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Where are the living Neandertals?
Patrick Ewing is the last of his people.
Superman Returns
That song is part of the score from the original superman. Nothing new.
Bwaaahahahaha!
Girls don't like boys
Girls like cars and money
Boys will laugh at girls
When they're not funny...
Girls like cars and money
Boys will laugh at girls
When they're not funny...
The God of Reason
I'm wondering if anyone here has read the Sci-Fi short story "The Spade of Reason" by Jim Cowan.
It dealt with one of the topics being discussed here; random numbers and their relationship to reason and the idea of free will/divinity. It's really good, though you have to be a computer geek to get the full affect of it.
It dealt with one of the topics being discussed here; random numbers and their relationship to reason and the idea of free will/divinity. It's really good, though you have to be a computer geek to get the full affect of it.
[i]Arrgh! I picked 7. Never a blink. What happened to my ''free will''. Am I also preprogrammed to go to Heaven or Hell?[/i]
us computer programmers know that there is no machine capable of coming up with a truly random series of numbers. It wouldn't surprise me to find that the human mind, being in truth nothing more than a biological machine, cannot come up with truly random numbers either.
us computer programmers know that there is no machine capable of coming up with a truly random series of numbers. It wouldn't surprise me to find that the human mind, being in truth nothing more than a biological machine, cannot come up with truly random numbers either.
I picked 7 as well. The key part is probably "answer the questions as fast as you can". People just do the first equation, which is -2+2 and then scan the rest, realizing the answers are all the same. That way, when it comes time to pick a number between 12 and 5, the number 2 is already implanted in the subconcious and so the majority of people will just simply add 5+2 and get 7. Addition is the simplest math operation to do in your head.
Lustrous Sepharad
"I was quite impressed with Rachel Weisz when I saw her in 'About a Boy'. She has beauty and brains."
Huh? How do you know she has brains just because you saw her in a film?
Huh? How do you know she has brains just because you saw her in a film?

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