Comments on: Robert Reich’s September Songs: on health care reform, what a difference two years makes

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:48:45 +0000

“if your mere desire for something, anything, imposes a duty on other people to satisfy you, then they have no choice in their lives… your right to anything at others’ involuntary expense means that they become rightless.” Leonard Peikoff

is this what your getting at yarmarskar?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:36:48 +0000

And unless I’m careful, I’ll miss a tight and witty comment by Occam’s Beard or nolanimrod or rickl in the effort to get out of a twenty-four incher by Artfldgr.

You should have seen what it was like when we had flame wars here that were uncontrolled and you couldn’t even scroll past them like on blogspot.

I think well enough of these people so that from now on I’ll make a good-faith effort to read his posts.

Pick the parts you are interested in and skip the parts that are not. That has never been a bad advice to follow, except for legal documents.

Best control and speed is to click on the slider to the right, hold, and then move it down at a speed you know you can recognize the end of a post.

By: Artfldgr

Artfldgr — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:16:33 +0000

i do castro when i am frustrated, or have said it before in short and passing and realize it didnt stick the first time. its like i have a big key ring, and i know if its said the right way, it will unlock realization. which key? sometimes i am dead on, other times i am literally trying keys and desperately trying to reveal HUGE amounts of information in a short space. information that they never even thought existed and tend to disbelieve sometimes just for that fact alone.

sorry mizpants… i actually waited till the comment numbers were pretty high, then commented, i thought it had petered out and i would say my comment near the end. so far that recently has not been a good thing… the commentaries have gone over 75…

i dont usually have time to edit… and so i just spit it out. (often i am at work, and so editing and researching more than i do is not possible, and being more careful is also not possible).

neo does a great job keeping me from pounding the nail through the board. but others dont seem to integrate ‘new’, so the same old circles happen.

sigh…

look at it this way…

do you think knowing so much, and being capable in so much stuff makes my life a happy one?

By: ELC

ELC — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:48:02 +0000

“BraveNewFilms”: how appropriate.

By: mizpants

mizpants — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:13:48 +0000

Artfldgr has a lot of loyal friends and supporters here. I think well enough of these people so that from now on I’ll make a good-faith effort to read his posts.

By: Occam's Beard

Occam's Beard — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:38:01 +0000

the effort to get out of a twenty-four incher by Artfldgr

Unfortunate choice of words, but we get the idea…

Artfldgr does occasionally do his cyber impression of a Castro speech, but he also turns up so much valuable stuff, makes so many critical insights, and highlights so many great references as to more than make up for that quirk, IMO.

By: mizpants

mizpants — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:55:43 +0000

Not to be tiresome about it, but the disadvantage of using Pg Down or the space bar (which does work!) is that it usually lands me in the middle of a post and I have to scroll back up to read it from the beginning. And unless I’m careful, I’ll miss a tight and witty comment by Occam’s Beard or nolanimrod or rickl in the effort to get out of a twenty-four incher by Artfldgr.

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:55:17 +0000

Occam’s Beard:
That works with Safari, too. I didn’t know that.

By: Occam's Beard

Occam's Beard — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:43:04 +0000

mizpants, if you use IE, just hit the space bar to get another screenful.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:03:47 +0000

But what do I know? I used to think scarification was something that happened at Halloween.