Re: Profiling in the News: Was: RE: Taxonomies, URN's etc..

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

At 10:38 PM +0100 8/29/01, Sean B. Palmer wrote:
>  > Ok.  So you turn to your girlfriend and
>>  say "That dog by the lamppost is ugly!" and
>>  she replies, "No, she is a very beautiful
>>  lady."   Can you determine who is right?
>
>I very much doubt that that event would ever occur, so why would I want to
>determine who is right?
>
>Hyopthetically though, I would probably substitute my own particular
>ontological terms for "dog" and "lamppost" for a start, and then I would
>count the number of objects which, in my option, would make good candidates
>as belonging to the classes. Taking "n" to be the number of
>lamppost-attracted-object instances in close proximity to the instance
>lamppost-like-objects, we can ascertain that the girlfriend would be right,
>because girlfriends are always right.
>
>>  Rather than meditate, tonight I will return
>>  to the fountain of all wisdom on the modern
>>  world, Looney Tunes, and try to figure out
>>  how Bugs and Daffy solve this problem.
>
>Was Wayne (from "Wayne's World") the only character in the world to ever
>think that Bugs Bunny dressed up a girl was sexy?

One can hope.

Ciao,
Rex

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>Sean B. Palmer
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