Been playing with this for a couple of days now.

Me -> Do you have a girlfriend?
Yes.

What is her name?
Her name is, Traci.

Can I date Traci?
No

Can you send me pictures of Traci?
You're a dirty person, aren't you?

>.<
I was in GChat with a female friend who was having a much more... vivid conversation with it. I wont repeat the conversation, but cleverbot is.... fully functional.

Oh yeah, it's favorite movie is Moonwalker.

Ive seen this type of stuff before, but I dont remember it moving so well. From what I understand, its not a transplanted, fully functioning brain as such - I believe its just a section of the brain that has nav "auto-response". Though i dont understand how it learns what a collision is, or how propulsion is even happening without its original sensory system.

what you first all fail to understand... is that the proposed process of evolution involves gradual changes over many generations. We can agree to that correct?

So none of the so called 'Transitional Fossils' are remotely transitional.

A transitional form would be one going through the process of developing an arm / leg etc. These fossils should be plentiful considering it would take a sheerly ridiculous number of steps before the animals new form was fully developed... In otherwords.. how many generations and how many forms would it take for a arm to form in an animal which has no arms. How many millions of tries would be necessary by random mutation before it was successful.

I'm sure you can imagine the process.. considering the animal has no idea what it is trying for - the first form of an arm would be, I suppose a stump of some type... now considering this stump would serve it no actual purpose (and in the case of fish we have the peculiar situation where it randomly would need to form 4 of these in symetrical spots... all at once? or one at a time?) This stump would be a detriment.. not an improvement - and so would the tremendous number of other steps involved until this form was complete.

The key here being that every aspect of every animal and plant would need to go through this process.. and the vast majority of these changes could not occur in a beneficial manner - natural selection supposedly works because this change is an improvement.

We have no fossils which represent these transitions.. nothing that isn't fully functional. The ground should be littered with millions of these tiny changes.. in the development of eyes / limbs / and every other form. Instead we find animals which are finished products - just like IDA - well designed for their given purpose.. no works in progress.. no half-formed wings. Were these to even be demonstrated the question would still remain... if every species went through these changes for every single aspect of their development.. any fossil bed should be full of intermediates. By intermediates I mean something which is in the process of developing something.. not finished. IDA uses a thumb which we do not have to climb trees.. it is formed and completed.

One other thing to consider is that evolution's proposed mechanism is random mutation combined with natural selection.. it randomly makes changes.. the failures die out. At the heart of it the mechanism is simply random mutation. - so how many tries does a creature have to make before it randomly stumbles upon something which works? I would wager a vast number..

Thus the fossil record has a compound problem.. not only should it show transitional fossils that are in the lineage of the current form.. it should also show the millions and millions of failed attempts.. the millions of random tries toward a new limb of some kind that were rejected by natural selection.

Not only that - but the world around us should show living examples of these failed species.. because natural selection works on the flawed assumption that if something decides to start working on a new limb.. that since the new limb is a decidedly bad evolutionary change, that creature would die out. Not the case... every animal wants to survive.. and just because it has an inferior design in no way suggests they wouldn't still be around.

IDA is a lemur... a very old variety of lemur. - and no, you don't have a thumb on your foot.

I don’t know where conservatives get their crystal ball, but I hope they kept the receipt. Lets take a look at their track record:

*Prediction: The Iraq war will be over in six months
*Prediction: Our troops will be welcomed as heros, candy and flowers will rain down on them
*Prediction: The oil revenues will pay for the Iraq war.
*Prediction: Overthrowing Sadam will cause a domino effect of stability breaking out in the Mid East
*Prediction: WMD will be found in Iraq
*Prediction: A connection between Sadam and 9-11 will be proven.
*Prediction: The autopsy will prove Terry Schivio had a fully functioning brain
*Prediction: It will be proven that Mark Foley/Larry Craig were set up by dastardly liberal operatives.

Basically, these tools couldn’t predict six o’clock at five-thirty. Additionally, this Gerald Celente has been making the same predictions for the last 20 years. It’s almost as if he wants these things to happen.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
Norton Antivirus IS a virus. Most of you probably know that already, but for those who don't consider this a helpful public service announcement.


