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>> ^artician:

I play a lot of video games, and I'm a developer (so I spend a lot of time studying them as well). I had no problem with the test at 5m. I kept waiting for them to throw a curve ball because it felt 'too easy'. I definitely attribute this to years of gaming.
Now that I think about it, that's kind of a stupidly obvious comment. Of course someone who spent several decades focusing on small digital displays requiring quick coordination would do okay at this. Meh. Whatever. It makes me happy I'm good at something.


Same here, it felt really easy and automatic, no effort needed at all. Video gamer from '84 and a modder..

>> ^petpeeved:

De-criminalize all drugs in the United States. Make them available and cheap with a prescription from an MD. along with mandatory attendance at a drug counselor. Voila, no more drug lords, no more massacres.
I'd also be willing to venture that the same people who are using drugs now, will be the ones using them after decriminalization while the ones not currently using, won't turn into druggies just because they can access them legally.


Yah I wonder why they won't do the ONE thing the drug lords DON'T want, which is to make drugs legal. The thing that upsets me the most about this is that because an essentially harmless plant has been made ilegal, thousands upon thousands of people die every year, for what? Nothing...

I recommend you put down the studies and use your brain. Humans who walk and or run everyday sometimes for dozens of miles don't weigh 300 pounds. They just don't I don't care what study you think proves that someone with giant mounds of fat attached to their skeleton lived back in a hunter gatherer society. It's JUST NOT FUCKING TRUE. You don't get 40% body fat from running and eating nuts.
>> ^LarsaruS:

>>I recommend reading this study comparing a hunter gatherer society's energy expenditure to western society.
Also look at this meta study regarding energy expenditure and activity level and its relation to obesity.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^LarsaruS:
>> ^Yogi:
I like it when women who have curves say that women are supposed to have curves. It's just not true, we're supposed to be starving hungry animals running around ALL over the F'n place trying to persistently hunt down our food. I sincerely doubt there was ever a fat "cave person".

If you look at the old (stone age) stone figures for fertility they are all round so I guess they had rotund people back then too...

Because fertility gods are pregnant!


I recommend reading this study comparing a hunter gatherer society's energy expenditure to western society.

Also look at this meta study regarding energy expenditure and activity level and its relation to obesity.

>> ^LarsaruS:

>> ^Yogi:
I like it when women who have curves say that women are supposed to have curves. It's just not true, we're supposed to be starving hungry animals running around ALL over the F'n place trying to persistently hunt down our food. I sincerely doubt there was ever a fat "cave person".

If you look at the old (stone age) stone figures for fertility they are all round so I guess they had rotund people back then too...


Because fertility gods are pregnant!

>> ^Yogi:

I like it when women who have curves say that women are supposed to have curves. It's just not true, we're supposed to be starving hungry animals running around ALL over the F'n place trying to persistently hunt down our food. I sincerely doubt there was ever a fat "cave person".


If you look at the old (stone age) stone figures for fertility they are all round so I guess they had rotund people back then too...

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I think there should be some limits on shorter clips, at least. Something along the lines of what lucky proposed as quoted above, but maybe simpler.

Maybe something as simple as a video's got to be "long" before excerpts are allowed and an excerpt can't be more than 25% of the original. That still seems overly complicated. Maybe excerpts need to be "brief", though that would probably not fly with the pro-excerpt crowd.

Allowing a 50 minute "excerpt" of a 60 minute documentary seems really crazy to me. Why not just get rid of the dupe rule all together at that point?

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>> ^charliem:

What language are they speaking?
Certainly doesnt sound like Chinese....sounds more like Japanese.


The Mongolian language is one of its own; wiki says: As for the classification of the Mongolic family relative to other languages, the Altaic theory (which is increasingly less well received among linguists[28]) proposes that the Mongolic family is a member of a larger Altaic family that would also include the Turkic and Tungusic, and usually Korean and Japonic languages as well.

There are more Chinese languages/dialects than Mandarin, which is regarded as THE Chinese language to most people. Mandarin became the standard language in 1924, but the other dialects and variants are still spoken today.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^Boise_Lib:
Fascinating person.
I recommend the series by Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Genghis: Bones of the Hills
Khan: Empire of Silver
Very good historical fiction. It's fiction, but Iggulden does a very good job of staying true to history while writing a great novel.

I'd add the movie Mongol to that. Again, it's a dramatisation, but an excellent one...


From Russia, I bet they have an interesting take on this.
I love foreign movies.
Thanks, ChaosEngine.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Fascinating person.
I recommend the series by Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
Genghis: Bones of the Hills
Khan: Empire of Silver
Very good historical fiction. It's fiction, but Iggulden does a very good job of staying true to history while writing a great novel.


I'd add the movie Mongol to that. Again, it's a dramatisation, but an excellent one...