So you were speaking in a narrower context, focusing on the "How do we run the economy?" bit of society only?
If so, then no quarrel -- then I'm with you all the way. But yes, it could have benefited from being spelled out.
Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone. The wrong guy's in charge.
- (mmoffitt)
- (65)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 10:15:54 AM EDT
Yawn....
- (bepatient)
- (49)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 10:39:58 AM EDT
Why wouldn't they release the results?
- (Silverlock)
- (48)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 11:00:07 AM EDT
Whats the point?
- (bepatient)
- (47)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 11:26:09 AM EDT
designed?
- (Silverlock)
- (46)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 11:56:56 AM EDT
Ah, but remember "we have to watch what we say/do now" :-(
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 12:41:16 PM EDT
Damn, I forgot.
- (Silverlock)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 12:50:03 PM EDT
Re: designed?
- (bepatient)
- (43)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 01:07:03 PM EDT
How are things in Wonderland?
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 05:48:45 PM EDT
Go ask Alice...when she's ten feet tall.
-NT
- (bepatient)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 09:13:25 PM EDT
Of course; that very same freedom of the Corporate press
- (Ashton)
- (40)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 08:40:07 PM EDT
I have discounted US media for a very long time...
- (bepatient)
- (39)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 09:18:35 PM EDT
Yes, of course.
- (Ashton)
- (34)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 09:43:01 PM EDT
Social consequence...
- (bepatient)
- (33)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 10:37:56 PM EDT
So then..
- (Ashton)
- (32)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 05:37:15 AM EDT
Minor Nit.
- (mmoffitt)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 10:20:11 AM EDT
The part that your missing...
- (bepatient)
- (28)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 10:31:33 AM EDT
Oh, that's good.
- (mmoffitt)
- (27)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 11:05:30 AM EDT
OoaT (Off on a Tangent)
- (drewk)
- (6)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 11:18:04 AM EDT
Don't assume static output.
- (mmoffitt)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 11:52:01 AM EDT
I don't see it that way
- (Silverlock)
- (4)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 12:36:47 PM EDT
It's the shift to a service industry, too
- (drewk)
- (3)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 12:56:32 PM EDT
Yes, that's the scale I'd prefer to think about - at least
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 06:47:58 PM EDT
Star Trek
- (Brandioch)
- (1)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 12:28:59 PM EDT
..Yeah .. but___ it's a *dry heat*____________________:-\ufffd
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 02:43:14 PM EDT
Hmm...
- (bepatient)
- (19)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 12:51:58 PM EDT
Nice Try.
- (mmoffitt)
- (15)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 04:36:42 PM EDT
So you don't like averages
- (bepatient)
- (14)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 05:57:17 PM EDT
You are nothing, if not a gentleman.
- (mmoffitt)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 10:48:41 PM EDT
Addendum.
- (mmoffitt)
- (12)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 10:56:16 PM EDT
I read the link...
- (bepatient)
- (11)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 01:39:38 PM EDT
That last does tend to indicate, however
- (Ashton)
- (10)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 03:05:04 PM EDT
Dismal Science.
- (bepatient)
- (9)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 08:13:32 PM EDT
Are you describing, endorsing or wishing?
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 04:16:23 AM EDT
Aren't you putting de SCART before the hobby-horse?
- (CRConrad)
- (7)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 08:08:18 AM EDT
Boy did you guys miss my point.
- (bepatient)
- (6)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 05:14:09 PM EDT
I didn't study Econ, but I'm not following this.
- (mmoffitt)
- (4)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 12:12:41 PM EDT
It may be a minor nit....
- (bepatient)
- (3)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 03:31:04 PM EDT
Much better!
- (CRConrad)
- (1)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 04:00:52 PM EDT
Wow...my very own LRPD...*blush*
-NT
- (bepatient)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 05:12:36 PM EDT
Seemed more a dripping thorn.. howsomeever -
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 19, 2001, 02:23:59 AM EDT
OK, sorry -- I was going to ask, but must have forgotten:
- (CRConrad)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 04:00:13 PM EDT
Per capita income is *not* the same as wages
- (ben_tilly)
- (2)
- Oct. 21, 2001, 02:54:39 AM EDT
I believe...
- (bepatient)
- (1)
- Oct. 21, 2001, 03:55:13 AM EDT
I don't see it there
- (ben_tilly)
- Oct. 21, 2001, 04:37:24 AM EDT
Ashton...Haven't you just recited the Ferengi constitution?
-NT
- (jb4)
- (1)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 09:09:15 AM EDT
Is there a difference - theirs / ours *in practice* ?
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 03:15:18 PM EDT
One thing that NPR carries...
- (inthane-chan)
- (3)
- Oct. 15, 2001, 11:37:30 PM EDT
Most convenient.
- (bepatient)
- (2)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 12:58:42 PM EDT
Yes - when you're near an internet connection.
- (inthane-chan)
- (1)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 01:09:18 PM EDT
Quite so, quite so.
-NT
- (bepatient)
- Oct. 16, 2001, 01:24:29 PM EDT
Of *course* the wrong guy's in charge.
- (marlowe)
- (14)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 02:09:35 PM EDT
For once...
- (inthane-chan)
- (10)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 02:42:37 PM EDT
Why did the ground under my feet just move?
- (bepatient)
- (9)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 02:44:23 PM EDT
Even more agreement: exactly!
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 03:36:23 PM EDT
OK. Who would have been the "right" guy or gal?
- (Another Scott)
- (5)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 04:12:55 PM EDT
If they'd given us a choice between McCain and Bradley...
- (marlowe)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 04:33:19 PM EDT
Karl Marx. But he's dead.
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 07:00:09 PM EDT
Oh, great, had to go and ruin it, eh?
- (admin)
- (1)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 07:16:41 PM EDT
They don't call me "Threadkiller" for nothin' ya know. :-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 01:08:05 PM EDT
Thats an easy one...
- (bepatient)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 08:18:59 PM EDT
That's twice in one year...
- (jb4)
- (1)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 09:02:14 AM EDT
I think I just saw the Devil's breath!
-NT
- (bepatient)
- Oct. 18, 2001, 10:20:49 AM EDT
New ski resort opens in hell!
- (Silverlock)
- (1)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 03:19:30 PM EDT
Yabut - that's only about the stark fact.
- (Ashton)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 03:42:49 PM EDT
Concur.
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- Oct. 17, 2001, 03:39:23 PM EDT