Honestly I have tried that. The problem is that after a while, with enough singles missing or overwashed, the elastic stretches, colour fades and so on. Then you have to find suitable and pretty much identical generic socks. Now this may sound easy, but I found that I had to throw out perfectly ok socks as they had a different pattern/style to the new bunch as I couldn't find identical ones. Ever try to wear an old sock with a new one? Not very comfortable. Also, as the wife occasionally buys the socks, she often (used to) get different ones or from a different manufacturer. I've also tried using an old pillow case. Just toss the dirty socks in there and presto! No missing socks. This didn't work too well as on a few instances, the pillow cases got dried and packed away as pillow cases unbeknownst to me. I also found out that flannelette pillow cases put lots of fluff onto apparently clean socks. School aged and/or teen aged boys tend to run off with them anyway.
The problem with Gettier's "Justified True Belief Knowledge" is that from an objective point of view, it is still subjective. Thus Gettier is referring to a more ancient problem of 'objectivity'. The existence of 'objectivity' has, is and still will be debated and argued until one finds real objective truth - whatever that may be! Good Luck.
In the Smith and Jones example, your conclusion is correct as neither of them are allowed to make the decision, no matter what Smith or Jones assume to be the truth. It is the 'objective' party that has decided on the criteria that neither Smith or Jones (or the poser of the problem) are aware of.
OK. The 'Sock Conundrum' I've given up on this and now, regularly buy socks weekly. I know the cost can be prohibitive, but if you wear them only once, you can get 5 pairs for under $5 if you look around. There's no need to worry about quality, 'cause you only wear them once. There is no frustration because you know exactly where your socks are at all times - either in a shopping bag with sales tags on them, or in the bin. There are other advantages that are too numerous to list here. The way I manage to budget for them is to eat one burger less per week. The trick is however is to find a reliable sock merchant.
Gilligan's Island was thoroughly understood by the Thermians - "Thermians, a peaceful and naïve cephalopod-like alien race who, having received twenty-year old transmissions of.... (Gilligan's Island) from Earth, and having no concept of fiction, have interpreted the show as "historical documents". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest
So if you re-view Gilligan's Island as a 'History' then the apparent incongruencies are explained away by historical bias.
"Why do good things happen to people who aren't me?" Next Week's Lotto Sweepstake's Result: xx xx x xx xx xx (xx) (xx)
Absolutely right. This 'Age of Light' that we are apparently in, can be said to be a dark age instead, as much more data is lost through technological negligence than being retained. I have been aware of this for years and I have working computers that allow me to access almost all of my stored data in one way or another, from Radio Shack Mark II, Apple II, GS, Macs, Dos and Winx. One day I'll set them up and try and port it all onto something current. And if I ever get really organized, I'll hire a typist (if they still exist), and back up all the printouts!
You are very perceptive. On reflection, the absence of 'sex' regarding HomelessinLaJolla's hierarchy of needs could very well point out the fact that he/she does in fact have lots of sex and therefore doesn't need it. Interestingly enough, being homeless must somehow provide a lot of sexual gratification.
Probably agree with that, but as that was the IBM PC default operating system at the time, it has to be considered as a benchmark. Mind you, I had to re-write the file save,append and open/read/load for a dynamic ramdisk app at the time 'cause MS DOS couldn't do it properly. Still, there was so many programs and utilities at the time for it that Win 3.1 was a real step backwards in many respects. Visual Basic was a real turkey.
Don't forget how popular CP/M was as an OS for the Zilog - 8088 type processor. Almost saw the death of MS DOS! If it wasn't for Microsoft's involvement in Apple's OS, I think Gatesy would still be writing Visicalc and Multiplan code.
