Yes, interesting talk (in "marvelous accent without the
slightest english" :-), he argues that we should treat
people as they want to be: "If we treat people as
they are, we make them worse. If we treat people
as they should to be, we help them become what they
are capable of becoming."
http://www
Nick,
Thanks for changing the thread and trying to lay the groundwork
carefully here.
Russ,
It is my deepest belief that if our country is to survived, people who
disagree need to learn to argue with each other. You and I really disagree
on this one, so on my account, we are obligated to arg
My answer to Nick didn't make it to the whole group. I agreed with everything
he said. Now Steve's post really has started me thinking: the "power is
corruption" is starting to resonate with me. Also the "power of not being
there".
I think there is something really, really important in wh
Some real surprises. Mostly about who's in the black.Russia? Libya?
(Oil in both cases, I suppose.) Chile?
On May 15, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Russ Abbott wrote:
Corrected URL: http://www.visualeconomics.com/gdp-vs-national-debt-by-country
-- Russ
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Nicholas Th
Here's a question for an economist. When I net it out I come up with
$156 trillion surplus worldwide (equiv to 14% of the countries with
surpluses). Shouldn't it come out to zero?
Thanks
Robert
On 5/15/10 10:43 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Good times..
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/
Hi
I'm sorry that I don't know as much of your (ie. US) history as I should.
When I referred to your "founding fathers" I was thinking of the people who
signed the declaration of Independence and wrote your Constitution - and Abe
Lincoln was not one of them.
"government by the people .. " refers
Steve,
re: argument vs discussion
Point taken. I guess the distinction between the two is that in an
argument, each protagonist knows in advance where he hopes to come out,
whereas in a true discussion, nobody knows where they are going to come
out.
I like to be a realist, as you know, and I
Nick -
re: argument vs discussion
Perhaps we should "rethread" again. Owen is our strongest advocate for
thread hygiene, I will defer to his opinion, if this is enough of a
discursion to warrant re-threading.
Point taken. I guess the distinction between the two is that in an
argument, ea
Okay, The problem I have is that I find something agreeable with each side
and yet find it necessary to add my two cents Canadian ( Nearly on par)
Power is not actually a corruption since it has deep coupling with basic
biology, it is not a degenerate form of some other behavior but more of an
ela
