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- Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:27 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Wildest Idea on Earth
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3963
Re: The Wildest Idea on Earth
I'm for it, so long as those stingy marine organisms are willing to share half the ocean with us landlubbers. Floating cities!
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vaccines
- Replies: 69
- Views: 29898
Re: Vaccines
How can you even accurately judge the risk and probabilities when there is no transparency and insufficient data except for the most blatantly obvious? Smallpox is blatantly obvious. Polio is blatantly obvious. Diphtheria is blatantly obvious. Pertussis is blatantly obvious. Tetanus is blatantl...
- Sat Mar 26, 2016 7:43 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Vaccines
- Replies: 69
- Views: 29898
Re: Vaccines
[quote=MachineGhost]The relentless tit sucking at vaccination around here makes me sick. [/quote] I'm sure there is a vaccine for that! :) Seriously, for me it is a simple equation. Are the risk and consequences of an adverse reaction to a vaccine greater than the same for the disease? If so, av...
- Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:07 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Smart People Defy Usual Correlations When it Comes to Happiness
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3537
Re: Smart People Defy Usual Correlations When it Comes to Happiness
[quote=Libertarian666]This is easily explained by the fact that high IQ and high introversion are strongly correlated.[/quote] In one of my early report cards (1st grade I think), the teacher commented "Plays well with self". So I got that going for me (ignoring myriad other interpretatio...
- Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:00 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Where did you go to School?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 36427
Re: Where did you go to School?
[quote=dualstow]Well, come on, you've got to bold the G.I. Bill part, too.[/quote] Right you are. I spent 4 years in the Navy as an enlisted man making a ridiculously low salary (we did get a good salary bump in 1971) in exchange for a B.A. (and a semester of grad school). Fair exchange, I think. ...
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:31 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Where did you go to School?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 36427
Re: Where did you go to School?
California State University, Chico. B.A. in Biological Sciences 1978 (G.I. Bill, tuition about $98 per semester for all the units you could stand, if I recall correctly).
California State University, Chico. M.A. in Botany 1980
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ph.D. in Botany 1983
California State University, Chico. M.A. in Botany 1980
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ph.D. in Botany 1983
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:04 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: "Stupid in America"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3701
Re: "Stupid in America"
[quote='Ad Orientem']In fairness I should note that things were quite different in the 19th century. There was no assumption that everyone, down to and including the village idiot had a "right" to go to college. There were not the vast plethora of colleges and universities we have today al...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:12 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: A libertarian view of gay marriage
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10176
Re: A libertarian view of gay marriage
[quote=jafs]The issue's been decided by the SC, so it's not an open question any more.[/quote]
So was Dred Scott, et al.
So was Dred Scott, et al.
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:09 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Ted Cuz's Weird Father
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2720
Re: Ted Cuz's Weird Father
[quote=Maddy]Lately, there's been a lot of discussion about "girding loins" and going to battle. Scary stuff.[/quote]
No doubt soon to be followed by "weeping and gnashing of teeth".
No doubt soon to be followed by "weeping and gnashing of teeth".
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 11:15 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: A libertarian view of gay marriage
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10176
Re: A libertarian view of gay marriage
jafs, You are right. A union between a male and female should be called marriage. Other forms should be called civil unions, domestic contracts, etc. And it is not the fact of having children, it is the potential for such to occur (however likely or remote), that makes marriage fundamentally differ...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 2:25 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: A libertarian view of gay marriage
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10176
Re: A libertarian view of gay marriage
[quote=jafs]Why? My wife and I don't have kids, and are past child-bearing age - should our union have a different name from other straight couples who have kids?[/quote] Because "traditional marriage" has religious, cultural, and biological attributes (historic and current) that "gay...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:15 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: A libertarian view of gay marriage
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10176
Re: A libertarian view of gay marriage
I am tired of the issue too, but ... If we allow "marriage" to occur between any two consenting adults then we need to call a "joint living agreement" between two consenting adults, who are jointly capable of reproduction, something other than marriage. The distinction is profou...
- Mon Mar 07, 2016 8:46 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Music for Cats
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5928
Re: Music for Cats
A couple of computers ago I bought an Aquarium screen saver for the cat. He loved it. Not so good for the monitor.
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 8:51 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hoarding Cash
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14355
Re: Hoarding Cash
[quote='BearBones']Not talking about cash going away. Just that stored in deposit accounts. [/quote] Ok, I see the distinction. In a negative-interest-rate world, leaving "cash" in deposit accounts paying negative interest makes no sense, and could result in a run on such deposit accounts...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 10:23 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hoarding Cash
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14355
Re: Hoarding Cash
[quote=BearBones]I, for one, am not really as concerned about the demise of cash. More wondering what happens if their is a shortage of it when/if lots of people come to convert their digital money into paper because it is more likely to retain value. This would occur in a deflationary environment. ...
- Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:20 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Hoarding Cash
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14355
Re: Hoarding Cash
I am going to put my tinfoil hat on and say that if you are truly worried about the demise of paper cash, holding paper cash makes no sense. The government could call all of it in and issue you an EBT card. After such-and-such date, paper cash would no longer be legal tender, etc. This is essentia...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 6:47 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Iron is Toxic, Very Toxic -- Avoid At All Costs!
- Replies: 190
- Views: 75338
Re: Iron is Toxic, Very Toxic -- Avoid At All Costs!
[quote=Pointedstick]The addition of nickel makes it non-magnetic.[/quote] That is interesting, since nickel itself is magnetic. [quote=Gumby]Plus, I didn't like that I could take a paper town to my cast iron, at any time, and it would basically look like I could wipe oxidized grease off of it. The F...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 10:48 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Iran's Religion of Peace
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3679
Re: Iran's Religion of Peace
I'm a traditionalist. .30-06.
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:33 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Are we iodine-deficient?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2662
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:29 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: David Bowie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3785
Re: David Bowie
No argument from me about Ziggy Stardust.
- Mon Jan 04, 2016 10:46 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Permanent All-In-One Cooking Device
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12395
Re: The Permanent All-In-One Cooking Device
I've been living with the "All-In-One Cooking Device" for a few months. Mini review: Does what it says it does. Seems sturdy. Perfect rice. Stainless steel pot better than teflon-coated stuff. Sous vide is ok, but there is something off-putting about pulling a perfectly cooked 135F med...
- Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:59 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Elm Funds
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5488
Re: Elm Funds
One or two of the principals seem to be graduates of Long Term Capital Management.
Either that is good (they learned from their mistakes) or bad.
Either that is good (they learned from their mistakes) or bad.
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 9:53 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Duke it out - Dividend style
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11920
Re: Duke it out - Dividend style
Dividends do reduce the stock price, right up to the point where the market opens and prices fluctuate (up or down or unchanged). But the company begins earning a new dividend at the same time. So is the price adjusted upward daily (in the same manner it was reduced by the dividend payment) to acc...
- Sun Nov 22, 2015 7:58 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Duke it out - Dividend style
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11920
Re: Duke it out - Dividend style
I think you miss the point. Unless gains (either dividends or capital gains) are realized, those gains, regardless of how they came about (i.e. the excellent performance of "Cory's Tequila Company"), are subject to vagaries of the market. Your unrealized gains can evaporate in a heartbeat...
- Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:29 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Duke it out - Dividend style
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11920
Re: Duke it out - Dividend style
that would be one big baloney statement then . your portfolio value is all yours each and every day . it would be ludicrous to think that anything different transpired except a taxing event if instead of selling each night and re buying another investment in the morning is any different then choosi...