Lo be it for me to criticize another blogger…cough…but Kinsella takes the cake on this doozy.
“Raphael” then goes on to play some parsing games about what’s on his birth certificate, what’s real, what isn’t, etc. But he confirms that at least part of his Post handle is bullshit.
So, does the Post willingly publish untruths, or has it simply been hoodwinked? Good question.
To answer him, no. No the Post hasn’t been “hoodwinked” and no, you don’t have a good question.
Warren, I don’t expect you to drop your partisan wont, but one expects you to be smarter than this. The Nat. Post is only upholding some few hundred years worth of history in the publishing, suffrage and freedom of speech battles of the past.
Course, given your views on freedom of speech, I should expect nothing less than your desire to cast question on freedom of the press…at least the more conservative press. “We just caunght have that deary, now caun we.”
Cheers,
lance
Well, although I don’t agree with ET all the time, her comments are well thought out and clearly more civilized that the rantings of a few leftoids who have come over to slag people. The difference is being able to debate your point without resorting to ad hominem attacks.
btw, ever notice how the level of civility goes down when “progressives” come to play? Drops the intelligence level to that of Rabble or Kos.
Yikes I’m outta here, too high a of risk of neuro-toxic shock from semantic tick bites.
Texas Canuck, you mean this sort of thing:
EBD ~ Nettie, your layman-squared critique of ET’s work is, in the specific context of her phone number and email being published by some asshole, a big sunken turd-in-the-punchbowl, no?
Good sense of timing and occasion there. I wonder what you say to the bereaved family members at funerals about the deceased…
If you….. said “Unlike conservatives, I think knowledge and academia is respectful worthy pursuit.”
Conservatives have always valued knowledge and education. They just don’t value academics and intellectuals. There’s a big difference there. Conservatives generally live in the real world and use their experience and education to make things work. The Left have never lived in the real world and try to force their theories on the real world.
If…: “You outed Dawg. Period.”
I’ve been aware of his real name for more than a year so there’s no way ET “outed” Dawg.
Also, I recall ET from the Shotgun and she never used her real name. That didn’t prevent others from providing her information but ET never did.
ET, at the risk of distraction from the polemic, and now invective nature of the thread, is there a “for-dummies” source on the scientific discipline under discussion here. If you could refer those of us who would be interested in actually learning something, my interest has been inspired to discover the relationship between cognition and morphology. Remember for-dummies; no sarcasm intended.
I have received permission to publish something on here, which hopefully will set the matter to rest …
Raphael used to write under his actual name but one day a Neo-Nazi called his home and threatened him. So he naturally decided to change the name under which he blogged.
When the National Post gave him the opportunity to write, many of the same type of Hateful Leftists we see trolling around in this post e-mailed the newspaper to try to shut him up.
(Lance: Edited as per request and due to the fact that this is all third/fourth/fifth hand information.)
The fact is that Raphael had explained all of this to the National Post and they’re fine with it.
… on a personal note, a few months ago I received death threats, not by telephone but through e-mail. It’s more than a little freaky and so I do understand the way Raphael must have felt.
glasnost – there isn’t a single scientific discipline involved in this area. Instead, what has happened over the years is that a ‘spreading group’ of researchers, who come from different disciplines, have somehow connected and worked together on these issues.
As I said, the key disciplines, and I’m thinking of the major members of the group, are physics, biology, mathematics, bioengineering, computer and robotics. A fringe of botanists and economists.
The botanists are in it to test how plants form, by means of informed or cognitive interaction with their environment. The biologists are working on adapatation; again, how an organism sets itself up as an information system, gathers data, and transforms itself..i.e., gets a different shaped beak. Of course, the computer and robotics people want to make intelligent artificial systems.
What we’ve been exploring is how ‘something intelligent’ develops; that is, how matter/mass or energy is formed into a ‘thing’ that can make intelligent or predictive decisions. This includes atoms and molecules as well as cells. It can ‘anticipate’; it can ‘make a model’ of itself and its environment and how it interacts with the environment and then make decisions about its future interactions.
There’s no ‘text for dummies’, unfortunately, because the disciplines are all interactive. I used to give a regular class on this; it was a favourite class of students, and using a chalkboard and time, these issues can indeed be easily explained – and quite frankly, students readily ‘get it’. As they frequently told me, it ‘made a lot of sense’. And I’ve been asked, many times, to write a book on it. But I’ve become rather lazy since retirement. And, it would have to be a book heavy on diagrams. Indeed, a powerpoint book would be best!
