Republicans put 'national interest' requirement on US science agency : Nature News & Comment

2013-11-08 Thread Larry C. Lyons
http://www.nature.com/news/republicans-put-national-interest-requirement-on-us-science-agency-1.14102 this is really messed up. Instead of using peer reviewed objective standards the Rethuglicans want to change the criteria for how grants are made to subjective political goals. Why am I not surp

Re: Friday funny

2013-11-08 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
I chuckled but the thing that got me laughing was the fact that the banner ad was for Progressive (auto insurance). Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. On Fri, Nov 8

Re: Friday funny

2013-11-08 Thread Scott Stroz
Of course you did. On Nov 8, 2013 2:01 PM, "Sam" wrote: > > http://liberallogic101.com/?p=3570 > > Well, I liked it :) > > . > > > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/d

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Sam
LOL Sometimes I can't tell when your joking. . On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > PG 46 Ad Hominim. > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Sam wrote: > > > > > Not if you thought about it first :P > > > > . > > > > > ~~~

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Larry C. Lyons
PG 46 Ad Hominim. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Sam wrote: > > Not if you thought about it first :P > > . > > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > > > Funny We could realistically say the same to you, only replacing > > 'right' with 'left' in second sentence. > > O

Friday funny

2013-11-08 Thread Sam
http://liberallogic101.com/?p=3570 Well, I liked it :) . ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/gro

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Sam
Not if you thought about it first :P . On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > Funny We could realistically say the same to you, only replacing > 'right' with 'left' in second sentence. > On Nov 8, 2013 12:22 PM, "Sam" wrote: > > > > > Why don't you just work on your discu

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Scott Stroz
Funny We could realistically say the same to you, only replacing 'right' with 'left' in second sentence. On Nov 8, 2013 12:22 PM, "Sam" wrote: > > Why don't you just work on your discussion skills? You seemed to be focused > on attacking the right and then attacking anyone that doesn't agree

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Sam
Why don't you just work on your discussion skills? You seemed to be focused on attacking the right and then attacking anyone that doesn't agree with your attack. Seems like there are better ways to deal with this problem rather than programming your attacks. Yes? . On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:5

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Larry C. Lyons
true that. Set it up for everyone then. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Vivec wrote: > > He won't have a monopoly on that, as many of us are guilty of using those > bad argument styles in books. > > > ~| Order the Adobe Col

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Judah McAuley
Lexical analysis is a tough field. We could do a word analysis that maps the most-likely culprits to particular fallacy types, but my guess is that the pool of words is pretty small and would be commonly distributed across fallacy types. At that point, you'd have to try and do statement-level ana

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Vivec
He won't have a monopoly on that, as many of us are guilty of using those bad argument styles in books. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusi

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I wonder how difficult it would be to set up a web service for CF-Community. Every time Sam posts, an electronic verison of the book is checked, then the bad argument explanation and number are appended to his note. Something like this: Sam writes: Blah, blah blah.Gratuitous insult.. and the ap

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Cameron Childress
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Sam wrote: > Why do you always act like a sore loser? > > I don't gloat when I kick your ass with logic so you have no reason to > sulk. Get back in your cage gimp! -Cameron ... ~| Order the

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Sam
Why do you always act like a sore loser? I don't gloat when I kick your ass with logic so you have no reason to sulk. . On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > FYI - Sam's worst nightmare is about to be available to buy in print: > > https://bookofbadarguments.com/theboo

Re: Book of bad arguments

2013-11-08 Thread Cameron Childress
FYI - Sam's worst nightmare is about to be available to buy in print: https://bookofbadarguments.com/thebook/ Just in time for the pagan holiday of your choice! -Cameron On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > When replying to Sam, now you can just reply using a link to hi