Phi for All

if they did a test with twins and close friends, than telepathy would be prooven real.

Wow, I'm sure that's never occured to researchers into the paranormal. [/sarcasm]

me and my sister have bein able to use telepathy 10 feet apart. we were doing an experment to see the range of it. it worked, with no negative effects.(headachs, ect.)

Are you using the word "experiment" to mean "we tried a few things", in much the same way non-scientific people use the word "theory" to mean "my newest idea"?

I've been watching this thread for awhile, and I know for a fact there is something going on. I just don't know what it is, and though I keep looking, I keep coming up against quacks with quack answers. Which is why I dislike the word "Telepathy".

I also want to believe telepathy is possible. Yet every time I hear someone claim to be psychic or telepathic, I'm immediately skeptical and my eyes begin to roll. I hate that.

A lot of you are frankly pretty funny i expected some really serious Dr. Spock types but well thats stereotypes for you.

Dr. Spock was a pediatrician! Don't you mean Mr. Spock, wistful-boy?!?

 

 

Welcome aboard, mike90.

Yes, that's another device I love, anything at all that results in BUBBLES!!!

Do you have one of those nifty dispensers that you put a small amount of soap in, fill the remainder (like 7/8 of it) with water, and the dispenser gives you foamy lather? I love saving money on the soap and the lather is perfect for hand-washing, but the springs they put in the pump part are so cheap the pump stops popping back up after a month. I want the pro model....

What I hate...

- the tags at the necks of shirts...

- the clips on pens and mechanical pencils (does anyone really use them?)...

What do they put in those tags that make them stick up like that' date=' Viagra?

 

And since geeks are the only ones who actually clip pens in their shirt pockets, wouldn't you think a geek would come up with something better? Pens that pop out of your secret decoder ring or something....

the jugs at restraunts with the spout formed into it. any waiter worth his tip knows that you have to poor it over the side to give the person any ice at all.

There's the next money-maker, a pitcher with two spouts, the little one for just water, the big one on the side for water and ice.

I would say you have to make a decision on your own needs. I'd say the remote car lock is just as unimportant as the electric mirrors as you can just put your key in and turn it.

I realize everything is subjective but I think some things simply turn out more useful than others. I'm old enough to know that "cool" things like electric seats impress absolutely nobody. If they're useful to you, fine, but so many things end up being not worth the space and expense they take up.

 

Having the ability to unlock or lock your vehicle from several feet away saves time every day. It's just one of those gimmicky things that actually helps me. If my arms are full it helps even more. I have a truck but the ones that actually pop your car trunk (boot) open would help out a lot as well. I get in and out of my vehicle a lot more than I need the seats or mirrors adjusted.

I like having the ice maker in the door, my only beef is that it jams every 0.5 uses.

This is a perfect example. A real ice-maker as a stand alone unit is pretty cool if you use a lot of ice. It has a big capacity and it's built to crank out the ice and work for years with no problems.

 

A unit that fits inside your freezer is too small to be really effective. It's there as a selling feature, an add-on that makes you think it's a better deal. The parts are meant for low to moderate use. If you really like ice or have multiple people who use it you will wear this unit out pronto. I'll bet if you ran a survey right now, almost half the homes who have an ice-maker in the door of their fridge would tell you it either doesn't work right, it's broken or has recently been fixed.

There are so many little options for everything from cars to refrigerators that sound great and supposedly add convenience but really only cost you money. And many gadgets that supposedly save time are just money-wasters too. I'll list some good and bad, feel free to add:

BAD-

1. Hood bras for cars--what are you protecting the paint for if you never take them off?

2. Electric seat/mirror adjustments for cars--OK if the car has multiple users, but if you're the only driver, you set it once and then never need it again. Plus they're slower than adjusting it manually.

3. Ice-makers/water dispensers in the doors of refrigerators--savings in energy from not having to open the freezer door is wasted since it's usually the first thing to break. And the water dispenser uses thin copper tubing so it takes 3 times longer to fill a glass.

 

GOOD-

1. Remote car lock/unlock--keep all the other electric car devices like mirrors and seats, I use my keychain remote all the time. Now if they could only make it smaller to better fit in pants pockets....

2. Weed Whackers--nylon filament electric garden trimmers for chopping hard-to-get-to areas has saved me many hours and several toes, I'm sure.

Dimes; they have a higher value-volume ratio.

Correct. Lay on, Macduff.

I'll slip one in while everone's arguing. Which is worth more, a barrel of nickles or half a barrel of dimes? (US 5 cent and 10 cent coins, respectively)

Hell hath no Furry like a Woman scorn

thats the correct phrase

Abeefaria

Winner of this week's Incorrect Correction Award.

i already know its possible, im a twin.

In science, everything is possible that is not proven impossible.

 

However there is no tangible, verifiable, supported evidence of telepathy, and no experiments with predictable, repeatable results that would validate it as part of neuroscience. This thread's home is Pseudoscience.

Cut and paste more crap like that and you'll be asked to leave. I see you shaking your head at me. Are you hoping to hear an original thought rattling around in there?

I’m guessing that there were a few tribes that didn’t kiss. Were Eskimos one of them?

