Hydrogen.

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I've been busy battling a Chomskyite in my comments, which is rather less productive than blogging, but someone has to do it. I just wanted to note in passing that the spell-checker built into Mozilla Thunderbird (the email companion to the Firefox browser) doesn't recognise the word "Thunderbird". Which strikes me as something of an oversight.

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Now is the time at the Flea when... Uh, never mind. Just watch the video.

Warning: Not entirely work-safe. Contains boobies.

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A few days ago I mentioned that Blitz Max had been released, albeit only for MacOS X so far. (And as it happens, it requires a more recent version of MacOS X than I actually have installed on any of my Macs, the most recent of which dates to 2001.)

The good people at Blitz have now released beta versions of the Windows and Linux releases, showing that they really are pretty close to shipping. To get access to the betas you have to already have a paid license for Blitz Max... Which I did, even though I couldn't actually run it, as such. Heh.

In that post I mentioned the, um, austerity of the supplied libraries, so I should also mention a couple of points here that work strongly in Blitz Max's favour. First, the libraries are for the most part written in Blitz Max, making them relatively easy to extend (and also makes them trivial to port from Mac to Linux to Windows and vice-versa). Second, the standard $80 price tag comes with the source code for all of the libraries, which makes the libraries not just easy but possible to extend. And third, Blitz has a long-standing and energetic user community, and they have already - ten days after the product was released - added significant new functionality to the libraries, which is even now being put back into the standard product. Most notably, a library enabling scripting Blitz Max programs with Lua has been developed and released in just days.

I've downloaded the Windows and Linux betas and I can confirm that the Windows version works well. And so if I disappear for a few days you can assume that the Linux version is also working well. Actually, hang on a tick...

Well, it runs well enough, but my test program won't compile because it can't find one of the libraries. I'm updating the libraries now (which is just a menu option away, very nice) and I'll try it again.

Works! Produces monster binaries* alas, so not so good for creating tiny utilities. I expect that's due to a lot of unwanted libraries being included, but the linker is supposed to be smarter than that.

I think this has a lot of promise. It's easy to use, it compiles quickly, the programs run fast, it works on Mac and Windows and Linux, it's cheap, it's got big brown eyes, and you get source code to the libraries.

Blitz Max get's a coveted Doesn't Suck award from me.

Update: Hmm. And three times slower than Python for string manipulation, which is something of a disappointment.

* By my old-fogy standards, at least. A minimal benchmark program compiled to 600k.**
** The minimal benchmark clocks it at 500 times faster than Python - for arithmetic and tight loops, which are hardly Python's strong point. But it's certainly not slow.

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I have absolutely no idea what most of the pictures used in the titlebar represent. One of them is the Sydney Opera House. One is opals, another is agate. The other 597, I dunno.

Just wait until I get the remaining 59,400 images loaded onto the server. Or, if I manage to get the font switching working without it screwing up permissions like it did last time, the remaining 959,400.

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“Peace and wealth and effective medicine and a comfortable home with air conditioning...”My little aside bagging Noam Chomsky in About the Author, and my choice of Oliver Kamm as my latest Blog of the Day after a long absence, are not some momentary aberration, but rather a return of this blog to its roots.*

After the recent electoral victories of the right people in Australia and America I felt as though a great weight had been lifted - or to use a less cliched phrasing, as though a critical and feared exam had turned out to be, relatively speaking, a walk in the park. And here we are in Graduate School, exams no longer looming on the horizon, but still a huge amount of work to be done.

Because, you have to understand, I'm not a Conservative. Neither George Bush nor John Howard truly represent my views on most subjects. I am pleased by their respective victories primarly because both are fundamentally honest, and I was deeply opposed to John Kerry and Mark Latham primarily because both challengers seemed to me to be deeply, personally, dishonest.

Look, I'm not a child; I don't expect politicians to tell the truth all the time. Sometimes they can't - they have to deal with matters of security that cannot be made public. Sometimes they won't, because, well, politics is like that. But the dishonesty of Kerry and Latham runs much deeper; they are not honest even to themselves.

What I'm really most directly opposed to, and what I've been fighting for years, long before I set up this blog, is not the political Left as such but intellectual dishonesty.

I'm not, technically, a scientist, though I would have been, technically, a scientist had I troubled myself to attend my classes and so ultimately graduated.** That doesn't mean that I can't recognise Science - the process, the method, even more than its vast body of discoveries and achievements - as the single greatest invention of Western Civilisation. (Number two being the limited liability corporation, something that far too many people take for granted.)

My aim is to promote Science and Civilisation, and it's a selfish aim. I want the products of Science and Civilisation for myself: Peace and wealth and effective medicine and a comfortable home with air conditioning and a fancy computer and an interesting and productive job. The people who attack Science and Civilisation are trying to deprive me of all that, and I won't allow it.

The Creationists pushing their fraudulent spin on Evolutionary Theory; the Post-Modernists denying the concept of Objective Truth; the Islamists trying to do both at the same time; the historical revisionists; the Psychics; the "Alternative Health Practitioners"; the academics who see their role being not to teach but to brainwash their students into leftist zombiehood; the "free speech" proponents who want to stamp out speech they don't like; Mysticism and Obscurantism; the spammers and scammers and hackers who are doing their level best to destroy the Internet; the nanny-state idiots and the totalitarian hardliners who try to legislate problems out of existence: These and more are what I truly oppose.

So I shouldn't want for subject matter.

* Not that it has any.
** I was studying Computer Science, hence the "technically". Still, it's better than Sociology...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:44 PM | Comments (18) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Yay! I encourage the ridicle of dogmatism wherever it may be found, whether it be the religious right or the religious left (being those lefties so anti-religion that there is a religious zeal about their anti-religionness. (And the third greatest invention of Westen Civilization is air conditioning...)

Posted by: Susie at December 20, 2004 01:21 AM (3nS88)

2 That pretty much sums up why I blog.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at December 20, 2004 09:05 AM (LOj+R)

3 If you include refrigeration in with A/C, Susie, I'd agree with you.
Pixy, I think we are on a similar wavelength. I spent the first 3 weeks after September 11th, 2001 debunking Nostradamus rumors (and other similar pass-arounds).
Cheers!

Posted by: Kathy K at December 20, 2004 09:06 AM (fGtFB)

4 "Still, it's better than Sociology..."

I resemble that remark!
Seriously, sociology is a fairly mature field of study. The forces at play in human interaction are relatively well understood (keep in mind that sociology is a totally different field from psychology, which does involve a lot of mumbo-jumbo revolving around sheer speculation as to what takes place inside the human brain).



"Hard" science, on the other hand, can't even tell us what matter is fundamentally composed of! New, previously unknown sub-atomic particles of indeterminate function are discovered all the time, and we have string theorists running around telling us that the universe really has somewhere around 8 to 12 dimensions (they're not too sure about the number).



I'm not anti-hard science, but I think it is a critical mistake to think that social science is all frivolous silliness. The technologies that humankind is now developing will be so powerful that they may well lead to our extinction - unless we make a conscious, serious investment in learning how best to control them and use them wisely.

Posted by: MikeR at December 22, 2004 04:47 AM (h8FAf)

5 The greatest invention in the history of the human race is "room service".

Posted by: Rossz at December 22, 2004 06:19 AM (NEjeN)

6 "Hard" science, on the other hand, can't even tell us what matter is fundamentally composed of!
Sort of. But they have a couple of points strongly in their favour: first, they know what they don't know; second, they have a theoretical and experimental strategy for finding out. Not that an answer is guaranteed or anything; the Universe doesn't come with an Owner's Manual.
I'm not anti-hard science, but I think it is a critical mistake to think that social science is all frivolous silliness.
I don't think that, but it does seem that Sociology (and Pschology too) is too susceptible to fashionable nonsense and cargo-cultism (that is, papers and "theories" that use all the terminology of Sociology without actually saying anything). I would expect that a serious Sociologist would view this sort of thing with every bit as much antipathy as Marc Miyake views Chomsky's Universal Grammar, as a hijacking of what should be a respectable field of research.
The technologies that humankind is now developing will be so powerful that they may well lead to our extinction - unless we make a conscious, serious investment in learning how best to control them and use them wisely.
Fire, the wheel, the inclined plane, and now this so-called lever! This mad rush to embrace poorly understood technology will be the end of us!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 22, 2004 09:47 AM (uOsif)

7 Just the LLC? I'd say the second greatest invention ought to include all flavors of corporations.


Not that I'm trying to tell you what to think or post.

Posted by: Squidley at December 23, 2004 02:35 AM (06/Rc)

8 Well, yes, but there is a specific value to the LLC that is distinct from the other types. And it sounds better that way.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2004 09:23 AM (uOsif)

9 What is the problem with mysticism? I don't see it.

Posted by: wanderer at December 25, 2004 10:50 AM (3ULfT)

10 The problem with mysticism is that it is self-important nonsense, and that many of its purveyors are out-and-out frauds.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 26, 2004 10:19 PM (+S1Ft)

11 Gadflyism is part of the process of metamorphisis that many undergo before they get serious. I would conjure that no real deep serious arguements can be made without an intuitive synthesis. Reason only takes you to the ledge of balance, it is something like mystcism that lets one leap into the unknown. Most skeptics and poo-pooers of mysticism are merely people afraid of something that doesn't seem understandable.
yes I have seen self-important nonsense and frauds. But that is more a description of human nature than of mysticism. Those types occur in every strata of human affairs.
Mysticism is about the mysteries of life and the mechanisms needed to understand them. Both sides of that coin provide ample opportunity for someone to fool someone else and ask for money in return.

Posted by: wanderer at December 28, 2004 02:46 PM (3ULfT)

12 Unfortunately, that just illustrates my point.
Mysticism is about the mysteries of life and the mechanisms needed to understand them.
No it isn't. That's Science.
Mysticism is about making up answers that sound nice but don't mean anything.
Science works. Mysticism doesn't.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 28, 2004 03:55 PM (+S1Ft)

13 Many of the great scientists of the past were involved in Mysticism. The secret societies in Europe were used to transfer scientific knowledge. Foolish? or more well rounded? Science is a component of mysticism. The unreasoned faith is what is off-skew. A student of mysticism would experiment and prove the qualites of the mind to oneself. My intition says 10 is an important number here. That is making up an answer. But it's not really an answer. It's a seed. But it does mean something. To me at least. It only means something to us if we have a meeting of minds. Unmeasurables between people have to be measured over time as an observer. One can only prove to oneself what dreams mean, how group dynamics work, what creativity is. At the edge of everyones mind is a next step that is difficult to take. When that idea sparks, one gets an inkling of how it's created.
Actual accepted knowledge and the progress of the experimental method. In those terms, Mysticism is the part that allows for greater creativity and an ethical egress into the next unknown area.

