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    kids these days

    I havent heard about this. Is this the departments that focus more on critical style stuff? Analytically oriented departments don't seem to be having this problem (?).
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    kids these days

    Fair enough nomad. And I guess this is why I don't enter those discussions except to occasionally ask, in a plaintive voice, `but what does it all mean ?' :) Still, it is easy to see why the above got MrT incensed.
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    kids these days

    This is false for the philosophy case: it holds true only for those programs that focus on these kind of issues. There are many programs that do not (or at least don't have these things in their core curricula). I think what MrT is getting at is this: one has the sense on this board (these...
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    Why Israel

    I find this argument funny---it sounds very hypocritical (`should') given what you've said upthread. Though maybe you are joking? Doesn't sound like it though...
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    Please help.

    No, just the only one with views that result from a correct attitude ...
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    How many hours do you sleep a night?

    Everyone here sleeps so little. You all must be busier than I: usually 8 hours +.
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    Contemporary South African music

    There were some threads about kwaito long ago .... http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3320&highlight=kwaito http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3320&highlight=kwaito
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    Dissensus Upgrades

    Fully agree.
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    Boozeless cold remedies

    the japanese seem to swear by the saline gargle thing. I usually do that & a bunch of water & juice. and rest ...
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    Punk Mix Part 1: 'Banned in D.C.' - First Wave American Punk

    anyone have access to big boys stuff? someone stole all what I had ...
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    Your top 5 countries of best music

    OK, to take the question in the spirit in which it was intended USA Jamaica Japan Brazil UK in no particular order, and putting aside the question of historical bodies of work and whatnot. There's obviously other great modeern stuff around (SA, Germany, Mexico, Cuba ...) but these places are...
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    bloody miserable

    Mr Tea advocates forgetting whatever bothers you via activity, which seems like a good prescription for non-unhappiness. I will go ride my bike now.
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    MIA - kala

    I have not made it all the way through any of the songs on this new record. I just find them embarassing at some point. Jimmy is the best of the lot but ruined for me by the fact that the original is so many times better ...
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    Conspiracies in literature

    you might try snow crash as well then, though it probably has more RAW in it
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    How much do you drink?

    yeah my alcohol consumption has gone way up too since quitting smoking ... seems like the body tries to retain the motion `hand to mouth' smoking more weed too
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    Completely bonkers physics spam

    :) heh heh
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    Completely bonkers physics spam

    but I thought everyone had accepted that the 7th force of attraction acted on the anu in such a way that the Sirian system's vibrations are attuned to ours? (ignore me)
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    Best non-american hiphop

    there is also a large scene of anticon pretenders at least in japan. better fake wu than fake that imo. ------ but recently: in japan, origami is sounding quite good, also solo albums by the members (shibitto & nanorunamonai) are good as well. enjoying new rumi album. going down here in a few...
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    sight vs. hearing

    isn't the difference just that artworks are investments---can be resold (given the right circumstances)---for a profit, but recordings aren't/can't? from this perspective something like artforum is just a different version of forbes---seems something right about this.
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    Completely bonkers physics spam

    wait I'm sorry MrTea, are you suggesting that our solar system is NOT intimately connected to the Sirian one? Surely as a practicing physicist you should be aware of these facts, right?
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