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Google Campus to Become Solar-powered
prostoalex writes "Reuters is reporting that Google is equipping its headquarters with a solar panel 'capable of generating 1.6 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power 1,000 California homes.' This will make Google's Mountain View campus the largest solar-powered office complex in the United States."
Great sig... made me laugh!
- Mike
Once you've lost your temper, you've lost the argument - Me
Sometimes, we normal* people say things of a certian kind to produce a specific effect, often called "humor."
If we view this in set theoretic terms, then assuming a universe of discourse, U, containing statements, there is a set of statments which may be characterized as having this property, "humor."** We will call this set, H. The set H contains a variety of partitions - "slapstick," for example. Among these partitions is one, which we will call S, which contains those statements which are, or contain a subpart that is, deliberately counterfactual or contrary to the actual opinions and attitudes of the speaker. That is, the speaker says the opposite of what s/he actually might think or feel, so as to produce a statement that will be considered a member of the larger set H. The statement I made in the post to which you are responding is a member S; that is, it involves the use of counterfactual remark.
I hope this clears the matter up for you.
* I say "we normal people" because I am, perhaps uncompassionately, characterizing whatever makes you unable to recognise a fucking joke as some kind of brain disorder.
**I am aware of the difficulties that can arise from defining sets by properties (fuck you, Bertrand Russell!), but the lack of formal rigor affects the matter very little in this particular instance.