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ZetrOZ Inc. and the U.S. Army Military Health Command Announce $150,000 Grant to Study Sustained Acoustic Medicine (sam®) Technology for Accelerated Wound Healing.November 3, 2014
The tangible benefits of a university's research are extraordinary. When Cornell faculty teach and perform services for the community within their domain of expertise, we immediately understand these benefits.
But when Cornell faculty conduct research and that research materializes into a cure for a disease, a better medical procedure, a new green product, or a faster and more compact computer, we connect with the extraordinary potential of academic research.More
ZetrOZ Inc. and the U.S. Army Military Health Command Announce $150,000 Grant to Study Sustained Acoustic Medicine (sam®) Technology for Accelerated Wound Healing.November 3, 2014
HµREL, a world-leading provider of in vitro liver models and microfluidic assay platforms that improve the predictive reliability of pre-clinical drug development, today announced that Johnston Associates, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey has become a participating investor in the Company's Series A-3 Preferred Stock financing.October 9, 2014
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Blue Bomber Report Record: 7–11–0
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Bombers' goal is to win, not audition quarterbacks
EVEN if you've had it up to here with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' quarterback quandary, it's still the compelling storyline this week.
Buck Pierce is out, Joey Elliott is banged up, Alex Brink is OK and Justin Goltz is waiting in the wings.
If Elliott is too banged up to start on Saturday in the last regular-season game against the 11-6 Montreal Alouettes, a game that is meaningless save for the fact it is expected to be the last Bombers game at Canad Inns Stadium, would Bombers head coach Tim Burke start Goltz?
Not likely, Burke said as he spoke with media on Monday at Canad Inns Stadium. Burke said he's not going to turn the game into one giant audition for jobs that will change over the winter anyway.
"Our goal is to win the game, that's our No. 1 goal," Burke said. "Guys who haven't played, we're not going to play them just to see if they can play. We're going to play the best guys that we have left on our team who can win a football game for us."
Burke said Pierce is a definite scratch for the last game of 2012 with a shoulder injury and, since Elliott is questionable after being "banged in the knee" in last week's 28-18 loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, third-string pivot Alex Brink would be next in line to start.
He said Goltz will see the field against the Alouettes.
"If Joey can't go, or if he's banged up, it'll be Alex," Burke said, noting Elliott will miss today's practice. "If (Elliott's) banged up where he's going to have some mobility problems, he would be in a backup role," Burke said.
" (Goltz) will get some (playing time). He'll definitely run our wildcat package for sure this week. We might throw him in there in some other downs."
As the 5-12 Bombers were eliminated from post-season play after last Saturday's loss to the Tiger-Cats, Burke said his message to the players this week will be to not squander their last chance this season to work together as a team.
"There's going to be some change," he said. "There'll be draft picks added that'll make the team, there'll be guys brought in that'll make the team, there might be guys who decide not to come back who are free agents. Obviously, the coaching situation is in flux at this point in time.
"This is the last chance for us as a team to... play together and do it for each other. So that's going to be my message."
Oh, and one more thing. Burke said "yeah, we might" when asked if quarterback RJ Archer could come off the practice roster for the game.
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Burn The Maps - The Frames
- Band Name: The Frames
- Record Label: Anti
- Release Date: Feb 8, 2005
- Summary: This is the first studio disc in four years for the Irish quartet, who are massively popular in their native country.
- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
