Hmmmm; is there something there that we're not supposed to be reading into that?
Whether it's half empty or half full, I prefer to have the philosophical optimistic view and say it's always half full. Having a positive outlook on life is more important. c.i.
Hmmmm. If there's a fifty-fifty chance I won't be hurt by jumping off a building, I'll take the pessimistic view and behave as though I will be (unless there's a fire or an auditor at my back).
55th floor so far so good eh ?
I always say "Someone drank out of that...."
The standard rules of etiquette reguire that when encountering a half full (or empty) glass, that one spitt into it, so that for the next person to come along, it will be more than half full.
Common decency!
Mathmatically speaking, if a glass was both half full (.50) and half empty(-.50), it would be neither. The positive would cancel out the negative, leaving just the glass (0).
Now, if the glass is half full of water(.50) and half full of air (.50) you have a two part suspension. Assuming the air was pure oxygen [hey, I took chemistry once in high school don't expect much] (H2O [.50] + O2 [.50]) = 1 part H203. If you want, you can insert nitrogen and pollutants, and all that other stuff in air.
Water is egregious to fire. So I'd say the glass is half-spoiled with water, when all air would be so much better!
Hot air is not necessary, as long as sufficient oxygen is present for combustion.
I think no one would disagree that all our glasses are completely "FULL" of "hot air"!
But air is mostly nitrogen.
Anyway, -.50 and +.50 presupposes two different zero values for the glass. If the glass is at zero state when it's full, then half-empty or half-full is -.50. If it's at zero state when it's empty, half-empty/half-full is +.50.
If the glass is in New Jersey, the question is moot, because you don't want to drink the water anyway.
What if the glass is the size of an ocean, and made mostly of rocks and sand?
Then it's time to do the dishes.
half full, with traces of the previous user's lip marks.
WAITER!! A NEW GLASS!
It's all empty. Read.
Here's a little gem to make you grin!
A southern minister was completing a temperance sermon.
With great expression he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."
With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world I'd take it and pour it into the river."
And then finally, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."
Sermon complete, he then sat down. The song leader
stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, "For our closing song, let us sing Hymn #365: "Shall We Gather at the River.'"
Re: half full? half empty?
well technically wouldnt it be hard to be half full or half empty on the atomic level i mean that would be some precise pouring a rare occurance and even then who is to say where the glass ends on atom on one side might be higher then the other side of the glass but to the naked eye no one can tell
Half full, half empty ... what's the big deal? Somebody's gonna hafta wash the damned thing sooner or later, 'less it gets broke first, then there's that mess ta deal with
Re: half full? half empty?
That depends of the part that has water and the part that hasn't. Do you think that the part that doesn't have water is still a glass of water (or even half a glass of water)? In the part without water, you have a glass, in the other part you have a glass of water. So we have indeed two glasses. One is a glass of water. See how simple is to multiply the breads (or glasses)?
c.i.
