River ,'Objects In Space'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
who's the MPAA and why would they care?
The MPAA is the motion pictures organization who believes that you are out the bankrupt the entertainment industry as we know it by getting your TV shows off the Internet rather than watching it on TV with ads, like a decent person. They're the TV/movie version of the music organizations who want all music downloads stopped in the name of fighting piracy.
Oh, duh. I feel like a dork for not making that connection.
Will changing the default port connection better my speed?
It seems to help, in that the people with faster torrents will play with you.
The MPAA slapped me on the knuckles this week. I feel very ... well, annoyed, but hey. I was stealing.
Thus "proving" my philosophy, which is that nothing is an absolute, including math, and therefore nothing should be presented as such.
Actually the converse. Because numbers behave the same and retain the same properties regardless of what happens in the real world, they're not empirical. There's nothing that could happen physically to disprove '2 + 2 = 4', for instance. If ever we find a substance where you add two units together and you get less or more than 4 units, we don't change the mathematical system, we use a different number to describe the end result. (And then physicists set about working out why it didn't equal 4, but that's physics, not maths.)
cookies in natter and math in bitches...
Wheee! I've got access to LJ land, again. Now to get all caught up.
cookies in natter and math in bitches...
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes ...
Every now and then I wonder why the symbol "2" represents two (or "4" = four, etc.) What happened to make those symbols represent those numbers. Why is "2" not representative of four? The same with letters. Why is the symbol "T" represented by the sound of putting your tongue on the back of closed teeth with air being expelled through them?
There's nothing that could happen physically to disprove '2 + 2 = 4', for instance. If ever we find a substance where you add two units together and you get less or more than 4 units, we don't change the mathematical system, we use a different number to describe the end result.
If you can get five math experts to admit they were wrong. Or get them to admit that they invented the entire concept in the first place because the human mind is not constructed to completely dig the purely abstract, and we're never going to want to believe it.
Sorry, BT. Popping back out. This stuff makes me grind my teeth and break out in hives, less because I don't believe any of it than because of the calm certainty that numbers are the Way and the Light that has permeated way too much of my life to this point. And for various reasons, that calm certainty is pinging specific buttons tonight.
Maybe tomorrow.