Profile for Talent in a Previous Life
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| Title | This Side Towards Enemy |
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written Monday, May 17 2004 07:11
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'Twas ever thus. Eurovision is about cheesy pop music and national rivalries disseminated by voting. Few established acts in Britain have the right degree of kitsch to win. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 16 2004 06:15
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They do as part of the vibration thing. For a while at my school after people put them on vibrate so they didn't go off in lessons, prank calls still worked because the vibration was violent enough to make a noise if you put it in a pocket with a lot of change. If you don't want to be called, become an antisocial loser. Although you have a point about the limited utility of combining a camera and a phone. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 16 2004 05:12
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I went for a frenetic five mile walk in the dark then watched the end of Fight Club. I may have walked into trees a few too many times but I still feel I spent my evening more productively than you. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 15 2004 08:45
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But that would suggest both that the target is both as smart as several gerbils and possessed of particularly nutritious brain matter... -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 15 2004 08:41
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As ever, TM, in every possible way no. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 14 2004 08:35
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My first wish would be for two large rocks. My second would be for your gonads. I'd pick the third once I got to it. Vitriol aside, I really wouldn't want to have three wishes. I don't desire things in any particular order and just getting things by divine fiat rather than having to work for them would not be a good thing when my personality is considered. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 14 2004 08:23
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No, that's playing devil's argument. Hypocrisy is believing something but doing something else, generally for material gain. Although I think it's simplistic to claim that's always a bad thing. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, May 10 2004 11:14
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He fought for Germany. On the other hand, in Austria-Hungary he was registered as a deserter when he did not turn up to do his peacetime service. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 9 2004 02:51
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Incidentally, I think I know what FBM may have meant when he mentioned Rummy being Jewish. He isn't, but his deputy Paul Wolfowitz is. However, the point he was trying to make was still flawed, because what fires Wolfowitz is not his religion but his insanity. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 9 2004 02:48
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Hitler was a draft-dodger too, you know. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 9 2004 02:45
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Iceland switching to hydrogen may work for them, but they're also one of the few countries in the world which gets most of its energy from hydroelectric sources. I presume it would be rather more difficult with a more populated place in a different location? Over here the government pays part of the costs if you have solar panels installed in your house. Then it takes about a decade of selling excess energy back to make it profitable. This seems to me to be a good idea - making money is going to draw plenty in who aren't that bothered about saving the environment. To get by on nuclear power wouldn't we need many more plants? I'm told that the ones we have in Britain only supply a few percent of the National Grid's total energy. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 9 2004 02:36
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That was certainly the principle on which the American electoral system was originally established, GJ. There are a few states where there's a degree of proportional representation, so that both candidates might get electoral college votes there. I think Maine is one, but the vagaries of the process mean it has still never actually done it. Also, states don't technically have to ballot their citizens (and until 1860, South Carolian didn't.) Furthermore, those in the electoral college can in theory vote for someone other than the one they are pledged to. Some states have legislation to stop this, but it can be argued that those laws are unconstitutional. Mostly when this happens it's to protest some anachronism of the electoral system. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, May 9 2004 02:27
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FBM, your theories have far too much in common with Asimov's psychohistory to be even faintly useful. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 8 2004 05:16
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Is it necessarily good for anarchy that there is a range of human behaviour? Might I remind you that in the second and fifth decades of the last century humankind as a whole went to great lengths to slaughter each other? -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 8 2004 05:12
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What about biodiesel? I'm informed that it's somewhat cleaner than normal diesel and might be practicable in Britain if we increased the level of oilseed rape production fivefold, but is the efficiency hamstrung by the process of getting the biodiesel from the rape? -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Saturday, May 8 2004 05:06
