Prison Bans Books and Disco Pickle Learns a Lesson

[LMNO]

Naw.  His FIRST law is usually the one mistakenly called Murphy's Law.

Here it is:

Finagle's 1st Law:  Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Finagle's 2d Law:  Perversity¹ tends to a maximum.

Murphy's Law:  If there are two ways to do something, and one way will lead to disaster, someone will do it that way.

¹  Perversity in the classic sense, ie, doing things NOT in your own best interest.  This is why the whole concept of the Free Market is utter rubbish.

Around here, it tends to a maximum in the more common definition, too, I've noticed...

But that's accidentally.

Are you positive it's not just another choice? 

Fairly sure it's just the aura LMNO emits giving everyone else the accidentally, but I could be choosing to be wrong.

Baby, I was BORN THIS WAY.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Naw.  His FIRST law is usually the one mistakenly called Murphy's Law.

Here it is:

Finagle's 1st Law:  Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Finagle's 2d Law:  Perversity¹ tends to a maximum.

Murphy's Law:  If there are two ways to do something, and one way will lead to disaster, someone will do it that way.

¹  Perversity in the classic sense, ie, doing things NOT in your own best interest.  This is why the whole concept of the Free Market is utter rubbish.

Around here, it tends to a maximum in the more common definition, too, I've noticed...

But that's accidentally.

Are you positive it's not just another choice? 

Positive.  The inside of my pance is a truly random generator.

[Adios]

Apropos to that, I learned a wonderful word from Less Wrong: "AKRASIA"

It roughly translates into "Acting against your own better judgement."




Welcome to the United States of Akrasia.
      \

More like "Acting against your own best interests."

Also, I notice DP ignored the fact that the 2nd link he posted proves him wrong.

Next Stop, Chapel Perilous!  Woo woo!

[Disco Pickle]

It isn't actually in the police's interest to be fleecing the whiteys in a town where tourism is the primary industry.  

This is because, as an objectivist, you are ignorant of Finagle's 2d Law.

I learned it under a different name.  Now you've done it, I've started digging through 'See Also's' on wikipedia.  

Naw.  His FIRST law is usually the one mistakenly called Murphy's Law.

Here it is:

Finagle's 1st Law:  Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Finagle's 2d Law:  Perversity¹ tends to a maximum.

Murphy's Law:  If there are two ways to do something, and one way will lead to disaster, someone will do it that way.

¹  Perversity in the classic sense, ie, doing things NOT in your own best interest.  This is why the whole concept of the Free Market is utter rubbish.

Rational Choice theory.  I remember reading a deal about it when I became interested in game theory.

[Luna]

Naw.  His FIRST law is usually the one mistakenly called Murphy's Law.

Here it is:

Finagle's 1st Law:  Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Finagle's 2d Law:  Perversity¹ tends to a maximum.

Murphy's Law:  If there are two ways to do something, and one way will lead to disaster, someone will do it that way.

¹  Perversity in the classic sense, ie, doing things NOT in your own best interest.  This is why the whole concept of the Free Market is utter rubbish.

Around here, it tends to a maximum in the more common definition, too, I've noticed...

But that's accidentally.

Are you positive it's not just another choice? 

Fairly sure it's just the aura LMNO emits giving everyone else the accidentally, but I could be choosing to be wrong.

Baby, I was BORN THIS WAY.

Which is why we love ya, man.

[Luna]

Naw.  His FIRST law is usually the one mistakenly called Murphy's Law.

Here it is:

Finagle's 1st Law:  Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Finagle's 2d Law:  Perversity¹ tends to a maximum.

Murphy's Law:  If there are two ways to do something, and one way will lead to disaster, someone will do it that way.

¹  Perversity in the classic sense, ie, doing things NOT in your own best interest.  This is why the whole concept of the Free Market is utter rubbish.

Around here, it tends to a maximum in the more common definition, too, I've noticed...

But that's accidentally.

Are you positive it's not just another choice? 

Positive.  The inside of my pance is a truly random generator.

I officially have NO COMMENT regarding the inside of Roger's pance.

None, whatsoever.

[Disco Pickle]

Apropos to that, I learned a wonderful word from Less Wrong: "AKRASIA"

It roughly translates into "Acting against your own better judgement."




Welcome to the United States of Akrasia.
      \

More like "Acting against your own best interests."

Also, I notice DP ignored the fact that the 2nd link he posted proves him wrong.

Next Stop, Chapel Perilous!  Woo woo!

I WAS WRONG.  200,000 was pretty much spot on.  There wasn't any cognitive dissonance, just rushed linking and bad research on my part.

but then, no one's ever done that here.  

much less admitted they were wrong.  hope my admitting I was wrong doesn't start some sort of disturbing trend here.

[Luna]

Apropos to that, I learned a wonderful word from Less Wrong: "AKRASIA"

It roughly translates into "Acting against your own better judgement."




Welcome to the United States of Akrasia.
      \

More like "Acting against your own best interests."

Also, I notice DP ignored the fact that the 2nd link he posted proves him wrong.

Next Stop, Chapel Perilous!  Woo woo!

I WAS WRONG.  200,000 was pretty much spot on.  There wasn't any cognitive dissonance, just rushed linking and bad research on my part.

but then, no one's ever done that here.  

much less admitted they were wrong.  hope my admitting I was wrong doesn't start some sort of disturbing trend here.

Actually, admitting that you were wrong might actually win you a point or two.

[Adios]

Sure won't hurt.

[Disco Pickle]

well seeing as how I have the wrong values, It'd be dishonest to not respectfully admit that every post of mine in this thread is potentially wrong.

But hell, if I wanted to spend time on a forum where everyone's values were similar to my own I'd be over at the circle jerk that is Reason.com

I like it here better.  Better potential for learning new things.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Apropos to that, I learned a wonderful word from Less Wrong: "AKRASIA"

It roughly translates into "Acting against your own better judgement."




Welcome to the United States of Akrasia.
      \

More like "Acting against your own best interests."

Also, I notice DP ignored the fact that the 2nd link he posted proves him wrong.

Next Stop, Chapel Perilous!  Woo woo!

if you approach without the wand of intuition, you can stand at the door for decades never realizing you have arrived. You might think you are just waiting for a bus, or wandering from room to room looking for your cigarettes, watching a TV show, or reading a cryptic and ambiguous book visiting a PD.com thread. Chapel Perilous is tricky that way.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Apropos to that, I learned a wonderful word from Less Wrong: "AKRASIA"

It roughly translates into "Acting against your own better judgement."




Welcome to the United States of Akrasia.
      \

More like "Acting against your own best interests."

Also, I notice DP ignored the fact that the 2nd link he posted proves him wrong.

Next Stop, Chapel Perilous!  Woo woo!

I WAS WRONG.  200,000 was pretty much spot on.  There wasn't any cognitive dissonance, just rushed linking and bad research on my part.

but then, no one's ever done that here.  

much less admitted they were wrong.  hope my admitting I was wrong doesn't start some sort of disturbing trend here.

Actually, admitting that you were wrong might actually win you a point or two.

Yeah, it's funny. People here do it all the time, and it actually INCREASES the respect others have toward them.

Because it shows they can think.

[Triple Zero]

Additionally, Anna Mea Bollocks, I hadn't heard that about NL having to close down prisons cause they weren't needed. I remember a while back (5-10 years or so) they were overcrowded, though. Got a link for that maybe?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/28/netherlands-prisons-closi_n_208561.html

Two years ago, huh. Thanks for the link

(btw the NRC, linked as the source for that article, is one of the better Dutch newspapers--even though they consistently use the diminuitive to refer to UAVs, which pisses me off)

[The Good Reverend Roger]

well seeing as how I have the wrong values, It'd be dishonest to not respectfully admit that every post of mine in this thread is potentially wrong.

But hell, if I wanted to spend time on a forum where everyone's values were similar to my own I'd be over at the circle jerk that is Reason.com

I like it here better.  Better potential for learning new things.

Reason.com, you say?  I just sucked my pance up my arse in anticipation.

TGRR,
Hitting the laptop tonight.

[Luna]

I WAS WRONG.  200,000 was pretty much spot on.  There wasn't any cognitive dissonance, just rushed linking and bad research on my part.

but then, no one's ever done that here.  

much less admitted they were wrong.  hope my admitting I was wrong doesn't start some sort of disturbing trend here.

Actually, admitting that you were wrong might actually win you a point or two.

Yeah, it's funny. People here do it all the time, and it actually INCREASES the respect others have toward them.

Because it shows they can think.

Some people (especially on the 'net) seem to get into the mindset that they are RIGHT, fuckitall, and they MUST PROVE IT.

Reconsidering and admitting that you are wrong is a sign that you're at least starting to think like a biped, rather than just parrot what you've been told.