As it turns out, that's exactly what I did. Before I saw your email, surprisingly enough. I had forgotten that my company has a discount with Dell because...
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Nick Arnett
nick.arnett@...
Nov 1, 2010 3:21 pm
Interesting perspective in the LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-economy-mortgages-20101101,0,7338975.story By Don Lee, Los Angeles Times ...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 1, 2010 3:41 pm
... still faithfully paying their mortgages, but on houses ... will stop making their payments. It's just the opposite ... I thought about this, and I think...
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Nick Arnett
nick.arnett@...
Nov 1, 2010 4:06 pm
... No question, either extreme is bad. But how to manage the volatility is the billion - or is that trillion? - dollar question. Nick ... still faithfully...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 1, 2010 4:33 pm
... the billion - ... There are several things to consider here. First is the obvious. We require real truth in selling, and for the sellers to know what...
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Keith Henson
hkeithhenson@...
Nov 2, 2010 12:42 am
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" <danminette@...> wrote: snip ... I know about two positive black swans. However the first one (power ...
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Doug Pensinger
brighto@...
Nov 2, 2010 5:27 am
... Add to that the (hundreds of?) billions of dollars of tax cuts Bush gave to the wealthiest people in the nation who already had more money than they knew...
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Doug Pensinger
brighto@...
Nov 2, 2010 5:32 am
... It needs to be recognized as a matter of national security. Unfortunately, it seems like the right wing would rather see the country go down in flames than...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 2, 2010 1:45 pm
... From: brin-l-bounces@... [mailto:brin-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Doug Pensinger Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:25 AM To: Killer Bs...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 2, 2010 2:01 pm
... It is quite possible that we falter over the next two years, sliding back into depression. One of the most depressing figures is that the average GDP ...
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Alberto Vieira Ferrei...
albmont@...
Nov 2, 2010 3:19 pm
... Sorry for the long, unedited quote, but this was not _predicted_ in the 80s, this was _written about_ in the 40s, by many science fiction writers. Orwell...
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Keith Henson
hkeithhenson@...
Nov 2, 2010 7:28 pm
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" <danminette@...> wrote: snip ... Dan, I don't mind criticisms based on understanding the engineering and/or...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 2, 2010 7:49 pm
... From: brin-l-bounces@... [mailto:brin-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Keith Henson Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:28 PM To:...
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Richard Baker
rich@...
Nov 2, 2010 8:15 pm
... High pulse energy, high repetition rate diode-pumped solid state lasers now have an efficiency of around 10%. Rich ...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 2, 2010 8:34 pm
... OK, that's a lot better than when I was kicking around inertia fusion. Factors of 5-10 (it might have been as much as 2% efficient back in 1980) every 30...
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Doug Pensinger
brighto@...
Nov 3, 2010 3:57 am
... Not what I meant, sorry, but I was sticking with your definition of black swan as a solution to economic malaise. War, global conflict, would be the most...
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Keith Henson
hkeithhenson@...
Nov 3, 2010 6:28 pm
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, <brin-l-request@...> wrote: snip ... Solid state diodes of the kind in the Wikipedia picture are hitting 50% now...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 3, 2010 9:32 pm
... GDP ... Well, the US did prosper from wars it has been in, but that's fairly unique. Germany didn't, France didn't. The USSR didn't; the Cold War broke...
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Doug Pensinger
brighto@...
Nov 4, 2010 2:48 am
... Eventually, but they were our supposed equals for the better part of forty years and one can easily imagine scenarios in which they continued to prosper in...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 4, 2010 3:15 am
... From: brin-l-bounces@... [mailto:brin-l-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Doug Pensinger Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:49 PM To: Killer Bs...
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Doug Pensinger
brighto@...
Nov 4, 2010 5:32 am
Dan wrote: Me: First, let me assure anyone reading this that I in no way advocate war as a solution for anything, I'm just discussing the possible consequences...
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Charlie Bell
charlie@...
Nov 4, 2010 11:48 am
... ...and judging by GDP figures, the USA is still fighting the Cold War. Charlie. _______________________________________________ ...
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Pat Mathews
mathews55@...
Nov 4, 2010 11:54 am
I'm trying to imagine us as being in shape for any large enterprises in 1979, and I was there and 40 years old at the time. Everything we'd started either in...
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Charlie Bell
charlie@...
Nov 4, 2010 12:10 pm
... ARRRRRGH!! "it's unusual" "it's very rare" OR "it's unique". Unique can't take a qualifier except maybe "possibly"; or "almost" and even then you need care....
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Ronn! Blankenship
ronn_blankenship@...
Nov 4, 2010 6:11 pm
From this morning's fly-by: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/495296main_epoxi-1-full_full.jpg http://tinyurl.com/2bkv3jv ...
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Dan Minette
danminette@...
Nov 4, 2010 6:33 pm
... Hmmm, I looked it up, and military outlays under GWB as a % of GDP were less than they were under Carter, around 4% or a bit less. vs. Carter's 5%+. And ...
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Wayne Eddy
darkenfair@...
Nov 4, 2010 9:29 pm
How much better Armageddon would have been if they tried to blow up something that actually looked a bit like a comet. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Ronn!...
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Charlie Bell
charlie@...
Nov 4, 2010 9:39 pm
... Now compare it to everyone else in the world... Charlie. _______________________________________________ ...
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Jon Louis Mann
net_democracy@...
Nov 6, 2010 5:59 am
... There never was a "Cold" War beginning with the Korean War WW III was a global conflict against Communism in Latin America, The Carribbean, Africa,...
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Mitch
mitch@...
Nov 7, 2010 7:57 pm
I seriously doubt it, since the first part isn't what people assume about war in the first place. But the second; I'd suggest the US is in this war for the...