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Certainly, the Foreign Legion was mostly Spanish, but amongst the ranks there were a fair amount of Marxists and the officers were right-wing not because they were officers but because if you were of that class, too poor to never work and not bright enough for the priesthood, you joined the army. The most feared troops were always the Rif tribesmen. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 12:46
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I don't personally believe that at present anarchy could succeed. Therefore I'll limit myself to a few points. The city-states of the Italian peninsula (I presume you mean Magna Graecia, since the Samnites and co. were rather more agrarian, although I don't quite see why using Greece would have made a different) were largely tyrannies and oligarchies and the democracy of the Greeks was still too refracted by the prism of their society to be anywhere near anarchy. Alec, as to the atheism, I might mention the name Protagoras. However, after Christianity atheism had few devotees, so I take the point. As to the slavery, the Church pretty much wiped out slavery of fellow Christians during the Middle Ages. Of course, in much of Europe, you'd still have had serfdom and the like. Nevertheless, 500 years ago slavery would only have been practiced to any great degree by the Barbary Pirates and when it first rose to prominence it was mostly to solve a labour problem and nobody ever pretended it was morally good. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 12:33
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Indeed, why is it better to create a new system than to try to make the present system. Offhand I can recall only two fleshed-out coherent ideas for new systems of governance, devised respectively by Marx and Plato, and both of those are fatally flawed (Marx in his assumption that scarcity would disappear as a consequence of industrialisation and Plato in his trying to make subjectives absolute leading to the ridiculous theory of forms.) -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 12:29
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Using planes is considerably worse for the enviroment than using trains (I won't compare with cars as I don't know how the economies of scale factor in.) Therefore it seems good not to fly when there's an alternative method. Certainly, over a few hundred miles the plane is not significantly faster than the train (if you take into account having to arrive early to check in etc.) There's enough food to feed the whole world anyway. It's purely an issue of lack of supply. As a general principle, I think those who object to eating animals bred for food should be forced to eat roadkill at least once before they die. Not for any real intellectually sustainable reason, just because I'm that kind of guy. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, May 7 2004 12:15
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Entirely different case. The mercenaries in that example were Moroccan tribesmen whereas those trying to overthrow democracy was Carlist farmers in the Pamplona area, the landowning and middle classes and the church. Furthermore, there are few to no parallels between the political situation of 1930s Spain and the present day USA. Mercenaries are a problem and a drain on resources in Iraq but once they leave they're not going to have an effect on America. On Angola, perhaps. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 12:39
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Democracy in that sense is therefore limited by and large to that practiced in classical Athens or more recently in the Soviets immediately after the February Revolution. In these cases, one might argue that anarchy would be the logical goal. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 12:33
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Language is open to interpretation? So if I say never means always I have a valid case? I someone don't think so. Indeed, if we're to accept Occam's Razor, then the simplest answer is the most elegant. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 12:31
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I think the problem is when you're not trying to stay out of trouble all that pent-up idiocy bursts free. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 12:28
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I have an intense dislike of all forms of new ideas for mobile phones. I'm one of those who believe that they have a use if you're short of bricks in a riot or if for some strange reason you wish to get in contact with somebody, but otherwise they should be ignored. EDIT: As to the thing itself, I put forward the adjective garish. [ Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:28: Message edited by: The Articulated Ronald Dominator ] -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 5 2004 08:18
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I would if I were to eat that human. I'd prefer to avoid it however since I believe there are health risks attached to cannibalism and since I don't actually want to be imprisoned for life. However, it's not just pregnant animals I'd object to. Those bringing up young not mature enough to survive alone ought also to be exempted. In the case of humanity, this essentially means not killing parents of children living at home and I would extend that to removing one partner from a relationship where that would adversely affect the ability of the other to get by or those caring for the elderly. As a logical consequence, this would stick meerkat off the menu. Also, I think I'd have much more hesitance killing one member of a partnership in any species that mates for life, particularly a mammalian species. Even if you were to do so, in a case such as this, killing one in plain view of the other would not be something I would wish to do, all things being equal. And of course, if I wasn't relatively sure about taking it out with one shot and if that failed within about 30 seconds, that would also be a very good reason not to try to kill. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |