Ubuntu 11.10 makes Unity compulsory

[Liam Proven]

On 6 April 2011 14:55, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 04/06/2011 09:28 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On 6 April 2011 14:13, Charlie Derr<cderr at simons-rock.edu>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 04/06/2011 09:09 AM, donn wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/04/2011 14:53, Liam Proven wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> But there is a single right answer to the speed of light in a vacuum,
>>>>> say.
>>>>
>>>> Bingo!
>>>>
>>>> /d
>>>
>>> This did a fair job of convincing me.
>>>
>>> Some recent promising research postulates that the speed of light in a
>>> vacuum may (have) change(d) over time.  So it
>>> might matter when you measure it.
>>
>> All right, a fair point.
>>
>>> How "important" any external reality is certainly depends on our ability
>>> to perceive it.  In my view, our perception is
>>> actually then the more important thing.
>>
>> No, not really. You can of course choose not to be interested in
>> physics or the sciences and that's perfectly fine and legitimate.
>>
>> But one can't say that they're wrong using a computer, say, because if
>> they were wrong, there would /be/ no computers.
>>
>> If the world valued introspection more than science, then we would
>> have no internet, no antibiotics and no electricity. We'd be sitting
>> in the lotus position swapping mantras.
>>
>> To be honest, for all its flaws, I prefer this world.
>>
> Seems to me that everything is about cause and effect. If the speed of light
> is constant as it seems to be. This this might be an effect. Caused by what?
>  If it's just a hard fast rule or a cause who or what made it made it. Did
> Instiene Understand this? Who understands and can explain it?

It's a common error of human thinking to ask "why" all the time, in
the sense of "who did this?"

Balance a ball on a pole in your garden and leave it there. Come back
later, the chances are, it will have fallen off. Why? Because the wind
pushed it. Why did the wind push it? Mu, as the Zen monks might say.
There is no why. The wind pushes things. It's what wind does. Nobody
made the wind do it. Wind just is, as a result of chaotic heating
of the Earth's atmosphere. The sun does not /mean/ to heat it - it
just is. It's what suns do. There was no reason, no purpose. Cause and
effect does not mean someone or something decided to do something.

The "why" is only in your head. Learn to separate *you* from what you
are observing. :¬)

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