Posted by Angielala on February 4, 2005, at 11:34:18
In reply to Picture a beebee in a boxcar..., posted by 64bowtie on February 4, 2005, at 9:47:29
I find that a lot of what I deemed foolish in the past has now become sensible.
Can you throw out beebees that are redundant or now not useful?
> 1. I accept that my 10,000 nuggets of information that are my knowledge base takes up about as much space in the universe of knowledge as what space a beebee takes up in a standard 40 foot railroad boxcar; 'id est' (i.e.) a beebee in a boxcar...
> 2. Since we can put about 1.6 trillion beebees in a standard railroad boxcar, there are 160,000 completely different knowledge bases available, each having about 10,000 uniquely separate nuggets of useful info.
> 3. For me to arrogantly dismiss new or previously unknown information is like my throwing the 'baby out with the bathwater'... dangerously foolish, and silly to boot! Which subset of new nuggets could save my @$$? Which new nuggets could provide me with newer-better-sooner recovery info?
> 4. I'm searching for that boundary between sensible and foolish.
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> Rod
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> PS: 1,617,910,000 beebees in a standard railroad 40 foot long freight carrying boxcar (give or take a few million)... And @ $2.99 per 1000......
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