You make a strong case for atheism (4.00 / 1)

But disbelief doesn't change the arithmetic.

I'd suggest we invent a New Mathematics, but even the most clever of all Monkeys has only 10 counting digits and frustration often curls those into a fist.

The one, two punch - greatest economic principle since the 5 finger discount.

You have the ability to disturb me, Jacob. That's a good thing. Thanks.

"It sounds wrong...
     ...but its right."

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by: SpitBall @ Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 14:15:36 PM UTC

Thanks for your comment. (0.00 / 0)

I'm suffering from anomie more than atheism, but you're totally right about fistitude as a remedy for economic turpitude. And meanwhile...





This video has not much connection with anything, but Eels are great, and it's sort of a gift for posting a funny comment on my diary. Enjoy!

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by: Jacob Freeze @ Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 21:29:46 PM UTC

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Arithmetic (4.00 / 1)

has always been a sado-masochistic endeavor for me.

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by: kanzeon @ Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 01:22:57 AM UTC

Hey kanzeon! (0.00 / 0)

I'm glad to see you back!

So I immediately went back and looked at your comments, and "impure public goods" is news to me.

The whole concept of "public goods," as defined by Ricardo-arians, or whoever those guys may be, is so far from the natural meaning of those words, and so far from what they suggest to the man-in-the-street...

...so that maybe we should just return that concept to pure jargon,  something like "nonrivalrous-nonexcludable externalities,"...

so that maybe a reasonable discussion of a reasonable meaning of "public goods" would be possible, because everything that most people naturally think of as "public goods" is disappearing into privatizations of all kinds every day, and so far we don't even have a comprehensible way to complain.  

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by: Jacob Freeze @ Thu Mar 12, 2009 at 03:22:46 AM UTC

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