You're all a bunch of turkeys. Microsoft can repackage Windows 3.1 and sell it and we'll all be trying to operate it no matter how crap it is. It's the corporations that buy it and use it cause they're trapped into their hardware cycles. HP/Dell and whoever will push it and push it and push it. And those that think that they have a 'choice', really don't. Sooner or later you will come up against it and have to use it, if not now, then soon. Have you ever given any consideration to the poor computer techs who have to buy the shit, learn it and fix other people's problems? Microsoft's operating systems have always been crap - except maybe MS Dos. The only way MS is going to wake up if they get banned on a country level. Competition is good and will level the playing field.
Congratulations to the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (Australia) for ditching their PCs and installing Macs.
Global Dimming is what we should all be more concerned about. This phenomena is actually ameliorating global warming - Basically, lowering the cooling effect of global dimming will actually increase global warming. So by not using anything that generates reflective pollution will increase global warming. We need to pollute in a specific way to reduce the effects of global warming.
Reducing carbon emissions only, will reduce global warming with the positive effect of global dimming helping out. Then it may be then possible to reduce global dimming.
The problem is easy to create, but the solution is hard to apply.
Listen here mate! Amigas are OK, but if you want a REAL computer then the Australian made Microbee is the one to go for!
My collection includes:
1 Apple GS (mint condition) Microbee(s) about 7 working Apple 2 and a few ][+ clones Commodore 64s and Vic 20 One or two Amigas An original IBM PC with 9" green screen and a Radio Shack Mark II (no drives unfortunately, but has a cassette port). Plus a stack of printed materials.
Who knows! One day I'll make my fortune on these antiques!
So get them all meeting somewhere in N Space: Next Gen, Farscape, Babylon 4 and 5, Kirk, Star Gate, Dr Who, DS9, Voyager. Lexx, The Fat guy from Lost, Quark, Heart of Gold and Zaphod, R2D2, The Cheddite Cheese Projector and the Bloater Drive and all those others that I've missed and just have it out in ONE BIG GIANT HUMONGOUS series where good vs evil with Mel Gibson doing the dialogue so no-one understands each other (except R2D2, Babel Fish, the characters of Lost In Space), all following the prime directive with idiotic, moronic Federation morality while the Shadows blast them all into subatomic particles that eventually coalesce into another one of those Big Bangs.... And this time I want to be reincarnated into something completely different!
This is somewhat offtopic,(no comma needed) but if we want universal wireless Internet access (be consistent with capitalization 'u.w.I.a.') (which we do... well I do), then eventually AUPs are going to have to go away,(comma!) and network protocols that take this into account will have to be used (full stop required) (email and universal IPSEC come to mind)...
"...that a significant portion of their customer base engages in it."
Sure that may be for a significant percentage of dsl users with histories of continuous downloads - the ones that some of us call "pirates" - but there is also a significant portion of dsl users with large or frequent downloads for purely legitimate reasons. How does the BPI know what is being downloaded? Isn't that presumtive? I realise that it is not going to make a difference, as BPI's request is within their rights - and it is going to protect the general public ermm.... I mean "pirates" from prosecution, but it is also a very cheap way to avoid legal costs for BPI. Think about that. It must be costing a lot of resources (not just money) to keep legal solutions maintained.
So I download about 10+ gb per month. Am I file sharing - yes - Am I downloading pirated music? NO. Should I tossed by my ISP?
Also, supposing that you have searched everywhere for a particular track - a very obscure track. You can't find it on any legitimate site or through paid download. It's not in shops. But someone in Outer Mongolia happens to share the same musical taste as you and happens to have the track in question. Would you break the law and download it?
Hey maybe NASA is using their own non-imperial, non-SI or non-US measurement system! If 5 feet/sec = -1.52400 m/s then is 10 ft/s = -3.048 m/s?
Now somewhere in Paris, there is a bar exactly 1 metre long kept at 20 degrees Celsius. It's defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter
Now 1 foot = 1 third of the distance between the tip of King Henry's thumb on his outstretched hand, all the way to his nose, (or otherwise it's his shoe size). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit_of_length)
So if I was going to build a space vehicle to dock with a satellite, I would use metres instead of King Henry's shoe and I would also:
* Check the software program * Review negative number theory * Make sure we approach it from the right direction so we're catching up to it and not crashing into it * Blame someone else in case it fails.
and... find out if I can throw a size 12 shoe to cover a distance of 1.524 metres in 1 second. I bet I can!