Posted by: wanderer at December 29, 2004 04:21 PM (3ULfT)

14 Many of the great scientists of the past were involved in Mysticism. The secret societies in Europe were used to transfer scientific knowledge. Foolish? or more well rounded?
The Mysticism? Foolish, no question.
The transfer of knowledge I'm fine with.
A student of mysticism would experiment and prove the qualites of the mind to oneself.
How? Exactly?
My intition says 10 is an important number here.
My inductive reasoning, seated in decades of observations and scientific study, says you're a fruitbat.
In those terms, Mysticism is the part that allows for greater creativity and an ethical egress into the next unknown area.
In other words, make stuff up and pissing off before they catch on to you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 29, 2004 10:17 PM (+S1Ft)

15 Make Up Stuff is what the Scientific Method works on. They have an idea and want to prove it. Mysticism can be the dynamics at the edge of theory on why a mind is similiar or dissimiliar to another.
Harmonics is probably a tool widely used in Mysticism to establish a correspondence between phenomena.
Projection is another. But from there we get into stuff that doesn't really mean anything to skeptics.
One of the ideas advocated by mystics is that it is the science of religion or the faith of reason. It exists between the two, but used to be solely based in religion before the Dark Ages. Classical thinkers are drawn on a lot as to show the progression of the ideas of man from Eygpt, thru Greece, the far east, and the Renaissance.
The idea of thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis in its essence is a primary foundation of practical mysticism.
In more mundane terms something a mystic might study. Opening a fortune cookie, does it reveal a pre destined event or does ones mind grow to fit the fortune as a form of suggestion? We mystic students order take out a lot.
On the more looney side. If you are cloud watching and a cloud moves as you thought it would. Did your mind move the cloud or did the cloud move your mind?
Mysticism would say that there is an intelligent source behind both. And both of the previous paragraphs can be harmonically corresponded for things to think about.
Mystics that I know have this deadly little gem that it can only be known by practice not by observation.
The ethical egress above I see is a vague statement based on how you interpeted it. What I meant(I Think is that at the moment of scientific gnosis there is an instant of ethics about the conclusion to be rendered and published. While I don't hold myself to that strict standard, I think some scientists do.

Posted by: wanderer at January 05, 2005 01:43 PM (3ULfT)

16 oh, my response never posted.
well I have forgotten it now.
I was vague on ethical egress above. What I meant is that at the point of scientific gnosis when applying the SCi Method, there is a brief moment where a scientist makes an ethical decision about the baby. The decision sets the stage for the next synthesis of experimentation of ideas.
Mysticism would include the Scientific method as a tool, but it wouldn't say that it is the whole story. It would say though that the tool lets one measure the truth or falsehood of results.
Maybe your interpetation of it is called curiosity.

Posted by: wanderer at January 08, 2005 03:50 PM (3ULfT)

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Over the weekend I switched from Mozilla to Firefox and Thunderbird, the separate web and email programs from, well, Mozilla. I do prefer the integrated design of Mozilla, but Firefox and Thunderbird are sufficiently ahead in functionality that the switch was worthwhile.

Except for the minor fact that I've stopped getting 90% of my email, which is somehow - I haven't quite worked this out yet - ending up in Mozilla, even though it isn't running! At least it's peaceful this way.

Update: Worked it out. Answer: I'm an idiot. Big surprise.

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“Few of my correspondents manage to scale comparable heights of idleness and incompetence”Oliver Kamm dismantles a Chomskyite:

Thank you for writing. I receive, if not quite hundreds, then certainly scores of messages from people who, like you, press Chomsky's case without having first read either him or his critics. Be assured, however, that your own message is distinctive, in that few of my correspondents manage to scale comparable heights of idleness and incompetence, or at least not in the opening sentence.

Witness too his dismissal of some of Chomsky's fellow travellers in linguistics:

“I read books and talk to people about them,” she says. “Without a method?” asks Howard. “That’s right,” she says. “It doesn’t sound very convincing,” says Howard.

I thought of this exchange when considering an international symposium to be held next April at the University of Montreal under the felicitous title For a Proactive Translatology.

Translatology is the study of translation. Proactive is a gruesome synonym for anticipatory. Of this pseudoscholarly gobbledegook, one leading literary translator remarked despairingly that her own work required no proactive translatology beyond the aim of serving foreign authors and English-language readers as well as possible.

Take that, defilers of the syllabary!

Oh, and this too:

I think you should be aware that a discharged lunatic has managed to gain access to your email account and is using it to send out absurd messages in your name in an attempt to discredit you. I am forwarding an example.

I should look into this if I were you.

Blog of the Day, folks: Oliver Kamm.

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“Her life was transformed when she was introduced to the works of Noam Chomsky”Born in 1976 to a family of Welsh toothpaste-miners, Pwxy Mwsa (as it is spelt in her native tongue) led a rebellious early life, her free spirit drawing the animosity of the Calvinist power structure, whose worldview she saw as stodgy and uninspiring. In 1991 her despairing parents packed her off to Cambridge, where they hoped she would become something, though just what was left unspecified.

Her life was transformed when she was introduced to the works of linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky, and she realised that anyone can get tenure these days. Sadly, her new academic career was short-lived, and in 1995 she was drummed out of the Bristol School of Sophistry when authorities uncovered her secret cache of samizdat Robert Heinlein novels.

Forced to take up a new trade, she started her own business selling "Y2K" solutions to large corporations. This proved to be a huge success, and by 1999 her net worth had reached $3.5 billion, before she lost it all in a failed takeover bid for British Telecom.

Reinventing herself yet again, she became known as a composer, producing the chart-topping hits Crunchy Frog Blues, What Dance Dance Kitten Did On Her Holiday and Return of the Return of the Electric Ant in rapid succession. She is also the author of several unpublished novels, most notably the fantasy thriller Stone Dead, as well as even more unwritten ones.

In 2003 she founded Mu.Nu, the Online Journal of the Good Parts of Western Civilisation, which has prospered to the point that it now garners sometimes dozens of visitors every month. In 2004 she became an ordained minister of a recognised church, though just how this was allowed to happen has not been adequately explored.

Her eyes are blue, her star sign is Carotius, the root vegetable, and she prefers coloured stones to diamonds, thank you.

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1 I am hopeful that I did not offend you with my raccous laughter.

Posted by: Tig at December 16, 2004 01:16 PM (G5PGV)

2 What template parm did you change that modified your gender? I wanna stay away from that one.

Posted by: Ted at December 16, 2004 09:03 PM (blNMI)

3 If you can get Noam Chomsky's name right (the only thing right about him), you really must get your own star name right: Daucus carota, Mother of All Carrots.

Posted by: Sissy Willis at December 18, 2004 12:34 AM (7WFgX)

4 Ha, Noam. He's actually made some good points in my psychology textbook, though you have to weed them out through the oceans and oceans of steaming, gooey, bull crap

Posted by: Chase at December 18, 2004 02:31 PM (xxkgB)

5 Man, Chomsky is SO lame!
I mean, I can barely comprehend what he is saying and stuff, and I'm WAAAAAY to jingoistic and intellectually dishonest to ever comprehend his brutally nuetral worldview... but he sucks!
Oh, and did I mention he's an anti-semite? Yea, and he's fat, too.

Posted by: yawn at December 18, 2004 07:22 PM (zi6C8)

6 Yawn, you're an idiot. Just thought you might need someone to point that out for you, what with you being an idiot and all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2004 07:24 PM (+S1Ft)

7 Geeze, Pixy, and I was just gonna ask you out on a date...

Posted by: yawn at December 18, 2004 07:29 PM (zi6C8)

8 I'm not your type.
Trust me on this.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 18, 2004 07:49 PM (+S1Ft)

9 Yawn: re: "Man, Chomsky is SO lame!
"I mean, I can barely comprehend what he is saying and stuff, and I'm WAAAAAY to jingoistic and intellectually dishonest to ever comprehend his brutally nuetral worldview... but he sucks!"
Uh... actually, there are an awful lot of brilliant people who think Chomsky's lame. All he does is go through other people's research, pull out everything that looks negative to capitalism, and strings the results together, leaving out ALL of the "ifs", "buts", and "howevers" that mitigate his points. Does everyone do that? To some degree; after all, the point an essay is to make a point. But Chomsky is an extremist at it, who NEVER allows anything that conflicts with his "cup half full" worldview. He's famous only because EUROPE loves his anti-US garbage, which makes US pseudo-intellectuals fawn over him.
He was an idiot in 1969, and he's still an idiot.

Posted by: mamapajamas at December 19, 2004 05:03 AM (y+znv)

10 Errata: The "cup half full" worldview for Chomsky is actually the "cup half empty" worldview. The man's a ranting pessimist.

Posted by: mamapajamas at December 19, 2004 05:22 AM (pLYNe)

11 mamapjs-
I've read a quite a bit of his work, and have NO idea what you're talking about. Can you give me a single example? Just one.
Actually, I think in US pseudo-intellectual circles (even amongst liberals) it's far more fashionable to trash Chomsky, although nobody ever seems capable of debating his specific ideas.
I'm no Chomsky worshiper, but I find it hilarious how pathetically childish the discourse amongst brilliant people becomes when his name is mentioned. It's because they hate what he's saying, but CAN'T actually debate him! They just have too much invested in America being "right". The alternative is not on the table.
Personally, I think he's WAY too close to "the truth", and nobody wants to hear it...

Posted by: yawn at December 19, 2004 04:42 PM (zi6C8)

12 Actually, I think in US pseudo-intellectual circles (even amongst liberals) it's far more fashionable to trash Chomsky
Hardly. Chomsky is worshipped by the pseudos.
although nobody ever seems capable of debating his specific ideas.
What ideas?
Personally, I think he's WAY too close to "the truth", and nobody wants to hear it...
Chomsky wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the bum. The whole point of Chomsky's work has always been to deny any objective truth, and that includes his early work on linguistics. Linguist Dr Marc Miyake of Amaravati: Abode of Amritas has written a number of times on the damage Chomsky has done to that field.
Chomsky is a one-trick pony: Never say anything that can be tied down to a single meaning, never admit to being wrong about anything, never admit to America being right about anything. For years he was an apologist for the Khmer Rouge for God's sake! He refused to admit what was obvious to anyone, that they were a bunch of crazed murderers intent on destroying Cambodia, and instead held them aloft as example par excellance of the New Civilisation that would replace the West.
Chomsky is all about, always has been about, denying the very existence of the truth. As such, he doesn't even bother to lie consistently; he just makes up whatever story seems appropriate for whoever he wants to attack today.
Noam Chomsky may not himself be responsible for huge numbers of deaths, unlike his heroes Yasser Arafat, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, but his never-ending attacks on the foundations of Education and Science and indeed of Civilisation nonetheless place him among the ranks of the most evil men of the past century.
Go read Diary of an Anti-Chomskyite. Read, and be educated. For a change.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2004 08:44 PM (+S1Ft)

13 Oliver Kamm is another good writer if you are interested in getting your head on straight vis-a-vis Chomsky.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 19, 2004 08:57 PM (+S1Ft)

