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» 12/01/2009 9:18:30 PM Quiggin and Norton both provide thoughtful posts but I think that the tricotonomy among pu.....
» 12/01/2009 8:53:07 PM A photo of Peters by the Beach in the 1980s - in its heyday? http://www.stirling.wa.gov.a.....
» 12/01/2009 8:39:59 PM Excellent post and still very relevant. I wonder if New South Wales Opposition justice sp.....
» 12/01/2009 8:03:18 PM This comment adds to the blog post rather than commenting on it. A Malaysian Airlines B77.....
» 8/11/2006 6:44:59 PM There is remarkably little genetic variety in the human species compared with other mammal.....
» 8/11/2006 5:55:06 PM As Rhian points out, Lomborg doesn't deny that there is a climate problem, but does say th.....
» 2/05/2006 9:01:42 PM Unhelpful and otiose article I thought, by a writer whom, as a previous contributor has po.....
» 2/05/2006 8:38:40 PM It is both the glory and the damnation of the market economy that badly managed companies .....
» 2/05/2006 8:09:08 PM Oddly, industrial relations have been running pretty smoothly in recent years compared wit.....
» 1/05/2006 6:53:30 PM In Australia, the UK and the US, schools seem to be the last bastion of fundamentalist soc.....
» 1/05/2006 6:34:29 PM Pericles wrote, "Unfortunately every thread seems to be flooded with your own contrib.....
» 30/04/2006 8:16:40 PM Oddly, although in Pericles' first post in this thread he wrote, "To believe that we .....
» 29/04/2006 6:25:07 PM BOAZ wrote, 'I often wonder what goes on in the mind of a person with no Godly reference p.....
» 28/04/2006 9:00:44 PM Ted, old son, Settle down. The only parallel with the Six Day War that the Iranian crisis.....
» 28/04/2006 8:13:02 PM Judy, er, Pericles (thanks, BOAZ) presents a proposition: * teaching university students .....
» 27/04/2006 8:48:50 PM Thanks to RObert, meredith, BOAZ and Scout for answers to my question and for advancing th.....
» 27/04/2006 7:52:34 PM There have been two recent articles in the Herald on obesity. One reports that a study of .....
» 26/04/2006 8:04:14 PM Can I ask advice from longer standing members of this forum? If I quote evidence from cre.....
» 25/04/2006 7:31:37 PM No Pericles, I have moved on because of your repetitive mantra that "ethical standar.....
» 24/04/2006 8:43:09 PM Pericles randomly waves thoughts. A dying cockroach randomly waves its legs. Pericles, we .....
» 24/04/2006 11:19:55 AM Tony Judt, http://www.nyu.edu/fas/Faculty/JudtTony.html writing in an op-ed in The New Yor.....
» 23/04/2006 9:59:57 PM Perhaps surprisingly, given that it tends to tilt slightly to the right, The Australian pu.....
» 22/04/2006 7:33:46 PM Pericles - pathetically - implores, "Could you help me here - where is the linkage be.....
» 20/04/2006 10:29:02 PM Shonga, At the hands of one anal-retentive federal treasurer and a clutch of anal-retenti.....
» 20/04/2006 10:10:29 PM Ro, The article to which you link mentions Egyptian intellection, author and Islamist Say.....
» 20/04/2006 8:40:54 PM BOAZ, You raise interesting issues. Although they stray from Claus's article, let me resp.....
» 19/04/2006 9:43:07 PM Meredith, When I wrote "I don't think any ethicists would denigrate him for doing wh.....
» 19/04/2006 9:19:50 PM It's difficult to comment constructively on this article without knowing more about the UK.....
» 19/04/2006 7:50:05 PM You've got the picture, Meredith. Interesting that you mention Churchill, as this reminds.....
» 19/04/2006 7:23:07 PM Steve Madden, 77% of health costs are for pharmaceuticals? Absolutely not. According to .....
» 18/04/2006 8:41:12 PM BOAZ, I wouldn't want psychoanalyse you. Pericles of course is another matter. When we t.....
» 18/04/2006 8:06:42 PM People sometimes visit medical practitioners for reasons requiring only modest skill to ad.....
