Re: Economics

"John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Nothing at all worth reading about my views, or about economic policy. Don't take anything he writes as accurate without careful, careful verification first. Brad DeLong ___ http://www

Re: First-Ever Hurricane Forms in South Atlantic

Now why has a hurricane formed in teh South Atlantic all of a sudden? Brad DeLong http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/393858|top|03-27-2004::00:25|reuters.html The first hurricane ever reported in the south Atlantic swirled off the coast of Brazil on Friday, and forecasters said it could make

Re: Trickle down vrs trickle up economics

e all high-tax high-service states. We are certainly getting *something* out of our investments in roads, bridges, harbors, education, research and development, and so forth... Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Iraq's Nuclear Weapons - Clinton's '98 Statement

David said: If wombats were credible WMD, he would have included them too. : ) ...thus giving me the chance to point out that I was responsible for: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blosxom.cgi/2002/Oct/22#wombat Rich VFP A Colder War I don't suppose4 you got a free copy of _Singularity Sky_ o

Re: does time exist

Dan said: The best explaination of what space and time actually are is given in the Critique of Pure Reason. Briefly put, space and time are the a priori forms of our intuition. But what is intuition if not a process operating through time? Rich But isn't our intuition wrong--or perhaps it wo

Re: does time exist

ot; other things "are," and still other things "will be," and in which the "are" becomes "were" and the "will be" becomes "are"? Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: does time exist

electron emits a photon and recoils," "an electron and a position meet and annihilate each other and their energy is transformed into photons," or "a photon breaks apart into an electron and a position") is mother nature telling us

Re: DeLong's 3 Important Court Cases

u Very few medieval paintings, frescos, and mosaics showing an empty hell... -- Yours, Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Rush Limbaugh is a hypocrite

> As opposed, of course, to how well the Left policies it own. Is that always your answer? "You're another"? Often it is: it's what you do when you're out of real arguments, after all. Brad DeLong ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: heading towards a singularity

this and felt that I had read it before. I read a bit further, skimming, and knew I had read it recently. Oh Hell Its that article by Brad Delong. Been posted recently on the Culture list, where Bradford can be seen with a bit more frequency than here. xponent Brilliant Brinnellers Maru rob

Re: Down with the government

. They could be wrong, but I wouldn't lay long odds on it... Yours, Brad DeLong On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Dan Minette wrote: > > BTW, I think that California has just seen the tip of > the iceberg with regards to its problems. For example, why should someone > buil

Re: Starting Engineer's Salaries

don't want to do that... Yours, Brad DeLong On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:36 PM, John Williams wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dan Minette wrote: > > > they give the average starting salary for an EE in the US as 59,646, but > in > > the SF area it is a

Re: Starting Engineer's Salaries

ke us better off rather than on paperwork, etc. Yours, Brad DeLong On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:45 AM, John Williams wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Nick Arnett > wrote: > > It was not an easy decision to seek a loan modification. But the > > ethics of it are not as

Re: Can Honerable People Have Mortgages?

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Dan Minette wrote: > > John Williams wrote: > > Only if you consider honesty and keeping your word to be ridiculous. > > An honorable person would not agree to borrow money from anyone, > > even a loan shark, if they thought that there was any possibility > > that

Re: Can Honerable People Have Mortgages?

Williams does not know Nick's story. He simply assumes Nick is a scumbag, and posts accordingly. He then digs in to his position--and winds up claiming that anybody who borrows anything from anyone at any time is a dishonorable scumbag. If I were you, I wouldn't feed this troll any more... B

Re: Can Honerable People Have Mortgages?

equilibrium without a big rise in unemployment. That proved to be totally wrong. The free market wasn't able to get the writedowns done by itself, and the Geithner Treasury was unable to figure out a way to use TARP money to grease the adjustment in the housing sector, and now we are in a big