On May 9, 9:45 pm, "turtoni" <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: Pessimism, from the Latin pessimus (worst), is the decision to evaluate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimism http://youtube.com/watch?v=1_6eZ6NcEq8

...for Godot expressed a deep pessimism during this time. The utopian...a wave" -- HAL Fisher [edit] Pessimism by individual [edit] Arthur Schopenhauer...rise of political apathy. Intellectual pessimism   Main article: skeptical hypothesis   postmodernism...writings of Giambattista Vico. Eschatological pessimism   Main article: Eschatology Apocalypse predictions...

...by analyzing the concept of pessimism. But against the palpably sophistical...rise of political apathy. Intellectual pessimism Main article: skeptical hypothesis postmodernism...political times ever encountered. Environmental pessimism peak oil, water shortage, the...writings of Giambattista Vico. Eschatological pessimism Main article: Eschatology Apocalypse predictions...

...United States; and in the midst of an economic meltdown, voters are feeling an unprecedented degree of pessimism about the direction the country is heading. Clearly, there is reason to believe that the "Bradley... phone users are rarely polled). At the same time, we know that in times of pronounced pessimism, people tend to vote the ruling party out of office. Yet, John McCain has spent a ...

...United States; and in the midst of an economic meltdown, voters are feeling an unprecedented degree of pessimism about the direction the country is heading. Clearly, there is reason to believe that the "Bradley... phone users are rarely polled). At the same time, we know that in times of pronounced pessimism, people tend to vote the ruling party out of office. Yet, John McCain has spent a ...

... and varied. One is strong herd behavior in a particular stock where the high emotion and crowd conformity happen to be dominant, which can lead to either excessive optimism or pessimism at or near price tops or bottoms, leading to extreme swings. Another possibility is the relative low volume of trading in some stocks that can easily exaggerate trader or...

... one of the first accusers that comes to mind). So the idea (things-in-themselves) isn't non-useful, and the practicing physicist doesn't have to accept it as an actual metaphysical condition (but scientists probably are realists more often than not, shrugging away both the metempirical epistemic pessimism of Kantians and then relativism of generic perspectivists). posted by Ecce

...many and varied. One is strong herd behavior in a particular stock where the high emotion and crowd conformity happen to be dominant, which can lead to either excessive optimism or pessimism at or near price tops or bottoms, leading to extreme swings. Another possibility is the relative low volume of trading in some stocks that can easily exaggerate trader or investor ...

... us with the proof that you have travelled to all parts of the universe and substantiate your claim that the term "happiness" is indeed universal. Hope for the best and expect the worst is pessimism - this in no way defines happiness. Happiness is relative to a species not an individual. Humans are most happy to see Jesus bleeding to death on a crucifix. They experience much joy at ...

... a time and by people who did not have the required expertise and could not be expected to have such expertise. That doesn't exculpate the writers of a modern language standard from casting decades-old pessimal design in concrete for centuries to come. I remember the canonical example of this was: DO 10 I = 1. 10 As other replies have stated, Fortran _has_ learnt from ...