. . . we'll all soon recognize the degree to which these *nations* are practically indistinguishable from criminal cartels, but with priviledged access to hysteria, er, history.
There is a lot of ground between folklore and science. The work of the GP in question is not falsifiable and not tested in relation to a control. Try-and-see is not the foundation of the scientific method, merely one technique.
As to snot, phlegm, mucus, as a lifelong asthmatic with severe allergies, I have extensive experience with the material in question and there is little to distinguish for a layman.
URTIs, they are viral infections, occasionally followed by bacterial superinfection
The practice of medicine long predates the development of what we currently understand as *science*: the methods of empirical analysis of theses. In particular, there is no time or means for treating each syndrome disclosed to a GP as an object of empirical study. The GP does not form more than a general hypothesis regarding etiology and treatment. Typically the treatment determines the diagnosis.
For example, it is the season of upper-respiratory infection, caused by a host of bacteria and viruses with very similar effects. The means are available to test phlegm samples and determine an exact diagnosis, but the costs are prohibitive. The GP compares symptoms to the run of illnesses she is seeing recently, prescribes in light of that insight and hopes for the best. If the AB is effective, it was a bacterial infection.
The practice of medicine, as opposed to medical research, has never been particularly *scientific* in the common sense of the word.
TFA is misleading. JGD Management is not an umbrella for York Capital Management. The reverse is the case. You do not have to go far to find who is behind JGD Management, from a recent filing for the purchase of a company in Israel:
Form 4: Statement of changes in beneficial
ownership of securities
Jaywalker's link raised on google is fortuitous. The purchaser identified in the APA linked from Groklaw is JDG Management Corp d/b/a York Capital Management. From a recent filing for the purchase of a company in Israel:
York Capital Management is a hedge fund. It invests in a lot of things, but this transaction looks like it might be a personal play. $36 mil is peanuts for this cat. He just paid $21 million for Dennis Koslowski's (remember Tyco?) old apartment
In other words, what they are really afraid of is radical nihilism. This is more than just a blow to the ego. It's a question of whether it can be meaningfully said that such a thing as the ego exists.
Exactly. But it is important to remember that *radical nihilism* is entirely a projection, a reaction formation. It does not follow from the premises, it is merely the most fearful and debilitating possibility.
Consider that existentialism does not preclude the question of morality or ethical behavior. In many respects, it reifies these issues and constitutes them on a firm, immediate footing, absent onto-theological appeals. Many people are understandably uncomfortable with the idea that they are personally responsible for figuring out what is right and wrong. Most folks desire shared limits; desire the conceptual shorthand the Imago Dei offers, and the vast rubric of codes and norms erected (pun intended) in His name, or conditioned by His possibility.
If God is dead, everything is permitted. --Sarte
If God is dead, nothing is permitted. --Lacan
In other words, any act must be justified for oneself and others without reference to an ontos, telos or theos. We are already outside the Law. We don't need permission, we need courage. We are struggling with the manifold symptoms of our collective historical experience.
The question of the existence of a discrete human being as the basic unit of ethical discourse is an excellent one, but does not implicate the question of ego. Whether the accretion of ideas that represent *me* is an accurate representation of a unitary mind affiliated to a discrete physical being is entirely beside the question of ego. Ego happens the moment this accretion of ideas finds itself confronted by an other. Ego exists in differential relation to other, similar, egos.
I don't much care to discuss the niceties of eighteenth-century gentlemen, either. Nor the fallacy of the Malthusian Trap. Nor the accidental nature of the West's *Great Leap Forward* The choices are not better merely for having been made. The degree of pricing power the proles enjoyed in setting the terms for their labor during most of the IR is amply documented. It was not great.
I mean to suggest that progress is far from inevitable or imperative, a rush downstream. It is an uphill fight. It is less and less the case that we must relegate ourselves to the familiar paths of least resistance: exploitation and coercion. There is no freedom from history, merely a progressive unleashing of our ability to project our will onto our environment, others and ourselves.
