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Don Stockbauer
Jan 25, 2020, 10:56:36 PM1/25/20
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I'm not the world's most passionate man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola.
So does that mean I'm not the world's most passionate man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
and Lola is glad that she is also a man?
Or does it mean I'm not the world's most passionate man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
and Lola is also glad that I'm a man?
Gets confusing, doesn't it?
So does that mean I'm not the world's most passionate man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
and Lola is glad that she is also a man?
Or does it mean I'm not the world's most passionate man but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
and Lola is also glad that I'm a man?
Gets confusing, doesn't it?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 26, 2020, 8:03:34 AM1/26/20
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So we're living in a highly advanced technological civilization. It's getting so complex a lot of people can barely even handle their daily lives. So what will we have 100 years from now? Will people be able to handle their ordinary daily lives OK? They will have to. Is all this dishonesty and deceit on the Internet necessary for an advanced civilization?
Don Stockbauer
Jan 26, 2020, 10:04:29 PM1/26/20
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Does any university offer a degree in Thinkology? You will remember that Thinkology is the degree
that the Scarecrow was given by the Wizard of Oz.
that the Scarecrow was given by the Wizard of Oz.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 27, 2020, 9:35:56 AM1/27/20
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If your beer gets infected with germs, would it be from a Corona virus???
Don Stockbauer
Jan 27, 2020, 12:18:17 PM1/27/20
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Yesterday I was walking through the park and a man came up to me and wanted to take my photograph.
I told him no , it'll steal my soul.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 27, 2020, 12:47:17 PM1/27/20
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If you never receive any feedback, you have only yourself to go by.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 27, 2020, 3:28:21 PM1/27/20
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If humans are allowed to destroy all they need,
they will soon have to pay with their life for their greed.
they will soon have to pay with their life for their greed.
Don Stockbauer
Jan 28, 2020, 4:37:10 PM1/28/20
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Paraphrased line from Don McLean's song "Tapestry".
Don Stockbauer
Jan 29, 2020, 10:15:42 AM1/29/20
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Here are the lyrics to Donna Summer's song "I Feel Love."
5 PRINT "Feel Love." GOTO 5
5 PRINT "Feel Love." GOTO 5
Don Stockbauer
Jan 30, 2020, 9:35:24 AM1/30/20
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Typo. Insert "I" before "Feel". Not that anybody cares.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 1, 2020, 9:57:48 AM2/1/20
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I'm appreciating the B-52s lately, especially Kate Pierson. Songs with neat titles like "The Girl from Ipanema goes to Greenland."
Don Stockbauer
Feb 1, 2020, 11:46:06 PM2/1/20
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Who says "neat"anymore?
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Don Stockbauer
Feb 3, 2020, 8:56:40 AM2/3/20
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Isn't it fun to play a game of "You can't win."
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Don Stockbauer
Feb 5, 2020, 9:41:36 AM2/5/20
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You can understand everything about the parts of the system , but that doesn't mean you'll understand the whole system.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 8, 2020, 4:19:39 PM2/8/20
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Doesn't it seem like all this impeachment business and actually politics in general are a waste of time; these people could be out harvesting pecans, doing some good for humanity.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 9, 2020, 6:21:55 AM2/9/20
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You improve the world, the world improves you.
Feedback.
Feedback.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 10, 2020, 9:08:50 AM2/10/20
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Things keep getting better and better, yet people don't know why. It's because each person is a neuron of the global brain. What can a single neuron know of the mind it helps form? People are clueless about why things are getting better and all they know is that they are.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 10, 2020, 9:13:16 AM2/10/20
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What happens when more people learn about the global brain ? well , the global brain achieves self-awareness . any system with higher self awareness has a higher intellect , just as humans have a higher intellect than chimpanzees due to human's greater self-awareness.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 10, 2020, 9:16:58 AM2/10/20
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Global brains hooking up around the galaxy forming a galactic brain. just like humans hooking up (intellectually) to form the globalbrain.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 10, 2020, 10:58:04 AM2/10/20
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Or maybe not harvesting pecans but how about running in giant hamster cages outfitted to generate electricity.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 13, 2020, 10:48:28 AM2/13/20
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Gus uRichter used to say that if you think about breathing it becomes hard, but if you don't think about breathing it's easy.
