The Peon

dont think i could have, she has a perfect personality

Looks like a cutey to me. With a good personality you can't ask for more.

The peon is about to experience natural selection first handed methinks.

You're right. Do you want her ribs or her legs? I'm not stingy.

Its pretty aggravating to try and read all the forums, only to get to the physics forums and when im done all the forums below it are no longer lit up as new comments. Can you please put all new threads as "permanant" until we mark them as read? I dont want to be rushed to try and read and reply to all the new threads that I encounter. Thank you.

If you want my personal take on it, read this thread:

http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=14445

28 million light years would take you to a galaxy far far away, but more likely empty space....

Dude.... Humans are not the only species to have pair bonds. We are the only ones to dwell on it though, or are we? My brother used to work with a species of penguin that would never form a pair bond again after its mate died. It was impossible to tell if this was a form of extended mourning but its possible. Blame the Oxytocin...

Pfft, genetic tests show that Oli was all chimp, no matter how... atypical[/i'] he was/is

Boy, arent you a ray of sunshine (pfffts right back in her face )

I guess you never heard about Oliver the Humanzee

what about those welsh rappers, goldie lookin chain, their pretty funny. don't know any scottish rappers tho.

Well I was just imagining a bunch of scotts rapping while sagging there kilts LMAO

its kind of ironic that the guy who lives across the road from me is in a band called "A Cat In A Blender". they aren't rap so its cool.

Scottish rappers would be the funniest $*&t I ever heard.

Counter Strike. Love that game. Addicted to it though.

Where is the barfing icon when you need one... (ok ill make my own, note the puke coming out of the smiley below).

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I always found it amusing how most people either enjoy rap or totally hate it with a passion. It's almost scary. Is it that no other music genre has produced such controversial lyrics? Is it all the wannabe gangsters the music has inspired to take up (or take down I should say) the baggy pants? I would love to know what inspires such passionate hatred in listeners for this genre.

By the way, I started this thread because I saw a bumper sticker that said "You can't spell crap without rap." Gave me a chuckle, ironically because I was listening to Troublesome '96.

!!! I know your brother from another forum. That's crazy! He's in medical school right?

Yea man, UMDNJ. He signed up for these forums too under the name "Nate." It's a small world

Try DDO. Been playing it for some time and it's loads of fun. Although it does not have PvP. A good single player game to try would be The Godfather. Lots of fun.

I think the big issue here is religion and cultural taboo.

In my opinion we should be open and frank about sex and it should be an important part of our culture. I hate stigmatized sex. I grew up religious and always avoided sexual encounters and masturbation, thinking they were "bad" for me. Little did I know that the truth is quite the opposite. Ugh how I hate sexual "morals."

This leads me to a question. Do ANY other animals on Earth "hide" from its own kind when they mate? Are we the only ones to not be open about sex? I notice animals like lions just mount up right in front of everyone without a care in the world. Are all animals like this?

mehhhhhh MYSPACE IS A WASTE OF HTML

Opinion noted.

Meh I did it because my bro made one... Nate is my bro

http://www.myspace.com/judicialpunishment

Yea and you better friends list me damnit

The article says nothing about cell phones, yet your title says "I hate cell phone companies".

http://www.telekom.com.my/

I guess it could be either or. I am assuming the news agency knows it was a cell phone, although according to the website they also provide phone lines. Either way.... damn....

That wasn't a cell phone line.

OMG.... This is RIDICULOUS! LOL!! :eek:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12247590/

Not to mention how do you measure intelligence? A large portion of our achievements is due to culture, not intelligence. It's knowledge passed down from generation to generation and built upon. I am not trying to downgrade the human brain, I am merely saying a better question would be if the dinosaurs had a way of extensive communication like we do. I think our communication skills play a much larger factor in our achievements than brain potential, although in the end I guess they are all linked.

How is doing something you can do without learnng cheating? Its not cheating because there is no rule saying specifically you can't count numbers.

