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From Mary Harney
‘‘The Ireland story was never about replacing crony capitalism with casino capitalism. Ireland’s 20-year-old story is not a speculative play,” she said.
Really considing the last few years was based on property speculating I have to wonder. Maybe over the course of the last 20 years it might not be alot but over the [...]
Snapped this in Wales during the weekend in Pendine.
It seems that you need a bike Licence in LA. Not for a motorbike but an actual peddle Bike. They cost $3.
Mental
In the Irish Times today Owen Ross head of the department of humanities at the Athlone Institute of Technology suggests that Ireland should
Giving tax credits to students who enrol in prioritised courses could help achieve the goal of building a knowledge economy,
Now the thinking of this is that students don’t take up these courses because [...]
I read the blog post by Ian Wright via the Excellent stephen kinsella blog. Basically what he did was to model a type of Monopoly board in Mathimatica. So I decided to see if I could do the same in Mathlab. Basically the board consists of different squares of varying values. A player roles a dice and [...]
Some papers have been covering the story of the new exo planet being discovered. From NY Times.
Astronomers from the University of Toronto have published a picture of what they say might be the first image of a planet orbiting another Sunlike star.
The planet, according to their observations, is 7 to 12 times as massive as Jupiter and [...]
What has gone wrong with the world economy is something everyone is asking and people far more intune with the world can’t answer. Anyway the recent crisis was summed up recently like so. (hat tip Turbelence Ahead)
To understand the underlying reason why the enormous deleveraging triggered by the still-expanding financial crisis is doing much less [...]