A really smart person should be aware of what a stupid scam all this dating stuff is. Your probabilities of getting laid or finding someone are exactly as high as just doing stuff in the traditional way (going out to places).
And don't tell me about the social inability of "geniuses", I score 19 out of 30 in a test for autism traits and I found a partner and even married.
What this shows is that these "mensan" aren't much more than monkeys trained to do IQ tests and score well in them.
Note that I don't speak out of despise, I score fairly high in IQ tests (i do score in the 98 percentile of a specific test suite and in English which is not my mother tongue, so that I should have a relative handicap, but these were tests made for a professional assessment, not to join a fancy club of quizz-fans) and I am fluent in 5 languages (human not programming ones)...
So, we have a few self proclaimed "geniuses" who don't have a fucking clue about probabilities, believe in marketing hogwash and who's geniality consists in filling in "brain training" type shit (meaning that they haven't even bothered to read any science about the subject).
This clearly demonstrates that a subspecies of Homo sapiens; H. sapiens neandertalensis had after all the same feeding habits than the rest of the Homo sapiens species!! Amazing. Who would have told?
Another spectacular finding for the team of Dr. El Obvio, preferred disciple of Prof. O'Bvious.
Well, actually... ehem.. the West has done what it had to do: Don't give a shit about Ukraine. The last thing the EU needs right now is a steady stream of poor Ukrainians.
While London is getting the big fat money stolen by the Russian Oligarchs from their own government (and our subsidies, BTW). And the USA used the whole thing as a PR campaign to show off how macho they are... of course, nothing to loose and Obama knows his pal Vladimir won't mind a bit of bitching.
Now Ukraine has an agreement with the EU, the Russians are happy, our great Fuhrer Angela is happy and the Righteous, Honest and Smart Mr Cameron is happy.
Nor really, it was a war between Human Resources and the Marketing. The whole thing begun the day the guys from IT started stealing the Friday beer reserved for HR blaming Marketing for it. That's why it's called the "Cold War". Also because in an act of vengeance one of the HR managers sabotaged the airco.
It's marketing people with number crunching data they do not understand.
I was working last year at Comscore and came to know quite a lot of these. Most were absolutely unable to figure out how to calculate an average. This people are the ones in charge of producing the data that their manager (guys and chicks that know how to start Powerpoint with a bit of luck).
This makes that even the people who really have some knowledge in statistics gets crap data so that even if they were geniuses (which they aren't) they would just be able to produce shit.
This doesn't make much sense if you think about it: Even if advertising were effective we receive so many contradictory stimuli that they would either cancel each other or become so chaotic that our buying habits wouldn't be distinguishable from pure random chance.
Indeed. El Nino seems very strong this year after a long period of injury and change of sponsor. He declared that he feels strong and well prepared and will attempt to PR this season.
Seriously mates, in good old Europe we don't have the slightest problem with creationism. Even the strongest Christian believers and most of the muslim consider this crap as batshit crazy as running naked through the streets with a turnip up your ass and a dayglow pink hat.
Well, there are a few minorities like the streng gereformeerde but these are frowned upon and considered even more asocial as radical muslims are.
And no way they teach their crap even at their own schools: Schools here in the EU have to include a series of matters in their curriculums and here in Holland failure to do do means that the schools are closed. Even failure to reach the standards means that schools can be closed. That we have already seen with the closure of a bunch of Islamic schools a few years ago and the possible closing of a group of evangelic schools right now because of not meeting a minimum of quality requirements.
There was some hype in the UK as these creation-nuts gathered some media attention, but that was actually not the type of attention they would have wanted, specially knowing the British character.
Europe is unfortunately (for these creat-ins) not ripe for Evangelization yet. Better prepared people tried it already (the Vatican started a re-evangelization campaign a few years ago with no visible results).
Film and digital are different media. Each has it's applications.