14 Read, and be educated. For a change.
Seriously, if you think reading ultra right-wing screeds like the ones you just mentioned is education, then yikes. Lemme guess, grad school at the Free Republic?
Marc Miyake is a linguist publishing himself on RightWingNews.com... what's wrong with this picture? There are some valid criticisms of Chomsky's work, but Marc ain't even in the ballpark, as this guy points out. Anytime you have an intellectual critic of someone who can't make it two sentences without slandering the person, you know the person clearly has an axe to grind and is probably pretty clueless. Ditto for the "Anti-Chomsyite"... give me a break.
And then there's Oliver Kamm, who on his front page drags out Anti-Chomsky Canard Alpha, Chomsky's support of Holocaust-denier Robert Faurisson. I'll spell it out slowly for Oliver and our audience:
1) Faurisson wrote a load of crap in France denying the Holocaust.
2) He was given a hard time by French authorities, who wanted to censor the book.
3) Chomsky was asked to write an opinion piece regarding the issue for them, in which he spelled out his consistent philosophy (as agreed upon by the ACLU and our founding fathers), that if freedom of speech means anything it means allowing people who you disagree with to speak. (Chomsky doesn't deny the holocaust, by the way, and thinks the concept is really wack)
4) Chomsky agreed to give the opinion piece royalty-free for their use (probably a mistake).
5) They stuck it in the preface of their damned book, and the mud immediately began flying.
6) Chomsky (rightly) has stuck by his opinion.
What Chomsky demonstrates here is something his critics can't comprehend, the ability to judge a situation neutrally even if "your side" is slighted in the process.
If you want to be educated on Chomsky the first place to start might be something a little more even-keeled like Wikipedia... scroll down to the "Criticism" section for a refutation of the "Khmer Rouge apologist" nonsense.
And if you actually want to read his political ideas (yep, he has some), a good place to start is Profit Over People... it's like 150 pages, and covers most of the bases.
Chomsky is a one-trick pony: Never say anything that can be tied down to a single meaning...
Sorry, but people drastically misunderstanding or misrepresenting what he's saying doesn't constitute additional meanings.
Chomsky is all about, always has been about, denying the very existence of the truth.
Well, I did put "the truth" in quotes . Anyway, I have no idea what you mean by "the truth"...
...he just makes up whatever story seems appropriate for whoever he wants to attack today.
Your kidding, right? The guys is labeled by his worshipers as "the greatest intellectual alive today" and you thing he's just throwing random sentences together. That a pretty big rift!
among the ranks of the most evil men of the past century
Wow. I'd tell you what I think of this comment, but you'd probably just delete this post...
Anyway, not to rush off without actually talking about some of Chomsky's political philosophy: At it's core is the idea that all superpowers try to organize the world around themselves using military and economic means. Would you agree?

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 04:37 PM (zi6C8)

15 Lemme guess, grad school at the Free Republic?
Not even close. You clearly have not the faintest breath of understanding of politics, if you think Miyake or Kerstein, let alone Kamm, are "ultra right-wing".
Marc Miyake is a linguist publishing himself on RightWingNews.com... what's wrong with this picture?
Nothing at all.
Marc ain't even in the ballpark, as this guy points out.
That guy has completely missed the point. Chomsky's Universal Grammar is not a theory. It's handwaving. It does not actually explain anything, it is completely useless as a foundation for further linguistic study. It's cargo-cult science.
2) He was given a hard time by French authorities, who wanted to censor the book.
False. Go back to 1 and try again.

Anyway, I have no idea what you mean by "the truth"...
Exactly the problem.
Your kidding, right?
Not in the slightest. Chomsky has been caught out, time and time again, in the worst sort of historical revisionism and deliberate distortions when he's not flat-out lying. It's his stock-in-trade: When the facts aren't on his side (and they never are), make shit up.
The guys is labeled by his worshipers as "the greatest intellectual alive today"
Well, duh. They're his worshippers.
and you thing he's just throwing random sentences together.
Not at all. His lies are very carefully constructed. Not consistent, but locally well-crafted.
At it's core is the idea that all superpowers try to organize the world around themselves using military and economic means.
All people, and Chomsky far from least, try to organize the world around themselves. This is his great insight?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 05:59 PM (+S1Ft)

16 Anyway, what superpowers? America and... Who, exactly? China? The Soviet Union, as was?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 06:48 PM (+S1Ft)

17 That guy has completely missed the point.
Well, let's see, on one hand you've got Marc, who concludes: "Is Chomsky a double fraud in both science and politics? I honestly don't know. I have never met him and don't want to - the urge to verbally attack him is too strong. Maybe he really believes what he says in one or both fields. But in any case, Chomsky is a troublemaker on two fronts. He is like Lenin and Lysenko rolled into one." Oh, but on the other hand you've got Chomsky, who through mind control power managed to REVOLUTIONIZE several field of study and convince the entire community to go along. Hmmmm... whether his theories end up being disproven, is that really grounds for FRAUD charges? Sounds like someone is INSANE here, and it ain't Chomsky.
False. Go back to 1 and try again.
True. Go back to 1 and try again.
Exactly the problem.
Oh, I see... you believe in the "Objective Truth", because the opposite must be "Moral Relativism" which means no truth whatsoever which means there's no reason to do or not do anything which means total anarchy and societal meltdown. Whew! That slope was slippery!!! Anyway, "Moral Relativists" are probably more concerned that YOU thinking that YOU have the only insight as to what is true and good for humanity probably isn't the healthiest thing for humanity. In fact, just about every crime ever committed against humanity started with someone believing their "truth" demanded the other person's destruction.
All people, and Chomsky far from least, try to organize the world around themselves. This is his great insight?
No, just the beginning of the road. So you've got a lone superpower organizing the world around itself using military and economic means. What do you suppose that means for the people of the planet on the other end of that "Objective Truth". I'm guessing your British, so you can dust off your Empire history for this one.

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 07:10 PM (zi6C8)

18 Chomsky has not revolutionised linguistics, or at least not on any positive sense. Marc's point, and mine, and the thing that "that guy" and you have completely missed is that Chomsky's Universal Grammar does not constitute a scientific theory. Its utility is precisely zero.
True. Go back to 1 and try again.
Sorry, still false. That piece is typical Chomsky. If you actually read it, you will find that it contains not a single word to support your claim. Not one. While simultaneously giving exactly the false impression under which you are labouring.
Faurisson was never "given a hard time by French authorities". The "French authorities" never "wanted to censor the book."
He was suspended by the University that employed him because he was suspected (correctly, as it happens) of academic fraud.
Oh, I see... you believe in the "Objective Truth", because the opposite must be "Moral Relativism" which means no truth whatsoever which means there's no reason to do or not do anything which means total anarchy and societal meltdown. Whew! That slope was slippery!!! Anyway, "Moral Relativists" are probably more concerned that YOU thinking that YOU have the only insight as to what is true and good for humanity probably isn't the healthiest thing for humanity. In fact, just about every crime ever committed against humanity started with someone believing their "truth" demanded the other person's destruction.
No.
So you've got a lone superpower organizing the world around itself using military and economic means.
No. For the most part of the past century, that's precisely what you don't have. At least if you're talking about America. If you want to talk about the pre-collapse Soviet Union, or China, you might find yourself on sounder footing. But I suspect that does not interest you.
What do you suppose that means for the people of the planet on the other end of that "Objective Truth".
Was that a question? If so, could you rephrase it so that it is actually coherent?
I'm guessing your British, so you can dust off your Empire history for this one.
No.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 07:29 PM (+S1Ft)

19 Okay, from the time difference let me change that guess to Australian... anyway, I'm sure you had the British history lessons all the same.

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 07:32 PM (zi6C8)

20 If you actually read it, you will find that it contains not a single word to support your claim. Not one.
Well, right there in the second paragraph it says He was then brought to trial for "falsification of history," and condemned. Sounds like getting a pretty hard time by the French authorities to me, who seem particularly miffed about his subject matter. Are you sure you read it?
Oh, I see... you believe in the "Objective Truth"?... No.
Sorry, I must have gotten confused by your
recent post in which you lashed out at "the Post-Modernists denying the concept of Objective Truth". Oh, and I think you said something about intellectual dishonesty, too.
No. For the most part of the past century, that's precisely what you don't have.
Huh? You're saying America HASN'T been spending the last hundred years setting the world up for it's benefit, by all means necessary? You think becoming a superpower happens by luck? Please.

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 07:51 PM (zi6C8)

21 Hey, I said in this very post that I'm Welsh! Okay, so maybe I emigrated...
I didn't study the British Empire in school - we had ancient history, with Australian history as an elective, but I am tolerably familiar with the history of the Empire (and I have numerous scholarly works at hand in any case).
But since the British Empire was actively being unwound even before the First World War, I must assume that you are referring to a historical period prior to that, most likely the 19th century, under Queen Victoria? Or perhaps you want to explore the roots of the empire in conquest and commerce, under Elizbeth I or Henry VII?
I'm sure the relevance of this will be forthcoming.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 07:59 PM (+S1Ft)

22 Well, right there in the second paragraph it says He was then brought to trial for "falsification of history," and condemned. Sounds like getting a pretty hard time by the French authorities to me, who seem particularly miffed about his subject matter. Are you sure you read it?
Yes. That's hyperbole, not fact. Check the facts.
Sorry, I must have gotten confused by your
recent post in which you lashed out at "the Post-Modernists denying the concept of Objective Truth". Oh, and I think you said something about intellectual dishonesty, too.
My response of No was to your entire paragraph, which in so far as it had any meaning at all, was false.
You're saying America HASN'T been spending the last hundred years setting the world up for it's benefit, by all means necessary?
That is precisely what I'm saying, and something you would grasp if you actually took the time to study the history of the 20th Century. America in the 20th Century was not even remotely as you seem to picture it.
You think becoming a superpower happens by luck?
Partly luck, yes. Partly historical convergence. Partly diligence. Why? How did you think it happened?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 08:03 PM (+S1Ft)

23 Here's a clue for you:
Check the dates that the United States entered World Wars I and II, respectively.
Now, tell me why those dates.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 08:07 PM (+S1Ft)

24 Check the facts
Do point me to the "facts" you're referring to.
in so far as it had any meaning at all, was false
Okay, I simply gotta know your definition of "Objective Truth".
America in the 20th Century was not even remotely as you seem to picture it
That's funny, I live in America, and you live in Australia... I guess I can see why you'd want to believe that superpower status is simply granted to the lucky, as Australia clearly isn't a superpower... or is it? It that part missing from my studies, too?

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 08:14 PM (zi6C8)

25 Now, tell me why those dates.
Umm... 1917 and 1941. This doesn't require numerology, does it?

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 08:21 PM (zi6C8)

26 Do point me to the "facts" you're referring to.
Oliver Kamm has a succinct summary of them... But you're not going to take his word for it, are you? He being of the ultra right-wing and all?
Okay, I simply gotta know your definition of "Objective Truth".
Objective Truth is that which remains when you cease to believe in it.
I guess I can see why you'd want to believe that superpower status is simply granted to the lucky
Did I say that? No, I did not. I said that luck played a part.
That's somewhat lazy of me, since luck only exists from a historical perspective.
To put it less densely: That North America was a vast and fertile continent, rich in natural resources but sparsely inhabited; that it was settled by Europeans at the time of the birth of the Enlightenment; that these particular Europeans had a substantially different and far more productive ethic of property and work than those who settled Central and South America; that at a critical juncture they were blessed with some of the best political thinkers of the age; that they, with a few exceptions, were able to avoid significant wars until they were firmly established as a nation; and that in the greatest of those exceptions, the right side won.
The "luck" is largely the natural wealth of the middle latitudes of the North American continent; most of the rest is historical accident.
Australia clearly isn't a superpower... or is it?
On its own, clearly not. As a key member of the Anglosphere, it is part of the only superpower, since all the others have now defeated themselves, and no new ones have developed yet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 08:25 PM (+S1Ft)

27 Umm... 1917 and 1941.
Those are the years. How about the dates? The date for WW II should be particularly easy.
This doesn't require numerology, does it?
No.
Even the years are very significant. Tell me why. It's not a trick question, it's not even hard. And if you don't understand why those years are significant, you cannot possibly understand 20th Century American history.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 08:29 PM (+S1Ft)

28 But you're not going to take his word for it, are you? He being of the ultra right-wing and all?
Well, he did refer to moderate liberal Brad DeLong as follows: The author of the socialist, vegan, transhumanist blog I mentioned above, and that I – presumably in common with my readers - had never stumbled across before... Sounds like a right-wing nut to me. And no, his argument isn't that compelling.
Objective Truth is that which remains when you cease to believe in it.
Given that definition, I think everyone on Earth believes in that. (i.e. the absence of light is darkness, etc.) So how does Post-Modernist thought differ?
As a key member of the Anglosphere...
The Anglosphere?! Okay, if that makes you feel better...
And if you don't understand why those years are significant, you cannot possibly understand 20th Century American history.
What on Earth are you talking about?
The "luck" is largely the natural wealth of the middle latitudes of the North American continent
And the noeliberal policies we devised to extract that wealth from our neighbors in the rest of Central and South America.
Of course after WW2 with the world smoldering, with the exception of our fully intact and monstrous economy we set out to redefine the planet on our terms. As our old Head of State George Kennan said: "We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population... In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction."
Like I said, whatever lucky breaks aside, are you saying America HASN'T been spending the last hundred years setting the world up for it's benefit, by all means necessary?

