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Living Room / Re: Multiple ripoffs

« on: October 02, 2012, 02:19 PM »

Does the article with the screenshot below belong here or in a seperate thread? There is another different article here. Both are also attached. The text excerpts are from these files.



In September 1905, the Surete Nationale exhibited a painting series with its former heads. However, the first
painting of the series showed Pierre Allard, Vidocq's successor. The newspaper L'Exclusive reported on 17
September 1905 that on obtaining information concerning the omission, they had gotten the answer that Vidocq
never had been head of the Surete.

While his written works received applause in his native France, it was actually Great
Britain that craved them. In the United Kingdom, law enforcement officers were greatly
respected, unlike French gendarmes of the time who were oft viewed as puppet figures of
a conniving monarchy.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: October 02, 2012, 01:50 PM »

Is that a sow or a hippie pig?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: October 02, 2012, 12:20 PM »

This is very popular on [url=http://www.amazon] Amazon

-tomos (October 01, 2012, 01:49 PM)

Did you see the other pictures?

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« on: October 02, 2012, 11:59 AM »

Perhaps you don't want to be tracked for how much technology you buy - computers, HDDs, cards, memory? Out of cash and out of pron?

-Renegade (October 02, 2012, 08:07 AM)

Especially the pron!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« on: October 01, 2012, 10:11 AM »

Looks like here:

http://blog.malwareb...passing-the-bitcoin/

-Renegade (September 30, 2012, 11:50 PM)

Right. I just didn't think anyone would want it.

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Living Room / Re: Multiple ripoffs

« on: October 01, 2012, 10:07 AM »

I think Murphy's Law applies here.

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Living Room / Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« on: September 30, 2012, 11:07 PM »

Here is an article on the subject.

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Living Room / Re: Multiple ripoffs

« on: September 30, 2012, 10:56 PM »

It's all in a rampant history of domination. Not everyone is nice. You choose one master or another.  They're not always the same, that's change and politics. So get back in the dirt where you belong, peasant!

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Living Room / Multiple ripoffs

« on: September 30, 2012, 11:33 AM »

Do you have scars from these ripoffs?

5 World-Famous Products That Are Shameless Rip-Offs

7 Classic Movies You Didn't Know Were Rip-Offs

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Living Room / Warp field mechanics 101

« on: September 21, 2012, 09:47 PM »

This is a serious article by a NASA physicist about the actual possibility of making a warp drive. He is also doing a lab test of the theory. Don't try this at home!  Trekies and true nerds should be the ones most interested in it.  Don't wear a red shirt while reading the article. No screenshots, nerds don't need no screenshots!

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Living Room / A Unified theory of Superman's Powers

« on: September 21, 2012, 09:21 PM »

For all you people jealous of Superman's powers I offer up his secrets exposed. Just don't try this at home. I would provide some pictures, but though the ideas are first-class, the pictures are art-school-dropout grade.

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Living Room / Re: Help scientists decipher 'lost' gospel

« on: September 21, 2012, 12:27 PM »

This post has been read 123 times. The next time I want to offer a text file(Structured Procrastination), I will attach it here so that I can see how many people download it. Or would that discourage people from reading it(at least here)?

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Living Room / Help scientists decipher 'lost' gospel

« on: September 20, 2012, 11:00 PM »

Is anyone here interested in helping researchers organize the Oxyrhynchus Papyri? "Since its discovery, the treasure trove has yielded up some masterpieces of the age, including the comedies of Menander, the poems of Sappho and the gnostic Gospel of Thomas."



If you don't have the time for that, you may be interested in Structured Procrastination.

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Living Room / The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics

« on: September 20, 2012, 10:46 PM »

Does anyone here think this cover picture for The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics was made from an actual stock photo from that era?  It seems to be a wholly modern creation.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: September 20, 2012, 10:34 PM »

Quote from Cosmic Log - whimsy:
My favorite from Twitter: "Now that we have evidence for the Higgs it doesn’t make sense to keep calling it 'the god particle.'"

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« on: September 20, 2012, 10:16 PM »

About the only 'real' language I'm noddingly familiar with that resembles some of Ithkuil is CycL - unless you're talking about Ilaksh. But I'm guessing from the above that you're much more knowledgeable about esoteric conlangs than I'll ever be - so I'd be happy to hear anything you'd care to teach us about them.

