On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:03:00 -0700 Razer <ray...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > On 10/25/2016 05:24 AM, John Newman wrote: > > > > > >> On Oct 25, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Tom <t...@vondein.org> wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:36:30PM -0400, Kevin Gallagher wrote: > >>> They are blind enough to believe that their "advances" help > >>> society, despite them actually shifting the balance of power away > >>> from the people. > >> > >> The point of science is to find answers to open questions and by > >> doing so gain knowledge. Seriously, science is not the enemy. It > >> were not the enemy in 1641 and it isn't today. > > > > For real. +100 (as comrade Alex would say) > > > > > Take that view point around here and you will be called absurd shit > > like a "scientific truther" =) > > > > > > > > > > So let me hear you deny the state of science is often contaminated, > perverted and raped by the science of the state. > > I BELIEVE that's a major topic of discussion here.
Indeed. > How the GOVERNMENT > funds COMPUTER SCIENCE making it's 'industrial output' to the end user > SUSPECT. And not only computer science. > > That's because scientists on the GOVERNMENT DOLE don't really do much > in the way of free inquiry, Indeed. > and I'll re-state, from another thread, > why... aside from the need to keep a roof over your head and not end > up the academic variant of 'the slandering of ioerror', by hostile > 'colleagues': > 'Peer-review eats one's mind. Like the earwig in that Night Gallery > episode.' Or perhaps more apropos, this > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OofMJ6cwzLM > > H/t grarpamp for the link... > > Rr