Posted by: yawn at December 20, 2004 09:11 PM (zi6C8)

29 Sounds like a right-wing nut to me.
You really need to get out more.
So how does Post-Modernist thought differ?
Well, they deny what I just said. Really. I know it sounds crazy, but that's because it is.
The Anglosphere?! Okay, if that makes you feel better...
Well, call it what you will. The English-speaking world has been closely allied for well over a century and, since the fading of the British Empire was paralleled closely by the growth of America, it has remained the most significant power in the world throughout that time.
What on Earth are you talking about?
Okay, I'll give you a hint.
The United States joined World War I on April 6, 1917, and it joined World War II on December 7, 1941.
Now, on what days did World War I and II actually start? Or failing that, what years?
And the noeliberal policies we devised to extract that wealth from our neighbors in the rest of Central and South America.
Bzzzt! You lose.
Check out the history of Central and South America following contact with Europe. Nothing to do with the United States. Not the slightest thing.
Of course after WW2 with the world smoldering
"The world"? Europe, yes. Japan. Parts of China and the Soviet Union. There was combat elsewhere, but it didn't leave those other countries smouldering.
with the exception of our fully intact and monstrous economy
Now, that's what I like about you! Always stick to the cold hard facts! Never a hint of bias!
we set out to redefine the planet on our terms.
By giving your former enemies huge amounts of money; by protecting them from the further depredations of the Soviets (not entirely successfully, alas). By providing an umbrella under which they could rebuild their shattered states as free and open democracies.
Well, yes.
As our old Head of State George Kennan said: "We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population...
Even at the end of 1945, the former figure was clearly hyperbole.
In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment.
True enough.
We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.
Heh. Kennan was one of the key authors of the Marshall Plan, which is exactly what he is saying could not be afforded. Do you have a date for your quote? Better yet, a specific cite?
Like I said, whatever lucky breaks aside, are you saying America HASN'T been spending the last hundred years setting the world up for it's benefit, by all means necessary?
Yes. How can I put it more simply than that?
Yes. Obviously, yes. Most of the time they haven't been doing anything even remotely along those lines.
The dates, man, the dates! Two World Wars, two dates! Think!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 09:56 PM (+S1Ft)

30 Oh, and by the way, Kennan was never "Head of State". That would be the President. He was never even Secretary of State. He was Director of Policy Planning within the State Department for four years during the Truman Administration.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 20, 2004 10:01 PM (+S1Ft)

31 "Well, he did refer to moderate liberal Brad DeLong as follows: The author of the socialist, vegan, transhumanist blog I mentioned above, and that I – presumably in common with my readers - had never stumbled across before... Sounds like a right-wing nut to me. And no, his argument isn't that compelling."
He wasn't talking about Brad DeLong's blog. He was talking about a "socialist, vegan, transhumanist blog" which he "mentioned [linked] above" as a stock leftist antiphon to his commentary. Not sure where you derived that he was talking about DeLong. Maybe your first treasure egg is that DeLong isn't a "socialist, vegan, transhumanist" who wasn't "mentioned above"...and the rest will follow.
Like Kamm or not, those are the facts.
Pax,

Posted by: Polysemous at December 21, 2004 06:30 AM (76/qS)

32 I thought I'd worked out what yawn was referring to about U.S. policy vis-a-vis Central and South America, but on reading his words again, it just doesn't connect with reality.
Sorry, yawn, I have no idea what you're talking about, but that's probably just because it never happened.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 07:32 AM (+S1Ft)

33 Chomsky is a hack.
Fun reading the commentary revolving around that basic and fundamental fact, though.

Posted by: learningcurve at December 21, 2004 08:05 AM (wTjmz)

34 Polysemous-
He wasn't talking about Brad DeLong's blog.
My mistake (and I'm glad for that, because DeLong's generally a really sharp guy, although I disagree with his Chomsky analysis), but he still sounds like a right-wing nut to me. He does at least present an "intelligent sounding" case, and avoids the pitfalls of endless slander, but aside from debunking Chomsky defenders who themselves may not have their facts straight, what "facts" are you referring to? His case is weak, and seems to debate a straw-man misunderstanding of Chomsky's very positions.
By the way, I dig your name... speaking of Postmodernism.
Pixy-
Well, they deny what I just said.
Sorry, but your definition that Objective Truth is that which remains when you cease to believe in it sounds a bit like intentionally cryptic hand-waving, and I'd say you're grossly oversimplifying Postmodernism.
Care to actually just spell out your thoughts on "Objective Truth" and why people opposed to it are a threat?
The dates, man, the dates!
Okay, I suppose WWI technically started with the assassination of the Archduke on June 28, 1914. WWII is debatable, I suppose... either September 2, 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, July 7, 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China, or sometime in 1931 with the Japanese incursion into Manchuria. But how this is the Rosetta Stone of modern American history is truly a mystery that I wish you'd just dispel.
Well, call it what you will.
Actually, America's first real ally was probably France, who were pivotal in us driving the Brits out. Austraila should have tried it... very therapeutic. Anyway, instead of "Anglosphere" I'd more accurately call it "An America-centric First World propped up with the resources of the Third World." And it was all very intentional.
Check out the history of Central and South America following contact with Europe. Nothing to do with the United States. Not the slightest thing.
Come on, please don't pretend that you've never heard of the Monroe Doctrine. Over the last 150 years or so we've turned manipulating Latin governments into a national pastime. Maybe a little research into British and American neoliberalism might give you an idea of what I'm talking about.
Kennan was never "Head of State"
Ok, he was "Head of the US State Department Policy Planning Staff"... lazy on my part, but I guess I figured you know who he was and was hoping you wouldn't be like "that".
a specific cite?
Sure, the quote was taken from a section of a document titled PPS/23, written February 24, 1948. The complete paper was published in 1976 in Foreign Relations of the United States 1948, Vol. 1, No. 2.
Anyway, if you think the Marshall Plan had anything to do with "altruism and world-benefaction" then that explains a lot. And the fact that (to risk making this thread explode) you support Bush because of his "honesty" even more so (it is funny that countless millions around the globe have documented Bush's obvious lies, yet you give him the benefit of the doubt. No such courtesy for Chomsky, though, oh no). Putting Chomsky aside for a minute, in my opinion, the fundamental rift between our world views is that you've taken a century of American propaganda (which you probably, like many, believe doesn't exist... truly masterful) and transformed that into American history. A lie agreed upon. While history books and the media happily stroke your world view, the documented and physical evidence (and common sense, if you allow it) contradicts it sharply. So does believing that make me a "Blame America First" radical, trying to tear down the system and usher in some leftist armageddon? Hardly, and this is what the Ann Coulters of the world don't get. Instead of loving my country like an infant, who's mommy has to be perfect or his world crumbles, I love my country like a parent, who wants my child to do good but point out when he's doing bad, for his sake most of all. I desperately want "my culture" to succeed... but I believe that while stealing and killing may yield short term gain, and are seductive, in the end people won't stand for it, and we'll be crushed. That's why all empires fall. We just happen to be at a point in human history where stealing an killing are self-evidently banned within a society, but outside of society are approved of. For our own sake we have to find a different path to long-term "success".
No matter what you think of Chomsky (apparently one of the most evil men in history) there's no doubt in my mind he loves his country in the same way.

Posted by: yawn at December 21, 2004 04:52 PM (zi6C8)

35 Seriously, though... why not set aside Kamm's criticism for a minute and check out Profit Over People (I say that one because it's a quick read and covers a lot of bases) and do a critique on your own blog, given your historical knowledge. I'd be interested in what you came up with.

Posted by: yawn at December 21, 2004 05:04 PM (zi6C8)

36 Care to actually just spell out your thoughts on "Objective Truth" and why people opposed to it are a threat?
The concept of Objective Truth is very simple: There is a Universe, and we are in it. The Universe is real.
People who don't believe that the Universe is real tend to make bad choices.
But how this is the Rosetta Stone of modern American history is truly a mystery that I wish you'd just dispel.
Well, what do you make of the differences between the dates the World Wars began and the dates the United States joined combat?
Actually, America's first real ally was probably France
Heh. Funny man!
France!
Anyway, instead of "Anglosphere" I'd more accurately call it "An America-centric First World propped up with the resources of the Third World."
Interesting use of the word "accurately" there.
How do you, y'know, support that?
Come on, please don't pretend that you've never heard of the Monroe Doctrine.
Oh, I've heard of it alright. What's more, I know what it was. And it was the direct opposite of what you are suggesting.
Over the last 150 years or so we've turned manipulating Latin governments into a national pastime.
But that is, in essence, what the United States has refused to do.
Yes, there are some counter-examples. But they stand out because they are so far removed from the norm.
If you want to talk about manipulating Latin (American) governments, you really need to compare the behaviour of Spain and Portugal before their empires fell apart with the behaviour of the U.S. afterwards. The gulf is truly vast.
Or compare and contrast with the Soviet Union, and the way they manipulated Eastern European governments in the 20th Century.
Anyway, if you think the Marshall Plan had anything to do with "altruism and world-benefaction" then that explains a lot.
It was altruism and benefaction. That is undeniable from the facts. The motives behind it were more complex, but the delivery of the Plan was not.
And the fact that (to risk making this thread explode) you support Bush because of his "honesty" even more so (it is funny that countless millions around the globe have documented Bush's obvious lies, yet you give him the benefit of the doubt.
Right. Here's something.
Point out one lie by Bush. One. One actual lie.
Blah blah Chomsky blah blah Coulter blah blah propoganda blah blah
Sorry, did you say something?
My history books report facts. Names, places, dates, actions. Where there is opinion, it is treated as opinion. No such thing from Chomsky, or from you.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 06:19 PM (+S1Ft)

37 Seriously, though... why not set aside Kamm's criticism for a minute and check out Profit Over People (I say that one because it's a quick read and covers a lot of bases) and do a critique on your own blog, given your historical knowledge.
Because I prefer my fiction to have at least the honesty to be labelled as such.
And also not to be so deathly dull as Chomsky's work.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 06:22 PM (+S1Ft)

38 Oh, and before you waste too much of your precious time coming up with "Bush's obvious lies", read this. Though you're really not going to like it.
(Whoops. Fixed the link.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 06:34 PM (+S1Ft)

39 Oh, and if you want to discuss France's dubious position as an ally of the United States, you really need to specify which France. Because in the time that the U.S. has existed as a nation, France has been more a geographic concept than a political one, with no less than nine regime-changes (to use the fashionable term). More than nine, if you want to get picky about the goings-on during various periods of chaos.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 07:01 PM (+S1Ft)

40 Point out one lie by Bush. One. One actual lie.
Okay, now I AM yawning. Well, let's see, how about his July 14, 2003 press conference with Kofi Annan when he said:
"The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe the decisions we made will make America more secure and the world more peaceful."
Of course UNMOVIC inspectors had been in Iraq and being given unfettered access when they where withdrawn by the U.S. on March 18, 2003, prior to the invasion. Now given your keen sense of lie detection honed during your Chomsky studies, what would you consider that? Here's a hint: LIAR!!!
If you'd like a bunch more, the Center For American Progress has compiled a database for your perusal. And sorry, even when he is "technically not lying" making statements that are highly misleading (his stock in trade) is not "honesty".
Anyway, as far as the rest... it just occurred to me that you don't in fact live in Australia, you live in fantasyland. Nice talking to you...

