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Exactly what I was thinking. Nomad, you seem to be conflating cultural and physiological factors and at the same time claiming that genes determine nothing that can be called race ... Plainly some physiological factors are genetically determined though? [Instead of `absurd' above, I should...

Now I'm confused. I thought the argument was about whether there were `racial' characteristics that are genetically determined. Patently wearing baggy pants or whatever is not, but does that mean that nothing is? Surely one can draw a line b/t your first three examples and your second three...

This is very cool. It seems that the reason is that the people who use this themselves feel it sounds disrespectful. E.g. if you refer to the teacher as `yo' other students may say `she's not a yo', etc. (as reported on language log) Nice example of language changing from whatever its original...

this thing is good! thnx ripley!

Again, what's to argue about? :)

I see---I didn't know the code: the `classic' in `classic material' means something like `classic rock', i.e. is just a genre description. In that case, yes, why not have 50 albums of `classic material'? Or even more? Sure.

looks interesting(ish)---I like Cheever & co. I'll try to get on it in time for the discussion.

well in PD's defence: he didn't say they were great albums, just that they were the best 50 of 2007. of course I disagree with him ... as expected but I was a bit surprised to hear him characterize all this stuff as `classic material' above

yeah maybe my situation now is a special case: tokyo roads are very well kept up and there is not a pothole to be seen---in fact the situation is worse if you go out in the suburbs :) lots of low driveway-like things too in the city, never really have to hop a full curb (half-curbs don't...

but I have to disagree on the cheap mtb ... it is an option but a cheap road bike will do you faster & better & with less effort. depends if you want to be hopping curbs all the time, but otherwise not. especially if you ride any distance.

I wondered who would bring the bike snob into the discussion ...

love that Witchdoctor though

It seems that the fixie thing is OK as long as your city is not genuinely mountainous. There are billions of kids in Tokyo now on track bikes, it really seems like exponential growth. It's a bit annoying actually: everyone respects the uniform & brands, every bike is individualized to look the...

maybe not. but challenging/analyzing the reasons someone gives an argument (rather than the argument) always looks to me like a bit of a category mistake in this kind of context. of course you don't have much else to fall back on in this case. looks rather innocuous to me (note: I agree with...

enter the ad hominem!

I could be in, depending on what the book is ...

Things I liked that spring to mind RIGHT NOW: Amerie UGK seeing OOIOO for the first time in 10 years or so: they are much much better now Sizzla, as usual (some random things eg Hear Dem Talking) Dizzee `Where da Gs' returning to the Infamous

Mac or Linux for me, thank you.

Sounded a bit flip didn't it? Nothing inherently wrong with getting hit by a car while riding a bike but a comment like `Maybe global warming wasnt so bad after all' would sound offensive.

ah shit ...