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#161
General Discussion / Re: My new appartment!
Thu 09/02/2006 23:00:20
It's an adolescent looking monkey, with a marketeers idea of what's cool clothing to a 12 year old.
#162
General Discussion / Re: Personal questions :)
Tue 31/01/2006 02:19:22
Ah, so if Mars is in Virgo before the equinox then you're alright with it, you frisky little pussycat.
#163
At the end of year scavenger hunt in high school, a team my friends were in dressed as balaclavaed criminals [since each team was themed].

Eventually they got surrounded by half a dozen cop cars in a back street, the police telling them "we had received reports of masked bandits demanding Finding Nemo tickets".
#164
General Discussion / Re: MENSA Test
Sat 21/01/2006 21:34:52
Some of the original IQ tests had questions asking whether so and so was a poltician, baseball player or singer, questions that have little to do with intelligence. I also liked the fact that once, when I was doing work experience in a university psychology department, every single person told me to disregard any text that came in something smaller than a large suitcase.

Also, my dad was a member of Mensa once, he quit because they were losers.
#165
When I was in highschool I did a research project on AGS with a survey and then studied the statistics, it's hideously out of date [mid 2001] but I can send you the report if you want to cite previous articles.
#166
Or find a cartoonily busty woman who needs only to breathe heavily at the sight of your puny ashtmatic chest to allow her brassier to burst open, unleashing a flood of mammary tissue
#167
The stupidity of using two hands. Very counter productive.
#168
General Discussion / Re: Genetic Manipulation
Sat 14/01/2006 06:10:40
Yay, so my supposition was correct!

Of course, noone paid attention.
#169
General Discussion / Re: Genetic Manipulation
Fri 13/01/2006 12:04:18
I'm not sure about the circumstances of this experiment, but in previous cases glow in the dark elements were added to the genes for a specific and valid reason. When you use the gene shears technique [as most do], you have to hope that the genes will fall into place as such, you're shaking it up and hoping things fall into place. Subsequently, when you get a bunch of prawns [which was a notable previous case] there's a random chance that any one of them will have the new genes in them, and a random chance they don't.

Which means that unless you add something unusual to the genes you're fiddling with along with the stuff you're actually concerned with like a growth thing, you'd have to do a genetic test on each creature just to tell whether it's been altered or not, before you can start testing anything else. That wastes alot of time and money. But if you stick a bucket of prawns and simply fish out the glowing ones, you can spend more time on research. It's less of an issue with pigs since you won't be producing as many, but with smaller creatures, or bacteria which you might be altering for say, insulin, it's invaluable.

Of course, that explanation doesn't run as well as "Haha, those whacky boffins created a glow in the dark pig, sounds good for our "strange but true" section in the Sunday paper!"
#170
Hold it in Blackpool.
#171
I have to put my name in with the "change your name to something cooler" school of though, what's wrong with Rock Awesome III Esq.?
#172
Pah, you couldn't afford them after paying 500 yen for bread.
#173
I have to say that Hendrix had a very lean year in 2005 and I'd be hard pressed to name any of his releases.
#174
Strangled by the Thought - The New Amsterdams.

No competition.
#175
Quote from: Guybrush Peepwood on Wed 04/01/2006 10:32:08
Quote from: Las Naranjas on Wed 04/01/2006 05:01:54
Also, I was unaware that all Christians followed the same actions of condemning one film and liking another.

What's that for? As I said, not all Christians hate Harry Potter, I know a lot who just enjoy the story. There are as many Christian mindsets as there are Christians in this world, it's just that some mindsets are closer to each other.



Um, maybe I was supporting your argument. Or maybe you want to disagree with me. I thought my point was fairly clear that Christians aren't a homogenous group. Try understanding before you bite my head of for supporting you.
#176
Also, I was unaware that all Christians followed the same actions of condemning one film and liking another.
#177
General Discussion / Re: Dvorak Keyboard
Tue 03/01/2006 02:33:57
Dvorak is one of the great technological mythic matyrs, just like Betamax it's failure seems to translate into superiority in some people's heads, what benefits in time saved from Dvorak are more than outweighed by the economic cost of retraining.

But it's like arguing with Linux zealots or esperanto disciples, they can have fun in their niches.
#179
The Theremin is difficult to master
#180
General Discussion / Re: Math problem!
Mon 26/12/2005 00:51:07
It's high school calculus really.

....the part of calculus I failed
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