Why the two-tone paint job? |
What d'ya mean, "two-tone paint job"? |
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Why the two-tone paint job? |
What d'ya mean, "two-tone paint job"? |
Some of our ideas are simply wrong, and for reasons we don't suspect exist.
"Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes." "A second one? This guy could even care less about the first." |
director of humanity's largest force for mass death and destruction "We have to kill as many of them as we can because they don't respect human life." "...and we have to kill them in the most frightful way possible because they are evil -- they are terrorists." |
Oversimplification is always an error, an error of scope and sufficiency.
Ethnocentrism is an oversimplification that doesn't recognize concerns
of those perceived as "outsiders."
Ethnocentrism has no word in colloquial language.
Justice cannot logically be limited to less than all humanity.
A plausable case has been made that the sense of mutually reciprocal
fairness is rooted in a sense of negation of negation.
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Justice: revenge, retaliation, retribution Rank: position in a line Terrorism: an attack on America. Intelligence: information The Lottery: a potential way of getting rich NON-SCIENCE Specie: like the spotted owl Quantum Leap: humongous change Energy: once used can't be used again: like food and fuel Statistics: a tool of liars, propagandists and politicians Epicenter: the center of something big Exponential change: large, fast change Heat: temperature Field: an invisible force Light-year: a humongous time Acceleration: increase of speed Crystal: faceted and glass-like new-cue-lar -- new-cue-less |
Justice: mutually reciprocal fairness. Rank: position in a multidimensional space. Terrorism: an attack on humanity. Intelligence: Information processing skills; tensor-like The Lottery: a sure way of taking money from people SCIENCE Specie: like the gold eagle Quantum Leap: practically infinitesimal change Energy: a very abstract thing that's conserved Statistics: a powerful tool of science Epicenter: the point on the surface over the earthquake Exponential change: change proportional to current size Heat: energy transferred solely because of temp diff Field: a quantity that varies with position Light-year: a humongous distance Acceleration: time rate change of velocity Crystal: Atoms are in regular array; opposite of glass nucular -- nucleus |
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