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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle March 24 2024 #155390
    Kerry Wilson
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    @poppie #155384 – It took me a minute to work out that graph as well. A pie chart may have worked better. Otherwise, numbering the right axis with the percentage of the total would have been helpful.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 12 2024 #154507
    Kerry Wilson
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    In the horse races:
    * Round 1: Run five heats of five horses each. The top three horses from each heat move on to the second round. There are 15 horses left after this round of heats.
    * Round 2: Run three heats of five horses. The first heat contains the winners from each heat of the first round. The winner of his heat will be the overall winner. The second heat contains the 2nd place finishers from the first round. The winner of this heat can be no better than 2nd place overall. The third heat contains the 3rd place finishers from the first round. The winner of this heat can be no better that 3rd overall. From this round, three horses from the first heat move on, two horses from the second heat move on, and one horse from the third heat moves on. So six horses total move on from this round.
    * Round 3: Note that the winner of the first heat in Round 2 has already clinched 1st place overall. 2nd and 3rd places can be determined by racing the remaining 5 horses against one another in a final heat.

    The total number of heats using this seeding strategy is therefore 5 + 3 + 1 = 9.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 3 2023 #140550
    Kerry Wilson
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    MIght have been the ammo going off that did it

    in reply to: Debt Rattle June 29 2023 #137995
    Kerry Wilson
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    The Darwin Awards are about to open up a new category!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle February 6 2021 #69407
    Kerry Wilson
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    I always thought there was something wrong with the official handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it took YouTube’s censoring of Dr. Kory’s Senate testimony video to make me realize that there are no depths that are too low for these people to go. I can’t think of a single good reason for what we’re seeing. I can think of some very dark reasons, but no good ones.

    For the first time since I became aware of this pandemic last January, I am beginning to question the entire Covid-19 narrative.

    in reply to: Baby Social Media #68410
    Kerry Wilson
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    Nowhere in this article is it mentioned that “freedom of speech” does not extend to fomenting insurrection, coordinating criminal activity, or creating a climate that can reasonably be expected to result in violence. As is usual with advancing technologies, the law trails behind, and should be amended. But the argument you’re advancing applies to a far different scenario than the one that got Trump banned.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2015 #23709
    Kerry Wilson
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    Professorlocknload — Some oils to be sure. Organic Horticultural Mineral oils, for example, are often used on fruits, especially over winter and early in the season. They typically act by smothering the insects rather than poisoning them. They’re also effective against fungal infection.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2015 #23680
    Kerry Wilson
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    Professorlocknload — re: “On what constitutes an organic farm, one might want to talk to a professional Pesticide Applicator if he can find one who will speak off record. I know of one who works for an international chemical supplier who claims the lions share of his business is certified organic farms.”

    There’s a misconception here. Organic farms do in fact use pesticides. The question turns on the nature of the pesticides used. Generally, those used on organic farms are derived strictly from natural sources.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 4 2015 #23679
    Kerry Wilson
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    Greenpa — Any references to your claims about the US Military’s involvement in the design and distribution of video games?

    in reply to: Elephant, Meet China #17106
    Kerry Wilson
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    The reasoning used to rebut Stanley Fisher in “Fed Fischer’s Complete & Bizarre Nonsense: Oil Price Collapse “Making Everybody Better Off” is fallacious. It confuses money with value. Take the author’s equation X = GAS + EVERYTHINGELSE. Clearly, if GAS the price of gas goes lower, the consumer can either buy more GAS, or more EVERYTHINGELSE. In the GDP sense, perhaps nothing changes, since the same amount of money is spent. However, excluding possible follow-on effects (such as layoffs in the oil industry), the consumer is clearly better off, because he gets more actual product or service for his money.

    in reply to: Don’t Buy A Home: You’ll Get Burned #16172
    Kerry Wilson
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    Funny, but I bought a home earlier this year and had no trouble at all getting a mortgage. And I’m the sole earner in my household and Ben Bernanke makes more in one double-talk session — otherwise known as a speech — than I make in 2-1/2 years of working.

    While it’s true that the process was more stringent than it was when I made my previous purchases, there was never a moment when I thought the mortgage application was in jeopardy. In fact when I called their bluff on some of the more outlandish requests, they backed off.

    Having said that, I agree that now might not be the best time for a young family to buy their first house. Better to save up pennies now and purchase a house at a more favorable time. Boomers will be retiring en masse 5 years from now, and many bought their houses years ago when the prices were more sane. I see some good opportunities coming up on the horizon.

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