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Off to Dublin!
It appears I am spontaneously heading to Gaelcon tomorrow. Back on Monday. Have a nice weekend everybody!
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Dublin, baby! Wooooooooot!
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My response to the Roche debate
germanbishounen has been hosting a debate on whether the accusations made in a New scientist article were justified. The debate has become quite heated. Due to what I assume is an oversight I am not currently able to post my latest response to the thread. I am therefore posting it here.
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Discussion topic: Do rights exist?
It seems to me that, in reality, we are only able to prevent or punish forms of behavior, not to enable them. Civil and human rights legislation could be seen as methods of defining anti- and pro-social behaviour and methods of restricting and punishing the former but are there really any methods of promoting the latter? Education theoretically ( Read more... ) -
Topic of the day: Impertinent responses to popular platitudes
"Well, I'm sorry but sometimes the tools I'm made to use are just shit, OK?"
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Oh, this one I really love!
Creationist torn apart in court. He admits that by his own definitions astrology is equally valid and that creationism is accepted as science by virtually no peer review organisation anywhere. Joy joy joy joy joy! -
"If a job's worth doing it's worth doing well" - discuss
Logic students will see that this statement has a contrapositive corollary - If a job's not worth doing well it's not worth doing at all. I'm not sure if that statement would have quite the same popular appeal even though they are equivalent ( Read more... ) -
Nice guy accolade
The owner of the journal where I saw this posted said it had gone round before but needed reposting.
I couldn't agree more.
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Daaaah, bloody Yahoo Personals!
Two women have just given a semi-positive response to my profile. But, like me, they're too stingy to cough up twenty quid a month to email anyone. WTF do I do now? Shite!
[Edit: By a freak of fate I was award a week's worth of free emails by the above misery vultures. Only while I was in the process of using them did I notice that both women had ( Read more... ) -
Meme stolen from malibu
Type the phrase "[your name] needs" (including the quotes) into google and list the top ten things that your namesakes need across the internet ( Read more... )