Point was more that if four people are interested, and 25 are not, perhaps 'the forum has spoken' and we must remain but abstract avatars to one another :) That said, I'm happy to just take the four and have the damn conference - if that's what you're getting at :) — AmadeusD

I am not sorry to say that I don't give a shit about the naysayers. If it is something that will not have any affect on them why should they waste their time trying to stop others doing it?

If they are not interested, they can either just ignore it or be polite and say no thanks.

Let us know the setup and I will see what I can do to join in.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

— BR — Mikie

That would depend on the definition of stupid would it not.

According to some dictionaries:
Stupid, adj

• Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
• Lacking intelligence
• In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
• Devoid of good sense or judgment

Would you like to have The Philosophy Forum AVL conference? — AmadeusD

It might be an interesting thing to do, getting to talk to people from around the world face to face.

I think your mistake here was including the option for NO in the poll. If they are not interested why should they be allowed a say in the activities.

Basically a guy literally becoming more pacific-like when someone asks them to be more "pacific" as opposed to more "specific" which was likely what they meant. Is this racist? — TiredThinker

Or maybe he is just an angry guy and they were making fun of that.

Being as the joke itself has nothing to do with the color of the person it is aimed at, there can be no valid screams of racism. The truth is probably that someone in the congregation took the picture and did the art work, one of his brothers.

:up:

Minoan civilisation > Bronze Age > bronze > alloy > mixture > chemistry >science > scientific method

I really was not expecting this to work. Some sort of alchemy? — Lionino

It went a bit longer than normal but I got there. :wink:

Minoan civilisation > Bronze Age > bronze > alloy > mixture > chemistry > scientific > systematic > empirical > proposition > philosophy of language

Do you know more tricks? — javi2541997

:cry: Nope

So cool, why Honduras if you don't mind me asking? How does it differ from, say, Guatemala or Costa Rica? — Lionino

My father was a captain on a ship that ran between New Orleans and several other parts of the gulf coast to Honduras and other parts of Central America.
When I was a teenager I used to travel a lot with him and just loved this place. Later he moved down here and I followed a few years later.

Guatemala is a nice place, but back in the 60's and 70's it was not really pro British. They had a claim against England that British Honduras was theirs. It later became Belize and independent.

I know I do many weird things... — javi2541997

You have no idea how alike we are then. :wink:

Try this:
find any topic in Wikipedia, in English.
In the main article, click on the first link that is not Italic.
Do the same on the next articles.
By the time you have reached the seventh or eighth article you should be looking at something to do with philosophy.
It does not work for everything but it should for about 90%.

Supratrochelar. — javi2541997

Please explain your reasoning, under what circumstances, reasons, warped thinking does this qualify as a last word.

That is only about instantaneous speed. — Lionino

If the wheel has a circumference of 2 meters, the car will advance 2 meters for each rotation if there is no slippage. That is the rotational speed of the wheel in relation to linear velocity of the car. No part of the wheel can advance fast than the car. in fact at certain parts of the revolution all points around the circumference are traveling in the opposite direction to the car. Combining the speeds is not possible because they do not have the same vector.

Nothing you wrote in any way explains how any part of a wheel can travel faster than another part of it, which is what I asked you to explain.

If you are considering linear speed, yes. If you are considering instantaneous speed in relation to the floor. — Lionino

I was just stating that I can find no way to explain how it would be possible for one point on the wheel's circumference to to be traveling at a different speed to another point on the circumference. That just cannot happen.

At the same instance that the patch is in contact with the road the top part of the wheel also has a velocity of zero as does every equivalent area on the wheel.

Not only is there speed that comes from the cars movement, but from the tire going around itself. — Lionino

But we can always add to that the speed of rotation of the earth, the speed of orbit of the earth, the speed of the sun orbiting the Milky Way.
But that goes way beyond the point de Grasse is trying to make.

Now, which part of the wheel is moving twice the speed? I guess that would be the top of wheel. — Lionino

Nope, that would be science fiction, the part at the top travels at the same speed.

The problem here I think is one of "in relation to what is the velocity measured".

Lets try looking at this from a slightly different point of view.

You are walking or running down the road at a certain speed. each time your foot touches the road it stays there for a certain time while the rest of your body moves forward.