35mm film for instance is more tolerant to overexposure, you can get a heck of a resolution but a good digital SLR or system camera (with at least APC - size or full-frame) does match this. Film (35mm) has grain and digital sensors noise, you can play with each and each has it's own beauties and drawbacks
But starting at professional sizes such as medium form stuff starts to become less rosy for digital:
a 120mm negative can be published in a magazine without any magnification. And it can be resizes without loss of quality to the size of a huge billboard (and more). But there is even more: The 4x5" format, used in protrait and big format cameras can be magnified to the size of a football staduim.
To know what I'm talking about just check out the billboards at bus stops or public buildings, many times you can perfectly see the tiny hair on the model's arms or face.
This is technically possible with digital, but the cost of producing such a sensor and a camera to equip is it just too high to make it commercially feasible and they are thus only used for scientific and industrial purposes
Given that 120mm is the format used commonly in "serious" fotography now you know what the kids are actually doing in the dark rooms.
It seems that you know a lot about photography, right?
The developer is alcaline and it wouldn't do more to you than a stomacache... unless you were using some home made stuff like I do, tastes like shit but its' rather healthy: Vitamin C, soda and coffee (yes it is, check it out).
The fixer is concentrated vinegar (actually pure acetic acid). Try getting high with that.
The stop bath is mostly the same or a light acidic liquid... but most use Dyhidrogen Oxyde (aka, Water).
So much for you chemicals mate.
OMG! It was true, all thys hype about the terrible consequences of Cyber warFare (the camel case is to make it more Cyber).
How will civilization cope with this threat? This is inhuman! Publizicing the favourite toppings of completely uninteresting people nobody gives a fuck about... that's gruesome!!!
Well, the big issue with Genetic Miracles is a concept called "Limiting Factors". These limiting factors are Soil, Nutrients (Nitrogen, minerals, etc), Sun, water and temperature.
And there is the Law of Conservation that you need to take into account. Which means that you have to count with tradeoffs for anything extra that you want your plant doing: Is it resistant to a plague? Then it will be less nutritive, or require more water, or be less resistant to cold... or depend on tons of extra chemicals.
The principal issue with food in Africa is not that there aren't any plants that a nutritive enough: There are plenty.
The problems are
Water Supply, Soil scarcity and lack of a logistic network.
The first problem is much more acute in sub-Saharan Africa and is aggravated by wells (yes, wells) which cause saltwater levels to rise.
The second issue, soil is much more insidious as it has several aspects:
The loss of soil due to erosion (HUGE problem, aggravated by industrial agriculture)
and Soil taken away by multinationals to grow cash crops (a large percentage of the available soil actually) and the third, logistiscs is actually the onluy one that can be addressed with relative ease.
So, they are now telling me that they have created a banana that can transport itself, grow without water on salty rock and has a lawyer's degree to defend people against expropriation.
Well, yes, but it's quite a mess since they changed to the Western diet. Specially the Canadians are said to produce a lot of gases and high cholesterol levels.
What the hell has that to do with anything that's said in the study?
The study is not about believing shit or not, it's about the INCIDENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES among a given population. The carbs trigger some kind of storage reaction in our bodies that I dont think anyone understands yet.
Yes, it's called the Fucking CREBS CYCLE and it's the nightmare of any highschool student who wants follow a career in biology, medicine or biochemistry.
The fact is that we understand it pretty well (besides some minor details)
But well, what could I possibily say to a guy who things that carbs are some alien super-stuff from outer space.
Good luck with your low carbs diet mate. If you manage to follow it for more than a year without health issues send me a few lines, I'll invite you to no-carbs beer.
Wrong. You got it wrong.
Classical eskimo diet NOT suited even for classic eskimo climate.
That's what it actually says, not so obvious but already known.... but it's OK as we need to hammer this otion into hte thick skulls of all these paleo-idiots and fish-oil smearers.
And it makes all the sense in the world: Ketonic diets have never been found to be healthy.
And even in the case that the Inuit's CAD incidence were lower it still could have been caused by special genetic adaptations to their diet... yet these guys have the same CAD incidence as the rest.