The people had already flocked to the city because they had been evicted from their pastoral livelihood by the Enclosure Laws. The industrial revolution happened substantially due to the critical mass of effectively starved humans ready to make the toil economically and emotionally feasible.
And there were no machines on the farms until the late nineteenth century.
Bread only becomes critical on the farm when the cities find it necessary to keep their machine-minder's bellies full. I am not saying the expropriation of labor by capital is not essential. There is no interpretive value in pretending that it is something other than it is for the sake of whitewashing the motives of the haute bourgeoisie.
The point of it is doing things you would never do, whether that be new partners, positions, or species
If you are pretending to do the things you would never do, are you still doing them? Having sex with a puppy in SL doesn't feel, look, or smell like having sex with a puppy in real life.
You don't pay hookers in real life to have sex with you, you pay them to go away afterwards.
Nothing about sex in SL or anywhere else online is effective as VR except the formation of a consensual pair/group. It is that you found another furry without too much trouble that appeals; that you can share it. The rest is less than imaginary.
New York legislators apparently consider production of grainy, shakey, muffled copies of Hollywood poo the moral equivalent of 2 oz. of pot. I thank God every day that our peerless statesmen are so responsive to these twin evils. It is common knowledge that copyright infringement is a gateway anti-social behavior, leading rapidly to contempt for authority, drug abuse, armed robbery, rape and murder, in that order.
the US started off with a 70% chance of a successful regime change, which was duly achieved
Um, there was some regime obliteration as I recall. I don't understand the current structures of authority in Iraq to constitute a government but in name. Effective local government is in the hands of armed mobs, effective national government is non-existent and *Coalition* control barely extends beyond its bases.
A billion things is a thousand millions of things. The decimal orders of magnitude, scientific notation and other notation systems have been developed precisely to represent such large numbers. This is sufficient to allow for some pretty significant conclusions to be drawn about a billion in relation to other numbers.
When you say conceptualize, I think you mean count.
. . . are no more fixed than they are monopolized by your imaginary *science* locked in a death match with faith for the hearts and minds of feeble men. It indicates that here is a different kind of knowing. It is not that he does not mean what he say, it just doesn't mean what he think it means.
That the physical record does not coincide with data from linguistic analysis is one of the standing problems within the current scientific consensus regarding the first peoples of America. There are a variety of ways to account for this. One's view is sharply dependent upon one's academic specialty. Linguists obviously chafe at being told that phonetic evolution is perhaps not as controlled and deterministic a process as radio-isotope decay. Similarly, analysis of mutation within mitochondrial DNA has not been definitively established to be beyond the influence of events tending to accelerate or suppress the process (cosmic gamma-ray outbursts, etc). In view of these facts, your post is largely polemical rather than instructive.
Likewise, the Dine's name for the Hopi is that of another group that supposedly went extinct, indicating they didn't, is another fact that gets actively ignored.
Facts are meaningless data points in the absence of interpretation. Verbal coincidences are the stuff of charlatans. Language does not develop in a deterministic way. It is much more likely that the Dine word was mis-appropriated by nineteenth century researchers than that this identification speaks to the interpretation you patently confuse with the fact at issue.
Absolutely true. And lets all recall that the last time M$ tried to pull a stunt at this scale and this degree of audacity, the thought leaders collected at this humble forum did not have available this ability to concert our action in response.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today 2 get through this thing called life.
Unspoken is the fact that up to a generation ago, universities did just that. Universities have recently seen an opportunity to monetize their innovation and defray growing costs. There still has not been sufficient public debate about the law and ethics surrounding publicly-financed institutions patenting, licensing and in some cases directly capitalizing IP developed with public funds, often explicitly funded by DAPRA, NIH, etc.
