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Good, let's shoot the fucker news:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/22/europe/22serb.php Bosnian Serb leader, top war crimes suspect, arrested --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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Bespin -- Within Reach!
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It's good to remember that Dubya ain't the most insidious asshole around. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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Fuck COmcast. MOre importantly, screw whatever corp entity it's sold to when the next Enron cycle begins. Oh... and last payment I sent them, I wrote: QUIT WITH THE BOGUS BILLING HORSESHIT AWREDDY |
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You know the appeal has already been filed, right?
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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Conservatism Scientifically Proven Crazy, or, "A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in fear, aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity"
David Brin replies: Well... for the sake of credibility, let’s be fair: as we've seen, there are countless leftists who exhibit precisely the same neurotic failings. Indeed, these are traits far more typical of romanticism - of left or right - than conservatism, per se. And romanticism, as a deep, memic imperative, most definitely is deeply opposed to the entire Enlightenment project. Certainly, it seems quite valid to make a distinction between most "liberals"-- who tend to be non-dogmatic, adaptable, and sensitive to nuance -- and the "leftists" who fixate on dogmas, litmus-tests and nonsensical political correctness. The latter are classic romantics and can be as anger-drenched as anyone on the right. Only with one major distinction...the loony lefties do not - and never have - control a major American political party, while the loony right has seized total control over theirs. Are conservatives statistically more likely, en masse, to be romantics than liberals are? I think that can be argued with a great deal of confidence. Still, I am frankly disgusted with "psychological researchers" who are so blind to the common threads that link the far right and left, rather than dividing them. Vastly more interesting is the work of Jonathan Haidt, who found a liberal-conservative distinction that seems to have far more generality, correlation and explanatory power. Haidt found five general drivers of moral opinion and fervor: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/haidt07/haidt07_index.html 1 ingroup/loyalty, 2 authority/respect, 3 purity/sanctity, 4 harm/care 5 fairness/reciprocity. Cultural conservatives work hard to cultivate moral virtues based on all five of these... in keeping with the patterns that are seen in nearly all predecessor cultures. Liberals are the ones who are historically anomalous -- raised in a modern society with high degrees of personal safety, predictability, comfort, physical and social mobility and education, they tend to pick only the latter pair of fundamental moral drivers -- (4) who is being harmed/neglected and (5) whether a situation seems fair. Hence unusual marriage patterns and/or recreational drugs seem less threatening, lacking any victims. Indeed, Haidt’s research reveals a very powerful point -- one of the things that has driven the decline of liberalism has been its refusal to credit any validity to the other three moral drivers, even though all five were potent in every known, prior human culture. In fact, liberalism’s refusal to grant any honor or dignity to the “older†three drivers would have to qualify as a form of... well... bigotry. Let’s admit it, and try to listen better, so we can fight for the future more effectively. (Oh, and consider the many ways in which liberals, especially of the left, actually carry dogmatic passions of “sanctity and purity and authority†themselves! What is political correctness, then?) ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "No blossoms wither so quickly as yesterday's tomorrows." --Disch "He looked upon us as sophisticated children: smart but not wise." --said of Ishi |
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More from MIT's prolific mindforge:
Another, Much Greater Solar Breakthrough. Forget the Kooks -- Free Energy is now real. This message has been edited. Last edited by: Metro Dynamics, ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "No blossoms wither so quickly as yesterday's tomorrows." --Disch "He looked upon us as sophisticated children: smart but not wise." --said of Ishi |
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Water Confirmed! on Mars
Next target: Martian trilobites. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "No blossoms wither so quickly as yesterday's tomorrows." --Disch "He looked upon us as sophisticated children: smart but not wise." --said of Ishi |
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That's really cool! _____________________________________ ::swoon:: |
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Yeah but doesn't a win set some kind of a legal precedent? I really don't know, I'm asking. |
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I don't want to rain on your parade (yes, I actually do) but that place has really gone to shit. It's got like, severed hands and shit falling out of the air-con ducts last I heard. Seriously, bad investment, man. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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Get ready for the researchers involved in this to suffer nasty accidents, followed by an unexplained fire at the lab. ----------------------------- "It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity. After that, the next step is to become a small power itself." --GK Chesterton, "Heretics" |
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Will it disappear as patents for hybrid cars did in 1975?
Certainly a worry. If only they could be convinced to sacrifice monetary gain and freely release a comprehensive PDF. Seems one way to preempt any Big Oil squashment. Uber, so true. Things have deteriorated since the old administrator fled. Parades are prettier in the rain. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "No blossoms wither so quickly as yesterday's tomorrows." --Disch "He looked upon us as sophisticated children: smart but not wise." --said of Ishi |
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When I read that fast, I thought it said "Next target: Martian toilets." |
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Well, toilets would be brassbound evidence of a much more sophisticated intelligence! A very nice impromptu NASA bumper sticker, shake.
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Evidence of Buddha's First Two Disciples Found
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Life on Titan
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federal officials could obtain a grand-jury subpoena to Mary Kate Olson in the death of Heath Ledger. She won't talk unless granted immunity.
"The bitch must die!!"
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -Albert Einstein |
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The Olsen Twins:
Anorexics. Billionaires. Serial Killers. A Lifetime Movie. --- "I knew their tastes were very different and because the french like Dick a lot." -W.G. |
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