Comments on: link dump, before I brave the torrential downpour http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:36:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Crooked Timber » » Plus ca Change http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-24379 Crooked Timber » » Plus ca Change Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:27:34 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-24379 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] sometimes feel like this is how most lawyers and MBAs think of compsci majors. […] Posted by Luis Villa’s Blog / link dump, before I brave the torrential downpour · June 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] sometimes feel like this is how most lawyers and MBAs think of compsci majors. […] Posted by Luis Villa’s Blog / link dump, before I brave the torrential downpour · June 3rd, 2007 at 5:14 [...]

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]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22400 Luis Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:22:22 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22400 Which is why I haven't done anything like move to Canada. Still frustrating and even demoralizing at times. Which is why I haven’t done anything like move to Canada. Still frustrating and even demoralizing at times.

]]> By: Jon Kåre Hellan http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22390 Jon Kåre Hellan Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:39:52 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22390 Well, I'm starting to appreciate how well meaning Soviet oriented communists must have felt in the sixties. I still firmly believe that no country has done as much for democracy in the world as the U.S. And they torture people. However, I think there is an excellent chance that the U.S. will pull back from the madness. The U.S. democracy has the self correcting mechanisms that the Soviet or Nazi systems lacked. Well, I’m starting to appreciate how well meaning Soviet oriented communists must have felt in the sixties. I still firmly believe that no country has done as much for democracy in the world as the U.S. And they torture people.

However, I think there is an excellent chance that the U.S. will pull back from the madness. The U.S. democracy has the self correcting mechanisms that the Soviet or Nazi systems lacked.

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22316 Luis Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:52:50 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22316 Oh, of course. If you haven't figured that out by now, you're pretty deeply irrational/immoral/in denial. But this is the kind of icing on the cake which tends to break through the thick skulls even of those people. And I think it should, properly, be a solid, emotional reminder even to those who long ago said 'these guys are pretty damn evil.' Oh, of course. If you haven’t figured that out by now, you’re pretty deeply irrational/immoral/in denial. But this is the kind of icing on the cake which tends to break through the thick skulls even of those people. And I think it should, properly, be a solid, emotional reminder even to those who long ago said ‘these guys are pretty damn evil.’

]]> By: Pete Zaitcev http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22309 Pete Zaitcev Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:41:21 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/06/03/link-dump-before-i-brave-the-torrential-downpour/#comment-22309 <em>[Ed.: no ad hominem attacks.]</em> Also, if something is out from a Nazi playbook, is it a bad thing? It's the common "Mussolini" fallacy: If Mussolini made trains run on time (which he didn't, but never mind that), is it a bad thing that trains run on time? Torture is a bad thing because it's inhumane, and not because Nazi used it. [Ed.: no ad hominem attacks.]

Also, if something is out from a Nazi playbook, is it a bad thing? It’s the common “Mussolini” fallacy: If Mussolini made trains run on time (which he didn’t, but never mind that), is it a bad thing that trains run on time? Torture is a bad thing because it’s inhumane, and not because Nazi used it.

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