From the article: "Venus Express science team members say they want to know how these vortices remain stable..."
Hmmm... If they are stable, and if they can get a temperature reading, and it's low enough, they may be able to send a craft to the surface that'll last longer than an hour.
I don't think you're racist by definition, but you may be discriminatory by generalising your point of view. There are people who wrought the system and there are methods that governments can use to find them, fine them and help them find work. However there are those, who by no fault of their own, become disabled and can only work part time or become unemployable due to their disabilities. In a properly functioning society, the society should look after their own. That would be the aged, infirm, young, single parents and so on. That should be a right and not a privilege. In some countries there are re-training schemes, medical examinations on a regular basis to assess disabilities for everyone classified as disabled, reporting of casual or part time earnings that are checked against employer records and an auditing system for others that fit between the cracks.
Disbandening the welfare system would be a death sentence for most of these people who would have no choice but to become homeless and be looked after by non-governmental agencies like the Salvation Army and similar organisations. These organisations exist through donations to proper charities by people like you and I. Also, what would happen to you if you suffered a permanent disability? Or if you become fully redundant? Where would you go and what would you do if there was no welfare system?
Perhaps, although recent research in Australia in regard to global warming, has shown that cows burp methane rather than fart it, so they're trying different food additives to reduce metane production.
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Honestly I have tried that. The problem is that after a while, with enough singles missing or overwashed, the elastic stretches, colour fades and so on. Then you have to find suitable and pretty much identical generic socks. Now this may sound easy, but I found that I had to throw out perfectly ok socks as they had a different pattern/style to the new bunch as I couldn't find identical ones. Ever try to wear an old sock with a new one? Not very comfortable. Also, as the wife occasionally buys the socks, she often (used to) get different ones or from a different manufacturer.
I've also tried using an old pillow case. Just toss the dirty socks in there and presto! No missing socks. This didn't work too well as on a few instances, the pillow cases got dried and packed away as pillow cases unbeknownst to me. I also found out that flannelette pillow cases put lots of fluff onto apparently clean socks.
School aged and/or teen aged boys tend to run off with them anyway.
The problem with Gettier's "Justified True Belief Knowledge" is that from an objective point of view, it is still subjective. Thus Gettier is referring to a more ancient problem of 'objectivity'.
The existence of 'objectivity' has, is and still will be debated and argued until one finds real objective truth - whatever that may be! Good Luck.
In the Smith and Jones example, your conclusion is correct as neither of them are allowed to make the decision, no matter what Smith or Jones assume to be the truth. It is the 'objective' party that has decided on the criteria that neither Smith or Jones (or the poser of the problem) are aware of.
OK. The 'Sock Conundrum'
I've given up on this and now, regularly buy socks weekly. I know the cost can be prohibitive, but if you wear them only once, you can get 5 pairs for under $5 if you look around.
There's no need to worry about quality, 'cause you only wear them once. There is no frustration because you know exactly where your socks are at all times - either in a shopping bag with sales tags on them, or in the bin.
There are other advantages that are too numerous to list here.
The way I manage to budget for them is to eat one burger less per week. The trick is however is to find a reliable sock merchant.
Gilligan's Island was thoroughly understood by the Thermians - "Thermians, a peaceful and naïve cephalopod-like alien race who, having received twenty-year old transmissions of.... (Gilligan's Island) from Earth, and having no concept of fiction, have interpreted the show as "historical documents". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Quest
So if you re-view Gilligan's Island as a 'History' then the apparent incongruencies are explained away by historical bias.
"Why do good things happen to people who aren't me?" Next Week's Lotto Sweepstake's Result: xx xx x xx xx xx (xx) (xx)
42? 6 x 7!
