David wrote:
> Hi. There I was, doing my bit to produce list traffic.
> Sorry...
No apologies needed. I just remember so well person after person taking on
JDG trying to talk about different stuff (abortion, death penalty,
politics). While I think Dan talked the longest and the hardest, I came
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chris Frandsen wrote:
> Yes! I believe that the clarification of the possible meanings of the word
> "sized" which you have provided are/ could be indeed perhaps what the
> gentleman was suggesting. I would not be surprised however if he took
> offense at any attem
On Sep 9, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
Perhaps he was thinking of one where one or both of those items is
comparable per capita, with the "amount of dollars spent" perhaps
also adjusted for inflation? Or maybe the "amount of dollars
spent," iow, taken in in taxes, as a fract
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over ten
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of regulars over the
At 03:17 PM Tuesday 9/8/2009, Chris Frandsen wrote:
Your comment on not having much evidence to evaluate the reliability
of my predictions is correct, to the best of my knowledge.
Which is the most unlikely beginning condition, that we get serious
or that we can decide what to do?
When you sug
http://www.american.com/archive/2009/september/regulation-and-the-financial-crisis-myths-and-realities
| Myth 1: Banking regulators were in the dark as new financial
| instruments reshaped the financial industry.
| Myth 2: Deregulation allowed the market to adopt risky practices, such
| as using