Re: Interesting triage, given the context.

Post #92,907 by cybermace5 3/29/03 7:43:32 PM Reply	Re: Interesting triage, given the context. Nothing you said made any sense. Focus! I was saying that it was ridiculous to say that the military could manufacture banned weapons and facilities in Iraq, without anyone finding out. Brandioch then linked to a post discussing, in majority, CIA and anthrax, claiming it as an example of government manufacturing of evidence. Later on he said he'd made no such claim. I refuted that quite crushingly. Now, you want to focus on the 1960's article and ignore the CIA/anthrax, even though that was a major part of dmarker's post? Do you, too, think the CIA/anthrax rumor is false and ridiculous?
Post #92,912 by rcareaga 3/29/03 8:00:54 PM Reply	Re: Interesting triage, given the context. I refuted that quite crushingly Like a cubic meter of aerogel dropped from ten feet. --delivered with, as you would have it, "a suffocating, revolting style of self-importance, arrogance, disdain, and pride"...? Well, importance is something that, like popularity, can only be assigned from the outside. The most important people in the corners of iwethey that I routinely visit (if importance be defined as those who either stir the pot--or piss in the soup, in one case--most vigorously, or whose contributions are the most thought-provoking) would be ashton, marlowe, boxley, dmarker, inthane_chan, simon_jester and several others far more significant, for good or for ill, than I am (we two are just a couple of dueling mosquitoes by comparison). As to "arrogance, disdain and pride" --what can I say? You bring out the best in me. cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #92,918 by cybermace5 3/29/03 8:26:38 PM Reply	Let us all hope no one brings out the worst.
Post #92,920 by rcareaga 3/29/03 8:44:05 PM Reply	be afraid. be very afraid. "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #92,915 by Ashton 3/29/03 8:15:37 PM Reply	Sorry, Bub Unwilling to break down the world into handy funnel-sort chunks for processing by the determinedly pig-headed. Brandioch is often willing to dismember such theses, byte by byte. Hell, I do crosswords sometimes, too.. If you find my prose unintelligible, or just indigestible - feel free to ignore. That's the only EULA. Ashton PS - as to your actual query: Proof exists only in mathematics, and then only within the rarefied environment / class of a series of stated axia. In ANY other area of human involvement: logic alone, is never enough. Except for slogans, of course. They don't teach debate anymore, do they?
Post #92,916 by cybermace5 3/29/03 8:18:34 PM Reply	Prose....HA! I never saw such beauty, not even in the mumblings of the terminally insane.
Post #92,917 by rcareaga 3/29/03 8:23:53 PM Reply	Re: Prose....HA! I never saw such beauty, not even in the mumblings of the terminally insane. Spend a lot of time with that set, do you? "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #92,938 by cybermace5 3/29/03 10:19:58 PM Reply	Re: Prose....HA! Having spent some number of years at the top undergraduate engineering school in the country, well, yes. There were some there who focused on one thing and did it very, very well. However, they neglected everything else. Sometimes this was not of their own choice. An example is one individual who (poorly) sewed his own costume with a long green pointed hat and misshapen nightgown, and wore it exclusively. That and singing unintelligible songs outside at night, while dragging himself along the ground with his arms alone, his legs tucked up inside his clothes (self-termed "weebling"). If we were a little far off the beaten path, he was in another galaxy. But despite all of that, he wrote programs and performed mathematics on pure intuition. His sophomore year was spent completing beyond-graduate-level studies and delving into unexplored mathematical territory. He also has 7,545 comments on Slashdot to date.
Post #92,962 by Brandioch 3/29/03 11:38:27 PM Reply	What's with Marlowe and friends? Having spent some number of years at the top undergraduate engineering school in the country, well, yes. Why do they all have such a hard time openly stating their past? Well, okay, with Marlowe I know why.
Post #93,006 by Ashton 3/30/03 2:43:13 AM Reply	Hmmm - the W.. or E.. Coast menagerie? If West, 1) What and where is Millikan's Pot? 2) What's a Brake Drum riot? As to your weebling friend - is an idiot savant a handicapped person or a well-rounded Liberally-educated University Graduate - or both? Ain't IQ a Riot? (in a CPA society, anyway) .. but can it sell things (?) Ashton Now if we attended the same funny farm..
Post #93,008 by cybermace5 3/30/03 2:49:33 AM Reply	Neither.

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