Jones Beene wrote:
Although its economy is generally so far to the left as to be called
socialist by detractors in the NeoCon movement, due to its entitlements and
innate humanism, it is ironically also one of the most free market and
capitalist farm economies in the world - less regulated
Nice, nice? Ad-homs, personalised debate?
What's this? Let's beat up Remi day or secret big dick envy?
I've got too much work on, grants coming in (both state and private) and
several projects on the go to be wrangling with a bunch of looney left
slackers.
When you work out the bogus
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:41:21 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
Second, and more to the point, a static gravitational field, whether
Newtonian or classical GR, doesn't propagate, it just is. This is
*IDENTICAL* to the case of the
It's good to know that Mr. Cornwall has informed of the fact that he
has important things do. I was beginning to get worried.
Jones, it truly astonishes me to realize that such a small country is
capable of producing that much output. Puts us (The so-called Bread
Basket?) to shame.
Regards
Terry Sez:
We could produce more if needed; but, we already have surpluses and
pay farmers not to plant crops.
Terry
Indeed, this is true. However, with the current greed to produce more
ethanol I question whether we will maintain our so-called surpluses
for much longer. Besides, I'm sure
This is kind of off-topic but also on topic.
Here is a broadcast and transcript from the radio program This
American Life. It explains the subprime mortgage fiasco more clearly
than I have seen elsewhere:
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=355
This resembles the Bird and
OrionWorks wrote:
Jones, it truly astonishes me to realize that such a small country is
capable of producing that much output. Puts us (The so-called Bread
Basket?) to shame.
U.S. agriculture is optimized for high productivity per worker, not
high productivity per hectare of land. I do not
We now know how the system failed to work properly. How about applying
a little simple logic to a few facts? Application of simple logic to
the system a few years ago would have clearly predicted the outcome,
which many people successfully did. These are the people who made sure
they were
It would appear so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_U.S._Farm_Bill
however, there hasn't been a corn subsidy for some time, AFAIK.
Renewable subsidies have shifted from grains to celluose and biomass
sources.
Terry
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry,
And how did this get started?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260sec=spon=pagewanted=1
http://snipurl.com/40xsd [query_nytimes_com]
Anyone know what Franklin Raines is up to these days?
g
Terry
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Jed Rothwell
It would appear so:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_U.S._Farm_Bill
however, there hasn't been a corn subsidy for some time, AFAIK.
Renewable subsidies have shifted from grains to celluose and biomass
sources.
Terry
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry,
Terry Blanton wrote:
however, there hasn't been a corn subsidy for some time, AFAIK.
There is a large ethanol subsidy, which amounts to the same thing.
This site claims there was a corn subsidy of $13 billion in 2006. It
does not have more recent information:
Edmund Storms wrote:
6. As a result, stagflation will come again. The Obama administration
will look a lot like the Carter administration.
It might resemble the New Deal, if things get worse and Obama is
decisive. Or the Hoover administration if he is not. The crisis has
begun before Obama
OrionWorks wrote:
It's good to know that Mr. Cornwall has informed of the fact that he
has important things do. I was beginning to get worried.
Jones, it truly astonishes me to realize that such a small country is
capable of producing that much output. Puts us (The so-called Bread
The Down is down 315 points so far today, and oil is down to $94.78/bbl
(that's oil futures).
Apparently the jobless data is causing some panic, as traders realize
there may be a recession in the offing (whoa, Nelly, who'd a thought we
might have a business downturn?? -- or anyway that seems to
Are wooden shoes considered agriculture? ;-)
Terry
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OrionWorks wrote:
It's good to know that Mr. Cornwall has informed of the fact that he
has important things do. I was beginning to get worried.
Jones, it truly
They were. Now they are no longer grain-based subsidies.
Terry
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terry Blanton wrote:
however, there hasn't been a corn subsidy for some time, AFAIK.
There is a large ethanol subsidy, which amounts to the same thing.
Terry sez:
Are wooden shoes considered agriculture? ;-)
Terry
Only if you lost the bet.
BTW, Tulip bulbs ARE edible.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
www.zazzle.com/orionworks
A good portion of Dutch tulip bulbs are grown in US shipped to Holland for
retail sale.
Ron
--On Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:18 PM -0400 Stephen A. Lawrence [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
OrionWorks wrote:
It's good to know that Mr. Cornwall has informed of the fact that he
has important
OrionWorks wrote:
BTW, Tulip bulbs ARE edible.
During the Tulipmania craze (1637), an investor found the captain
of a ship frying up his tulip bulbs for lunch. The bulbs were worth
as much as a house.
I think that was in Mackay's book Extraordinary Popular Delusions
and the Madness of
On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Edmund Storms wrote:
6. As a result, stagflation will come again. The Obama administration
will look a lot like the Carter administration.
It might resemble the New Deal, if things get worse and Obama is
decisive. Or the Hoover
Edmund Storms wrote:
You need to remember that Warren Buffett is heavily invested in the
financial industry. Consequently, he is going to benefit from the bailout.
I have no idea where Buffett has put his money, but I doubt that he
has any invested in real estate funds. He has been saying
On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:Edmund Storms wrote:6. As a result, stagflation will come again. The Obama administrationwill look a lot like the Carter administration.It might resemble the New Deal, if things get worse and Obama is decisive. Or the Hoover administration if he is
It's been two days and Scott Little has failed to respond to my last
message. Very unusual. I sent it again. Perhaps the first message didn't go
through.
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:19:58 -0800
To: little-earthtech.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], marissa-earthtech.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steven Krivit wrote:
It's been two days and Scott Little has failed to respond to my last
message. Very unusual.
What can he say?
We should bear in mind that Dash and Zhang may not be getting any
heat, and Scott could be correct in this case. Just because cold
fusion has been widely
CSIRO is the Aussie RD powerhouse which has developed many interesting energy
devices including a modified lead-acid battery they call the UltraBattery -
really a Batt-Cap.
http://www.csiro.au/news/UltraBattery.html
It has already clocked up 100,000 miles in a hybrid vehicle and Japan’s
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:18:24 -0800
To: michael.mckubre-sri.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steven Krivit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Freedom of Information and Open Science
Steve; you are obviously monitoring this thread through a second
agent. I would ask both of you to stop. In the event
and this is cross posted here becuase?
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Steven Krivit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:18:24 -0800
To: michael.mckubre-sri.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steven Krivit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Freedom of Information and Open Science
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