Positive: 11 out of 17
Mixed: 6 out of 17
Negative: 0 out of 17
Meticulous recording, layered songwriting, and a little bit of "special effects" turns a bunch of good songs into a great album. [#9, p.70]
An overwhelming record that bends and blusters with grand passions, bittersweet beauty and no small hint of desperation. [Apr 2005, p.98]
Some of these exercises in frustration are simply frustrating, but for the most part, The Frames' perverse restraint matches Hansard's lyrics, which are all about lowered expectations.
Once a means to subvert pop/rock formula, the band's abruptly shifting dynamics have themselves become formulaic. [#67, p.97]
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Positive: 21 out of 25
Mixed: 2 out of 25
Negative: 2 out of 25
GerFeb 26, 2005Pure brilliance, a fantastic album!
MarekIMar 29, 2005Just more then great album!
HeinMay 3, 2006Very Good!
JohnPJan 4, 2006The best album I've come across in a long while.
LouisFJun 14, 2005The first 3 tracks reveal a unique melodic identity and a sense of progression and intensity, thanks to the great production and Glen Hansard's presence. But track 4 comes as a pain in the ears with its agressing chords and deliberate minimalism. The other 2 bad tracks are Fake (a cheap arena rocker trying to hide itself under unconventional breaks and shifts) and Underglass (which just doesn't sound right and is awkwardly placed). It's too bad, because these three songs break the flow, Trying and Sideways Down being two excellent pieces placed between very average tracks. Happily, the last 4 tracks are all very interesting experiments or successful appliances of convention. In short, this record with tracks 4, 6 and 7 removed would've made for a beautiful, sincere and fluid listening. Skip the bad ones and it's so much better.… Expand
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Everything You Wanted To Say About The Ground Zero Mosque, But Where Afraid To Say It
Pat Condell says it for you: (more…)
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"Let me be clear." Uh oh. If you've been following this Presidency at all you know that those words almost always signal that he is about to utter a very
The primary responsibility of The President of The United States is to, "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution." A responsibility that Barack Obama not only has neglected but constantly uses
'Inner Muslim' is a term which has increasingly been applied with regard to Barack Hussein Obama. His latest exploit into anti-Americanism, by hiding behind 'religious tolerance', has drawn justifiable outrage
The mere idea of building a mosque near Ground Zero is totally repugnant, so long as the potential taint of a tie to radical Islam remains. Some of the same
There are a lot of things being said about the Ground Zero Mosque. Should it stay, or should it go? Answering that question all depends on who you ask. You
On Friday 8/3/2010, speaking from Governor's Island, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of NYC, gave his support to the construction of a mosque a mere 600 feet from Ground Zero, stating opponents
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If we have learned nothing else from the Islamic Terrorist Attacks on the Twin Towers Sept. 11, 2001, we should have learned this: THE MUSLIM PEOPLE CANNOT BE TRUSTED. I
If you are a believer in that God draws straight with crooked lines, then it only stands to reason that Allah has cleared a path for where the monies for
While no one is alleging that the Muslims behind the mosque project are involved in the jihad against the United States, given the history of Ground Zero, it is enormously
It is unfortunate that Steve Chapman posted his disingenuous-Sarah-Palin-bashing piece disguised as a treatise on religious freedom over at Townhall.com today. He uses the straw man argument of" Muslim neighborhood
On Sunday Sarah Palin, exhibiting common sense and courage of her convictions, called for a rejection of the planned mosque at Ground Zero. The planned mosque has been causing controversy,
On Sunday Sarah Palin, exhibiting common sense and courage of her convictions, called for a rejection of the planned mosque at Ground Zero. The planned mosque has been causing controversy,