From this point of view, de Grasse is correct. In that instant your point of contact with the road is not moving hence a velocity of zero.

Currently living: Hobart, Tasmania — RobTAS

Have you met the devil yet? :wink:

I was born in England, lived in Canada, USA, Belize and have lived in Honduras since '75.

So the best thing to do here would be to post some question about things you wish to know and wait and see if anyone has answers.

I doubt anyone here would call you a racist for asking questions.

There are hundreds of different news providers online, spending some time reviewing them would help to get a better understanding of what is going on around the world. If several groups say the same thing and there is no one screaming "lies", then there is a good chance it is true.

I think so. What does Destee mean? — TiredThinker

Not trying to be nasty, but your name suits you well.

Is there any specific topic you would like to discuss? From my point of view looking for a dedicated forum would allow little or no discussion because they would mostly be of the same mind. Where as here there are many countries, ethnic groups and points of view to provide a better gamma of views.

no I don't think that I learned anything. — Massimo

Will you be going out like that again soon? Will you apply for another job?

My night sucked and I don't know what any of these experiences mean if They mean anything. — Massimo

They will only have meaning if you give them meaning, did you learn anything from them?

Thanks

I have a few panel installed, started mostly as backup because we had a lot of outages and I was working online from home. But I put a few more up and now I can run the refrigerator which is the biggest part of the bill. I also have a 12volt light system so I always have light.

I am hoping to have all of the major work done in the next year or so, that will leave me with just maintenance and damage costs for the future. Fingers crossed on that one. :lol:

Maybe the question would be better suited to a place where more people with specialized American knowledge.
The international and more intellectual nature of this forum does not enhance your chances of getting answers to questions of that type.

I'm sorry to hear about your setbacks. Money's always a major obstacle, isn't it?
Maybe you're up to some less physically demanding tasks this year. Tiling isn't too hard... just ridiculously difficult sometimes. Painting a roof sounds like a bigger job than I'd ever take on! I can just about manage three rungs of the ladder to wash the top windows. — Vera Mont

Thank you. I am just short of 70, if I leave things much longer I will not want to do the the work at all. I plan on retiring in the next couple of years and need to spend the money to do the work while I still have some coming in.

I feel so unaccomplished reading this. I've always wanted to build a whole house, — L'éléphant

I have designed and built three, mostly with just help for the heavy or excessive time consuming stuff that I could not get done inside the time frame by myself.

The house I have now was originally a wooden framed building that I built. I renovated it by changing the framework to metal. I was lucky that I did because we had a bad earthquake,7.2, and it came down from its original 2 meters in the air to sitting on the ground on 2 sides. I was able to lift back to one meter and all of the damage it received was in the siding panels and a couple of minor bends in the frame.

Does anyone have a winter project they would like to brag or complain about? — Vera Mont

We don't really have a cold season down here, it is more of a dust and mud type of thing. And the temperature rarely gets too low that you need more than a sweater or a light jacket .
The list I have is too big to mention all of it, I will just list the larger ones.

Finish building fence.
Paint roof and rest of outside walls
Replace ceiling in main bedroom.
Finish tiling and plumbing in new bathroom

Some of these were started before the covid lock-down and could not be finished, then last year I had an accident and have not completely recovered still. There are about another dozen things on the list, but money and time will keep them from being done before next year.

Are you American, from the USA?

People from the 70's

Not exactly science fiction or fantasy but,...............................Point Place, Wisconsin.
:wink:

Bible quotes on the TPF, OMG. :lol:

I posted that 3 years ago. You have no idea what it's like waiting that long for a reply. Absolute torture. — Hanover

I never look at the dates, it takes the fun out of things. :rofl:
I had not seen the thread before so it either got missed back them or was of no interest at that moment.

I am now going to look for your posts from as far back as I can find and answer them, just for the fun value.
Hope I can find at least something worth replying to. :wink:

There are plenty of really good new ideas: — Hanover

Not many of them are truly new, they are mostly either combinations of existing ideas or remakes of other ideas.

I have often thought that it would be fun to put on a bigfoot costume and hoax people. — Agree-to-Disagree

Be a bigfoot for a day, just like with the UFOs, someone would probably try to shoot you.