All I can offer, without that class, is a difficult article in an online journal:
SIGNS
Scroll down to 2008. There’s an article by me titled: Biological organisms as semiosic systems: the importance of strong and weak anticipation”.
glasnost – unfortunately, there isn’t a ‘text for dummies’ for this area of research. The thing is, we are from different disciplines, all working together, and there’s no collated text. We come primarily from physics, biology, bioengineering, mathematics, and computer and robotics. There’s a fringe group from botany and economics.
The botanists are primarily focused on plant adaptation to changes in the environment, understanding such adaptations as ‘informed decisions’. Biologists are working with cells, insects and birds and animals. Physics and biologists – with complex adaptive networking. Computer and robotics are of course, focused on developing artificial intelligence. But, it’s all the same focus. How does mass/matter form itself into a system that can ‘intelligently’ gather information about its environment, and interact constructively.
I used to give a regular class on it – and using the blackboard and many diagrams, students very easily understood it. It was, actually, a favourite course and they frequently told me how logical it was, how ‘it made sense’. I’ve been asked to write an introductory text, but I’ve become lazy in retirement. And such a text would really require powerpoint and lots of diagrams.
All I can suggest, and I’ll give the title of the article and hope that you can find it, so I don’t get sent to the corner..is, google
‘Biological organisms as semiosic systems: the importance of strong and weak anticipation’. It’s in a journal called SIGNS. And it’s not an easy article, but, it does explain things!
Personally I really don’t care what a person wants to call themselves. I am not debating the person, I am debating their ideas. The only question in play is if the other person’s idea is worth challenging or if the idea is so idiotic that it is best left alone.
Wow. Edwina Taborsky’s quite the loony hypocrite.
in typical fascio-leftist fashion. The original point of the topic has been lost by meaningless bickering over unrelated issues. A typical tactic of a group losing a debate.
Further to the debate, it’s completely acceptable to use pseudonyms, it’s the tool of protection in our “non-free speech in practise” “free speech on paper” country.
in typical fascio-leftist fashion. The original point of the topic has been lost by meaningless bickering over unrelated issues. A typical tactic of a group losing a debate.
Oh, the irony.
There’s no doubt that Kate is the one and only, but for the sake of your family you’re going to have to pull yourself together, Black Mamba.
Meh, they got their worries, I got mine. But you’re right, I must try to be brave.
Ever seen the Kamp Krusty episode of the Simpsons? Summer-camp devolves into a grim Dickensian workhouse in the absence of The Man himself, but Bart never loses faith. “Kruty is coming, Krusty is coming…” he chants, clutching himself and rocking back and forth.
And when Krusty does finally arrive, he’s filled with contrition and takes everyone to on holiday to Mexico.
It’ll be like that here at Kamp Kate… she’ll be back. I have faith.
But don’t be cross, EBD. I just wish there’d been a little more troll-shooting on this here thread.
Ha! Never saw the Kamp Krusty episode. My favourite moment — and I don’t remember the fine details, it was a long time ago — was when a group was trapped in a big hole, and couldn’t climb out, and then someone had a bright idea: “Dig UP!!”
I agree with you about the troll shooting, but you should bear in mind that Lance is a very, very hard-working guy who just didn’t have time to monitor what was happening on the thread.
Heartily agree with you about Kate; she didn’t get to be the number one Conservative Blog by accident. In the meantime, though, be kind to us guest bloggers — “we’ze do’in da bess we kan, boss.”
And you know what happens to people who complain about camp cooking — “ptuhhh!! That’s horsesh…….um, but it’s good, it’s good!
That’s what we want to see.
And a bang-up job it is that you all are doing, sir! Please don’t make me sleep in the haunted cabin, or have anyone pee in my baked beans. I’ll be good. 🙂
*fish* on this thread is gone.
Stop feeding the trolls. You people are smarter than this.
Wow. Talk about censorship!
By the way, “Lance” sounds so, so, what’s the word?
Oh and now the deletions are starting.
You winguts are such hypocrites. HYPOCRITES!
This is nuts–ET outs Dawg, someone else outs ET and in the end you leave up ET’s “outing” of Dr. Dawg in this very post and delete all opposting points of view. (I’m glad you deleted the comments related to ET’s identity though.) How Stalinesque!
It is. These people talk a good fight about free speech. Once they feel its sting, they fold like a bad hand.
I hadn’t received any complaints about ET’s outing.
I’ll rectify that.
At the risk of being seriously petty, Lance, I complained, way back when. It’s at 10:30AM, and there’s a reference to it at 9:35PM