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I love weekends like have never loved them before!

And i love the love i get getting back.

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I finally had a chance to read the whole thread... you guys have been busy in my absence! Now this was unexpected, you write fanfic, Satya? And those princess ponies look very nice indeed, Alea :D Also, if anyone is also a fan of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series, i found a while back a very nicel...

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So, imagine you get out of the airport, you grab your luggage, go through customs (incredibly painlessly, i have to say, the controls were minimal other than having me show my visa, stand for a pic and press my fingertip against a reader), look for the taxis, queue for a taxi, wait for a taxi, trave...

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Thanks all for the warm welcome

there will be more coming... i have a few pics waiting for release, hehe

Oh Claire, it's true, you had been to Beijing a few years ago. Do you know Chinese? i am trying to learn in my free time... just a little bit lol

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... that there's dirt everywhere! And i have to clean it up! Before, i could just simply ignore it. Dirt and me, we wouldn't get in each other's way. Now, whenever a little bit appears, it starts to mock me. And i have to keep the house livably clean. Also, the money has become a thing. When i lived...

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Since i took my plane to Beijing, i finally got down to read A Song of Ice and Fire. I'm starting now with A Clash of Kings. Really cool reading!

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So, you might or might not know that i have become an alien! http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110220175355/pixar/images/8/8b/Toy-story-alien.jpg Uh... no. A legal alien. A Spaniard in Beijing. :thumbs: After becoming a doctor past February, i was frantically applying for postdoc positions all...

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This about sums it up for me.

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Thanks, Dr. M!!! CeZeN: Last, you mentioned Evolution. I don't think my faith is contradicted by Evolution.(Just as an fyi) That's because you cherry pick. You don't believe in a purely literal Bible (Old Testament, because the New Testament does not concern itself with how we got here). I like pic...

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back.

Sorry to all the clever folks but this one wins the thread for me. I missed seeing you around here, Jota!

thanks!

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Galileo gets a bit too much credit for the idea as there were several notable figures before him who promoted the heliocentric model, not the least being Copernicus and Kepler, and going back to the Ancient Greeks with (as I learned this evening from Alison and a friend) Aristarchus. Also, I'm reas...

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back.

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*sneaks from behind*
BOOOO!

did it work?

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I thought the KKK was a terrorist group?

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why are the girls whispering in a guys' thread?

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Nonetheless, since free will is essentially a metaphysical concept, I don't believe it can be proven or disproven(according to my Psych teacher!). That's why i like my conditional definition better ;) that is, that a being has free will if he's conscious of his decisions and if said decisions canno...

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*hugs*
it's so sad there is no way that can be prevented

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I have very recently found the best way to protect onself against a zombie apocalypse:

Plants

eg.

Those little sunflowers are damn adorables!

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This is where we disagree, even if it's true it's a murky area. In any case, if you go to the quantum levels, all the results that involve quantum mechanics are purely probabilistic. If you want to accurately represent that through a simulation, you need a random number generator. What is unclear (f...

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I just don't think it's computable at all. Like the atmosphere, it's too sensitive to the initial state, to the electric input (i problably shouldn't have used "boundary conditions" earlier referring to the circuitry, because the input is also part of them). Fail to determine the input wit...

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Oh, i'm sure that the brain hardware is quite well documented. I am also sure that even after we have mapped out the whole circuitry, we can still talk about "free will" with reasonable accuracy. The problem is not about knowing the "boundary conditions" of the problem, the circu...

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The difference between IBM's Watson and ourselves is that we can track down Watson's decision making process, and we can't do that with our own, because it's so much more complicated. This is made even simpler by the fact that Watson's purpouse is just to win the game, while human purpouses are mult...

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My sure favourites from those systems... NES: Mario 3, Probotector (same game as Contra, but with combat droids instead of commandos) SNES: Mario World, Yoshi's Story, all three Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, Zelda, Tales of Phantasia (imo best j-rpg in snes) GB: Pokemon (really, only reason i eve...

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zomg, zero!
are you pregnant too?

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Depends on what you want, but i'm sure that when it comes to mythological names, your expertise is way deeper then mine

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Congrats!

I wish you the best for this... uh... life changing experience!

I had to look for something pompous to say >.>

Really, that's very great news

... everything happens always while i sleep XD

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yeah, that's kinda the diametral opposite part of Spain... it was pretty nasty, for a low intensity earthquake :( First, it happened very very close to the surface, i think just one mile below, so the sismic wave amplitude didn't have much time to dampen. Second, while that area is under sismic-proo...

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http://www.thestar.com/news/sciencetech/science/article/740486--racism-heard-loud-and-clear-even-when-the-sound-is-off Here I thought JD and Turk had such a strong bromance! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/05/27/racial-bias-weakens-our-ability-to-feel-someone-else%E2%80%99s-...

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I still use my beloved winamp... a very very old version, to be sure.

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I think the whole "childhood magic" is only in the parents' mind. I don't remember being happier or more illusioned with christmas when i believed in the three wise men (santa for spain) or the little mouse PÃ©rez (tooth fairy for spain), than when i learned the truth and accepted it as a ...

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E_L, are Canadian tories all that different from Brit ones?

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the Bloc gone.

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Bar prep books came today
Ugh.

That's... an awful lot of books x_x

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Third... base? O.o

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