Reading the documentation

[Larry Martell]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 8:28:55 AM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote:
>> On Aug 24, 2017 8:51 PM, "Larry Martell"  wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 9:21 PM Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>> > Statement 1: Aeroplanes fly
>> > Statement 2: Submarines swim
>> >
>> >
>> > Are these two statements equally acceptable?
>> >
>> > [Inspired by a talk by Noam Chomsky]
>>
>> There should be a corollary of Godwin's law for that idiot.
>>
>>
>> Chomsky borrowed it from Dijkstra, I think.
>>
>> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
>
> I was about to start with the Dijkstra connection but then cut it because irrelevant
> However I find the two very different
> I think Dijkstra's "Can a submarine swim?" is almost entirely a mockery of the idea
> However Chomsky's laconic juxtaposition points to the deep non-rational
> programming in our subconscious mind of what we accept and what we dont
>
> [Larry seems to be angry about/at somethin'… No idea who/what…]

I think Chomsky is a jerk, and I'm angry at media outlets like CNN
giving him a forum to spew his idiocies.