If I doubt the truth of something I say (such as repeating a dubious factoid from another source), but am not lying -- how would that show up on such a test??
There's one that I've been getting the odd mailing from since 1994ish... can't think of the name of the outfit offhand, but it's some sort of multi-business marketing outfit (at various times they've offered such diverse products as ocean cruises and law libraries) Far as I could determine when I looked 'em up, they are legit, kindof like a bigger version of DAK's gadget factory.
And once in a while I get an email from some Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturer -- usually toys or clothes -- looking for wholesale and retail markets. These are legit companies too -- I've seen their products for sale in local retail shops.
I don't mind this sort since they arrive only rarely, and tend to be brief and polite, with links to a real website with real information.
I looked at the blots several times in the past half hour, and found the results so variable as to be meaningless. What I "see" depends on how large the image presented is, how long I look at it, whether I'm inclined to be serious or silly, and whether I give a damn or not (ie. if I've lost patience with 'em). Does that indicate my mood, my degree of boredom with the images, or some underlying condition??
I submit that this is no better than guesswork based on ANY set of essentially random stimuli, and their only real value is as a historical curiosity.
Several have said that the test's value lies in there being a large body of data. But how valuable is it if the body of data itself is meaningless??
Somewhere outside the orbit of Jupiter. Which explains the aliens.;)
I found what I saw was size-dependent -- I saw different things on the thumbnail and the fullsized plates. But here's what I see as of this instant, on the thumbnails:
1. A six-winged bat. 2. Pair of clowns sitting on stools, playing patticake. 3. Singing waiters carring a big kettle of soup, and who appear to have but one bowtie between them. 4. Worm's eye view of a troll using a jackhammer. 5. Hybrid of bat and Tinkerbell. (What's with the bats, anyway??) 6. Alien spaceship. 7. Two girls about to kiss. 8. Martens or wolverines climbing an Indian totem pole. (Hey! We must have the same psychosis!) 9. The Horsehead Nebula. 10. Crustaceans' garden party. (Tho I like yours better:)
In that case, ANY inkblot should suffice. There is nothing special about these except that by now everyone in the industry knows the typical responses. Is standarization that critical to your ability to make a diagnosis?!
(Well, maybe to collecting from the insurance company...)
If you format a floppy in Win9x, it has an option to make a bootable setup disk. But it needs at least 4mb of RAM since it wants to put all the utils and such onto a RAMdisk. (I still use such a disk for system setup, since I believe all systems need at least SOME sort of DOS... cuz it makes me nuts when I need it and it ain't there! It's still the best way to view Windows' underpinnings.)
However, lacking that... good old "SYS C: A:" from any W9x box will make a bootable floppy that will work anywhere, and only needs about 100k of disk space, so even a 360k 5" floppy will do.
And of course, my next move is always to add a copy of Vern Buerg's immortal LIST.:D
On average you'll need to cough up for a major repair about every three years -- but it's still cheaper than making monthly payments.
Realworld example: average major repair on my paid-for truck: $700, once every 3-4 years. Average monthly payment on a newer truck: $400 per month, every month. Gee, which one is more economical??
"Why not just work out some kind of a deal with the occupant?"
As I've heard it, because the tax writeoff (and with those marginal loans, the gov't reimbursement for the loss) far exceeds the salable value of such houses.
Well, if you've been doin' the swearing for her... she just hasn't developed any backbone. Time to let her grow up a bit and take on the responsibility of swearing on her own when she needs it.;)
Seriously... little kids tend to cry or not cry when hurt or surprised, depending on what they believe their parents *expect* them to do. By now it's a little late to control which reaction she's habituated to, and she may be using it for attention without realizing it, or simply doing what she thinks you expect, also without conscious thought.
And when we have an RFID card that you're required to carry at all times... if you're using a public sidewalk or city park, it charges you a "pedestrian tax" based on duration and location. Stores could charge a micropayment for window shopping, and a wear-and-tear payment for walking in the door. The ballpark could charge you a spectator fee based on how long you stood outside peering through that hole in the outfield fence. And so on...
This all sounds absurd right now, but is perfectly doable... and it's not like absurd has stopped 'em in the past.:/
My sister has an opposite reaction. When she encounters something swearworthy (such as hammering her thumb), she puffs up like she's about to explode, and can't get a word out. I'll come up and say "Shit fuck damn hell sonuvabitch" and it's like someone let the air out of my sister -- and she feels better even tho she didn't do the swearing!!
If this were the Old West, he'd find himself tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. Unfortunately, our politicians no longer face such consequences for their actions.
The sad thing is, he was elected after a recall (or attempted recall, I don't remember how it went -- I live just outside the city limits) of the previous mayor, whom people were mad at for firing the city manager.
