Interesting Links for 10-02-2017

[andrewducker]

The Real Fight...Starts Now (Hilarious take on Corbyn) (tags: politics satire ) We know what will make us happy, why do we watch TV instead? (tags: happiness psychology tv ) Netflix Castlevania series penned by Warren Ellis (tags: tv games netflix ) Scotland is retraining Syrian refugee doctors to work for the NHS (tags: syria nhs refugee

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

There are a whole bunch of rules on how long you have to age named spirits in order for them to be official. Brandy; two years. Whisky; three years. Gin; a small splash of tonic.

So until you get the law changed the ultrasound business doesn't help you qualify for the valuable status of brandy or whisky or whatever any quicker - but what it might do, if the process is not expensive is let your 3 year old whisky taste like a six year old whisky and let you get well received tasty products to market more quickly. Which might have a cashflow and working capital advantage.

[nancylebov]

I wonder whether a home ultrasound liquor-ager could be made cheaply enough. How about one that's cheap enough to be owned by a small business?

[danieldwilliam]

From memory small medical ultrasound machines are not that expensive.

[andrewducker]

Also, what it might do is allow people to sell Whiskish for half the price of Whisky, and everyone who isn't a snob to start drinking that instead.

[supergee]

I got my Philosophy degree in 1964, and by then it was already established the British & continental philosophy each thought the other was not philosophy.

[bart_calendar]

Got mine in 92.

That article about Derrida vs The Idiots Who Should Never Have Been Given Philosophy Degrees is accurate, but man does it make Derrida's ideas seem more complex than they actually are.

Derrida was the basis of my thesis. He's also a man I met. He explains things clearly and precisely. He doesn't like grammar, particularly periods and commas, but other than that doesn't have to be made more difficult than it actually is.

Here, I'll do it:

The Idiots Who Should Never Have Been Given Philosophy Degrees - "If we work hard we can find an objective truth in the lives of mankind."

Derrida - "LOL. No. Every person has a million different experiences from the billions of other humans on the planet, so each life has it's own meaning and each person should be allowed their own subjective truth about their lives."

[kalimac]

Are they sure they want to use the execution of Charles I as an example to mock Corbyn's "the real fight starts now"? True that it was the end for Charles personally, but he had a rather definitive posthumous revenge a dozen years later, and even the fact that the government of subsequent centuries more closely resembles the Commonwealth than it does Stuart autocracy can't negate the fact that the "monarchy-exit" vote was firmly overturned.

[chess]

While I'm quite keen on the future in which the LD-SNP coalition brings us back into Europe wholeheartedly with none of the bullshit opt-out clauses this time, I'm not looking forward to the decade or two in the middle where everything goes to shit.

[kalimac]

But the shit is coming anyway. It was voted for last June, and the hurdle placed by the courts was just easily overleaped last week. You get that no matter what might happen in the future, sorry. A posthumous revenge like King Charles's is the best option on offer.

[bart_calendar]

That article about Derrida vs The Idiots Who Should Never Have Been Given Philosophy Degrees is accurate, but man does it make Derrida's ideas seem more complex than they actually are.

Derrida was the basis of my thesis. He's also a man I met. He explains things clearly and precisely. He doesn't like grammar, particularly periods and commas, but other than that doesn't have to be made more difficult than it actually is.

Here, I'll do it:

The Idiots Who Should Never Have Been Given Philosophy Degrees - "If we work hard we can find an objective truth in the lives of mankind."

Derrida - "LOL. No. Every person has a million different experiences from the billions of other humans on the planet, so each life has it's own meaning and each person should be allowed their own subjective truth about their lives."

"objective truth in the lives of mankind"?

[apostle_of_eris]

cool
What is the justification for your assumption that such a thing exists? Mind you, I am neither asserting nor denying, but since you are asserting . . .

RE: "objective truth in the lives of mankind"?

[bart_calendar]

I don't think it does exist.

I think Derrida is right that the rationalists who are searching for that are dumb.

[bart_calendar]

And the thing is making Derrida understandable matters because his ideas are super important right now.

I'll give a practical example:

Rationalist Philosophers: "You have a penis, therefore we can say you are male."

Derrida: "No. Whether or not a person is male is up them and how they have interpreted their life experiences."