Posted by: yawn at December 21, 2004 07:30 PM (zi6C8)

41 I stand ready to accept the challenge, though it has been some time since I took the field of battle and my BS tolerance is at immensely low levels (Holiday press and all, don't you know).

Posted by: Jim at December 21, 2004 07:33 PM (GCA5m)

42 Of course UNMOVIC inspectors had been in Iraq and being given unfettered access
False. They were not being given unfettered access as required under the terms of the ceasefire agreeement. The U.N. team under Hans Blix was filing a constant stream of complaints about not being given necessary access right up until the day they were removed.
The inspectors were in Iraq, as everyone knew. They were categorically not given the access that Iraq was required to give them. Saddam Hussein's perpetual stonewalling of the U.N. teams is documented by the U.N. itself.
The sentences you chose to highlight cannot be classified as a lie, because they are true.
Try again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 07:49 PM (+S1Ft)

43 And I don't care what the "Center For American Progress" may or may not have done. I'm asking you, as you are the one to claim that "countless millions around the globe have documented Bush's obvious lies".
If they're so obvious and so well documented, why did you make such a poor choice as your first example?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 07:57 PM (+S1Ft)

44 The sentences you chose to highlight cannot be classified as a lie, because they are true.
That's funny, considering that Hans Blix on January 27, 2003 in an update to the Security Council said:
Iraq has on the whole cooperated rather well so far with UNMOVIC in this field. The most important point to make is that access has been provided to all sites we have wanted to inspect and with one exception it has been prompt. We have further had great help in building up the infrastructure of our office in Baghdad and the field office in Mosul. Arrangements and services for our plane and our helicopters have been good. The environment has been workable.
Maybe you were thinking of UNSCOM or something? Or maybe you're being a "Chomsky appologist" in reverse.
So can we classify is as a LIE, now?

Posted by: yawn at December 21, 2004 08:00 PM (zi6C8)

45 Do you really want to get into battle of Blixquotes?
Blix's 27 January report is here.
Three things are clear:
That Iraq had not, prior to this period, been even remotely co-operative.
That Iraq had only allowed inspections to resume under U.S. coercion (which is a pretty way of saying, threat of invasion).
That Iraq was still not complying with the requirements, still being deliberately obstructive.
Blix: "It is not enough to open doors. Inspection is not a game of catch as catch can. Rather, as I noted, it is a process of verification for the purpose of creating confidence. It is not built upon the premise of trust. Rather, it is designed to lead to trust, if there is both openness to the inspectors and action to present them with items to destroy or credible evidence about the absence of any such items."
Blix again: "At my recent meeting in Baghdad, the Iraqis have committed themselves to supplementing the list, and some 80 additional names have been provided. In the past, much valuable information came from interviews. There are also cases in which the interviewee was clearly intimidated by the presence of an interruption by Iraq officials. This was the background to Resolution 1441's provision for a right for UNMOVIC and the IAEA to hold private interviews, I quote, "in the mode or the location," unquote of our choice in Baghdad or even abroad. Today, 11 individuals were asked for interviews in Baghdad by us. The replies have been that the individual would only speak at Iraq's Monitoring Directorate or at any rate in the presence of an Iraq official."
Iraq was actively harassing, delaying, and blockading the UN inspectors right up until the day they left. Hans Blix, being devoted to the inspection process for his own reasons, clearly plays this down - he is actively making excuses for Iraqi violations right there in his report - but he was honest enough to report it all the same.
Now, there is a separate and more interesting question of why the hell Iraq was doing this when they had no WMD stockpiles of any note and little in the way of weapons programs. But they did it.
UNMOVIC's quarterly report from February 28, 2003 devotes quite a number of paragraphs to excusing Iraqi delays in the inspection process.
Blix: "I am obliged to note some recent disturbing incidents and harassment. For instance, for some time farfetched allegations have been made publicly that questions posed by inspectors were of intelligence character. While I might not defend every question that inspectors might have asked, Iraq knows that they do not serve intelligence purposes and Iraq should not say so.
"On a number of occasions, demonstrations have taken place in front of our offices and at inspection sites.
"The other day, a sightseeing excursion by five inspectors to a mosque was followed by an unwarranted public outburst. The inspectors went without any UN insignia and were welcomed in the kind manner that is characteristic of the normal Iraqi attitude to foreigners. They took off their shoes and were taken around. They asked perfectly innocent questions and parted with the invitation to come again.
"Shortly thereafter, we receive protests from the Iraqi authorities about an unannounced inspection and about questions not relevant to weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, they were not. Demonstrations and outbursts of this kind are unlikely to occur in Iraq without initiative or encouragement from the authorities. [For some reason, one version of this report has the word "without" in the last sentence replaced by the word "with", reversing the meaning, and making it rather contrary to what we know of Saddam's government.] We must ask ourselves what the motives may be for these events. They do not facilitate an already difficult job, in which we try to be effective, professional and, at the same time, correct. Where our Iraqi counterparts have some complaint they can take it up in a calmer and less unpleasant manner."
Blix: "The recent inspection find in the private home of a scientist of a box of some 3,000 pages of documents, much of it relating to the laser enrichment of uranium support a concern that has long existed that documents might be distributed to the homes of private individuals. This interpretation is refuted by the Iraqi side, which claims that research staff sometimes may bring home papers from their work places. On our side, we cannot help but think that the case might not be isolated and that such placements of documents is deliberate to make discovery difficult and to seek to shield documents by placing them in private homes." [And you accuse me of living in a fantasy land!]
Blix, January 27, 2003: "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament which was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace."
President Bush compressed a 12-year history of Iraqi intransigence down to one sentence. You could, with care, construct a sentence that represented that history with more, shall we say, nuance.
But it's still true.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 10:02 PM (+S1Ft)

46 And wow, is that quote popular on the left-wing sites! I just did a Google search on it. Much... interesting commentary. Heh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 21, 2004 10:18 PM (+S1Ft)

47 "My mistake (and I'm glad for that, because DeLong's generally a really sharp guy, although I disagree with his Chomsky analysis), but he still sounds like a right-wing nut to me. He does at least present an 'intelligent sounding' case, and avoids the pitfalls of endless slander, but aside from debunking Chomsky defenders who themselves may not have their facts straight, what 'facts' are you referring to? His case is weak, and seems to debate a straw-man misunderstanding of Chomsky's very positions.
By the way, I dig your name... speaking of Postmodernism."
Cool people use italics. I use quotes.
Anyway, I don't think Kamm needs your faint and feigned praise of "intelligent sounding" but thanks for admitting your mistake.
By the by, I was referring to the fact(s) I presented.
Dude.
It was like 5 sentences.
What gives.
And how is Kamm a right wing nut? Seriously. I don't understand. Help me. Did you then just present your weakest or your strongest argument for that? If you presented your strongest, then get over it 'cause it's all kindsa wack. If your weakest, why do you do keep doing that?
I believe that if you throw around your ideology's groupgiggle epithets at everyone who makes advances on your Chomsky that YOU are the nut. Be that as it may you probably aren't a nut so...
What IS a "right wing nut" irrespective of its use as an, further than they usually apply, banal leftist shibboleth? Might be useful to know; might not. Lord knows we shouldn't shun leftists or shibboleths (good West Wing episode, eh?).
Pixy is Welsh and smart? Is she single and hot?
Pax and the PoMo,

Posted by: Polysemous at December 22, 2004 04:14 AM (MB3Ss)

48 A linguist joining the fray.


I, like Dr. Miyake, have a Ph.D. in Linguistics. I also have a strong background in the "hard" sciences (math, physics, chemistry, and even biology).


I find the following major faults with Chomskyian theory:

* It relies on hypothetical constructs for which there is no evidence (e.g., transformations, empty categories, movement).

* It is unfalsifiable, that is, its constraints are so loose as to allow anything. Put another way, no data can show it wrong. A theory that allows anything explains nothing.

* In Chomskyian analyses, all languages have the same "underlying" structure, and this structure is extraordinarily like English.

* It is so complex that the only way children could have it in their heads is if they're born with it. While it is certain that many elements of human language ability are innate, a less convoluted theory requires less on the part of the brain, and fits better with what we know about general human cognition and learning processes. Chomsky's Universal Grammar, on the other hand, requires things (like strict binary branching) that are absent from general theories of learning and cognition.


I conclude that Chomskian theory is unscientific. It has no more place in academia than astrology.


Oh, Yawn, please point out where Dr. Miyake "slanders" Chomsky. Excoriation is not the same as slander (and you mean libel, don't you?).

Posted by: Squidley at December 22, 2004 08:50 AM (06/Rc)

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What part of "we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in" are you missing? Bush was suggesting that Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors back into Iraq. Period. And that is a lie. Unless you want to debate what the meaning of "in" is! Clinton would be proud...
Now obviously we can debate Iraq's cooperation with weapons inspectors over the last decade, but to suggest that "well, that's what Bush meant" is extremely weak. The Blix quotes you mentioned were mostly just Blix pointing out what Res. 1441 required, and mentioning that in some cases they where getting mild resistance. But that is hardly the same as "not letting them in".
The reality that you can't seem to face is that the weapons inspectors WORKED. It has been proven. Even when Iraq was EXTREMELY uncooperative during UNSCOM, which prompted Res. 1441, the inspectors managed to virtually eliminate Iraq's WMD capably and stockpiles. I know you don't read anything not printed in RightWingNews.com, but you should check out Scott Ritter's (former UNSCOM weapons inspector) book, War On Iraq... he clearly details how effective the inspectors were, and how absurd Bush's claims were. He also points out that the CIA was in fact using the weapons inspectors to gather non-WMD related data, which the Iraqi's quickly figured out, prompting at least some of their obstinance. The rest was probably Saddam bluffing, and showing off to his Arab neighbors, nothing unexpected considering the rough neighborhood.
But Bush wanted to invade Iraq, his ideological buddies had been planning this for years, and claiming Iraq had a threatening arsenal was his ticket to public support, so he did. Thus and endless litany of HIGHLY misleading statements designed to scare the hell out of everybody...
It's interesting how far you've lowered the bar to considering someone "honest". Apparently saying something that in a legal sense is "technically" true, even though 95% of those who hear is will get a very different impression is honest. And conveniently dropping any and all qualifiers on intelligence, cherry picking what you need to build a case to launch the first preemptive war in American history is honest. The ambient irony of this is that this is your ENTIRE complaint against Chomsky!!! Absolutely hilarious.
So here's a challenge... given your new and improved definition of "honesty", and what it means to tell "lie", show me ONE instance in which Chomsky has lied. And given your "I don't care what the ... may or may not have done. I'm asking you" standards, don't just point me to some guy who supposedly has all the answers.

