tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post8031910147108113719..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: February 8 2011: An unstable tower of breaking promisesIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-58324088928884089482011-02-09T11:20:32.304-05:002011-02-09T11:20:32.304-05:00New post up.
A Glimpse Into the Stubborn Psycho...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-9-2011-glimpse-into-stubborn.html" rel="nofollow"><b>A Glimpse Into the Stubborn Psychology of Fish</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74610520139038168412011-02-09T10:44:35.034-05:002011-02-09T10:44:35.034-05:00Dmitri Orlov gives here a sobering and clear half ...Dmitri Orlov gives here a sobering and clear <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zrz5ucQACo8#" rel="nofollow">half an hour</a> monoloque about Russian experience and The Going Down -procedure we are witnessing. Highly recommended.lautturihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09269968661393439346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-70884383464007510922011-02-09T10:33:50.899-05:002011-02-09T10:33:50.899-05:00It strikes me as peculiar that neither yesterday&#...It strikes me as peculiar that neither yesterday's biggest crowd in three weeks in Egypt, nor today's de facto occupation of the Egyptian parliament get even one tenth of the media attention the subject got just last week.<br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7867583559888870372011-02-09T09:27:56.639-05:002011-02-09T09:27:56.639-05:00Who would have guessed that broaching instability ...Who would have guessed that broaching instability and breaking promises would bring out so much optimism? Even snerfling paints some lipstick on the flying pig warming up on the runway. I never thought I'd see that day. MonkeyMuffins thinks maybe something better this way comes and wishes he were in Tahrir Square. Chances are, if you wait where you are, Tahrir Square will come to you.<br /><Phlogiston Água de Beberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16269917130349144430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-39486932224296244842011-02-09T05:18:23.632-05:002011-02-09T05:18:23.632-05:00"Gravity said...
Prominent dutch economists h...<i>"Gravity said...<br />Prominent dutch economists have now opined that the state guaranteeing financial liabilities at this scale may not be such a good idea, since this will burden the taxpayers more than generally acknowledged. Strangely, no mention of additionally incurred moral hazard.<br /><br />Of course, there are few scenario's in which these guarantees will remain financeable Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-7252250476572651652011-02-09T04:43:43.950-05:002011-02-09T04:43:43.950-05:00@ Nassim,
Thanks for the detailed information on...@ Nassim, <br /><br />Thanks for the detailed information on Mitterand & French history. I reckon it would be a lot of fun having a dinner party conversation with you :) Or reading your book, whichever comes first!<br /><br />@ Tim<br /><br />Thanks for the links. Have you seen the most recent WWF Living Planet Report? It states that we're using 1.5 planets per year by extracting faster VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-12842348154392044352011-02-09T03:40:24.408-05:002011-02-09T03:40:24.408-05:00Hi
I always respect your comments
but I am just no...Hi<br />I always respect your comments<br />but I am just not convinced of the deflationary outcome<br />Marc Faber is saying hyperinflation is more likely as is Graham summers now. With the rate the fed is printing surely a collapse in the currency will come first?<br />i hope you are right but I fail to see how the FED will alllow it with Fiat currencies<br />Only a gold standard could juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02966020433358975052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-56505314209652486432011-02-09T02:08:26.101-05:002011-02-09T02:08:26.101-05:00VK,
You may also be interested in the residual ...VK,<br /><br /> You may also be interested in the residual from the Ayres and Warr paper, <a href="http://www.iea.org/work/2004/eewp/ayres-paper1.pdf" rel="nofollow">Accounting for Growth</a> (PDF warning, also previous link appears to be down) Figure 9 shows a divergence between the predicted and actual GDP starting in the mid 70's. This is coincident with the exponential increase in debt team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-32919682590443705512011-02-09T01:40:29.809-05:002011-02-09T01:40:29.809-05:00Hey hey VK,
