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Salon socialism on ET. A provocation

by Martin
Thu May 15th, 2008 at 07:47:35 PM EST

All the time people here who have otherwise a very left rhethoric speak about the rescue of the 'middle class', and how great Europe is.
When I read German blogs and comments, left leaning people may speak sometimes as well of the middle class, but never will say anything is good in Germany. How comes this discrepancy?
My provocative thesis here: ETers are to a big chunk salon socialists.

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"Der US-Datenglaube wird teuer" / statistics fraud

by Martin
Tue May 13th, 2008 at 08:19:34 AM EST

From FTD:
(The link is in German, here a free translation of this funny piece)
Productivity growth in the US is 3.2%. The consumer deflator growths only slightly faster than than in the Eurozone, despite the dollar collapse. At the same time car sales and home building starts are lower than 30 years ago. Nobody asks why there is this discrepancy. A mistake.

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Can particle physics at the LHC have a practical purpose?

by Martin
Mon Feb 25th, 2008 at 07:48:13 PM EST

The LHC, the Large Hadron Collider is the next project of collider particle physics which will be switched on. The multi billion Euro machine has already helped practical purposes in various ways, e.g. due to the development of huge superconducting magnets, the efforts to create a computing grid, and the research on silicon pixel detectors among many other things. The analysis will help young physicists to learn statistics in a well suited environment. The CERN, the laboratory where the LHC is build, has a unique history anyhow. In the cold war meetings on neutral ground took place and politically hunted physicists could be freed when getting publicity through their former work at CERN. The most important issue CERN does, however, is proving the superiority the European model as reliable partner in scientific international projects.

But can the physics there do anything useful?

Going back to my origins... - Diary rescue by Migeru

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How a conservative platform should look like

by Martin
Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 10:22:39 AM EST

I have several times claimed to be politically conservative and that I'm unsatisfied with the current politics, which others on this blog assume to be very conservative. Due to this it came up the question what I understand as conservatism.
The most important issue for what I understand under conservatism is the question of political loyalty distribution. Conservatism means a declining loyalty starting with individuum, family, region, country, (Europe), world. Social-democrats clearly have different order and put start with groups I wouldn't put at all in such a line.

Diary Rescue by Migeru

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