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Bob Kohn 🌱
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Bob Kohn 🌱
@bobkohn
Technology attorney, entrepreneur, and investor. former Visiting Scholar, Columbia Law School; EMusic, PGP, Borland, author of Kohn On Music Licensing.
USA Katılım Aralık 2008
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@holland_tom @si_rubinstein @forumauctions The first sentence of the introduction is a work of art. Also, look up the entry for “excise tax.”
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The second thing, after my dinosaur, that I have bought at auction!
A first edition…
Thank you, @forumauctions
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@VehmicJ @FeserEdward Did I say merely “wishing” death? Read it again. And you can add actual killing of Americans and its allies, including civilians, by Iran and its financed proxies.
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@bobkohn @FeserEdward No, wishing death upon America is not just grounds for war.
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It’s astounding how many people (including many Catholics) treat the question of whether the Iran war meets just war criteria as if the burden of proof were on the critics of the war rather than on the defenders. This is like saying that when deciding whether to execute someone, the burden of proof is on those who say that the condemned man is innocent, rather than on those who say he is guilty. Most would never take this insanely reckless attitude if the other party were in power, even if the issue were less momentous than war. For example, most of these same people (rightly) did not take this ridiculous “the burden of proof is on the critics” attitude where lockdowns were concerned. This alone shows how corrupted by partisanship and emotion their judgment on the war has become.
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@sslealwilhelm @ANNVYSHINSKY @lsolum @claudeai I assumed the incoherent sentences were legal positivist in nature. 😂
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@bobkohn @ANNVYSHINSKY @lsolum @claudeai Kelsen and Merkl are far more important than the imitator Hart for positivism. Or noise and no substance, Raz.
The test presents a caricature of positivism.
The question about legal void is... incomplete. The mot hardened positivist knows there are legal vacuums.
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I made a “What kind of legal
philosopher are you?” quiz with some help from @claudeai.
Post your results and let me know what you think about the questions!
jurisprudence-quiz.netlify.app
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Perhaps the human element must be present for a complete education, but that does not mean many elements of the teaching/learning experience cannot or should not be aided by machine intelligence. Imparting of facts (lecturing), testing of knowledge and judgment (questioning), and guidance (coaching) may all be aided by AI. Not all teachers would be as good as AI in all three aspects of teaching.
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As Keith Thomas, the great historian, once put it to me, your ultimate aim as a teacher is to encourage your students to be like you: someone who is committed to the intellectually rigorous quest for understanding. This is a friendship between teacher and student grounded in a common goal and a shared nature. No robot can substitute for this.
The American Conservative@amconmag
"Imagine a humanoid named Plato." Melania Trump says humanoid educators will offer "instantaneous" access to the classical studies for students and help create a "more complete person."
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@FeserEdward You're obviously miffed that people are rejecting your analysis of the facts. Much like your initial posts on the Venezuela operation, you have left out key facts that undermine your conclusion.
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@stoolpresidente Il Monello, 337 E. 49th St.
Nino’s, 405 E. 52nd St.
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That good character is essential to a statesman is something right-wingers used to understand (or at least pay lip service to). Then the prospect of "winning" led them into the delusion that it didn't matter. We're now seeing how literally deadly this bit of self-deception is.
Robert Barnes@barnes_law
As some of us warned months ago, Wiles made clear to not let Trump see anything he might interpret negatively, as cabinet officials compete to out-sycophant the other to get Trump's attention. King Lear style madness.
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What the Trumpoids never understood is that the swing voters who decide elections didn't love Trump the way they do. They just hated the Democrats. And now they hate Trump. All the "landslide" and "Golden Age" talk was always delusional and the awakening is going to be a rude one
Damon Linker@DamonLinker
Think about how intense hatred for Trump must be for Dems to be +11 when other polls show that the Dem brand is still in a toilet. Voters don't like the Dems. They just really, really want to show Trump they hate what he's doing, and voting for his opponents is the only option.