Could someone please make Windows go away?
It hurts my head.
Absolutely right.
This 'Age of Light' that we are apparently in, can be said to be a dark age instead, as much more data is lost through technological negligence than being retained.
I have been aware of this for years and I have working computers that allow me to access almost all of my stored data in one way or another, from Radio Shack Mark II, Apple II, GS, Macs, Dos and Winx. One day I'll set them up and try and port it all onto something current.
And if I ever get really organized, I'll hire a typist (if they still exist), and back up all the printouts!
lol
You are very perceptive.
On reflection, the absence of 'sex' regarding HomelessinLaJolla's hierarchy of needs could very well point out the fact that he/she does in fact have lots of sex and therefore doesn't need it. Interestingly enough, being homeless must somehow provide a lot of sexual gratification.
Being homeless, I need five things: a job, marijuana, money, beer, and food.
Don't forget sex.....
Probably agree with that, but as that was the IBM PC default operating system at the time, it has to be considered as a benchmark. Mind you, I had to re-write the file save,append and open/read/load for a dynamic ramdisk app at the time 'cause MS DOS couldn't do it properly. Still, there was so many programs and utilities at the time for it that Win 3.1 was a real step backwards in many respects. Visual Basic was a real turkey.
Don't forget how popular CP/M was as an OS for the Zilog - 8088 type processor.
Almost saw the death of MS DOS! If it wasn't for Microsoft's involvement in Apple's OS, I think Gatesy would still be writing Visicalc and Multiplan code.
You're all a bunch of turkeys.
Microsoft can repackage Windows 3.1 and sell it and we'll all be trying to operate it no matter how crap it is.
It's the corporations that buy it and use it cause they're trapped into their hardware cycles.
HP/Dell and whoever will push it and push it and push it.
And those that think that they have a 'choice', really don't.
Sooner or later you will come up against it and have to use it, if not now, then soon.
Have you ever given any consideration to the poor computer techs who have to buy the shit, learn it and fix other people's problems?
Microsoft's operating systems have always been crap - except maybe MS Dos. The only way MS is going to wake up if they get banned on a country level. Competition is good and will level the playing field.
Congratulations to the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (Australia) for ditching their PCs and installing Macs.
Global Dimming is what we should all be more concerned about.
This phenomena is actually ameliorating global warming - Basically, lowering the cooling effect of global dimming will actually increase global warming. So by not using anything that generates reflective pollution will increase global warming. We need to pollute in a specific way to reduce the effects of global warming.
Reducing carbon emissions only, will reduce global warming with the positive effect of global dimming helping out. Then it may be then possible to reduce global dimming.
The problem is easy to create, but the solution is hard to apply.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Clever aren't I :-)
Yes, but which one scratches easiest?
BlooRay or HDDVD?
Don't forget Cheddite Cheese (Source: Star Smashers of the Galaxy Raiders) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Smashers_of_the_ Galaxy_Rangers
Listen here mate!
Amigas are OK, but if you want a REAL computer then the Australian made Microbee is the one to go for!
My collection includes:
1 Apple GS (mint condition)
Microbee(s)
about 7 working Apple 2 and a few ][+ clones
Commodore 64s and Vic 20
One or two Amigas
An original IBM PC with 9" green screen
and a Radio Shack Mark II (no drives unfortunately, but has a cassette port).
Plus a stack of printed materials.
Who knows! One day I'll make my fortune on these antiques!
PR#3 for 80 column mode
So get them all meeting somewhere in N Space: Next Gen, Farscape, Babylon 4 and 5, Kirk, Star Gate, Dr Who, DS9, Voyager. Lexx, The Fat guy from Lost, Quark, Heart of Gold and Zaphod, R2D2, The Cheddite Cheese Projector and the Bloater Drive and all those others that I've missed and just have it out in ONE BIG GIANT HUMONGOUS series where good vs evil with Mel Gibson doing the dialogue so no-one understands each other (except R2D2, Babel Fish, the characters of Lost In Space), all following the prime directive with idiotic, moronic Federation morality while the Shadows blast them all into subatomic particles that eventually coalesce into another one of those Big Bangs....
