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  • #46
    Originally posted by alva
    Isn't that guy just doing his job, I mean his does get paid to do what is that he is doing. Why award him with a Nobel for it???
    The Peace Prize is often a joke. Instead of giving it to people who actually brought peace, they give it to people who did symbolic things towards peace. Baradei does not deserve it. He did not do anything concrete for peace.
    'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
    G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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    • #47
      Bush for the Nobel prize of 06'!
      urgh.NSFW

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      • #48
        game-theory

        (not that there is a nobel prize in economics anyhow...)

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        • #49
          Isn't this the second round of Nobels for game theory in economics?
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #50
            I think so. I think last year another Israeli got the prize for something along those line.
            "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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            • #51
              it was two years ago, Eli.
              urgh.NSFW

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              • #52
                Surprised they gave it to Game Theory people so soon after Nash et al a couple years ago.

                Aumann's work is really useful in antitrust work, predicting the likelihood of collusion between firms in a market.

                Schelling's work had a lot of influence on arms control negotiations prior to the fall of the Soviet Union.
                But the really important part of Schellings work is
                Department of Economics,
                University of Maryland
                Old posters never die.
                They j.u.s.t..f..a..d..e...a...w...a...y....

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                • #53
                  Did you get your undergrad from UMD?
                  I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                  • #54
                    yep.
                    Unfortunately, Schelling only taught graduate seminars.
                    Old posters never die.
                    They j.u.s.t..f..a..d..e...a...w...a...y....

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