» 18/04/2006 7:17:10 PM BOAZ wrote GM foods "are either ‘harmful’ in some tangible way or they arn’t. If they.....
» 18/04/2006 11:24:21 AM gusi, The only real way to fix it is to throw the b*st*rds out. The trouble is when you l.....
» 17/04/2006 9:02:08 PM Discovery, innovation and commercial success have a thousand parents. Bafflement, imitatio.....
» 17/04/2006 7:33:09 PM Pericles, You are still off-topic. Dills who spent $10 million in legal costs to attack.....
» 17/04/2006 8:47:13 AM BOAZ The Economist's European correspondents are better informed as to what is happening .....
» 17/04/2006 8:41:51 AM Alchemist, If your reasoning is correct, why do you believe that "this society has r.....
» 16/04/2006 7:52:14 PM Returning to the original topic, The Economist newspaper's Charlemagne column this week di.....
» 15/04/2006 8:28:09 PM Thanks, Scout and BD. You have brought a not very interesting debate (over whether Bill G.....
» 15/04/2006 5:41:28 PM There are several rather different problems here. Firstly, school teachers have not had be.....
» 15/04/2006 3:27:05 PM There's a lot been written by economists about positional goods: those that conspicuously .....
» 14/04/2006 9:51:48 PM Jaba, I live in Sydney and have spent time in Seoul, Bangkok, Singapore and Hongkong. Sha.....
» 14/04/2006 6:25:50 PM Ah, Pericles, so... You are a propellor-head who was singed by the Great Satan. That expl.....
» 13/04/2006 9:18:29 PM I understand why the Teachers Federation are against school benchmarking. They have a comf.....
» 13/04/2006 8:26:53 PM Thank you "sneer-resistant" Pericles. You have confirmed my intuition. I sensed .....
» 13/04/2006 7:32:47 PM The "Christian values" that Peter Costello talks of are nothing to do with Chris.....
» 13/04/2006 6:34:30 PM Google seems to think that cannonite is a crystalline mineral containing bismuth. Bismuth .....
» 13/04/2006 10:07:30 AM JaBa, The Epoch Times, which brings us "The Nine Commentaries", is not generall.....
» 12/04/2006 8:10:56 PM JaBa, I see nothing in the Dow Jones quote you supplied that indicates that missiles that.....
» 12/04/2006 7:34:19 PM Pericles, I'm pleased to see that my encouragement moved you from a position of ignorant .....
» 12/04/2006 8:22:34 AM Mineral wealth has done no favours for Australia. The country has developed a severe case.....
» 11/04/2006 8:07:26 PM MikeC refers to, "The arrogance, stupidity and blind faith in the renewable energy my.....
» 11/04/2006 7:12:49 PM Pericles is somehow convinced that Microsoft is "a classic example of how a complete .....
» 10/04/2006 8:32:17 PM Pericles wrote, "I have never made such a claim, and never will." You cannot kn.....
» 10/04/2006 7:26:44 PM Bushbred wrote, "China... could have many nations in economic trouble, if she suddenl.....
» 10/04/2006 6:54:02 PM Aspro, Depleted uranium used in tank armour and heavy artillery shells in Iraq has nothin.....
» 9/04/2006 2:06:31 PM The report that aggie refers to is at http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1611696.....
» 9/04/2006 1:17:45 PM Not quite, Seeker. Electricity generation from nuclear fusion has been only 20 years away.....
» 9/04/2006 12:29:05 PM Ozbib wrote, "It would help if commentators bothered to read the Matilda Bill." .....
» 8/04/2006 8:30:13 PM I thought Pericles was improving when he managed to apply deduce that some of the workers .....
» 7/04/2006 1:41:50 PM The thing is, Pericles, we don't know whether you are posting opinions like that in a futi.....
» 6/04/2006 8:07:45 PM I marvel at how this site somehow found anonymous intellectual giants who can definitive r.....
» 6/04/2006 11:47:12 AM I am astonished by the lack of importance that most posters seem to accord to ethics train.....
» 6/04/2006 9:49:38 AM Thank you for that interesting explanation, BOAZ_David. It tends to confirm my view that w.....
