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"IMO, man was never a viable species anyway."
@Anna- I'm inclined to agree, and have postulated this to my wife for quite a while now.
As we have developed better and better telescopes of various types we have been enabled to see almost to the ver…
@catch22- When I read this article (must have been in the WSJ some days ago) my stomach got tight just thinking of what it would be like to work in that kind of environment. Totally sick.
"Or maybe we will at least be spared not seeing a link to it on MFO."
@VintageFreak- the complete irony of your comment is that if you had not replied to the original post I would not have to look at it under "Disscussions +".
Thanks for nothing. …
I appreciate all of the comments and various points of view. I have to concede that Mark does have some good points there. Before posting I actually did spend some time at that Hallmark web site, but I missed those statistics that he mentions.
I'm …
@MJG: You may be totally bewildered, but I'm not.
1) You made insupportable comments regarding the Krugman article.
2) I have rebutted them.
3) You have responded with acidic commentary that touches on many things, but totally ignores the subject …
@hank- Well, it's unfortunate, I do tend to respond in kind to virulence. Ignoring misinformation tends to allow it to attain a sheen of accuracy, while engaging the source with the facts tends to make everyone a bit edgy, and in the case to which y…
@MJG: Evidently you don't recognize a point-by-point rebuttal when you see one. Here it is again, for your benefit: what, exactly, are you having a problem with? If you have some factual evidence that my comments are unsupportable, by all means let'…
Just want to comment that the manner of discussion which VF has initiated is quite different from our usual approach, and I for one find it to be of great interest. Nice work, VF!
@MJG: "I propose that all our interchanges could and should be done in an honest, helpful, and friendly manner."
Good idea: You go first.
The absurdity of your accusation of animus because of a purported dislike of Monte Carlo simulations is self-…
@MJG: Only someone with your self-limiting perspective would deprecate twenty years of spreadsheet work as "a few spreadsheet analyses".
"If you choose not to do a Monte Carlo analyses, that's perfectly okay from my perspective."
Since we have bee…
A good article- well worth reading for those still working. Giving credit where due, just because MJG has tirelessly been parroting the same advice regarding Monte Carlo simulations for ten years (to the point of ennui) doesn't mean that it isn't go…
@MJG:
In yet another fine example of the argumentative misdirection for which you are justifiably notable, you have chosen to suggest to "some folks" that I have been "consistently hostile" to your postings because of an alleged antipathy to Monte …
"Hi Guys,
Yet another Paul Krugman polemic."
@MJG: Sir: The above is an exact copy of your statement earlier in this thread. I believe that my response, above, adequately demonstrates that you are wrong, yet again, in your judgements and conclusi…
Mr.Trump is about to find out that the real world has little resemblance to his smugly secure little private operational arena, where he can call all of the shots, and the minions tremble for their jobs.
The real world has, in addition to lots of p…
@MJG: How very easy to dismiss Krugman's comments as a "polemic", because that neatly fits your long predetermined and highly biased opinions.
@JohnChisum: "The demented Krugman." A typically acidic personal attack, but refutes nothing in Krugman'…
I'm afraid that @Catch22 's memory is definitely NOT what it should be. Wishing you the best Roy, and thanks again for being the grandfather of this fine site. I'm sorry about all of the times that you had to kill Catch22, unlike me, who was always …
That's what's so very scary. He is an unstable, egotistic personality who has no concept of scaled, incremental or subtle use of power. He shoots from the hip & lip first and wonders if he was aiming at the right target later, if at all.
My gre…
Yes, and well overdue, also. The timing was excellent: she realized that the negative market reaction would be greatly blunted by the current joyfulness of our descent into fascism.
"Seriously, how long has the USGS been around."
Seriously, since March 3, 1879. Your comment and link are irrelevant, so at least you are maintaining your usual standards.
"Trump isn't draining the swamp. He is bringing in his own alligators."
@MikeM- That's excellent! Will find lots of use for that one. Thanks! :)
"Sorry if I may have inadvertently contributed to the mayhem"
@hank- Strongly in favor of mayhem. Just…
"we may have delicate snowflakes who need to be protected from free speech"
@Edmond: You could not be more mistaken if you are suggesting that I'm in favor of throttling anyone's right to free speech. I regard the current tendency to provide colleg…
@Edmond: Discussions such as this one are perilous at best, given the wide range of sensitivities and opinions of various board members. I appreciate them because they help to provide a balance of perspectives and viewpoints which might not otherwis…
