9thdoctor

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    Hopefully all it will take is waving our paper tiger at them. The way it's going now, they're trying to keep it "legal", on the grounds that the last election was illegitimate, leaving the office of President vacant.
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    Chomsky says stay out: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/01/24/open-letter-united-states-stop-interfering-venezuelas-internal-politics There are a lot of Venezuelan refugees where I live. A real bad situation. But Noam must know what's best, having had the genius to come up with this line:
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    Go ahead and keep thinking that. If you were to make a project of piecing together the biographical info I’ve posted here over the years you could almost certainly identify me in real life. It might take a PI to do the work. Profession, rough age and coordinates, first name. You’ll notice that a few posters (evidently) know me personally. No one who’s active now, however (I think in each case the reason they stopped posting here was TDS). I don’t use this site (or Rand-land generally) to promote myself. There’s no upside for me, as I imagine there is for you (ever sold a painting to someone who discovered you online?). Downsides? There are too many to name. Here’s a recent story that comes to mind: http://reason.com/blog/2018/11/14/man-pleads-guilty-to-charges-in-deadly-s Would I put that kind of thing past certain deranged people I’ve encountered online, even on this site?
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    I'm just a guy on the internet. On sites within Rand-land, I use this handle. Elsewhere, no. I have my reasons.
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    As in, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"? It sounds like Hicks did the equivalent to a quote from Foucault.
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    The PDF is available for free here: http://www.stephenhicks.org/explaining-postmodernism/ Notice on the cover there's a rogues gallery named, including Popper. But checking the index, there's only one reference to Popper in the entire book: The biggest names in the philosophy of science - Otto Neurath, Karl Popper, Norwood Hanson, Paul Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, and W.V.O. Quine - despite wide variations in their versions of analytic philosophy - all argued that our theories largely dictate what we will see. Say what?
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    From Twitter: Rep. John Yarmuth ✔ @RepJohnYarmuth The President’s fans seem far more upset by my (obvious) joke about banning hats than they were when the President said literally the same thing about banning actual human beings. Go figure. 356 5:16 PM - Jan 20, 2019 Here's the full video. I agree with Scott Adams's opinion on this.
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    Ouch. I actually have a PDF of this book, but haven't read it. I sort of skimmed it, and scanned the index. No references to Barth, Eco, Pynchon, or Wallace, so it's certainly not about Postmodern Literature, leading me to tune out. This guy's review reminds me of David Gordon's critique of Peikoff's The Ominous Parallels.
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    Well, it sure didn't take long. Who's got time for all this?
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    Potholer54's reply does a good job of keeping the tone civil. He doesn't hesitate to throw Al Gore under the bus. The scientific aspects of his rebuttal are hard for this layman to evaluate quickly. I look forward to Heller's reply.
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    I won't be impressed until he sells a bicycle to a fish.
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    Was he still cracking fart jokes?
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    Bob, are you blind? I don't mean the question as an insult, it's a genuine question. You won't watch videos, you misspell Karl Popper's name (suggesting you use voice to text), and you say you're involved in making recorded books for the blind. In any event, below is my first post on this thread. I hadn't yet figured out how the South Pole solution works. Notice that I didn't insult anyone, and if you go back you'll find that no one suggested I was a dummy for not getting it right away. Compare this to the way you behaved, and the reaction you got.
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    As for RBG, the Dems are praying she lives another 2 years so Trump won't be the one to nominate her successor. I recall 3-4 years ago there were calls for her to step down so that Obama would make the pick, but she refused.
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    Indeed, so it's hardly worth arguing over. But it's not necessarily an altruistic thing. Had Chopin lived longer we'd have more works as great as this to enrich our lives. And had Lipatti lived longer they'd have been recorded in better sound quality than we get here: It could be thought of as a trade. And if the day off your life is one of the final ones, with your memory gone and mind clouded by the drugs required to palliate physical pain...set up the conditions just right and eventually the decision becomes a no-brainer, eh?
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    I don't see why it's such a bad thought experiment. Aren't there historical figures you wish had lived longer? Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin come to mind, I'd trade a day for any of them. They died tragically young, with much achievement ahead of them. Let's throw in Dinu Lipatti and Fritz Wunderlich, while we're at it. As opposed to some other personal favorites, say Umberto Eco and P.G. Wodehouse, who died (84 and 93 respectively) having accomplished their missions. What the big deal is about RBG is another matter.
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    Not snobby ole Parrotholer! Skeptics, quiver with fear!
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    Au contraire. Let's not forget that all these people are going to get their back pay once this all blows over. It has happened every previous time, and Trump has said he expects to work that way this time also. So those nonessential employees who aren't going to work right now are in fact getting paid vacation. And presumably these days aren't going to be deducted from their normal accrued vacation time, so it's extra paid vacation. So the worst element of this is that those people who live hand-to-mouth, financially speaking, are being inconvenienced. Though (so far) probably not to the extent of being evicted, having their cars repossessed, or even missing meals, unless these things were going to happen anyway. If you're a landlord, are you going to incur the expense of eviction proceedings knowing your tenant has such an obviously valid excuse for paying late? As to the ones who are having to work anyway, like TSA agents, what say you, Mr. Pink?
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    Maybe in Hebrew "sleeps with" isn't a synonym for "fornicates with", as in English. Are there any etymologists around to weigh in?
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    Did you mean to say "it's hard to conclude it won't be good", or "it's hard not to conclude it will be good"? The way it stands is odd; if you expect the book to be a stinker, then instead of "although" you'd probably use "and".
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    For this upcoming biography, the worst case is that Milgram has uncovered bombshells (and firecrackers) that she's going to omit in order to avoid making Rand look bad. When she includes something negative but gives a slanted presentation we should be able to see through it easily enough. My point being that we're not going to know what was omitted. It'll probably be decades before another biography is written by someone with full access to the archives. That author will be in a position to disclose what Milgram leaves out. Meanwhile, Milgram is not one of the people accused of past tampering, so it's a bit premature (and also unfair) to dismiss her by association with earlier ARI-sanctioned productions. I'm hoping for a really good book.
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    A hagiography is a type of biography. PARC wasn't a biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagiography