His role is to analyze and inform, not to come up to solutions. He's not running for government, he's telling you about them.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 14:39
CHOMSKY IN A NUTSHELL
America is bad
Capitalism is bad
Israel is bad
Corporations are bad
Vietnam was bad
etc.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 14:41
>>1
I found lots of torrents of talk movies and books on Mininova.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 14:42
IMO he's a back-up Jew. If the Jewish influence over America ever fades away and backfires, he's there to sprout his 'oh yeah that was bad, but not all Jews are bad' rhetoric.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 14:43
I was reading a recent issue of The New York Review Of Books, when I happened upon a written exchange between the Philosophy professor John Searle and famous linguist Noam Chomsky, one which left me shocked and dismayed at the poor quality of Professor Chomsky's thoughts and analysis. I have reprinted a portion of Prof. Searle's arguments, along with the complete text of Chomsky's reply, in order to show what I am talking about.
From Prof. Searle's comments:
Chomsky insists that the study of language is a branch of natural science, and the key notion in his new conception of language is computation. on his current view, a language consists of a lexicon plus computations. but my objection to this is that computation is not a notion of natural science like force, mass, or photosynthesis. computation is an abstract mathematcal notion that we have found ways to implement in hardware. as such, it is entirely relative to the observer (...) unlike, say, electrical charge, computation is not discovered in nature, rather it is assigned to physical processes. natural processes can be interpreted or described computationally. in this observer relative sense, there cannot be a natural science of computation.
Noam Chomsky replies:
You foul, verminous clod. Your very existence is a disgraceful misuse of valuable carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that could otherwise be put to use constituting a heap of goat feces, the better to feed a family of hungry shitworms. You are worse than a racist, pedophile serial killer who preys on the disabled. Next to you, Charles Manson looks like Simone Weil. If I ever meet you, I will kick your dishonorable ass so bad that your dog won't recognize the way you smell. Let me just reply to your feeble, dull-witted doodlings, which you so obviously scribbled down in-between bouts of huffing gasoline fumes and sodomizing underage crackwhores, by making three very salient points:
# You are a douchebag
# You eat mud
# You are an ass-clown
I believe that the foregoing will serve to set the record straight. In conclusion, please wedge "there cannot be a natural science of computation" firmly up your ass, and go piss on a wall, you flaming bag of turds.
Fuck you,
Noam Chomsky
I think what bothers me the most about Chomsky's reply is the lack of rigor to his argument. Chomsky hardly bothers to reply to any of the points Searle makes, instead relying on a series of thinly disguised ad hominem attacks. I am very disappointed in Professor Chomsky's handling of what could have been an enlightening discussion, and hope that his remarks here do not exemplify the quality of his most recent body of work.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 14:47
Noam Chomsky hasn't done shit for the study of anything. He's famous because he complains for a living and he made a faggot little syntax grammar tree a 1st grader could make.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 15:09
>>8
33 published books on linguistics says otherwise.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 16:44
I want to complain about everything. Will it make me rich?
1. make an incredible impact on the scientific community
2. publish over thirty books
3. read constantly and remember everything, think about what you've read
4. profit
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Anonymous2007-10-11 0:40
FUCK YOU FOR NOT HELPING ME WITH MY PH.D. DISSERTATION OR GIVING ME THE FUCKING MATERIALS I NEED TO COMPLETE MY WORK. HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO GET ANYTHING FUCKING DONE WITH YOUR IGNORANCE AND DILLYDALLYING? YOU MADE A PROMISE TO GIVE ME INFORMATION. NOW FOLLOW UP ON IT, FUCKTARDS AND MORONS! THANK YOU.
That's right. Anybody who criticizes the good ol' US of A is an idiot. Especially those who criticize Israel too. Don't they know Jesus ordained those countries?!
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Anonymous2007-10-12 14:13
Chomsky is a genius at analysing logic, but only moderately intelligent when it comes to using it. That said I'd prefer a Chomsky over the typical mainstream candidate even if he has no charisma.