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British Lawnmower Museum
www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/
106-114 Shakespeare Street Southport, Merseyside
PR8 5AJ, United Kingdom 01704 501 336

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Alan Wang talking about the Penis Museum, eh?

I've never been to the Penis Museum in Santa Rosa, but I've heard good things.

It was a pretty cool documentary and got me on a Titanic kick this week with all the stuff going around. The whole Titanic story is pretty cool I think. It made me sad though that in Belfast they're basically making the entire construction yard into a giant museum. It just seems to me we should be building more awesome stuff rather than looking back on the past so much, worry about the future, build big awesome things.

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I see what you're saying, and that seems plausible on the surface. I could easily see Universities and Colleges just taking "profits" and folding them into projects around the university that don't directly impact their productivity (hey, let's build a new art museum, hey let's build a supercollider, hey, let's pave the walkways in gold...). That way the increased revenues don't show up as profits or even budget surpluses.

But again that speaks to a more general market failure. In a situation like that, competitors should be able to recognize that there's inefficiency, and take it as an opportunity make a profit by opening a competing firm that's more efficient.

This is supposedly the mechanism that punishes firms that grow fat and inefficient -- a more efficient competitor can swoop in, sell an equivalent product at a lower price and make what used to be your profits into their profits.

All this is making me want to go googling for an economic analysis of the drivers in tuition cost increases. Unlike with health care, I can't really think of much that's special about the higher education market that would make traditional market mechanisms break down.

>> ^direpickle:

Universities are like businesses: they like money. Even if they're not stockpiling cash or being 'for profit', they like money. They like to tear down their old buildings and build new expensive ones so that they can get on the covers of magazines. They like to hire prestigious faculty. They like to get money, and they like to spend money.
Even if their fixed maintenance/faculty/staff/utility/etc costs are "low" (which I'd dispute, but even putting that aside), they will always find ways to spend money, and since they continue to have record enrollment rates even with tuition hikes, they'll just continue to raise tuition (and, yes, perhaps hire more professors) until demand stabilizes.

I respect his bravery to take a huge movie into the realm of the completely artistic, but it would have been a shit show. A shit show with some mesmerizing scenes, but it wouldn't have been a coherent story. Jodorowsky did some crazy movies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_k8oaeHsnc) like The Holy Mountain. He follows the rule of art. Holy Mountain is an installation or a museum piece... not something your average Joe is going to pay money to see in a theater. I can't even fathom eating popcorn while watching...

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She soooo reminds me of my son at that age. He's now 8 and still wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up. It always reminds me of this great Dinosaur knowledge vs age graph.

I took him to the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta for a couple days when he was 6 and he had the time of his life. We drove 13 hours to get there, but it was really worth it. We were in one of the workshops making fossil imprints and he was trying to correct some of the people when they were saying the wrong things about different dinosaurs.

wow, that's actually pretty cool. I don't care if the guy's rich. At least he took something old and ugly and turned it into something amazing. Good for him.

Here in my city there's an old grain mill with big silos. An old, not attractive building at all, and very close to the university. So the university bought the mill, and it has become a science museum, and it also has a few student residencies. Right now, they're actually making a new entrance for the museum, so buses can more easily drop visit groups without hindering the traffic flow.

It's pretty cool as well.

Not to put too fine a point on it - but his essential point is quite correct. No one was really called a "Palestinian" except in very recent world history. Certainly not within the context that the term is being used today.

However, that doesn't really matter much. The modern Jewish state also did not exist until recent modern history. They had a history as a nation until the Romans sacked the place, but after that point their identity was not that of a people/state, but simply as a 'race' which was scattered. Does that mean they did not exist? Of course not, and the Palestinians may not have had a state either, or necessarily an identity linked to a specific nation - but they were there.

As always - this whole discussion is pointless. The world should forcibly relocate all Jews to an island like Sicily. Then relocate all the "palestinians" to an island on the other side of the planet. Then build a big fence all around the disputed territory and turn it into an international museum run by the Swiss and no one else is allowed to live there. Problem solved.

lol...."my local science museum."