Friday, July 13, 2007
Two pieces of good news
(1) Christians welcome Brown's Supercasino Review. Christians pleased with hint from Gordon Brown that Manchester supercasino plans may be scrapped. Christians have welcomed the suggestion from Gordon Brown that there may be better ways to bring economic growth to east Manchester than to build a supercasino there.
IMO: And mathematicians should be pleased also. Gambling on that scale is a criminal activity, and for this reason it is a waste of time even for smart mathematicians. The time such people can waste can be seen from careful reading of books such as the popular work of T.A. Bass entitled "The Newtonian Casino".
(2) Less farmland may be stolen from the workers using SEZs in future. The (Indian) "Business Standard" says "Fresh approvals for special economic zones (SEZs) are likely to slow down significantly in the days to come due to state governments not giving their mandatory clearance to 200 pending zones."
IMO: After Nandigram and Singur, for example, it is rapidly becoming clear that such SEZs are largely nonstarters in practical terms.
IMO: And mathematicians should be pleased also. Gambling on that scale is a criminal activity, and for this reason it is a waste of time even for smart mathematicians. The time such people can waste can be seen from careful reading of books such as the popular work of T.A. Bass entitled "The Newtonian Casino".
(2) Less farmland may be stolen from the workers using SEZs in future. The (Indian) "Business Standard" says "Fresh approvals for special economic zones (SEZs) are likely to slow down significantly in the days to come due to state governments not giving their mandatory clearance to 200 pending zones."
IMO: After Nandigram and Singur, for example, it is rapidly becoming clear that such SEZs are largely nonstarters in practical terms.
# posted by uv : 4:26 AM
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