Re: Free market

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > how does the free market allocate resources and cash returns? The free market does not "allocate" cash returns. The free market allocates resources (for details, please study basic economics). Cash returns are the outcome of an investment. In simple terms, the

Re: Free Market

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There you go again, putting words in my mouth. It's a tough job, but someone has got to do it. > However, if you want to give me half the excess, I will accept. It's negative (I'm one of those oppressed renters that you evil plutocratsand property owne

Free Market

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > When did I say, "individuals may own ANY amount > of property"? I think that > > owning 10 houses (like the McCains) is way too much, > but one house per family is > > about right, but that is only my opinion. My forty > acres is in French Gulch, > > California and I have kept it pristine

Free market

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > The free market is the way to efficiently allocate > resources, and cash returns > > provide a measure of the desirability of the project. > You disagreed, but have > > still not offered an alternative. how does the free market allocate resources and cash returns? ___

Free market

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > The free market is the way to efficiently allocate > resources, and cash returns > > provide a measure of the desirability of the project. > You disagreed, but have > > still not offered an alternative. how does the free market allocate resources and cash returns? ___

Re: war on the environment

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The invisible hand is as much a belief as invisible pink unicorns. The > 'free market' is just the composite action of people who are mostly > very stupid and ignorant. Hmmm, I thought that was obvious enough to go without saying, but apparently not.

Re: war on the environment

2008-09-09 Thread William T Goodall
On 10 Sep 2008, at 01:04, John Williams wrote: > > The free market is the way to efficiently allocate resources, and > cash returns > provide a measure of the desirability of the project. You disagreed, > but have > still not offered an alternative. The invisible hand is as much a belief as

Re: war on the environment

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When did I say, "individuals may own ANY amount of property"? I think that > owning 10 houses (like the McCains) is way too much, but one house per family > is > about right, but that is only my opinion. My forty acres is in French Gulch, > California a

war on the environment

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > Isn't cremation is better for the environment; > "ashes to ashes"? > How much carbon is released into the atmosphere from a > cremation? Ah, so you got the context, but you missed the irony!~) Unfortunately I don't know the answer, but I expect it is more energy efficient than cryonics, or

Re: war on the environment

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Isn't cremation is better for the environment; "ashes to ashes"? How much carbon is released into the atmosphere from a cremation? > I will be delighted to answer your > questions when you are able to state them in context... The problem is that I am ap

war on the environment

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > You might have problems with the part where you bury > yourself > Good point. I doubt there would be a shortage of volunteers > to help me with the problem, however. "We will bury you". Isn't cremation is better for the environment; "ashes to ashes"? > > Sarcasm is the lingua franca of t

Re: Hyperinflation!

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You might have problems with the part where you bury yourself Good point. I doubt there would be a shortage of volunteers to help me with the problem, however. "We will bury you". ___ http://www.mccm

Re: Hyperinflation!

2008-09-09 Thread Julia Thompson
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, John Williams wrote: > But you have helped to break my connection to the marketplace! I gave up > all my evil ways. Now if I only had 40 acres of land to live on, I could > go bury myself in it and stop consuming altogether! You might have problems with the part where you

Re: Hyperinflation!

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sarcasm is the lingua franca of the internet, John. It is the signature of > your > suppressed hostility, and allows you to be critical without actually exposing > or > defending your own reactionary opinions (or actually refuting your > opponents).

Re: war on the environment...

2008-09-09 Thread John Williams
Jon Louis Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > h... what goes around comes around... No, that would be x*x + y*y = 1 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

war on the environment...

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > You're saying that what you wrote earlier > doesn't come up to the level of B.S.? > Now you're twisting my words. Straighten up and try a > linear curve fit! h... what goes around comes around... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/l

Hyperinflation!

2008-09-09 Thread Jon Louis Mann
> > you don't get it john, the market is fixed; it is > rigged by the plutocrats. > Thank you, Jon! I've been so naive, but you have opened > my eyes. Those > evil plutocrats have really kept me down, but I won't > stand for it any more! > > they don't care what all this capitalism is doing > t

Re: Fun with the USA election

2008-09-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Olin Elliott wrote: > >> Also, it seems like the Nostradamists are too sleepy. I haven't seen >> any quatraine saying that Obama is the Anti-Christ (or McCain, or Palin). > > McCain and Palin won't meet the qaulifications for anti-Christ > because they aren't popular world-wide. I've wondered w

Re: Fun with the USA election

2008-09-09 Thread Olin Elliott
>Also, it seems like the Nostradamists are too sleepy. I haven't seen >any quatraine saying that Obama is the Anti-Christ (or McCain, or Palin). McCain and Palin won't meet the qaulifications for anti-Christ because they aren't popular world-wide. I've wondered why no one has floated the Obama a

Fun with the USA election

2008-09-09 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Surely our Writer has lost all creativity... Cain? Palin? This sounds like a joke. Obama-Biden as a contraction of Osama Bin Laden? Doesn't He have better names? Also, it seems like the Nostradamists are too sleepy. I haven't seen any quatraine saying that Obama is the Anti-Christ (or McCain, or