Posted by: yawn at December 23, 2004 01:54 PM (TeAGq)

50 Poly-
Cool people use italics. I use quotes.
Maybe this is just an "awkward phase" for you. I'm sure you'll come around...
I was referring to the fact(s)...
I supposed when you said "Like Kamm or not, those are the facts" you were talking about his arguments, and was hoping you'd enlighten me on just what it is he's proven.
What IS a "right wing nut"
I dunno, I guess it's someone who is extremely partisan, spends a lot of time complaining about the other side, but uses poor logic and only a subset of the "facts", if any at all. A very subjective label, for sure... but once it seems like someone is a "nut" (and there a "left wing nuts" too, for sure) it becomes very hard to take them seriously.

Posted by: yawn at December 23, 2004 02:05 PM (TeAGq)

51 Squidley-
please point out where Dr. Miyake "slanders" Chomsky
Well, how about his conclusion: Is Chomsky a double fraud in both science and politics? I honestly don't know. I have never met him and don't want to - the urge to verbally attack him is too strong. Maybe he really believes what he says in one or both fields. But in any case, Chomsky is a troublemaker on two fronts. He is like Lenin and Lysenko rolled into one.
Can you tell me how Chomsky is like Lenin?!
It has no more place in academia than astrology
Well, you should tell that to the vast majority of linguists who don't agree with you. Who knows, maybe his theories are wrong... or maybe you just don't really understand them well enough. But clearly the the academic world has made a place for them, so that at least is worthy of respect.
Maybe you and Miyake should just put your venom away and come up with a better theory.

Posted by: yawn at December 23, 2004 02:13 PM (TeAGq)

52 Bush was suggesting that Saddam wouldn't let the inspectors back into Iraq.
No he wasn't. He may have appeared to be suggesting that to you, but that is because you start by assuming he is lying.
Who knows, maybe his theories are wrong
Chomsky has yet to present a theory regarding linguistics. His Universal Grammar does not, as has been pointed out repeatedly, satisfy any of the fundamental requirements for a scientific theory.
But clearly the the academic world has made a place for them, so that at least is worthy of respect.
Why? His work in lingusitics is so bad it's not even wrong, it's meaningless. That it has become fashionable does not make it any more worthy of respect.
Apparently saying something that in a legal sense is "technically" true, even though 95% of those who hear is will get a very different impression is honest.
You have that exactly reversed. You are so desperate to make a lie out of Bush's statements that you pick through every word he says, looking for anything that could, in the worst possible light and the narrowest possible context, be viewed as misleading, and then screech "LIAR! LIAR!" like Miracle Max's wife out of The Princess Bride.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2004 07:02 PM (+S1Ft)

53 Can you tell me how Chomsky is like Lenin?!
So you agree that he is like Lysenko?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2004 07:37 PM (+S1Ft)

54 but that is because you start by assuming he is lying
uh-huh... and you don't think there's any chance you start by wanting to find truth in what he's saying, because you subscribe to his underlying ideology, or you think he's cute or something.
And how about this:
You are so desperate to make a lie out of Chomsky's statements that you pick through every word he says, looking for anything that could, in the worst possible light and the narrowest possible context, be viewed as misleading, and then screech "LIAR! LIAR!" like Miracle Max's wife out of The Princess Bride.
Funny, huh? Except you've clearly never read Chomsky yourself to any extent, and I've heard every word of Bush's shell game.
Anyway, since you love links so much, here's a great essay detailing 40 instances of Bush's "honesty" regarding the "War on Terror". The guy is shameless.
His work in lingusitics is so bad it's not even wrong, it's meaningless.
Tell me, would you even care about Chomsky's linguistics work if you didn't so completely despise him politically and personally? Like I said, "axe to grind".

Posted by: yawn at December 23, 2004 07:46 PM (TeAGq)

55 So you agree that he is like Lysenko?
No, I figured the Lenin comparison was more that sufficient to point out was an absolute imbecile Miyake is.

Posted by: yawn at December 23, 2004 07:47 PM (TeAGq)

56 and you don't think there's any chance you start by wanting to find truth in what he's saying, because you subscribe to his underlying ideology, or you think he's cute or something.
Nope. Because I don't, either one.
Tell me, would you even care about Chomsky's linguistics work if you didn't so completely despise him politically and personally? Like I said, "axe to grind".
I care more about Chomsky's linguistics "work" than his politics. Politics are just politics, and even if his views are unusually vile, they are no more so than those of a thousand other commentators.
But linguistics is science, and he has poisoned it.
And what the hell is that latest link of yours supposed to demonstrate? It's a series of flawed rebuttals to unsupported assertions that bear little or no relation to anything anyone in the Bush administration has said. Or in some cases, unsupported rebuttals to obviously true statements.
Example of the first type:
8) Saddam was involved with bin Laden and al Qaeda in the plotting of 9/11.
No one in the Bush administration ever said he was.
Example of the second type:
9) The U.S. wants democracy in Iraq and the Middle East.
This is presented as being a lie. Funny that open elections have already been held in Afghanistan and are to be held in Iraq next month.
Or take this one:
27) U.S. troops "rescued" Private Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital.
Which indeed they did. The "rebuttal" addresses all sorts of points, none of them actually addressing the statement.
Yeah. So?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2004 08:12 PM (+S1Ft)

57 No, I figured the Lenin comparison was more that sufficient to point out was an absolute imbecile Miyake is.
How so?
I agree that the comparison with Lysenko is much more apt, but I can't see what point you are trying to make here, or how it would indicate any sort of failing on Miyake's part.
Sorry.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2004 08:23 PM (+S1Ft)

58 Anyway, yawn, please take a couple of days off from this - I'll be frantically busy tomorrow and then away for Christmas, so I won't be able to respond. And I think it would be better if we both took a step back and calmed down.
Merry Christmas,
Pixy

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 23, 2004 08:31 PM (+S1Ft)

59 "Actually, America's first real ally was probably France


Heh. Funny man!


France!"


Notably, very soon after the time the United States of America were actually unified under the current Constitution, our first international war (albeit a very one) was the maritime confrontation with France. It even predates our policy of pre-emptive regime change for outrageously offensive Muslim nations, which started (sensibly enough and with ample provocation) in the 18th century and has, thankfully, been dusted back off in time for the 21st.


Our cultural commonality and history of amity vis a vis France is much weaker than the same record with Britain, Australia, or even Canada (the latter marred, of course, by our early tendency as a nation to invade Canada as a means of antagonizing its British owners).

Posted by: learningcurve at December 24, 2004 12:35 AM (wTjmz)

60 Anyway, yawn, please take a couple of days off from this
Fair enough... take care.

Posted by: yawn at December 24, 2004 12:54 AM (TeAGq)

61 Of course UNMOVIC inspectors had been in Iraq and being given unfettered access when they where withdrawn by the U.S. on March 18, 2003, prior to the invasion. Now given your keen sense of lie detection honed during your Chomsky studies, what would you consider that? Here's a hint: LIAR!!!




Saddam has a record of ignoring any and all UN Security Council Resolutions he finds inconvenient, despite the threat of the resumption of hostilities, as laid out in UN Security Council Resolution 687, if he should fail to comply. Those that have condemned the Iraqi regime for violations specifically relating to weapons inspections include: SCR 707 (1991), SCR 715 (1991 -- 715 does not condemn Iraq for violation, but he refused to comply with it for almost two years), SCR 1060 (1996), SCR 1115 (1997), SCR 1134 (1997), SCR 1137 (1997), SCR 1194 (1998), SCR 1205 (1998), and SCR 1441 (2002). This from a nation who lost the Gulf War and whose regime continued to exist after 1991 contingent upon compliance with SCR 687 and other UN Security Council Resolutions.




At the time that Hans Blix claimed inspections were working, albeit slowly the seasonal/environmental window for operations in Iraq was rapidly closing. Saddam was simply playing his usual games, trying to run out the clock on a potential spring invasion. As has been previously stated, if I recall correctly, the burden of proof fell completely on Iraq to demonstrate its compliance. UNSCOM/UNMOVIC was not intended to be a scavenger hunt across the desert, though Iraqi intransigence rendered it such. Technically, any if Iraq's various violations of the requirements of SCR 687 were grounds for the renewal of hostilities. Saddam was clear on this point, which is why he invested such time and money in bribing French, Russian, and Chinese officials to prevent a resumption of hostilities, regardless of his violations of 687.

Posted by: learningcurve at December 24, 2004 01:21 AM (wTjmz)

62 What IS a "right wing nut"




I dunno, I guess it's someone who is extremely partisan, spends a lot of time complaining about the other side, but uses poor logic and only a subset of the "facts", if any at all. A very subjective label, for sure... but once it seems like someone is a "nut" (and there a "left wing nuts" too, for sure) it becomes very hard to take them seriously.



For members of the Chomsky Cult it really is not nearly so complex as that rather simple definition allows for. Those who disagree with Chomsky or hold differing political views than Chomsky are "right wing nuts." Never mind that any rational person with non-Stalinist political views might regard such people as right, left, or center in the political spectrum, it is the act of disagreeing with the religious leadership that brands one as a "right wing nut," "freeper," etc., and therefore obligates the faithful to ignore anything they might say as reactionary and heretical. In so doing, of course, the minds of the faithful are protected from the contamination of anything that does not descend from proletarian heaven by way of the omniscient and omnibenevolent (except for the victims of Chomsky-sanctioned totalitarian regimes such and the Cuban and Vietnamese Communist Parties, the Khmer Rouge, various international and intranational terror groups, etc) Chomsky.

Posted by: learningcurve at December 24, 2004 01:44 AM (wTjmz)

63 Yawn, I'm happy to see that you’re taking a break. I, too, have overreacted when attacked on-line, and a break is good for everyone involved. Still, I must take you to task for some of your statements.


First, please keep it civil. The best way to do that? No name-calling. You called Dr. Miyake "an absolute imbecile." You may disagree with him, but does that make him an imbecile? If so, you have no place in polite society. Have you ever read any of his academic writing, or talked with him? I have done both, and he is one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable people I've ever met. His academic work is of the highest caliber.


As for Dr. Miyake's comparison of Chomsky to Stalin and Lysenko, well, you'd have to ask him how that works. I don't think anyone is dying because of Chomsky, but the academic parallels to Chomsky and Lysenko--namely, ignoring empirical evidence due to adherence to a theory--are solid.


You claimed that "the vast majority of linguists" disagree with me as to the validity of Chomsky's work. The number of people who believe something has no effect on its veracity (ever hear the silly notion that the earth is round?). Furthermore, how many linguists do you know? I acknowledge that most American syntacticians use Chomskian theory, but the ones I know well who do so actually disagree with it, and only use the theory so that they can get published. As for non-syntacticians (who outnumber syntacticians), most ignore Chomskyism because it's irrelevant for their work. Some U.S. linguistics departments are decidedly non-Chomskyist, and outside of the U.S., his work is significantly less popular. In my professional opinion, your statement is false.