Well, now the best part: Poking fund at the idiots who follow the paleo-diet, bwahahaaaa!!!
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Nice, I visited the page and found a banner "Asian Women Seeking Love".
That someone still uses Perl? ROFLMAO
Except your big penis rep.. sorry I meant GUNS and being except from taxes!
And why would they need a warrant for it?
And don't tell me about the social inability of "geniuses", I score 19 out of 30 in a test for autism traits and I found a partner and even married.
What this shows is that these "mensan" aren't much more than monkeys trained to do IQ tests and score well in them.
Note that I don't speak out of despise, I score fairly high in IQ tests (i do score in the 98 percentile of a specific test suite and in English which is not my mother tongue, so that I should have a relative handicap, but these were tests made for a professional assessment, not to join a fancy club of quizz-fans) and I am fluent in 5 languages (human not programming ones)...
So, we have a few self proclaimed "geniuses" who don't have a fucking clue about probabilities, believe in marketing hogwash and who's geniality consists in filling in "brain training" type shit (meaning that they haven't even bothered to read any science about the subject).
Dating for Monkeys.
And what does he mean exactly: Feet with people still attached to it or severed feed?
This clearly demonstrates that a subspecies of Homo sapiens; H. sapiens neandertalensis had after all the same feeding habits than the rest of the Homo sapiens species!! Amazing. Who would have told?
Another spectacular finding for the team of Dr. El Obvio, preferred disciple of Prof. O'Bvious.
Hail to them!!!
While London is getting the big fat money stolen by the Russian Oligarchs from their own government (and our subsidies, BTW). And the USA used the whole thing as a PR campaign to show off how macho they are... of course, nothing to loose and Obama knows his pal Vladimir won't mind a bit of bitching.
Now Ukraine has an agreement with the EU, the Russians are happy, our great Fuhrer Angela is happy and the Righteous, Honest and Smart Mr Cameron is happy.
Nor really, it was a war between Human Resources and the Marketing. The whole thing begun the day the guys from IT started stealing the Friday beer reserved for HR blaming Marketing for it. That's why it's called the "Cold War". Also because in an act of vengeance one of the HR managers sabotaged the airco.
Why are you so mean with people loosing white thrash? Maybe he has some condition that makes him loose this thrash. Bad AC, go apologize right now!
It's marketing people with number crunching data they do not understand.
I was working last year at Comscore and came to know quite a lot of these. Most were absolutely unable to figure out how to calculate an average. This people are the ones in charge of producing the data that their manager (guys and chicks that know how to start Powerpoint with a bit of luck).
This makes that even the people who really have some knowledge in statistics gets crap data so that even if they were geniuses (which they aren't) they would just be able to produce shit.
This doesn't make much sense if you think about it: Even if advertising were effective we receive so many contradictory stimuli that they would either cancel each other or become so chaotic that our buying habits wouldn't be distinguishable from pure random chance.
Indeed. El Nino seems very strong this year after a long period of injury and change of sponsor. He declared that he feels strong and well prepared and will attempt to PR this season.
Another useful tip: Never get high on your own supply
Well, there are a few minorities like the streng gereformeerde but these are frowned upon and considered even more asocial as radical muslims are.
And no way they teach their crap even at their own schools: Schools here in the EU have to include a series of matters in their curriculums and here in Holland failure to do do means that the schools are closed. Even failure to reach the standards means that schools can be closed. That we have already seen with the closure of a bunch of Islamic schools a few years ago and the possible closing of a group of evangelic schools right now because of not meeting a minimum of quality requirements.
There was some hype in the UK as these creation-nuts gathered some media attention, but that was actually not the type of attention they would have wanted, specially knowing the British character.
Europe is unfortunately (for these creat-ins) not ripe for Evangelization yet. Better prepared people tried it already (the Vatican started a re-evangelization campaign a few years ago with no visible results).
Finally the world will get rid of this horrible plague of mouse autism!!
Film and digital are different media. Each has it's applications.
