The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google

Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by chris_wot on Saturday January 17, 2015 @05:51AM (#8904062)

I once tried to find out on Wikipedia whether goldfish really have ten second attention spans. I learned that in Nix vs. Heddon the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by minikites on Saturday January 17, 2015 @08:42AM (#8904315)

Also, X-men toys are "toys" not "dolls" because they're non-human. X-men fans got mad, heh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by bryanrasmussen on Saturday January 17, 2015 @11:42AM (#8904690)

The X-Men are the next step in doll evolution.

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by chernevik on Saturday January 17, 2015 @02:59PM (#8905333)

Would you please go back and find out about the goldfish? I'm curious, but fear I'd never come back if I went to look for myself.

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by pgy on Saturday January 17, 2015 @05:04PM (#8905681)

Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish#Intelligence

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by chernevik on Saturday January 17, 2015 @06:51PM (#8906031)

Thanks!

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by mikecb on Saturday January 17, 2015 @10:05AM (#8904433)

Under a specific tax statute.

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by olalonde on Saturday January 17, 2015 @08:19AM (#8904274)

Couldn't resist Googling that and there is indeed a Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

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Re:The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google by ableal on Sunday January 18, 2015 @04:17PM (#8908917)

Our tools have been shaping us for millennia, something that a story by Ted Chiang highlights nicely: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of... (via HN this week).

Many years ago, someone wisely said that the problem was not computers thinking like people, it was people thinking like computers.

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