Here are some other energetic/econo...Hey hey VK,<br /><br /> Here are some other energetic/economic/environmental papers you may be interested in. <a href="http://biology.unm.edu/jhbrown/Miami/Brown%20et%20al%20PNAS%20in%20press.pdf" rel="nofollow">Energetic Limits to Economic Growth</a> (PDF warning) Panel data on the energy to growth relationship. <i>Note that the slope or exponent, 0.76 (95% confidence interval 5<br />0.69–team10timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12100467801841348435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-3408109328147228582011-02-09T01:31:19.668-05:002011-02-09T01:31:19.668-05:00MonkeyMuffins,
You may have read some stuff by Pr...MonkeyMuffins,<br /><br />You may have read some stuff by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primo_Levi" rel="nofollow">Primo Levi</a>. I find his description of starving people in camps giving food to others especially incomprehensible.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/biography/if-this-is-a-man-the-truce-primo-levi/1026218/" rel="nofollow">If This Is a Man</a><br /><br>Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9010883671258859582011-02-09T00:16:45.503-05:002011-02-09T00:16:45.503-05:00"It will not be possible, nor is it desirable..."It will not be possible, nor is it desirable, to defend the rights of one group at the expense of all others, and all competing priorities for public expenditure."<br /><br />--<br /><br />TAE's expedient newspeak reminds of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil" rel="nofollow">banality of evil</a>.<br /><br />for those not so easily ensorcelled, i proffer:<br MonkeyMuffinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13233909536664997667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-66433819604320155662011-02-09T00:07:59.693-05:002011-02-09T00:07:59.693-05:00part 2
I was Directeur Informatique (IT manager) a...part 2<br />I was Directeur Informatique (IT manager) at <a href="http://www.insead.edu/home/" rel="nofollow">INSEAD</a> - supposedly the best US-style business school in Europe - at that time and some professors did some analysis so as to find out whether the French State had underpaid and it was quite clear that was a total nonsense. I helped them with the numbers. I am sure it is published in Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-18271726153423937772011-02-09T00:04:29.774-05:002011-02-09T00:04:29.774-05:00Questions to ponder. For them power is the ultimat...<i>Questions to ponder. For them power is the ultimate aphrodisiac, money is meaningless at such a vast sum. Only power counts.</i><br /><br />VK,<br /><br />Quite meaningless once past, say, $20 million. It all comes down, as usual, to sex :)<br /><br />I am a bit queasy about mentioning the Rothschilds because I don't like to be called a Jewphobe of whatever. Some of you may have heard Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50014814193040210472011-02-08T22:11:57.161-05:002011-02-08T22:11:57.161-05:00@Nassim
One wonders if Blair & Bush do have v...@Nassim<br /><br />One wonders if Blair & Bush do have vast secret accounts with hidden loot stashed somewhere. Mubarak is now apparently the richest man on the planet??? Yeah right!!<br /><br />I'm seriously reconsidering my views on the Rothschilds & Rockefellers. They are painted as mere billionaires these days but old money is hidden money. If a small time puppets like Ben Ali &VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-4030970403858000192011-02-08T21:13:58.876-05:002011-02-08T21:13:58.876-05:00On the point of a need for unions to become more w...On the point of a need for unions to become more willing to negotiate, it seems in some cases I am aware of that union leadership has so lost any understanding of its role that these folks readily give in to the demands of management already, because they identify with management and look down on their workers, accepting the commonly-expressed notion that workers are lazy and overpaid. I don'sumacarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06844199642989140240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-50919804859546124832011-02-08T21:01:28.534-05:002011-02-08T21:01:28.534-05:00Nothing we did not know (or assumed), but this mig...Nothing we did not know (or assumed), but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks" rel="nofollow">this</a> might start a long overdue public discussion on energy. Or it might just lead to hoarding and panic.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Paulp01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-8156687407747379082011-02-08T20:03:45.316-05:002011-02-08T20:03:45.316-05:00@Zeke
Wise words.
