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WCDT 2071-75 (Dec. 5-9, 2011)
iduguphergrave:
I'd just like to say that quite frankly I'm surprised no one seems to have a problem with the fact that Clinton dresses like he's in a barbershop quartet. Am I the only one who found that odd? Then again, he's definitely an...odd guy. :psyduck:
Skewbrow:
It is a bit odd. Then again he works at a CS department. Usually that means that all the social norms re attire go out of the window. The same applies to math departments. that bit coming from someone who was habitually wearing his camouflage battledress to algebraic geometry lectures
May be it is his idea of dressed to kill ?
akronnick:
Implications, schmimplications!
westrim:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 03 Dec 2011, 19:30 ---I got hit by a car while walking the dog this evening. Nothing's broken, but I'm gonna be hurting for a while.
--- End quote ---
But the dog finally caught the car, right?
Exactly what are the philosophical implications of flying? That doesn't seem like a good comparison to me, but that's probably because most things that have heavy philosophical implications like creating a new class of sentient life lead to Sad Things.
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Westrim on 05 Dec 2011, 02:35 ---Exactly what are the philosophical implications of flying? That doesn't seem like a good comparison to me, but that's probably because most things that have heavy philosophical implications like creating a new class of sentient life lead to Sad Things.
--- End quote ---
Philosophical Implications of Invention?
It's about doing something man "was not meant to do". The ridiculous belief someone will always pull out of a hat that "God" would have slapped gills or wings or wheels on us if he had "meant" us to do whatever it is that an invention allows us to do. The silly navel-gazing notion that the things we build are "playing God".
With just about EVERY breakthrough invention some cheesehead will pull out the Philosophical Implications, ESPECIALLY when (as happens frequently with prototypes) an accident occurs and someone gets killed. With the plane, some idiot spouted "if God had meant man to fly, He would have given him wings". When they started building big ships, they were "sailing in the face of God". Trains, space travel... whatever it is, there will be SOMEONE out there sighing about how "God" never "meant" us to build 'em.
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