Jamal

1. Quotations are indented and surrounded by big quotation marks and are sufficiently distinguishable from the rest of a post, at least to me and I su...

Okay Evol, at the risk of being too serious: I'm sure there's an endless supply of videos of drunk people that we can watch at our leisure on YouTube,...

Off the top of my head: inventiveness and originality, and a willingness to transgress boundaries (obviously important for creativity); a willingness ...

Well, I don't think we can oppose them, because being absorbed always involves cognition, though maybe not reasoning.

Because the idea that everything is getting worse is so widespread, not because everything is getting worse.

It seems to me that it was the defence and those who were most supportive of OJ who politicized the trial, thus opening it up to hype and partisanship...

A back pocket seems like a reckless place to keep a miniature Englishman.

But do they really? Don't they usually quote canonical texts because they're especially insightful, original, and thought-provoking? For me, words tha...

But questions that ignore common sense and conventional wisdom are not necessarily ill-considered. You can't be philosophical without asking such ques...

>:O

I've found it tricky on the iPad, but otherwise no, it seems fine to me.

I don't really want to receive cash or checks.

I used Sublime for a long time, but now I use Visual Studio Code. There's not a huge difference, but it seems more solid, and looks prettier with less...

To be honest I just hate the curly brackets, semicolons, and all that stuff. Python is a haven of tranquillity and clarity. By the way, JavaScript isn...

Python is my favourite programming language and it has steadily grown over the years, even though it has never had a glamorous reputation. The best wa...

What kind of programming?

That's the spirit!

For real?

No backbone?

Quit moping, go out and make some money, and give us some of it.

Be thankful that people with good taste are in charge.

I would pay for the whole thing myself rather than see ads. Thankfully, the minority of members willing to cough up money provide just enough to keep ...

No ads here, thank you.

Also in fútbol.

Wouldn't this only work if you had my copy too?

I think the effect isn't owing to the aperture choice but to the relatively low point of view, such that there are no features on the ground to put hi...

Wisdom from the bottle. My avatar is Max Ernst with a dog on his shoulder against a blue sky with fluffy clouds. I happen to like Max Ernst's art, but...

Every existential quantification applies to a particular domain of discourse. Informally put, it's true that Harry Potter exists assuming the domain o...

I don't know the answer to any of these questions, but I can speculate. Or at least, I can supply one interpretation of what he said, and it seems pla...

Indeed, women are precious creatures whose virtue must be protected from the temptations of licentiousness. ;)

Agustino always has some bugbear in mind, a generalized target, whether it's cultural marxism or feminism or progressives or whatever, and that leads ...

No, his post did not suggest that. The very fact that it is the historical subjugation of women he was talking about implies it is not arbitrary. And ...

All right, I guess we can kind of agree on all that. Even so, it's obvious that you wanted to emphasize the biology, as if doing so somehow went again...

The answer is that it depends how you slice it. One can go along with you and say, in a manner of speaking, that the fact of pregnancy determines the ...

I don't see what your problem is here, and I don't know what your emphasis on "should" is about, as I didn't accuse you of saying that biology should ...

Well, that's precisely what you did (setting aside your sneaky "necessarily"). You explained social facts with an appeal to biological facts. You stro...

I don't see the relevance. Just more opinionating.

The point is that it's the social environment that determines whether the biological facts--of pregancy and giving birth--lead to such relegation. Now...

You're the one in the silver dress, right?

The ewes have those horns too.

Thanks 0 thru 9, much appreciated.

Cheers. I love medium format film. :)

My favourite sheep. I found one of their skulls in a field once and took this photo: http://d3w0soidzibmn3.cloudfront.net/sheep-skull.jpg

The history of anarchism is mainly Leftist. To say that Chomsky is anarchist tout court is to say he is on the Left.

My God, that's fierce. I'm struggling with the heat here and it's only 30 celcius (86 in old money). EDIT: Wait, seriously, 48 celcius? Yikes.

Planning is guessing, as David Heinemeier Hansson used to say. I think it depends on whether or not you've done the task before, and how complex it is...

I agree. It looks like you might be describing intersubjectivity, which I would say counts as objectivity in this case--unless one means objectivity i...

So, if there is no first/second order distinction, would you say that under consequentialism, killing an innocent person just becomes ethical if it is...

And one for Chrome too.

But it's your problem. The colloquial sense is not the sense it is used with in philosophy, and speaking personally, the "attitude" of stroppy teenage...