On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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>> What exactly do you mean when you say "free markets reliably regulate
>> prices"?
>
> Exactly what I wrote.
So, meaningless. Or so broad as to hav
On 11/30/2008 5:30:23 PM, Dan M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Rob wrote:
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> > If physics were anything more than approximate, we would have final
> > answers to all our questions.
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> How? All physics does is model observations.
Models make predictions. And over time models have made predictions
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > If free markets reliably regulate prices,
>
> What exactly do you mean when you say "free markets reliably regulate
> prices"?
Exactly what
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If free markets reliably regulate prices,
What exactly do you mean when you say "free markets reliably regulate prices"?
> Surely neither supply nor demand changed much in such a short
> time.
I don't think there was an
Rob wrote:
> If physics were anything more than approximate, we would have final
> answers to all our questions.
How? All physics does is model observations. Physics was created out of
Natural Philosophy by tabling the question of the reliability of
observations.
Now, you can use the results o
On 11/30/2008 2:26:19 AM, Ronn! Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> At 08:25 PM Saturday 11/29/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
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> >(Although to be fair, classical mechanics does sum up pretty well what
> >we see on our scale.
> It's just right for the wrong reasons, is all. :)
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>
> Why is it
At 08:25 PM Saturday 11/29/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
>(Although to be fair, classical mechanics does sum up pretty well what
>we see on our scale. It's just right for the wrong reasons, is all. :)
Why is it "for the wrong reasons"? Some would say that if it leads
to predictions which match
