Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 07:44:11 UTC 2011


On 6 April 2011 08:33, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:11 AM, donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:

>> You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.

> What I see as the Truth may not be the Truth for you in your
> perception of reality.  You need to find your own Truth which may be
> different from my own, and both are quality valid.  There is more than
> one Truth.  I know its a difficult concept to wrap your head around.
> It took me a while also.


If you're using your own definitions, then "Truth" is not the same as
"truth" or "useful knowledge".

Put it this way: if you claim to think or believe something, then that
belief should lead you to anticipate particular things happening and
other things not happening.

(This is the difference between "belief in belief" - where someone
claims a belief but doesn't seem to behave as if it's true - and
actually believing something.)


> Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics are the same thing.


This suggests you are using "quantum" as a word for magic, rather than
anything to do with physics or predicting reality, and strongly
suggests you do not know anything actually useful about quantum
mechanics.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_woo

"The root of the issue is an attempt to piggy-back on the success and
legitimacy of science by claiming quack ideas are rooted in accepted
concepts in physics, combined with utter misunderstanding of these
concepts and a sense of wonder at the amazing magic these
misunderstandings would imply if true."


- d.



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