BS: Soooo... whadda you think?

Subject: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 02:13 PM

Personally, I think if things don't change, they'll stay the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 02:17 PM

And you an injunear! You should know about the Third Law of Thermodynamics!

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 02:28 PM

I know about the law of inertia; it was passed in my home town, Machias Maine, where excitement goes to die.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 02:57 PM

Is the wake fun, Kendall?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bert
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 03:13 PM

That's what my Dad used to say gnu.

Only he phrased it "Things that don't alter, remain as they are."

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 03:37 PM

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 03:40 PM

Oh John I am jealous, as I don't seem to have circumflexes, accents, umlauts or cedillas etc on my keyboard! How did you do it?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 03:56 PM

Eliza, there are a couple different ways to do it, but perhaps the easiest is as an "alt code". You hold the "alt" key down and type a number. Here's a page with alt codes. My previous laptop wouldn't do them--this one does.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:08 PM

Wizard, Jeri! Thank you ever so much. I'll play with this tomorrow, I'm off to bed in a minute (bedsocks and hot water bottle at the ready!)

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:16 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:24 PM

BWL... I don't know what you said. Geek to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:27 PM

Uh . . . How do you pronounce that?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: foggers
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:30 PM

An interesting point gnu; of course we need to be clear about what we mean by "things". The Higgs Bosun is a "thing" that is very fast changing indeed. Is that the kind of "thing" you mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:37 PM

Well, "things" don't change. The particles and stuff that makes up things change, though. Imagine what it would be like if the energy levels of the electrons that accompany the atomic nuclei in your head decided all on their own to change energy levels. Or if the neutrons in a critical mass of fissionable material decided not to fiss. Or if a Higgs Boson decided to try for Chief Petty Officer, or even coxswain.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 04:57 PM

Left to themselves, things always get worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 05:24 PM

It's all ENTROPY!

Entropy will get ya', if ya' don't watch out!


(in fact, entropy will get ya', even if ya' do watch out...)

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:07 PM

So, we're all fucked, Bill? Is that what you really think? There's nowt we can do about it? We should just get our shit together and get ready for THE END?

Sounds like a plan. Ya got any time line on that? I got shit to do and I need to schedule eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:14 PM

Yeah, things don't seem to change... They just get more so... Bummer, ain't it...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:25 PM

That was my initial postulate... but Bill has upped the ante. I am gettin nervous. I got a lotta shit to do before the entropy.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:36 PM

The bathroom is at the end of the hall, gn-ze...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 09:59 PM

If entropy doesn't happen, is the theory then empty? Does empty entropy exist? If so, why?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bobert
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:02 PM

Think I might need the bathroom now, Rap...

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:03 PM

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:13 PM

What if I just get tired of it? Should I hang in a little while longer or is it poitless?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 10:41 PM

It's pootless. You spelled the word wrong. "Pootless" means without a poot. If you don't have a poot gas pressure will build up and up in your insides. Eventually you will discharge this poot buildup through your umbilicus. This will cause you to fly around the room like a balloon which is suddenly, but not explosively, deflating. You can check on poot buildup by checking if your umbilicus is an "inny" or an "outy." If it's an "outy" you got trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Jan 12 - 11:32 PM

Things ain't what they used to be, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 12:19 AM

Me I'm not thinking a darn thing right now. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Rien.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 12:28 AM

Are you talking about this Thing, this Thing, or these Things?

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 10:45 AM

I used to think but it was too hard, so now I'm going into politics

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 02:10 PM

People have committed suicide because they could not live with constipation. So being pootless is a real problem to some.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 02:18 PM

Bill is taking the cosmic view. Within the present time frame, life itself is anti-entropic, locally, as long as a higher-order source of energy is around, such as sunlight (which, for example, produces coal, wood, petroleum and other condensed forms of energy which can be used to produce work which can be used to produce new forms flying in the very teeth of entropy.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: foggers
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 02:30 PM

Ah but I was led to understand by my old linguistics professor that the opposite of entropy is redundancy. So whilst entropy is indeed a state to fear, I really don't fancy redundancy either; though could be looming in the current economic climate.

Life exists as a balance between the extremes of entropy (total randomness) and redundancy (total predictability). In fact I can think of a few celebrity musicians whose careers could be seen as a colourful journey from one to the other.

Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 12 - 03:40 PM

Ya know, I just dunno, eh? I mean, like, what, eh? Maybe I should get a dog... or a god. That might change things but it still might be the same. Decisions eh?