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Chimpanzees Beat out Children in Reasoning Test
caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has a story on how chimpanzees seem to exhibit a better understanding of cause and effect than human children. While training chimps to perform a routine task with redundant steps, the chimps were able to figure out and eliminate the redundant steps, while the human children routinely performed them despite their evident uselessness. It says something about the way we learn compared to chimps and should be interesting to cognitive scientists and those interested in computational learning theory, at the least."
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Speaking of redundant and useless actions...
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Speaking of redundant and useless actions...
Wow, a presidential intelligence joke! Original! Perhaps you're the person I should be asking, then: what, really, is the deal with airline food?
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The deal with airline food is that it was always provided as part of the fare or lagniappe, not an itemized cost to the fare.
The problem started when those people started to complain about the quality of 'free' things and how if they pay $X hundred amount for a fare, good food should come with it and the cost of transportation should be given for free.
Well I'm sory Mr. bitchy cheap complainer passenger (not directed to the parent poster unless you are one of those complainers), that's what first class is for. To expect the same quality food for coach that first class gets is just retarded but your little pea brain just doesn't get it. Did you know that you could actually request a better meal for free if you requested it a day in advance Mr. compainer??? No, you didn't. You're the type that doesn't prepare and expect everybody to wait hand and foot on YOU just because YOU spent $X hundred dollars let alone the rest of the fare paying passengers you selfish twit.
So then complaints about food created a windstorm where most people (like me) didn't really care. You're on a goddamn plane ride getting from point A to point B, not eating at a first class restaurant that provides transportation services. That pressure caused the air transportation industry to react and do something stupid for the long haul. They were forced to have 'better' meals as a cost.
But Mr. Bitch didn't want to pay for it then fuel costs went up. Oh crap. So if someone complains about something (think 'squeaky wheel'), they're [the airline industry] going to oil the squeak. Well they can't get rid of the passenger so how about we get rid of the meals altogether so they don't have something to complain about.
Good going f*tard. Now we all starve.
So now, if you want to eat, you have to f*king pay extra to eat now for alot more crappier choices than before. $7.00 for a crappy cold biscuit, a cookie, and piece of cheese doesn't cut it Mr. complainer where before you could get an omlette, warm danish, , biscuit with jelly AND a cup of fruit - for FREE.
It's ironic that I'm complaining about complainers but I'm a good passenger. I hate bad passengers and cell phones in theatres.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
Your logic breaks at this point:
But Mr. Bitch didn't want to pay for it then fuel costs went up. Oh crap. So if someone complains about something (think 'squeaky wheel'), they're [the airline industry] going to oil the squeak. Well they can't get rid of the passenger so how about we get rid of the meals altogether so they don't have something to complain about.
Your assumption was that when faced with some people complaining about the quality of the meals the airlines decided to remove meals from coach in flights all together. From your implied causal relation (complainers complaining => airlines remove meals) you go into a enourmous rant.
How about if the airlines removed meals to reduce costs because of rising fuel costs and/or increased competition from budget airlines?
I reckon that if we use this assumption instead we can rant all the way up to SUV owners, the chinese industry (big consumers of raw materials) and/or people that choose to fly with budget airlines instead of with "normal" ones.
what, really, is the deal with airline food?
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Even good food will be less tasty on a plane, since the low pressure makes your taste buds less sensitive.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/05/16/bt.food.