tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post2132316742322921769..comments2024-03-29T09:20:11.663-04:00Comments on the daily howler: BEHIND THE CURTAIN: An early clip from the text-in-itself!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43345073931711498672021-07-26T09:52:29.468-04:002021-07-26T09:52:29.468-04:00DR EMU WHO HELP PEOPLE IN ANY TYPE OF LOTTERY NUMB...DR EMU WHO HELP PEOPLE IN ANY TYPE OF LOTTERY NUMBERS <br />It is a very hard situation when playing the lottery and never won, or keep winning low fund not up to 100 bucks, i have been a victim of such a tough life, the biggest fund i have ever won was 100 bucks, and i have been playing lottery for almost 12 years now, things suddenly change the moment i came across a secret online, a testimony of a spell caster called dr emu, who help people in any type of lottery numbers, i was not easily convinced, but i decided to give try, now i am a proud lottery winner with the help of dr emu, i won $1,000.0000.00 and i am making this known to every one out there who have been trying all day to win the lottery, believe me this is the only way to win the lottery.<br /><br />Contact him on email Emutemple@gmail.com<br />What's app +2347012841542<br />Website Https://emutemple.wordpress.com/<br />Https://web.facebook.com/Emu-Temple-104891335203341Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15412911890439251035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-6916073503853332972017-04-28T14:30:34.517-04:002017-04-28T14:30:34.517-04:00It is racist when a white person ignores a black p...It is racist when a white person ignores a black person's political position and makes fun of them instead? What about when white person ignores another white person's political position and makes fun of them instead? <br /><br />Isn't it possible in both cases position ignorer is just a dick?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84062049737154725212017-04-28T12:59:31.293-04:002017-04-28T12:59:31.293-04:00Cool man - thanks for clearing that up for me. A ...Cool man - thanks for clearing that up for me. A black woman was mocked by a white man about her hair. It was racist because the white man compared her hair to another black person's hair and it was a poor comparison. Makes perfect sense. ;)Gregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-54939714886079719702017-04-28T11:44:02.817-04:002017-04-28T11:44:02.817-04:00O'Reilly said that Maxine Waters had hair like...O'Reilly said that Maxine Waters had hair like James Brown (who wore a pompadour). His comment was racist because her hair didn't look anything like Brown's and the only point of comparison was that both were African American. But the more important racism came from belittling hear appearance in racial terms instead of dealing with the content of her remarks or her actions as a congresswoman.<br /><br />His remark wasn't racist because he was a white person making fun of a black person or because she was a woman. It was because he ignored her political position in order to mock her appearance and because he did so in racist terms by equating her with a black entertainer that she did not resemble in any way except in skin color.<br /><br />I have been noticing how clueless racist people are when it comes to understanding what exactly gives offense and what is irrelevant to it. It is as if they do not realize how race works in America.<br /><br />Greg is, of course, a troll, but he is echoing statements made on the right by people who are presumably not trolls. And I've seen the same problem when it comes to sexism. Offenders either are (or pretend to be) ignorant about how they have violated norms or caused offense. I'm wondering where this comes from, assuming it is not feigned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84447872312992194892017-04-28T09:25:02.155-04:002017-04-28T09:25:02.155-04:00151/jackass
Let's stick to the facts. A woma...151/jackass<br /><br /> Let's stick to the facts. A woman was made fun of. She was black. The man who made fun of her I was white. This makes him a racist. It is racist if a white person makes fun of a black person. You are racist if you deny it. Gregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43819811894725654162017-04-28T08:19:36.019-04:002017-04-28T08:19:36.019-04:00Yes, keep moving the ball. One's got to be a s...Yes, keep moving the ball. One's got to be a subject matter expert to address this obviously fatuous work!<br /><br />Somerby has all the expertise needed to show, not what Holt's work is, but what the work of the machine that praises and extols Holt is.<br /><br />You are decidedly out of your own apparently quite shallow depth not to recognize that if anyone's critiqued a B as if it were art, it's the Times here.Nona Nymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10311052324455523247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21348825778060515672017-04-27T19:15:35.125-04:002017-04-27T19:15:35.125-04:00Thank you for this.Thank you for this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-52636879473033964842017-04-27T19:12:55.296-04:002017-04-27T19:12:55.296-04:00Yes, and why shouldn't he be. He stopped schoo...Yes, and why shouldn't he be. He stopped school with his B.A.. He still reads, which is to his credit, but he didn't go on to learn how knowledge is generated in any field, methods (even in philosophy), and he hasn't published anything in philosophy or any other academic field. So, what is his qualification to be so hard on Holt or his reviewers?