And this time I want to be reincarnated into something completely different!
This is somewhat offtopic,(no comma needed) but if we want universal wireless Internet access (be consistent with capitalization 'u.w.I.a.') (which we do... well I do), then eventually AUPs are going to have to go away,(comma!) and network protocols that take this into account will have to be used (full stop required) (email and universal IPSEC come to mind)...
"...that a significant portion of their customer base engages in it."
Sure that may be for a significant percentage of dsl users with histories of continuous downloads - the ones that some of us call "pirates" - but there is also a significant portion of dsl users with large or frequent downloads for purely legitimate reasons.
How does the BPI know what is being downloaded? Isn't that presumtive? I realise that it is not going to make a difference, as BPI's request is within their rights - and it is going to protect the general public ermm.... I mean "pirates" from prosecution, but it is also a very cheap way to avoid legal costs for BPI.
Think about that. It must be costing a lot of resources (not just money) to keep legal solutions maintained.
So I download about 10+ gb per month. Am I file sharing - yes - Am I downloading pirated music? NO. Should I tossed by my ISP?
Also, supposing that you have searched everywhere for a particular track - a very obscure track. You can't find it on any legitimate site or through paid download. It's not in shops. But someone in Outer Mongolia happens to share the same musical taste as you and happens to have the track in question. Would you break the law and download it?
Hey maybe NASA is using their own non-imperial, non-SI or non-US measurement system!
)
If 5 feet/sec = -1.52400 m/s then is 10 ft/s = -3.048 m/s?
Now somewhere in Paris, there is a bar exactly 1 metre long kept at 20 degrees Celsius. It's defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter
Now 1 foot = 1 third of the distance between the tip of King Henry's thumb on his outstretched hand, all the way to his nose, (or otherwise it's his shoe size). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_(unit_of_length
So if I was going to build a space vehicle to dock with a satellite, I would use metres instead of King Henry's shoe and I would also:
* Check the software program
* Review negative number theory
* Make sure we approach it from the right direction so we're catching up to it and not crashing into it
* Blame someone else in case it fails.
and... find out if I can throw a size 12 shoe to cover a distance of 1.524 metres in 1 second. I bet I can!
Are you sure? Is that 5 feet per second or 5 metres per second?
From the article: "Venus Express science team members say they want to know how these vortices remain stable..."
Hmmm... If they are stable, and if they can get a temperature reading, and it's low enough, they may be able to send a craft to the surface that'll last longer than an hour.
I don't think you're racist by definition, but you may be discriminatory by generalising your point of view.
There are people who wrought the system and there are methods that governments can use to find them, fine them and help them find work. However there are those, who by no fault of their own, become disabled and can only work part time or become unemployable due to their disabilities. In a properly functioning society, the society should look after their own. That would be the aged, infirm, young, single parents and so on. That should be a right and not a privilege.
In some countries there are re-training schemes, medical examinations on a regular basis to assess disabilities for everyone classified as disabled, reporting of casual or part time earnings that are checked against employer records and an auditing system for others that fit between the cracks.
Disbandening the welfare system would be a death sentence for most of these people who would have no choice but to become homeless and be looked after by non-governmental agencies like the Salvation Army and similar organisations.
These organisations exist through donations to proper charities by people like you and I.
Also, what would happen to you if you suffered a permanent disability? Or if you become fully redundant?
Where would you go and what would you do if there was no welfare system?
Hey Man... My wife is from Venus.
Here's a link
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0102/S00127.htm
Perhaps, although recent research in Australia in regard to global warming, has shown that cows burp methane rather than fart it, so they're trying different food additives to reduce metane production.
HAHAHAHAHA! "It is a gas giant..." HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!