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I confess that I didn't know that... Is this true? I always thought he came from NYC.

Yep, the original NHL Russkies were the old guard that played for CSKA Moscow (the Soviet Army team, which got to cherry pick the best and the brightest).

I don't see that. Given the author's cavalier treatment of history in the specific case I have mentioned, why should I presume his other points are more valid? [B] I think you may have lost sight of the original statement. What you're saying is precisely my point. When a person decides...

Erm, bone, I hate to be a bearer of bad news, but you are aware that this is incorrect? The Soviet Union had sports leagues in which teams representing various regions/professions/groups would compete. IMHO, I imagine the Soviet powers that be actually quite liked sports as the alternative...

May I ask you a question pls, Lucrum? Would apply equally to tomdavis, if he (I assume) is willing to respond...

Firstly, we're talking about causation, rather than correlation. Secondly, as I mentioned already, you/author quoted in the OP are the ones making a categorical statement that there is causation. This implies that, in order to disprove the statement, I don't have to prove that it's always...

Sure, I understand the quandary... However, I was only suggesting that you remove things that are obviously not tradable. For example, the Euroyen LIBOR contract on Simex has an OI of exactly zero.

Look at the Wilmott thread and you'll find the doc I mentioned to you (I actually attached it there in a zip file).

Erm, I am not entirely sure what you might be ranting about here... Before you decide to discuss this (personally) painful period of Russian history with me I'd recommend you actually spend a little time with this wondrous invention called Internet. I hear there's also another, equally...

I am not sure how you define "a small number"... It was a wholesale purge of the higher echelons of the Red Army. The estimate I have seen in literature, in terms of actual numbers, is arnd 35,000 arrested and executed. Fine, pspr, let's have a discussion. I am perfectly willing to admit...

If I were you, Steven, I would also remove non-tradable, illiquid contracts from your list. Stuff like SIMEX Euroyen LIBOR, the Swiss 10y CONF (sadly), LIFFE 10y JGB, etc.

Firstly, you clearly failed to recognize that my comment was not addressed at you, but rather at the author whom you quoted. Secondly, I also said that the person who made this argument and specifically referred to Soviet dissidents (i.e. the author) "lacks a functioning brain". Did you take...

I think they're very clever and so much more than a passing fad. Very good stuff, with occasional flashes of brilliance. Sorta like the Simpsons that way, come to think of it.

Dude, honestly, are you capable of logic? When did I ever say that I am for or against the 2nd amendment and/or gun control? When did I ever say that people who don't share my views shouldn't be allowed to own guns? When did I ever say that I should be in power and tell anyone what they can...

Is no problem... Sorta Onion-esque, innit?

Ah, but you see, Ricter, what if, cunningly, my apology was sarcasm as well?

DUH! Shouldn't this be obvious? A gun would have been about as much use to a Russian dissident during Stalin's 1937 purges as it would have been to an innocent Kurd in Halabja in 1988.

The part that the ability of the citizenry to bear arms can help against tyranny somehow. My point is that making arms illegal has never prevented a civil war or a massacre or some sort of conflict. It's always about organization and leadership, rather than the tools, to make it even more...

AD, I am not expressing an opinion about gun control, its merits and flaws or anything of the sort. What I am saying is that the argument is total bollox.

This is the most ridiculous, illogical load of hogwash I have heard. I won't speak of the other stuff, but, as to 1, to imagine that the ability to legally bear arms would have helped Russian dissidents to resist Stalin's purges is beyond ludicrous. Moreover, we know for a fact that it...