Posts by Lyndon Hood
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I assume, excepting revenge, the thing to do would be as nice and deferential as possible and allow them to correct the problem without overtly implying that they've done anything wrong. I imagine "I think you dropped this" provides a nice out in this respect, but the problem is it depends on what their particular buttons are.
Obviously, modelling appropriate behaviour had its limits in this case.
I may ask my resident psychologist for suggestions.
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Jeremy Elwood, before he made a career of his comedy, had a line about the Arts. He'd done the same majors as me - Theatre and Philosophy, so
... I'm unemployed, but at least I know why.
Different kinds of infinity:
From memory (I think of a PHIL paper, though it could have been maths), it's things like:
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... } is smaller than
{2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ... }You can add them together and stuff.
Fear the higher maths. Doing first year calc (and phil), encountering imaginary numbers made me decide that actually all numbers were imaginary. Thing was, until I recanted this I was unable to solve any of my calculus exercises.
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Someone once reported to me a quasi reverse-engineered evolutionary explanation from his philosophy of science lecturer:
Why do women orgasm less than men? Someone has to stay up and watch for tigers.
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Terry Pratchett maintains there's an initial advantage while the quadruped gets those extra legs sort out.
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I'd always had the idea Objectivist philosophy was bunk but I didn't realise they needed to invent their own logic to not prove their point with.
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Hope on China, via Hot Topic
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Ask... a family starving due to crop failure if they are worried about Global Warming
If the weather is so screwed up they can't predict the seasons anymore, they may feel there is some relevance.
Much as I'm interested in the global economic arguments, I just can't get past the "I don't believe the cause of the supposed global warming is human". It makes me think we have little to say to each other.
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Life does just fine at the edge of undersea thermal vents.
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displaced off the nonfiction bestseller list by the crockpot cookbooks and psychic memoirs
So what we want to do is write a book about crockpot conspiracy theories.
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Bile is a zero sum game? :-)
Then after SOLO's response to the PM's Science Advisor we all have to be really polite for a bit.