Comments on: The inflated http://www.greaterfool.ca/2009/08/26/the-inflated/ Book and Weblog - Authored by Garth Turner Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Manitoban http://www.greaterfool.ca/2009/08/26/the-inflated/comment-page-4/#comment-40819 Manitoban Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:10:49 +0000 http://www.greaterfool.ca/?p=3298#comment-40819 Garth, this is off topic and need not be posted. It may be wise for you to simply delete it and I certainly will not be offended. The e mail partially quoted is also an invitation to my immediate family to attend a general welcoming reunion for a 61 yr old very distant cousin and his 58 yr old wife from “Argenton sur mere” in France. (my great grand father and his great grand mother were siblings) My mother(1st Canadian born of this family in the year 1900) first visited France in 1912 and brought back pictures of his great grand father, she next returned to France in 1960 and a few more times before her passing in 1973.In the early 50’s one of my sisters had spent a couple of years in France and had befriended this cousin’s mother. 2 of my brothers and their wives also visited with his parents and his family of 4 children both in the 80’s and 90’s. Since your blog SI of Aug. 21 their has been a remarkable increase in civility and including your blog “The inflated of Aug.26” each appears to me as becoming better & better reads with an increased comment participation I think. I know that you would be even more aware of it than I can possibly be. In any case I wish to thank you and the readers for these improvements in quality which also help improve my own quality of life. This week end, I am sending an e mail which in part says the following, and similar missives will be forwarded to the families of 47 of 83 living 1st cousins on my father’s side (average age 76 ranging in ages 95-61, average age of 36 deceased was 68, average age of the 13 parents of the 83 was 76 at time of death.) To my brothers, sisters, children, nephews, nieces, grand children, great nieces and great nephews. I am told, and accept with a positive attitude which I intend to maintain as long as I can, that my cancer cannot be cured. All I can tell you at the moment is  that I feel well, eat well, and sleep between 7-8 uninterrupted hours each night with the help of 8 endocet pain killers daily and even more important my continued ability to keep up with my hobby of family historian of facts only. No secrets are being recorded here, rumors remain unwelcome. I’m still accepting pictures to make totally new family pictorial trees as well as adding to existing trees due to new children or marriages or just changes to record a death in both my family records and the Pictorial trees. Make my days easier to take, with piling up of info, pictures and any questions you may wish to ask. Some of you may have loosed information and pictures that I previously sent to you due to computer crashes or any other reason. Ask away, all of it is at my finger tips and can be supplied to you in seconds, minutes at most as long as I’m sitting at my computer. Keep me there, PLEASE. With all my love, yours Jean-Louis.   <em>Thank you for the kind comments, Jean-Louis. Your eloquent words and brave, true spirit remind us all of what is important. You will stay in my thoughts. -- Garth</em> Garth, this is off topic and need not be posted. It may be wise for you to simply delete it and I certainly will not be offended. The e mail partially quoted is also an invitation to my immediate family to attend a general welcoming reunion for a 61 yr old very distant cousin and his 58 yr old wife from “Argenton sur mere” in France. (my great grand father and his great grand mother were siblings) My mother(1st Canadian born of this family in the year 1900) first visited France in 1912 and brought back pictures of his great grand father, she next returned to France in 1960 and a few more times before her passing in 1973.In the early 50’s one of my sisters had spent a couple of years in France and had befriended this cousin’s mother. 2 of my brothers and their wives also visited with his parents and his family of 4 children both in the 80’s and 90’s.
Since your blog SI of Aug. 21 their has been a remarkable increase in civility and including your blog “The inflated of Aug.26” each appears to me as becoming better & better reads with an increased comment participation I think. I know that you would be even more aware of it than I can possibly be. In any case I wish to thank you and the readers for these improvements in quality which also help improve my own quality of life. This week end, I am sending an
e mail which in part says the following, and similar missives will be forwarded to the families of 47 of 83 living 1st cousins on my father’s side (average age 76 ranging in ages 95-61, average age of 36 deceased was 68, average age of the 13 parents of the 83 was 76 at time of death.)
To my brothers, sisters, children, nephews, nieces, grand children, great nieces and great nephews.