Yes there is a rule. I live near Atlantic City and they clearly state card counters are NOT allowed.

Sounds exactly like that they do... they scam, they defraid and they alter the rules as they please. If they can cheat then so can anyone else!

They can do whatever they want and all you can have is an opinion on the matter. There rules stand because they invested money in a business. There business, there rules, it's not cheating. You should have a reasonable expectation of what you are getting into when you enter a casino. You know what you are getting into. They however, do NOT know who you are and what your reasons for being there are. Thus they make rules ahead of time on who they want in THERE business. You (speaking in general) are the gullible naive person to blow your money on gambling. Me personally, I have not spent a single penny in my entire life on gambling in any form. Not even the lottery.

In the end the fact remains your not doing anything you don't normally do - one way or another you count the cards thats how your able to make a judgement, its impossible not to count the cards, you always do it to some extent one way or another...

It doesn't matter. The same old argument as before, its there establishment built and run by there money, and thus it's there rules PERIOD. It's not up to you who can enter a private business. It's up to them.

Cheating would be uisng a machine (there have been cases of this) which should not be allowed as its in the rules but where in the rules does it forbid you to add numbers? They simply can't make such a rule because its impossible not too - weather they like it or not people DO always use sums.

Regardless, as mentioned before, card counters teach themselves how to do it. I doubt very few people have a natural ability to count cards well, and I doubt even further anyone who can do it naturally would enter a casino naive to there abilitys.

Its not a matter of what they say is correct. This is a discussion based on SHOULD they be allowed to have such a rule and I say no simply for the reason its not doing anything people don't do all the time.

Fine. I gave you my opinion many times allready. Yes the rules should be allowed. Why? Because its there money, there property, there employees, there... etc... etc etc etc. You are the customer, you adhere to there rules. You enter a restaurant and ask for extra pickels and the waitress tells you they dont add extra pickles, you dont get extra pickles. Same for any business. They decide how to run it.

Edit: I have to go to lunch and do some actual work here ( I am at my job) so I will check back in a bit to respond.

edit: sorry double post

No I do not believe restrictions like this should be allowed - in the end your not using anything you do not already have' date=' everyone has a brain its just a mannor of using it in the correct manor to give you an answer. Restrictions using devices and such I do thing are fair.

 

Drugs are not the same - you are using something to physically change your body or how your mind works - how can this be compared to counting which your brain can do without any assistance or without anything special being required?

 

As for the learn point thtats not nessisarily true. Some people are naturally good with numbers - they have never had to learn to do anything they just do it automatically, savants are an example. Everyone can add so how is it cheating?

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones[/quote']

 

As I mentioned earlier, if you learn how to beat the system, its cheating. I was using the drug scenario as an example. In the end, you are doing something that beats the system and that's all that matters. Who are you to decide what is cheating?

 

No I do not believe restrictions like this should be allowed

 

It's not your choice. Casinos are a private business, and if they want to call it cheating it's cheating. Here check this out:

 

cheat ( P )

v. cheat·ed, cheat·ing, cheats

v. tr.

 

1. To deceive by trickery; swindle

2. To deprive by trickery; defraud

 

v. intr.

 

2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards.

 

 

Certain expectations are placed on anyone who enters a casino to gamble. Expectations that one has submitted to the normal rules of chance and to be on the same level playing field as everyone else. This is due to the natural laws of probobility. The casinos know that if there games are played as they are supposed to, they may have to dish out some money once in a while but overall they will make money. When a card counter enters a casino, he is clearly a cheat because of definition 1 and 2, because I am sure he did not enter the casino so naive of his abilitys that he didn't know he would leave almost guarenteed more money than he entered. Secondly, casinos set rules because the establishment belongs to them. Once a rule is set (ie: NO card counters allowed), and one violates those house rules, they are cheats by definition of "2. To violate rules deliberately, as in a game: was accused of cheating at cards." And im pretty sure we can all say card counters are pretty deliberate.