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Guys I have been playing this game from nearly 3 yrs. I mostly play in NA servers coz when I started playing this game there were just 2 servers NA n EU (I think only NA actually not sure). Recently, I've seen many new servers coming up. So, just wanted to know whether u guys have any plans to start a new server in India or alteast China. China is our neighbour. Thats something better than nothing. I currently play with 300+ ping and that really hurts. Im stuck at 1200 elo . Playing skill shot champs is a nightmare with this ping and even others is really hard. Well if u have no current plans of starting a new server pls let me know the best one for me. I'm not able to choose between EU Nordic & East and Turkey.
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http://lol.garena.com/playnow.php This is the Best server for India. north india is around 110 ping/ and south India ping is like 50
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Senior Member
i dont think so .. ping will low ...we need a server i think ... :C
You third world creeps just can't help yourself. I actually feel sorry for raped Indian women and I hate ALL Indians with a passion. Australians hate Indians being in Australia (you don't belong at all in Australia) and with all of the rapes and whatever else, this is only going to get a lot worse for you hideous creatures.
To all Indians: stay in India and rape your own kind.
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LMQ Tc Haofish
China do have a server. Well many servers tbh. 1 server for every province. GL reading chinese doe. #AsianPride
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Big PictureThe aim of this Twenty20 series was to provide a different festive spirit, if Cricket South Africa (CSA) are to be believed. They doused the flames of the furore they caused when they cancelled the traditional Boxing Day Test and promised that three T20s in a week would provide more entertainment given the opposition. (Don't tell anyone but they were also hoping for more money, which is unlikely now that the national broadcaster has made CSA settle for a significantly smaller fee).
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They can take comfort in the knowledge that South Africa are in a similar position. Four rookies have been included in the 15-man squad and even the rest are not overly experienced. Of the group, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel have played the most number of T20s for the country but both will be rested during the series.
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Form guideSouth Africa LLLWW (Completed games, most recent first)
In the spotlightThe much-hyped, recently turned 20-year-old Quinton de Kock will get the opportunity to live up to expectation. De Kock played for South Africa at the Under-19 World Cup this year and has been touted as the long-term wicketkeeping option. He has been inconsistent for Lions but flashes of brilliance have seen him get the nod. In the recently completed domestic one-day cup, de Kock scored one century but none of his other innings yielded more than 41 runs. His talent is not in doubt though.
With New Zealand hoping for their young players to step up, they may have forgotten about the importance of the senior men's contributions. Brendon McCullum will carry the heaviest burden as he looks to unite a seemingly fractured unit, move them past the Ross Taylor episode and ensure they compete against tough opposition. On top of that, he will also have to hold the batting line-up together and will be expected to be his usual explosive self at the crease.
Team newsSouth Africa could play all four of their new faces in the first match of the series. Quinton de Kock has been confirmed as the wicketkeeper in AB de Villiers' absence. Henry Davids is certain to open the batting with Richard Levi. Although Faf du Plessis would like to bat up the order, his experience will be needed in the middle. Chris Morris will contend for the allrounder's spot with Ryan McLaren while the bowling attack will comprise of two spinners, with left-armer Aaron Phangiso likely to debut, and Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Rory Kleinveldt vying for a place. Dale Steyn will feature in the first match but may be rested thereafter.
South Africa: (likely) 1 Richard Levi, 2 Henry Davids, 3 Quinton de Kock, 4 Faf du Plessis, 5 Farhaan Behardien, 6 David Miller, 7 Chris Morris/Ryan McLaren, 8 Robin Peterson, 9 Aaron Phangiso, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Lonwabo Tsotsobe/Rory Kleinveldt
New Zealand have indicated they will not field a similar XI to that which played in the practice match because they will have their experienced players coming in. Martin Guptill is likely to open the batting with Rob Nicol. The main competition for places is among the bowlers: Trent Boult and Doug Bracewell will contend with Michael Bates, Jimmy Neesham and Mitchell McClenaghan for spots. Colin Munro, who top-scored in the practice match, is likely to debut along with Corey Anderson and McClenaghan.
New Zealand: (likely) 1 Rob Nicol, 2 Peter Fulton/Martin Guptill, 3 Brendon McCullum, 4 James Franklin, 5 Colin Munro, 6 Corey Anderson, 7 Nathan McCullum, 8 Jimmy Neesham/Trent Boult, 9 Michael Bates/Doug Bracewell, 10 Mitchell McClenaghan, 11 Ronnie Hira
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Quotes"I think the pitch might have changed in nature. Maybe it is not as quick and bouncy as we are used to, maybe it's a little bit slower and the spinners seem to play more of a role. It has also been quite hot, so maybe it will be a little bit drier as well."
"The psychological advantage is not really there in this format so whoever plays the best cricket is going to win. It's the perfect opportunity to put a young player under pressure and see how they stand up against a Dale Steyn or Morne Morkel."
Shane Bond, New Zealand's bowling coach, believes the shortest format will level the playing field
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72253732014-11-25T14:26:53.999-05:00La Bocca della Verità"Let me be represented as one who trusts his senses, who thinks he knows the things he sees and feels, and entertains no doubts of their existence." -- Bishop BerkeleyGene firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-9750442889527390242014-11-25T12:01:00.002-05:002014-11-25T13:49:48.122-05:00The most common use for invoking "argument from authority" on the Internet
Is crank self-protection. In this video a mathematician calmly explains why 0! = 1. In the comments, some crank shows up and declares the mathematician doesn't know what he is talking about, and he has offered no evidence at all. When they guy won't listen to anything anyone says, people note, "Well, every mathematician in the world disagrees with you."

