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TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

I’m sure the WWII German military included soldiers who participated in WWI. I can think of one very famous one in particular.

That famous “You Know Who Else…” was a Chancellor then Dictator during World War II, not an active military fighter. It’s not like he was on the scene of the front lines running over Fran…

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Autumn wrote:

Unseen wrote:

But, of course, a lot hangs on what you mean by “random.”

A definition that uses it in some absolute sense would be the outlier to standard usage. ‘True’ randomness is difficult to parse. I’d take it to mean an event that is intrinsically not predictable—something that can only be described as a statistical…

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But, of course, a lot hangs on what you mean by “random.”

As long as deterministic physical laws are in control, is anything above the quantum scale ever totally, truly, and demonstrably random? (A lot seems to depend on whether the quantum level events ever intrude into the level above, where physical law applies.)

Also, I’ll toss in Benford’s Law, a law applying to many sets of naturally occurring…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

If you get the computer to produce the sequence then it is not really a random number as it is based on a program written to generate the numbers.

If you were to rearrange the numbers on the number pad ( The zero key could be anything from 1-9) and then allow your office cat to walk on the keyboard (as they do!) then…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:

Naturally, you release the P.O.W.s after you’ve defeated your enemy and you’ve kicked the tires and looked under the hood of the peace offering.

I’m sure the WWII German military included soldiers who participated in WWI. I can think of one very famous one in particular. Had he been a prisoner of Athens, there’s a goo…[Read more]

Autumn wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Davis, All right, so where am I wrong on CRT?

A good start in criticizing critical race theory would be to criticize critical race theory. Crazy, I know. But that’s how I roll. At present, you haven’t really made substantive claims against what it is. You’ve made claims against characterizations of it. Y…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:

There was always the third option of actually freeing P.O.W.s, something nations do in the modern day, even after the worst, bloodiest wars in the Twentieth Century. False binaries and zero-sum games such as what you’ve cited are part of the reason why Theology, Philosophy, and Political Theory haven’t advanced like Sci…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

Yes, yes, yes, the American slavers wisely (lazily?) didn’t go catch their slaves. They paid Africans to catch slaves for them. They had paid employees, basically, get them their unpaid employees. This is what is known as a distinction without a difference.

You said Europeans “kidnapped” not “kidnapped by proxy,”…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:

I pointed out the religion and point of origin of the slave capturers and the slave traders and owners, not the “race,” which I don’t even regard as a fixed scientific way of categorizing human beings.

Geneticists regard race as a “social fiction,” and yet we all know what it means. It’s pretty safe to assume that the s…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:

Let’s get the actual practice of slavery straight here. Europeans would have died of Malaria, Sleeping Sickness from the Tstetse Fly, Jungle Rot, and other diseases to which they had no immunity or prevention if they went into the jungle and kidnapped Africans.

Africans were captured by Animist African Kings and their h…

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Davis wrote:

That was a painful video to watch. Critical race theory is racist because it’s race based? That would be like saying a study which tries to determine to what extent women are unfairly discriminated against in job hiring practices is “sexist” because it focuses on women.

It is common for white Americans to feel that the race issue…[Read more]

@TheEngogitationer

The upshot of your response is that when you aren’t dodging the question, it’s clear that there are circumstances when one is over the barrel and must deal with terrorists, right?

@TheEncogitationer

There are plenty of very practical “lifeboat situations” when it comes to terrorism. In the case of cyberterrorist ransoms, they can shut down water systems, hospitals, maybe even take control of nuclear weapons.

I think that you did, basically, an end run rather really answering my question. In as many words, I asked you not…[Read more]

@TheEncogitationer

It gets hard when the rubber hits the road, doesn’t it?