tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post3685931363795188547..comments2024-03-28T04:08:06.986-05:00Comments on Althouse: "To borrow from Woody Allen’s distinction between the miserable (something we all are) and the horrible (fortunately suffered by only a few)..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33561729136525248562017-01-14T22:17:39.967-06:002017-01-14T22:17:39.967-06:00Astonishing!
Indeed it is.
There is no first law...<i>Astonishing!</i><br /><br />Indeed it is.<br /><br /><i>There is no first law of thermodynamics?</i><br /><br />Nothing about the process violates any physical conservation laws, including the laws of thermodynamics.Michael McNeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17848373029958280894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31217403837867282712017-01-14T14:12:02.180-06:002017-01-14T14:12:02.180-06:00I have a wait-and-see attitude toward the coming T...I have a wait-and-see attitude toward the coming Trump Administration. As a libertarian, I see aspects of his "philosophy" (if one can call it that) that I don't like (his support of a minimum wage; anti-free-trade rhetoric; his support of the Kelo decision). But when I hear the "liberal" Hive's jeremiads against a Trump presidency, I remind myself that "liberals" are The Gang That's Wrong About Nearly Everything (and I'm being charitable about the "nearly"), I feel more favorably disposed toward The Donald.Bilwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12264809254712506094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27638111148239820152017-01-14T09:37:58.068-06:002017-01-14T09:37:58.068-06:00Nonsense. According to modern physics, this real p...<i>Nonsense. According to modern physics, this real physical world we live in is not deterministic</i><br />Astonishing! <br />There is no first law of thermodynamics?Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50015965210165316092017-01-14T07:08:14.922-06:002017-01-14T07:08:14.922-06:00But if the natural world and its laws are all ther...<i>But if the natural world and its laws are all there is, there is no free will.</i><br /><br />Nonsense. According to modern physics, this real physical world we live in is <i>not</i> deterministic, while new (though garbage — but none the less useful for that) information continually leaks into the world basically from <i>nowhere</i>. As a result, it's perfectly possible for something very like “free will” to coexist with this universe of ours.Michael McNeilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17848373029958280894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-2496424419903537202017-01-14T04:17:00.731-06:002017-01-14T04:17:00.731-06:00Classic example of a Trumpeteer who is violently a...Classic example of a Trumpeteer who is violently against Obamacare but loves the ACA which they are subscribed to:<br /><br />(https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/5mxe2n/im_not_on_obamacare_my_health_insurance_is/)<br /><br />That's right ... Like millions of dumb Trumpeteers who cannot tell that Obamacare = ACA. Once the Trump administration invicerates Obamacare without a replacement, what are the millions of Obamacare subscribers going to do? Oh, yes - they will vote Trump and Republican again next time. Yeah, right.<br /><br />Don't forget Trumpeteers - you don't have the money, the liberal Coasts do.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570083132483784714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91900035106058883822017-01-14T03:25:44.961-06:002017-01-14T03:25:44.961-06:00Trumpeteers:
The ~3000 counties Trump won generat...Trumpeteers:<br /><br />The ~3000 counties Trump won generate 36% of US economic activity.<br /><br />The ~400 counties Hillary won generate 74% of US economic activity.<br /><br />Majority of counties Hillary won are on the Coasts, big cities and college towns.<br /><br />It is fact that the prosperous States eg. NY, CA, WA etc. subsidize the less prosperous which are mainly in the middle of the country.<br /><br />The war is no longer between the Left and Right, it is between the Trumpeteers and the larger Rest who contribute more to the US. And, they are getting angrier and angrier because they generate more economically and subsidize the middle-country.<br /><br />Go ahead and keep laughing Trumpeteers but you don't have the money - the liberal Coasts do.<br />Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16570083132483784714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-15967505078435950622017-01-14T02:25:11.788-06:002017-01-14T02:25:11.788-06:00The New Yorker cover conveys such a sense of offen...The New Yorker cover conveys such a sense of offended snobbery... it's painful to see. "How dare those inferiors usurp our God's given right and duty to guide the USA?"PaoloPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526502018944925340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23505644745120118562017-01-13T22:57:37.751-06:002017-01-13T22:57:37.751-06:00Gopnik is so unreadable despite having smart thing...Gopnik is so unreadable despite having smart things to say.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823299144589986135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90720654941891048152017-01-13T22:04:20.935-06:002017-01-13T22:04:20.935-06:00I'm going to bed, because I'm tired!I'm going to bed, because I'm tired!daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38526851660198831742017-01-13T22:02:52.363-06:002017-01-13T22:02:52.363-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51145483988801672152017-01-13T21:59:13.154-06:002017-01-13T21:59:13.154-06:00ctrl + f traditionalguy getting increasingly usefu...ctrl + f traditionalguy getting increasingly useful though! daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16646854910622271782017-01-13T21:58:29.408-06:002017-01-13T21:58:29.408-06:00don't just move on!don't just move on!daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74167915412354691692017-01-13T21:56:39.921-06:002017-01-13T21:56:39.921-06:00Big Mike said...