<br /><br />Calling me a dope doesn't change anything about what Somerby does or does not know.<br /><br />Most people with the qualifications to read and understand books on obscure topics would have decided not to read Holt's work, since it is obviously fatuous and intended as diversion, not a serious contribution to philosophy. <br /><br />Roger Ebert once said that you don't critique a B-movie as if it were an art film. You review it in the context of its own aspirations. I doubt Holt was trying to do what Somerby expects him to have accomplished. So that makes Somerby a bit of a dope, in my opinion.Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-51780150352278917032017-04-27T18:32:49.348-04:002017-04-27T18:32:49.348-04:00“Then do mathematical entities really exist? ... P...<i>“Then do mathematical entities really exist? ... Plato certainly thought they existed. ... The same was true, he held, of abstract ideas like Goodness and Beauty. To Plato, such ‘Forms’ constituted genuine reality.”</i><br /><br />Note that normally we use “good” and “beautiful” as <b>adjectives</b>, traits, actually giving our own aesthetic appraisals of people, objects, and situations. When we convert these terms into <b>nouns</b>, grammatically implying objects, we fool ourselves with mental phantoms for which there is no physical counterpart — which we can either recognize as mirages, or insist are a “genuine reality” beyond the physical; Plato chose the latter.<br /><br />We puzzle ourselves all the time with such mis-categorized nouns, calling a clenched hand by the special name “fist” or the juncture of seated legs and pelvis “lap” as though they were actual objects governed by the Law of Conservation of Matter, and then asking “Where does your fist <i>go</i> when you open your hand?” or “Where does your lap <i>go</i> when you stand up?” — because an object must <i>go</i> somewhere, it can't simply <i>stop</i> like the action of clenching or bending, which we would better categorize as verb-gerunds.<br /><br />Likewise the action of burning (“Where does the flame <i>go</i> when you blow out the candle?”), or the action of thinking and more generally the functioning of the brain and of the rest of the body (“Where do you [i.e. your mind etc.] <i>go</i> when you die?”)....Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974090948640572660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-68645700203818584202017-04-27T17:51:33.123-04:002017-04-27T17:51:33.123-04:00So the problem here is *really* that Somerby is ju...So the problem here is *really* that Somerby is just out of his depth in trying to read Holt and his critics?<br /><br />Seriously, you're just a dope.Nona Nymhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10311052324455523247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18856699633786867992017-04-27T17:34:16.139-04:002017-04-27T17:34:16.139-04:00Galois is a system that automatically executes &qu...Galois is a system that automatically executes "Galoized" serial C++ or Java code in parallel on shared-memory machines.<br /><br />http://iss.ices.utexas.edu/?p=projects/galois<br /><br />I don't know if it has anything to do with the work of Evariste Galois. Maybe someone thought it was clever to take his name in vain.impCaesarAvghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03384806750440039982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65969720926568329502017-04-27T16:34:22.654-04:002017-04-27T16:34:22.654-04:00With regard to the mathematical name-dropping, Hol...With regard to the mathematical name-dropping, Holt doesn't do a particularly good job at it. I am a mathematician and have never heard the term "Galois systems" - apparently neither did Google. Holt probably meant "Galois groups", which encode symmetries in systems of algebraic equations. Anybody who fudges such a basic undergraduate level mathematical term quite certainly has no idea what they're talking about when they say "crystalline cohomology".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84296338971687347122017-04-27T15:08:02.910-04:002017-04-27T15:08:02.910-04:00At least you changed your name. I liked Cicero be...At least you changed your name. I liked Cicero better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-11736153381858604992017-04-27T15:07:00.527-04:002017-04-27T15:07:00.527-04:00"Coulter had been praised in a New York Times..."Coulter had been praised in a New York Times review for the huge number of footnotes supporting her claims."<br /><br />Boxcar Bob returns to an old hit, dating back to 2002.<br /><br />From the actual review:<br /><br />"Ann Coulter's <strong>diatribe</strong> ''Slander'' is the most popular nonfiction book in America, according to Publishers' Weekly, Amazon.com and The New York Times....<br /><br />...Much of what Ms. Coulter asserts, especially where the press is concerned, has already been expressed by Mr. Goldberg in ''Bias.'' As a former CBS News correspondent, he drew upon firsthand experience to make his assertions. Ms. Coulter relies on 780 footnotes (she is a lawyer) and a bottomless supply of bile....