Abduction and probing is reported frequently. There must be an explanation for this. Does anybody have any ideas? — Agree-to-Disagree

Maybe the want to get to know the difference between the different human races that many bigots keep saying exist, them being the best type obviously.

Like a near fast-as-light spaceship. :roll: — jgill

I meant any technology. :shade: :roll:

The guy with the singing guitar.


He always lets others have a solo.

If there was any chance aliens had visited Earth, don't you think the other nations would be a little more interested in this?

Why do you think literally no one outside the US cares about this at all? — Tzeentch

Other nations do not have the resources to fund investigations into things like UFOs.
The USA does so because it thinks that they will get some sort of advantage over the rest of the world from spacer travelers, technological or military.

What I do not believe is the "fact" that aliens might be aggressive and that we need to be defended from them at any means. If they have gotten here and wanted to take over the world it is doubtful that we could do anything to stop them.

If they are peaceful, and as they have not yet attacked I think that we can consider them so, why don't they make contact? Would you talk to your new neighbor if he walked around point a shotgun at you?

Another thing that I think we need to consider is how they got here, not just the method of transport but the reason behind the journey. It takes a long time for signals from earth to reach out to the stars, so they cannot have found out about us until recently unless they were planet hoping and found us by accident.

If they are here now, we have to question how they got here so fast after receiving the signals or if they have been for a long time what were they doing before we became technologically advanced enough to be any use to them.

If they came here a long time ago to conquer us, why did they let us develop technology that would make their job harder. If they just arrived recently to conquer, why did they not stop our technological advancement? It would not take much to do so.

If they came a long time ago in peace, then it might be possible that they have helped with the advancement of the technology we have today.

So they only reason I can see for them to be here is a peaceful one, sharing knowledge.

One of the things I always laugh about in the alien invasion movies is the way they portray them as ugly monster that slobber all over everything. How could something like that even develop technology? You see them with claws trying to use the human like controls of their spaceship or weapons.

I believe that to be able to develop technology the beings must have the physical attributes necessary to be able to create and use tools. That is why ants will probably never develop an Ipad. It might take a while, but there are several other mammals that might one day actually create advanced tools.

Living environment will also play a part in advancement of any being in the universe. Dolphins are supposed to be very intelligent, but in their environment and with their physical attributes it would be extremely difficult to create tools and material to build anything.

And when I think about it, now I just might be talking to myself... :-D — A Realist

Yes, you are talking to yourself, carry on then.

Jane Doe would then become president, and could push those cool things, because the voters picked her and employed her to make it so. — jorndoe

Unfortunately the president does not make the laws and make things happen, that is the job of the congress. So people should actually spend more time finding out what their congress person is offering them.

Southern Pride

A convoluted idea held by most southerners that depitcs the glory days of the Antebellum south and other traditions. Something that should not be honored and instead despised for it's radical racial and moral bias of a past generation. Something that leads to internal American conflict and strife between the people of America. Prevents the diffusion of culture. A cultural ideal built upon the advantageous use of human beings to promote the well-being of white anglo-saxon protestants. Something that promotes grandeos ideas of geographical and cultural superiority. Something that leads to a rift in learning and understanding others ideals and culture i.e. North/South. Something that contains more negative biased perspective than good beliefs. Something that
Southerner: Southern Pride is the ideal of a generation, Northerns will never understand!!

Northerner: Northerners will never understand because we weren't fighting against the UNION in the civil war. We don't look back and dwell on the glory days of a generation long passed like a depressed alcoholic has-been.
by thenorthernperspective November 28, 2010 — The Urban Dictionary

I lived in New Orleans for some years, late 60's early 70's, and it was also something that puzzled me when we got there.

I think it is probably just a case of extremely extreme ethnocentrism.

What I often wondered was what would have happened if the southern states had actually won. Would it have been possible for them to be even prouder than they are? :chin:

There should be a comedy section on the forum as well.

It would be the most used on some days. :lol:

think "blame for the downfall of man" is a pretty negative inflection. "credit for the saving of the human race" is a positive spin on the same story. — noAxioms

How did you get this from,

Giving robots the order to do anything at all costs, including looking after humans gives them free rein to kill all except a few perfectly good breeders to continue the human race if it were necessary. — Sir2u