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- Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:47 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: Warning: Music Composition nerdery inside
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14756
Re: Warning: Music Composition nerdery inside
I once asked my German Lit. prof if she thought great poets counted syllables.
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 6:01 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: People to emulate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5637
Re: People to emulate
Don't emulate people. Emulate ideas. Exemplars are useful for packaging some group of ideas together, but the problem is that it's too easy to confused irrelevant features of people for what is causally important to what is valuable about them. This is the source of a lot of confusion in religion, a...
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:51 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: The sad song thread
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13224
- Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:08 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: The dark side of Dubai
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15593
- Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:00 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: What's annoying you today?
- Replies: 5382
- Views: 1501724
Re: What's annoying you today?
I'm glad that Bob's on risperidone. You probably also need, or are on, lamotrigine (Lamictal).
- Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:40 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6812
Re: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
You might also want to check out Ron Dworkin's latest book. Here's a review: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=414939 Dworkin criticizes the positive/negative liberty distinction in a few really interesting ways. In many ways I'm closer to Dworkin than I am to Cohen, but Cohe...
- Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:03 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6812
Re: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
Gah. Sorry Hoka, I guess I didn't explain the negative/positive liberty distinction properly. 'Negative liberty' doesn't have negative connotations, it just means 'freedom from coercion' or 'freedom from state interference'. This isn't something that was placed on libertarianism by its detractors, i...
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:10 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: 2011:Year End Report
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14662
Re: 2011:Year End Report
It wasn't 1969 either.Mescal wrote:That wasn't 2011Adurentibus Spina wrote:
- Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:16 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: 2011:Year End Report
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14662
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:43 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: Ted...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 16819
Re: Ted...
There are gonna be people turning up in canyons, and there are gonna be people turning up in cities, because the fans there aren't willing to accept what I think they know, and they know I don't remember these songs.imail724 wrote:It's ok I guess. it's no Wrong Girl, that's for sure.
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:16 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: Ted...
- Replies: 44
- Views: 16819
Re: Ted...
So this song just popped up on iTunes, and I don't know if it's the wine I am drinking or what... but god damn what a rad song. 80s sound aside, this shit is fucking amazing. Why don't they do it live more often? I kind of want to call Perry up and be like "hey dude, what the hell were you thinking...
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:42 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: 2011:Year End Report
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14662
Re: 2011:Year End Report
So busy, I love it. Stressed as hell, but I get to do philosophy as a career for at least the next 3.5 more years. :aoa: The next two weeks will be a cacophony of 50 or so shitty essays to mark (on Berkeley and Locke's anti-skepticism) and Christmas food and two more papers to write before the 25th....
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:28 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: What's annoying you today?
- Replies: 5382
- Views: 1501724
Re: What's annoying you today?
Okay, but how does that explain why the parties (birthday or otherwise) are costumed?Larry B. wrote:Because in Chile some people have unprotected sex in March.
- Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:56 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: What's annoying you today?
- Replies: 5382
- Views: 1501724
Re: What's annoying you today?
Why does Chile have costume parties in December?
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:35 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: New Cars
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14395
Re: New Cars
Window regulators are fun (annoying). I learned how to do those when I briefly worked for (and was subsequently tragically hilariously fired from) an auto glass shop I worked for over a summer a few years ago (holy shit it might actually have been five years ago... I can't remember). The markups tho...
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:12 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: What's annoying you today?
- Replies: 5382
- Views: 1501724
Re: What's annoying you today?
They don't sell personality groomers. Unless you count guns.
- Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:58 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Farewell, Christopher Hitchens
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4809
Re: Farewell, Christopher Hitchens
:tiphat: He was not the most intellectual of the people I look to emulate, but he was the most skilled debater I've ever seen. And he had the courage to change his mind drastically, even when it made people dislike him. These are reasons to respect him, even if you disagreed with many things he said...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:22 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6812
Re: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
I'm still not seeing an example of how this applies to a Libertarian society. I think there is some confusion here. My reductio ad absurdum of the libertarian principles aims to show that there could never be a libertarian society. Asking me to apply what I'm saying to a presupposed Libertarian soc...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:03 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: eric avery solo
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11459
Re: eric avery solo
The latter.Larry B. wrote:What would you prefer: getting hit in the head with a bat or being anally raped while maggots feast on your danglers?Adurentibus Spina wrote:... which sounds like a good time, to me.Enron wrote:Seems like self-flaggelation.
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:05 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: eric avery solo
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11459
Re: eric avery solo
... which sounds like a good time, to me.Enron wrote:Seems like self-flaggelation.
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:48 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: eric avery solo
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11459
Re: eric avery solo
True, he could do that, but it seems like it bothered you that you might have annoyed him, I think... so that's why I said probably best not to post about politics, as a fan, just because it avoids these types of awkward situations, even if EA doesn't give a shit what you said, you'd avoid feeling l...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:33 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6812
Re: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
But all of that is arguing against complete anarchy, not libertarianism, which is about limiting the federal government, not completely eliminating law and order. You also seem to be completely ignoring the ideas of contracts and lawsuits. No man... that's not what's going on in what I said. I expl...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:57 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6812
Re: Another Libertarianism/Socialism, etc., thread
My view these days roughly rests on the simple empirical fact that a partially, or even completely, realized implementation of the libertarian ideal of maximization of negative liberty would in fact collapse into absurdity when we attempt to put it into practice precisely because in the process of ...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:36 pm
- Forum: Jane's Addiction News
- Topic: eric avery solo
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11459
Re: eric avery solo
It wasnt a message. It was in the comments section of a post he made. And yes, it was big government vs small government debate. I was trying to be respectful. My last post was something like "politics aside looking forward to giraffe tongue orchestra" or something like that and he never replied. P...
- Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:25 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: The sad song thread
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13224
Re: The sad song thread
Not a fan of that name?Tyler Durden wrote:Yeah, that is a sad story.Adurentibus Spina wrote:Saddest story ever. Parents named my bro after Clapton's son.