35mm film for instance is more tolerant to overexposure, you can get a heck of a resolution but a good digital SLR or system camera (with at least APC - size or full-frame) does match this. Film (35mm) has grain and digital sensors noise, you can play with each and each has it's own beauties and drawbacks
But starting at professional sizes such as medium form stuff starts to become less rosy for digital:
a 120mm negative can be published in a magazine without any magnification. And it can be resizes without loss of quality to the size of a huge billboard (and more). But there is even more: The 4x5" format, used in protrait and big format cameras can be magnified to the size of a football staduim.
To know what I'm talking about just check out the billboards at bus stops or public buildings, many times you can perfectly see the tiny hair on the model's arms or face.
This is technically possible with digital, but the cost of producing such a sensor and a camera to equip is it just too high to make it commercially feasible and they are thus only used for scientific and industrial purposes
Given that 120mm is the format used commonly in "serious" fotography now you know what the kids are actually doing in the dark rooms.
It seems that you know a lot about photography, right? The developer is alcaline and it wouldn't do more to you than a stomacache... unless you were using some home made stuff like I do, tastes like shit but its' rather healthy: Vitamin C, soda and coffee (yes it is, check it out). The fixer is concentrated vinegar (actually pure acetic acid). Try getting high with that. The stop bath is mostly the same or a light acidic liquid... but most use Dyhidrogen Oxyde (aka, Water). So much for you chemicals mate.
OMG! It was true, all thys hype about the terrible consequences of Cyber warFare (the camel case is to make it more Cyber). How will civilization cope with this threat? This is inhuman! Publizicing the favourite toppings of completely uninteresting people nobody gives a fuck about... that's gruesome!!!
And there is the Law of Conservation that you need to take into account. Which means that you have to count with tradeoffs for anything extra that you want your plant doing: Is it resistant to a plague? Then it will be less nutritive, or require more water, or be less resistant to cold... or depend on tons of extra chemicals.
The principal issue with food in Africa is not that there aren't any plants that a nutritive enough: There are plenty.
The problems are
Water Supply, Soil scarcity and lack of a logistic network.
The first problem is much more acute in sub-Saharan Africa and is aggravated by wells (yes, wells) which cause saltwater levels to rise.
The second issue, soil is much more insidious as it has several aspects:
The loss of soil due to erosion (HUGE problem, aggravated by industrial agriculture)
and Soil taken away by multinationals to grow cash crops (a large percentage of the available soil actually) and the third, logistiscs is actually the onluy one that can be addressed with relative ease.
So, they are now telling me that they have created a banana that can transport itself, grow without water on salty rock and has a lawyer's degree to defend people against expropriation.
That's a hell of a banana mate!
PLEASE DO
Well, yes, but it's quite a mess since they changed to the Western diet. Specially the Canadians are said to produce a lot of gases and high cholesterol levels.
The study is not about believing shit or not, it's about the INCIDENCE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES among a given population. The carbs trigger some kind of storage reaction in our bodies that I dont think anyone understands yet.
Yes, it's called the Fucking CREBS CYCLE and it's the nightmare of any highschool student who wants follow a career in biology, medicine or biochemistry.
The fact is that we understand it pretty well (besides some minor details)
But well, what could I possibily say to a guy who things that carbs are some alien super-stuff from outer space.
Good luck with your low carbs diet mate. If you manage to follow it for more than a year without health issues send me a few lines, I'll invite you to no-carbs beer.
Wrong. You got it wrong. Classical eskimo diet NOT suited even for classic eskimo climate. That's what it actually says, not so obvious but already known.... but it's OK as we need to hammer this otion into hte thick skulls of all these paleo-idiots and fish-oil smearers.
And it makes all the sense in the world: Ketonic diets have never been found to be healthy.
And even in the case that the Inuit's CAD incidence were lower it still could have been caused by special genetic adaptations to their diet... yet these guys have the same CAD incidence as the rest.
Well, now the best part: Poking fund at the idiots who follow the paleo-diet, bwahahaaaa!!!