en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/307576 Comments by notebulb http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/02/sp_100_brownian.html#IDComment14852667 Please excuse my idiocy, but I don't understand this. Does the Y-axis = MarketCapitalizationToday / MarketCapThisDateLastYear and X-axis = MarketCapToday / MarketCapLastWeek? And, why do the size of the balls change over time? Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:06:57 +0000 http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/02/sp_100_brownian.html#IDComment14852667 http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/01/22/google_scholar_3.html#IDComment14265382 The facilitation of easily accessible information, such as the good dope contained in publicly funded research, grants and other knowledge-transmitters, the stuff that's found in academic journals and other walled-enlightenment-gardens; in yesteryear fell in the domain and function of the "library". However, in recent history, the library's role has changed. 180 degrees. Their actions are similar to them RIAA , only in some ways, much darker: their role as spreader-of-our-knowledge-treasures has petrified into the ghostly statuesque remnant that serves as a fortress of knowledge bigotry requiring secret user identifications and passwords. The library system in America is 1000 times worse than theRIAA . The Ivy-Leagued elites and celebrities have no problem gathering information. I'm sure that there have been many times when you've bumped into something like the JSTOR hurdle, only to have a colleague or well-intentioned ivy-league aristocrat quietly email you the journal, article or tidbit of enlightenment that you were seeking. It's not that way for us ignoramus masses. We've got to unGREENy burn oil, use or gas hog cars, travel to the gigantically inefficient electricity sucking mosques that houses the remnants of old, vermin infested and inked-ladened dead tree parchments -- the method of infomatics-gathering used by our candle-burning-horse-and-buggy ancestors. It's a system structure benefits the Ivy Leagues. They have the access. They have the secret keys, passwords and easy pathways to the knowledge chambers. To withhold the public's golden knowledge, to keep the masses enslaved to illiteracy and darkness -- isn't it unconscionable? Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:53:17 +0000 http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/01/22/google_scholar_3.html#IDComment14265382