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Bigelow Aerospace to offer $760 million for spaceship
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John Schilling wrote: Data is data -- please excuse my linguistic shorthand, which I believed to be clear, in describing it. No. Because your "linguistic shorthand" didn't just *describe* data, it *excluded* data. Critically important data like what happened to the budget when Congress changed hands. That wasn't the description of the data; it was the data itself, which I had available to me in the amount of time I was willing to spend on it. You raise a good point that this might be obscuring some effect of the party in control of congress. It couldn't be a very strong effect, however, because even with the data broken down by president, we have some where the dominant party in Congress remained the same for the whole term. For example, under Carter, both Senate and House were controlled by Democrats the entire time, and in that time the debt (relative to GNP) decreased. Under the first Bush, both Senate and House were again controlled by DEmocrats the entire time, and in that time the debt (relative to GNP) increased. So clearly, if there is any effect of what party controls Congress, it must be a much weaker one than the effect of what party controls the White House (which is a 100% correlation, at least in the last 30 years). But by all means, please do dig up numbers broken down by Congressional party, and see what it shows. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find at least a weak correlation. As that is precisely the data, and the only data, which could have falsified your, "It's all the (Republican) President's fault!" thesis, the fact that you felt it unworthy of consideration tells us exactly how committed you are to honest debate here. No need to get nasty. I presented the raw data that I found; I pointed out my observations about it for readers too lazy to study the numbers themselves. All are welcome to point out their own observations, too. I haven't purposely engaged in any spin or rhetoric with regard to the observed correlation. I'd be happy to hear any counter arguments, but so far all I've gotten are nitpicking and attacks on my presentation. This is to be expected, I suppose. -- "Polywell" fusion -- an approach to nuclear fusion that might actually work. Learn more and discuss via: http://www.strout.net/info/science/polywell/ |
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Bigelow Aerospace to offer $760 million for spaceship
Joe Strout wrote:
In article , John Schilling wrote: As that is precisely the data, and the only data, which could have falsified your, "It's all the (Republican) President's fault!" thesis, the fact that you felt it unworthy of consideration tells us exactly how committed you are to honest debate here. No need to get nasty. I presented the raw data that I found; I pointed out my observations about it for readers too lazy to study the numbers themselves. No Joe, you presented analysis and pointed out conclusions. A rather different matter from 'making observations'. I'd be happy to hear any counter arguments, but so far all I've gotten are nitpicking and attacks on my presentation. Mostly because you define "counter arguements" as "nitpicking and attacks". You've never met a counter arguement you couldn't define away into another category. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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A Delusional Libertarian : Bigelow Aerospace
Back on topic. How's the Bigelow Aerospace $760 million offer going?
Any viable takers? - Brad Guth - |
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A Delusional Libertarian : Bigelow Aerospace
On Nov 6, 11:29 am, (Rand Simberg)
wrote: On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:18:28 -0800, in a place far, far away, Eric Chomko made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: I see, you're not a Republican, you just hate Democrats. I don't "hate" Democrats, you moron. I just don't want them to have political power. That is the same as hate you fool! Only to idiots. Of course, you are defined by what you hate rather than what you like, which is probably nothing. That goes a long way explaining your miserable personality. My personality is just fine, and quite congenial, thank you. You might want to reconsider that. You would probably be taken seriously in the space industry if you weren't such a jerk. I am taken seriously in the space industry. At least partly because I'm in fact not a "jerk." You remain an idiot, though. Anything you say, jerk... |
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