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Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers
I've never given much credence to the "only use 10% of our brains" urban legend, but this article,
Savant for a Day,
is making me reconsider. I'd like to see controlled, double-blind studies, but Snyder's machine already sounds very interesting -- hey, anyone can
learn to draw,
but I want to flip a switch to put my brain into calculator mode. EM-brain experimentation has taken off since
Michael Persinger's work and
other recent research.
I want to flip a switch and get 30 FPS in doom 3
Banaaaana!
Brian May has amazing powers!
Szo
Red Leader Standing By!
...to make everybody else stop using their 10%, thus giving you the edge you need to succeed in life.
The Mentats are among us...
End of lesson. You may press the button.
Hmm, do they use these wondrous brain powers to make up stories? Is that how they do it?
... to put my brain in "counting cards" mode.
Now, off to watch Wapner. Six minutes till Wapner.
The USB forum has named the two kinds of brain power 'Full Brain Power' and 'High-speed Brain Power'. Both are now collectively known as Brain Power 2.0.
if your brain was in calculator mode you would find like 40000 variations of "BOOBLESS"
Michael Angelo. Hmmm, wasn't he in the original Menudo? OH WAIT! You meant Michaelangelo Buonarroti the renaissance man. Stupid brain, I'll teach you to only work at 10% capacity!
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Lesson for other meta-suckers: Don't believe the hype!
And that is why we exist - because the other 90% is being used by our evil masters.
We are more efficient than silicon so they use us.
genious eh?
Why is it so common to refer to people who live in trailer parks as stupid and poor? How about if I said 'slums'? Why is it okay to pick on rural white poor as being stupid and inbred, but not inner city minorities?
Who said it wasn't okay to make fun of welfare-dependant, don't-know-who-the-daddy-is ghetto trash? In fact, i'd put in-bred rural white poor above ghetto trash, because in theory, they at least pay for their own housing, instead of living in a HUD project.
The lower rungs of any particular ethnic group, city, country, or whatever, are always fair game for mockery. If you think there's some kind of limits based on race, then you've been hanging out with far too many pansy-ass 'politically correct' types. Do us all a favor, and piss them off whenever possible.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
I gotta check pubmed, read some materials and methods.
I would rather get on my cell phone and say "Tank, I need a pilot program for a V-212 helicopter."
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Having been in a position to...ahem...stare at such textures...I agree with you. Tuning out the detail makes it easier to see the 'that lion's about to eat me' picture.
Everytime I see a posting here about a website I crash it with my mind.
Will power baby.
Works everytime!
I will answer this one directly. I used to work for a truck rental business. One day I get a call to go change a tire for a renter, who got a flat in a trailer park. He broke the jack, and needed a replacement. So I run over with a brand new jack salvaged from one of our other trucks, some tools, and a whole lot of innocence.
When I find the truck, I find half of a steak knife protruding from the tire. I ask the guy what happened, and he told me that he was hired to pick up all the junk in the trailer park, and had inadvertantly picked up a guy's collection of aluminum cans. The canowner disapproved of this and came bursting out of the trailer with a knife, and jammed it into the tire.
I looked at the guy who rented the truck, half in amazement, half in bewilderment, then promptly dropped the tools and jack right in front of him, told him I'm not being paid enough to stick around here. Good fucking luck! and left the trailer park as fast as was safely possible.
I still have the knife tip in my toolbox as a souvenir, and a reminder of how crazy people can be. And that's all people, because I've met more than my fair share of them.
Due to the fact that crazy people generally don't make as much money as the sane ones, and people don't get paid for being stupid (unless they're on MTV), I think that it's a safe bet that you're going to find more crazy and stupid people in a trailer park than in, say, Beverly Hills.
And don't blame me, I didn't set the world up this way, it just kind of happened.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
Which turns out to be a miserable technique when you are trying to sculpt a monkey...
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... "I must stop reading Slashdot!"
;o)
I'm afraid you have little chance of stopping. Slashdot uses Variable Ratio/Interval Positive Reinforcement to keep you here. Can't remember the difference right now, but it's a most effective behavior modification tool.
Better just post again. Your next post might get modded all the way up to 5! Check back often to see if you have a new high score. Come on, you know you want to.
You forgot some stats :
Elephant: brain = 5kg, body = 5000kg, 0.1%
Dairy Cow: brain = 400g, body = 500kg, 0.08%
Human: brain = 1.3kg, body = 65kg, 2%
American: brain = 400g, body = 150kg, 0.27%
All that is needed to complete this picture is for the Doc to sigh out:
My God! Do you know what this tells me? It tells me
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
...now I'll finally be able to solve the Rubik's cube I got for Christmas in 1983.
You stole the guy's knife?
True, but many of the larger dinosaurs also had a nerve sac in their asses.
Forget dinsaurs. I know people who have half their brains in their ass.
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In other news, SCO has claimed that 10% of the human brain contains unlicensed code owned by SCO. In a breif press confrence, a PR representative from SCO hinted at plants to sue God, and possibly revoke his license.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose