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Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:34:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford writes:
> Perhaps RM erred in such a large snip, but I immediately took his comment to
> refer to:
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> > c) prepared to discuss how likely it is that " more importantly, that
> > they're likely to deliver to their citizens in future." is true (the second
> > part of my metric) about Canada. It's not enough to be ahead at the moment.
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> which seems to be investigating the potential of a country to deliver
> [quality of life] to it's citizens, as a metric for superiority. No doubt
> I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but it seems to fit better than any
> reference to nuclear fission.
Larry is talking about the probability a country will continue to deliver. I'm
not really interested in debating semantics, but potential and probability have
different meanings. At least my reference was to the same word.
JOHN
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