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Diary of a B+ Grade Polymath ([personal profile] tcpip) wrote2005-10-03 02:07 pm

Unicon, Work, Elections and Racial and Religious Madness, Banned Rats!

Spent the weekend at Unicon with [livejournal.com profile] dukeofmelbourne and [livejournal.com profile] caseopaya. Not a bad event, first gaming con I've been too in several years. Played "Parallel Flight" (Fireborn, not so good), Restoration (Urban Arcana, very good), Get Who (based on Get Smart, death coincidental, fun but severly limited for characters other than agents 99 and 86), Schools Out (Mutants and Masterminds, a d20 superhero game; OK, but combat orientated) and at the top of my enjoyment list "Four Fists of Righteous Fury" (where we had narrative and character development, deadly seriousness and comic relief!). Surprised to see that there were no D&D sessions. Sessions were far too short. Will give a full write-up on experiences on [livejournal.com profile] aus_gamers in the near future. Afterwards went to Mind Games to spend money ;-)

I have been working. Borderlands has shifted offices and their network and all it's wiring needs to be reassembled. This week I start training Prosper Australia on marketing and getting media coverage. I've also picked up a translation job for a set of health clinics in Northern Ireland who apparently need documentation ... in Tetum. Strange but true. CCNA Semester 2 starts on Tuesday. Feeling confident about it.

Schroeder grasps defeat from the jaws of victory and is about to destroy the SPD in the process. Meanwhile, in New Zealand Helen Clark's victory seems assured following the counting of special votes. I will be living in New Zealand by the end of 2006, I swear.

More bombings in Bali. Further evidence to recent suggestions that too much religion is bad for your society. From religious to racial fundamentalism; former US Secretary of Education thinks the way to solve crime is to abort "blacks".

I've banned my rats from the desk drawer and the office. Two keyboard cables and three speakers is too much. They're coping ;-)

Re: Quibblings or quislings?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_fustian/ 2005-10-03 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[my] logical positivist claim [...] has been completely rejected by every school of philosophy in the world for the past fifty years. Indeed, now [is?] held as an object of [ridicule...]

Now you're making it sound cool as well as intuitively obvious. Of course, those criticisms are debatable; and universal pragmatics attempts to construe utility in "metaphysical statements", not evaluate their meaningfulness.

This has been fun, but I think my five minutes are up.

Re: Quibblings or quislings?

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2005-10-03 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
universal pragmatics attempts to construe utility in "metaphysical statements", not evaluate their meaningfulness.

This is not the case. Universal pragmatics engages in very precise definitions in what constitutes a meaningful and meaningless statement, along with what constitutes a rational, irrational and irrationalisable statement.