tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7751571483955448179..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Up to a point, Lord BloombergUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88539534180643635632011-03-03T20:16:47.476-08:002011-03-03T20:16:47.476-08:00Addendum on "swipple":
The short i is n...Addendum on "swipple":<br /><br />The short i is necessary, for a long one connotes "swipe," as in steal.<br /><br />"Swipple," short i, is a unique spoken identifier.<br /><br />(The short i also lends an air of humor. "Swip" is funny, while "Sweep" and "Swap" are less so.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17050135926907375772011-03-03T18:35:47.130-08:002011-03-03T18:35:47.130-08:00"Swipple" is the official pronunciation,..."Swipple" is the official pronunciation, short i.<br /><br />It has the advantage of calling up no irrelevant associations of any importance. In contrast, "swapple" connotes someone swapping something, and "sweeple" puts one in mind of "sweep," as in "a clean sweep," more than of "sheep."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20984423216726113852011-03-03T18:31:19.521-08:002011-03-03T18:31:19.521-08:00>What is your problem with Bloomberg?<
He b...>What is your problem with Bloomberg?<<br /><br />He buys people's opinions which are then falsely represented as their own opinions, and he does this in order to trick his way into greater political power. It isn't an original form of corruption, not by a long shot, but corruption and corrupting it remains all the same.<br /><br />Next.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53201975564188683692011-03-02T18:25:58.986-08:002011-03-02T18:25:58.986-08:00I suspected these sorts of things have been going ...I suspected these sorts of things have been going on. I'm actually more concerned about the stuff that's not made public, like how the shadow money from Soros is spent on shaping opinions.Lewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76790134404328701742011-03-02T17:07:02.060-08:002011-03-02T17:07:02.060-08:00"We all know how frustrating this must be for..."We all know how frustrating this must be for Steve living off PayPal donations, given the lame and putrid content spewing out of the mass media sphincters."<br /><br />Frustrating? No, it's hilarious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62767997906469783902011-03-02T15:50:32.441-08:002011-03-02T15:50:32.441-08:00"America: flophouse for the world. Plutocrats..."America: flophouse for the world. Plutocrats and peons of all races welcome."<br /><br />"America: A land of plutocrats, peons, and patriots. May the patriots triumph."<br /><br />I don't think so. Curly always got beat by Moe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78055704995587059452011-03-02T13:22:25.522-08:002011-03-02T13:22:25.522-08:00The 10,000 hours thing is probably a reasonable ru...The 10,000 hours thing is probably a reasonable rule for achieving competence in some area, given the raw materials. That is, you know what you're doing, you understand the area pretty well, you are a competent practitioner of the art. <br /><br />But success depends on all kinds of other stuff. In most fields, there's some role for luck and connections in success, and sufficiently bad luck or a lack of needed connections may keep you from succeeding. In some fields, there are far more people trying to succeed than positions available. Sports and the performing arts are both tournament kinds of field, where only a few of the competent, dedicated people trying can succeed. The world is full of would-be actors waiting tables, would-be quarterbacks selling cars, and would-be musicians teaching music classes at the local art center. And those are the ones who put in the 10,000 hours and more, who became competent practitioners at their art. But being the 200th-best quarterback in America, assuming you're not in college, doesn't pay the bills. Success in academia has a big element of tournament in it, too--plenty of people got PhDs in French Literature or Sociology, and never made it into a tenure track job. It's not like they didn't put in their 10,000 hours. They just didn't win the tournament.none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27176056549964015662011-03-02T13:21:55.984-08:002011-03-02T13:21:55.984-08:00" Is SWPL pronounced 'swapple'?
...<i>" Is SWPL pronounced 'swapple'?<br /><br /> It should be sweeple, as in sheeple."</i> <br /><br />I would advocate "swipple" on the grounds that it is the pronunciation closest to SWhiPL - ie the vowel should come from the "i" in "White". Using "a" or "e" doesn't make any sense if you are basing the pronunciation off of the words that SWPL is based on. <br /><br />SWPL = "swipple". <br /><br />Example usage: "The swipple are out in force tonight. Skinny jeans and Chomsky references everywhere."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36580911786961327902011-03-02T11:05:54.228-08:002011-03-02T11:05:54.228-08:00Correct me if I'm wrong, but there seems to be...Correct me if I'm wrong, but there seems to be a word used promiscuously by SWPL but never by normal people. It's "deeply," as <br />in, <br /><br />"I am deeply shocked and disgusted by the video of John Galliano's comments that surfaced today ..."<br /><br />I don't even rememember gay men in the '70's using it.helene edwardsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11762273488889953222011-03-02T09:25:52.045-08:002011-03-02T09:25:52.045-08:00"Whiskey nailed it. Bloomberg is a shorter, g..."Whiskey nailed it. Bloomberg is a shorter, geekier, older and whiter Obama."<br /><br />Bloomberg thinks NY is and should be the world. What works for NYers doesn't work for everyone else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1596042340288349572011-03-02T09:24:57.261-08:002011-03-02T09:24:57.261-08:00"But as it is clear that people become rather..."But as it is clear that people become rather succesful in most areas before they have spent 10 000 hours practicing. <br />I haven't read Outliers, but using the Beatles as an example is kinda disingenious as being able to perform more than 10 000 hours of live music and make your living doing that is success for a musicians. So the Beatles we're succesful before they met the 10 000 hours rule."<br /><br />George Harrison was as dedicated to music as Paul McCartney and John Lennon. Yet, Lennon, even when taking it easy, wrote better songs than Harrison when working very hard. All in all, Harrison managed to write only two great songs as a Beatle: While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Something(though he wrote several good songs, like Think for Yourself and Taxman).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42377001874160309302011-03-02T09:21:07.812-08:002011-03-02T09:21:07.812-08:00"Up to a point, Lord Bloomberg"
