The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

I thought Tokyo had very strict regulations about blocking sunlight to other buildings.

I've never heard of it.
And Tokyo isn't Japan.
Cities there seem to be a free for all of build whatever you want wherever you want. They've utterly destroyed most cities with this thinking and the resulting donutting.

[Jacob]

I thought Tokyo had very strict regulations about blocking sunlight to other buildings.

I've never heard of it.
And Tokyo isn't Japan.
Cities there seem to be a free for all of build whatever you want wherever you want. They've utterly destroyed most cities with this thinking and the resulting donutting.

So you don't actually know anything about zoning and planning in Japan? You just conclude that it's a free for all based on the fact that... you don't like the results?

In case you're interested, here's a primer on zoning in Japan: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.ca/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

[The Minsky Moment]

Not really.  Keynes focused on deficit spending compensating for a shortfall in aggregate demand.  AFAIK he didn't even look at how the deficit is spent.

He did but it often gets lost because the bit about burying and digging up old bars made such a good sound bite. 

[Josquius]

That still seems a bit of a free for all. Like something from Sim City.

[Jacob]

That still seems a bit of a free for all. Like something from Sim City.

Sure, but "seems a bit free for all" is not the same as "build whatever you want wherever you want."

[Sheilbh]

Our planning laws are too strict.
But then there's Japan where they pretty much don't exist.

I think they're too strict. But then I go to France, Italy or Spain and I'm rather glad we have them.

[Admiral Yi]

The Yuropean Space Agency has put a lander, launched 10 years ago, on the surface of a comet.

Good work boys and girls.

[Admiral Yi]

First images will reach Earth in a half hour.

[Jacob]

Yeah, it's pretty cool

[Sheilbh]

The ESA is based in Darmstadt which I like a lot. I hope their lift music is Stockhausen

[The Brain]

Better late than never.

[Syt]

The ESA is based in Darmstadt which I like a lot. I hope their lift music is Stockhausen

Darm is German for intestine.

[Ideologue]

"The light from this comet originated when Europeans could still waste money on frivolous pure research."

[Tamas]

I might have two Gaslight Anthem tickets of their London gig on the 19th of November for sale. Will know for sure tomorrow. Anyone interested?

[MadImmortalMan]

The market has been going down since CNBC became obsessed with a couple window washers stuck on the side of the WTC. News is brain poison.