And of course he rolls out... "Appeal to authority."

But when someone is so obsessed with some bugbear that he can't grasp the simplest arguments for some point, an appeal to authority is a perfectly valid move.
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-52447489677416766142014-11-24T15:14:00.001-05:002014-11-24T15:14:48.272-05:00Jeremy Waldron on liberalismAccording to Waldron, liberalism rests on "a requirement that all aspects of the social should either be made acceptable or be capable of being made acceptable to every last individual" (quoted in Liberalism, Fawcett, p. 399).

Waldron gives us two conditions joined by an "or." The first one sounds impossible to me, while the second seems vacuous: anyone can assert that everyone ought to agree with their politics, even though they do not, if only other people were reasonable.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-70958675598232482412014-11-23T20:31:00.001-05:002014-11-25T13:47:24.197-05:00Headlines
The writing style of headlines is a frequent source of amusement. Language Log has often drawn water from this well. James Joyce famously cast one chapter of his novel Ulysses entirely in newspaper style, with many very comic takeoffs on the way headlines are written. My favorite headline from that chapter was "KMRIA," which was short for, "Kiss my royal Irish arse."

Tonight I had occasion to recall a headline I once read in a tech publication in the late 1980s: "Sun Eyes Apple Gains." (Sun Microsystems was a major computer-market player at that time.)

Imagine if we could send messages back in time, and we sent that headline to someone in 1960, and asked them to guess what it meant.
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-76857851923676939312014-11-21T21:22:00.001-05:002014-11-22T18:30:13.662-05:00Why I try to explain how historical investigation actually proceedsI posted a quote about the vitality of the High Middle Ages. The person quoted, Robert Bartlett, is Professor of Medieval History at St. Andrews. The book I am quoting won a top history prize. He has written several other books on the Middle Ages, and produced a number of BBC documentaries on the period. And he has spent the last 40 years of his life studying this period. He has spent that time pouring over original documents from the era, and tracking the work of other historians working on the era and of archaeologists excavating the period. He almost certainly can read original documents in at least Latin, middle English, old French, and Italian.

He notes that the High Middle Ages were a period of intense creativity. After I posted that quote, several commenters showed up. One says that he prefers the view of the Middle Ages that he learned when he was young. But this view did not change because, with a given set of facts, historians simply decided to put a different spin on them. Historians do not start with facts, they start with evidence, and deduce the facts based on that evidence. And their understanding of what the facts were has changed based on a wealth of evidence about that time.

Another commentor asks why, if the High Middle Ages were really so vital, did they simply accept what Aristotle had written centuries before on his authority? The answer is that they did not do so. Aristotle's works were lost to Western Europe for many centuries. But as soon as they were rediscovered, although he was recognized as a genius, his works were being critiqued and his conclusions modified. For instance, Buridan and Oresme developed a new theory of motion, that essentially was a halfway point between Aristotle's theory and Newton's. In fact, the Scientific Revolution was well underway in the High Middle Ages. (See, for instance, Grant's The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: note that I am not here citing some fringe work putting forth a questionable thesis like a book that claims the Chinese discovered America: this is a standard work assigned in advanced history of science classes around the world.)

But if that is true, then what happened? Well, it was a little thing called the plague. Europeans in the Late Middle Ages had little attention to devote to science, as they were quite busy dying in droves. by the time you're up recovered, there were "new men" on the scene: the humanists. They reacted against the learning of the High Middle Ages -- not without some justification, as no age is perfect and every one has its characteristic errors -- but, as with most reactions, they went too far. They threw out the baby with the bathwater, and said we must start over again from the Greeks and Romans. So Galileo had to reinitiate the mathematization of physics, which had already been occurring in the Middle Ages. Descartes had to reformulate "Cogito ergo sum," which had already been formulated in the Middle Ages. Napier had to rediscover logarithms, which had already been discovered in the Middle Ages. Francis Bacon had to reassert the importance of empirical investigation, which had been pointed out centuries before by Roger Bacon.

With the Protestant Reformation and the political movement led by the philosophes against the Catholic Church (and by the way, Samson, "philosophes" does not mean the same thing as "philosophers"), this history became politicized. It served the interest of both groups to portray the Middle Ages as a period of unbroken intellectual ignorance. And so arose the myth of the stagnant Middle Ages, which 100 years of historical scholarship has barely been able to budge in the popular imagination.

But back to my original topic: it is the popular misunderstanding of what historians do that leads my commenters to reject their findings based on what they learned from a high school textbook or a TV show featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson. If the facts are simply what is written in old books, and all historians do is invent interpretations for them, then why can't I invent my own interpretation?

But that is not at all how historians work. What was written down at some time may be self-serving propaganda, mistaken memories, or simply a lack of understanding on the part of the writer of what was really occurring. Historians use this evidence that did survive to ferret out the facts of a past that has not survived. Augustus claimed that he was restoring the Roman Republic, but we know that he in fact was ending it, not because of what was written at the time, but because of what historians have concluded based on the evidence surviving from that time. The claims of Augustus were propaganda.

Imagine someone rejecting all of quantum mechanics, because in school he had learned the Bohr model of the atom as a little solar system, because he learned it in school, and he really likes it. Surely, anyone who is passingly familiar with modern physics would tell him, "But there has been a massive amount of evidence unearthed that demonstrates that that model is too simple!"

But, when it comes to history, the idea that it is merely the historian's interpretation of "given" facts blocks such humility when confronted with new historical findings.

Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-63823313806936206542014-11-21T18:57:00.001-05:002014-11-21T18:57:19.181-05:00Those dreary, stagnant Middle Ages"and from the 11th century until the slump and crisis of the 14th and 15th centuries stretch the High Middle Ages, and epoch of economic growth, territorial expansion and dynamic cultural and social change.

"The vitality of European society between the late 10th and early 14th centuries can be seen in many spheres of life. The scale and speed of production and distribution were transformed: the population grew, the cultivated area expanded, urbanization and commercialization restructured economic and social life. Alongside the spread of money, and of banking and business devices, there developed in some areas a level of manufacturing activity that had never previously been attained. The same creativity is found in social organization. in many areas of life fundamental institutions and structures were given their decisive shape in the centuries: the incorporated town, the university, central representative bodies, the international orders of the Roman Catholic Church--all date from this epoch." -- Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe, p. 2

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While compiling a book review resume, I found online versions of reviews of mine of two books on Galileo, and one on Kepler.
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-55620133480348264002014-11-20T09:06:00.001-05:002014-11-20T09:06:30.214-05:00Practice and science
Ken B., this may make clearer what I have been saying about the relationship of the historical investigation and practical concerns.

Imagine that I am motivated to study computer science in order to get a high-paying job, or in order to impress the smart girl in my computer science class. While one of these factors may motivate my study, it should be clear that neither my plan to get a high-paying job or my dream of dating the girl are any part of computer science itself. And if I actually want to get the job or date the girl by this means, at some point I had better stop paying attention to the job market or the girl and start paying attention to computer science.

So it is with history: of course, an historian may be motivated to study some episode in the past because of some present concern. But if that historian actually wants to understand what occurred in the past, at some point, he must set his concern with the present matter aside, and focus upon the past.
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-31544203414017963612014-11-20T08:10:00.005-05:002014-11-20T08:42:11.486-05:00Formalizing Fukuyama
Fukuyama posits a tripartite model of good government: it balances a strong state, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. It seems we might make a trigonometric model of government types to formalize this. We take the element of the three that is strongest, say, the rule of law, and make that hypotenuse. Then the relative strength of that factor and the two remaining ones can be expressed with the trigonometric functions. So we could say, for instance, that the sine of mainland China is much greater than that of Nigeria (depending, of course, on which other leg we put a strong state and which democratic accountability).

And, of course, if we venture into generalized trigonometry, we can even drop the requirement that we pick out a hypotenuse, and deal with all possible relationships between the three factors.

In any case, that is what I woke up thinking about this morning
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-12511923438917140322014-11-20T07:48:00.003-05:002014-11-20T08:19:34.354-05:00Sometimes, you just haven't been noticed
I just found 19 unposted comments in my queue. For some reason, some comments get placed in my spam bucket instead of my inbox, and I only see them when I go into Blogger. And how often I do that variously enormously based on my schedule: today, for instance, was the first time in at least a week I got a chance to do this.

But it does make for amusing moments: today I discovered that "Robert," responding to my post discussing Bob Roddis's comments at Murphy's blog (so I am assuming "Robert" is Roddis) had an entire argument with me, in which he became increasingly angry, and finally wound up calling me a "pathetic piece of sh*t," without my knowing he had ever posted anything.

The disturbed are perfectly capable of working themselves into a rage all on their own, without any involvement by a second party.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-8284385162607111622014-11-20T00:39:00.002-05:002014-11-20T00:39:56.641-05:00For your reading pleasure
A great post from Adam Ozimek.
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Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-51323234127711238982014-11-18T03:42:00.001-05:002014-11-19T16:59:24.205-05:00The art of the book review
1) You will have many thoughts about topics brought up in the book, pet peeves about what the author claims, and opinions on the topics he discusses. These are an important part of your review, and give it its unique flavor. But your main job is to convey to your readers a sense of the book. Your unique insights on its subject matter should be like spices in a stew, and the bulk of your concoction should describe the book.

My favorite book reviewer who flouted this principle was Michael Oakeshott, who, when reviewing a book on topic X, would often spend the first 10% of his review noting that the author addresses X, the next 80% offering his view of X, and the last 10% discussing how the author's view fell short of his own.

But Oakeshott was a genius, and what he had to say on a topic was often more interesting than what the author under review had to say. We mortals should spend more time describing the book itself.

2) The table of contents is your friend! Keep referring to it. It will help structure your review, and alert you to important sections of the book you might be neglecting.
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-77307200875001440662014-11-15T14:21:00.000-05:002014-11-15T14:21:40.640-05:00Counter-Factual History

Reader Ken B. is puzzled: "I don't see how you can deny that without denying the use of historical counterfactuals in toto."