-40hz (September 19, 2012, 07:04 PM)

The language I was talking about is Latejami by Rick Morneau. The creator of Ithkuil has high regard for his work. His language is the only conlang I know of close to being as sophisticated as Ithkuil.

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« on: September 19, 2012, 04:48 PM »

It was part of some background research I was doing for a piece of fiction in which the unusual native language some of the characters spoke became a key plot element in the story.

-40hz (September 16, 2012, 11:46 AM)

@40hz What was the name of the fiction?

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« on: September 16, 2012, 05:44 PM »

From the Ithkuil Introduction:

Comparison to Other Constructed Languages
 
Those readers familiar with the history of artificial language construction might think this endeavor belated or unnecessary, in that logical languages such as James Cooke Brown’s renowned Loglan (or its popular derivative, Lojban) already exist. This serves to illustrate exactly what distinguishes Ithkuil from such previous attempts. Loglan was published in the 1950s as a spoken/written language based on symbolic logic (formally known as the first-order predicate calculus), an algorithmic system of symbol manipulation devised by mathematicians and logicians. As a result, one might think that such a language is the most capable means of achieving logical, unambiguous linguistic communication. However, Loglan and its derivatives are merely sophisticated tools for symbol manipulation, i.e., the levels of language known as morphology and syntax. It is not within the scope of such languages to address any reorganization of the semantic realm. This means that symbolic logic simply manipulates arguments which are input into the system, they do not analyze the origin of those arguments in terms of meaning, nor are they capable of analyzing or formalizing the structure of the cognitive or semantic realm of the human mind in terms of how meaning itself is assigned to arguments. (Indeed, Lojban derives its roots via statistical “sampling” of the most frequent roots in the six most spoken natural languages, a method virtually guaranteed to carry over into the Lojban lexicon all of the lexico-semantic inefficiencies previously described.) By not addressing these components of language, Loglan and similar efforts fail to address the inconsistencies and inefficiency inherent in language at the lexico-semantic level. Ithkuil has been designed to systematically address this issue.

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« on: September 16, 2012, 05:06 PM »

My interest in conlangs is part of my interest in langauge(or at least in how we use language). I'm interested in the problems and alternative solutions of language use. What other conlang do you think is closest to Ithkuil in approach? I have a specific language in mind, the grammar is just as complicated but the spelling doesn't use accented characters or have the cool script Ithkuil does. All languages are complex, the nature of what is said requires it. Languages like Toki Pona which have a small vocabulary and simple grammar can't say easily what you can in English. My favorite language before Ithkuil was Lojban, but it has vocabulary and grammar problems Ith  doesn't. I didn't know DoCoers were so language-esoteric, could I interest them in some other subjects I have links to(below)? What fiction did you write, you intrigue me?

TV’s Most Mind-Bending Shows
Intelligence Brain size matters, but so do connections
A Messy, Exuberant Case Against Being Too Clean

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« on: September 16, 2012, 11:25 AM »

And here I was worried that nobody would know what it was. I chose that for my 100th post, because I thought it would be interesting to our multi-lingual members. My compliments to 40hz for knowing about it. I don't really know it, but I thought it would make a decorative post. The texts I used are from the site examples, I didn't make them myself(I don't know how you could do that).

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Living Room / Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« on: September 15, 2012, 05:16 PM »

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Living Room / Rocket Science 101

« on: September 15, 2012, 05:15 PM »

Who here wants to be a rocket scientist? Presuming you aren't one already.

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Living Room / Creole Creamery

« on: September 14, 2012, 04:43 PM »

According to the Members Map we don't have any members in New Orleans, but have any of you been to the Creole Creamery there? Do any of you like exotic flavors like Strawberry Jalapeno Cheesecake? According the the flavors list there, that is not the only flavor like that.

Creole Creamery flavors.pdf (595.03 kB - downloaded 176 times.)

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Living Room / Trick-or-treat caramel onions

« on: September 12, 2012, 11:45 AM »

Has anyone here given these out or gotten one(or are the mothers too paranoid about razor blades and needles)?

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Living Room / Re: Initials That Meant More Than They Realized

« on: September 12, 2012, 10:44 AM »

^ sometimes I really wish there was a thumbs-up option here on dc

-tomos (September 10, 2012, 04:53 PM)

Tomos: For rjbull or me?