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ough I still have a regular job. And of course I pay state >and federal inc ome tax on both the SS payment and on my salary >and on everything else. An d I (and my employer) keep making >payments into the SS system!

I don't know the details, but in at least some cases it doesn't. Social Se curity is not a pension plan where the money you put into it is yours. You r benefits are partly set by how much you paid into the plan, but once you start taking money out that benefit is fixed. Your payment into the system is paying for others' benefits.

You literally have no way of knowing this.

The only thing the sad old hen can do any more is whine about peoples' personalities.

I'm an electronic design engineer. I don't need a personality.

That excuses the shoddy maintenance situation. It's a lame excuse, personal growth is more important than a job.

It doesn't get electronics designed.

Electronic design *is* personal growth. Whining on usenet is not.

Yet obviously you can do both. As a member of society, you have an economic niche (professional), a social interactive niche (usenet if nothing else), a political engagement niche, and presumably half a dozen other ways to engage with your surroundings.

Electronic design is merely professional for you. It is NOT sufficient unto itself, for a complete adult human existence.

If I followed drs' advice I'd be long dead. Either I get informed or by God I pay the price. But as ever Bill wants to paint things his pathological way without getting the necessary facts. He usually comes back with some pathetic remark.

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Then why do you whine on usenet so much?

NT and Cursitor Doom seem to think that they have the right to post bad information, and an equal right to complain about being called gullible twits when they get called on it.

This is pathological behaviour, but the kind of insight that would let them see that their own bahaviour is what's pathological here is way beyond them,

though I still have a regular job. And of course I pay state >and federal i ncome tax on both the SS payment and on my salary >and on everything else. And I (and my employer) keep making >payments into the SS system!

Security is not a pension plan where the money you put into it is yours. Y our benefits are partly set by how much you paid into the plan, but once yo u start taking money out that benefit is fixed. Your payment into the syst em is paying for others' benefits.

He could get his genome sequenced by 23andme for $99.

It won't tell him all that much about his inherited health problems right n ow, but they have already collected quite a few genomes and data about the health of the people who got them done, and the statistical number crunchin g is steadily extracting more.

We are well on the way to getting much better grasp of the nature/nuture sp lit.

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opinions are ever well-founded has to be a pretty pathological case, and N T is more pathological than most - pretty much down to the krw level.

A doctor who got stuck with NT as patient might well give him the kind of a dvice that would shut him up.

Sadly, the information you get isn't all that good. It hasn't killed you ye t, but it does seem to have damaged your reasoning ability.

ng the necessary facts.

NT isn't great at producing any facts at all. Early on, he would risk posti ng links to what he thought constituted evidence, which were pretty much al ways irrelevant nonsense, but he's learned the wrong lesson from that exper ience and now restricts himself to idiotic pontification, of which this is a good example.

By which he means that he can't argue with them.

Presumably because his personality is too big already.

Actually, this is being unfair to the doctor.

People who read up on medical matters for themselves - and this includes medical students and young doctors - frequently convince themselves that they've got something rare and fatal.

NT is definitely that kind of patient. His doctor probably told him not to be silly, so NT went out and found some bogus treatment, and when his symptoms went away, decided that it had cured the disease he thought that he had.

Having made his own mountain out of some molehill, he prides himself on the time he has wasted surviving something that was almost certainly trivial.

The price of an excessive faith on one's own infallibility can be a lot of unnecessary anxiety and pointless effort.

Just as with economic forecasts, then.

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It's worse that that. Macroeconomists influence policy and make the economic system less stable. It's happening right now.

How do you define 'less stable'? The economic excursions of yesteryear are worse than recent decades, and nothing noteworthy is 'happening right now'. Economic news is just the usual hot air from the usual vents.

Salutlations, vent!

It's even worse than *that* though! At least the macroeconomists are still humans at this point in time at least:

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ZeroHedge - Cursitor Doom is a sucker for their stories.

Currency exchange rates are a rather small and specialised market, and what 's being complained about is automated dealing systems posting new offers m ore frequently than a human dealer could, over-loading the communications a vailable.

This doesn't make the market unstable, any more than the macro-economic int erventions that John Larkin was complaining about.

When the market us unstable, as it was in 1929 and 2008, people do notice.

When it's adjusting itself to changing economic circumstances, it does move around, but the instability is in the real world, and the market is merely reflecting that, as it is designed to.

John Larkin's approach to change is to deny that it is happening - as in hi s rejection of anthropogenic global warming. The business of reacting intel ligently to real changes in the real world requires enough intelligence to be able to recognise these changes, and enough intelligence to reject false claims about other things that are alleged to be happening.

John Larkin may have the intelligence, but he doesn't apply it to anything outside of electronics, and he's rather parsimonious with it even there.

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advice that would shut him up.

yet, but it does seem to have damaged your reasoning ability.

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ting links to what he thought constituted evidence, which were pretty much always irrelevant nonsense, but he's learned the wrong lesson from that exp erience and now restricts himself to idiotic pontification, of which this i s a good example.

and he did.

He sure loves to believe his own bs doesn't he. Not an indicator of intelligence.