Javascript Disabled Detected

You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality.

aussiebear's Photo

aussiebear

Member Since 03 Aug 2006
Offline Last Active Yesterday, 11:20 AM

Find content

About Me

I live in Sydney. My profession is Librarian (IT specialist). I only work part time and my partner Julie is also in library's.

I blog at http://news.kontentkonsult.com

I'm long Silver and Gold, I don't trade as much as I used to because I made much more money being right and sitting tight than chasing a bear that was very late to my party.

I beleive in truth, the sciences and the heritage of civilisation and take a very long view. I find most other peoples opinions amazingly prosaic and parochial. I'm middle of the road politically.

People who know everything because got the secret skinny from rense.com give me the shits.

I'm an expert on science fiction and just soaked everything else up, I guess.

Avi: Hindu god Shiva as Lord of the Dance who dances the old world into destruction and the new into being. He was invested in AAA Subprime, so he was angry as hell when he woke.

Community Stats

Group Members
Active Posts 2,193
Profile Views 3,142
Member Title dark side of the earth
Age 53 years old
Birthday August 24, 1958
Gender
Male
Location
Sydney

Contact Information

Website URL http://news.kontentkonsult.com
Yahoo old_spacer

0 Neutral

Friends

aussiebear hasn't added any friends yet.

Latest Visitors

CharlesInVermont
Yesterday, 07:21 AM
JonLaw
19 Apr 2012 - 21:55
Calvin Bear
18 Mar 2012 - 18:49
cambodiabear
13 Dec 2011 - 08:35
5to12
28 Jun 2011 - 01:33

Posts I've Made

In Topic: Republicans Declare War On Accurate Economic Data

Yesterday, 07:09 AM

The minimum sample sizes required, which for the monthly surveys might involve say 12,000 returns from a cohort who remain in the survey from three to five years. About the same ratio, I was always impressed by the commitment to data quality. We have fudged a couple, following the US lead. Overweight CPI deflators and the under counting inactive job seekers as not unemployed. They fight back. I much preferred working in the Dept of Science and Technology before hand. Afterwards I went to the State Library and ran a business for them, which more suited my style.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats

In Topic: Republicans Declare War On Accurate Economic Data

21 May 2012 - 05:35 PM

I used to work for the "Australian Bureau of Statistics". Explaining to irate citizens that the collection of data was about nation building, good public policy and the efficient allocation of public resources and not about "You, sir (or Madam)" (or your F**king paranoid dumbass fears that yr busted, ya crook) was the fun bit.

In Topic: The End of Fish

21 May 2012 - 09:22 AM

Krill and Jellyfish soy. Yum.

In Topic: Cell Doors 'Incapable Of Locking' at Giant Afghan Jail

20 May 2012 - 10:30 PM

The superpower competition was evident in the seventies, you couldn't travel anywhere without seeing that this bridge was donated by the people of the US and that road by the USSR. One is curious about the extent to which a CIA intervention and US money was responsible for the over reaction by the Soviets and subsequent invasion. Fighting the cold war in Afghanistan via proxies was costly for those who accepted "help" in the end, anyway.

In Topic: Cell Doors 'Incapable Of Locking' at Giant Afghan Jail

20 May 2012 - 04:03 PM

The society is utterly broken by the Pashtunwali, feudalism and its dependence on drug income. It was beautiful in 1978. The russians were nasty but the civil war was worse. It can make progress but when you add superpower competition, billion dollar budgets and foreign troops and the War for covert drug income its like putting all the worse elements there on meth. It's about Iran and Russia and the gulf, I guess.