For those who aren't gun nuts, the parable goes:
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb prepared to contest the vote.
Here is a good example of a reasonable point poorly made. Seems off topic because not all the premises are stated, but in his meatspace, everybody can fill in the blanks with common knowledge. Also, in his world, everybody uses small, old, anglo-saxon words to add poetry to their speech, he may not realize (or care) that it offends some delicate sensibilities.
This is the graffitti of which PG spoke. And surprisingly, it is art. Not art in the beautiful sense, but art in the message sense. Imagine yourself in China and you wrote on the wall "Fuck Tiananmen". This is not pretty, but it is not spam.
False.
People have impunity in their car. They holler things out the window they would never say to your face because they would receive a right cross in the snout. Your assertion that you would swear at me if I were running around with a sharp katana fails the common sense test in a big way.
Speaking of incompetence, there is a third type of troll. These trolls manner of speaking is seen as hostile by those who come from a more genteel social milieu. For example, in person as on the internet, they might tell you to STFU, or use words like shitpump, yet be trying to make a point in a friendly and helpful (perhaps playful) way. You need not be an egghead to be abrupt. For an insight into this social milieu, see an episode of Trailer Park Boys. People need to learn to function differently on a forum, because it is a different social environment.
Larger numbers of women and perhaps gay men will reduce the incidence of violence in their communities. I also see a business opportunity. Marriage tourism. Internet sites and planeloads full of men from places like China and India, where female children are undervalued, should be easy to monetize. Its like global warming. In Saskatchewan we see nothing but upside.
They need to study the difference between familiar and unfamiliar words. They probably note this in the conclusion of the actual paper. I speculate that unambiguous and familiar words are recognized whole (in the same way a chess master recognizes the pattern of the whole board), and kids and adults finding a new or ambiguous word look at each letter and pause there to figure it out (like a chess novice looks at each piece and can only anticipate the next move).
I hope this work isn't used as ammunition in the whole word vs phonetics holy war.
I am, in fact, a PG fanboy. If I wasn't I wouldn't have noticed this site. That has to skew your results. It will be a while before the site attracts a population of people who don't find his topics of interest. Meanwhile, why worry? You could go back to Reddit.
I like it when products compete on specifications, then a number can be important, and a brand. I'm reminded of chevrolet whenever I see a pound of butter because they own the number 454.
The number for my cell phone is just a serial number for the accounting and parts department people. It has no other useful information.
The guy says programmers are shitpumps because they are men who are guided by primate dominance reflexes not reason, and what do the programmers do in response?
Start a pissing match of course.
I saved his page so I can study up. Also, my dick is bigger than yours and I could kick your ass.
This story is only interesting as a historical artifact in itself. It was a nice example of the current "conventional thinking" refuted by that other story yesterday about how England escaped the malthusian trap. Why is this story still here and the newer one gone already? Jared Diamond is very useful in this field, so maybe vote up some of his newer stuff?
