Animal body hair human head hair. Animal body hair is analogous to human body hair, not human head hair. As we all know, when human males age, head hair tends to go, but body hair tends to sprout, especially out of the most repulsive places possible, such as the ears and the nose. There may be some kind of conservation of hair principle here. The obvious Darwinian explanation would be to prevent older men from breeding, although I'm not sure why.
On the whole, reptiles seems rather more sensible.
Of course the phrase "Wall of Separation of Church and State" (note my attempts at 18th-cent. capitalization) doesn't appear in the constitution. You left out the "wall" part, but that's important because it's the reason the phrase doesn't appear. It's a metaphor, and has no place in a legal document such as a constitution. Thomas Jefferson used it later to explain his understanding of the 1st Amendment. Since he wrote the thing in the first place, he gets a pass here.
You don't even have to blow up planes. You just have to blow yourself up in the line waiting for the TSA screening. Nothing to prevent you, and that will stop air traffic just as effectively as blowing up a plane.
It proved only that if a physicist lies to non-physicists about physics, he can fool them. Yeah, they shouldn't have printed the article since they had no way of vetting it. But, still, it would have sank into oblivion if Sokal himself hadn't raised it from the dead: there's not a single citation to it until Sokal contacted the media with the news about his stunt.
All that post-structuralist stuff *is* crap, of course. But Sokal didn't do anything to demonstrate that.
That would probably be Georg Gottfried Wagner (1698-1756), who also played violin for Bach (1685-1750), another 18th-century composer, and not to be confused with Leonhard Emil Bach (1849-1902), a 19th-century composer.
Either that or KDawson thinks that "18 century" means "1800s."
(I am a musicologist, but I am not your musicologist, and this post is not intended as musicological advice).
Maybe it's a trumpet (mostly cylindrical bore) not a horn (conical bore). The other instruments don't have Latin labels, but if this was indeed a funeral motet, the use of a Latin name for the trumpet could have been to get around guild restrictions, since the use of trumpets (and timpani) was tightly, although somewhat incoherently, regulated. Bach wouldn't have been allowed to hire a "tromba" or "clarino" player, but give the instrument another name, and it's ok. (The guild regs really were that ridiculous.)
There's no evidence for this, but it's a lot more plausible than a literal lituus.
Please read the second link in the summary. It's completely bonkers to think that an ancient Roman instrument just happened to survive into Bach's time, and then disappeared without a trace. We have descriptions of instruments and musical practice from Bach's time, and there is no lituus. We also have descriptions of ancient Roman (and Greek and Biblical) instruments from Bach's time, stuff that Bach would have known, and there are Litui in there. Bach took the name of an ancient Roman instrument because for some reason, probably having to do with the original purpose of that particular "cantata" (more likely it was a funeral motet), a fancy Latin name was more appropriate. The instrument itself would have been a horn or, less likely, a trumpet pitched in Bb. The difference between a Baroque horn and Baroque trumpet of that pitch would have been only the exact shape of the bore and the configuration of the mouthpiece.
Sorry, but the only evidence for the existence of the ancient Lituus in Bach's time is the occasional use of a Latin term in place of a German or Italian or some other vernacular term. That adds up to exactly zero evidence.
That said, the modelling software is pretty neat.
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I am a musicologist, but I am not your musicologist, and this message does not constitute musicological advice. (In most juristictions.)
The "increasing complexity" argument seems contradicted by the facts (and the reference is to a 10-year-old paper, which is described as "recent").
We like to think that intelligence produces a general sort of fitness, but the all of the primates are extremely intelligent, probably the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and with one exception they all live in highly specialized niches, and they're all likely to become extinct within a hundred years or so.
In spite of what that paper says, increasing complexity does not mean increasing fitness - orchids are among the most complex of flowering plants, but they are also highly specialized and are vulnerable to changes in their habitats.
The one data point we have is that, although life arose probably as soon as the earth cooled off enough to allow it, for most of earth's history, the highest form of life consisted of algae mats. It may be very, very hard to develop even eukaryotic life, and intelligence may require an outlandishly improbable set of events. Hard to extrapolate from one data point, of course.
The way EFF explained it to me (I'm Frankel or, as EFF and my mother call me, Dr. Frankel. Also my old school when they're asking for money), if Lyons (the Barney company) keeps sending around nastygrams, that will establish a pattern that courts will probably look on very unfavorably. And the $5000 may be a drop in the bucket to them (it goes to EFF, incidentally), but the negative publicity was priceless. EFF would love to represent any future recipients of Barney's nastygrams.
As of this writing nobody has heard back from the Barney lawyers. This is scary because their letters were obviously sent automatically, and when the computers finally do take over, it's not going to be by controlling the power grid but by sending out legal notices. So the process may have started at Lyons' lawyers. Either that or they're all pod people.
And, yes, it's unethical for the lawyers to contact me directly after I have an attorney of record in the case and, yes, we've filed an ethics complaint about that.
And, yes, the whole thing is ridiculous, which is why I put a little explanation on my home page, namely:
" This is my little corner of the web, and the bullies can't have it. There's nothing more to it than that. "
Global warming predictions are not for more storms but for more intense storms. The typhoons this year include the strongest storm ever to enter the South China Sea in May (Chanchu), the highest hourly rainfall ever to hit the Hong Kong Observatory (the monsoon behind Bilis), and the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years (Saomai).
Well, technically not hurricanes, but typhoons, which are hurricanes hiding out in the western Pacific. China has been hit with a record-breaking number (8), including some serious monsters.
It's still a fuckup, although a more minor one. Every winter a sheet of ice forms on the roof and from time to time they have to cordon off 53rd Street because they're afraid it will slip off.
How about scattering a bunch of pit toilets around the site? The pits are only a couple of dozen feet deep, so won't interfere with the primary purpose. They can be lined with some low-value but durable concrete. Up top, instead of a western throne, an Asian squat toilet of the same material, perhaps (partially?) enclosed by a low wall. These toilets would, of course, be fully functional although not necessarily comfortable, but the most important purpose would be symbolic. The "two footprints and a hole" structure would be hard to misinterpret.
Human: What's cooking? ALICE: Food preparation. Human: Oh dear, already you've failed the test. ALICE: Hurrah! Are you a student? Human: Too smart for that. ALICE: Too what?
For a while now, they've actually been producing local-language software, in a desultory and half-assed way, specifically in response to (usually much better) local-language free software. See, for ex., http://www.kyfieithu.co.uk/item.php?lg=en&item_id= 79 for Welsh, Nynorsk (the *other* Norwegian), and Catalan.
I shouldn't have to state that Japanese law is derived from Japanese culture and history, as it should be obvious. As is American law.
American law is derived from Japanese culture and history? No, we'll let that slide. But - the Japanese constitution was written by Americans after World War II. And Japanese copyright law follows the Berne Convention. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
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Oh, blah, that was my comment (geckoFeet); I didn't notice I wasn't logged in. So much for lizard intelligence.
Stupid symbol filter. First sentence should read:
Animal body hair IS NOT human head hair.
Animal body hair human head hair. Animal body hair is analogous to human body hair, not human head hair. As we all know, when human males age, head hair tends to go, but body hair tends to sprout, especially out of the most repulsive places possible, such as the ears and the nose. There may be some kind of conservation of hair principle here. The obvious Darwinian explanation would be to prevent older men from breeding, although I'm not sure why.
On the whole, reptiles seems rather more sensible.
No. I meant -1 funny. I meant it as a joke. I can explain the concept of "joke" if you like.
We need a "-1 funny" mod
Of course the phrase "Wall of Separation of Church and State" (note my attempts at 18th-cent. capitalization) doesn't appear in the constitution. You left out the "wall" part, but that's important because it's the reason the phrase doesn't appear. It's a metaphor, and has no place in a legal document such as a constitution. Thomas Jefferson used it later to explain his understanding of the 1st Amendment. Since he wrote the thing in the first place, he gets a pass here.
You don't even have to blow up planes. You just have to blow yourself up in the line waiting for the TSA screening. Nothing to prevent you, and that will stop air traffic just as effectively as blowing up a plane.
It proved only that if a physicist lies to non-physicists about physics, he can fool them. Yeah, they shouldn't have printed the article since they had no way of vetting it. But, still, it would have sank into oblivion if Sokal himself hadn't raised it from the dead: there's not a single citation to it until Sokal contacted the media with the news about his stunt.
All that post-structuralist stuff *is* crap, of course. But Sokal didn't do anything to demonstrate that.
That would probably be Georg Gottfried Wagner (1698-1756), who also played violin for Bach (1685-1750), another 18th-century composer, and not to be confused with Leonhard Emil Bach (1849-1902), a 19th-century composer.
Either that or KDawson thinks that "18 century" means "1800s."
(I am a musicologist, but I am not your musicologist, and this post is not intended as musicological advice).
Here's your flying car:
http://terrafugia.com/
Sorry it's taken so long.
Maybe it's a trumpet (mostly cylindrical bore) not a horn (conical bore). The other instruments don't have Latin labels, but if this was indeed a funeral motet, the use of a Latin name for the trumpet could have been to get around guild restrictions, since the use of trumpets (and timpani) was tightly, although somewhat incoherently, regulated. Bach wouldn't have been allowed to hire a "tromba" or "clarino" player, but give the instrument another name, and it's ok. (The guild regs really were that ridiculous.)
There's no evidence for this, but it's a lot more plausible than a literal lituus.
