tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post211467788939984178..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: You can't get much richer and whiter than Matt RidleyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27318355840180941222011-04-06T11:24:34.038-07:002011-04-06T11:24:34.038-07:00"...we're talking simple, plain, understa...<i>"...we're talking simple, plain, understated horticultural & architectural elegance.<br /><br />Nothing loud, nothing gaudy, nothing out-of-place, just everything perfect."</i><br /><br />Oh. You mean like this: <br /><br /> <a href="http://www.better-travel.co.uk/apps/photos/photo?photoid=20169895" rel="nofollow">Nothing Loud, Nothing Gaudy</a>. <br /><br />Well then, why didn't you just say so?Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29972564815124577432011-04-05T20:07:45.485-07:002011-04-05T20:07:45.485-07:00I thought the French (specifically, the Loire Vall...<i>I thought the French (specifically, the Loire Valley, IIRC) had that sewn up? Or are we talking quantity?</i> <br /><br />No, we're talking simple, plain, understated horticultural & architectural elegance.<br /><br />Nothing loud, nothing gaudy, nothing out-of-place, just everything perfect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59915134931553308652011-04-05T18:52:40.976-07:002011-04-05T18:52:40.976-07:00Add John Maynard Smith to the list.Add John Maynard Smith to the list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82021250481321492882011-04-05T18:39:46.894-07:002011-04-05T18:39:46.894-07:00Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - does country estates ...<i>Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - does country estates like the Brits.</i><br /><br />I thought the French (specifically, the Loire Valley, IIRC) had that sewn up? Or are we talking quantity?Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16967905622668430782011-04-05T18:32:19.210-07:002011-04-05T18:32:19.210-07:00"Any PC talking-points can be forgiven as he ...<i>"Any PC talking-points can be forgiven as he is in the public light."</i><br /><br />Why? As I understand it, he's in the public eye by choice, not from necessity. He has f*** y*** money and doesn't need to placate anyone by indulging in PC talking-points. If he chooses to do so anyway, then oh well. When you climb up on a soapbox, you make a better target.<br /><br /><i>"It's easy for us to snipe from the anonymity of Steve Sailer comment sections."</i><br /><br />Yes, just as easy as it is for him to promote policy changes in America that will never directly affect him from the comfort and safety of his family home across the pond.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87138891589485062072011-04-05T16:16:50.490-07:002011-04-05T16:16:50.490-07:00Wow, that's a beautiful house.
Nobody - and I...Wow, that's a beautiful house.<br /><br />Nobody - and I mean NOBODY - does country estates like the Brits.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_(1995_TV_serial)#Filming" rel="nofollow">Mr. Darcy</a> would have been proud...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11629411684558947202011-04-05T15:24:17.258-07:002011-04-05T15:24:17.258-07:00This man calls himself "The Country Scientist...This man calls himself "The Country Scientist", to name an American candidate for Steve's newly-proposed genre. If you've gone through the section of the Radio Shack that has the circuit parts, you've seen his hobby guides. Very nice man, who corresponds personally if you have a question about one of his designs. He also helped design the early Altair PC that Microsoft got a bit of inspiration from.<br /><br />http://www.forrestmims.org/alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958611059030729965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41201908698113921462011-04-05T14:29:15.204-07:002011-04-05T14:29:15.204-07:00Wow -- I had no idea. I spoke with him for a whil...Wow -- I had no idea. I spoke with him for a while before he spoke at the Dallas Hispanic Center.<br /><br />He was polite and very tall, but I don't think he would have caught Hyancinth Bucket's attention as a nobleman.ben tillmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32107449681465750692011-04-05T12:19:03.831-07:002011-04-05T12:19:03.831-07:00More accurately, as the heir apparent, he ought to...More accurately, as the heir apparent, he ought to be referred to by his father's secondary tile as "Lord Wensleydale".Tim of Anglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10910643987517809686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63518913560951250212011-04-05T11:34:14.500-07:002011-04-05T11:34:14.500-07:00I had some friends who were pretty rich - they had...I had some friends who were pretty rich - they had houses on five continents for example. One day the wife mentioned casually that her husband had lost $10M earlier that week. Everyone gave her their colodolences but she sniffed "If you can't afford it you shouldn't play". She constantly complained about another mutual friend - Gordon Getty. He was just too wealthy the multi millionaire said of the billionaire.