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Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:44:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:

  Metaphysical rumination:

  If a thread is redirected, but the thread dies before
  any posts can be "redirected," has the thread actually
  been redirected?

  (Is the cat in the box alive or dead?  Is that why Schulz
  picked "Schroeder" and not "Schroedinger?")

  LFB

  (In either case, this thread *has* been redirected, even if
  I do kill it.  Not the cat, the thread.)

But you cannot know whether you've killed it until someone opens the box, which
I suppose I've just done.  So you didn't kill it, but now maybe I will (not
the cat, the thread).

(And why a cat rather than a dog?? I suppose a dog might upset the hypothetical
apparatus before it could be properly set up...)

Maggie C.



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  Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
 
(...) Sorry, I couldn't let you do that. Killing is morally wrong! Except when yur personal safety is at risk. Don't kill anyone, Maggie!! (...) I wonder if they actually tried it - and how many times was the cat found dead? And how many posts (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
 
(...) Metaphysical rumination: If a thread is redirected, but the thread dies before any posts can be "redirected," has the thread actually been redirected? (Is the cat in the box alive or dead? Is that why Schulz picked "Schroeder" and not (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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