Please read the second link in the summary. It's completely bonkers to think that an ancient Roman instrument just happened to survive into Bach's time, and then disappeared without a trace. We have descriptions of instruments and musical practice from Bach's time, and there is no lituus. We also have descriptions of ancient Roman (and Greek and Biblical) instruments from Bach's time, stuff that Bach would have known, and there are Litui in there. Bach took the name of an ancient Roman instrument because for some reason, probably having to do with the original purpose of that particular "cantata" (more likely it was a funeral motet), a fancy Latin name was more appropriate. The instrument itself would have been a horn or, less likely, a trumpet pitched in Bb. The difference between a Baroque horn and Baroque trumpet of that pitch would have been only the exact shape of the bore and the configuration of the mouthpiece.
Sorry, but the only evidence for the existence of the ancient Lituus in Bach's time is the occasional use of a Latin term in place of a German or Italian or some other vernacular term. That adds up to exactly zero evidence.
That said, the modelling software is pretty neat.
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I am a musicologist, but I am not your musicologist, and this message does not constitute musicological advice. (In most juristictions.)
The "increasing complexity" argument seems contradicted by the facts (and the reference is to a 10-year-old paper, which is described as "recent").
We like to think that intelligence produces a general sort of fitness, but the all of the primates are extremely intelligent, probably the most intelligent creatures on the planet, and with one exception they all live in highly specialized niches, and they're all likely to become extinct within a hundred years or so.
In spite of what that paper says, increasing complexity does not mean increasing fitness - orchids are among the most complex of flowering plants, but they are also highly specialized and are vulnerable to changes in their habitats.
The one data point we have is that, although life arose probably as soon as the earth cooled off enough to allow it, for most of earth's history, the highest form of life consisted of algae mats. It may be very, very hard to develop even eukaryotic life, and intelligence may require an outlandishly improbable set of events. Hard to extrapolate from one data point, of course.
Does that mean that the tuataras are doomed?
The way EFF explained it to me (I'm Frankel or, as EFF and my mother call me, Dr. Frankel. Also my old school when they're asking for money), if Lyons (the Barney company) keeps sending around nastygrams, that will establish a pattern that courts will probably look on very unfavorably. And the $5000 may be a drop in the bucket to them (it goes to EFF, incidentally), but the negative publicity was priceless. EFF would love to represent any future recipients of Barney's nastygrams.
Stuart (me) says:
As of this writing nobody has heard back from the Barney lawyers. This is scary because their letters were obviously sent automatically, and when the computers finally do take over, it's not going to be by controlling the power grid but by sending out legal notices. So the process may have started at Lyons' lawyers. Either that or they're all pod people.
And, yes, it's unethical for the lawyers to contact me directly after I have an attorney of record in the case and, yes, we've filed an ethics complaint about that.
And, yes, the whole thing is ridiculous, which is why I put a little explanation on my home page, namely:
" This is my little corner of the web, and the bullies can't have it. There's nothing more to it than that. "
And that's all there is to it.
Stuart Frankel
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i have a very small website
http://dustyfeet.com/
Global warming predictions are not for more storms but for more intense storms. The typhoons this year include the strongest storm ever to enter the South China Sea in May (Chanchu), the highest hourly rainfall ever to hit the Hong Kong Observatory (the monsoon behind Bilis), and the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years (Saomai).
Well, technically not hurricanes, but typhoons, which are hurricanes hiding out in the western Pacific. China has been hit with a record-breaking number (8), including some serious monsters.
It's still a fuckup, although a more minor one. Every winter a sheet of ice forms on the roof and from time to time they have to cordon off 53rd Street because they're afraid it will slip off.
Excrement is a universal symbol of disparagement.
How about scattering a bunch of pit toilets around the site? The pits are only a couple of dozen feet deep, so won't interfere with the primary purpose. They can be lined with some low-value but durable concrete. Up top, instead of a western throne, an Asian squat toilet of the same material, perhaps (partially?) enclosed by a low wall. These toilets would, of course, be fully functional although not necessarily comfortable, but the most important purpose would be symbolic. The "two footprints and a hole" structure would be hard to misinterpret.
The beginning of Winnie-the-Pooh, being addressed to Christopher Robin, is written in the second person.
Maybe that's too esoteric to count as popular literature?
Sorry, ALICE is very unconvincing.
Sample:
Human: What's cooking?
ALICE: Food preparation.
Human: Oh dear, already you've failed the test.
ALICE: Hurrah! Are you a student?
Human: Too smart for that.
ALICE: Too what?
How could anybody be fooled by this?
Right - furthermore, old glass pane are thicker at the bottom because they were installed that way for stability.
For a while now, they've actually been producing local-language software, in a desultory and half-assed way, specifically in response to (usually much better) local-language free software. See, for ex., http://www.kyfieithu.co.uk/item.php?lg=en&item_id= 79 for Welsh, Nynorsk (the *other* Norwegian), and Catalan.
American law is derived from Japanese culture and history? No, we'll let that slide. But - the Japanese constitution was written by Americans after World War II. And Japanese copyright law follows the Berne Convention. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?