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15 Jan 12 - 02:13 PM (#3290994) Subject: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu Personally, I think if things don't change, they'll stay the same. |
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15 Jan 12 - 02:17 PM (#3290997) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Rapparee And you an injunear! You should know about the Third Law of Thermodynamics! |
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15 Jan 12 - 02:28 PM (#3291003) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: GUEST,kendall I know about the law of inertia; it was passed in my home town, Machias Maine, where excitement goes to die. |
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15 Jan 12 - 02:57 PM (#3291020) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu Is the wake fun, Kendall? |
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15 Jan 12 - 03:13 PM (#3291032) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bert That's what my Dad used to say gnu. Only he phrased it "Things that don't alter, remain as they are." |
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15 Jan 12 - 03:37 PM (#3291042) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: John MacKenzie Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose |
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15 Jan 12 - 03:40 PM (#3291046) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: GUEST,Eliza 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? |
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15 Jan 12 - 03:56 PM (#3291053) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Jeri 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. |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:08 PM (#3291061) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: GUEST,Eliza 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!) |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:16 PM (#3291065) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bee-dubya-ell Or you can create your message using a WP whose special characters menu will probably allow you to insert any of the following: €ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰Š‹ŒŽ''""•–—˜™š›œžŸ¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ Or you can just copy and paste the phrase from a French site.... |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:24 PM (#3291072) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu BWL... I don't know what you said. Geek to me. |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:27 PM (#3291073) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Don Firth Uh . . . How do you pronounce that? Don Firth |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:30 PM (#3291077) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: foggers 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? |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:37 PM (#3291080) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Rapparee 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. |
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15 Jan 12 - 04:57 PM (#3291088) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Doug Chadwick Left to themselves, things always get worse. |
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15 Jan 12 - 05:24 PM (#3291100) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bill D 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...) |
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15 Jan 12 - 09:07 PM (#3291201) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu 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? |
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15 Jan 12 - 09:14 PM (#3291206) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bobert Yeah, things don't seem to change... They just get more so... Bummer, ain't it... B~ |
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15 Jan 12 - 09:25 PM (#3291212) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu 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. |
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15 Jan 12 - 09:36 PM (#3291217) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bobert The bathroom is at the end of the hall, gn-ze... B;~) |
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15 Jan 12 - 09:59 PM (#3291224) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Rapparee If entropy doesn't happen, is the theory then empty? Does empty entropy exist? If so, why? |
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15 Jan 12 - 10:02 PM (#3291226) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bobert Think I might need the bathroom now, Rap... B;~) |
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15 Jan 12 - 10:03 PM (#3291227) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Jim Dixon It's a great life, if you don't weaken. |
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15 Jan 12 - 10:13 PM (#3291229) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu What if I just get tired of it? Should I hang in a little while longer or is it poitless? |
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15 Jan 12 - 10:41 PM (#3291233) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Rapparee 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. |
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15 Jan 12 - 11:32 PM (#3291240) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: JennieG Things ain't what they used to be, you know. |
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16 Jan 12 - 12:19 AM (#3291244) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Crowhugger Me I'm not thinking a darn thing right now. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Rien. |
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16 Jan 12 - 12:28 AM (#3291247) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Bee-dubya-ell Are you talking about this Thing, this Thing, or these Things? |
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16 Jan 12 - 10:45 AM (#3291390) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Rapparee I used to think but it was too hard, so now I'm going into politics |
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16 Jan 12 - 02:10 PM (#3291510) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: VirginiaTam People have committed suicide because they could not live with constipation. So being pootless is a real problem to some. |
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16 Jan 12 - 02:18 PM (#3291514) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: Amos 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 |
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16 Jan 12 - 02:30 PM (#3291523) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: foggers 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. |
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16 Jan 12 - 03:40 PM (#3291549) Subject: RE: BS: Soooo... whadda you think? From: gnu 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? |
