tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post5365508258521217412..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: January 25 2012: Occupy Your Own SpaceIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19374929372174670932012-01-28T12:04:02.459-05:002012-01-28T12:04:02.459-05:00Hi all; still struggling to find minutes to spend ...Hi all; still struggling to find minutes to spend here, and feeling guilty about not - because in fact the quality of the conversation is pretty high. I'm pooped today, and will be poopeder; yesterday took on the nature of a Congressional Fire Drill, in terms of input vs. productivity; gotta try to make up for it a little today... (I was searching to an alternative term to the now clearly Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2697148651979518932012-01-28T10:17:48.780-05:002012-01-28T10:17:48.780-05:00News post up.
The Report That Will Blow Up Th...News post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/report-that-will-blow-up-eurozone.html" rel="nofollow"><b>The Report That Will Blow Up The Eurozone</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13576732379731352432012-01-28T09:30:22.915-05:002012-01-28T09:30:22.915-05:00As I am not qualified or capable of personally eva...As I am not qualified or capable of personally evaluating the advanced mathematics involved in many problems of general relativity, I have given dark energy some credence for "political" reasons. The international scientific consensus tends to be extremely conservative and weighed against new ideas and paradigms that shake up the old order. And physics is the most conservative of the el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15052214399336112552012-01-28T08:57:59.645-05:002012-01-28T08:57:59.645-05:00TD.gov is no substitute for backyard national. If...TD.gov is no substitute for backyard national. If your total assets are too large to store in backyard national, then TD.gov is the safer choice to put much of the remainder. Backyard National should be large enough to get you through at least 6 months of expenses. There is a lesson which should have been learned from MF Global, where Corzin and Dimon stole well over a billion dollars from theel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-76336550072424675462012-01-28T00:45:18.875-05:002012-01-28T00:45:18.875-05:00Shall we go digging in the archives?Shall we go digging in the archives?Herbal Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15482833527952793900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-28055554365481620572012-01-28T00:40:39.962-05:002012-01-28T00:40:39.962-05:00NZsanctuary said...
"Although not really a to...NZsanctuary said...<br />"Although not really a topic for this forum, the redshift/expansion relationship is questionable".<br />You might check out Gravitational energy and cosmic "acceleration":"dark energy" explained within general relativity. The author is David Wiltshire. The link is www2.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/~dlw24/universe/Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03749874181766307462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80992843189170931122012-01-27T23:00:22.326-05:002012-01-27T23:00:22.326-05:00TD is almost certain to be hard to contact for day...TD is almost certain to be hard to contact for days or weeks if TSHTF. Several weeks ago, they changed their login procedure and it was not optimally introduced. Their customer service system was swamped and they were not returning phone messages for 3-4 days, if at all. This means that your money may be relatively safe, but it may not be accessible for reinvestment or transfer to a local seychelleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17758362037570506475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27647229830112044522012-01-27T22:30:34.362-05:002012-01-27T22:30:34.362-05:00One of the most bizarrely endearing aspects of the...One of the most bizarrely endearing aspects of the English language is the individual and exotic term that each social group of animals is labeled. I wonder if this is the case in other languages, or are there just a few words such as herd or flock which describe these arrangements? I suspect that it must prompt our professional translator commenter, FB from the French Alps, to scratch his headel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3097727940046893492012-01-27T21:24:02.235-05:002012-01-27T21:24:02.235-05:00el gallinazo said...
the vehemence of certainty wi...el gallinazo said...<br /><i>the vehemence of certainty with which you express your opinions in this murky area strikes me as strange.</i><br /><br />You are right that certainty cannot really be expressed - it probably comes from a frustration at equally strong statements given in arguments for standard theory, even when they are contrary to observation. <br /><br /><i>In my opinion, the only NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04166233807474941124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-14921649586732313792012-01-27T20:48:48.770-05:002012-01-27T20:48:48.770-05:00I think the discussion on TAE may benefit from a m...I think the discussion on TAE may benefit from a mild emphasis on the next large war. I do not think Snuffy would disagree based on prior comments. I pointed out a few things in my previous comments that were very subtle. So how would a "real" war impact most of us?<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85565369492809268822012-01-27T20:19:54.612-05:002012-01-27T20:19:54.612-05:00LG,
I hope you did not find it offensive that I d...LG,<br /><br />I hope you did not find it offensive that I did not salute you as "El G"...I had to replace three appliances in the recent months...a washer, dryer, & a TV...and I went with LG. They are all performing well...so consider this a compliment?<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59155468467434463512012-01-27T19:58:52.096-05:002012-01-27T19:58:52.096-05:00"Get out and cut, to the extent possible, all..."Get out and cut, to the extent possible, all dependence on the government that makes its decisions for all the wrong reasons, and on all other top-down systems that rely on it."<br /><br />As others have said, it starts with you. But...before you decide where to start you need to know where you stand. <br /><br />We need to decide on some basic values and some common ground. Zane Growhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12989244262986325617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10709702330931742192012-01-27T19:00:40.956-05:002012-01-27T19:00:40.956-05:00ruben,
"My reading of the following makes me...ruben,<br /><br />"My reading of the following makes me think they are saying criticality is something other than rules of the road."<br /><br />yeah they definitely draw that conclusion for some reason (the next grant? :P), if only tentatively - and seemingly in contradiction to other content such as that which i included in my previous comment. it felt like they were reaching. to be benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52965618124781946832012-01-27T18:42:51.464-05:002012-01-27T18:42:51.464-05:00Re: TD down sides.
