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or, the lasing of an infovore [thanx to an old friend] - joe (I don't know why this rang a bell) friday
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Dang--I had to read all the way to the end!
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Infavore: Someone who devours information but doesn't know what to do with it? ...Theres that fandangled question mark again.
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People presumably are smarter than cats, and as we become more familiar with the Web and its torrent of information, maybe we'll do a better job learning what is useful and what isn't. An interesting article, but this last point is a bit moot. It's only valid if we are exposing ourselves to both useful and useless information in order to be able to sift the former out of the latter. This is unlikely, since most people don't really "surf" anymore (going from hotlink to hotlink just to see where it takes them). The modern webuser has a select set of pet interests and sites to which he keeps going back.
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opioids.So those are the little bastards  . Fortunately in the last sentence there's a shimmer of hope. How to become a moderate poster
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Interesting article, tsuwm. Thoughts flitting through:
1. He makes cats out to be fairly stoopid, yet then asserts they are capable of finding "a causal link between the pointer and the shimmering light", and of coming "to a wrong conclusion".
2. Hydra, although you are correct about people not surfing link to link much anymore, I find myself doing a lot of sifting! When I am looking for information, I have my "pet" sites to check, but if those prove unhelpful, I'm reduced to Googling and sifting.
3. Screw opioids; I'm sticking with chocolate....
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One of our cats loves playing with the laser and the other flat ignores it. The one who loves it has made the connection between the pointer and the light. How the person Mr. Gomes has managed to determine how the cat has decided that the "the pointer is the container that holds the prey" I wouldn't know. Must be he's a cat psychic. Personally I think our one cat is willing to suspend disbelief and the other isn't.
In a related story, I can always tell the difference between useful* information and useless* information; if I remember it it's useless.
*Why do we retain the double letter in the suffix -less but not in the suffix ful(l)?
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*Why do we retain the double letter in the suffix -less but not in the suffix ful(l)? a *great question. (i.e., one I've always meant to ask someone.)  - joe (tufthunter is just another word for toady) friday
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*Why do we retain the double letter in the suffix -less but not in the suffix ful(l)? Maybe so we don't get confused on which word it is. So we can tell the difference between, say, pickles and pickless. (There have to be better examples out there, but I can't think of any now.) To avoid having to wonder if the speaker/writer has made up a word: "Feckles? What are feckles?"
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I agree that certainly is a good reason for keeping the second S in -less, but why do we drop the second L in -ful?
The question is up there with why we need the two words, less and fewer for one end of the count/measure inequality but the one more works just fine for the other end?
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