>[was: [PEN-L:14852] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Yet another take
>on Hubbert's peak]
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>> > > > But I guess a glass at 50% capacity is always half empty.
>> > >
>> > > pessimist: the glass is half empty.
>> > >
>> > > optimist: the glass is half full.
>> > >
>> > > realist: it's half a glass of water.
>> > >
>> > > surrealist: it's a cow.
>> > >
engineer: the glass is badly designed, being twice as big as it needs to be.
Socrates: are you in the process of filling it or of drinking from it?
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things
are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)