<br /><br />The point is by world and historical standards all white Americans are rich. Illegal aliens are very aware of this fact. <br /><br />AlbertosaurusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45617054521884382752011-04-05T10:45:55.355-07:002011-04-05T10:45:55.355-07:00"You can't get much richer and whiter tha...<i>"You can't get much richer and whiter than Matt Ridley"</i><br /><br />Well, what about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/business/01hedge.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=paulson&st=cse" rel="nofollow"> these guys?</a>Bantamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1557089109445809012011-04-05T09:43:30.712-07:002011-04-05T09:43:30.712-07:00RE Tom Merle,
Nice links to Ridley talks. He is c...RE Tom Merle,<br /><br />Nice links to Ridley talks. He is clearly very smart. <br /><br />Any PC talking-points can be forgiven as he is in the public light. It's easy for us to snipe from the anonymity of Steve Sailer comment sections.Hailhttp://hailtoyou.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63268958676666239652011-04-05T09:18:36.774-07:002011-04-05T09:18:36.774-07:00"How is it that so many commenters here are o...<i>"How is it that so many commenters here are on a first name basis with the esteemed Mr. Ridley?"</i><br /><br />The American commenters are merely responding in kind to the familiarity which prompted Mr. Ridley to proffer his opinions in an American publication for the problem of obesity in America.<br /><br />As for the rest, they're just exhibiting bad manners.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15899852455345916092011-04-05T08:40:09.165-07:002011-04-05T08:40:09.165-07:00Just for reference, Steve, you should know that in...Just for reference, Steve, you should know that in the UK Matt Ridley has some rather more embarrassing connections to live down. Until a few years ago he was the Chairman of the Northern Rock Bank, which rapidly expanded its lending to high risk mortgage customers, and collapsed in the sub-prime crisis. It was then propped up by the taxpayer. Riddley was not primarily responsible for the management of the bank, but as Chairman of a bank one of his responsibilities would be to exercise prudence and financial caution. 'Optimist', yes, 'rational' - it's debatable.DavidBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40517949912011185242011-04-05T06:31:30.439-07:002011-04-05T06:31:30.439-07:00Would that be Matt Ridley the free marketeer and f...Would that be Matt Ridley the free marketeer and former non-executive chairman of the Northern Rock bank, which had to bailed out of trouble by British taxpayers?Spudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34914722724865016062011-04-05T05:43:01.850-07:002011-04-05T05:43:01.850-07:00Something you don't here much about Matt Ridle...Something you don't here much about Matt Ridley was that he was the boss of Britain's 'Northern Rock' bank, the bank that took an almighty bust-up back in 2007, an event that prefigured and prestaged America's subprime trainwreck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2742198243435892752011-04-05T05:33:49.138-07:002011-04-05T05:33:49.138-07:00Living in the same house since 1700 is rather nouv...Living in the same house since 1700 is rather nouveau, don't you think? The other night on the Country House Rescue TV programme there was a family who have lived in the same house (albeit somewhat altered over the years) since 1058.Graham Ashernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55294500246359613112011-04-05T03:47:29.977-07:002011-04-05T03:47:29.977-07:00an anon sez--
The more reality which intrudes on ...an anon sez--<br /><br />The more reality which intrudes on the sheltered world of WSJ readers, the better.<br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />??<br /><br />Subscriber of the WSJ for a few decades, it was a better paper before the Murdoch takeover. <br /><br />General financial illiteracy is the tie that binds the S&L debacle, the LatAm debt crisis, the Asian contagion, the more recent excitement, the swampy backwaters that is local municipal finance, the pervasive household finance mismanagement regarding home and car loans reflected at the local, state and national levels. People are as funny about money as they are about intelligence for precisely the same reason. <br /><br />Any major urban newspaper business section is a journalistic ghetto. <br />Readership cannot be induced under pain of death to peruse mind numbing, eye glazing financialese much to the benefit of the financial services industry which employ the resultant assymetric information warfare to advantage, purchasing the political