tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6792460727550642100..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: January 10 2012: The Year of the Trojan Water DragonIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40151235210053174762012-01-14T19:41:05.434-05:002012-01-14T19:41:05.434-05:00New post up.
Housing and Oil: Dark Inventory R...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2012/01/january-14-2012-housing-and-oil-dark.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Housing and Oil: Dark Inventory Rules</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-59985768349296079902012-01-14T18:34:16.168-05:002012-01-14T18:34:16.168-05:00@ Hombre
re: (un)work
Yes, I agree with you abou...@ Hombre<br /><br />re: (un)work<br /><br />Yes, I agree with you about the private sector too. Much of my work in the private sector has been just as non-essential. And it just begs the question about how much work in general has become non-productive and misallocated energy, doesn't it. I've reached the very strange (psychological) point where I'm about to put in a teaspoon of sugarSkip Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01503427289412937022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-21077139012469528202012-01-14T18:09:33.436-05:002012-01-14T18:09:33.436-05:00El G,
I know you have plenty of brain cells to sp...El G,<br /><br />I know you have plenty of brain cells to spare, but for the "average" reader a warning may have been appropriate that <a href="http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/13/6851542-watching-jersey-shore-might-make-you-dumber-study-suggests" rel="nofollow">watching 'Jersey Shore' might make you dumber</a>.<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43098912725549425692012-01-14T16:44:36.730-05:002012-01-14T16:44:36.730-05:00NYT public editor asks a stupid question
but then...<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/13/new-york-times-public-editor" rel="nofollow">NYT public editor asks a stupid question</a><br /><br />but then again chris hedges insists that selective stenography doesn't constitute media corruption. perhaps it could be framed for him in cultural terms he can understand:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-27518240694747404972012-01-14T16:36:45.924-05:002012-01-14T16:36:45.924-05:00Some sheeple say that mr. Monti was appointed thro...Some sheeple say that mr. Monti was appointed through coercion of parliament and not elected by popular vote, as in general elections, and also that he's a treacherous sell-out bankster with no loyalties to the italian people whatsoever, and an enemy to democracy.<br />But they exaggerate.Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09126443076478406015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57533507001852863582012-01-14T14:18:39.644-05:002012-01-14T14:18:39.644-05:00g o d, channeling FEMA, has an oceanfront CAFO in ...g o d, channeling FEMA, has an oceanfront CAFO in store for the joysie shore. no fishing. and then later in the century he will change the first c in atlantic city to an s.benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-60258485642843521232012-01-14T14:14:23.324-05:002012-01-14T14:14:23.324-05:00Sorry in advance if this has already been posted (...Sorry in advance if this has already been posted (dated Jan 5):<br /><br /><a href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/05/wild-old-women-close-san-francisco-bank-of-america-branch/" rel="nofollow">‘Wild Old Women’ Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch</a><br /><br />Go Granny Go!<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-57173860521324878772012-01-14T13:17:05.000-05:002012-01-14T13:17:05.000-05:00Whole Foods surrenders to Frankenfoods
http://tin...Whole Foods surrenders to Frankenfoods<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/86nhbv4<br /><br />Also<br /><br />I am back for a visit to my old island and staying at a friend's luxury villa equipped with a plasma TV and a few hundred channels. So I took this opportunity to watch as much as I could tolerate of Jersey Shore so I could die knowing that I had viewed Snookie and Pauly D. Film editing el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89689380104841639022012-01-14T12:57:58.053-05:002012-01-14T12:57:58.053-05:00Sorry to disappoint you but I can assure you the M...Sorry to disappoint you but I can assure you the Monti government is perfectly constitutional in Italy. Italy is a representative, not direct, democracy and Monti has been elected strictly following the rules of our Constitution. <br /><br />This hoax that Monti is not deomocratically chosen is an offence for Italy and a hoax that can make a lot of harm if taken for real by extremists. Please markogtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16622784386299619143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-31755042824989139252012-01-14T12:57:25.714-05:002012-01-14T12:57:25.714-05:00From John Markoff, who interviewed Steve Jobs for ...From John Markoff, who interviewed Steve Jobs for his 2005 book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/0143036769/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326563519&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">What the Doormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer. </a><br /><br />Speaking about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Jobs said, <br /><br Greenwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875577399877213343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-19080144890357324562012-01-14T12:40:51.029-05:002012-01-14T12:40:51.029-05:00Ash,
I really hate re-reading my stuff, but for ...Ash,<br /><br /> I really hate re-reading my stuff, but for you I do it! I hate even more quoting myself!<br /><br />The only Question I asked was this:<br /><br /><i>"Does anyone here know when the peak in Greater Fool 'Investors' will occur, what is that Ponzi's date, or dates?"</i><br /><br />... and while that was more rhetorical than a true question you give me mounds trojanhorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588557877904395571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7869910010431678912012-01-14T10:36:30.340-05:002012-01-14T10:36:30.340-05:00El G - I had listened to that audio program a few ...El G - I had listened to that audio program a few days ago. It is indeed shocking that we have such nifty gadgets that are made by hand, hands with tiny nimble fingers that most likely belong to young adults, if not young teenagers too.<br /> <br />Foxconn has been in the news this week concerning the suicides, <br />http://tinyurl.com/73cchhx<br />or <br />http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bluebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09600634086150466162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79819722969879962162012-01-14T10:07:52.044-05:002012-01-14T10:07:52.044-05:00Mike Daisey, reporter and performance artist, visi...Mike Daisey, reporter and performance artist, visits the high tech computer manufacturing center of China in Shenzhen, China, extensively interviews workers, and reports back. Foxconn, headquartered in Taiwan, has a manufacturing center there of 450,000 workers. Typically workers start at 15 and are often discarded in their late 20's as their bodies wear out, often from toxic solvents suchel gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-61641629547523292702012-01-14T08:23:15.392-05:002012-01-14T08:23:15.392-05:00scrofulous,
