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[Idle musing]Being fair, though, I think the rational actor (or at least rational observer) would necessarily find that the pinkness (or lack thereof) of the Invisible Unicorn is actually irrelevant. If you don't have a measure of pinkness (i.e. the object is invisible and its color cannot be observed by your methods of observation), then the pinkness, insofar as the burden of consideration re: the actor is concerned, functionally does not exist. You can't say or see anything about it, it has no way of impacting your decision making, etc., so forth, so on.

The appropriate thing to do is disregard the light wavelength and either start molesting the unicorn to figure out what shape it is or pull out an infra-red scope or something. Appeals to the pinkness are irrelevant until you have a means to identify the pinkness. That doesn't necessarily mean you don't have other (perfectly acceptable means of justification) ways of identifying the unicorn.[/idle musing]

Point being that appeals to justification beyond light wavelength as to the nature of the unicorn is preferable to only justification by nature of light wavelength, and if the rational actor lacks the latter then they must turn to the former and, should there be no former, note they have no justification and find something more important than unicorn ogling to do with their time.

I totally understand the terror of the human predator better, this day. Just chased a young chicken around to the point it more or less fell over and gave up, just by casually walking after it for a few minutes.
 E: Should I spoiler that big chunk of text? Maybe? Spoilered the meat of it, due to somewhat obnoxiously large size.

Wonder how an illustrated version of "Little Bunny Van Gogh" would play out...

Considering it would apparently start with the ear thing, probably hilari-- horrifically.

You mean the liquefied bones of old dead chickens. Something like that. Was either that or really rotten lettuce, but whatever.

Anyway, something something biblical excuse for unfettered short-term exploitation end of world good thing something something.

I'm not entirely sure the US would even notice.

Well, I do guess it holds, uh. .03? Percent of the population. That... matters? I guess. I dunno. Why is rhode island a state, again? It's kinda' tiny.

Quote from: Loud Whispers on November 08, 2012, 04:40:08 pm

One border;
Skill

:<

Skill is a product of practice.

Sometimes. A quadruple amputee cannot juggle to the same degree as a person with four limbs. Some of us don't get better no matter how much we practice. Years and years of attempts at producing art...

Best I've managed is zen tangles. Hurry up, genetic engineering! Don't curse people with whatever the hell people like me get stuck with.

I would pay a significant sum (if I had any money, anyway) to see a six inch blanket of snow cover north florida.

You think you've seen apocalypse fervor? That would bring shit like you've never seen. The utter hilarity and panic of it would be mind-blowing. There's a good chunk of the population down here that have never even seen snow in person.

Downside being the likelyhood of a massive increase of road casualties due to freaking nobody knowing how to drive in snow. But. Maybe worth it, for the spectacle.

Currently Obama's in the lead, at 4,143,362 to 4,096,346, but no winner has been declared.

Oh. No clue, then. Haven't heard anything. Guess they're still counting and want to be thorough. E: It's 4,161,864 to 4,110,272 by the florida unofficial count thingy, though.