Young Master Smeet
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I suspect Oswald would have failed to replicate what Oswald had done, doesn't mean he didn't do it. Put another way: there is no excuse for a footballer missing a penalty, yet sometimes they do; some shots on goal should never come off, and yet, sometimes, at the big moment, they do. So far as I know, it has never been demonstrated that Oswald's shots were impossible. Also, lets not forget, that eye witness testimony is not reliable, and events are confused.Oh, and…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination_rifle#FBI_testsLooks to me like they did replicate it.
A lot of the hole holes in the narrative become very clear when one considers the key fact. The stupid buggers published the route in advance. After that, we're open to any opportunistic sod to do the deed. As a matter of intellectual self defence I can waste too much time on matters that don't amount to much: and I don't want to read about every last blood splatter or hw a bone fragment turned up in an unusual place. Such 'inconsistencies' belong to Poirot. We've got a prime suspect who was in the right place, whose biography and recent behaviour suggests he was predisposed to do the act and who, despite having some possibly unusual contacts, seems very much to have been alone and slightly odd. That'll do me. I do not believe there is a reasonable doubt that Oswald did it.
As a theory, it just sounds like Oswald did it with knobs on. Oswald did it. A freak kill shot from a rifle seems pretty far fetched to me. That the establishment would seek to cover the accident up, beyond a few back covering individuals, even more so. Plus there'd be a death bed confession by now.Oswald did it. On his own.
Hustings tomorrow night:Islington Tennants Association:Girdlestone Community Centre, Salisbury Walk , N19 5DX . The image and map on their website can help you find the building on the day: http://www. girdlestonecommunitycentre.co. uk/The publicised start time of the hustings will be 7pm.
LBird,Given that Pannekoek was a professor, that means his opinions of professors was a bourgeois lie, and that professors are on our side, which means he's right, and they're on the side of the bouregsoisie, which means he's lying, and they're on our side, which means they're on their side…Of course, his own history of Astronomy does make fascinating reading for the actual relationship between science and society…
SocialistPunk wrote:And if friends won't sign, get some better friends.That's a pretty scummy opinion.
"widest dissemination of information",No subscription costs for learned journals, well stocked libraries with no membership costs, open access to datasets where practicable (subject to reasonable privacy of participanmts in experiments)"open debate"No pre-censorship, peer reviewed journals, free association and adequate resources made for groups to promulgate opinion."maximum number of people"the debate never ends.
Dave B,Of course, we can apply Condorecet's Jury theorem(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet%27s_jury_theorem) The more people involved in arriving at a decision, the more likely they are to be right. The big question is what effects the probability of a voter being right, simple guess work between two options is 50/50, so any reliable information should raise the chance of a voter being right above 50%, so long as the voter processes it correctly. Obviously, diminishing returns apply as you add aditional voters (as you say about polling smple size, once you get enough it doesn't make much odds to add a few more).What that would seem to suggest is that the widest dissemination of information is necessary, along with open debate that includes the maximum number of people.
SP,it's better, IMNSHO, to go knocking on doors, as it's a way of raising awareness that there is a campaign going on,. In London it's difficult to get the right number of people in the same constituency. And, to be frank, I'd rather not put friends on the spot and ask them (and risk perfectly reaonable refusal).
SP,we need ten electors to sign nomination papers before we can contest the seat.Steve,Yeah, he'll check them when I hand it in, and I've got the cmplete list to check myself, so we should be good.
Just a quick note: four of us went knocking on doors in North Islington to collect signatures. Most people were polite (although many pointed out how inconcvenient our calls were). Quite a few politely declined our request, because they were Labour; but we did it in the end. Including one party member as a signatory, which is relatively unusual.Next step is to submit the paperwork, that's next week, after nominations formally open I'll have to double check our signatures before then to make sure all were eligible electors, I missed a column off the print-out).
Quote:In fact, humans 'react to the same circumstances and material conditions' in totally different ways, because those 'humans' live in different societies and thus have different 'social beings'.And if humans were not at root basically the same, then those people brought up in a given society would react differently to their experienced social being, rather than reacting in relatively predictable ways. There wouldn't be stable social sets such as nations and classes.
Quote:'Humans' are actually 'social products', and so different societies will produce different 'individuals'. Unhappily for your bourgeois liberalism, which insists to you that 'you are an individual', Marx's ideas insist that if you had been born in a different society, you would be a different person. And you wouldn't regard yourself as 'an individual'.There seems to be an echo in here, since that was exactly what I was saying, that humans are basically identical, and the offspring of one "nation" transplanted into another would grow up exactly the same as their fellows. All humans have basically the same bodies and the same brains, and will react to the same circumstances and material conditions in roughly the same ways, so that social being will determine social consciousness, or something like that.
If humans are not basically the same the world over, how can they be expected to have any equality of say in running society? Let's not forget, that nationalism doesn't "just happen" it is the product of a vast process of material production, from mass media, to civic performance. The material culture of sports helps produce, reproduce and reify nationalist ideas. It's not a coincidence that a lot of effrot went into nationalism as a direct counter to the workers mvoement and its internationalism.
