Posts with Comments by smengie

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...
  • 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.
  • [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.
  • 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?
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