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Don Stockbauer
Dec 26, 2019, 10:04:09 PM12/26/19
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Here we go yet again.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 27, 2019, 10:17:56 AM12/27/19
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How many optional choices are there ? if this is not a pipe ,list everything else that it's not.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 27, 2019, 2:49:22 PM12/27/19
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The general rule concerning human relationships is once you throw somebody away you don't go picking through the trash to get them back.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 27, 2019, 7:50:45 PM12/27/19
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Seems like our civilization is a lot better at tracking down someone who has committed a crime after the fact than preventing the crime from happening in the first place . Perhaps someday we'll become super advanced and lock people up before they commit the crime.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 28, 2019, 7:37:07 AM12/28/19
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Perhaps our only hope for the future will be when people realize their purpose in life is not to hoard money but to help one another.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 29, 2019, 12:06:44 PM12/29/19
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I had a dream, similar to Bertrand Russell's, where many years in the future a housekeeper finds my copy of Godel, Escher, Bach and sees that it's all in sections and tattered and all marked up with notes and due to its condition throws it away.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 29, 2019, 2:57:44 PM12/29/19
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Want to show our lobotomized civilization that you totally don't fit in?
Display anger.
Display anger.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 30, 2019, 6:10:14 AM12/30/19
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Do you think we'll ever achieve a world where there's no lying?
Don Stockbauer
Dec 30, 2019, 10:55:48 PM12/30/19
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Could it be that our civilization is getting mellower as time goes on, the same way a hot object cools off?
Don Stockbauer
Dec 31, 2019, 9:04:08 AM12/31/19
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The most impossible task on Earth is to get someone to communicate with you who doesn't want to.
Don Stockbauer
Dec 31, 2019, 2:10:47 PM12/31/19
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Can any one person understand the global brain fully? Probably not. The analogy is can a single neuron in a brain of billions of neurons understand the mind it helps form?
Don Stockbauer
Dec 31, 2019, 7:30:11 PM12/31/19
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Will 2020 be the year Human Folly III gets kicked off?
Don Stockbauer
Dec 31, 2019, 10:11:01 PM12/31/19
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All these handheld electronic devices. They appear to be more addicting than heroin. But it's a good addiction,
isn't it, considering what they're ushering in?
isn't it, considering what they're ushering in?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 1, 2020, 1:04:35 AM1/1/20
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I'd like to wish all my good friends here in alt.fan.hofstadter a very prosperous 2020.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 1, 2020, 11:25:40 AM1/1/20
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Texting causes cancer.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 1, 2020, 3:37:42 PM1/1/20
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You want to know if a business is open on a holiday and their hours, so you go to google , you look it up and google says "hours on holidays may vary." So google is useless to find out information on businesses on holidays.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 1, 2020, 4:43:39 PM1/1/20
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My mother: "Doctor, my boy Don here can't make any friends. He's antisocial ,no one will talk to him ,is there anything that can be done for him?"
The doctor said, "Buy him a boomerang."
The doctor said, "Buy him a boomerang."
Don Stockbauer
Jan 1, 2020, 5:41:21 PM1/1/20
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And the time will come when you see we're all one, and Life flows on within you and without you.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 1, 2020, 9:44:32 PM1/1/20
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You know that chick that used to dance a lot
Every night she'd be on the floor, shakin' what she got
When I say she was cool she was red hot
I mean, she was steamin'
************
What's wrong with these lyrics?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 2, 2020, 8:17:28 AM1/2/20
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There was an old quiz show titled "It's not what you say, it's what you don't say."
Don Stockbauer
Jan 2, 2020, 2:06:53 PM1/2/20
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A tool is an object used to extend the ability of an individual to modify features of the surrounding environment. - Wiki.
So, intellect, consciousness, free will: are these tools?
The definition mentions individuals: can groups use tools?
It also mentions "surrounding environment". Can't tools be used to modify features far from you?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 2, 2020, 2:09:08 PM1/2/20
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actually the title was just "You Don't Say".