And a golden opportunity for a new political platform uniting liberal social policy, conservative economic policy and a sensitive, principled and coherent foreign policy. Can the Libertarians grow up or will it fall to the Greens? Neither major party seems capable of adjusting at the moment.
The hippy, anarchist wing of progressives, the dope-smoking conservatives, the (tiny) Schultz wing of the Republican party and the Log Cabin boys all together in one room: getting high, folding the big money and building roads in Afghanistan.
There are eight ways to Sunday for solving the last mile problem for software (the presentation tier) in a robust fashion. For all but the most trivial of applications, this solution is more trouble than it's worth. Unlike the last mile of the network, the target is not a fixed location.
The shrewd architect knows that there is always a rewrite. A dependency like this at the presentation layer is a liability. Whether interpreter is proprietary or not has little impact on these costs.
is another woman's pleasure, apparently. I find the indifferent substitution of he or she for usage number two to be perfectly satisfactory. My pet peeve is the scholiast's insistence that grammar and usage are not perfectly conventional systems susceptible of development. It's not political correctness makes me do; my desire is shakeup the hidebound English grammar.
I feel it is a stylistic matter; a piece with my habit of mashups with semi-colon or my resistance to certain aspects of preposition and pronoun usage. As a poet I feel competent to arrogate that prerogative for myself.
The first thing an author learns is how little she has to say. For any writer, amateur or professional, the proverbial guidance is *less is more*. Blogging is the systematic violation of this truth of human communication.
I applaud the distribution efficiencies and the rise of an amateur press, but I sigh for the wasted electrons and the deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio of our cultural life.
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. . . we'll all soon recognize the degree to which these *nations* are practically indistinguishable from criminal cartels, but with priviledged access to hysteria, er, history.
There is a lot of ground between folklore and science. The work of the GP in question is not falsifiable and not tested in relation to a control. Try-and-see is not the foundation of the scientific method, merely one technique.
As to snot, phlegm, mucus, as a lifelong asthmatic with severe allergies, I have extensive experience with the material in question and there is little to distinguish for a layman.
URTIs, they are viral infections, occasionally followed by bacterial superinfection
Prove it, Doctor.
The practice of medicine long predates the development of what we currently understand as *science*: the methods of empirical analysis of theses. In particular, there is no time or means for treating each syndrome disclosed to a GP as an object of empirical study. The GP does not form more than a general hypothesis regarding etiology and treatment. Typically the treatment determines the diagnosis.
For example, it is the season of upper-respiratory infection, caused by a host of bacteria and viruses with very similar effects. The means are available to test phlegm samples and determine an exact diagnosis, but the costs are prohibitive. The GP compares symptoms to the run of illnesses she is seeing recently, prescribes in light of that insight and hopes for the best. If the AB is effective, it was a bacterial infection.
The practice of medicine, as opposed to medical research, has never been particularly *scientific* in the common sense of the word.
TFA is misleading. JGD Management is not an umbrella for York Capital Management. The reverse is the case. You do not have to go far to find who is behind JGD Management, from a recent filing for the purchase of a company in Israel:
The sole shareholder of JGD is James G. Dinan.
Apparently the Masters of the Universe use php and like diminutive nicknames.
Form 4: Statement of changes in beneficial ownership of securities
Jaywalker's link raised on google is fortuitous. The purchaser identified in the APA linked from Groklaw is JDG Management Corp d/b/a York Capital Management. From a recent filing for the purchase of a company in Israel:
The sole shareholder of JGD is James G. Dinan.
York Capital Management is a hedge fund. It invests in a lot of things, but this transaction looks like it might be a personal play. $36 mil is peanuts for this cat. He just paid $21 million for Dennis Koslowski's (remember Tyco?) old apartment
telling users to 'fork WordPress'
Consider it done.
In other words, what they are really afraid of is radical nihilism. This is more than just a blow to the ego. It's a question of whether it can be meaningfully said that such a thing as the ego exists.
