election
polls have been generally accurate within their margins of error.
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Conservatives
Anyone who was interested in our recent discussion about water resources
may be interested in an article in Wired magazine. It is available
online at
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-05/ff_peakwater.
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for. And I have trouble seeing this happen while also
reducing/minimizing the profit incentive.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest
in students. -- John Ciardi
to be strong motivations.
Remember that the Kennedy family led the charge to prevent wind power
that would affect their views around Cape Cod. NIMBY trumps liberalism
quite easily, and there is no necessary correlation between being
liberal and doing the right thing.
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is the economy nearly always does worse when
the Republicans occupy the White House.
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.--
Georges Clemenceau
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
ObMADMagazine: Was the subject line supposed to be Ecch-onomists?
At 01:28 PM Tuesday 5/13/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
But the most interesting critique I can recall was by Michael Porter,
who wrote a pretty well-received book called The Competitive Advantage
folks, and yet I have become very
enthusiastic about Obama. The signs I have seen so far suggest to me
that he is more of technocrat/wonk than an ideologue, and that may
surprise some people once he is elected.
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civilizations out there is that they blew
themselves up with nuclear weapons or something like that. Now there is
an alternative possibility, they they could not escape the Malthusian
trap and destroyed themselves and their environment.
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Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
Kevin B. O'Brien blasphemed:
Or does IAAMOAC mean that civilized behavior includes throwing
other people under the wheels in order to save themselves?
I don't recognize the acronym you used,
WHAT??? You herectic scum
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 08:29 AM Tuesday 4/29/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
I think that it is clear that nature will restore a balance if
necessary. If we are indeed over-populated (and I suspect that is the
case), the balance will be restored through the 4 Horsemen of the
Apocalypse
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 08:34 AM Tuesday 4/29/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only
one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun
I wonder if he said that before or after Asimov?
Got
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To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: culling the species
If not, why do you think that the present level of population is
unsustainable
it to other people to read.
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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest
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*is* the sustainable carrying capacity of the Earth? And
is uncontrolled breeding by human beings really feasible as a long-term
policy? The fact that you don't like the implications does not, in
itself, make their argument bad.
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that nature will restore a balance if
necessary. If we are indeed over-populated (and I suspect that is the
case), the balance will be restored through the 4 Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, in some kind of combination. Whether Ronn will find that
less offensive I cannot say.
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that either we rein in population size,
or a lot of people die on other hideous ways. Is it a whole lot better
to avoid mass executions so that we can have mass starvation, or mass
plagues, or mass wars?
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Man
. To me it seems obvious that
the present level of population is higher than the environment can
support sustainably in the long-term.
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're
, and starts to imagine how it can be used
for their own pet projects. Mars trip vs. Bridge to Nowhere.
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Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when
God talks to us we're schizophrenic
I have been reading this list for months, and I don't know what this is
about. I suppose some kind of in-joke, but would someone explain it to
me?
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music
would mean the death of
Hollywood. The DMCA is one giant bit of technological hindrance.
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have
to experience it. -- Max Frisch
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while
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