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a machine wrapped in a zombie and made apt by our circumstances…how long until we have a movie about zombie hedge fund analysts overtaking New York?
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Most people try to ignore the fact that Austen’s novels are sort of acid baths. She’s so much better, deeper, more sensitive and intelligent than everyone around her that she has to regulate her own misanthropy. Her novels are hostile environments.
The characters other than the protagonist are so often surrounded by people who aren’t fully human, like machines that keep repeating the same things over and over again. All those characters shuffling in and out of scenes, always frustrating the protagonists. It’s a crowded but eerie landscape. What’s wrong with those people? They don’t dance well but move in jerky fits. Oh, they are headed this way!
—Brad Pasanek, a specialist in 18th-century literature at the University of Virginia on the archetype of zombies and Jane Austen
[Quoted Via: I Was a Regency Zombie, By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER; February 22, 2009]
We’re seeing people who work at banks, for software firms, for marketing firms, and they’re all losing their jobs. Here we are in big, fancy Marin County, but we have people who are standing in line with their eyes wide open, thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe I’m here.’
—Dave Cort, the executive director of the San Geronimo Valley Community Center in Marin County
If one of our richest counties has people signing up for food stamps who have never signed up before, that indicates the depth of this problem with the lack of food. It’s the canary in the coal mine.
—Kathleen DiChiara, executive director of Community FoodBank of New Jersey
All participants anticipated that unemployment would remain substantially above its longer-run sustainable rate at the end of 2011, even absent further economic shocks; a few indicated that more than five to six years would be needed for the economy to converge to a longer-run path characterized by sustainable rates of output growth and unemployment and by an appropriate rate of inflation.
—FOMC summary of economic projections, January 27-28
That said, the central tendency for GDP growth is between 2.5-3.3% in 2010 and 3.8-5% in 2011.
Some very high earners will have to adjust compensation expectations and maintain a different sense of proportion than in the past.
—Senator Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Democrat and chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Feb 14, following his insertion of the $500k pay caps
We are in for more trouble. Things will get worse before they get better…bottom out [by the third quarter], and I firmly expect positive growth by the end of the year. But I firmly think things will get better, and sooner rather than later.
We feel very confident that we have a very good plan and one of the things that it’s designed to prevent is things being bad enough to set off a deflationary spiral.
Right now, I’m quite optimistic.
—Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers
Invest in new companies. Stimulus funds should not only rebuild bridges. They also should be invested in new companies that will create the jobs of the future. Some $10 billion of the stimulus package should be used to buy 50% of the initial public offering of every company that filed an approved S-1 registration with the SEC by the time the stimulus package became law.
People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim
—Hanif Nalkande
Indian Muslims are proud of being both Indian and Muslim, and the Mumbai terrorism was a war against both India and Islam. Terrorism has no place in Islamic doctrine. The Koranic term for the killing of innocents is ‘fasad.’ Terrorists are fasadis, not jihadis. In a beautiful verse, the Koran says that the killing of an innocent is akin to slaying the whole community. Since the … terrorists were neither Indian nor true Muslims, they had no right to an Islamic burial in an Indian Muslim cemetery.
—M.J. Akbar, the Indian-Muslim editor of Covert, an Indian investigative journal
The only effective way to stop this trend is for “the village” — the Muslim community itself — to say “no more.”
No Way, No How, Not Here
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: February 18, 2009
The defiance of Islamist terrorists by Indian Muslims stands out against a dismal landscape of Sunni Muslim suicide murderers who have been treated by Arab media as “martyrs.”
in the year of darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan…the Terminator
We better get with the program…time for Robots & Shotguns
in a future time…children will come together…to build a giant cyborg
Robot Parade, Robot Parade, Robots will do what the children say
n.
English – Portmanteau
1 : a disorderly and convergent crowd directed online and through facebook (17 February 2009); especially in the form of successive and numerous invitations for friendship
2 : a rap group from Houston, Texas that was organized by Geto Boy Scarface (1996)
An ordinary fellow from another town
—Sanjit Bunker Roy paraphrasing, though not citing, Mark Twain
[An expert is] somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides..
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
I’d like [people] to remember me for a diligent … expert workman…. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God’s a workman. I don’t think there’s anything better than a workman.
He doesn’t know a damn thing about China … That’s what makes him an expert. He knows nothing about music, being tone deaf. That’s what makes him a musician … And he’s batty in the head. That’s what makes him a philosopher.
If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
A font of academic study and reputation. Remember
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