First of all, to be very clear, no one is "denying the use" of anything in what follows, or in what went before. When I noted Fukuyama's remarks about "hijacking" the course of events, I was not trying to say he can't write like that: I was saying he is not writing as an historian when writing like that.

And in what follows, I draw heavily on Michael Oakeshott. He was once asked, by my PhD advisor, David Boucher, if his ideas meant it was illegitimate for historians to write certain things. Oakeshott responded that he had no interest in telling historians what to put in their books. What he was (and I am) interested in is conceptually identifying a certain attitude to the past we can term "historical."

And this is a very important point: Oakeshott made clear that there are pasts besides the historical past, which he identified as the past investigated in terms of what really did happen. A significant and different past he called "the practical past": this is a past from which we draw lessons concerning our present conundrums. Here are some things Oakeshott says about the practical past, all from his last work, On History:

"There are some well-known items which are so often used in the world outside that they may be said to be on permanent loan to the present of practical engagement. Here are Cain and Abel, Moses, Horatius, Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Athanasius at Nicaea, Canute on the seashore, King Arthur, Wilhelm Tell, Luther at Worms, Nelson putting his telescope to his blind eye at Copenhagen, Robin Hood, Captain Oates, Davy Crockett, and here is Colonel Custer making his last stand." (p. 44)

"Sometimes a search of this storehouse will you hold something more closely and usefully linked to our practical engagements. It may disclose a purported authority for doing what we want to do, a precedent for taking a certain course of action, a warning or encouragement...

"In short, the contents of the storehouse are altogether different from the recorded past of performances, artifacts and utterances, in which in historical inquiry begins. It is not a collection of exploits but of emblems; not evoked in the procedure of critical inquiry into the authentic character of a not-yet-understood survival, but merely recalled as unproblematic images; and valued, not for an historically understood past which may be inferred from them, but for their present usefulness." (p. 45)

"this collection of symbols is valued in respect of the support it may give to what it is recognized to be a desirable present a practical engagements, and what it is found to be valuable we may say that 'history is on our side.'" (p. 47)

"What I have called a practical past is, then, a present of objects recognize to have survived. It is an indispensable ingredient of an articulate civilized life. But it is categorically distinct from both the survivals which compose the present of an historical enquiry and from an historically understood past which may be inferred from them." (p. 48)

Once one understands the distinction Oakeshott is making, it is clear that counter-factual "history" is actually an element of the practical past: "If only Chamberlain had taken on Hitler earlier, World War II could have been avoided." This is trotted out repeatedly as a lesson for facing down some current dictator. But it is certainly not the conclusion of any historical investigation, since there is no historical evidence for events that didn't happen! That firmness on Chamberlain's part would have stopped Hitler is a practical, not a historical, judgment.

And, again, this does not mean that no historian should put such a judgment in her books!

Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-35583441157873291822014-11-15T11:00:00.001-05:002014-11-18T03:59:21.423-05:00Can liberalism tolerate non-liberals?
"What if modern people opted in large numbers to be bigots and racists?

"Bouglé turn to that question in 'The crisis of liberalism' (1902). The persistence of intolerance had come as a surprise... Dogmatic or sectarian relapses looked at worst as temporary, unsustainable deviations from liberal modernity's happy path. Recent trends had woken liberals with a jolt. They were at a loss. Should they open-mindedly 'tolerate intolerance' or use the powers of state to curtail racial and confessional prejudice?" -- Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, p. 168

The problem is, of course, unsolvable so long as liberals cling to the notion of liberalism being a "neutral framework." Liberalism is, in fact, its own value system, down on all fours, competing with every other one.
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-88360333058167533542014-11-15T07:05:00.001-05:002014-11-18T03:59:54.849-05:00Repeat after me: the government has no control over who pays taxes
Kevin Drum makes a common error:

"Does it matter that the working class barely pays for most of these programs in the first place, since their federal income taxes tend to be pretty low?"

The government can control from whom it collects taxes. It cannot control who pays them. That is determined on the market. As Caplan puts it, "Tax incidence depends on supply and demand elasticity, not legislative intent."

To take a simple example: Imagine you are a billionaire with a large domestic staff. You want to trust them, so you pay them a wage above the prevailing one. You're planning on giving them all large Christmas bonuses, when you read that a new tax law aimed at high CEO pay is going to cost you $50,000 this year. That happens to be the exact amount you were going to give out in Christmas bonuses, and so you decide simply to skip the bonuses this year.

The government purportedly aimed to tax high-wage CEOs, but in this particular instance, the entirety of the tax burden actually fell on low-wage domestic workers.

