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Someone else has come along and downmodded every single post I made in this thread. Result? Instant karma drop of 10%. By one person . Because I said something they didn't like. pg…

Considering that one of his "results" is a philosophical proof of the existence of God, I'd say he might have gone up a bit of a garden path... > Many philosophers can be criticize…

> Please provide a reference. See above. The books in which I could have located a reference are long gone; but it's in one of her short essays (if pushed, I'd suggest that it migh…

> then one where you assert without any evidence that her work is bullshit? I didn't assert that, I implied that in the course of asserting something else. > You think you can just…

> In fact it wouldn't surprise me if you haven't read any of her work. Try "all her novels and at least 4 books of essays". In fact, I seem to have read more Rand than many Objecti…

Two wrongs don't make a right. I'd say it's more important to stop teaching pseudoscience in science classes than to use it as a justification for teaching pseudophilosophy in phil…

No. Dishonesty is dismissing any argument with which one disagrees as "dishonest" without actually making a substantive counterargument. If you don't understand how people can make…

> On what grounds would you call Rand's work "pseudophilosophy", rather than philosophy proper? Well, for a start, there was the fact that she reviewed, and dismissed on "philosoph…

Plus it makes you sound like qwe1234. We don't do that here, either.

If Rand's fans accepted that she was worthless as a philosopher, but half a century ahead of the self-help curve, they'd be a lot less annoying.

Considering that the people on this site are more or less exactly the kind of people with whom Rand surrounded herself, and anyone who fancies themselves at all creative or excepti…

No, it's for the same reason that intelligent design isn't taught in biology classes, or that the timecube theory isn't taught in physics classes, or that homeopathy isn't taught i…

How is the Acumen Fund funded? How was it initially funded? Charit y may not work, but there's plenty of evidence that charit ies do; they exist as organisations to convert money i…

As long as it took to demonstrate supporting evidence - more precisely, to verify a prediction made by the Copernican model. Have at it. (ObFrTed: Down with this sort of thing.)

> I believe that ID gets unfairly maligned. Yeah, those nasty mean judges.

Perhaps, then, you should be applying to churches for funding? They have interests in common with you - in both "figuring out what God is up to" and the "wanting something for noth…

> "One very common thing is that often very brilliant children stop working because they're praised so often that it's what they want to live as--brilliant--not as someone who ever…

I was always in the library, because I had no interest in what I was being taught, and (I didn't realise it then, but) I couldn't bear being in a roomful of people for lectures. I …

"Reference ODF implementation" seems like a fair niche to occupy going forward too, especially when considered in the light of the traits you mention.

It's the beginning of a pattern.

You're absolutely right, in some aspects. Some things will always be better done locally; it's ridiculous to contemplate writing a 3d game without access to a 3d API, for example. …

> the really intensive javascript apps just use way too much memory in Firefox, especially when you have 12 hour Firefox sessions I suspect that huge improvements in the state of J…

Oh fuck off. Arrrrr.

Er, no, Oliver Sacks wrote the article. The article is about Clive Wearing.