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The fuck is wrong with CAIR?

Why care about David Horowitz? The man can't even count : he publish a book titled the 101 most dangerous academics, but only includes 100... :vomit: ...

It's Quillette, which is mildly crap at its best, and intensely defective at its worst. I mean, just read the comments. It's infuriating.

Because someone somewhere had a tooth to pick with Skripal, which, given he was a burned traitor of a spook, is not exactly hard to imagine. No. Hones...

This is ridiculous. Let's say the Russians did it. Let's say there's even some form of timeline established which points directly to Russian intellige...

Except it's to the Russians interest to be suspected. It's always been their modus operandi. Read upon the Russian intelligences practices like Kompro...

Ah, no. However, coming from someone who never has felt or understood the need to carry a weapon in his neighbourhood, the only way I could imagine ne...

Then get a dog, if the bylaws are not unreasonably restrictive. Can your gun fetch and warm your lap during cold winter nights? Didn't think so.

Why would you move to a place requiring you to act as if you are in a warzone?

A rule isn't a law. A theorem isn't a law. A constant isn't a law. An algorithm isn't a law. Take your pick.

Noether's theorem can be rephrased with no mentions of laws : "If a system has a continuous symmetry property, then there are corresponding quantities...

I've said this when they first introduced the concept, I'll say it again : this is a dystopian environnment in which hackers are going to thrive like ...

Ah! Agreed, and well put. I'm still thinking about the negativity of what we can call natural laws. I'll get back to you on this one. I have to babysi...

I agree, in the context of your OP, that is clear. :wink: My previous ramblings are only train-of-thoughts on what I perceive to be, perhaps, a semant...

Random ramblings : "Well-regulated" may, in a vacuum, refer to the extension of laws covering the specific situation, but it may also have a more mech...

It's not the object of this thread to argue weither or not "PC pluralism" or "Pomo Neo-Marxist hermeneutics" are justified by SLX's attack on the conc...

I don't see the point. "PC pluralism" has on it's side Existentialism and, and this may be a bit chauvin, the non-negligible advantage of being the on...

I think that's a myopic vision of laws. Law can be exactly as extensive as the Legislator wishes it to be. And by design, it is only through it's own ...

I wonder the same things. Admittedly, before one even decides weither there are Laws of Nature or there are not, the content of those laws cannot be p...

"Now, one would seek in vain a concept in phenomenology which would permit the conceptualization of intensity or force. The conceptualization not only...

Ah, thanks! I'll try to power through them. Now, just to be sure I understand this, we he refers to the sign as deceased, and as this death as the pre...

Didn't have much time, so I'm still in the first chapter. I very clearly do not know enough about French Structuralism or Saussure to make an educated...

What Mr Maw said. It's nothing personal, but Facebook must die.

Objectification is not sexual attraction, I'd reply. Objectification might be how a person specifically relates to sexuality, but that's a particular ...

Well, you only showcase your ignorance by refusing to call Karol J. Wojtyla an intellectual. And that's also coming from an atheist.

Finished The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus & The Trial, Kafka Starting Writing and Difference, Derrida, translation by Alan Bass

Yes, because Russia creeping on adjacent countries only started when NATO was founded... :confused:

NYC is a detestable sinkhole, but not really because it's super crowded or full of smog. Or at least, not mostly.

Yeah, I noticed that too. And then how the author stated his own personal favourite approach to the problem was through the lenses of psychedelics and...

A major "Fuck you, Canada!" to compensate for the one from Boeing we just rebuked. If Trumps wants to paint doing business with Canada as a serious na...

Depends on interpretation of the Halakhic law. Since both his parents converted to Lutherianism, he no longer has at least one Jewish parent. But then...

He was ancestrally Jewish, his maternal grandfather was a Rabi. His dad converted to Lutherianism as a way to avoid persecution and to further his leg...

Can't you image a scenario, however unlikely it is, that might prove the contrary to be true? Yesterday the municipal council ceded the parcel of land...

But that's not how the Law works, nor how rights are granted! Your outlook on rights is completely dystopian!

And what is wrong with this arbitrariness? Just look at the word itself! Of course the Law is 'arbitrary'. How else could it be? Personhood is, once a...

A 16 years-old is fully "alive and viable" in the eyes of the Law. Perhaps you remember Marguerite Duras? Her piece on the Affaire Gregory, "Sublime, ...

The aim of the civil court system is for damages to get paid, when damages are real. If a 15-18 causes 250 000$ of damages to a landlord, it is not a ...

Semi-related trivia factoid time! The spark that lit the fires of the Red River Rebellion, one of the three major rebellious efforts against the Briti...

Never said it did. You brought that into question. Rationality is not the basis of why we get to vote as of 18, or why we are considered adults. We ar...

That isn't an appeal of authority, it's the correction of a category mistake. "Murder" is a legal term. It defines "unlawful killing". Tautologically,...

Being rational in the eyes of the court has nothing to do with being an adult or voting legally. In french-canadian Civil court, determining if a chil...

That is a false dichotomy right there. I would much rather hear that someone stabbed Beyoncé in her coma than hear someone did the same to you. See, I...

You can cut down the pedant's speech. Philosophy doesn't require that we speak through a chicken's anus (now I doubt this idiom is going to translate)...

First TPF post is a textwall against abortion. That's a paddling.

Yup. Canada ain't that isolated :razz:

which ones?

Yeah, but your cynicism is also just your brain releasing chemicals (probably as a result of a lack of sugar)... :snicker:

Yeah, but what is the point of that argument in the context of this thread? Voting is not problem-solving. You can have a 180 I.Q. genius vote for a m...

No, it's essentially the same. See, I too I'm allowed to disagree without arguments, and it doesn't move the conversation along anymore than you! Yeah...

This is what we call low-quality posting.