The Off Topic Topic

[Capetan Mihali]

Marx was hesitant endorse the Paris Commune, for Christ's sake, and Kautsky was *the* major Marxist opponent of the Bolshevik Revolution/USSR, with Lenin branding him a "renegade."

[The Minsky Moment]

... how so?  In both cases, the source of the income isn't the sale of the harvest?

Rentier refers to deriving income from interest and dividends.

Tricky to make that distinction.  Noble landowners were perfectly willing to diversify their holdings with gilts, whereas merchants and bankers would commonly cap their careers by putting their capital into land.  Eg. David Ricardo who turned his stockbroking fortune into a country estate (and an appointment as high sheriff). 

[Valmy]

Tricky to make that distinction.  Noble landowners were perfectly willing to diversify their holdings with gilts, whereas merchants and bankers would commonly cap their careers by putting their capital into land.  Eg. David Ricardo who turned his stockbroking fortune into a country estate (and an appointment as high sheriff).

Yep. Many nobles were often either excellent business men and capitalists themselves or were excellent business men and capitalists who became nobles. The noble families who are still rich and important today didn't get that way because they had the most distinguished title or pedigree.

[The Brain]

Marx was hesitant endorse the Paris Commune, for Christ's sake, and Kautsky was *the* major Marxist opponent of the Bolshevik Revolution/USSR, with Lenin branding him a "renegade."

No true Marxist was involved in the USSR or similar.

[derspiess]

They just didn't do it right.  Stupid Stalin!!!

[The Minsky Moment]

But Marx was just following Hegel, Ricardo and Adam Smith.  So really they are to blame.

[The Minsky Moment]

Come to think about it, it all goes back to Plato.  The greatest mass murderer of history.

[The Brain]

RIP history.

[MadBurgerMaker]

My wife's cousin just posted a couple photos of his hand with the end of his pointer finger ripped off (down to the bottom of his fingernail, or where his fingernail used to be) on facebook, including an angle looking....er....in.   

[Josquius]

My wife's cousin just posted a couple photos of his hand with the end of his pointer finger ripped off (down to the bottom of his fingernail, or where his fingernail used to be) on facebook, including an angle looking....er....in.   

For every picture of hot girls you know at the beach there is....

[Savonarola]

I've always been absent-minded (I know, it's shocking that I went on to become an engineer) and as a young child I used to misplace school supplies.  One time I lost all my crayons except the blue-green one.  We had a coloring-book style assignment, so I colored the entire sheet blue-green.  The teacher held it up and told everyone I was lazy ( ), but at least I'm not inhibited (or a commercial artist.)

Later on, when I was at MOMA I saw this painting by Yves Klein:



I just didn't realize I was a genius at six.   

[Razgovory]

You guys know that when you do this to Yi, you are pretty much telling him that his God is a lie?  It's kind of rude.

[Admiral Yi]

Just read in The Economist that Steve Jobs was half Syrian.

[garbon]

I've always been absent-minded (I know, it's shocking that I went on to become an engineer) and as a young child I used to misplace school supplies.  One time I lost all my crayons except the blue-green one.  We had a coloring-book style assignment, so I colored the entire sheet blue-green.  The teacher held it up and told everyone I was lazy ( ), but at least I'm not inhibited (or a commercial artist.)

Later on, when I was at MOMA I saw this painting by Yves Klein:



I just didn't realize I was a genius at six.   

[Jacob]

BALD EAGLE VS CANADIAN GOOSE