Conflagration_Planet wrote:
I have a solid stone globe, twelve feet in diameter.
Really brah? That is wierd wild stuff.
I did not know that.
To those that mock you with "Why couldn't you Googles that"?
Sort:
Actually, now that I look at it closer, I see it's just a foot in diameter, and most likely made out of thick cardboard. 
Senator-Blutarsky wrote:
Google can be useful, but doesn't always deliver the goods.
I was looking for my pencil and tried googling "lost pencil".
Got some good advice too:
1 Think of the place you last had the pencil. If it is not there look around the area, maybe that wasn't really the last place.
2 Determine if your pencil could be somewhere nearby. Ask yourself some questions. Were you using it to do homework? Work for your job? Or something else? Knowing this will help because you can go to the place your other items were put.
3 Look in random places that you may or may not think your pencil could possibly be.
4 Ask someone who saw you using the pencil, maybe when you set it down, that person borrowed it.
5 Don't forget to look in obvious places that you would usually walk by, not thinking about the pencil being in obvious sight.
All good advice, but the one i needed was "try looking in the mirror, it could be in your nostril".
Someone could just flip you a dime to by a new one?
I googles stuff sometime.
winerkleiner wrote:
Someone could just flip you a dime to buy a new one?
Blutarsky replied:
No, I wasn't looking to buy a pencil.
Then there is the issue of some child who uses the hot-google-altavista and thinks he's an expert on some issue that is way over his head.
johnmusacha wrote:
Then there is the issue of some child who uses the hot-google-altavista and thinks he's an expert on some issue that is way over his head.
And that's the person you are asking via the forums.
I believe in the wisdom of the crowd. Even a thousand idiots working together can come up with good ideas and come up with a close approximation of "the truth." That may sound snotty but I mean that in a good way. Our collective society is pretty cool like that.
Up the plebs!!!
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johnmusacha wrote:
I believe in the wisdom of the crowd. Even a thousand idiots working together can come up with good ideas and come up with a close approximation of "the truth." That may sound snotty but I mean that in a good way. Our collective society is pretty cool like that.
And when those thousands tell you to google the answer you're looking for?
No tact whatsoever.
SmyslovFan wrote:
johnmusacha wrote:
I believe in the wisdom of the crowd. Even a thousand idiots working together can come up with good ideas and come up with a close approximation of "the truth." That may sound snotty but I mean that in a good way. Our collective society is pretty cool like that.
And when those thousands tell you to google the answer you're looking for?
Then will we have hit a new bottom in human interaction without parallel since the Kitty Genovese case of 1964.
Senator-Blutarsky wrote:
winerkleiner wrote:
Someone could just flip you a dime to buy a new one?
Blutarsky replied:
No, I wasn't looking to buy a pencil.
Darn and I had one for sale.
Why didn't you google that? Try telling them that.
Nice pun, right?
I think someone is just upset that, by using google, you can render obsolete a lot of specialized knowledge gained over the years.
I agree.
Ubik42 wrote:
I think someone is just upset that, by using google, you can render obsolete a lot of specialized knowledge gained over the years.
The value of a classical liberal education is that it can never be rendered obsolete by newer and faster ways of accessing "facts". The benefit of education is that it teaches you how to think at a high level. A learned well read gentleman should also possess a certain broad cultural background upon which he weaves his "facts" and thinking. None of this can be replaced by the internet.
For instance, any fool can read about the Battle of Hastings on Wikipedia. However, will this person be able to intelligently discuss the modern signficance of the battle, or how the significance of the same was viewed differently in the nineteenth century, and why?
I think not. The most the "googler" will be prepared to stammer out is "uh...well, the Anglo-Saxons were defeated by the Normans."
Am going to have to call POO on this.