... read the front page of the January 2nd, 1945 New York Times. (I'm not kidding.)

...

Just asking : how to you get to read that edition ? Might not be easy...

Not sure how trustworthy this version is (it's transcribed)
http://ufoupdateslist.com/1998/jul/m15-022.shtml

Thanks.  I fail to see how I could get to jail by reading this.  Unless it's an alien jail and I get abducted...

Not sure how trustworthy this version is (it's transcribed)
http://ufoupdateslist.com/1998/jul/m15-022.shtml

That's not it.

Thanks.  I fail to see how I could get to jail by reading this.  Unless it's an alien jail and I get abducted...

That's not what I was referring to.

I'll confirm if someone posts, but I won't post it myself. Yes. It's that likely to start fights and quickly degenerate into complete chaos and name calling. It's impossible to look at the facts and reconcile them with popular belief.

Bagus: The Tragedy of the Euro
Pdf version is free: http://mises.org/document/6045/

Do post back your thoughts on that. I'd like to hear. My reading load is a bit heavy at the moment. (Tragedy and Hope is my "fun" reading.)

Quote from: panzer on August 06, 2013, 10:02 AM

Bagus: The Tragedy of the Euro
Pdf version is free: http://mises.org/document/6045/

thanks for that.
FWIW I've tried to understand economics - mainly Keynesian vs. Austrian - a little better, but people seem to believe one or that other 100% and that's it. Make's it difficult for the noob ;-) Anyways, looking forward to reading that

If I would have to choose, I would go for Austrian School.

Bandulet: Last years of the Euro
Short book about how it came that the Germans were dupped (and by whom) to gave up the D-Mark.
http://www.amazon.de/Die-letzten-Jahre-Euro-Deutschen/dp/3942016354/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376382536&sr=1-3&keywords=bandulet

Deutsch: The Silver Conspiracy
What you should know about trading with the silver in the past and present.
http://www.amazon.de/b%C3%BCcher/dp/3938516267

Carter: The Education of Little Tree
Excellent book about young Indian, who lost both his parents. He was adopted by his grandparents, which taught him about the Indian way of life and how they perceive it. Highly recommended. (It was thought that this book was an autobiography, but it was later revealed that it was written by a Ku Klux Klan leader. Bizarre or what?)
http://www.amazon.com/Education-Little-Tree-Forrest-Carter/dp/0826328091

Quote from: panzer on August 07, 2013, 08:29 AM

I liked it. No nonsense included - less than 200 pages.

Ah! That's good! Far too many books just blather on with complete nonsense that just wastes your time. I really like when they just cut to the chase and get to the point.

[/quote]

Heh I often like to go the other way, because sometimes short books glaze over the stuff "without doing any work". I made a small joke I called the "500 page club" - if the author has to fill much more space, then it's more likely there are some nice juicy details in there!

Just finished a highly entertaining novel that felt a lot like a Robert Asprin fantasy novel: "The Road to Magic (Book One of The Way of the Demon)" by Alexey Glushanovsky.

It's $2.99 for the Kindle e-book.

Finished David Drake's "Northworld". Now reading the 2nd novel in the trilogy, "Vengeance". Good sci-fi written in the early 90s.

Meanwhile I am reading Great Moments in Modern Chess by Reuben Fine ... from 1948! That was when chess was fresh and new, and WWII was an important recent concluding episode.

It is also early enough that some of the games actually played out the tropes that are unstated in "today's" games.

Edit: For example, Reuben Fine really pays Dr. Max Euwe much greater respect than he is usually given in current chess circles. 1948 was just early enough before Botvinnik pulverized the chess world, so R. Fine reports "from the time" that Euwe was well respected in his day as a solid GM. (Today too many authors take the cheapo shot that he was the "junk champion" between Alekhine and Botvinnik.)

It was also just before how stunning the rise of the USSR would be in chess - for various reasons the Russians were not around for a lot of events in the 1930's, and the US was the "second best country" winning all the events. Alekhine was what he was, but Botvinnik signalled that the Soviet govt support of chess was going to have an effect, and it wasn't until Fischer that anyone else was in the same league.

Currently I'm going through the following:

• Introductory R: A Beginner's Guide to Data Visualisation and Analysis Using R
• Beyond Bullet Points, 3rd Edition

I'm hopping to follow up with R in a Nutshell and R Cookbook.

Terry Maggert's "The Forest Bull"

ok...40hz...what is the source of that awesome Cthulhu illustration?