Exactly. But it is important to remember that *radical nihilism* is entirely a projection, a reaction formation. It does not follow from the premises, it is merely the most fearful and debilitating possibility.
Consider that existentialism does not preclude the question of morality or ethical behavior. In many respects, it reifies these issues and constitutes them on a firm, immediate footing, absent onto-theological appeals. Many people are understandably uncomfortable with the idea that they are personally responsible for figuring out what is right and wrong. Most folks desire shared limits; desire the conceptual shorthand the Imago Dei offers, and the vast rubric of codes and norms erected (pun intended) in His name, or conditioned by His possibility.
If God is dead, everything is permitted. --Sarte
If God is dead, nothing is permitted. --Lacan
In other words, any act must be justified for oneself and others without reference to an ontos, telos or theos. We are already outside the Law. We don't need permission, we need courage. We are struggling with the manifold symptoms of our collective historical experience.
The question of the existence of a discrete human being as the basic unit of ethical discourse is an excellent one, but does not implicate the question of ego. Whether the accretion of ideas that represent *me* is an accurate representation of a unitary mind affiliated to a discrete physical being is entirely beside the question of ego. Ego happens the moment this accretion of ideas finds itself confronted by an other. Ego exists in differential relation to other, similar, egos.
Enjoy your symptom!
I don't much care to discuss the niceties of eighteenth-century gentlemen, either. Nor the fallacy of the Malthusian Trap. Nor the accidental nature of the West's *Great Leap Forward* The choices are not better merely for having been made. The degree of pricing power the proles enjoyed in setting the terms for their labor during most of the IR is amply documented. It was not great.
I mean to suggest that progress is far from inevitable or imperative, a rush downstream. It is an uphill fight. It is less and less the case that we must relegate ourselves to the familiar paths of least resistance: exploitation and coercion. There is no freedom from history, merely a progressive unleashing of our ability to project our will onto our environment, others and ourselves.
And thanks for the very apt poesy.
This is the same municipality that is rolling out the world's first chipped citizen initiatives.
I am sure this is merely coincidental.
The people had already flocked to the city because they had been evicted from their pastoral livelihood by the Enclosure Laws. The industrial revolution happened substantially due to the critical mass of effectively starved humans ready to make the toil economically and emotionally feasible.
And there were no machines on the farms until the late nineteenth century.
Bread only becomes critical on the farm when the cities find it necessary to keep their machine-minder's bellies full. I am not saying the expropriation of labor by capital is not essential. There is no interpretive value in pretending that it is something other than it is for the sake of whitewashing the motives of the haute bourgeoisie.
The point of it is doing things you would never do, whether that be new partners, positions, or species
If you are pretending to do the things you would never do, are you still doing them? Having sex with a puppy in SL doesn't feel, look, or smell like having sex with a puppy in real life.
You don't pay hookers in real life to have sex with you, you pay them to go away afterwards.
Nothing about sex in SL or anywhere else online is effective as VR except the formation of a consensual pair/group. It is that you found another furry without too much trouble that appeals; that you can share it. The rest is less than imaginary.
Me, I'd rather *do* the things I'd never do.
And you're wrong about hookers.
New York legislators apparently consider production of grainy, shakey, muffled copies of Hollywood poo the moral equivalent of 2 oz. of pot. I thank God every day that our peerless statesmen are so responsive to these twin evils. It is common knowledge that copyright infringement is a gateway anti-social behavior, leading rapidly to contempt for authority, drug abuse, armed robbery, rape and murder, in that order.
Your claims are valueless because 'yer anonymous, coward. I made it up!
Is it only a question of time before Microsoft starts to [become Apple]?
the US started off with a 70% chance of a successful regime change, which was duly achieved
Um, there was some regime obliteration as I recall. I don't understand the current structures of authority in Iraq to constitute a government but in name. Effective local government is in the hands of armed mobs, effective national government is non-existent and *Coalition* control barely extends beyond its bases.
