Comments on: Fuckwits http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Thu, 24 May 2012 18:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stephen http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/comment-page-1/#comment-13236 Stephen Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:20:26 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/#comment-13236 Principles are principles. Newton's work was published a couple of years before the Moon landings, but the math proved perfectly capable. And if you think there were no futures markets in those days, think again. Our forebears may not have had our technology, but they were not therefore unsophisticated idiots. Principles are principles. Newton’s work was published a couple of years before the Moon landings, but the math proved perfectly capable. And if you think there were no futures markets in those days, think again. Our forebears may not have had our technology, but they were not therefore unsophisticated idiots.

]]> By: Matthew http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/comment-page-1/#comment-13232 Matthew Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:50:11 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/#comment-13232 The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, I'm not sure it is fully up to speed with what's happening in futures markets. The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, I’m not sure it is fully up to speed with what’s happening in futures markets.

]]> By: Matthew http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/comment-page-1/#comment-13186 Matthew Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:23:18 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/#comment-13186 When you assert: Speculators smooth out prices over time….they move shortages and gluts and the associated price rises and falls intertemporally, something that we all rather desire should happen. what are you basing that on? I've been doing some research into academic studies and I don't really find that many which are so certain on the issue. Tim adds: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. In the discussions about speculators and the price of corn. It really ain't a new idea. When you assert:

Speculators smooth out prices over time….they move shortages and gluts and the associated price rises and falls intertemporally, something that we all rather desire should happen.

what are you basing that on? I’ve been doing some research into academic studies and I don’t really find that many which are so certain on the issue.

Tim adds: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. In the discussions about speculators and the price of corn. It really ain’t a new idea.

]]> By: Kay Tie http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/comment-page-1/#comment-13180 Kay Tie Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:07:53 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/#comment-13180 "Enforcing their draconian rules to get us to recycle ,and their stupidity in collection policy, they are actually causing _more_ damage to the environment." It's not about the environment, is it? That's just a convenient excuse to get us to obey the orders of the central command. Obeying orders is the end itself. “Enforcing their draconian rules to get us to recycle ,and their stupidity in collection policy, they are actually causing _more_ damage to the environment.”

It’s not about the environment, is it? That’s just a convenient excuse to get us to obey the orders of the central command. Obeying orders is the end itself.

]]> By: IanCroydon http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/comment-page-1/#comment-13179 IanCroydon Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:55:56 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/06/01/fuckwits/#comment-13179 Where the plot gets lost on Greens is how they forget the goal is to reduce energy usage and emissions, best served by eliminating the trip to the dump by using personal transport. Reducing the regular un-recycled waste collection, and limiting recycled waste collections, combined with the fascist penalties on "bins too full" legislation, will inevitably generate _more_ journeys to waste disposal sites, thus more energy use and more emissions, in addition to that generated by the council. Enforcing their draconian rules to get us to recycle ,and their stupidity in collection policy, they are actually causing _more_ damage to the environment. Where the plot gets lost on Greens is how they forget the goal is to reduce energy usage and emissions, best served by eliminating the trip to the dump by using personal transport.

Reducing the regular un-recycled waste collection, and limiting recycled waste collections, combined with the fascist penalties on “bins too full” legislation, will inevitably generate _more_ journeys to waste disposal sites, thus more energy use and more emissions, in addition to that generated by the council.

Enforcing their draconian rules to get us to recycle ,and their stupidity in collection policy, they are actually causing _more_ damage to the environment.

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