I know that it must seem like a dark time to many, what with the Great Recession. And some greenies like to preach gloom and doom. And then there are the nattering nabobs of negativism, like Mobius. But optimism is an appropriate rational response.
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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, 1891Tags: None
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I don't know if they have it prepackaged, but I think the life expectancy information is from the UN population office. Don't know about the historical income information -- most of the GDP series that I know of (IMF, CIA, etc.) don't go back as far as 1800. I think the visualization software is freeware.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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Wonderfull place. I remember that people from this site/organisation cried out for ALL the world's Statistics Bureau's to release there RAW data so they can work with it. So far they have little success as only the processed data is released (if they are lucky)."post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
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Originally posted by DanS View PostI know that it must seem like a dark time to many, what with the Great Recession. And some greenies like to preach gloom and doom. And then there are the nattering nabobs of negativism, like Mobius. But optimism is an appropriate rational response.We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
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Originally posted by DaShi View PostWow, what were we doing before 1810?"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Originally posted by DaShi View PostWow, what were we doing before 1810?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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Originally posted by SpencerH View PostI've been thinking along the same lines recently. Where is the present day RR ?
It's interesting to note that in the US, for every year that goes by, the life expectancy increases by about 1/3rd of a year, IIRC.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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I believe RR is meant to be "Ronald Reagan," famous optimist and senile-man-in-charge-of-gigantic-nuclear-arsenal.
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