That's true of pretty much any spending, isn't it? (View Post)

Up to a point, Lady Moon, to up to a point. Proper systems should be cheaper to run and ought to give better service. The catch is that they take money and time to set up. One of the British diseases… (View Post)

That is admirable. But there are also examples of those who run their businesses in such a way that they extract their worldly wealth just before they crash, leaving only the liabilities behind. And,… (View Post)

That works if all of them do it. We sort of saw that in 2010- the disagreement was about how to do austerity, not whether to do it. The temptation to be the one party saying "we don't need to do… (View Post)

No, definitely Boltzmann- too skewed for a normal distribution. Besides, one of the New Scientist articles I read 35 years ago, when I wanted to signal my keenness as an A Level student, was about ap… (View Post)