"I..."Up to a point, Lord Bloomberg"<br /><br />"I get it."<br /><br />I don't get it. What was Sailer alluding to?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86415806995925405622011-03-02T09:20:32.392-08:002011-03-02T09:20:32.392-08:00Bloomberg is doing what Charles Foster Kane did in...Bloomberg is doing what Charles Foster Kane did in Citizen Kane.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81550093613975948782011-03-02T05:58:06.327-08:002011-03-02T05:58:06.327-08:00"America: flophouse for the world. Plutocrats..."America: flophouse for the world. Plutocrats and peons of all races welcome."<br /><br />America: A land of plutocrats, peons, and patriots. May the patriots triumph.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-71559113613734355672011-03-01T23:24:10.727-08:002011-03-01T23:24:10.727-08:00He is exactly the sort of person that you should l...<i> He is exactly the sort of person that you should like: He isn't whiny or entitled and he is a talented self-made man.</i><br /><br />I absolutely love Ceausescu too! Who on earth could be more American than that.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23140083517309413832011-03-01T22:29:25.248-08:002011-03-01T22:29:25.248-08:00"Anyone else, who follows the financial press...<i>"Anyone else, who follows the financial press, have an opinion on this? Am I in error?"</i><br /><br />No, you are correct. Bloomberg offers first rate journalism and commentary, better than the WSJ and NYT online and in print (Bloomberg's magazine), and better than CNBC on TV. Which makes it stupid for Bloomberg to mess with it.Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63812422684425203262011-03-01T21:43:19.158-08:002011-03-01T21:43:19.158-08:00Carlos Slim made money off his NYT investment.
I ...Carlos Slim <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/10/03/how-carlos-slim-made-150-million-from-the-nyt/" rel="nofollow">made money</a> off his NYT investment.<br /><br />I don't think Bloomberg will get anywhere with this venture (his earlier aspirations at national office were hopeless). But I think he will remain dominant in New York and will be re-elected if he wants to continue the job.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31566975115586315002011-03-01T20:32:34.411-08:002011-03-01T20:32:34.411-08:00Comment Inflation said...
"To author of blog...Comment Inflation said...<br /><br />"To author of blog: What is your problem with Bloomberg? He is exactly the sort of person that you should like: He isn't whiny or entitled and he is a talented self-made man. He is quintessentially "American." I hate to "go there" but it seems that his Jew-ness has something to do with it."<br /><br />No, I rather think it's Bloomberg's "asshole-ness" that's at issue.<br /><br />BTW, I don't read the financial press much - just an article here and there - but I get the impression that Bloomberg Financial's reporting is actually pretty good. They've reported on a lot of the seemier aspects of the recent/current crisis in finance; they haven't just repeated the propaganda as one sees in the WSJ. Anyone else, who follows the financial press, have an opinion on this? Am I in error?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23864295612993937922011-03-01T20:09:34.246-08:002011-03-01T20:09:34.246-08:00Is SWPL pronounced 'swapple'?
It should b...<i>Is SWPL pronounced 'swapple'?</i><br /><br />It should be sweeple, as in sheeple.chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07478646068209558795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66440598495352304942011-03-01T19:27:28.463-08:002011-03-01T19:27:28.463-08:00what's with the semicolon?
I don't see th...what's with the semicolon?<br /><br />I don't see that error in the NYT article. Did they fix it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54006313660104696262011-03-01T19:13:12.546-08:002011-03-01T19:13:12.546-08:00Seems like media in Putin's Russia is Bloomber...Seems like media in Putin's Russia is Bloomberg's model for an independent press.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31618167321855872362011-03-01T18:51:18.307-08:002011-03-01T18:51:18.307-08:00"btw, your snickeradoo "LORD Bloomberg&q...<i>"btw, your snickeradoo "LORD Bloomberg" strikes me as a lot of snicker and snark--- i thought you were above that resentment stuff"</i><br /><br />Apparently his literary allusion was above you.<br /><br />If it hadn't been, you'd have been able to provide a context for his remark and might even have thought it, as the rest of us did, clever rather than snarky.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37843066771649412202011-03-01T18:16:16.066-08:002011-03-01T18:16:16.066-08:00"Flophouse for the world." Brilliant! A..."Flophouse for the world." Brilliant! Anon, may I put it on a T-shirt?Baloohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245765878554696634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33597543967444224432011-03-01T18:05:27.879-08:002011-03-01T18:05:27.879-08:00"Others, too, may need to Google up a referen..."Others, too, may need to Google up a reference for Up to a point, Lord Copper."<br /><br />Waugh wrote in a more industrial age than ours. It would now have to be Lord Bond Tips. Hmm, Bond Gossip?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64085064977311869712011-03-01T17:06:19.761-08:002011-03-01T17:06:19.761-08:00Whiskey nailed it. Bloomberg is a shorter, geekier...Whiskey nailed it. Bloomberg is a shorter, geekier, older and whiter Obama. Who does he think he's going to fool? His "ideology" consists of every stupid, destructive piece of conventional wisdom shared by the morons of the main stream media.<br /><br />Most of whom are also members of his tribe.<br /><br />Good luck getting contrary opinions, rabbi Bloomberg.Thripshawnoreply@blogger.com