I am not a hundred percent sure about the way you describe the idea, but it sounds like an idea I read in a science fiction series some years ago. I think it was called "Dire Earth".

You havden't done your homework — Agent Smith

and you did not read the article.

That's why you're objecting to the claim that it's a paradox. — Agent Smith

That is why you are claiming it is a paradox.

Taxi fare is not calculated by the drivers hurrying to reach the destination because if he goes to fast the customers are in the cab only a short time and pay less. It would not make sense for him to do so.

Don't bother to answer. :smirk:

Just google it! — Agent Smith

I already did that, and provided a link to the information.

If you cannot do the same, then I think that you have no case to fight and that the discussion has ended.

I bet they are not happy when someone has a heart attack in those pranks.

I did my own investigations into the matter - distance it is, not time. — Agent Smith

Show me where you found this.

Does it make sense for the payer's calculations to be based on distance while the payee's is based on time? — Agent Smith

But both amounts are calculated using the same method, so this cannot be true.
The payer's bill is calculated on the amount of time it takes the payee to travel the distance, he is not paying just for the distance traveled.

As I said before the two just appear to be different because of point of view, there is no paradox there.

It seems that the word "paradox" has a much broader definition than just contradictions. — Agent Smith

Yes, some people use it to describe things that don't make sense. But I cannot think of how to justify its use here. Can you?

Even so, the taxi fare: is it for distance or is it for time?

Both?
Distance = speed×time — Agent Smith

It is explained more or less in the article I posted a link to. Both count.

If a taxi driver covers 2 miles in 5 minutes he might earn less than if he made the same journey in 6 minutes. That would balance out if he could make more trips. It would all depend on the setup of the meter.

Doesn't look good on the resume. — Paine

Do you think politicians really care about things like that? :wink:

However, the meter's calculations are still based on how far the taxi would've travelled at some predefined speed. — Agent Smith

So you do not have a paradox. At least not the one you stated.

Neither part actually contradicts the other.

I suppose having a green thumb from the experience is unlikely in either event. — Paine

Brown maybe!! :lol:

Politicians are famous for having their thumbs in many pies and for having that in places where the sun never shines.

You pay for distance, but the cabbie charges you for (his/her) time. — Agent Smith

You pay to be taken somewhere. Taxi meters are not calibrated just to take into account the distance traveled, but the time is also taken into account. Have you never noticed that if you ask a cab to wait for you for a few minutes the meter keeps on ticking?

If he takes longer than expected the bill would go up, if he goes to fast the bill for the same distance would be less.

https://auto.howstuffworks.com/taxi-meter1.htm

What's a paradox for you? — Agent Smith

The same as it is for most people I suppose.
A statement starting with something apparently true that leads to counterintuitive or unacceptable conclusions.

Your statement is just a description of what happens sometimes.

The paradox: The passengers pays for distance traveled, the cabby drives as if you paid for his/her time. — Agent Smith

No paradox at all, just different points of view on what is happening.

What are user avatars at all if not that same thing, an icon, a little graphic, to represent you? — Pfhorrest

Ain't that the truth mate.

But what does mine say about me?

We're so busy with shit that we forget that life is full of opportunities. — gikehef947

Yep, but maybe some of that shit are the opportunities we don't recognize. :wink:

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So you are talking about neurons, but they do not function like transistors, they are just the wiring.

The synapses would be the transistors, filtering the data, and they do get created and changed according to the use of the brain.

"Comitting to memory" and "Remembering" and other process some of which I might describe as: "learning" — Ken Edwards

Are these conscious activities then that create fatty transistors?

Bricks and stones or mountains and valleys and fatty conductors exist in the real word and and are frequently millions of years old and obviously could not have been created by " consciousness" or by any other human or animal mental activity. — Ken Edwards

But it is a fact that brains do create themselves up to a certain point. That is why all brains are different. The connections between neurons are created as necessary.

And maybe we shouldn't give advice if we are someone who posts more than twice a day on social media. — Yohan

There you go, you are learning.