I'd also like to know how one maintains a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' in your own back yard (even with a 'privacy fence'), when Big Brother's Spy Eye is passing overhead... and how we who are not technically city residents can avoid its scrutiny, since there is really nothing to prevent air surveillance from going whither it will... Lancaster sprawls across a 30-mile-long stretch of desert, so to patrol many parts of the city, you'd be forced to fly over a lot of unincorporated area. It's all one law enforcement division anyway, tho, since the city of Lancaster contracts with the L.A. County Sheriff dept.
Hey! I've got a great idea. Someone should tether a surveillance balloon where it can peer down into Mr.Parris' yard! What's good for the goose... oh, you say the gander doesn't like it??! Whoda thunk??
Very interesting. Would be fun to run every artwork through the process, to see what the artist did during its creation...
Or afterward, as the case may be: A friend had an 18th century portrait (near-life-sized of a child on a pony) that has clearly had a new person's head grafted onto an existing portrait's neck (photoshopping the old-fashioned way!:) and it would be fun to see who it was originally. Apparently this was often done to save on the cost of hiring the artist for a full portrait.
True, but all the rest will work fine. And if you have a memory card, those come with their own memory driver. (My 286 has one.) The cards are available up to 16mb, tho most that you'll find floating around are only 2mb.
You mean would I rather live with the Crips and Bloods, or with overbearing cops?? with anarchy or with tyranny??
Fact is the gangs are a trivial part of life in this city, whereas overbearing cops impact not only gangs but also the law-abiding. So if I had to pick one to live with -- I'd pick the gangs.
And for those not aware, our mayor has already stated in so many words that he has no problem with trampling the rights of law-abiding citizens, if doing so will discourage the gangs.
Crime rate here is about 3x the national average, but right in line with the rest of California, so that is just a thin excuse. This is about the mayor's power trip, not crime. See my posts above.
Slashdot Mirror
If I doubt the truth of something I say (such as repeating a dubious factoid from another source), but am not lying -- how would that show up on such a test??
Are you sure this isn't an Irwin Allen production??
Gods, no -- what if it makes them GROW??!!!
There's one that I've been getting the odd mailing from since 1994ish... can't think of the name of the outfit offhand, but it's some sort of multi-business marketing outfit (at various times they've offered such diverse products as ocean cruises and law libraries) Far as I could determine when I looked 'em up, they are legit, kindof like a bigger version of DAK's gadget factory.
And once in a while I get an email from some Chinese or Taiwanese manufacturer -- usually toys or clothes -- looking for wholesale and retail markets. These are legit companies too -- I've seen their products for sale in local retail shops.
I don't mind this sort since they arrive only rarely, and tend to be brief and polite, with links to a real website with real information.
I looked at the blots several times in the past half hour, and found the results so variable as to be meaningless. What I "see" depends on how large the image presented is, how long I look at it, whether I'm inclined to be serious or silly, and whether I give a damn or not (ie. if I've lost patience with 'em). Does that indicate my mood, my degree of boredom with the images, or some underlying condition??
I submit that this is no better than guesswork based on ANY set of essentially random stimuli, and their only real value is as a historical curiosity.
Several have said that the test's value lies in there being a large body of data. But how valuable is it if the body of data itself is meaningless??
Somewhere outside the orbit of Jupiter. Which explains the aliens. ;)
I found what I saw was size-dependent -- I saw different things on the thumbnail and the fullsized plates. But here's what I see as of this instant, on the thumbnails:
1. A six-winged bat. :)
2. Pair of clowns sitting on stools, playing patticake.
3. Singing waiters carring a big kettle of soup, and who appear to have but one bowtie between them.
4. Worm's eye view of a troll using a jackhammer.
5. Hybrid of bat and Tinkerbell. (What's with the bats, anyway??)
6. Alien spaceship.
7. Two girls about to kiss.
8. Martens or wolverines climbing an Indian totem pole. (Hey! We must have the same psychosis!)
9. The Horsehead Nebula.
10. Crustaceans' garden party. (Tho I like yours better
In that case, ANY inkblot should suffice. There is nothing special about these except that by now everyone in the industry knows the typical responses. Is standarization that critical to your ability to make a diagnosis?!
(Well, maybe to collecting from the insurance company...)
If you format a floppy in Win9x, it has an option to make a bootable setup disk. But it needs at least 4mb of RAM since it wants to put all the utils and such onto a RAMdisk. (I still use such a disk for system setup, since I believe all systems need at least SOME sort of DOS... cuz it makes me nuts when I need it and it ain't there! It's still the best way to view Windows' underpinnings.)
However, lacking that... good old "SYS C: A:" from any W9x box will make a bootable floppy that will work anywhere, and only needs about 100k of disk space, so even a 360k 5" floppy will do.
And of course, my next move is always to add a copy of Vern Buerg's immortal LIST. :D
And don't panic when that old car needs repairs.
On average you'll need to cough up for a major repair about every three years -- but it's still cheaper than making monthly payments.