As for coming up with a better theory, neither I nor Dr. Miyake are syntacticians, so we're not going to come up with competing theories--but they're out there. Also, one does not need to propose an alternative merely to point out the shortcomings of one approach—though it is more productive if you can.


More later.

Posted by: Squidley at December 24, 2004 05:26 AM (06/Rc)

64 "right wing nut"
It's a sloppy liberal topos charged with expressive exuberance and used as an emotional cyclotron of hatred towards one with who one disagrees--from a left wing nut's perch. What I mean is the term is used much more often by left wing nuts than anyone else. And does this surprise? Of course not. Just wondered what you thought it meant. It clearly does NOT mean what you think it does.
A right wing nut has to apply coherently to one who makes home on the extreme radical right and does so in a fanatical fashion dysfunctional to intellectual discourse and activities. Elsewise wherefore the nut? Extreme right is vague of its own complexity the epithet becomes more and more trite the more people it's slung on so, be careful, is all. Your epithets have to stop at some point before you end up defining YOURSELF as a side-effect, as I believe learningcurve alluded to.
Anyway, Oliver Kamm is not a right-wing nut, and not even by your own criteria. I'm not a fan of his or even an admirer, just an observer, and don't intend this to say anything other than what it did regarding your claim that he's a right wing nut. If you don't like capitalism, say so; if you don't like Kamm, say so. But don't couch it in a political cloth that belies the facts about the man. It may not be patent libel, but it's libelous.
Pax,

Posted by: Polysemous at December 24, 2004 06:27 AM (MB3Ss)

65 Yawn impugned my ability to understand Chomsky's theories when he (?) said,

"maybe you just don't really understand them well enough."

Lessee here, I have a Ph.D. in Linguistics. Is this what makes me unable to understand his theories? Please tell us: what in your background or training gives you your superior understanding of Chomsky's academic writing?


Having said that, I will admit to having difficulty understanding Chomsky's writing. It's not due to the content; rather, it's the form. IMO, Chomsky is the worst popular writer in English alive today. His turgid prose is obscure, laden with jargon, and deliberately impenetrable. I believe that part of why his writing is so hard to fathom is that it puts the onus on the reader. "Gee, I didn’t understand that at all--must be something wrong with me," thinks the unsuspecting grad student upon reading Chomsky for the first time. Being able to wade through the swampy morasses of his writings is a kind of rite of passage. Once you've gone through it, you're in the club. Also, there's strong incentive to go with the flow, because some branches of linguistics (notably syntax and phonology) in America are dominated by certain theories, and one goes against them at one's own risk. Syntacticians who don't agree with Chomsky have a hard time getting published and finding work.


Furthermore, Chomsky's academic writing is intellectually dishonest. When he changes his theory, he'll publish a new book to tell everyone what's new and what's out. (His followers all fall in line; no one dissents.) However, his bibliography fails to mention all the books and articles that others have written that have already arrived at similar conclusions. Chomsky makes himself look like a genius for having come up with all these new ideas ex nihilo, when in fact what he's done is just short of plagiarism.


One last question: how is it venomous to give the reasons why you disagree with something? Show that my analysis of Chomsky is wrong. Show that his theories are, in fact, scientific. Show that empty categories and transformations are real. If you can, I will concede that I am wrong and Chomsky is right. What will it take for you to admit you might be less than correct? (BTW, I agree with Pixy: nothing Chomsky's written actually reaches the level of theory, but for want of a better word...)

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Every ten or twenty minutes, someone is clicking through from the Ecosystem, wondering who this new number three blog* is, maybe one of the big bloggers has changed names, and ending up here, and saying huh? And it's funny, but even when it's just an accident, being number three in the world feels like it carries some responsibility, and that I should be, you know, actually doing something with this blog.

Unfortunately, most of my posts - and all the good ones - come when I am inspired (or more likely, irritated) by something. I can't write good stuff on demand; that's a talent, and not a common one. Also, left to my own devices, I'm a lazy slug. That's why I'm hosting a hundred or so other blogs - no, hang on, this actually makes sense. I have a lot of things to say, but unless something is really pissing me off right now (the editorials in New Scientist are good for this) I'm likely to just let it slide and go and watch some anime instead. But now I have a hundred bloggers doing my writing for me!

Am I sneaky or what? And I don't even pay them! Of course, they don't always do what I had planned, but then neither do I, so it works out pretty well. It used to be that if anyone wondered what my opinion was on something important, I could just point them at U.S.S. Clueless, but that was before Steven retired and became a hermit took up a new career as an anime critic. Now I can only point to him for that, and while there's only one Den Beste, there are other anime critics whose tastes match mine, near enough. (By the way, Steven, if you don't watch Escaflowne you're really missing out. Yes, there's a mecha in it, but it's central to the plot in name only. Err, literally. And the music - by Yoko Kanno - is fantastic. I'm utterly disinterested in the average mecha series, up to and including Evangelion, but Escaflowne had me hooked. Don't bother with the movie, though, it's rubbish.) But now I have the Munuvians to talk for me. (Oh, and I agree with you about manga, mostly. The only ones I've followed are where the anime series was cut short - Oh! My Goddess, Gunsmith Cats, and 3 x 3 Eyes being leading examples.)

So, um, that is all I really have to say right now. I'm going to take a nap, then set up some more blogs for various people. You can amuse yourself while I'm gone by reading some of the fine blogs listed on the right. Or you can hold a party in my comments, that's always good.

* Unaudited figures.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:49 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 No comment party is complete without Reddi Wip and a slip-n-slide...I'll give Harv a call, I think we left it there last....

Posted by: Susie at December 15, 2004 10:14 PM (3nS88)

2 I whole hartedly disagree. I don't know what I'm disagreeing with, but I just disagree.

Posted by: Tom at December 16, 2004 06:12 AM (D7UYv)

3 Hey pixy, congrats on the ecosystem jump;-)
Nothing like beating Wonkette, that's what I say...especially over the head with a baseball bat. Bygones.

Posted by: Sadie at December 16, 2004 06:42 AM (6Mg2O)

4 Susie, Susie, Susie. Everyone knows that you use real whipped cream on the slip-n-slide. Reddi Whip is for use on linoleum floors. Okay, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter will do in a pinch.

Posted by: physics geek at December 16, 2004 12:08 PM (auFn9)

5 [unrolls Slip-n-slide]
Ew. Still a little sticky from the last comment party.
[looks around the room]
I'll just wash it off with this bottle of wine...
1897?
Geez! This thing's WAY past its expiration date. I'm doing Pixy a FAVOR by dumping this crap out!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to unload the crate of nitrous-powered dairy products...

Posted by: Harvey at December 16, 2004 01:52 PM (ubhj8)

6 Ok, got the dairy products covered--

real whipped cream (check!)

Reddi-Wip (check!)

I Can't Belive It's Not Butter (check?)

Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia™--oops, that's mine!!!! Not sharing, no way no how....

Posted by: Susie at December 16, 2004 02:18 PM (3nS88)

7 Susie, Susie, Susie you have been to enough comment parties to know better than to forget the Chocolate Sauce.
*Carrying in a case*
There, now we are ready! Point me in the direction of the bar, I could use a good stiff one.

Posted by: Machelle at December 17, 2004 12:15 AM (ZAyoW)

8 I'm bringing the rats! Can't have a party without rats! And who's bringing the guacamole? If the rats don't get any guacamole, things'll get ugly.
Real ugly.

Posted by: Victor at December 17, 2004 12:21 AM (L3qPK)

9 [pops up from behind the coffee table]
Ok, bar's open! Come on in!
[Noticing the height of the coffee table]
Uh...Can someone give me a hand here to get this thing to regulation bar height? I'm sure Pixy won't mind...

Posted by: Ogre at December 17, 2004 12:24 AM (/k+l4)

10 [ adds height to coffee tab..er, bar by means of attaching curious looking plastic things to the legs]
M-16 stocks? um. er, what makes you say that. Look you wanted a taller coffee ta, er bar didn't ya. & hell, it's not like they belonged on a real rifle.
Now pour me an Ameretto Sour in a tall dirty glass please. This adding height to coffee ta, er bars is thirsty work. & if any soldiers come in here with un-stocked M-16's you don't know nothing. Well point them to this gunshop down the street where they can get actual rifles like Garands, but other than that nothing. Nothing.
& let me be the first to raise my glass to our beloved host Pixy, on the occassion of his getting high...er, I mean getting it up ...no I mean him stepping on the competit... Hell, nice job Pixy, whatever it was that you did.
Now someone play me some Time & bring me a mirror.

Posted by: Publicola at December 17, 2004 02:01 AM (SoPfa)

11 :looks at ceiling fan:
I think the swing set goes *here*.
:looks into bathroom:
I think the jello goes into the tub.
:looks into kitchin:
I think that is an industrial blender - good.
:looks at liquor cabinet ...erh shelf ... behind table ...erh bar ...:
Not enough liquor.
ulls out Harvey's credit card swiped from last comment party:
"Hello, Bob's liquor? Yeah, I need to make an order - a laaaarge order."

Posted by: _Jon at December 17, 2004 03:25 AM (ZM3Qb)

12 You know, we should just call the firemen and policemen right now. It would save us time and remember how much they liked it last time?
And besides, what is a party without firemen?!

Posted by: Machelle at December 17, 2004 03:50 AM (ZAyoW)

13 Susie still doesn't look convinced by my faux dairy suggestion for the kitchen floor. However, I neglected to mention that it also works great as a lubricant protectant for a leather swing. And lookee here, there's already one hooked up, and it's going around... and around... and around... ugh, I'm getting dizzy and I haven't had anything to drink yet. Hey Jon, did that order arrive yet?

Posted by: physics geek at December 17, 2004 06:11 AM (Xvrs7)

14 I hope Jon remembered beer, and none of that sissy Fosters stuff either! I want something that'll put hair on Harv's chest...
Oooooh! Handcuffs!! Shiny!!!

Posted by: Susie at December 17, 2004 08:00 AM (3nS88)

15 {sneaks in}
{leaves some Travicello wine, fudge, strawberries and grapes}
{sneaks out}

Posted by: vw bug at December 17, 2004 08:47 AM (JhG7E)

16 **** stumbles into the room *****
Harvey said this was a party... where's the bar? I've had a LONG week of dealing with airline people and I need a REALLY strong drink! Where's the Bartender???
**** calling loudly ****
MADFISH WHERE ARE YOU?????

Posted by: Teresa at December 17, 2004 11:38 AM (nAfYo)

17 *CRASH*
(Rear end of large tanker truck crashes through the wall behind the makeshift bar)
Excellent. Now, can someone tap this thing for us? I knew someone would come through with the beer-filled tanker truck driven by firemen, escorted by the police riding llamas.

Posted by: Ogre at December 17, 2004 10:25 PM (/k+l4)

18 Hey Ogre tap that damn thing would you, I could use a beer or six.
*drumming fingers on bar*

Posted by: Machelle at December 18, 2004 03:49 AM (ZAyoW)

19 Don't let the llamas have any beer - you never know WHAT they'll do if they get hold of alcohol!!! Now, I want something stronger than beer... what's back there???

Posted by: Teresa at December 18, 2004 11:59 AM (nAfYo)

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Something is just slightly out of whack on the Ecosystem today - I've been elevated to Higher Being:

Higher Beings
1.Instapundit.com (4351) details
2.Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation. (2798) details
3.Ambient Irony (2572) details
4.lgf: skiing through the revolving door of life (2508) details
5.Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall (2422) details
6.Eschaton (2328) details
7.Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things (2137) details
8.Power Line (2131) details
9.The Volokh Conspiracy - (1914) details
10.www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish (1851) details

I don't expect this to last. But you can all claim that you knew me when...