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I don’t believe I’ve resorted to insult—e.g., accusing you of cherry-picking facts to support your conclusions should not be considered a personal insult but rather an accusation of constructing incomplete premises—but perhaps this was not your intent. In this respect, you are entitled to the benefit of the doubt, so I’ll take better care of my tone and here apologize.
To be clear, however, I don’t believe there is much light between our opinions on “just of unjust wars.” And I believe I’ve provided several examples of your not taking into account salient facts that need to be considered in coming to a conclusion on the matter. I believe many others here (many of whom, like I am, are your fans) have pointed out the same to you (in far more strident terms), but I’ll be more specific in future posts.
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@bobkohn @Dr_zato317 Bob, I know this is Twitter, but you might just for once try some approach other than unbacked assertions mixed with insult. I'd prefer not to mute.
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Governing according to Christian principles entails strictly following just war criteria. At the last judgment, political authorities will be judged by their fidelity to those criteria, not by their tastes in AI cosplay and other such juvenilia.
Rep. Andy Ogles@RepOgles
This is a battle of good vs evil. We must reaffirm that our nation was built on Christian principles. ✝️ Join Us 🇺🇸
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I would agree that certain of Trump’s supporters invoke their particular Faith to support certain public policies. Professor Feser seems to be doing the same thing in the opposite direction. They are free to do so, but it is not wise. Someone will think it is no different from invoking Islam to support the institution of Sharia Law in place of the Constitution. While religious freedom is important, equally important is avoiding the establishment of any particular religion under the Constitution.
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@bobkohn @FeserEdward @FeserEdward isn’t the one claiming the current administration is “governing according to Christian principles” — it is the administration and certain of its supporters making that assertion.
Feser is highlighting their hypocrisy.
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@bramcohen @Hitchslap1 Or amount of intolerance/patience a particular sex tends to bring to a relationship.
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@Hitchslap1 Might correlate with the amount of sex in the relationship
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Lesbians have the least stable marriages. Gay men have the most stable marriages.
I’m yet to hear a good explanation for this.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
Apparently the most stable marriage arrangement in the Netherlands is between two men. The least stable is between two women.
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Category: the Movie is Better than the Book:
Ben-Hur
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Wizard of Oz
The Member of the Wedding
Billy Budd (!)
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“Specific concrete circumstances” that can “realistically be achieved without bringing even greater evils than the ones being remedied,” weighed objectively, clearly justifies Trump’s actions. But rather than weighing the facts, you are a cherry picking those facts which justify your conclusion that this is an unjust war. Quite unbecoming of you.
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I'm not sure why you would think that, except that the criteria as set out there are just a brief summary. Too many people just scan that quickly and treat it as if it were a quick checklist ("Just cause? Sure, getting rid of nukes is a just cause"). But that's ridiculous. As I've explained at length elsewhere, to meet the just cause condition requires showing not just that a certain aim is good in the abstract, but also that under the specific concrete circumstances it can realistically be achieved without bringing about even greater evils than the ones being remedied, etc. When one looks at the criteria even just a little more closely, it is obvious that the war does not meet them, as I note e.g. here: x.com/FeserEdward/st…
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@FeserEdward Agreed. Professor Phaser is set to kill public support for Trump’s remarkable achievement against Iran.
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The mullahs still in charge, nuclear program not destroyed, worldwide economic chaos inflicted, fifteen U.S. servicemen dead, 1,400 civilians dead – and, it appears, people with inside information profiting massively from the whole fiasco.
Financial Times@FT
FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/5jnFcCt
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@bobkohn @FeserEdward So much Jewish blather in ‘justification’ of so much Jewish barbarism at our expense
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This man is an object lesson in how political fanaticism thoroughly corrupts the minds even of those reputed to be the most traditional and orthodox. Once a prominent pro-life priest, he now shills for an egomaniac who promotes mass killing through abortion pills and unjust wars.
Frank Pavone@frfrankpavone
We are going to win the midterms… Remember, those saying we cannot are the same people who said Trump could not win and predicting illusory World War III scenarios with every international initiative. Show up. Get others to show up. Work harder than ever — and we win.
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