» 5/04/2006 9:36:31 PM As usual, BigotCorp agents are out in force - and, as usual, on autopilot. For the benefi.....
» 4/04/2006 7:27:47 PM Philo, If you have some "equally amazing stories", why not share a few with us,.....
» 4/04/2006 7:04:03 PM wobbles, I don't deny that sometimes contractors are exploited sorely and on the other ha.....
» 4/04/2006 6:30:38 PM dobbadan, This sounds like an urban myth at best, or something that you have simply made .....
» 4/04/2006 6:19:03 PM Jana Banana, How Hilter rose... Is that Nicky and Paris Hilter? I think they rose more b.....
» 3/04/2006 6:53:18 PM "Frankly, I think that we should be sending troops in to these backward nations to fo.....
» 3/04/2006 7:02:25 AM Wobbles, There is no report I know of that Paul Keating ever said that. The original rema.....
» 2/04/2006 9:40:11 PM I consider the government's new industrial relations laws badly thought out, ideologically.....
» 30/03/2006 9:34:06 PM BOAZ_David wrote: "I was reading the article posted by MikeM about the 'reformed' ap.....
» 30/03/2006 7:38:46 PM Unhelpful party political rant, Kim. What, exactly, are you proposing? In some regions h.....
» 30/03/2006 6:34:35 PM No, ozbib, You are bending too far in the other direction. The medical establishment is h.....
» 30/03/2006 11:48:57 AM Hmm. A large dollop of Austrian school ideology unleavened by facts. Is there an OECD c.....
» 29/03/2006 5:58:10 PM Froggie, The Alchemist: a pleasure to have a rational discussion. The Alchemist: I have n.....
» 29/03/2006 12:50:43 PM Half cocked, bigmal? Have you been smoking what KAEP's been smoking? I didn't say anythi.....
» 29/03/2006 9:38:39 AM The 2006 edition of the OECD Factbook has just appeared at http://miranda.sourceoecd.org/v.....
» 29/03/2006 6:37:25 AM Dr Prabir, The United States has the most expensive health system in the world and far fr.....
» 28/03/2006 12:52:45 PM KAEP shares another of his delusions with us: "Would that be the same IPCC panel that.....
» 28/03/2006 11:09:58 AM For those fixated with the idea that countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran represent the.....
» 28/03/2006 10:42:01 AM University of Melbourne actually offer three courses in Islamic law as part of its Graduat.....
» 27/03/2006 8:55:30 PM There is an idea that if workers are retrenched (formerly with varying compensation and no.....
» 27/03/2006 8:11:34 PM My god! Rationality again! Thanks Realo for injecting another dose into this discussion. .....
» 25/03/2006 10:06:07 PM What I want is four-fold. Firstly, a yielding of the closed shop by the medical professi.....
» 25/03/2006 6:11:53 PM In my previous post I questioned McConvill's claim that EVERY academic should blog. I cer.....
» 25/03/2006 5:31:57 PM Since I realised that contributors to this forum do best if they have a BOBFFAE (a Bigoted.....
» 24/03/2006 8:17:05 PM EVERY academic should blog? That could be fine in subjects like law and economics where t.....
» 24/03/2006 6:33:24 PM BOAZ_David wrote, "You said Reuters claimed 'Eta' were "Muslim" terrorists......
» 24/03/2006 8:05:20 AM If good people all have faith, Judaism and Christianity can win over the evils of Islam. A.....
» 24/03/2006 7:48:11 AM The chances of Germans eventually having to learn Chinese are becoming increasingly remote.....
» 24/03/2006 7:37:12 AM Time to invoke Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability.....
» 23/03/2006 6:21:26 PM Warren Buffett is the second richest person in the US (after Bill Gates). He is chairman o.....
» 23/03/2006 5:51:03 PM bigmal is deluded. "... there are a majority of us,who in our individual ways have bo.....
» 22/03/2006 7:50:22 PM If the rednecks who rail against Islam all the time bothered to discover what "introd.....
» 22/03/2006 6:19:19 PM Ted writes, "US federal law prohibits torture as defined by the UN Convention on the .....
» 22/03/2006 9:07:21 AM "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but.....
