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Seems i have some catching up to do... though it's a little heart breaking not to see my name in the taggart history, such found memories. :( That would be my responsibility (apart from recent history, which has a different author). I am afraid I have left out very much history. Any emendations are...

Raaz Satik wrote: Why do you think they were complete failures?
But you are right, they like almost every form of insurance are an extremely risky gamble.

From the fact that they did not make money on them. Because they are so much more risky than traditional insurance.

Credit default swaps are one of the many new fancy products that AIG has been offering. In strong contrast to the traditional products that they are offering. These products are complete failures, and can at best be viewed as extremely risky gambles. They are nowhere near to being certain bets, rath...

Yes, they are just another product being sold on the market. But they are unprofitable products, and they are the reason why AIG is doing so much worse than other comparative corporations. There certainly are many harmful regulations and political policies, but that is not an excuse of why AIG is be...

As far as I know, the traditional investment-parts of AIG are solid. Without the bailouts, these parts would be profitable by being bought by another corporation. The parts that have ruined AIG are the new, fancy, things. As mentioned here, credit default swaps &c. These parts deserve to be made...

Is there a right to assembly? That takes more than one person, but the group is made of individuals. All of those individuals have the right to get together with one another. I think the right to procreate would be similar. Again I think this is a confusion between a right and an entitlement. You h...

There are strictly speaking no right to procreate, since it takes two people of opposite sex in order to procreate. The two have however individual rights, which among others include a right to enter an agreement to attempt to procreate.

Above that, I don't see that there is a problem.

The old members need some days in order to respond.

I hope the information here is accurate.

Calthrop wrote:Just listened to Warp Drive Active podcast #37, and TTI was mentioned several times.

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Just join the Taggart channel in Eve. You might see a few that you remember there.

Worldwide as all the global things are
Though the global temperature may not really tell anything about the temperatures in various places.

2007 was the coldest year in long, it by itself cancelling out all the global warming of a century. I guess they could get back on global cooling, or just "extreme weather", now.

That would be Jean-Babtiste Say (though you often find it written as Jean Babtiste Say).

You cannot substitute reading Ayn Rand's Corpus with reading the Ayn Rand Lexicon.

More scepticism from scientists:

Over 100 Prominent Scientists Warn UN Against 'Futile' Climate Control Efforts

A couple things to bring down Ron Paul.

He thinks that is the 9/11 is America's fault, and his solution is to pull US entirely out of the muslim world.

He thinks each state should be able to decide whether abortion is allowed or not.

He has ran for the libertarians before.

John Adams, the future author of the Sedition Act - that is your champion of human rights? Thomas Jefferson - the primary advocate of the Bill of Rights - did, in fact, support a great deal of Rousseau's work. To say that the Constitution is not at least partially based on Rousseau's work is not to...

You are carrying your prejudices too far again, assuming that I am a complete advocate of Rousseau's definition of a social contract - I am, in fact, utilitzing the word 'contract' in its Objectivist definition: No you aren't using the objectivist usage of contract, and you are consciously evading ...

Arguing that you should _never_ have to submit to the laws of a State is nothing by Anarchism. I believe I wrote all my posts in english. Please correct me if that is not so. Neither me nor Tolthar has argued that. But you have. If a state is a contract, one must be able to abstain from the contrac...

Social contract theory? As far as I am concerned you can share that with Rousseau, Kant and Rawls. It is a corruption of the concept of contract. A contract is voluntary -- a social "contract" is not voluntary, you cannot choose not to abide by it. And a breach of a contract is an indirect...

I disagree that the issue of evasion is 'very general'; the speech calls out Stadler specifically: Are you arguing like this because you aren't paying attention, or are you doing it subconsciously et cetera? Everything in that passage can be inserted where you have inserted "evasion". Tha...

We have a difference in emphasis then. To you, the most important line is the 'pure knowledge' one. To me, the most important points are 'the ones who had the capacity to know, yet chose to blank out reality' and 'believe that the subject of man requires and deserves no rationality'. So you are pla...

I completely disagree with you that HE never saw a good purpose to science. I think his understanding of what science is, and what its value and purpose are, are very clear. I think the issue he was struggling with is that, if humans are irrational, they would not be able to understand the purpose ...

In many cases, the word rational is being contextually used to mean something akin to 'orderly', as opposed to 'random'. It is used to mean that a person's actions flow logically with their premises. I object to that. Reason and logic is not the same thing, yet you treat them as the same. You are h...

I don't think stadler's main flaw was just taking public money--that was just a side effect of his main flaw. His main flaw was thinking that science has no relation to business, and that, science should exist without any purpose pertaining to the economy. This is the reason his institute never got...