If they are basically Primitive stomachs, then throw Tums at them!

Hmm. The porn / not porn argument seems a tad arbitrary. At the current point in my life, this isn't porn for me (rather the opposite). However, I seem to recall a time in my life when I didn't have cable or satellite TV, the internet hadn't been invented yet (at least not on the consumer level), and I had no older siblings or other sources of more traditional pornography, so the lingerie section of the Sears catalog filled that niche for me (no Victoria's Secret either).

That isn't really an argument that this is porn, or even that it might be porn (presumably to a ...uh... more mature lesbian or heterosexual male audience). I won't make an argument on whether or not I think this "belongs" on the sift, but I'll say that clearly we're well into the slippery part of the slippery slope.

As a cat, I must say, this disgusts me!

I'm a Nepeta kind of cat.

I've never heard of Ageratina Adenophora.

On a serious note, this catweed they talk about in the video is in fact Nepeta, it is not Catweed native of Central America. Though i suspect it's a play on words, cat and weed commonly referred to as Cannabis Sativa.

I took the name of the plant catweed literally I guess.

>> ^peggedbea:
yes, really.
in high school i interned with a herpetologist in the biology department of a university. so people would find freakish amphibians or reptiles around town and bring them to us. i would have to study them, catalog them and report them. i thought this was incredibly adorable when the 6 legged little nuclear freak show toads would do this. the little kid in my head decided it must be a gift!! and i would grow up to the worlds most amazing herpetologist and live my life on perpetual field expeditions!!..... until the professor came in, saw me petting a toad affectionately and cooing at it, and informed me that i was in fact scaring the shit out of him and he was trying to poison me.
my childlike dreams, CRUSHED!!!
>> ^Matthu:
>> ^robbersdog49:
The toad's main defense is the poison in it's skin on it's back and the top of it's head. It's trying to defend itself by keeping the poisoned areas where the attention is. It's terrified and is acting defensively.

Really?


...isn't a herpetologist what you would call your gynecologist?

yes, really.

in high school i interned with a herpetologist in the biology department of a university. so people would find freakish amphibians or reptiles around town and bring them to us. i would have to study them, catalog them and report them. i thought this was incredibly adorable when the 6 legged little nuclear freak show toads would do this. the little kid in my head decided it must be a gift!! and i would grow up to the worlds most amazing herpetologist and live my life on perpetual field expeditions!!..... until the professor came in, saw me petting a toad affectionately and cooing at it, and informed me that i was in fact scaring the shit out of him and he was trying to poison me.

my childlike dreams, CRUSHED!!!

>> ^Matthu:
>> ^robbersdog49:
The toad's main defense is the poison in it's skin on it's back and the top of it's head. It's trying to defend itself by keeping the poisoned areas where the attention is. It's terrified and is acting defensively.

Really?

Training can over come to this. Attention to detail, a paranoid mind, and a lot of training. But even with training it is still difficult. I also think that the natural human reaction to authority has something to do with this. A person who has enough sense to read what they are signing would probably, I think, notice the difference between one guy and the other.

I would wonder why not noticing is a normal thing. It shouldn't be normal. I also think that its normal because there is no danger involved there. No incentive for adaptation. I think if each one of those people who didn't notice got electrocuted when they didn't notice they would notice in a similar experiment.

This reminds me of some of the tricks that Darren Brown does. When he pays with white paper instead of real currency, or when he takes stuff from the Russian guy and walks off.

This is a good book from Oreilly called Mind Hacks. It talks about alot of cool things. From blind spots, to Cognition, Noticing, and Attention Span.

gonna have to look for copies of the Sears catalog.

A UPS is generally a battery designed to keep your computer running in the event of an environmental power failure. It has to cool itself, since the charging up generates a lot of heat (feel your cellphone battery while it's charging once . The fans usually make the noise.

Any UPS the size of a surge protector won't give you much. The most valuable feature you can have on them is the shutdown-command that they can give the computer if there's a power-outage.

If you're worried about your motherboard / PSU failing due to a power surge, all you need is a surge protector as far as I'm concerned. The only component of the computer that might suffer damage from an instant shutdown is the hard-drive, and in the case of desktop computers, the damage is unlikly.

Make sure you buy a quality surge protector. $20-30 more isn't a lot to pay, and you don't want the cheap ones

In reply to this comment by chilaxe:
Demon_IX, Thanks for the advice on the UPS thread.

When you say UPS are loud, are you referring to the beeping when the power goes out, or to normal noise that they make?

Are you referring to the big box ones that have their own LCD screens, or to the smaller ones that look basically like normal surge protectors?

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.

Demon_IX, Thanks for the advice on the UPS thread.

When you say UPS are loud, are you referring to the beeping when the power goes out, or to normal noise that they make?

Are you referring to the big box ones that have their own LCD screens, or to the smaller ones that look basically like normal surge protectors?

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.

I'd recommend something like a Surge Protector and not a UPS. Those things are loud, heavy, expensive and not very useful for home users.

Thanks for sharing that.

The scratching out bit is hilarious, that's pretty much what they do here in Kuwait only its far more draconian obviously magazines have entire pages ripped out, so T3 and Maxim are very slender magazines here. Funnier is when it comes to mail order catalogs like JC Penny or say Victoria's Secret, customs women in large factory setting sit in abbayas with large permanent black markers covering up boob, the words Israel and changing Persian Gulf to Arabian gulf.

Hilarious is when you order something like death metal, there is a a fairly good chance it will get stopped for being demonic or witch craft content.

To stay alive I do crack cocaine on weekends.

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Your screen name sounds like some kind of brand of something . . .

Oh, wait it's an insecticide:

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>> ^joedirt: Wow.. just wow. Let's just say you shouldn't have started with the electron as an example of deterministic or comparison to Newtonian physics.

Electrons are not quarks, and yes Heisenberg does put serious limits on our ability to catalog their movement, but supercolliders and electronics work because electrons function deterministically. Electrons don't just "decide" what to do, and when to do it. I may not know exactly where they are, or how they are moving, but they produce effects consistent with doing so in an orderly fashion.

The fact that the smallest detectable structures in our universe are chaotic in no way implies that structures made of them are chaotic, there are a number of technological examples of determinism derived from chaos.

For example your computer works deterministically, I can put a scope on it and show you all the noise and interference running through it. I can, through subtle measurement, measure the chaos in the system, but the system is still deterministic, as evidenced by the fact the you are reading this right now.

When I was a kid, I needed a desk for my homework and my arts...

When Christmas came around, I opened the gift from my mom and inside was clippings from the Sears catalog with photos of a desk and a note that said, "Yes, I deserved a desk, but No, she couldn't afford one".
Never did get that desk... Worst Christmas Ever - True Story!

When I was a kid, I needed a desk for my homework and my arts...

When Christmas came around, I opened the gift from my mom and inside was clippings from the Sears catalog with photos of a desk and a note that said, "Yes, I deserved a desk, but No, she couldn't afford one".
Never did get that desk... Worst Christmas Ever - True Story!