It would have been nice to see t...@Zeke<br />Wise words.<br />It would have been nice to see that consciousness trumps genes or whatever little devil pushes the exponential funtions on this planet, though.<br />Instead it seems to have just increased the entropy more efficiently; an omnivorous yeast, so to speak.<br /><br />Regards,<br />Paulp01https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396562841580952642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72011772640756267472011-02-08T19:56:30.348-05:002011-02-08T19:56:30.348-05:00@Dan - Another good video, this time concerning un...@Dan - Another good video, this time concerning unions.<br />I am thinking they are about moot, or will soon will be if the contraction escalates.<br /><br />@P01 - I had to laugh at the demand for a 40% raise! Absurd, of course. I have an idea they will look back a few years from now and ask themselves... "...what was I thinking?"Hombrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12930734368916487826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89064777607154488822011-02-08T19:51:28.319-05:002011-02-08T19:51:28.319-05:00@VK
The factor of waste output is missing from the...@VK<br />The factor of waste output is missing from the sample equation, its required for a dynamic equilibrium of feedbacks to enumerate the contemporary co2 dillemma, if applicable, and to express the workings of more general chemical contamination resulting in non-viable habitats as ultimate extinctive function for all industrial growth in confined space. <br />The most useful innovation Supergravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16330259051452619245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89055963641064164032011-02-08T19:37:16.833-05:002011-02-08T19:37:16.833-05:00Long ago I decided species come and species go. Wh...Long ago I decided species come and species go. Whether humans survive or not is really meaningless. Of course, it matters to us but in the scope of things, not at all. One thing about it, we'll die talking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1188580966838953172011-02-08T19:27:05.634-05:002011-02-08T19:27:05.634-05:00VK,
French PM Fillon says Mubarak lent him plane ...VK,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12397397" rel="nofollow">French PM Fillon says Mubarak lent him plane on holiday</a><br /><br />This is nothing. Blair, while Prime Minister, was doing the same repeatedly. <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-108230/Blair-accused-familys-free-Egyptian-holiday.html" rel="nofollow">Blair accused over his family's free Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36807222998120640812011-02-08T19:26:58.582-05:002011-02-08T19:26:58.582-05:00Stoneleigh I've been reading your posts for a ...Stoneleigh I've been reading your posts for a couple of years now and you have sold me on the idea of deflation. Given deflation, I'm concerned as to what to do with my pension money which is in a 403b that I cannot access and have limited options for investment. <br /><br />Currently I have it sitting in money market funds and the only real option I see is a precious metals fund. WhatFog Boundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158994396712267217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9510783718103130932011-02-08T18:53:12.132-05:002011-02-08T18:53:12.132-05:00p01,
Frankly, I cannot think of any profession th...p01,<br /><br />Frankly, I cannot think of any profession that has its expectations more out of line than the US legal profession. They thrive on complexity and it is quite unaffordable.<br /><br />In the USA there are 756 prisoners per 100,000 people whereas it is only 33 in India - <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/research/icps/downloads/wppl-8th_41.pdf" rel="nofollow">World Prison Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-47019139865953142192011-02-08T18:30:10.855-05:002011-02-08T18:30:10.855-05:00Ratcheting down expectations, which absolutely has...<i>Ratcheting down expectations, which absolutely has to happen all round, is the hardest thing for human beings to do.</i><br /><br />Stoneleigh,<br /><br />Agreed. A few days ago, we went to a photographer to have my girl-of-ten's picture taken. You cannot imagine the ballyhoo they made - 3 people involved and two visits. Eventually, crunch time came and the cost of the 20 photos/files we Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54751333110519843222011-02-08T17:53:53.754-05:002011-02-08T17:53:53.754-05:00Democracies are "much better at managing larg...<i>Democracies are "much better at managing large numbers of highly educated people," Goldstone notes. Spain's youth unemployment is even higher than Egypt's, but young Spaniards aren't trying to overthrow the government.</i><br /><br />This is pure nonsense. You simply cannot compare their poverty with that of Egyptian youth. Anyway, just you wait and see what happens when Nassimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014132282872515690noreply@blogger.com