Comments on: Quotes Entirely Relevant to Investing 11-09-2008

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:54:50 +0000

As an LOS shareholder, I propose that a new business plan be created to target the ‘Hope and Change’ demographic which seems to offer an attractive (and profitable) consumer base.

Products need to be utterly useless (and mostly fake) but marketing has to be top notch with heavy input of social and ecologically conscious techniques.

Let us know of the progress on this in the next shareholder meeting. Thanks.

By: bcd

bcd — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:01:23 +0000

in keeping with deceased 2008 geniuses:

“And I submit that this is what the real, no-bullsh|t value of your liberal-arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default-setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone, day in and day out.”

David Foster Wallace – 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College

By: Hans Moleman

Hans Moleman — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:37:48 +0000

I always wonder what they mean when they say “the Earth’s temperature” has done this or that.

From the link posted in (3): “Global warming is defined by the global mean surface temperature.”

Seriously?

By: Anal_yst

Anal_yst — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:31:23 +0000

Dude, you totally just gave Roubini a stiffy, nice, real nice.

By: Pleb

Pleb — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:33:08 +0000

Good grief, my man Juggles. What in the name of Karl Popper’s ghost makes you think that scientific truth must be falsifiable, as opposed to permanent dogmatic truth? Denier! Heretic!

It’s this kind of thinking that causes a man to lose his seat in all the right clubs, you know. *Everybody* knows that.

By: MPH

MPH — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:04:33 +0000

“Quoting RealClimate.org as a reliable source of information on climate science is like quoting Disneyland.com for reliable information on mouse behavior.”

-Jim Peden

Originally posted in comments [url=http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/pgutis/public_enemies.html]here[/url].

By: The Scientific Consensus

The Scientific Consensus — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:16:01 +0000

Good riddance. He wrote good books 20 years ago, the recent three were disastrous. State of Fear is scientific bunk, but it has reached its goal of selling well with the ostrich crowd.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=74

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:06:08 +0000

Great quote, when did he say that? (ie. was it before the current global warming consensus?)

Long Dinosaurs

By: Bubba Hotep

Bubba Hotep — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:46:22 +0000

RIP Mr. Crichton