<br /><br />....A great deal of research supports Ms. Coulter's wisecracks.....But she is her own worst enemy when it comes to subordinating joking and rhetoric to serious debate.<br /><br />But she is her own worst enemy when it comes to subordinating joking and rhetoric to serious debate..."<br /><br />Hardly praise.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43214588403129040922017-04-27T14:38:53.419-04:002017-04-27T14:38:53.419-04:00Very weak. Troll harder.Very weak. Troll harder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13232996929047646212017-04-27T14:05:29.173-04:002017-04-27T14:05:29.173-04:00"Try to ignore the way Holt mentions obscure ..."Try to ignore the way Holt mentions obscure "mathematical entities" like Galois systems. This is a form of name-dropping. Its basic function is to signal that you're out of your depth as you try to decipher this text."<br /><br />Leftists lap this stuff up. They love to pick up new words like "Kompromat" to signal literacy but it reveals a stunted education in social science electives.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-7658614451170464992017-04-27T13:55:42.998-04:002017-04-27T13:55:42.998-04:00I won't be going away. Ever. I won't be going away. Ever. Gregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45681647706156579272017-04-27T13:51:38.216-04:002017-04-27T13:51:38.216-04:00go away trollgo away trollAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5434934598790547852017-04-27T12:31:35.771-04:002017-04-27T12:31:35.771-04:00The wide disagreement among Americans on the presi...The wide disagreement among Americans on the president’s performance, however, is more than partisanship. It is a matter of political literacy. The fact of the matter is that too many Trump supporters do not hold the president responsible for his mistakes or erratic behavior because they are incapable of recognizing them as mistakes. They lack the foundational knowledge and basic political engagement required to know the difference between facts and errors, or even between truth and lies.”<br /><br />“There is a more disturbing possibility here than pure ignorance: that voters not only do not understand these issues, but also that they simply do not care about them. As his supporters like to point out, Trump makes the right enemies, and that’s enough for them. Journalists, scientists, policy wonks — as long as “the elites” are upset, Trump’s voters assume that the administration is doing something right.”<br /><br />“There is a serious danger to American democracy in all this. When voters choose ill-informed grudges and diffuse resentment over the public good, a republic becomes unsustainable.”Alan Snipeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05070460889011106908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-75502474018763848682017-04-27T12:20:14.820-04:002017-04-27T12:20:14.820-04:00Didn't the Greeks lack a representation for th...Didn't the Greeks lack a representation for the concept of infinity in their math? Wasn't that the point of Zeno's paradox?Not a rodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216459357112547141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-17384208110461916552017-04-27T12:00:06.625-04:002017-04-27T12:00:06.625-04:00"Holt assumed that readers wouldn't notic..."Holt assumed that readers wouldn't notice the sheer absurdity of his plan."<br /><br />Sometimes such a plan is a literary device to structure a piece of writing. Sometimes editors and publishers recognize that fact. Somerby seems to be excessively literal in his criticism.<br /><br />For example, "Eat, Pray, Love" was a literary device, a conceit, to describe the author's journey to three different geographic areas (with little else to connect them) while she tried to recover from a divorce. It gives structure to what might otherwise seem disjointed and perhaps self-involved. I suspect Holt's book is similar. But I have no plans to read it, since I think of this kind of question asking and ruminating as mental masturbation. I also find it appeals much more strongly to men than to women, who write more obviously personal books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60513028550844197002017-04-27T11:54:28.411-04:002017-04-27T11:54:28.411-04:00Somerby has wandered into the domain of "ment...Somerby has wandered into the domain of "mental representation" which is part of psychology. He doesn't seem to have realized that. Is there perhaps a third field, besides philosophy and mathematics, that might be relevant to someone reading this sort of book? Is it perhaps a field that Somerby has little competence in? Might someone consider ramblings ridiculous if they had no training in considering the ideas of that field? How are numbers represented mentally?<br /><br />I get tired of Somerby wandering into psychology without even recognizing that he has done so. This is why psychologists so frequently feel that they and their discipline get no respect!<br /><br />There are many ways to be ignorant in this world. Sometimes you can be ignorant without even realizing the full glory of your ignorance, as Somerby illustrates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com