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Sorry, then I misunderstood what you meant. BTW, there's a second dimension to specialist language: it allows the expert to see quickly if an interlocutor has put in the work to master the field. This is a proxy indicator for the likely quality of a discussion. It's like the mandatory "Related...

I also think that sometimes (I went to university when I was 23), but it pushes the problem just somewhere else (i.e. what else should these immature brats do). If you study late it aggravates the problem of realising only one or two years in your course that you've picked the wrong field. I...

The opposite is true, as you will find out in a few years, when you'll begin to be at the top of your field. Writing about a specialised subject in a non-technical language (without loosing precision) is difficult and for many advanced sciences essentially impossible. The reason to use...

Import Export? Too much 'look how wretched these people are'.

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This I disagree with. I think both the Bush and the Obama administration have been thinking that a regime change in Tehran is genuinely in their interest.

I would imagine that Bush and now Obama run a promiscous strategy and talk to anybody who's an enemy of Ahmedi-Nejad and Chamenei. Support all of them a little bit, and see what happens. Moreover, Iran is demonised in the western media. I don't think the protests were engineered directly. I...

There are many ways a country can be destabilised.

That's not how I understand him. I think he means that a Mousavi win would allow Obama to start negotiating with Iran because the symbolic bad guy has gone. This would be in everybody's interest including Iran. I do in fact think that that's a possibility. You assume that detailed policy...

Wow, that's quite amazing, although the fields off the coast of Brazil a very deep and hence very expensive to tap. Petrobraz are investigating several other potential sites nearby. I'd be surprised if they didn't find more!

Great idea, we should aim to achieve a 1:4 male to female ratio. It would be a feminist's dream: women working in all jobs, including all top jobs. Men could form harems and bang hot girls left right and center without ever having to endure monogamy. Almost all my friends are eldest children...

I more or less agree with what you wrote, but my focus is different: I see the extreme western reaction (including the present Dissensus thread) as something that is produced, and skillfully produced, by the same people who produced the "weapons of mass destruction" outrage in Iraq. I find this...

You link to Mousavi supporters. The de fact government of Irak is the US, notelected by Irak's population. All but one of these sources are old (from June), written before the official Mousavi complaint, so they are irrelevant. Why? Because my post above was explicitly about the lack of...

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. If only this was true. The pro-war camp very much exists politically (see my post on this matter a few months ago), though not in the top positions of the Obama government. It is strategically unlikely that Iran will be attacked in the short...

As usual, you and the other sycophants of empire here do not deal with the (limited) evidence as e.g. discussed in the Afrasiabi article, and don't put forward counterevidence. Why is that? Because you cannot? What you don't seem to appreciate is that if the election was genuine (note the...

Younger listerners prefer MP3 fidelity to CD says study (sorry no time to track down the original article). High Fidelity audio equipment is to some degree a stupidity tax.

As the Dust Settles It's been a while since the Iranian elections, and the question of election fraud is still inconclusive, both ways. But increasingly it looks like there might not have been widespread fraud, as more thoughful observers had supected for a while. Here are some fascinating...

I saw that film a few years ago. I felt that it was peddling too many "Damsel in Distress" cliches for my liking. Not that it matters, but by pure coincidence I ended up in Paldiski and the Tallinn nightclub where parts of the movie were shot, just after it had come out.

That's surprising. I sold all my analog great a few years back, including a Prodigy, MS-20 and so on. I made a total killing, got way more than I paid for these machines. It wasn't even hard, just put everything up on ebay.

Who turns you on? The sadist racist Mesrine? Anyway, I though it was a fairly standard cope & robbers type movie. Nothing memorable.