I can certainly envision an sce...Re: TD down sides.<br />I can certainly envision an scenario where a lot of banks/credit unions go under at once and it is difficult to know where to send your TD cash when you want to redeem it. Martin Weiss pointed out in one of his books that the Treasury Department has every incentive to move heaven and earth to allow holders of bills, bonds etc. to redeem for cash as desired. He recalled Frannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505522128477712595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-29668434932403644982012-01-27T18:29:14.902-05:002012-01-27T18:29:14.902-05:00@Ash/Ben/Greenpa
First off, has everybody looked ...@Ash/Ben/Greenpa<br /><br />First off, has everybody looked at <a href="http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/" rel="nofollow">Boids</a>? It is functioning on three rules, separation, cohesion and alignment.<br /><br />My reading of the following makes me think they are saying criticality is something other than rules of the road.<br /><br /><i>Discriminating between the two scenarios above (very low Rubenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08391623908501295326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80339285539316678812012-01-27T18:18:11.337-05:002012-01-27T18:18:11.337-05:00@Ash & Stoneleigh
Do either of you plan to ad...@Ash & Stoneleigh<br /><br />Do either of you plan to address the comment form The Anonymous? If so, I hope it doesn't sound "recycled".<br /><br />@LG<br /><br />I think you were in a debate of sorts awhile back about whether LTRO was QE or not. I believe you were correct:<br /><br /><a href="http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27192538317998155122012-01-27T17:35:14.825-05:002012-01-27T17:35:14.825-05:00ash/ruben,
my reading of that fascinating paper, ...ash/ruben,<br /><br />my reading of that fascinating paper, ruben, is that scale-free correlation does arise from simple behavioral rules. it is emergent:<br /><br />"Under what conditions do scale-free correlations appear? And what do scale-free correlations teach us about the interindividual coordination mechanism? First, there is no need to postulate the existence of complicated benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-62809497565484288882012-01-27T17:04:10.518-05:002012-01-27T17:04:10.518-05:00Old science news
Scientists at Johns Hopkins mist...Old science news<br /><br />Scientists at Johns Hopkins mistakenly shoot up monkey victim with meth instead of Ecstacy. Primal primate lawsuit expected.<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yly7c9z<br /><br />Wonder what happened to the ecstasy?el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7765460640174913922012-01-27T16:51:00.961-05:002012-01-27T16:51:00.961-05:00Pilgrim's Progress
http://www.zerohedge.com/n...Pilgrim's Progress<br /><br />http://www.zerohedge.com/news/explaining-modern-finance-and-economics-using-booze-and-broke-alcoholics#comment-2103790el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-85567259048027559802012-01-27T16:30:43.810-05:002012-01-27T16:30:43.810-05:00"Once the sandpile model reaches its critical..."Once the sandpile model reaches its critical state there is no correlation between the system's response to a perturbation and the details of a perturbation. Generally this means that dropping another grain of sand onto the pile may cause nothing to happen, or it may cause the entire pile to collapse in a massive slide. The model also displays 1/f noise, a feature common to many complexAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72611190533742744102012-01-27T16:27:17.065-05:002012-01-27T16:27:17.065-05:00Ruben,
I got the impression that there is surely ...Ruben,<br /><br />I got the impression that there is surely something more going on than simple behavioral rules leading to "emergent" global correlation of the flock movements regardless of scale. <br /><br /><i>"Given a reasonable behavioral rule (for example, align your velocity to that of your neighbors), correlation strongly depends on the level of noise in implementing such aAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-784645874597917902012-01-27T15:37:43.412-05:002012-01-27T15:37:43.412-05:00Nothing in terms of securing resources is risk fre...Nothing in terms of securing resources is risk free!<br />If someone fails to elaborate on downside risk of purchasing from TD it may be that there is nothing obscure, nothing to fear besides the obvious--that the cashing in time will be too short, which would likely only occur if there was an immediate and comprehensive disaster. (And who can prepare for that?)<br />I see it as mainly whether Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-62245119379359435342012-01-27T15:23:32.318-05:002012-01-27T15:23:32.318-05:00Ash -- to follow up on your earlier offer to revie...Ash -- to follow up on your earlier offer to review some things on TAE that didnt work out, I note you just said...<br /><br />"Ash said... <br />Eudrin Roust,<br /><br />Personally, I am very skeptical of the specific probability assessments associated with "wave counts" in EWT."<br /><br />Im glad you said that because, after looking back at some of the aspects of TAE that IThe Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09233501721660697800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61742003352869805952012-01-27T14:17:36.334-05:002012-01-27T14:17:36.334-05:00@bluebird
From reading TAE, my understanding is t...@bluebird<br /><br />From reading TAE, my understanding is that the recommendation is to have your TD account linked to 3-4 banks/cu's, so if one or two go under, you still have some place to send your money. (doesn't work if all the FI's go under at once....)<br /><br />Another TAE recommendation i've seen is to keep the time the money sits at the FI to a minimum, such that you AllGood4Allhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00795028307491349008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41317859257103174412012-01-27T13:54:26.070-05:002012-01-27T13:54:26.070-05:00I see the main downside to TreasuryDirect, is the ...I see the main downside to TreasuryDirect, is the possibility that I transfer money from TD to my Financial Institution, but then the F.I. is frozen and not able to withdraw the cash. <br /> <br />I suppose I could setup a 2nd F.I., but what good does that do if all the F.I. become frozen due to a global crisis.bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.com