Or are you implying that people will stop listening to music?
I've stopped listening to recorded music entirely, as a matter of principle.
Can you conceptualize one billion things?
A billion things is a thousand millions of things. The decimal orders of magnitude, scientific notation and other notation systems have been developed precisely to represent such large numbers. This is sufficient to allow for some pretty significant conclusions to be drawn about a billion in relation to other numbers.
When you say conceptualize, I think you mean count.
. . . are no more fixed than they are monopolized by your imaginary *science* locked in a death match with faith for the hearts and minds of feeble men. It indicates that here is a different kind of knowing. It is not that he does not mean what he say, it just doesn't mean what he think it means.
Waoh, different kinds of truth.
That the physical record does not coincide with data from linguistic analysis is one of the standing problems within the current scientific consensus regarding the first peoples of America. There are a variety of ways to account for this. One's view is sharply dependent upon one's academic specialty. Linguists obviously chafe at being told that phonetic evolution is perhaps not as controlled and deterministic a process as radio-isotope decay. Similarly, analysis of mutation within mitochondrial DNA has not been definitively established to be beyond the influence of events tending to accelerate or suppress the process (cosmic gamma-ray outbursts, etc). In view of these facts, your post is largely polemical rather than instructive.
Likewise, the Dine's name for the Hopi is that of another group that supposedly went extinct, indicating they didn't, is another fact that gets actively ignored.
Facts are meaningless data points in the absence of interpretation. Verbal coincidences are the stuff of charlatans. Language does not develop in a deterministic way. It is much more likely that the Dine word was mis-appropriated by nineteenth century researchers than that this identification speaks to the interpretation you patently confuse with the fact at issue.
Absolutely true. And lets all recall that the last time M$ tried to pull a stunt at this scale and this degree of audacity, the thought leaders collected at this humble forum did not have available this ability to concert our action in response.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today 2 get through this thing called life.
Unspoken is the fact that up to a generation ago, universities did just that. Universities have recently seen an opportunity to monetize their innovation and defray growing costs. There still has not been sufficient public debate about the law and ethics surrounding publicly-financed institutions patenting, licensing and in some cases directly capitalizing IP developed with public funds, often explicitly funded by DAPRA, NIH, etc.
. .
And a golden opportunity for a new political platform uniting liberal social policy, conservative economic policy and a sensitive, principled and coherent foreign policy. Can the Libertarians grow up or will it fall to the Greens? Neither major party seems capable of adjusting at the moment.
The hippy, anarchist wing of progressives, the dope-smoking conservatives, the (tiny) Schultz wing of the Republican party and the Log Cabin boys all together in one room: getting high, folding the big money and building roads in Afghanistan.
Tell me it doesn't make sense.
There are eight ways to Sunday for solving the last mile problem for software (the presentation tier) in a robust fashion. For all but the most trivial of applications, this solution is more trouble than it's worth. Unlike the last mile of the network, the target is not a fixed location.
The shrewd architect knows that there is always a rewrite. A dependency like this at the presentation layer is a liability. Whether interpreter is proprietary or not has little impact on these costs.
is another woman's pleasure, apparently. I find the indifferent substitution of he or she for usage number two to be perfectly satisfactory. My pet peeve is the scholiast's insistence that grammar and usage are not perfectly conventional systems susceptible of development. It's not political correctness makes me do; my desire is shakeup the hidebound English grammar.
I feel it is a stylistic matter; a piece with my habit of mashups with semi-colon or my resistance to certain aspects of preposition and pronoun usage. As a poet I feel competent to arrogate that prerogative for myself.
The first thing an author learns is how little she has to say. For any writer, amateur or professional, the proverbial guidance is *less is more*. Blogging is the systematic violation of this truth of human communication.
I applaud the distribution efficiencies and the rise of an amateur press, but I sigh for the wasted electrons and the deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio of our cultural life.