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Don Stockbauer
Feb 13, 2020, 4:46:29 PM2/13/20
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The normal translation of Stockbauer from the German is "someone who raises sticks." At one time there was a need for such a crop , to perform wattle construction with. However, "stock" also has several other meetings in German , such as a head of livestock , a beehive, or cane. So a translation of Stockbauer is "one who raises cane".
Don Stockbauer
Feb 13, 2020, 9:46:36 PM2/13/20
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Ever have a friend that you've had a falling out with and you're sure that you could patch things up but that former friend refuses to have even one word of communication with you ensuring that you'll never patch things up ? Sounds like a paradox to me, right up there with Epimenides' or Russell's.
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Don Stockbauer
Feb 15, 2020, 12:50:33 AM2/15/20
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Another good one is you're having a discussion by text and something you say infuriates your conversational opponent and they immediately block you instead of discussing the matter , trying to resolve it , perhaps there was a misunderstanding and so now since you're blocked the discussion has to go to telephony, or snail mail, or Indian smoke signals or telegrams or Chinese semaphores or telepathy to try to reestablish contact maybe even the personal ads or carrier pigeon, the list just goes on and on doesn't it?
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Don Stockbauer
Feb 16, 2020, 9:14:17 AM2/16/20
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today is my birthday; see Birthday Cantata cantata Tata Tata Tata Quatar Qatar Qatar Thomas Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata Tata birthday cantata Tara Tata Tata Tata Tata does this go on for aleph null or Cantores continuum?
brought to ewe buy the iPhone dictation system , the bottom feeder of dictation systems.
brought to ewe buy the iPhone dictation system , the bottom feeder of dictation systems.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 16, 2020, 9:16:27 AM2/16/20
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When there's no one left to leave you ,
even you don't quite believe you ,
that's when nothing can deceive you.
-Steve Winwood
Except you can still deceive yourself.
even you don't quite believe you ,
that's when nothing can deceive you.
-Steve Winwood
Except you can still deceive yourself.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 17, 2020, 8:14:33 AM2/17/20
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I wonder if the World will get so complex that eventually no one will be able to do anything?
Don Stockbauer
Feb 17, 2020, 10:30:18 PM2/17/20
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Or maybe it'll be more like each person will be a tiny little bit of the complex whole.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 19, 2020, 9:15:10 AM2/19/20
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KIII civilizations have been looked for , should be a lot of waste heat , a whole galaxy, none seen.
How they could be so efficient to not radiate in the infrared is a problem no one knows.
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A single civilization does not colonize a whole galaxy , many thousands or millions of civilizations arise throughout our galaxy just like our civilization arose on our planet. The civilizations develop radio communication and link up with one another to form a galactic network. Each civilization gets energy from their own sun and since they're intelligent they don't need that much energy especially for communication which does not need much energy at all. Thus no waste heat.
Just like the solution to the Fermi paradox , intelligent civilizations communicate, not travel.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 19, 2020, 11:44:42 AM2/19/20
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The Fermi paradox: why aren't space aliens here?
Could it be that it's analogous to newts in America trying to detect newts in Europe?
Could it be that it's analogous to newts in America trying to detect newts in Europe?
Don Stockbauer
Feb 19, 2020, 5:55:12 PM2/19/20
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7 billion immensely complex creatures and their machines united by communication into a single living organism.
Real uptown, eh?
Real uptown, eh?
Don Stockbauer
Feb 19, 2020, 5:55:58 PM2/19/20
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You have to find something to visit it.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 20, 2020, 9:27:11 AM2/20/20
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Things are sure getting complex, and complexity is just about the definition of life, isn't it?
Don Stockbauer
Feb 20, 2020, 11:44:29 PM2/20/20
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No it isn't ; the definition includes much more.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 21, 2020, 1:34:00 AM2/21/20
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology will be indistinguishable from magic."
So our future technology will consist of pulling rabbits out of a hat and sawing women in two?
So our future technology will consist of pulling rabbits out of a hat and sawing women in two?
Don Stockbauer
Feb 21, 2020, 8:46:19 AM2/21/20
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It's funny that the System has no power to prevent an individual from exercising their free will. However , the System is very good at after the fact determining things.
Don Stockbauer
Feb 22, 2020, 9:52:16 AM2/22/20