While We Wait: Part 6

[flyingchicken]

Silly Australians, not yet desensitized to massive storms, flooding, and property damage.

 

[Sheep]

Well you are discounting the fact that we have been in drought the last three years prior to this.

In fact this is the exact same precursor to the 1974 floods including the drought.

 

[flyingchicken]

That doing nothing to hampering the validation of what I saying! >:-O

 

[Masada]

I live in Darwin, we had Tracy on Christmas Eve 74 which leveled the place [Cat 5], had a near miss by another Cat 5 last year [the tail alone which hit us was a Cat 2], and 3 years ago we had another Cat 5 [the tail was a Cat 3 when it hit us]. So we have massive storms, Darwin has from memory been leveled 4 times by Cyclones since settlement [1869].

We have fires burning on the horizon half the year which burn uncontrollably and can be the size of European States. Have a law and order problem arguably worse than some Third World countries I've been to. We're routinely cut of by land from the rest of Australia by floods. And we have crocodiles...

And as far as Australia is concerned, we like Northern Western Australia [Broome and thereabouts], North Queensland [Cairns does not count] and Central Australia are really not part of the elitist club that is the rest of Australia.

 

[Sheep]

Yeah I am not saying other places dont have it worse mate, I am just saying what is happening here.

Yeah and Darwin does have pretty bad luck, a few mates of mine have worked at Kakadu and I have gone up there to visit them twice, so yeah I can see what ya getting at.

I also went through a cyclone once in Mackay, when I was a kid on holidays, that was bad enough for me... I messed up my pants too... I think my mum was more scared than me though.

 

[Sheep]

That doing nothing to hampering the validation of what I saying! >:-O

Yeah, so sue me.... Have you ever thought what you are missing out on when storms such as these arent all that newsworthy too you?

 

[flyingchicken]

Yeah

This is everything that space-occupants-with-mass. My zero-dimension erects!

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By the way, completely out of context, I friggin' hate peepz who can't figure out how not to get their lives and documents all messed up and unusable when using their bootleg Microsoft Office software at home and OpenOffice in law-abidin' internet cafes (which we like to call those computer shops here, by the way--anyone else's locale does that?).

 

[Masada]

Refuting:

Silly Australians, not yet desensitized to massive storms, flooding, and property damage.

Onto other news, Masada in conjunction with his initiative is going to remedy a paucity of backup materials for a Macro base level economics course at his Uni [I work alongside the lecturer], in line with this I'm going to try to put together a readily accessible and easy to understand PDF file based on my Uni material with a set of specific insights for NESing. That is if anyone want's it.

I'll organize it by appropriate chapters, quote from appropriate sources and thinkers, include diagrams, and possible policy decisions and consequences. I'll also provide pro-forma answers for essay questions on broad Marco topics.

All I would ask is I gain some guinea pigs. I need people with varying levels of understanding and knowledge of the topics at hand, from say interested observers, to people with nothing more than the occasional perusal of the Financial Review. This will I hope iron out any leaps of logic, and confusion that tend to happen in a work for beginners that is not properly vetted. Those for whom English is not a first language are also especially welcome.

@FC:

At least you have Internet Cafe's where you live... I went for a long while without internet in Indonesia

 

[flyingchicken]

Refuting:

I stand by my stereotyping thankyouverymuch, Economics Man!

Also, if by you're "going to try to put together a readily accessible and easy to understand PDF file based on my Uni material with a set of specific insights for NESing" you mean do something for NESing economy rules (though clearly it isn't, going by your explanation), sign me up as an interested ignoramus!

 

[Masada]

I'm working on a model as we speak, it's soon to be undergoing sea trials to see if it sinks or swims. I'll begin testing when a certain NESer gets his NES back on track.

 

[fantasmo]

Count me in, Masada!

Sort-of-Economics student (and committed reader of the AFR, Economist and Spectator*) for the win!




*Note: The Author does not wish to contend that The Spectator allows one to claim to know anything, but simply wishes to allow ample opportunity for people to realise that not all so-called "conservatives" are nutjobs.

 

[Sheep]

I would be intrested in seeing the results to mate, but I defer to the obvious superior in economic knowledge on the actual writing (although I would be happy to help in any way you think I may)

 

[Dachs]

I'll begin testing when a certain NESer gets his NES back on track.

That ought to be a lot faster now that I have, as of today, acquired sources that should allow completion of Titanomachia III by the time I pop off to see ma boyz at the CFC DC meetup Saturday.

 

[silver 2039]

@Masada I was considering an economics major but at this point I'm on the verge of ditching it for political science instead. Math frightens me. I'm doing miserable Pre-Calc I right now and the requirements for econ are Calc I, Stats, Econometrics, and such horrific subjects. How much math is there in economics really?

 

[Dachs]

You're only in precalc? Lucky dog.

 

[silver 2039]

You're only in precalc? Lucky dog.

Its what I tested into unfortunately. I wish I had managed to test out of it. The less math I have to do in my life the better.

 

[Dachs]

Its what I tested into unfortunately. I wish I had managed to test out of it. The less math I have to do in my life the better.

As soon as you get beyond introductory macroeconomics and microeconomics, I can't see not doing math.

 

[Adrogans]

Yeah, once I moved past the 100's in Econ math piled up. Thankfully I don't mind math.

 

[North King]

You're only in precalc? Lucky dog.

Are you joking? Calc is a lot easier than pre-calc, IMHO.

 

[silver 2039]

As soon as you get beyond introductory macroeconomics and microeconomics, I can't see not doing math.

I used my transfer credits from IB for both. Turns out I can't take any more Econ courses until I've taken Calc. So I'm almost certainly going to ditch my original idea of an Economics major. Political Science FTW!! Perhaps with a history or labor studies minor.