I am told, and accept with a positive attitude which I intend to maintain as long as I can, that my cancer cannot be cured. All I can tell you at the moment is  that I feel well, eat well, and sleep between 7-8 uninterrupted hours each night with the help of 8 endocet pain killers daily and even more important my continued ability to keep up with my hobby of family historian of facts only. No secrets are being recorded here, rumors remain unwelcome. I’m still accepting pictures to make totally new family pictorial trees as well as adding to existing trees due to new children or marriages or just changes to record a death in both my family records and the Pictorial trees. Make my days easier to take, with piling up of info, pictures and any questions you may wish to ask. Some of you may have loosed information and pictures that I previously sent to you due to computer crashes or any other reason. Ask away, all of it is at my finger tips and can be supplied to you in seconds, minutes at most as long as I’m sitting at my computer. Keep me there, PLEASE.
With all my love, yours Jean-Louis.  

Thank you for the kind comments, Jean-Louis. Your eloquent words and brave, true spirit remind us all of what is important. You will stay in my thoughts. — Garth

]]> By: Vancouver_bear http://www.greaterfool.ca/2009/08/26/the-inflated/comment-page-4/#comment-40698 Vancouver_bear Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:45:02 +0000 http://www.greaterfool.ca/?p=3298#comment-40698 #126 Nostradamus jr. on 08.27.09 at 5:48 pm Is this the face of your elitiest city? I wonder what other illegal activity your "elite" with perversions is upto? Former exec sentenced for possessing child porn http://news1130.com/more.jsp?content=20090828_131922_10232 #126 Nostradamus jr. on 08.27.09 at 5:48 pm

Is this the face of your elitiest city?
I wonder what other illegal activity your “elite” with perversions is upto?

Former exec sentenced for possessing child porn

http://news1130.com/more.jsp?content=20090828_131922_10232

]]> By: jess http://www.greaterfool.ca/2009/08/26/the-inflated/comment-page-4/#comment-40689 jess Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:50:29 +0000 http://www.greaterfool.ca/?p=3298#comment-40689 http://www.worldfinance.com/news/worldnews/usa/ "The US world of business regulation is run by lawyers, and lawyers it is said, like rules. They are clear, and they encourage innovation, because anything not strictly forbidden by a rule is deemed to be okay. In the UK, and in many other jurisdictions around the world, the preference is for principles. American business has traditionally turned its nose up at this approach, but attitudes are now changing. US financial watchdogs are starting to take the view that their rules-based approach is not going to work for much longer, if indeed it works now. In recent years, the sheer volume of corporate rules and regulations created in the US has grown enormously. Partly that is a response to financial scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and the rest. Partly it’s an effort to keep up with innovations in the financial markets, where banks and other institutions continually churn out new products that don’t look like anything else in the regulatory rulebook. Principles-based approach The most prominent regulator to come out in favour of principles rather than rules, is Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. He used a recent speech to argue in favour of developing a UK-style, principles-based approach to US financial market regulation, rather than creating new rules for each new financial instrument or institution." http://www.worldfinance.com/news/worldnews/usa/
“The US world of business regulation is run by lawyers, and lawyers it is said, like rules. They are clear, and they encourage innovation, because anything not strictly forbidden by a rule is deemed to be okay. In the UK, and in many other jurisdictions around the world, the preference is for principles. American business has traditionally turned its nose up at this approach, but attitudes are now changing.

US financial watchdogs are starting to take the view that their rules-based approach is not going to work for much longer, if indeed it works now. In recent years, the sheer volume of corporate rules and regulations created in the US has grown enormously. Partly that is a response to financial scandals such as Enron, WorldCom and the rest. Partly it’s an effort to keep up with innovations in the financial markets, where banks and other institutions continually churn out new products that don’t look like anything else in the regulatory rulebook.

Principles-based approach
The most prominent regulator to come out in favour of principles rather than rules, is Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. He used a recent speech to argue in favour of developing a UK-style, principles-based approach to US financial market regulation, rather than creating new rules for each new financial instrument or institution.”

]]> By: Calgary_rip_off http://www.greaterfool.ca/2009/08/26/the-inflated/comment-page-4/#comment-40646 Calgary_rip_off Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:22:15 +0000 http://www.greaterfool.ca/?p=3298#comment-40646 Bill: Yes Black Star is easy. All Yngwie's stuff is difficult due to timing paradoxes. Fast, but not fast. He's in time but he isnt. The theory is easy. Timing not. Bill:

Yes Black Star is easy. All Yngwie’s stuff is difficult due to timing paradoxes. Fast, but not fast. He’s in time but he isnt. The theory is easy. Timing not.

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