Or perhaps it did not even stop there: Perhaps your servants would have given their Christmas bonuses, if they had received them, to homeless shelters around the city. If that had been the case, the burden of the tax actually winds up falling on the homeless!

One consequence of understanding this is that one realizes our current, Byzantine tax code is absurd, and benefits no one but H&R Block and its ilk. Whatever level of resources the government is going to extract from the economy, it should be done with a minimum of fuss and bother. That is why I favor taxing land: you can't really hide it, so tax evasion and all the resources devoted to detecting tax evasion, disappear. And taxing this way would not pick on landowners, since the actual burden of the tax will get passed on by the market to wherever it winds up getting passed on to.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-13660216183013842652014-11-15T06:25:00.001-05:002014-11-15T06:25:14.624-05:00Pages befuddlement Pages does not seem to be able to get me a word count on my documents. How in the world is any professional writer supposed to use a word processor that does not give word counts? Basically, every book review I have ever written, I start out by writing one and a half to two times my maximum word limit. The last week of work I spend constantly trimming out and refining what I've got. I'm going back and checking my word count every half hour or so, to see how close I am getting to my goal.

Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-2377060130287601022014-11-14T18:15:00.002-05:002014-11-14T18:15:40.189-05:00Weird bug convergence
I have been using Apple's program Pages lately in an effort to make my Chromebook work as an editing platform. (Google Docs simply does not cut it: it wipes out all memory of MS Word styles when you convert a file to Google's format, and messes with the existing formatting tremendously.)

Not bad, so far: I am very happy with the fact I can now edit on my iPhone. But as a software engineer, I have found one great puzzle: I was always annoyed that whenever I tried to re-format a paragraph in my "blockquote" style, MS Word would "leak" the style change over into the previous or subsequent paragraphs. Bizarrely, Pages does the exact same thing!

Perhaps, in their effort to capture MS-Word-style logic, Apple engineers also imported the bug in MS Word?
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-12155015344535882262014-11-09T09:54:00.001-05:002014-11-18T04:00:22.456-05:00The course of events
From a historical perspective, there is no "course of events," other than what actually occurred, to be "interfered with" or "hijacked" by some "intervention." As Oakeshott noted, the actions of some monarch or pope were not "interferences" with the course of events: they were the course of events.

Generally when you see phrases like this, you are in the presence of partisanship. So, when Fukuyama says that democratic movements were "hijacked" by nationalists, what he means is that the actions of the nationalists are unfortunate from his point of view. When a modern libertarian claims that Progressives "hijacked" liberalism, all it really means is that he wishes liberalism had developed differently.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-78660131095387927882014-11-08T19:17:00.001-05:002014-11-10T12:11:35.998-05:00A surprising mistake from Fukuyama
"Having sat out World War I, [Japan] experienced a vigorous period of economic expansion..." -p. 347

In fact, Japan declared war on both Germany and Austro-Hungary in August 1914. It sank an Austro-Hungarian ship in the Far East, and seized several German territories in the area. In 1917, at the request of Britain, its navy ventured all the way to the Mediterranean, and provided escort services for troops of the Triple Entente. While this in no way constitutes participating to the extent that the major combatants did, it is also hardly "sitting out" a la Switzerland.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-54819396907101576452014-11-07T13:08:00.001-05:002014-11-18T04:00:55.255-05:00A model does not necessarily become more useful by being made more realistic
By default, Google maps on my iPhone offers me a satellite picture of the place I am trying to get to. I find this a ridiculous default choice: I am not interested in how tree covered the property in question is! I just want to see black lines on white space so I can figure out how to get there. And yet there is no doubt that the satellite view is more realistic than a typical street map.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-22134243985094518752014-11-07T12:02:00.001-05:002014-11-18T04:01:34.979-05:00Morgan on the economist's tacit knowledge
"Model-making is a skilled job. Perhaps it is not yet evident, but will become so in the chapters that follow, that learning how to portray elements in the economy, learning what will fit together, and how, in order to make the model work, are specialized talents using a tacit, craft-based, knowledge as much as an articulated, scientific, knowledge. It is not easy to pinpoint in any general way the skills of articulation and construction, or to see how economists acquire them except through apprenticeship." -- Mary Morgan, The World in the Model, p. 15

Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-50630490986060750382014-11-06T18:38:00.001-05:002014-11-06T18:38:32.286-05:00I'm with Fukuyama on this pointIn a discussion of how the American system of checks-and-balances and federalism produces wildly inefficient legislation, Fukuyama notes that: "Congress created fifty-one separate programs for worker retraining, and eighty-two projects to improve teacher quality." (p. 497)

I have been making this point even before reading this latest work of Fukuyama's. But he has an interesting perspective on why this occurs.