Don Stockbauer
Jan 3, 2020, 1:29:35 AM1/3/20
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She came out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 3, 2020, 1:31:42 AM1/3/20
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If I had a box just for wishes and dreams which had never come true. the box would be empty except for the memory of how they were answered by you.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 3, 2020, 1:32:51 AM1/3/20
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When there's no one left to leave you,
even you don't quite believe you,
that's with nothing can deceive you.
even you don't quite believe you,
that's with nothing can deceive you.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 3, 2020, 8:31:48 AM1/3/20
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Never reveal any information to anyone; it may be held against you in the court of life.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 4, 2020, 8:07:51 AM1/4/20
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"I do a hair toss, check my nails,
I do a hair toss, check my nails,
I do a hair toss, check my nails"
Could there be anything more irritating than a song where the same irritating lyric is repeated several thousand times?
I do a hair toss, check my nails,
I do a hair toss, check my nails"
Could there be anything more irritating than a song where the same irritating lyric is repeated several thousand times?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 4, 2020, 8:12:32 AM1/4/20
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You can see the Belt of Venus directly above the shadow wedge. Is it a chastity belt? Probably not, Venus got around pretty much,
didn't she?
didn't she?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 5, 2020, 9:20:15 AM1/5/20
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The scientific method is easy to use , so anyone can be a scientist , right?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 6, 2020, 6:17:18 AM1/6/20
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Is the entire human race actually insignificant? I don't know . There are 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe.
There are 25,000,000,000,000,000 possible pairs of humans on the Earth.
There are 25,000,000,000,000,000 possible pairs of humans on the Earth.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 6, 2020, 12:29:39 PM1/6/20
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Is the Global Brain a tool? A tool with 7 billion operators?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 6, 2020, 7:33:49 PM1/6/20
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Do we currently have the technology given forest fires around the world to predict how much that will raise global warming a.k.a. climate change . what if I burn 10 pounds of paper , is that so incredibly small the calculation can't be made?
Could it be that we're still seeing cold temperatures because climate change is not a monotonic increase with time , instead you have noise at the beginning , we still have some cold but eventually that noise turns into a monotonic increase.
Could it be that we're still seeing cold temperatures because climate change is not a monotonic increase with time , instead you have noise at the beginning , we still have some cold but eventually that noise turns into a monotonic increase.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 7, 2020, 2:07:38 AM1/7/20
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Or jumping up another level , wouldn't it be nice if you could kill everyone remotely via a Human Folly III type action? I mean ,why think small?
"Wouldn't it be nice" is the title of a Beach boys song.
How do we know if human folly three is even possible anymore ?perhaps people got together and disarmed the means for it ? How would we know ? It's top secret. Ultra top-secret. I guess such paradoxes are just indicators of our complex times. May you live in complex times. You'll never get bored.
"Wouldn't it be nice" is the title of a Beach boys song.
How do we know if human folly three is even possible anymore ?perhaps people got together and disarmed the means for it ? How would we know ? It's top secret. Ultra top-secret. I guess such paradoxes are just indicators of our complex times. May you live in complex times. You'll never get bored.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 6:29:30 AM1/8/20
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Sorry to all those who come here expecting a discussion on Hofstadter. everybody but me has dropped out , so it's me talking to myself.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 6:35:28 AM1/8/20
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Doesn't it seem like the more you expect an answer from somebody the less chance you'll actually get it.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 6:55:14 AM1/8/20
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Any relationship can be destroyed if you pound on it hard enough.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 12:23:20 PM1/8/20
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There is a bird on the bull's back.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 2:26:07 PM1/8/20
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We've got a bottle here in the house , it's inscribed with
"Dr. JH McLeans Tar Wine Lung Balm. St. Louis MO.
Doesn't that sound like a wonderful thing to take?
"Dr. JH McLeans Tar Wine Lung Balm. St. Louis MO.
Doesn't that sound like a wonderful thing to take?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 5:50:16 PM1/8/20
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Just something I saw while walking along our road; kind a like there's a bird on the reef with a broken back.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 9:39:49 PM1/8/20
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The United States contains 5% of the world's population.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 10:32:25 PM1/8/20
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If someone observes the moon, could you call them
Moonwatcher?
Moonwatcher?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 8, 2020, 10:40:55 PM1/8/20
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Did you know that in Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave, New World" the world government is called the World System?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 9, 2020, 7:44:10 AM1/9/20