There's some truth for that but still. The requirements are
artificially high.
Sticking with the gaming example, wouldn't you yourself find it odd if
you had a computer that was perfectly capable of running a game far
more demanding than Aero but yet can't run Aero?
With apologies to Mike Hall:
If I may interject:
"Whether I found it 'odd' or not would be determined by the moment itself."
would be an 'acceptable' answer from Jean Paul Sarte.
"Whether I found it 'odd' or not would be determined by the current setting of
a bit." would be an acceptable answer from one given to usage of English on
computers.
I do not know the Hindu answer even though what I do know of that pagan
religion leads me to think it would be something on the line of "Does it
matter? All is 'Maya (illusion)." Then he would start counting the large
beads hanging around his neck, and silently repeat, over and over -- to
Whomever or whatever, only he knew -- "Om Mane Padme Hum, Om Mane Padme Hum."
(In English, "Hail, Jewel in the Lotus." -- which we Westerners take to mean,
"his belly button").
The Muslim answer would be something like "if it be the Will of Allah I will
cut it in half, and it will then be even, rather than 'odd'."
The Fundamentalist Christian would say "If it is in God's Will for the bit to
be 'even', it will be 'even'."
An Eastern Christian would carefully consider the next bit, whether it will be
"odd" or "even", since only he knows that life is controlled by chance, in the
great design of the Creator, and only He controls the next bit. Then he will
sign himself at least once in the Eastern way, from right to left, rather than
left to right, as the Romans do (in ignorance, obviously), and kiss the Rood
hanging around his neck a minimum of three times, while he genuflects before
an ikon of St. Genuflectus the Minor, of Arphaxad, carefully avoiding the
temptation to say the Rosary a few times, in ecumenical fervor.
An Atheistic Darwinist would simply declare that there was a 50% chance it
would be "even", rather than "odd", since Nature, through its "non-Laws" of
Evolution, would have somehow favored "even" over "odd".
A theoretical physicist would say that in our Quantuum Universe, it would be
both "even" and "odd". Then he would write a 1027 page treatise on the
"oddness" of "even", applying it to our sexual life, and he would appear on
Ophrah plugging it, becoming the latest darling of the talk circuit, and his
book would sell a million copies overnight, enabling him to quit the study of
Advanced Physics, and move to Ceylon or the Bahamas, where he would divorce
his wife, and marry a supermodel, becoming a guru for all the Rock Stars, who
spend all their time making it with his wife.
Donald L McDaniel
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