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[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 24 August 2017 23:21:22 Larry Martell wrote:

> 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.ht
> >>ml
> >
> > 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.

I agree Larry, Chomsky can be described in even more flowery terms, but 
since its CNN, what else should we expect?  That site has not been on my 
nightly news tour for at least 18 months.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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