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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.1
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That's not going to improve his inability to communicate.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq |
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ringo Member (Idle past 670 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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LamrkNewAge writes:
I, for one, have never been bleeped (as far as I know) - and I have used most of the "offensive" words. I think it's more about obsession than the words themselves. If you call everybody a "racist idiot" you might get bleeped. But thanks to my immense vocabulary I can call somebody a racist idiot in several different ways. It makes for more interesting posts (whether I know what I'm talking about or not). Some of my squeaks are bleeped out."I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" -- Lucky Ned Pepper
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Admin Director Posts: 13108 From: EvC Forum Joined:
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The usual reason words are added to someone's disallowed word list is if they've been used persistently while violating the Forum Guidelines. Calling someone a racist or an idiot or ignorant or an ignorant racist idiot once won't do it, but doing it persistently several or more times will draw a warning, and if the behavior continues then words will be added to the list.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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This is delightful. Your brain can be so clever it shows you what the logic, not the reality, thinks should be there.
The circles are rotating but NOT moving off center. I know. I measured, many, many, oh so many times The Circles in This Illusion Actually Aren't Changing Shape or Moving at All, Sorry : ScienceAlert. Further down the article a couple more tweets of examples. The one where the arrows are removed from the image is disturbingly cool.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Percy Member Posts: 22953 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Neat! The first thing I did was cover up the arrows, which as the article later points out makes no difference. The brain is not following cues from the arrows. I then started covering up the circles themselves a little at a time - the illusion persists even when much of the circles aren't visible. For me the illusion disappeared in the circle on the left when around 50% was covered up, while the illusion persisted in the circle on the right even after most of it was covered. The illusion does not require two circles - covering one of them up completely does not diminish the illusion in the remaining circle.
--Percy
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3971 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 7.1
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I registered as member 88 on November 11, 2001.
This will be Moose message 3855, which averages to 192.75 messages per year, or a bit over 1 message every other day. Woopie! Moose
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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This will be Moose message 3855 Rookie numbers.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3971 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 7.1 |
Rookie numbers. "It is better to have people suspect you are stupid, than to post a lot of messages and remove all doubt". Moose
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ringo Member (Idle past 670 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Moose writes:
On the other hand, if you have enough volume, you're bound to get something right once in a while. "It is better to have people suspect you are stupid, than to post a lot of messages and remove all doubt"."I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" -- Lucky Ned Pepper
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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She doesn't get enough credit for the clear no-nonsense science she brings to everything. I'll help spread the word.
CAUTION: Not graphic but she spares no language. Sensitive constitutions should keep a bible handy to protect them from the demons that will flood their minds as they watch. For the rest of us it's a same-old, same-old science video with an interesting topic. Upshot? Doesn't help, doesn't hurt, unless taken to extremes where the side effects can be deadly. The subject matter is a buzz, of course, but her treatment and presentation skills are quite a tickle. The backhanded slaps at the stupid were fewer then some of her other works but the science was deep and, in her hands, the presentation was a hoot. She had fun with this one.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3971 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 7.1
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Apparently this is a meeting of computer technology and soft serve ice cream machines.
The McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hacking Saga Has a New Twist | WIRED The first paragraph:
quote: Moose
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.6
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Here I thought these MD's ice cream machine problems were overblown humorous vignettes of a quite standard machine MTF (mean time to failure) mode. Now we find out it is a world-wide conspiracy with hackers and pirates (all good stories involve pirates - Lance Geiger) and arch villain corporate monsters devouring what scant little remains of customer service by dialing in to break their machines before the ice cream begins to flow. Bastards!
Sheeple of MD's soft serve, you are being manipulated. With decreased supply your demand will grow stronger. The drug of soft serve has captured your soul and will toy with your emotions for the sheer joy of watching you whimper, defeated, as yet another ice cream machine is hacked low. What a world, what a world.Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8654 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 6.6 |
Can't quite explain this but I felt a strong compulsion to place this here.
Eschew obfuscation. Habituate elucidation.
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2620 From: massachusetts US Joined:
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A maker of Catastrophes!!!!
Edited by xongsmith, : No reason given."I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3971 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 7.1
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I was given this at Christmas many years ago. It is now tacked to the wall of my so called office, still in the wrapper.
I guess an alternative product would be to get the pine tree freshener, and hang it from the base of your cats tail. Moose
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