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I could title this, 1 sure way to know you’re winning a debate, but that may not necessarily be true.

Eventually, if you argue a hot enough topic long enough and well enough, your opposer will eventually have had… enough!

There are so many logical fallacies people use in debates without knowing it, but the really bad ones seem to present themsevles in the death throws of an argument.
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I’ve been privy to several good topical debates lately (without provocation I might add) and most of them really pointed out how people ‘hear’ a debate.

Have you ever started arguing with someone only to find 10 minutes later that you were arguing points on two different topics all together? Someone has to give the ‘Oh, I thought you were talking about (personal topic in mind here), not (other person’s personal topic)’.

So, much to the chagrin of two avid debaters, there has, in fact, been no debate at all. I think this happens even when two or more persons do agree they are arguing on the same topic.

Arguing on the same topic is counter-productive to arguing on the same point.
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I went out with some friends this weekend for the usual round of drinks and talk and pool games. One of them is from South Dakota and she told us this story about her dad going to this building demolition in ‘downtown’ Sioux Falls.

I laughed at the notion of a city that small having a downtown, but she said they had 2 or 3 buildings with more than 3 stories. Sure enough, I’m perusing digg.com and come across this video of the building demolition.

How crappy with the concept of explosion do you have to be to fudge this one up?

Rating: 4/5 stars – the plot line leads to an excellent sense of laughter, but I would have been happier with total destruction including large Hollywood fireballs.

Enjoy!

So, you’re on the Web!

Don’t hide it, how else would you have gotten here?

Now, think quick and go google the word ‘failure’ and see what comes up.

I guess… I’m left with no choice but admit that Al Gore and some democrats did, indeed, invent or at least took silent partnership in the Internet. That or… could google be a socialist regime?

Light.

It’s the most observed radiation by humans and probably one of the more interesting energy forms. Nothing travels faster than light that we know of and few energies reach as far through the universe as light can. As matter approaches the speed of light, it approaches it’s transformation into energy.

Einstein’s observations of light gave birth to modern Quantum mechanics; that field of science that took Einstein’s predictable Universe and made it a matter of best guesses. Einstein spent the rest of his life trying to debunk what is now known as the Heisenburg uncertainty principle.
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*Disclaimer: I’m neither an IT professional, nor do I proclaim any 1337 abilities (that’s leet or elite for you noobs) with any programming or computer know how. I’ve neither extensively studied the progressive field of information technology, nor do I research its trends on any regular basis. At best, I’m an enthusiest of technology and computers whom often experiments with new software and ideas with a fine beer or mixed drink in hand.

That being said, I’ve had some thoughts about the world of news, information and data lately. I separate data out from information because, in my mind, it’s more about the actual bits and numbers while information is what you can churn out from data. News is a presentation of information that’s either been churned up from data, or is plainly obvious without the need to churn from data or information.
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I’m reading Ray Charle’s autobiography. It’s nothing the IntellectualElite would probably have on their book list, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t somehow interesting. Then again, we aren’t all in the television audience.

Before reality television, people had this same fascination with other people’s lives, they just had to read about it. Autobiographies and biographies were the ways we looked into other peoples’ lives. We used to learn through first person or second person, but now we are oddly satisfied with third person.

And that should come as odd. It’s the worst view, yet i tseems we feel the most justified with it. Pause for one honest second and realize the downside to a third-person viewpoint. Instead of clouding the truth of a person’s life with his/her bias, or in the second-person viewpoint where someone has taken time to really study the matter, we suddenly put our own ability to judge a situation as paramount to either.
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