You simply don't understand the p...scrofulous,<br /><br />You simply don't understand the point that Chomsky was going to make. Instead, you are accusing JHK of somehow interfering with the point <i>you</i> want to make. Chomsky wasn't attempting to get into the specifics of various ways in which peak oil could be pushed out well into the future, a la Yergin. If he had got into that discussion, it would not have helped himAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40092987089921635942012-01-14T08:15:17.313-05:002012-01-14T08:15:17.313-05:00@ Skip Breakfast 9:33 - "How does it all end&...@ Skip Breakfast 9:33 - "How does it all end"<br />I have no idea when/how it all ends and don't think anyone else knows either--depends on a trigger event! However I tend to favor the "long descent" notion because those in charge don't want to go down with the ship (so to speak).<br />I agree with much of what you said about the wastefulness of time and resources at Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-6699749380352851112012-01-14T02:14:38.354-05:002012-01-14T02:14:38.354-05:00Joe, Greece is not following the Angola variant. T...Joe, Greece is not following the Angola variant. They missed the part about having oil money to pay for the soldiers and their toys.<br /><br />This is more Argentina-likeFrankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11752307987743035281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-34616655481042687752012-01-14T01:31:58.203-05:002012-01-14T01:31:58.203-05:00Ash
"You posed an issue you had about Chomsk...Ash<br /><br /><i>"You posed an issue you had about Chomsky/JHK interaction and some questions, and I responded. No need to get so hostile about it, as you seem to enjoy doing whenever we enter into a discussion.<br />"</i><br /><br />If you find me hostile, I wonder that you take the time to make even the off-topic respose you did make. Now I might wish for the aplomb to speak as trojanhorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588557877904395571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-33407419164937504602012-01-13T22:57:29.801-05:002012-01-13T22:57:29.801-05:00You know what they say....."the Angola varian...You know what they say....."the Angola variant will bite ya in the ass every time."<br /><br />.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74097214274947730202012-01-13T22:17:13.786-05:002012-01-13T22:17:13.786-05:00Joe,
In keeping with the specific examples of sys...Joe,<br /><br />In keeping with the specific examples of system theory models at TAE (Meadows, Senge, Forrester) I am amazed that Greece would attempt to apply the Angola variant ( http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/BD13Ag01.html ) without the resources to continually pay the military, the elites and the countries supplying the arms (Germany and France).krollchemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10453538766877316614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15706084924673834632012-01-13T21:33:20.748-05:002012-01-13T21:33:20.748-05:00How does it end? I've just commenced a short c...How does it end? I've just commenced a short contract for government. It's been a while since I've taken a government job, and I'm absolutely shocked by what I'm seeing. To be honest, it's surreal, and the risk is it would seem I'm exaggerating but I'm not. <br /><br />Essentially the job I'm doing is unnecessary and I have nothing to do. So far, I encounter Skip Breakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01503427289412937022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-52698277665124361372012-01-13T20:54:48.396-05:002012-01-13T20:54:48.396-05:00Monsanto Inc. seems to pop up again & again an...Monsanto Inc. seems to pop up again & again and....do we have a miRNA specialist here? <br /><br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/" rel="nofollow">The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods<br /></a><br /><br />"The type of RNA in question is called microRNA (abbreviated to miRNA) due to its Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4809190340935484082012-01-13T20:49:14.107-05:002012-01-13T20:49:14.107-05:00scrofulous,
You posed an issue you had about Chom...scrofulous,<br /><br />You posed an issue you had about Chomsky/JHK interaction and some questions, and I responded. No need to get so hostile about it, as you seem to enjoy doing whenever we enter into a discussion. I have read Yergin's peak oil analysis on WSJ and many other analyses of that analysis, so I am not just casually dismissing his argument without cause. There are many respected,Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10873953851816670692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8031525232169860222012-01-13T20:47:19.312-05:002012-01-13T20:47:19.312-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Joe in NChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02182396413057310516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-62308774312649229412012-01-13T20:18:33.523-05:002012-01-13T20:18:33.523-05:00Ash
"It's one thing to make the general ...Ash<br /><br /><i>"It's one thing to make the general point that peak oil may be net beneficial to this species and/or this planet, and another thing to give credence to Yergin or the WSJ and other financial publications"</i><br /><br />Scheiße man, even that self important twit Patton was open minded enough to read Rommels book!<br /><br />On this:<br /><br /><i>"which is trojanhorsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588557877904395571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-90979862253598304442012-01-13T20:16:11.591-05:002012-01-13T20:16:11.591-05:00lovely as he is, chomsky proved to be a bit of a t...lovely as he is, chomsky proved to be a bit of a turkey in that one if i don't mind saying so myself. it was a shame stoneleigh didn't get a crack at the wishbone. too many cooks with not enough time. the iron-curtained chef sussed out the dismal affair and took receipt of a very important call.benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07338619620804720116noreply@blogger.com