24 June 2010
22 June 2010
My favourite quote so far was by a US American
Weirdly enough, possibly my favourite quote that I have discovered so far is by a US American, the socialist Eugene Debs.
"Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth...While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Eugene V. Debs
1855-1926.
"Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth...While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
Eugene V. Debs
1855-1926.
19 June 2010
19th June 2010
Any blog that calls King's College, London "a laughing stock" needs following.
I know of someone who dropped out of a Ph.d. at King's because the atmosphere of the institution was not conducive to academic study.
Universities are finished in so far as they are seen as businesses. Simple as that really.
Get your act together.
I know of someone who dropped out of a Ph.d. at King's because the atmosphere of the institution was not conducive to academic study.
Universities are finished in so far as they are seen as businesses. Simple as that really.
Get your act together.
16 June 2010
Albion Market
The market is supposedly an abstract exchange mechanism.
The price of an item in a market is supposedly generated as if by magic by two variables - supply and demand.
High supply and low supply.
High demand and low demand.
Generally speaking the interaction of these four states supposedly generate the "market price."
Well at this point anyone with a brain will say "This is a pile of bullshit."
However I will continue.
Even if the preceding were true - and it is not, the price is still generated by humans.
The price is simply what someone pays for it.
.......
(TBC)..
I suppose "potential profitability" is another factor in "generating the price" - which is gambling.....er.......
The price of an item in a market is supposedly generated as if by magic by two variables - supply and demand.
High supply and low supply.
High demand and low demand.
Generally speaking the interaction of these four states supposedly generate the "market price."
Well at this point anyone with a brain will say "This is a pile of bullshit."
However I will continue.
Even if the preceding were true - and it is not, the price is still generated by humans.
The price is simply what someone pays for it.
.......
(TBC)..
I suppose "potential profitability" is another factor in "generating the price" - which is gambling.....er.......
14 June 2010
Stoicism
I like STOICISM.
I also like SCEPTICISM, EPICUREANISM and CYNICISM (in the original Ancient Greek sense).
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"NUNQUAM LIKUS US. NOS NON CARAMUS.
(NO ONE LIKES US.WE DON'T CARE)"
MARCUS AURELIUS MILLWALLIUS, Stoic philosopher, LONDINIUM, 2nd century C.E.
10 June 2010
1600 Years Ago!
Just found this website. Very interesting.
http://www.410.org.uk/
GAUDETE! :)
CIVIS, DUROLITUM, RES PUBLICA ANGLORUM.
http://www.410.org.uk/
GAUDETE! :)
CIVIS, DUROLITUM, RES PUBLICA ANGLORUM.
9 June 2010
"What a Truck Up!" Private Eye
WHAT A TRUCK UP!
"If the "international community" is at all interested in combating environmental problems like global warming, it has to clamp down on the extravagant waste of fuel involved in trucking food, clothes and other goods thousands of miles before they reach the consumer."
"Private Eye", News Section, 17th November 2000.
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"A powerful point in Clinton's address on the bombing of Iraq was that Hussein had actually used his WMD on Iran. This is perfectly true. It's also true that Hussein's most enthusiastic supporter for those attacks on Iran was the US government."
Paraphrased from "Private Eye", News Section, c. 1998.
"If the "international community" is at all interested in combating environmental problems like global warming, it has to clamp down on the extravagant waste of fuel involved in trucking food, clothes and other goods thousands of miles before they reach the consumer."
"Private Eye", News Section, 17th November 2000.
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"A powerful point in Clinton's address on the bombing of Iraq was that Hussein had actually used his WMD on Iran. This is perfectly true. It's also true that Hussein's most enthusiastic supporter for those attacks on Iran was the US government."
Paraphrased from "Private Eye", News Section, c. 1998.
7 June 2010
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