Apples and oranges.

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Apples and oranges.

RobVG — 2/6/2007 5:13:23 AM (archived)

Outsourcing is the result of market forces. The decline of the timber industry was the effect of a government mandate based on faulty research.

Everyone knows correlation doesn't imply causation.

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Those poor, lost polar bears... - TB - 2/5/2007 12:52:04 AM
- Saw an article on a helicopter which was shot down. - Bowser - 2/5/2007 2:48:44 PM
- Things must be slow at work, TB. - ER - 2/5/2007 4:03:03 AM
  - Blogs, Limbaugh, etc. - Bowser - 2/5/2007 2:59:39 PM
    - How are the spotted owls doing? - RobVG - 2/5/2007 3:12:26 PM
      - Beats the hell out of me. - Bowser - 2/5/2007 4:40:26 PM
      - re: How are the spotted owls doing? - Yeti - 2/5/2007 4:22:29 PM
        
        The war was wrong, the facts were tweaked. - RobVG - 2/6/2007 2:57:40 AM
        
        re: The war was wrong, the facts were tweaked. - Yeti - 2/6/2007 5:57:29 AM
        
        Took me awhile, but I got your point. - RobVG - 2/7/2007 3:22:19 AM
        
        re: Took me awhile, but I got your point. - Its only a flesh wound! I'll bite your k - 2/7/2007 5:20:36 PM
        
        Global warming. - RobVG - 2/8/2007 1:52:35 AM
        
        re: Global warming. - Yeti - 2/8/2007 2:01:30 AM
        
        salman pak, aluminum tubes, VX, anthrax, yellow cake, drones... - RobVG - 2/6/2007 6:32:17 AM
        
        re: Did I leave anything out? - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:34:39 AM
        
        The topic was misrepresentation. (n/t) - RobVG - 2/6/2007 6:39:37 AM
        
        Polar bear stock pics does not 'tonnes of Anthrax' make - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:46:02 AM
        
        Actually, that last was a bit more brusque than called for - Yeti - 2/6/2007 5:37:05 PM
        
        or ... - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/6/2007 11:35:25 PM
        
        re: or ... - Yeti - 2/7/2007 12:04:02 AM
      - Screw the spotted owls! - Lindy - 2/5/2007 3:56:40 PM
        
        How are the humans doing? - RobVG - 2/6/2007 2:52:18 AM
        
        re: How are the humans doing? - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:00:23 AM
        
        Definitely a sin when there is no justification. - RobVG - 2/6/2007 6:19:00 AM
        
        No, there was a justification - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:30:14 AM
        
        23,300 people had to change jobs over an 8 yr. period - Lindy - 2/6/2007 4:33:55 AM
        
        Apples and oranges. - RobVG - 2/6/2007 5:13:23 AM
        
        market forces - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:04:54 AM
        
        Force vs attraction. - RobVG - 2/6/2007 6:12:58 AM
        
        ergo.... - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:26:05 AM
        
        That same mentality has driven the median price of a new home in our area to $449,000 - RobVG - 2/6/2007 6:38:13 AM
        
        I doubt wetland protection is the only pressure on housing prices in your state - Yeti - 2/6/2007 6:44:30 AM
        
        But that's the whole point - Laurie Street - 2/5/2007 5:20:13 PM
        
        That was the point of the post. One brick in the wall. (n/t) - TB - 2/5/2007 5:37:11 PM
  - A clarification... - TB - 2/5/2007 5:12:20 AM
  - Not really. - TB - 2/5/2007 5:07:13 AM
    - re: Not really. - ER - 2/5/2007 5:50:29 AM
      - Really. - TB - 2/5/2007 7:03:50 AM
        
        Point taken. You are absolutely correct. - ER - 2/5/2007 12:50:30 PM
        
        It never was about malice. - TB - 2/5/2007 5:20:45 PM
        
        That's hot stuff, ER! - Lindy - 2/5/2007 4:11:27 PM
        
        God help us all once you see the BBC's 'Planet Earth' showing Polar Bears (n/t) - Doug Ellison - 2/5/2007 8:44:50 AM

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