grammaton

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by grammaton 13y ago
"Avoiding harsh words could look like a logical fallacy but it is just being polite." The logical fallacy is accusing people who consider intolerance unacceptable of themselves being intolerant. That is an example of tu quoque. &
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by grammaton 13y ago
No, I really don't. Like I said, he can have whatever opinion he likes, but once he starts advocating that laws should reflect his opinion, it's stepped over a line. The relevant logical fallacy that you and others using thi
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by grammaton 13y ago
Sure, but this wouldn't be one of them. If a woman even suggested their employer had discriminated against them on the basis of weight, then lawsuit or not, their employer would be crucified. Sorry, but being overweight is no wor
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by grammaton 13y ago
Stop reading the abstract and go read the paper. "but they do cite that control groups had tumors" Yes, of course they did - they were the same breed of rat, and as I've already mentioned, they almost invariably get tumors.
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by grammaton 13y ago
"Also, the ability to get to 100 pounds overweight without only mild loss of professional and social status (instead of the severe loss women face) is a male privilege of sorts." Women don't face a severe loss of professional
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by grammaton 13y ago
This presumes that every belief and idea occupies an equal plane of legitimacy, and that everything is basically a matter of opinion. It's not. His views are not acceptable. He's free to voice them all he likes, of course, but c
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by grammaton 13y ago
Maybe because, in every audience, there are some people who have been beaten, or know people who have been beaten or killed, because of beliefs like this? Folks who've watched someone get their teeth kicked out over the sexual orienta
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by grammaton 13y ago
The problem with this line of argumentation is that you really don't need to invoke vague nominalizations like "power" and "privilege" to argue against this "i'm being oppressed because of my homophobic be
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by grammaton 13y ago
/pro forma comment about studies showing people with the most virulently homophobic attitudes tend to have repressed homosexual tendencies
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by grammaton 13y ago
Your argument is nonsense. People can voice intolerant opinions all they like, but when they make laws that affect a specific group of people on the basis of that intolerance, they've gone a long, far step beyond just voicing an opini
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by grammaton 13y ago
It's not really any different from the black movement. People who defend institutionalized hatred of gay people don't seem to understand this, and are forever perplexed as to why people affected by it feel so strongly about the i
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by grammaton 13y ago
I disagree with who you are as a person, and on that basis, I think you should be denied rights that are routinely given to the rest of the population. Additionally, I find you personally foul and repulsive, and your very nature disgusts m
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by grammaton 13y ago
Let me rephrase: by control, what I mean is not "control group," but "statistical control." Their statistical analysis did not properly account for the immensely increased likelihood of cancers given the breed of rat th
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by grammaton 13y ago
Sure, but it's really, really hard to believe it's all so sterile and impersonal. "Hey, i'm sure you're a really nice person, I just think you should be legally discriminated against and denied certain rights solely
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by grammaton 13y ago
You need to remember - or know - that the Internet and software where THE thing to be writing about in science fiction circles back in the early nineties. See: Sterling, Bruce. Didn't matter if you're actually a writer, not an e
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by grammaton 13y ago
> That said, I do share his distaste for the gay rights movement's propensity to attack and attempt to blacklist and attack their opponents. Uh, what do you think that the gay rights movement's opponents are trying to do to th
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by grammaton 13y ago
Some studies that purport to show certain effects do, and are routinely criticized for the same reason. Proper medical trials, particularly for, say, a new drug use far larger sample sizes.
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by grammaton 13y ago
For starters, the breed of rat used - Sprague-Dawley - is one that routinely develops cancer and tumors, and is, in fact, used in cancer research for exactly this reason. So the fact that they developed tumors is about as surprising as a
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by grammaton 13y ago
It literally takes me about five seconds to strip the DRM off of an epub, and then I can have backup copies of my own library. No losing books because a pipe bursts or a trunk gets lost during a move.
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by grammaton 13y ago
Yeah, the ecological benefits of an ereader may or may not be a wash. Sure, you're saving on trees, but most of the trees books are made from are farmed anyway, and electronics are incredibly, outrageously polluting and energy intensi
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by grammaton 13y ago
No, it's really not. A base model Nook can hold about 2000 books. If you have the older simple touch with an SD slot, you can expand that into the realm of....far more books than you'll ever live to read, quite frankly.
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by grammaton 13y ago
First of all, just because you only read one book at a time, doesn't mean that other people are the same way. Second, even if you only read one book at a time (like yourself, and me as well), an ereader like the Nook or Kindle is st
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by grammaton 13y ago
Ugh, coming up with something "cool" under time constraints, while someone is sitting there and watching my every move, is not exactly a realistic gauge of anything. One of the reasons the hiring process is so broken for so many
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by grammaton 13y ago
I think you're missing a couple of points here. First and foremost, he wouldn't mind being asked "petty questions pertaining to his ability to do the job," but by and large, he is NOT being asked those questions - that&
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by grammaton 13y ago
"What I like to see, is when many countries do studies and they all come up with similar results." Leaving aside the fact that different countries are basically irrelevant here, what you are describing is a scientific consensus.
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by grammaton 13y ago
I can't upvote this hard enough. If someone is calling me, their name pops up on the screen. What if I don't want to talk to them? I don't answer! If they leave a voicemail? I'll check it when I feel like it, and if
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by grammaton 13y ago
This is a known anti-pattern.
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by grammaton 14y ago
One limit as far as production is concerned is the availability of water. Natural gas production in the United States has declined over the last several months due to drought triggered water shortages. As it turns out showing up and propo
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by grammaton 14y ago
"by some estimates." Who's estimates? I notice the article doesn't mention. Personally, I tend to stick to estimates from the likes of BP and Exxon, since I figure they know what they're talking about.
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by grammaton 14y ago
"why is the oil form of energy so important" Because it meets several requirements for an economy of global scale, not the least of which are extremely high energy density and ease of transport. "I do wonder why we're not switching from oil

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