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News Briefs 29-05-2008

Tomorrow never dies… I hope.

Thanks Kat

Quote of the Day:

“We shouldn’t think of the Amazon as a sanctuary.”

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil

  1. A review of the review
    Why, oh why, do people feel the need to use such pompous jargon?

    Dilworth’s main aim is to propose and defend a metaphysics of science based on three ontological principles, uniformity of nature, substance, and causality. Dilworth does not call these ontological entities of modern science, i.e. post-Galilean mainstream Western science; rather they are the ontological presuppositions of the epistemic practice of modern science. Dilworth considers these the “core” rather than “foundational” principle, avoiding thereby questions about foundations and coherence in the epistemology of science.

    Whenever I see a text peppered with the words “ontological” and “epistemic”, I want to vomit bone marrow. As it happens, I am quite interested in the subject matter but if academics, scientists and philosophers insist on writing in such a way, who is going to read what they have written? A page of this language has me losing the will to live.

    Sorry, that’s my rant for today.

    Dave.

    http://www.davidsmuse.co.uk

    1. My suggestion
      My suggestion would be that you share with us grailers your own review after you read the book. I’m sure we’ll find yours much more comprehensible and engaging than this guy’s 🙂

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

  2. Got to gets me some learnin’
    Buckminster Fuller said that knowledge was always and only additive and that it wasn’t possible to learn in a negative direction, but y’know, I downloaded that SciLab source code and now I would really like to know: what sort of school would you have to attend to get foolhardy enough to stand up behind a notion that 99 lines of scilab source code could possibly describe the history of civilization?

    Sure, SciLab is a ‘high-level’ computer language, but it isn’t that high level. Ninety nine lines of code?? Heck, the Book of Genesis is more than 99 lines! And it don’t get near as far as to begin describing the spread of religion through the world, you need all of Kings for that.

    And all that then makes me now wonder how many other of these internationally news-worthy Found By Simulation headlines result from similarly inane cyber-pseudo-science.

    1. LOL
      Yeah!, and also I’m not so sure if viking would taste like chicken, as scientists tell us dinos would 😉

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

      1. Chicken
        Why is it that everything exotic is said to taste of chicken? Nowadays everything tastes of chicken – except chicken.

        The balanced adult retains an inner child

        Anthony North

        1. not everything!
          Not everything exotic tastes like chicken. Have you tried grasshoppers? We call them “chapulines” here in Mexico. They prepare them with a little hot pepper, so they are crunchy & spicy… Mmm Mmm the perfect apetizer when you’re drinking Mezcal 😉

          —–
          It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
          It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

          Red Pill Junkie

          1. food preparation
            You say that

            They prepare them with a little hot pepper,

            and then you say they taste like something. I say they taste like hot pepper 😛

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            if everything is under control, you are not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)

            it’s not how fast you go, it’s who gets there first

          2. Nah! 😉
            They have a very distinctive flavour. The pepper is just to give a little sting on the tip of your tongue.

            Or maybe the sting comes from the antennae 😛

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

          3. when they are not dead?
            I am sure if you season them, and eat them just before they are dead, they get upset with the peppers, and also with the observation that they are being eaten.

            Hence the “biting back” behaviour, which makes them more spicy.

            I would do it too, if I was being eaten.

            —-
            if everything is under control, you are not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)

            it’s not how fast you go, it’s who gets there first

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