» 22/03/2006 8:39:49 AM McDonald quotes a common complaint: "There are too many patients, not enough beds...&.....
» 22/03/2006 8:08:08 AM McDonald gives no reference for the alleged "recent, large, randomised controlled tri.....
» 21/03/2006 6:22:56 PM It takes time to develop a historical perspective, but I think the second most daring and .....
» 21/03/2006 6:01:43 PM Crusades a religious war, Gitmo Guy? Thereby hangs a rather cute tale. From http://econom.....
» 20/03/2006 8:19:26 PM The real villains domesticly are Trujillo and his three amigos. We have an ISDN2 broadban.....
» 20/03/2006 7:59:31 PM I don't see a big threat to diversity of media content. The huge growth of quality blogs .....
» 20/03/2006 7:29:20 PM Rather than Ted Lapkin's beliefs about what is happening in Iraq, I prefer to give credenc.....
» 19/03/2006 7:43:10 PM Patty, The large US trade deficit together with its government's domestic budget deficit .....
» 19/03/2006 7:26:15 PM The link between China and Australia that plerdsus mentions is one of many that developed .....
» 18/03/2006 7:26:52 PM BOAZ_David, Thanks for the clarification. I come back to my previous point though. God d.....
» 18/03/2006 5:57:13 PM Henry writes,"China is perhaps the only country that refuses to accept any form of ap.....
» 17/03/2006 8:47:04 PM BOAZ_David Are you the same BOAZ_David who in another forum suggests privatising marriage.....
» 17/03/2006 7:06:21 PM Benjamin has attributed to me opinions that I do not hold. Of course an Iranian attack o.....
» 16/03/2006 8:22:12 PM Right on, Irfan. If we are talking about butchers of humanity it is worth remembering tha.....
» 16/03/2006 6:09:07 PM Dr Sultan, featured in the Al Jazeera TV clip to which Ro has posted a link just above, wa.....
» 16/03/2006 9:35:16 AM Benjamin wrote, "Iran is nothing short of the major threat facing the world today.&qu.....
» 16/03/2006 6:30:38 AM Arjay wrote, "Well Thor why do not Muslims themselves do something about the hate and.....
» 15/03/2006 7:10:19 PM The second SMH story about Priest's apparent economy with the truth is at http://www.smh.c.....
» 14/03/2006 7:32:12 PM KAEP, in the opinion stakes race in which you run, you inevitably win. At the same time y.....
» 14/03/2006 6:52:38 AM Writing on the op-ed page of The New York Times on Sunday, Slavoj Zizek: QUOTE Defenders .....
» 14/03/2006 6:43:28 AM It is truly amazing the bigots that a discussion of tolerance attracts. They lecture us th.....
» 13/03/2006 6:11:45 AM bushbred wrote, "[Pinter] says that in these days of so-called advanced Enlightenemnt.....
» 12/03/2006 10:12:41 PM Tough luck, Kekenidika, No virgins at the end of that particular road. Not even a pony. .....
» 12/03/2006 9:10:16 PM Natasha, I suspect that KAEP is practising for a comedy role in the event that Monty Pyth.....
» 12/03/2006 8:33:22 PM Winston, You may be some weird creature whose wants and desires are essentially unlimited.....
» 12/03/2006 8:17:23 PM Natasha, Your post made good sense (unlike any of KAEP's). Don't be put off by the creatu.....
» 11/03/2006 7:08:03 PM Well said, Faustino. Thailand (the name is Thai for "Free Land") is the only so.....
» 11/03/2006 4:04:41 PM BOAZ_David wrote: "The struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism in England was .....
» 10/03/2006 6:34:09 PM Arjay wrote, "Genetically I have a lot of similarities with Chimpanzees and thus Shar.....
» 10/03/2006 5:26:22 PM What complete rot, KAEP. Black body radiation intensity is proportional to the fourth po.....
» 9/03/2006 6:59:33 PM Shakespeare's second best bed was more comfortable than his third best bed. Given the cho.....
» 9/03/2006 6:41:01 PM Critics of PPPs might like to stand back and smell the dollars. There is no reason in pri.....
