dreamdancer

this experiment is a great introduction to game theory - from which many of the cold war tactics grew from

The Prisoner's Dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

so racism is ok with you? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

looks like legalisation is just around the corner... http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/140642/legal_pot_in_california_in_2010_%22oaksterdam%22_provides_the_model/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

i flirted with libertarianism a while back - but it's not a real political philosophy/ideology - it's a made-up political construct like the scientologists are a made-up religous construct. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

not so

***Libertarian socialism (sometimes called socialist anarchism, and sometimes left libertarianism is a group of political philosophies that aspire to create a society without political, economic, or social hierarchies, i.e. a society in which all violent or coercive institutions would be dissolved (or at least drastically reduced in scope), and in their place every person would have free, equal access to the tools of information and production. This equality and freedom would be achieved through the abolition of authoritarian institutions that own and control productive means as private property, in order that direct control of these means of production and resources will be shared by society as a whole. Libertarian socialism also constitutes a tendency of thought that informs the identification, criticism and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of social life. Accordingly libertarian socialists believe that “the exercise of power in any institutionalized form – whether economic, political, religious, or sexual – brutalizes both the wielder of power and the one over whom it is exercised.” Libertarian socialists place their hopes in trade unions, workers' councils, municipalities, citizens' assemblies, and other non-bureaucratic, decentralized means of direct democracy. Many libertarian socialists advocate doing away with the state altogether, seeing it as a bulwark of capitalist class rule, while others propose that a minimal, non-hierarchical version is unobjectionable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

Computer model successfully model the interior of stars and the dynamics of nuclear detonations, bird flocks and fish shoals. In a macro-sense I see no reason that economics should be immune. None of those are particularly complex. The inside of a star has scale issues, but you don't have independently acting atoms - they all behave on a fairly short set of principles. Humans do not. And as Bill points out, humans game the existing system, find new exploits, which last as long as it takes for others to jump in and diminish the advantage. How do you model the effects of swine flu? A massive monte carlo simulation? Not high quality data to input, plus it's just one of a billion variables that can have dramatic impact. End result: you have something as good as economic simulations have historically been. IOW, not very. humans are forced into dependent behaviour within the economy and society the same as car traffic is forced into dependent behaviour within the road system (car a can't move until car b in front of him has first done so). stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

it depends upon what you're using the model for - and there won't be one model but many competing ones. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

http://www.alternet.org/rss/3/60520/murdered_security_guard%27s_union_asked_for_bulletproof_vests%2C_never_got_them/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

and that word, of course, is racism stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

I'm sure I could waste 5 minutes of my life trying to come up with some witty response, but honestly I'm tired, and you're not worth the effort. Your writings on here speak more to your character than anything I'd be able to come up with anyway. yes to libertarianism then

you sound like another libertarian/anarchist tax obsessive (the only thing that has value in libertarian fantasy land is the dollar - all bow down) stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/11/holocaust-museum-shooting-bnp-von-brunn stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

neatly put

nope, these experts say otherwise. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

except earth isn't a computer - that was just a story

don't forget the british part in ajax (and then suez) stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

http://www.alternet.org/rss/3/60501/american_medical_association_opposes_public_health_insurance_plan/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

interesting...

this looks like the camera to get

there's a word for this... http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/140555/wells_fargo%3A_too_big_to_jail/#more stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

so your idea is to get rid of the federal reserve and my idea is to elevate the status of the minimum wage back to its historical value - which is more likely? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

looking like a very close election... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/10/iran-elections-mahmoud-ahmadinejad stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding

http://www.alternet.org/rights/140564/suspect_in_washington%27s_holocaust_museum_shooting_is_a_white_supremacist/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding