Re: Climatology: a wonderful science

On May 10, 7:48 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 10 May 2009 06:31:24 -0700 (PDT), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx wrote:

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But you don't run a business, or work at all, so you're free to
pontificate on how you'd like things to run.

And you can't be bothered to find out how much corporate tax other
countries exact, which took me about 30 seconds

http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/aboutnsw/climate/A14_corp_tax_rates.htm

Incomplete and out of date. Ireland is 12.5%. UK is now 28, less for
smaller companies. And so on. Look it up.

Looks like the aussies cherry-picked old data, sorta like
climatologists.

Perhaps. Some data is still better than no data.

Wonderful concept, that deceptively cooked data is better than no
data.

Since you've not bothered to produce your own - non-cherry-picked data
- to prove that my Australian web-site is actively misleading, this is
still a case where some data beats no data into a cocked hat.

and still feel free to act as if running your specialised little
business in a tiny niche market qualified you to pontificate on
manufacturing around the world.

I sell stuff all over the world. What do you sell?

Absolutely bloody nothing. I'd love to be in your position, but never
saw any route that looked like it might get me there, depite my wife's
fervent - if unrealistic - encouragement.

So how can you, who can't find or invent a job, who have never run a
business, and who seem to have worked mostly on failed projects, claim
to know more about business economics than I do?

Easy. Your unsupported opinions about business economics are no more
reliable than your unsupported opinions about climate science and the
mechanics of evolution.

You invent stuff that sounds good to you, then post it as it means
something. When you get away from electronics, your off-topic opinions
are about as reliable as Jim Thompsons off-topic vapourings, and are
presented with no less fatuous self-confidence.

There are so many fascinating problems out there, and so many
affordable toys, it's incredible that anyone with any electronics
talent and scientific curiosity would sit on their *** and watch the
years slide past.

Unforunately, the potential customers are also "out there" and I've
never come up with a business plan that gave me any confidence that I
could find enough to justify inventing and developing any kind of
better mousetrap. It's frustrating, but not half a frustrating as
sitting on an expensive pile of mousetraps while potential cusoterms
fail to beat a path to your door.

It could be that an unrealistic belief in your own competence is a
necessary component in the make-up of the successful entrepreneur.
Since most small business fail within a few years of starting up, it
seems to be common component in the make-up of the unsuccessful
entrepreneur as well.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
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