justin0469

http://www.tweenbots.com/ Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal. Just kinda interesting.... Apparently people will help a robot but not a homeless guy

http://thetoiletpaper.com/blog/2009/the-average-mans-tax-dollars/

haha you are just LOOKIN to peak someone's interest

I'm glad I went, met alot of cool people. Have some good stories...about cheese wheels and oddly long middle fingers...

www.indeed.com is good

dude

hang ten

That sucks man. If you had a security clearance and wanted to work in Columbus, I might be able to help...

Just thought it was interesting. I didn't know that it was already known that schizophrenics are immune to some other visual illusions. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16911-schizophrenics-see-through-hollowmask-illusion.html Video: See the hollow-mask illusion Telling the front from the back of a mask can be more difficult than it seems. Thanks to an effect called the hollow-mask illusion, the brain can have trouble deciding if the image is convex or concave. But, it seems, not everyone struggles to correctly determine the mask's orientation. New research shows that people with schizophrenia are immune to the effect – a finding that means the illusion could provide a diagnostic test for the condition. In the study, volunteers were monitored in an fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner as they looked at photos. Some of these were normal pictures of faces, but others had been inverted as in the hollow-mask illusion. All the participants with schizophrenia could distinguish between the two types of photos, whereas control volunteers without the condition were fooled 99 per cent of the time. People with schizophrenia, which affects about 1 per cent of the population, are already known to be immune to certain visual illusions. Immunity to the hollow-mask illusion, says Danai Dima, of Hannover School of Medicine in Germany, suggests that the "bottom-up" process of collecting incoming visual information from the eyes, and the "top-down" process of interpreting this information is different in people with schizophrenia. "The term 'schizophrenia' was coined almost a century ago to mean the splitting of different mental domains, but the idea has now shifted more towards connectivity between brain areas," says Dima. The prevailing theory is that perception comprises three main components: sensory input (bottom-up); the internal production of concepts (top-down); and a control component, which covers interaction between the two first components. "Our study provides further evidence of 'dysconnectivity' between these components in the brains of people with schizophrenia."

Only like 5% of the infected PCs are in North America, 45% of them are in Asia...

he annoys me

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The promise of transparency and openness...

just kidding....before it gets to quoted for truth...

sofa king we tar did

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Ya, I didn't read all of it but where in the 36 pages does it give that impression?

Making a blanket claim like sounds more like a policy than legal defense. That's not specific to the suit brought against them and is broad enough to provide an escape from any similar future events. Claiming immunity from laws gives you much more than legal defense for 1 suit.

The point is that they are using the same (or worse) argument they were complaining the Bush administration was. Regardless of the outcome, they are being very hypocritical. That's what makes people go All these promises that aren't worth anything...

It's been amazing to hear more and more from the Obama administration that is "worse than the Bush administration". Everyone believed his promises of lowering the national deficit and pulling the troops out right away and now homeland security. Not quite the "savior" everyone was expecting