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    Rationality is not masculine

    what is gained by this concept of the political, apart from a novel and perplexing way of saying "everything"?
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    Favorite Albums of 04

    some amazing stuff that i think hasn't been mentionend so far: phoenix -- alphabetical Von Spar -- Die Uneingeschränkte Freiheit Der Privaten Initiative Sido -- Maske new Luomo & Raz O'Hara, don't know what it's called. Ricardo Villalobos -- Alcachofa
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    Rationality is not masculine

    interestingly, your sentence remains true if you swap "mark" and "echo-friendly"! fainting violet with attitude
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    Rationality is not masculine

    in the light of your claim "This board is meant for serious discussion", the lack of reply to virtually everything i suggested is interesting. your say-so isn't a compelling argument. what is inhuman reason and where does it's magic ability to tell me what's best for my dinner come from? can...
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    Rationality is not masculine

    sorry mate, oil and water are in no way contradictory. regarding your first example: leaving aside the fuzziness between "it rains" and "it does not rain" and that it can rain in Oslo while the sun shines in Madrid at the same time, what is interesting with this example -- and consistent with...
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    Rationality is not masculine

    you identify rationality and consistency and then claim that one cannot be rational and a nazi or child abuser. that doesn't work, on the contrary (cf de sade). consistency is a formal requirement and just about everything is consistent with each other. in another discussion here i repeatedly...
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    Rationality is not masculine

    and this week's "deep unheard of insight" award goes to ................ the k-punk! kon-gratulations
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    ilm

    he's to diversity! i quite literally cannot read dissensus. white letters on black background. that's atrrocious. ILM on the other hand ... maybe this says more about or respective monitors than anything else!
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    ilm

    i agree wholeheartedly. ILM's is a beautiful web interface. Simple, totally functional, easy on the eye! not-surprisingly, even the html is clean.
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    K-Punk and the Catholics

    let's look at it that way: i went to one of my grandmothers funerals not too long ago. i engaged in all sorts of rituals, including prayer and throwing goods in the grave. all these rituals can and should be understood as having religious/magic content. so you are saying i am religious? I'd...
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    K-Punk and the Catholics

    it all depends by what you call mayans. With mayan culture, we usually associate the big mayan cities in yucatan and chiapas, like palenque and chichen itza. this city centred culture declined before the spanish arrived -- why is not know. the northern mayas were generally assimilated by other...
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    Are you a digital native, a digital immigrant or an analogue?

    I'm afraid, you've got things slightly mixed up. Syntactically correct Java (et al) programs may well be describable by context free grammars, But so is the input to any Turing machine (as it is a single finite string over a finite alphabet). What is relevant here is that the set of languages...
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    K-Punk and the Catholics

    really? why do you have two sets of lawyers arguing in each court case for their clients? is one of the sides always mistaken in principle? law is a mechanism to defuse conflicts. conflict is at the very heart of law. legal mechanism work because they take a conflict and draw it out in time, at...
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    Are you a digital native, a digital immigrant or an analogue?

    a TM is a mathematical model of a computer. in fact you can think TM = computer. everything a computer can do a TM can do and vice versa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine you can also think of TM = programing language, TM = Java, TM = C. so the tasks performed "under these conditions"...
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    Why does this always have to happen?

    i thought roni size was jungle's sellout guy ... anyway, "street/hardcore/modernist/for the floor" cannot be defined by use of a certain kind of sound. it should be seen as reacting to other/previous music and it's (perceived) audience. it is the music that consciously tries to differenciate...
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