Perhaps I shouldn't have shared my own thoughts on advice until I have been living them consistently. — Yohan

See, I do give good advice even if I do post more than one post a day.

what the hell should I do with my life? — John McMannis

The simplest answer is just live it. That is not the same as existing through it.

You have only one life so you need to enjoy it. Make that your objective.

The first thing you need to do is figure out exactly what would make you happy. Making the missus content, having your own place, having kids, keeping up with the classmates seem to be the list you have created.

What does the missus REALLY want?

Have you examined the pro's and con's of your and her "needs/wishes"

Having your own house is not cheap nor always convenient. Apart from mortgage payments there is also maintenance to take into account. If you are not a DIY'er then it can be expensive getting simple things done. The housing markets fluctuate, what you pay today might not be anyway near its value in 10 years. And a house can also act as an anchor. If you need to move to a better job sight, it can get complicated doing it in a hurry with a house that no one wants to pay your asking price for.

The same thing can basically be said about kids. They are high maintenance objects. You cannot just pick up and move them to a new school without causing them difficulties. I know because I went to 13 different schools in 3 countries.

Keeping up with the friends sucks. Just because they are doing something with their life does not mean that the same type of life is right for you. Hell it might not even be right for them and they will be divorcing sooner or later.

Work out a compromise, a plan with your wife, something that you both agree on and that, taking into consideration the fucked up world in which we live, would be possible.

Something like this;
This year, sort out the job/financial situation.
Find a way to make a better wage. Some places pay better for doing the same work if you are good at what you do.
Look for a cheaper place to live. Making a sacrifice for a couple of years might put enough money in the bank to help finding a house.
Maybe looking in another town would give the two of a better chance at both and she might not need to work so hard.

Next year, ................

Enough, I am not going to lay out a life plan for you.

Or you could buy an old school bus and take her on a world tour by working for gas and food.

"Only when the last tree has been cut down, and the last fish caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money" (proverb).

Well, strictly speaking you can eat money, it is just not very pleasant tasting and has minimal nutritional value. But anyway, most of us are well aware that money is not much good as a foodstuff regardless of how many trees there are or fish there are. I mean, there's really no relationship between how many trees one has cut down and how many fish one has caught and one's knowledge of the inedibility of money, so far as I can see. — Bartricks

When the trees are cut down and the fish caught as is done today, it produces money. The idea is that we try to keep the trees and fish because we cannot eat the money we get from them.

I think that it might not be applicable to every situation, but it is not meant to anyway. But it is true.

Would it be possible to complain about people wasting my time with their petty complaints?

But I have some to add anyway.

It is getting cold tonight, down to 26 centigrade.

El bloody electric bill is going up again next month. I have not had time to finish installing the solar power system.

Asshole neighbor's stupid dogs will not shut up.

I think I will go over to the Thank You! thread now. To give thanks to the gods that I only have to get to the end of November to start my vacation.

I think that most of Europe will probably laugh their arses off. Most of think that the gringos are dumbasses anyway and that would be the proof of it. :lol:

The duck will not want to do something for the men, but for the ducks, just as the penguin will want to do something for the penguins. — gikehef947

So what it says in the bible is wrong, because it definitely says men in there, not ducks.

Think about it carefully. Why are the chosen people not ducks? — gikehef947

OK, you win. The grand prize for dumb-ass question of the year goes to gikehef947.

I have never seen any evidence to indicate that something like that might be true and I doubt that you have either.
If you think about it though, the chosen people made in the image of god it might be true. But it might not be a good idea to think about it to much, it might be blaspheme to do so. Waddle, waddle, quack quack.

You already answered your own question in your own quotes of the bible.

- Colossians 3:23-24. Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. — gikehef947

Why would a duck want to do anything for men?

Maybe they are, according to them. Who the hell knows, or even cares.

I'll get back to you with that, if I can stop laughing long enough. — Sir2u

OK, so where do I start? Let me read your post again.

:lol: :lol: So you think :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: that the kind of animal :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: makes a difference.:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Maybe true but :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Hang on a minute! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Maybe true but polar bears live in Eskimo country, or do the Eskimos live in polar bear country? I'll figure that one out late, trying to be serious here. :lol: :lol: :lol:
So maybe they practice animism, that might make sense. But most of the Eskimos have quit that and become christians, so that cannot be good for the cause.

