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To: Golden Eagle

Not only do you have no idea what you're talking about, you'r also massively ignorant of what others try to tell you. And you also refuse to admit when you're wrong. As usual.

But fine. If we're the ones pushing Stallman, I want ten (10) unadulterated posts from any of us that explicitly push Stallman. And discussing the GPL does NOT count. If you can prove it to our faces, then maybe we'll take your word with more than a grain of salt.

Second, Social Sciences are considered part of the current Liberal Arts. Simply put, Liberal Arts studies are any field of study that isn't mostly vocational education in undergrad or are "hard sciences" or technology based.

Most Social sciences, Education, most mathematics, English, etc. are considered Liberal Arts by today's standards. But Physics and computer science wouldn't.

When I originally took up Packaging Engineering, that wasn't Liberal Arts, as it was a direct vocational field of study. So it wasn't considered a Liberal Arts major.

Of course, if you look at the traditional Liberal Arts from the original Universities--the Trivium and the Quadrivium, the studies were in logic, arithmetic, rhetoric, etc. and was designed to provide a full, well-rounded education.

Liberal here comes from the Latin Liberalis--meaning "of free men" and was opposed to the servile/peasantry arts. This idea continues in most of the rest of the world--and is also where we derive the word Liberty.

On a related note, Liberal didn't have its economic and political connotations until the mid-18th century; and since the time of FDR, the typical definitions of Liberal and Conservative got switched around.

So American conservatism is akin to classical liberalism...


12 posted on 05/25/2006 12:06:59 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: rzeznikj at stout

LMAO just like a liberal, try to BS his way out of everything. FYI it didn't work.


13 posted on 05/25/2006 12:58:14 PM PDT by Golden Eagle (Buy American. While you still can.)
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