Realworld example: average major repair on my paid-for truck: $700, once every 3-4 years. Average monthly payment on a newer truck: $400 per month, every month. Gee, which one is more economical??
"Why not just work out some kind of a deal with the occupant?"
As I've heard it, because the tax writeoff (and with those marginal loans, the gov't reimbursement for the loss) far exceeds the salable value of such houses.
Your tax dollars at, uh, work.
I know other folks who are the same -- they can't bring themselves to swear, but sure are relieved when someone else does it for them! :)
I guess it's kind of like gutting your own meat. Some folks can do it, and others don't want to see it til it gets to the table!
Well, if you've been doin' the swearing for her... she just hasn't developed any backbone. Time to let her grow up a bit and take on the responsibility of swearing on her own when she needs it. ;)
Seriously... little kids tend to cry or not cry when hurt or surprised, depending on what they believe their parents *expect* them to do. By now it's a little late to control which reaction she's habituated to, and she may be using it for attention without realizing it, or simply doing what she thinks you expect, also without conscious thought.
Well, you Brits are way ahead of us on this 1984 stuff. You're up to about 2010 already, and we're stuck back about 1982 or so! ;)
Just put the personal RFID chip in the cellphone, which nowadays most people have had surgically implanted in their ears. Problem solved!
And when we have an RFID card that you're required to carry at all times... if you're using a public sidewalk or city park, it charges you a "pedestrian tax" based on duration and location. Stores could charge a micropayment for window shopping, and a wear-and-tear payment for walking in the door. The ballpark could charge you a spectator fee based on how long you stood outside peering through that hole in the outfield fence. And so on...
This all sounds absurd right now, but is perfectly doable... and it's not like absurd has stopped 'em in the past. :/
Aside from the RFID chip painting a target on Americans abroad... what use IS it, when foreign passports don't have the same chip??
Since the idea is to carry the passport when you are in some OTHER country, not while you're at home!
I can see the solution for that one, tho... get your RFID chip injected as you cross the U.S. border -- in or out!
And when American passports are the only ones that respond to an RFID probe... kinda paints a target on you while in foreign lands, eh?
My sister has an opposite reaction. When she encounters something swearworthy (such as hammering her thumb), she puffs up like she's about to explode, and can't get a word out. I'll come up and say "Shit fuck damn hell sonuvabitch" and it's like someone let the air out of my sister -- and she feels better even tho she didn't do the swearing!!
So... apparently swearing via proxy also works.
If this were the Old West, he'd find himself tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail. Unfortunately, our politicians no longer face such consequences for their actions.
The sad thing is, he was elected after a recall (or attempted recall, I don't remember how it went -- I live just outside the city limits) of the previous mayor, whom people were mad at for firing the city manager.
I'd also like to know how one maintains a 'reasonable expectation of privacy' in your own back yard (even with a 'privacy fence'), when Big Brother's Spy Eye is passing overhead ... and how we who are not technically city residents can avoid its scrutiny, since there is really nothing to prevent air surveillance from going whither it will... Lancaster sprawls across a 30-mile-long stretch of desert, so to patrol many parts of the city, you'd be forced to fly over a lot of unincorporated area. It's all one law enforcement division anyway, tho, since the city of Lancaster contracts with the L.A. County Sheriff dept.
Hey! I've got a great idea. Someone should tether a surveillance balloon where it can peer down into Mr.Parris' yard! What's good for the goose... oh, you say the gander doesn't like it??! Whoda thunk??
Very interesting. Would be fun to run every artwork through the process, to see what the artist did during its creation...
Or afterward, as the case may be: A friend had an 18th century portrait (near-life-sized of a child on a pony) that has clearly had a new person's head grafted onto an existing portrait's neck (photoshopping the old-fashioned way! :) and it would be fun to see who it was originally. Apparently this was often done to save on the cost of hiring the artist for a full portrait.
Now I'm curious... got any examples online that I could look at, of IR vs VIS?
Thanks -- Fileshack wouldn't speak to me, so this helps. :)
True, but all the rest will work fine. And if you have a memory card, those come with their own memory driver. (My 286 has one.) The cards are available up to 16mb, tho most that you'll find floating around are only 2mb.
You mean would I rather live with the Crips and Bloods, or with overbearing cops?? with anarchy or with tyranny??
Fact is the gangs are a trivial part of life in this city, whereas overbearing cops impact not only gangs but also the law-abiding. So if I had to pick one to live with -- I'd pick the gangs.
And for those not aware, our mayor has already stated in so many words that he has no problem with trampling the rights of law-abiding citizens, if doing so will discourage the gangs.
This isn't law enforcement, it is tyranny.
Crime rate here is about 3x the national average, but right in line with the rest of California, so that is just a thin excuse. This is about the mayor's power trip, not crime. See my posts above.