science for GP

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by TCO
Math and econ are allowed. We have to make fun of macro though. (unless it is done with a micro mindset...there is one blog that I like run by some fed official...but other macro blogs even with professors are stupid...micro rules.

How do you call the level beyond macro? Is it econ policy?

[Colon™]

Originally posted by TCO
Math and econ are allowed. We have to make fun of macro though. (unless it is done with a micro mindset...there is one blog that I like run by some fed official...but other macro blogs even with professors are stupid...micro rules.

What blog?

Originally posted by Lancer
Central Visayas. Tell her it's the island where the Chocolate Hills are, she'll recognise that. Also lots of dive resorts...

I should have mentioned the chocolate hills. I instead attempted to draw a figurative map, which probably was a bit demanding of one's map reading skills.

Originally posted by Winston
Eh, is that even within the realm of possibility?

We beat Maradonna's Argentina back in the WC of 1982.

[Ecthy]

Colon, I'm sure you can answer my question.

[Colon™]

Macro is within the realm of the economy as a whole, micro is within the realm of individual agents (a company, a household), meso is within the realm of sectors (though I don't think meso-economics is a widely recognized field). Economic policy is usually macro.

[Ecthy]

In Germany the subject of "national economics" is usually sectored in 3 fields: micro, macro, economic policy. Don't ask me what they're about though, I haven't seen any economics lecture from the inside

[Colon™]

You guys should stick to making BMW's.

[TCO]

Lot more handwaving in macro then micro.

Here is the blog I like, where I respect the author:

http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/

Here is the one that I actually like too, but where I butt****ed the professor for macroweenie handwaving logic flaws:

http://www.econbrowser.com/


oh...and it's the "dismal science". Not the pseudo-science. Young Walloon.

[TCO]

You still doing chemistry, Andz?

[Colon™]

The blog seems ok, though I'm pretty suspicious of Fed-folk given their total rejection of money supply as an inflationary factor. (and to think that somebody recently had nerve to describe them as "monetarists")

[TCO]

Of course the money supply is the inflationary factor. Claptrap about inflation rates and M3 is what is silly.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Lancer


Buut Paiktis was Greek!

What did he, erm, what was he accused of?

I think he's on a self imposed ban -- I've seen him post on Counterglow. Many Apolyton posters who get tired of this place end up there. The humor is a bit too intellectual for me though

[Lancer]

Thanks, if you see him tell him Lance wants his $5 damnit!

He doesn't owe me $5 but it will confuse him and he'll come back to ask about it.

[Ecthy]

I study political science and history, specializing in International Relations. THAT's science for you.

[Colon™]

That's even worse than economics.

[Winston]

If you have to append "science" at the end of an academic discipline, science is the last thing that it is. "Fooling around" would be more appropriate.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Winston
If you have to append "science" at the end of an academic discipline, science is the last thing that it is. "Fooling around" would be more appropriate.

"Fooling around" comes in different flavours. The use of the scientific method makes it a science.

But you can fool around without resorting to the scientific method. If you do so, it's not science.

[Ecthy]

Winston

[Ecthy]

Some of you guys have no idea. Personality wise and spirit wise this is the best stuff to do. All the engineers and natural scientists I meet are such morons, intolerant, ignorant, arrogant, not funny.

[Ecthy]

Because they're afraid of their own intelligence and imagination. They hate anything that is not conform with their standardized world. And this is not a freak speaking, I do fit well into most social environments and all, but I do keep an open mind for things, which maths people just don't.

[Winston]

Originally posted by Ecthy
All the engineers and natural scientists I meet are such morons, intolerant, ignorant, arrogant, not funny.

And what do all the engineers and natural scientists say about you?

[Ecthy]

See your post above.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Ecthy
I study political science and history, specializing in International Relations.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Ecthy
All the engineers and natural scientists I meet are such morons, intolerant, ignorant, arrogant, not funny.

Just because you have been repeatedly slapped around by KH doesn't mean you have to be so bitter about it.

[Ecthy]

You must be confusing me with someone else, sorry.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Some of you guys have no idea. Personality wise and spirit wise this is the best stuff to do. All the engineers and natural scientists I meet are such morons, intolerant, ignorant, arrogant, not funny.

IMO, if you really want to go for something great personally, you should couple your current studies with somehting artsy.
I'm done with political science (I have a Diplom from Stuttgart), and there is something deeply geeky about it. An artsy minor can combine the best of two worlds, I wish I had taken one.

[TCO]

I thought you were doing chemistry. Maybe that was Siro or something though.

[TCO]

Come to pogo. I am playing bridge.

[Colon™]

Haven't you got Call of Duty?

[TCO]

My knee is still not sat.

[Colon™]

Go buy it! Including the United Offensive expansion, we'll shoot each to bits all the time.