... A similar two axis chart was published by Utne Reader several years ago, with major political figures located various places about the landscape. I rather...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern7@...
Jan 1, 1999 8:28 am
11109
... So Pinochet, Franco, Sucharto, Saudi Arabia - everything since pre-Victorian Capitalism, were/are all socialist. A fascinating but rather silly analysis,...
Durant
durant@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:56 am
11110
... Very illuminating... so what is the difference between fascists and the nazis (national socialists)? Hitler chose the word "socialist" in a pure demagogic/...
Durant
durant@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:57 am
11111
... Hmm. Your last category would have to be something for which there was no evidence, not even internal or subjective evidence. Although you did use the...
Samantha Atkins
samantha@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:12 am
11112
I think the "cult of personality" is just a form; military Juntas managed the totalitarian capitalists states as well the more modest and collective...
Durant
durant@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:14 am
11113
... I link PM with PC; both into semantics and the denial of objective analysable, existing-even-if-there-are-no-conscious- observers physical/social reality...
Durant
durant@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:15 am
11114
... there was/is such notion, but the reality is that governments are formed to administer the state; the state is an enforcement structure for the benefit of...
Durant
durant@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:36 am
11115
... Agreed in the example (re side effects of drugs) provided. ... What? Do not let ol' $tanton Friedman hear you say that. He would not agree. Still, you...
Shaun Cronin
sonnyboy@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:38 am
11116
... Crashed saucer claims have been around for almost the entire 50 year history of UFOs. In the 1950s, Donald Keyhoe documented a few stories of crashed UFOs....
Shaun Cronin
sonnyboy@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:39 am
11117
... Quite a lot of difference really. The central plank of National Socialism, at least after the mid-1930s was the Fuhrerprinzip, which, boiled down to it's...
Barry Williams
skeptics@...
Jan 1, 1999 11:52 am
11118
... The last three categories are examples of things irrelevant to understanding the world. Things which we or other intellects can't discover or comprehend,...
Ron Ebert
Ebert@...
Jan 1, 1999 1:28 pm
11119
... The problem with philosophy, as with many other areas outside of science, is that there is no self-corrective feedback mechanism. In science, the empirical...
Ron Ebert
Ebert@...
Jan 1, 1999 1:29 pm
11120
... all, ... It is also wrong to assume that we won't be able to understand everything. Sure, it's entirely possible that we'll run into phenomena that we'll...
Ron Ebert
Ebert@...
Jan 1, 1999 1:30 pm
11121
At 08:24 AM 1/1/99 -0500, Ron Ebert wrote: ... In science, Nature is the final arbiter of all scientific theories. The empirical evidence is open to varying...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Jan 1, 1999 3:06 pm
11122
... Not necessarily world-wide. The Liberal Party of Canada does well under that name, there is no stigma -- and while the Progressive Conservatives *did* go...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Jan 1, 1999 5:20 pm
11123
... What makes it arrogant? Why "arrogant" and not "hopeful"? If, as most scientists believe, every phenomenon can be tracked back to a handful of theories...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Jan 1, 1999 5:27 pm
11124
In a msg on <Dec 31 12:29>, Mike Sofka writes: s> I wonder how many people really take such presentations seriously? Considering that some of these same...
David Bloomberg
David.Bloomberg@...
Jan 1, 1999 6:29 pm
11125
... [re Scientology raid on Dennis Erlich and/or Arnaldo Lerma] ... Dennis Erlich doesn't have deep pockets, but he has a legal defense fund and pro-bono...
James J. Lippard
lippard@...
Jan 1, 1999 6:40 pm
11126
... We never learn everything about anything. Even the lowly hydrogen atom is imperfectly known. But it is nevertheless part of scientific realism to adopt the...
Keith Douglas
godel@...
Jan 1, 1999 7:00 pm
11127
... I was thinking of something for example that can be speculated upon, and which may have inferrencial evidence, such as parallel universes. If such exist,...
Laurie Forbes
lforbes@...
Jan 1, 1999 7:01 pm
11128
... Note, I'm not really sure who proposed this classification, but... ... the categories are incomplete. The area of computational complexity and solvability...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Jan 1, 1999 8:21 pm
11129
... I happened to catch a couple of Jerry Springer shows recently, and have watched some Ricky Lake. They seemed more like well choreographed impromptu, than...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Jan 1, 1999 8:35 pm
11130
... IMO consciousness is a great conundrum. On one hand, it seems completely inexplicable (the issue of whether a brain can understand itself arises). On the...
Laurie Forbes
lforbes@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:07 pm
11131
At 03:20 PM 99-01-01 -0500, you wrote: ... Could such problems be solved however with a finite computer given enough time? Since the universe is now pretty...
Laurie Forbes
lforbes@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:17 pm
11132
At 04:07 PM 1/1/99 -0500, Laurie Forbes wrote: ... This is known as the Zombie problem. <SPECULATION> Indeed, consciousness is a conundrum, and one which Roger...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:37 pm
11133
... Forever is a very long time. But, the answer is yes. There is a simple proof (worked out by Turing, and based on the diagonal rule) showing that there...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:45 pm
11134
... And of course the main conservative party in Australia is the Liberal Party, but I note that in general discourse even here the words 'liberal' and...
Barry Williams
skeptics@...
Jan 1, 1999 9:58 pm
11135
... Women are intelligent and beautiful. ... Why do women say, you screwed up, cuss men out for it, but then don't tell them what they did, as if in their...
btech@...
Jan 1, 1999 10:22 pm
11136
... I have always equated PM and PC with the left as these lines of thought both seemed to have their champions coming from "leftist" positions. I could be...
Shaun Cronin
sonnyboy@...
Jan 1, 1999 10:35 pm
11137
... "If all the personal computers in the world - ~260 million computers - were put to work on a single PGP-encrypted message, it would still take an estimated...
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