The problem appears to me as a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma (see Schelling). To take an example: whatever level of taxation one prefers, from zero all the way up to 90% tax brackets for the very rich, it is surely preferable for everyone (except tax accountants) that the level of taxation that winds up being chosen be collected as efficiently as possible. You might hate paying 40% of your income to the taxman, but if you were going to do so, surely you would like to do so without having to undergo a lot of work on your own part in order to pay that tax, right? But the American political system, as it operates today, seems designed to collect 40% of your income in the most complicated way possible. And as I have noted in reference to the ACA, we could have gotten much more widespread coverage with a bill that simply said, "If your income is below X, The government will pay for your health insurance." Even if you oppose all welfare redistribution policies, I think you ought to prefer one that redistributes with a minimum of bother, rather than one that redistributes with a maximum of bother.

My own preference would be for worker-retraining and teacher-improvement programs to be implemented at a much more local level (the importance of local knowledge: see Hayek, as well as Catholic social thought on subsidiarity). The federal government should intervene in these issues only to the extent that it redistributes some tax revenues from the richer to the poorest states, to allow the poorer states the resources to implement these goals. But if these things are going to be handled at the federal level, I would much prefer Congress authorized a single agency to deal with each, and empowered that agency to do so.

Fukuyama contends that these legislative Rube Goldberg devices we create arise primarily from the way our system of checks-and-balances and federalism have worked out in practice: multiple branches, agencies, and levels of government are involved with almost every political issue in the United States. Rather than working to limit government, as the founders had intended, this multiplicity of authorities has served to create a byzantine government.

Hmm, I wonder if anyone has recently authored a book contending that the rationalist design of the American founders could never have worked out in practice in they way they intended it to?

Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-46906560827535393812014-11-05T22:43:00.001-05:002014-11-05T22:43:32.184-05:00Anarcho-capitalists provide their own reductios of their theoryThis one is from Bob Roddis, in the comment section of Bob Murphy's blog:

"What do we do about the drug problem? Answer: druggies could be prohibited from driving on private roads and entering private neighborhoods and schools.

"What do we do about the porn problem? Answer: porn producers and consumers could be prohibited from driving on private roads and entering private neighborhoods and schools.

"What do we do about the problem of religious fanatics that won't let us smoke dope? Answer: anti-drug fanatics could be prohibited from driving on private roads and entering private neighborhoods and schools.

"As a bonus, everyone will be safe, secure and prosperous."

But, in ancapistan, every road in neighborhood will be private, so "druggies," pornographers, and religious fanatics will be prohibited from going anywhere. Which, of course, will be a death sentence for them.

So, in the new, "liberal," world of ancapistan, to do drugs, produce pornography, or be a religious fanatic gets you a death sentence. But at least you will have "voluntarily" agreed to your own death sentence.

"Everyone" will be safe, secure, and prosperous, except if the ancaps don't like you. (Note that for Hoppe, the people who wouldn't be allowed to drive on private roads would include anyone advocating democracy or wealth redistribution.)
Gene Callahanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-3633127033378992822014-11-05T22:22:00.001-05:002014-11-18T04:02:31.610-05:00Models *stand in* for the reality they are modeling
"Economists (just like their astronomer forebears) understand that a model stands in for their economic universe to enable them to explore certain properties of that world represented in the model." -- Mary Morgan, The World in the Model, p. 33 (emphasis mine)

The models of physics are no different: they stand in for certain properties of the real world, and allow us to study them in abstract isolation.
Gene Callahanhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-19412384463184072452014-11-05T21:56:00.001-05:002014-11-18T04:02:59.673-05:00Models are like caricatures
Mary Morgan, in her book The World in the Model, likens models to caricatures, and offers the following graphic during her discussion:

That this process of caricature is interesting and informative I do not doubt: I am no critic of caricatures or of models! Seeing Louis Philippe as a pear, and seeing the world as simply an interrelated system of mathematical equations, are each interesting perspectives.

But if someone asks me if caricature of Louis Philippe as a pear is perhaps not the actual cause of the real Louis Philippe, who is a sort of cognitive illusion, I must admit I am so flabbergasted that I hardly know how to reply.

I spent several years modeling options in the financial markets. The programs I wrote to do that made a fair number of traders a good deal of money. but imagine their surprise if, one day when their actual trading lost money, I told him that this was of no regard: my models were the real thing, and those models had made money, and the traders' feeling that they had lost money that day was merely a subjective experience.
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