The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2...<i>Big Mike said...<br />The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2016.<br /><br />Damn right we did! We're the youngest, smartest, most humble seventy years -- evah!</i><br />And no 70-year-olds are younger than you! None of them!<br />From what I understand, real, academic historians aren't into teleology. People are just what they are, there is nothing in them that is "becoming" anything, and there is no past, merely current thoughts about this mental construct called "the past."Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23973988821237199062017-01-13T21:56:23.967-06:002017-01-13T21:56:23.967-06:00not sad!not sad!daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-27204639213058250082017-01-13T21:55:56.470-06:002017-01-13T21:55:56.470-06:00althouse blog comments my favorite part of the int...althouse blog comments my favorite part of the internet right now. very provocative!<br />daskolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644768542015986565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-55891566024667092692017-01-13T21:37:50.843-06:002017-01-13T21:37:50.843-06:00The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2016.
Damn right ...<i>The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2016</i>.<br /><br />Damn right we did! We're the youngest, smartest, most humble seventy years -- evah!Big Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831645119853118904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-45830070195868964312017-01-13T21:31:55.753-06:002017-01-13T21:31:55.753-06:00Desperately Seeking "Madame Oelosi" per ...Desperately Seeking "Madame Oelosi" per Drago 7:48<br /><br />But only one in the USA ...<br /><br />Who is this figure? Or is it an idiom? LOL, STFU, underpants gnome? <br />A Twitter thing? <br /><br />Behind in English though I read Spencer. Ars longa, vita brevis.<br /><br />Thank God for intuition. Madame Pelosi. <br />wildswanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11975129877750876072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81575932039207744232017-01-13T21:28:00.361-06:002017-01-13T21:28:00.361-06:00Progressives are so superstitious that they actual...Progressives are so superstitious that they actually believe there are sides of history and they are on the right side and that side is the inevitable progress of society.<br /><br />Meanwhile Huns, Goths and Vandals are always on the edges of society hoping for its downfall.Birkelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205292523499913507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11117372142201341252017-01-13T21:24:45.567-06:002017-01-13T21:24:45.567-06:00"It's like having an emotional response t..."It's like having an emotional response to your car not starting because you believe that it made a decision not to start, and that is wrong for cars to decide not to start."<br /><br />I got this VW w/ a 53 on it that thinks otherwise.<br /><br /><br />Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77741728824145970072017-01-13T21:12:06.227-06:002017-01-13T21:12:06.227-06:00The creationism thing is interesting. Progressives...The creationism thing is interesting. Progressives seem to believe that creationism -- the belief that God created the human race in some kind of defiance of the laws of nature -- is the product of superstition.<br />The word "supernatural" merely means 'above nature." Progressives believe all kinds of crazy things, when they think at all. Scientific materialism is the belief that the natural world and its laws are all that there is, and that the human mind is capable of perceiving all of the natural world and its laws. It is the denial of metaphysics.<br />But if the natural world and its laws are all there is, there is no free will. We are no more capable of free will than a computer program. But if this is true there is no virtue. No one actually makes choices. Yet progressives believe in virtue. Why recycle or condemn exploitation, if these things aren't virtuous? Having an emotional response to, say, racism, is just silly. It's like having an emotional response to your car not starting because you believe that it made a decision not to start, and that is wrong for cars to decide not to start.<br />But if there is free will, it is built into the natural world that we experience. If I choose to pick up a stone, I have created physical action in the material world that did not originate in the material world. Choosing to pick up a stone is no greater a miracle than the reincarnation of dead flesh.Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-77520337770403603312017-01-13T20:56:21.363-06:002017-01-13T20:56:21.363-06:00"Conspicuous consumption, married to a super ..."Conspicuous consumption, married to a super model, and having the time of his life."<br /><br />You left out one of his best quotes, maybe the best quote from him.<br /><br />More or less: 'If you don't think you can buy happiness, you haven't been shopping in the right stores.'<br />Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-43769974853498873482017-01-13T20:55:09.651-06:002017-01-13T20:55:09.651-06:00harryo said...
The author determined who a celebr...<i>harryo said...<br /><br />The author determined who a celebrity was, and then calculated if 2016 had the most celebrity deaths. (yes).</i><br />The oldest boomers turned 70 in 2016.Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-50349595771849854312017-01-13T20:52:53.354-06:002017-01-13T20:52:53.354-06:00"Ok, I'll learn to not like enjoyment and..."Ok, I'll learn to not like enjoyment and success."<br />So, you are Trump fan now, PB&J?<br />Conspicuous consumption, married to a super model, and having the time of his life.Lewis Wetzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01200232293505119133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71762993588054708162017-01-13T20:52:13.229-06:002017-01-13T20:52:13.229-06:00If you ever wanted to know a mathematical equation...If you ever wanted to know a mathematical equation for the question "who is a celebrity?" Then using only Wikipedia English, you can check this web page:<br /><br /><a href="https://medium.com/@jasoncrease/was-2016-especially-dangerous-for-celebrities-79d79b9fae02#.3y1sqbv8g" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@jasoncrease/was-2016-especially-dangerous-for-celebrities-79d79b9fae02#.3y1sqbv8g</a><br /><br />The author determined who a celebrity was, and then calculated if 2016 had the most celebrity deaths. (yes).<br />Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02463542962653770911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16480887468993993422017-01-13T20:47:40.508-06:002017-01-13T20:47:40.508-06:00Mike,
You're funny.
Ok, I'll learn to no...Mike,<br /><br />You're funny.<br /><br />Ok, I'll learn to not like enjoyment and success.<br /><br />Happy?Sprezzaturahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859397164637821056noreply@blogger.com