For or Against DIR?

[Uncle Pug]

Scuba once bubbled...
DIR says that your most important piece of equipment is your buddy

But then I realize you were just building a strawman so you could fight against something and have a chance to win.

Oh... the word?

*safety*

See if you can figure out where it goes.

 

[O-ring]

The only possibly interesting thing that can come out of this thread, IMHO, is if whoever voted for "Took a GUE Class and I am against DIR" would explain...

I would like to hear his/her experience and reasoning..

 

[Uncle Pug]

relax O-ring... a thread is a thread is a thread...

No matter what thread it is or in what forum it is found...

The DIRs will still be DIR...

And the anti-DIRs will still be the guys who are struggling against the inevitable...

You can relax... you have already been assimilated.

ut:

 

[Scuba]

Mike,

You better have a good read on your buddies brain before you stake your brain on that claim.

Uncle Pug,

Are you calling a fundamental DIR tenet a "strawman". Please Uncle say it ain't so. I know that was just a slip of the tong. I feel better already.

I'am just a poor old Don Quixote against the DIR WINDmills.

My intent was to point out that what is intended to be said, is not what is actually being said. Communication. Call it shorthand communication, we all use it and mis-use it.

 

[landlocked]

Hey buddy, your in this over your head without a reg. :drown: Time to bail before Pug scores another! (Score Uncle Pug 1 Scuba 0)

 

[Scuba]

Alright landlocked, your right.

Uncle Pug is right about intended meaning, - safety.

But a diver is not a "piece of equipment" unless your willing to stretch the meaning of the word.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Scuba once bubbled...
But a diver is not a "piece of equipment" unless your willing to stretch the meaning of the word.

Sort of a reverse anthropomorphism if you know what I mean...

(Actually it is a metonym but not everyone catchs on to metonomies, like when a newscaster reports, "The White House said today..." and they think a miracle has taken place because the building actually talked!)


Anyway...

The reference to the buddy being equipment... means that his equipment is so arranged to provide back-up equipment for the team (and vise versa) and also that his brain (as already stated) and eyes are also a part of the redundant *equipment* of the team.

The thing that threw you off track was the use of the word *equipment* as a figure of speech.

 

[Scuba]

Thank you Uncle Pug for the explanation.

A diver is a part, piece of equipment, of the team.

Now if only we could all learn to communicate with the precision of Boolean logic used by computers, even though this would be very time consuming for our "greater and lesser" brains. This would probably do away with all the DIR - non DIR debate. Siince we would probably understand what the others are saying and maybe more important - what we are saying. Just imaging what this could do to our world. Naaagghh, it just would'nt be as fun if we all can't be right and wrong at the same time.

 

[jonnythan]

Scuba once bubbled...
Thank you Uncle Pug for the explanation.

A diver is a part, piece of equipment, of the team.

Now if only we could all learn to communicate with the precision of Boolean logic used by computers, even though this would be very time consuming for our "greater and lesser" brains. This would probably do away with all the DIR - non DIR debate. Siince we would probably understand what the others are saying and maybe more important - what we are saying. Just imaging what this could do to our world. Naaagghh, it just would'nt be as fun if we all can't be right and wrong at the same time.

float CalculateSafety(char[], char[], char[]);

void main() {

char whowantstodive;
float DIR, !DIR;

DIR = CalculateSafety('7 foot hose','backplate','wings');
!DIR = CalculateSafety('36 inch hose','jacket','Air2');

printf("Are you a diver?\n");
cin >> whowantstodive;

if (DIR > !DIR)
{
printf("You're a fatality waiting to happen!\n");
}

else if (DIR < !DIR)
{
printf("You bunch of religious wacko morons!\n");
}

else
{
printf("Huh? What?\n");
}

if ( whowantstodive == 'y' || whowantstodive == 'n' )
printf("YAY!");

else
printf("BOO!");

return 0;
}

// I know !DIR isn't proper syntax for a variable
// The CalculateSafety() function can be coded by
// someone else!

 

[divernva]

So much to respond about...

But for the sanity of the board, let's go diving...