» 9/03/2006 5:48:44 PM Winston Smith wrote, "Human wants and desires are essentially unlimited." What .....
» 8/03/2006 8:24:54 PM "The art of taxation is like plucking a goose: to get the most feathers with the leas.....
» 8/03/2006 7:06:25 PM In a recent paper for the Productivity Commission, a Federal Government advisory body, And.....
» 8/03/2006 6:50:59 PM Andrew Leigh doesn't get to the heart of a very complicated problem (but neither does Trea.....
» 8/03/2006 5:30:52 PM Terje wrote "Make anything free and your supply system will collapse from too much de.....
» 8/03/2006 5:10:13 PM What have you been smoking KAEP?.....
» 7/03/2006 5:42:29 PM Winston Smith: "... we need to get the government out of our lives - the health syste.....
» 7/03/2006 12:18:29 PM We certainly can afford not to reform Australia's tax system, and the current government s.....
» 7/03/2006 10:33:29 AM Nice cocktail of right wing libertarianism and fundamental misunderstanding of the present.....
» 6/03/2006 8:07:31 PM Some governments excel at setting a vision for their country. The US Kennedy administratio.....
» 6/03/2006 10:44:50 AM There are two turf wars. There is the one between the federal government and the states o.....
» 6/03/2006 7:35:15 AM Berkshire Hathaway is the largest writer of mega-catastrophe reinsurance in the world. In .....
» 4/03/2006 2:20:30 PM Realist wrote: "Beacause CEOs are the cream of the crop, and X amount of shareholder.....
» 3/03/2006 7:18:41 PM Australian productivity is increasing. GDP continues to grow. So if, according to Jim McDo.....
» 3/03/2006 5:38:35 PM Froggie, The science is settled. Global warming is happening. People have a variety of r.....
» 3/03/2006 12:22:13 PM It is fine to rank universities by their research standing but most have a responsibility .....
» 3/03/2006 9:05:37 AM Well I never! What a marvellous stream of invective this essay has provoked! Middle Eas.....
» 2/03/2006 8:03:37 PM Mark Byrne has highlighted the critical point that, "The real scientific questions an.....
» 2/03/2006 6:55:31 AM bigmal wrote, "Mike M has a real problem with the source of one my links (to demonsta.....
» 1/03/2006 1:09:08 PM bigmal wrote, "Even if one doesnt agree with this analysis it still has to be explain.....
» 28/02/2006 8:20:20 PM "Why do posters assume you are an academic?" KAEP, bigmal is the only poster wh.....
» 28/02/2006 10:06:21 AM When it comes to dilldom, bigmal, you're a pretty fair specimen yourself. Or maybe you hav.....
» 27/02/2006 8:17:59 PM "Why, all of the sudden is Leunig not proud of his work? What is wrong with his work .....
» 27/02/2006 7:42:05 PM I am well aware of the belligerent posture of Iran's president as I am of North Korea's pr.....
» 27/02/2006 6:47:53 AM Seasonal variation is indeed huge. Lets look at further data from the same source - NSIDC,.....
» 26/02/2006 7:19:20 PM "Agriculture produces all of the above products at the demand of almost exclusively, .....
» 26/02/2006 6:51:01 PM Evidently bigmal is impressed by the scientific authority of The Weekly Standard and the o.....
» 26/02/2006 9:59:43 AM The cover feature article in "New Scientist" magazine this week is "The par.....
» 25/02/2006 6:53:02 PM Faustino, Before the Industrial Revolution, the transfer of carbon from soil to atmospher.....
» 25/02/2006 4:26:42 PM bigmal, I am aware of the Castles and Henderson critique. But let's untangle the separate.....
» 24/02/2006 6:12:16 PM Caton is right in that claiming that ... the Origin is the “greatest scientific book of .....
» 24/02/2006 5:55:30 PM bigmal has clearly not read the IPCC report that he rubbishes. I doubt whether he has rea.....
» 24/02/2006 12:37:41 PM It seems that Leigh and bigmal know something that our Prime Minister doesn't. From front.....
» 26/10/2005 6:29:38 PM It would be truly excellent if someone could explain to Chris Berg that the US Federal Avi.....
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