(Thanks to the Llamas for noticing.) more...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:30 PM | Comments (15) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Wow... and we thought you were impressive before!!!

Posted by: Light & Dark at December 14, 2004 03:06 PM (880wB)

2 Yeah!
Now if I could just get my own comments to remember me...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 14, 2004 03:43 PM (kOqZ6)

3 It looks like you've been a Higher Being for a week now.
According to the graph on your details page, you acquired 2200 unique links on 6 December.

Posted by: Evil Pundit at December 14, 2004 08:37 PM (ss0/1)

4 Run with it! It seems out of munu that Simon is the only one that can get very far with TTLB!

Posted by: Helen at December 14, 2004 09:08 PM (QuLsu)

5 Congratulations, Your Exaltedness!

Posted by: RP at December 14, 2004 10:44 PM (LlPKh)

6 Then again, maybe they're just recognizing your Higher Being position here at Munu... time to commence with world domination?

Posted by: Daniel at December 15, 2004 12:26 AM (Oc6V9)

7 I thought you always were a Higher Being.
But it's nice to see the hoi polloi acknowledge it.

Posted by: LeeAnn at December 15, 2004 02:23 AM (vqSdN)

8 Congratulations -- at least for the momentary if not long-term bump!

Posted by: Michael at December 15, 2004 05:39 AM (CO/Uo)

9 Congrats!
I wonder if it's counting ALL the incoming links to ALL the MuNu blogs after you switched over to 3.0?
Whatever the cause, at least you have a screen capture to impress everyone with!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at December 15, 2004 09:40 AM (Av8yb)

10 Way to go!

Posted by: Chase at December 15, 2004 10:49 AM (ksHCE)

11 There's a redundant entry on the Ecosystem for ambientirony.com (my pre MuNu address), and for some reason it suddenly started counting all the links there.
I've emailed the Bear, and I'm sure he'll fix it before long.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 15, 2004 11:02 AM (kOqZ6)

12 Let's ride the tide while it's still going.
Pixy, none of us are worthy of your exalted presence.

Posted by: Simon at December 15, 2004 04:27 PM (FUPxT)

13 I'm enjoying it for two big reasons:
1. it's fun when the good guys get good stuff
B. it's like seeing a band that becomes huge when they are tiny and just starting out (yeah, i used to read ambient irony when he had that little socrates icon on the top right....back when he was authentic!)
III. it's PISSING THE HELL out of INDC Bill, which, as you know, is one of our missions in life.
Okay, that's three, but you get my drift.

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I uploaded 10,000 images this morning to go with my new layout.*

I just kicked off our not-entirely-regular complete offsite backup. So it's now downloading those 10,000 images again.

* No, I'm not kidding. Yes, ten thousand. Well, 9985 in fact, upon actually counting the little buggers.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:41 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

This layout is starting to grow on me.

It's a little irritating that it looks better in Internet Explorer than Mozilla, but that might just be the font settings that I have in Mozilla.

Anywho, let me know what you think.

The only remaining problem is that for some reason, MT never puts the code for the icon in the first time around. Edit and re-save, and there it is. But never the first time. Pfui.

P.S. No, the images didn't just change. It must be your imagination. Yes indeedy.

P.P.S. Hey, I like these ones. Think I'll keep 'em for a while.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:12 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

This is why I had a three-column layout before.

Now I'll have to put two months' worth of posts on the main page just to make the content longer than the sidebar.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:22 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

In case you're wondering, Ambient Irony has migrated to Movable Type 3.121. Hence the drastic simplification of the layout. I'll make it a comfortable mess again when I get time.

It did it again! Icon-thief!!

But if I edit it and save it again, it works fine. Meh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:58 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Beloved by designers, heartily loathed by those who actually have to read their crap. Yes, it's grey text.

Gone now.

Now where the hell has the icon for this post gone?! Oh, right, now it shows up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:20 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Well, that doesn't look so good.

Update: Okay, better. Ish. Better-ish. Kind of bland, though. Needs salt.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 09:11 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I just got ten twelve spam comments to a single post. Advertising spam-blocking tools. And four more to another post.

Maybe I should change the name of my blog to "Ambient Idiocy".

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:02 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

BlitzMax is out!*

Blitz Basic is a fast and very neat Basic compiler for Windows, mainly designed for writing games. The developers have now taken it, stretched it in several new directions (it's object oriented**, and uses OpenGL for all its graphics**), and expanded it to support Mac and Linux as well. Just $80 gets you all three versions. I wonder if it has any sort of database support, because if BlitzMax as fast and easy to use as Blitz Basic, and runs on Linux, it will be a very useful tool indeed.

Update: No database stuff. Oh well. In fact, the library included with BlitzMax is very spartan by today's standards.

* Sort of. Currently only available for MacOS X, but the Windows and Linux versions are due soon.
** This is a good thing.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:09 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Now that those election thingies are over and things have returned to normal (whatever that means), we suddenly have a whole lot of bandwidth to spare, so with your help I'm going to burn through a whole lot of it very fast. To that end, here are a bunch of nifty - if large - anime music videos you can download.

The first one, dedicated to LeeAnn, is Stop the Rock # It's just Apollo 440's song, with, well, you'll see.

One of the things too many AMV creators get wrong is combining a great idea and clever editing with a lousy song. No such problem with Elvis vs. Anime # It's an animated version of the clip for the remixed version of A Little Less Conversation. Great song, cool video.

Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu is one of the standout anime series of the last couple of years, and footage from the show is used to great effect in Hale's Mom. # That's pronounced "hah-lay", by the way, not "hail". Hale is the little boy, the strange little girl with pink hair is Guu, and the woman who looks like Hale is Hale's mom, Weda. The song: Stacy's Mom, by Fountains of Wayne.

Moving more into the novelty category, we have the Bounty Hunters Who Don't Do Anything # Video is from the brilliant series Cowboy Bebop, music is The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything by Relient K. It's a brilliant combination.

Then we have Jinnai and the Bugrom Live # The song is Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot! by Carumba, and amazingly enough it even sounds like Jinnai. The video is from El Hazard; the original OVA series of which is a minor classic, but this video is taken from the TV series, which ripped out half the plot and stretched the remainder from 7 episodes to 26. I mean, they removed the shadow people, which meant that the three-sided conflict was watered down to a straight good-vs-evil battle, and all the political scheming went with it, and without the shadow people to kidnap Princess Fatora they decided to remove her too, so we didn't get the whole cross-dressing deal with Makoto, and that meant you didn't get the scene with Makoto and Alielle exploring their gender roles. Not to mention the travesty of what they did to poor Ifurita, demon goddess of destruction... Never mind, just watch this clip.

And speaking of gender roles, I Wish I Was A Lesbian # No, that's the name of this clip. And of the song, which is by Loudon Wainwright III.

The Excel Pop Up video # takes Jewel's Standing Still and gives it the treatment it so richly deserves and only Excel Saga can deliver.

Men in Black II # takes on a whole new look at the hands of VicBond007, with help from the anime series The Big O. Masterful editing in this one.

The last two are more for the anime fan than the casual viewer, but here I go anyway: Eva Bebop # which replaces the opening credits for Neon Genesis Evangelion with something that will be strangely familiar to fans of Cowboy Bebop. If you've seen both series, you'll recognise the insane genius involved; if not, then... not.

And finally, its the Lord of the Yen trilogy #, which transplants the characters from Azumanga Daioh into Tolkien's great work. The brilliance here is in the casting. Of course Sakaki-san is Aragorn, and that means that Kaorin is Arwen. And Osaka and Chiyo-chan as Frodo and Sam, and Nyamo-chan as Gandalf. And then there's Elrond, and Gimli, and Gollum, and Saruman... Quite remarkable. It's a huge file, but it runs for over nine minutes, and the video quality is excellent.

Enjoy! (Oh, and click on the # to go to the appropriate page for each video at AnimeMusicVideos.org.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:14 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Expression Engine is not the future of mu.nu. It simply isn't designed to handle what we do. It could be done - EE is nothing if not flexible - but it would be terribly awkward.

So tomorrow, I get to convert Ambient Irony to MT3. Yay. It's either that or go back to writing Minx...

Damn. Now I have to scroll sideways again.

Update: Back to MT 2.6 for now. Moof.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:18 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I don't think I like Expression Engine very much. Not in a boat, and most certainly not with a goat.

It works, it's very flexible, it's amazingly awkward to configure and use, and it's slow as a wet week at delivering pages. If you turn template caching on - which you need to do individually for each template in each blog - it's only as slow as a wet Tuesday, but caching has its own drawbacks. (The cache isn't fully automatic, so when you change certain things you have to manually clear the cache before it shows up.)

And the user inteface screens have that charming designed-for-IE bug where no matter what screen size you have, they are always this much wider than your screen - so you have to scroll sideways to click on the submit button.

To be fair, you don't normally spend that much time fiddling with the configuration of your blog once you have it working. Templates, maybe, but not the low-level fiddly bits. The annoying thing is that EE comes with the low-level fiddly bits set all wrong for what we want to do at MuNu, and you can't just throw a switch to make it right, you have to run around fixing and, um, fiddling.

I'll stick with it for a while and see how it goes. Now I just need to scroll to the right because the Update button has hidden itself again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:16 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

Lina just got promoted to Astronaut!

This post is not expected to make sense to people who are not fans of both Deborah Conway and The Sims 2. (And if you are also a fan of The Slayers, you will be horrified delighted to hear that Amelia got promoted to Counter Intelligence. And has anyone else noticed that the career question you get in Counter Intelligence is a no-win situation? Heads you lose, tails you lose, don't toss the coin - you lose.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:53 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

I thought I'd be good and wash the dishes instead of sitting here playing the Sims. So I stack the dishes on the counter, open the cupboard to get the detergent, and then crash-crash-crash-tinkle.

Well, that's four dishes I'll never need to wash again.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:06 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 Drudgery is bad for the environment; get a dishwasher instead.

Posted by: Tom at December 05, 2004 12:48 PM (JBnc2)

2 Uh, Pixy, if ya do happen to get a dishwasher, see if she has a cute sister.

Posted by: Tig at December 05, 2004 01:27 PM (G5PGV)

3 Or a cute brother...

Posted by: Kathy K at December 05, 2004 10:17 PM (oddqu)

4 Well, it's a sign you should go back to simming, right? Heh.
Thankyouthankyou, thank. You. You're the coolest, bestest, most wonderfulest Benevolent Dictator I've ever known!

Posted by: Margi at December 06, 2004 09:30 AM (rKX9f)

5 I'm too afraid to get the sims 2... I just spent a whole night on Northland! I have to be productive... sometime...

Posted by: Patti at December 06, 2004 01:04 PM (rQ3I1)

6 Is the title an allsuion to the Wicked Witch Of The West/Wicked?

Posted by: Mookie at December 08, 2004 01:37 AM (gBa/X)

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So that's how you make easy money in the Sims. Make friends with someone rich, then invite them to move in.

I'll have to try that on my single-mom-with-three-kids family, who are struggling a bit.

* Most of my current Sims are female.**
** Feel free to psychoanalyse in the comments. I don't mind, you're probably right.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:27 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)