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

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

interestingly, your sentence remains true if you swap "mark" and "echo-friendly"! fainting violet with attitude

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...

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...

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...

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

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!

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

no, you mean the turing test. a turing machine is a mathematical construct, one of the many formalism that are what is called turing-universal. a formalism is turing-univeral if anything that could conceivably be a machine can be simulated by that formalism.

let's get real here. there is nobody who understands all of a computer, from there highest level abstractions down to the nitty-gritty of microcode. at some point we're all ignorant and will have to yield to somebody else's authority. linux hype nonwithstanding, the hardware has to be taken as...

And as for "easy"... I'm sure it is easy to say things like "logically, they don't check out". In what sense is "Everything's green cheese" contradictory? The meaning of "Contradiction" and its opposite "consistent" are hardly clear, except in formal logic. but we are clearly not discussing in...

it's really easy. what about the position "everything's great" or "everything is green cheese"? the problem is to get interesting, rich positions that are also consistent. of course part of the difficulty is that it's hardly clear what "consistency" really may be. why should agnostics not...

yeah, stepney green, a cosy borough in one of the wealthiest palaces on the planet. i wonder if most western adolescent's lyrics and that banging on about the street/hood and how dangerous it is, is just because 3 months ago these guys had to be home before 10 or else their mum would not allow...