Swapping spit at 20 below can be dangerous.

 

I remember reading that kissing was a holdover from infant behavior where the response to having a cheek stroked by the mother's breast was to start sucking in anticipation of being fed. Idk if there is any research to back that up.

Here's a link to a test done with Fireproof 88 that claims success.

 

What kind of temperatures is the shuttle exposed to?

here are a few statistics i found

Thank you for posting these statistics. In the future, please cite the sources so anyone who wants can confirm their accuracy. It's also good form to give credit to those who compiled the data.

These are the vocal people who take all the heat every day. They are targets because they are in the thick of things. They don't always make the right decisions, but every bad decision is put under a microscope.

 

I noticed Ken Lay made both lists, so perhaps it's the business people who are messing things up rather than the politicians and the media, our favorite usual suspects. I still maintain that when special interests speak louder than voters, the politicians will listen to them instead.

I was thinking, "gnat" becomes "goat," changing the second letter of the first word into the next[/u'] letter of the alphabet, thus fulfilling the requirements...

Yes, if you'd read further into the thread we all figured that out. Everyone stop pointing out how dense I was that day!

No evidence of a scientific nature for ID after two pages, moved to Pseudoscience.

The hatred is everywhere.

There are none so blind as those who will not see, except those who see only hatred everywhere.

I think the system actually works out in their favor. Would the restrictions against a sex offender entering an elementary school as a shelter be relaxed in the event of a hurricane? I also think the sex offender who is truly repentant would not feel restricted by sheltering in a prison. On the contrary, it gives them virtual immunity from any accusation of wrongdoing, something that might crop up later had they sheltered with children.

Learn how not to hate. Not even the advent of the atomic bomb has taught enough of us to truly understand or respect the dangers of hate, so we have to teach it to ourselves or perish.

Please stop turning every specific issue into a general diatribe against the evils of present day society. I think there are plenty of people who respect the dangers of hate. You tend to make it sound like you are the only enlightened soul in a sea of unbelievers. Sometimes your constant naysaying makes me wonder how you can ever positively affect the world around you.

 

People do good things and people do bad things. Always have, always will.

The 2500 ft rule seems a bit restrictive to me. I'm not convinced these restrictions will work' date=' since they only restrict where the predator lives, not where he goes.

I wonder what the civil liberties groups and the ACLU think of this.[/quote']If you're talking about the 2500-foot rule, I'm pretty sure the ACLU will have no problems defending someone who suddenly can't live anywhere in south Florida. The towns involved all say they're not interested in kicking people out completely but the restriction does just that.

 

If you're talking about this hurricane shelter issue, I think the ACLU would say the category of sexual offender is too broad and the issue of the shelters is a life-threatening one. Do you keep a man out who has a conviction from 20 years ago, has reformed himself but is still on the list and gets caught out in a violent storm? Is violating this restriction another sex-related crime?

Having played the game off and on for almost 30 years now, my friends who still play have gravitated to online play, using the Neverwinter Nights game modules. The dice and the paper were fine when the rules weren't so complicated. The first version was almost too simple and we quickly modified it with our own extras. Version 2 was better but clumsy, and we found ourselves floundering in hundreds of dollars worth of books and add-ons.

 

When Version 3 (currently 3.5, I believe) came along, we found that they finally had the game right, extremely realistic (for fantasy), but unfortunately the new rules slowed our game down to a crawl. So much to factor into every swing of the sword! The technical parts quickly overshadowed the role-playing, which was what had kept our interests over three decades of play.

 

Version 3.5 is the perfect set of rules, but the computer is the perfect setting for them. We play online now, using conference calling and speaker phones to keep that get-together feel. I don't have the time to devote to making dungeons in 3.5, it's just too complicated and intricate. A character takes two hours to generate properly by hand and it's a DM's nightmare to run combat. There is a whole community of D&D geeks who spend their days generating computer modules for the online community. Better them than me, and the stuff they are coming up with is great. There's no fairer DM than the computer using the most up-to-date rules.

I don't:.... It's funny, for the past few weeks I've been pollinating my cucumber patch, picking a male flower and pollinating a female flower with it.

Let's stay on topic. Is this Politics or Pollinatics?

Just curious, how much does a brand new (17 years?) driver of a 1995 Buick Park Avenue (beige) pay for insurance yearly?

If he threatens to harm your children, tell police and social services.

This is, of course, the smartest move to make. Threatening children is taken very seriously.

 

I can't envision any scenario where hurting your neighbor's children would suddenly make him stop threatening to hurt yours. In fact, I think it might force him into acting on his threat.

 

I was also wondering why this was placed in Politics. Was it the legal aspect you were looking for or the political one?

But seriously, it seems critically important to actually establish what was said and done and how serious it was.

How serious it was makes no difference. You do not have the right to harm anyone because of a threat. If you harm someone while actively defending yourself or your children (e.g., pushing them away as they lunge to strike), that's different. In this instance ku is asking to be the first one to actually harm a child.

I guess the question is, who are the potential moderate republican candidates for 2008.

Here's a list I found from Politics1.com. I couldn't find how up to date this list is, and it's all Republicans, not just the moderates.