Banno

What? I wasn't suggesting a conspiracy...

Well, I'm puzzled, too. Suppose the the market is not in a state of equilibrium, but has been treated as if it were... would the resulting instability...

Have a flick through this...

Is boom and bust the issue, or inequity? IF the cycle had not resulted in a huge gain for the parasitic end of the wealth spectrum, would the fact of ...

Cheers. For me, the key is that markets are not efficient equilibrium systems - roughly, that monetarism sits on a false assumption. Economic growth c...

What space does my mortgage occupy? And if none, does it follow that it does not exist, and I can cease to pay it? Or does it follow that there are th...

Cause is over-rated.

Belief is not algorithmic. It doesn't follow from a set of rules. (There's a pretty straight forward argument for this in which, in order to believe i...

I didn't see this, and on a quick look did not find a post about it... But claiming that the universe is a simulation does not seem to me at all helpf...

So, think on the question: What is south of the South Pole? "South" starts at the pole. ""before" starts at the big bang. See the second answer here.....

Tape will fix the leak, but might result in water backing up into the sink.

What is south of the South Pole? The question makes no sense. The notion of "south of..." stops working at the south pole. Same goes for "before..." a...

How could he possibly offer a proof? It's a definition! But yes, we have been through this before. You remain unconvinced, but that is about you, not ...

Profound stuff.

Shouldn't the middle junction be above the waterline? We made the mistake of putting bottle traps in some of our sinks. Dreadful things.

Yep. Morality is about caring for others. What's surprising is that so many folk think otherwise. That it is about following universal rules or seekin...

...we could sell their kidneys...

ah, it was you all along...

I agree, in the absence of evidence there is no reason to claim that god exists; nor any reason to suppose that he does not. But I don't think we need...

Cheers. Didn't think I did.

This conversation is just weird.

Banno didn't.

...and that leaves me thinking that there is something disingenuous about your replies. But doubtless you would say the same. I'll leave you to contin...

It could be. Indeed, it could be. But there might be other explanations.

We agree why what is so? That your point remains elusive?

From THE MATHEMATICS OF THE BIG BANG ...that is, time started with the big bang.

Well, we can't conclude that, since your point remains for me quite elusive.

It was? And how do we know this? Or are you again just making stuff up?

Again, you are far too clever for me to be able to follow your reply.

, are you working from a basement in Moscow? It would explain so much...

3. There is no "before the big bang". This last is the view implicit in the very physical theory that deduced the big bang.

An odd reply. Mass is measured in kg. What do we use for the unit of substance?

...so that they turned up to get payed, and indeed that they did get paid, somehow for you shows how uncooperative people are...

Yep.

Not my theory; but I will stand by it. As I said the @"Issac",

:chin:

...interesting...

Substance was used before mass was properly identified and defined. It is now no more than philosophers continuing a bad habit.

Perhaps there was need of a reminder.

Indeed, ritual runs deep. So on Good Friday I make a point of eating a roast leg and watching Life of Brian.

Absurdly parochial, @"ssu". The pandemic is not an issue only for 'mercans. It's just that they have been, tragically, the least able to deal with it.

Indeed; 10:13: So neither is your point.

So... that's supposed to be better? I think there might be a few unstated assumptions...

Ah, you missed the sore arse and lifelong psychological damage. Good.

Good summation.

Indeed, that is what I was asking. Do we look to 3.1415... or Machin's Formula? One is finite, and so would seem to be the obvious choice. And yes, we...

Anyone else remember the revival of The Doors in the eighties? Some previously unreleased stuff led to a rash of fanboys, who again claimed Morrison w...

I play chess, too. I find my capacity fluctuates somewhat arbitrarily. Sometimes I look a the board and I can see patterns, shapes that show the way m...

Side tracking again, if I were not so age-addled, I'd be paying much more attention to Shannon entropy and information theory, especially as it relate...