means for greater advantage at the nexus of money and power. <br /><br />Shadow banking, CDOs squared, the Enron exclusion etc would only be known and understood beforehand by readers of the WSJ, Financial Times, maybe the Economist because the dedicated financial press is the only place finance is covered in a detailed way, down to the devils in the details where all weighty matters hinge. <br /><br />To rephrase, the more reality that intrudes upon the sheltered world of non-financial press readers, the better. Financial illiteracy is this country's, like most others, most toxic asset. <br /><br />I think Goldman Sachs revenue alone exceeds some 100 lesser countries entire individual GDP. <br />One would think that matters somehow, in the larger scheme of things, or that the financial sector, having grown larger than, say energy or manufacturing, would result in facts on the landscape, economic structures, like vast numbers of foreclosed homes or empty condo towers.<br /><br />Some would have it that banking and finance is equal to or greater than politics (which sucks all the oxygen out of the room) in the shapings of history and all things past spilling into the present despite being given short shrift by historians who, similarly financially illiterate, don't know the questions to ask, how to ask them, never seek and read the material and if encountered by chance cannot read with understanding. <br /><br />Saddened by what was never learned and never will be learned thus endlessly repeated by, say, the S&L debacle, and irrevocably joined at the hip in myriad ways...the tax code, the gas pump, the insurance system etc etc etc...to the unthinking and irresponsible...over time, a very long long time one comes to prefer it that way in acceptance.Pat Shuffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40557114311221841322011-04-05T03:16:23.402-07:002011-04-05T03:16:23.402-07:00What have the "Wealthy country gentlemen"...What have the "Wealthy country gentlemen" ever done for us?deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15716749386413703512011-04-05T03:11:35.009-07:002011-04-05T03:11:35.009-07:00How is it that so many commenters here are on a fi...How is it that so many commenters here are on a first name basis with the esteemed Mr. Ridley?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7697883781410250752011-04-05T01:19:30.689-07:002011-04-05T01:19:30.689-07:00Here are two presentations by Ridley, one in conve...Here are two presentations by Ridley, one in conversational form. Very worthwhile viewing.<br /><br />http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html<br /><br />http://fora.tv/2010/11/18/Uncommon_Knowledge_Matt_RidleyTom Merlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09948201337303721158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15218227179020670852011-04-04T23:29:55.229-07:002011-04-04T23:29:55.229-07:00Matt Ridley's nice digs will go fast. Someone ...Matt Ridley's nice digs will go fast. Someone has to help pay for all those Muslim and African and Caribbean immigrants Tony Blair/Gordon Brown took in, and continue to flood in under Cameron. Just like Henry VIII found a nifty solution, get solvent and divorced by breaking with Rome and seizing and auctioning off Church lands, the same will occur to those funding social welfare to the immigrant hordes in the UK.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39920159461203186202011-04-04T23:09:09.972-07:002011-04-04T23:09:09.972-07:00Sheesh, what a dump!Sheesh, what a dump!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-15176302515314045732011-04-04T22:33:44.045-07:002011-04-04T22:33:44.045-07:00Off topic but you can't get much richer or whi...Off topic but you can't get much richer or whiter than Marin county. So a follow up to Steve's Marin blog topic a while back:<br /><br />http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_17752936<br /><br />Report targets Marin's NIMBY culture<br />By Nels Johnson<br />Marin Independent Journal<br />Posted: 04/02/2011 05:49:00 PM PDT<br /><br /><br />Marin County must welcome more minority, low-income and disabled residents by easing zoning restrictions, allowing low-income apartments in suburban neighborhoods, boosting public transit to accommodate multifamily development and making related moves to eliminate housing discrimination, according to a new report.<br /><br /> <br /><br />The comments are amusing, especially from the "normally" liberal. New definition of a conservative: "A liberal who has section 8 housing next door"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14694030517188405712011-04-04T21:56:30.580-07:002011-04-04T21:56:30.580-07:00That is a nice place, gotta admit.
I did like Th...That is a nice place, gotta admit. <br /><br />I did like The Red Queen, (as I recall, its been a while). It was quite readable, entertaining.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com