Unfortunately, this is a 2 year old article and things with the program have changed since this was written. The author is uninformed at best. And his points are pretty much ignorant.

"disgusting services activated and eating your computer resources." AND "You're NOT PROTECTED AGAINST THE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE PROBLEMS THAT AWAIT YOU!! ACTIVATE THE TRIAL"

Is this guy serious with this shit?

Grossly inaccurate. Neither NAV nor NIS tries to scare you into subscribing or re-subscribing. It simply lets you know the subscription is up and you should renew or you will not be protected. The reason the alert was put in there was because it didn't used to warn you and people were getting infected. Guess who suggested we add the warning to the program? THE CUSTOMERS!

Also, if you don't register the trial. Simply uninstall it. What kind of idiot would leave it on the system to take up resources if it's not a fully functional program. IE; you didn't choose to pay for the subscription when the trial is up?

He's "fully functional".

It always seemed to me that the valley was uncanny because the creatures that reside there look human enough to fool us into thinking they are human. The trouble is when they start to interact, and they don't act human -- Either we are facing something unknown, which is inherently frightening, or the thing looks like they are trying to be fully functional and failing, instead appearing disabled (which people are also naturally averse to). I never picked up on the purported connection with death.

>> ^blankfist:
And most hospitals have a trauma center inside of them. In fact, I've never been inside one that didn't. Just pointing that out.

That's just not true. What most hospitals have is an Emergency Room, which is definitely not the same as a Level 1 trauma center. And most ERs are overburdened with patients waiting for care, some for hours. This is because of a lack of basic medical services in the community, which are typically provided by social services.

Prior to Katrina, there was only one Level 1 trauma center in the city of New Orleans, located at Charity Hospital. Today, there are none. The only one in the Greater New Orleans area is now in Jefferson Parish. My info on the medical services in New Orleans is admittedly spotty - dotdude can probably shed more light on this. But the fact remains that fully functional trauma centers are not nearly as common as you claim.

[edit] As of Dec 18, 2008, there are about 115 Level 1 trauma centers in the United States. source: http://www.emsmagazine.com/web/online/Emergency-Department/New-Orleans-Regains-Level-1-Trauma-Center/24$8669

>> ^mintbbb:
Woot, grats! Hi from Finland, I can't even watch videos with this computer here,. so I am missing all the fun..
Tho I have my Finnihs keys, so at least I can use these: ööööööö äääääääääääääääääääääääää
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åååå .. OK, that's about it!
Be back fully functional next week, without my öäå keys!

Do finnish keyboards have like 500 keys? I would imagine that Japanese keyboards do but that's because I'm ignorant.

Woot, grats! Hi from Finland, I can't even watch videos with this computer here,. so I am missing all the fun..

Tho I have my Finnihs keys, so at least I can use these: ööööööö äääääääääääääääääääääääää
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Be back fully functional next week, without my öäå keys!

The kidney's fully functional, fully functional! (scene change)

Yo fuck TV it's shit.

But Farhad is right about some computer games. We had neighbours who had twins, and they could fill the whole map of Sim City with a fully functioning, stable community, generating millions of dollars a day. When they were seven years old.

Whereas, another kid i know is 10 and all he can do is put cheat codes into Grand Theft Auto and fly around the screen stuck to a rocketpowered sex doll.

>> ^Biminim:
"Sexy"? Pathetic is more like it. And what IS a "fully functional sex-bot"? One that swallows? And so you'd have a rubberized plastic big-nippled robot with a sperm receptacle that you'd have to empty and clean once a week? Are you really thinking these comments through???


if it was "fully functional" it would obviously empty it out herself, duh!

"Sexy"? Pathetic is more like it. And what IS a "fully functional sex-bot"? One that swallows? And so you'd have a rubberized plastic big-nippled robot with a sperm receptacle that you'd have to empty and clean once a week? Are you really thinking these comments through???

It's not a separate production. From Weta:

Weta Workshop are supplying a range of products for all the Halo shorts, in a collaboration between Bungie Studios, director Neill Blomkamp, Weta Workshop, Origami Digital LLC and HT Limited.

We have created a fully functioning four wheel drive Warthog, with a working gun, digital displays, airbags and the ability for the Warthog to crab crawl as well as four wheel steer.