Posts by Don Christie
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I've explained this several times before, including to NBR
Talking of the NBR, it is my absolute favourite mag today. I encourage you all to buy a copy.
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Wow. Thanks for that set of documentary links Steven.
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How Web 1.0 of you, Graeme.
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From what I can tell, it's Anglicans they're bitter on, not atheists.
Ah, agnostics more offensive than true believers, I suppose.
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Good point Emma. I know people with thyroid problems (underactive). Symptoms include depression, tiredness, and possible collapse. Just treating this with anti-depressants is dangerous. Still, this issue does not detract from Russell and others' main points.
(As an aside, I am pretty convinced that thyroid check ups should be much more standard than they are.)
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I really don't think people who are taking these meds will stop,
No, but there are people for whom these can be helpful that would use this as another reason to not take them. Oversubscription aside, the stigma associated in some peoples' mind with taking anti-depressants is still deeply ingrained.
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The problem with a "truth machine" is that it does not tell you anything very useful. It tells you what the subject *believes* is the truth.
Ask a flying spaghetti monster believer for their version of the truth then it will diverge so much from what most "reasonable" people perceive as reality that one would conclude that they must be lying.
The "truth machine" would not detect that lie.
Or more pragmatically "Are you a terrorist?", "No". This would ring "true" if the person believes they are a freedom fighter.
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He told me it had been highly irresponsible of me to be saying such things. I wonder what he's doing now.
Yes, I remember in 1995 my boss at the time asking whether this Internet thing was really going to amount to anything.
Smart guy, just didn't quite get the shift from bulletin board nerds to something much more powerful.
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So I have criticised the US media for the way they portrayed Clinton as a witch etc. but this Obama "cult" meme about Obama is equally shallow. So he's a good orator, like Nelson Mandela maybe?
As the man says, you can go to his web site for his 10 point plans, but unless someone actually *inspires* America to take back their government what hope is there is action ever getting started?
I have heard him speak in detail about foreign policy and domestic policy, he's not an idiot and has substance.
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Between Netscape and Firefox came Mozilla. Used it for a long time on my desktop. Funny thing, since Firefox's obvious success in grabbing Microsoft has reassembled its IE team and made 3 major releases. They have also moved back into standards compliant mode which is a boon for developers.
Competition, its a wonderful thing and don't let those BRT monopolist types tell you different.