But back to reality, you still have not explained why the bible is accepted as true. And don't tell me that it is because some dudes centuries ago said so.
And changing the name of a thread does little to improve the intellectuality of the OP.

What about polar bears? — gikehef947

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

I'll get back to you with that, if I can stop laughing long enough.

:lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl: :lol: :rofl:

The best advice I can offer is very simple, never take advice from anyone that post more than 2 posts per day on any social media. Including or especially philosophy forums.

You want me to fit into your schemes. — gikehef947

Truly pathetic. I am not trying to do anything at all, all I did was ask some questions. You apparently have no answers so you try to cover your ass by blathering stupidities.

You say that others are using hearsay when they say that animals have no gods, then you do the same thing after admitting that you have no first hand knowledge of the bible being true.

You base your judgement of the bible's truth on what a bunch of people hundreds of years ago said. They believed only certain parts of the many known books where actually god inspired. Do you have any knowledge of the criteria they used for their decisions?

The gator and the cheetahs are definitely somewhere in Africa, maybe they believe in uNkulunkulu. But if you insist they believe in your god, I think an explanation of how that came to be is needed.

I was not at the Council of Trent. Ask those who were there. If the telephone doesn't work, try psychophony. — gikehef947

You are then either guilty of hearsay, gossiping, scuttlebutting, rumor mongering or just plain bullshitting.
How do you plead?

It is ironic how the sarcastic spout such incongruities.

Nothing. All books were chosen as inspired words of God! — gikehef947

How can you make a statement like that? Do you have any proof that it is true?

How do you know that animals don't have souls? — gikehef947

How do you know that they do? Do you understand the reasoning behind Plato's and Aristotle's conclusions that they have souls?

You talk a lot from hearsay. — gikehef947

Can you prove that you are telling the truth?

Think about this.
- Colossians 3:23-24. Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward.
- Romans 2:6. God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”
- Deuteronomy 5:33. You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess. — gikehef947

So, let me guess. You are reasoning that the crocodile spent all of his time praying and the cat did not. So the cat become lunch.

I am surprised that no one has ever noticed the logic of that before.

Then, see the video. — gikehef947

I did, poor little cat got ate up. Nature sucks sometimes, but what can we do about it.

I guess that the whole thing comes down to the fact that the wild cats move around quite a lot and therefore do not have bibles to read, no pockets to put them in. While the croc hangs around his home all of the time so he has a place to put his bible and time to read it.

Actually this conversation reminds me of all of the sports players who say thing like god helped us to win or god will make our team champions. If both teams are praying like hell to win, on what does god base his decision to let one side win over the other? Does he have some sort of counter like on facebook to see how many prayers have come in?

Personally I doubt that any god gives a flyingf**k about who wins a football game nor which animal eats which other in the jungle.

Maybe if you could explain the reasoning behind conclusion it might make the post more interesting.

Rule 67879777 On the Subject of Toilet Paper Etiquette — Nils Loc

Part 2
recycling of all paper product is highly recommended.

Rule 72
There shall be no discussion of philosophical topics in this thread.

Seventeen persons have lost their life because of the failed emergence (and utility) of this game.

The secret to giving the game life is to inspire the will to create it. — Nils Loc

Could that be paraphrased as "take the bloody game seriously or piss off"?

Yes indeed the purpose of the game is not the game itself but the journey we take in its creation, or some other bullshit like that.

But who has the will and strength to collaborate? Who has the passion? — Nils Loc

A better question would be, who has the total lack of morality needed to deny the creation of the game by not participating?

Especially my girlfriend and our dog! — Prishon

Me and my wife — Prishon

I hope they are one and the same, or that neither read your post.

How "far" have we come (or I). to know a place on Earth by the cars there are driving? — Prishon

You might have been lucky with that guess, but maybe the shop and street signs were recognized at a subconscious level as well. There are always more clues in a scene than we actually realize we see.

Would you have had the same luck if it had been a scene from some place in Asia?