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Again you rely on insulting me and again you miss the point ... <snip backpedaling and evasions> Obviously, you never read the rules. You will answer his points directly, or you will soon lose the ability to answer at all. I DID, repeatedly, but he just keeps on bringing back his own assumptions an...

Nice backpedalling. Actually Wong, Trainability ISN'T a sign of great intellect. In fact if training can take over instinct, this is a dangerously stupid trait , contrary to an animals chances of survival. ... So no, trainability does not signify intelligence as such. Emphasis mine. Not at all. As ...

<snip> Again you rely on insulting me and again you miss the point. I never said that an animal that is conditioned is stupid. I merely said, repeatedly, that conditioning is detrimental to survival if the circumstances change. I already stated earlier that the experiment had nothing to do with int...

<snip> You don't seem to realise the difference between learning and being trained. The difference being that learning is the acquiring of information, while training is the implanting of a certain automatic, reflexive reaction to certain specific stimulus directly into a person or animal, generall...

In fact; Actually Wong, Trainability ISN'T a sign of great intellect. In fact if training can take over instinct, this is a dangerously stupid trait, contrary to an animals chances of survival. You want to prove that 'trainability' is wrong or bad. Let's say you train a dozen dogs to 'know' that on...

<snip> You absolutely missed the point AND you're rude about it too.. The point of the experiment, from the get go, was to prove that conditioned behaviour (or extreme ease of training) CAN BE (not is , but can be) detrimental to a creature's survival. And nowhere did I state that the cats did not ...

Moreover the cat does not work off of pure instinct, the cat learns too, but unlike a dog, the cat doesn't take anything for granted, it's intelligent enough to trust it's instincts. Holy shit, do you really think the cat has the ability to choose to trust its instinct? That's the most retarded thi...

That implies we have bad "customer service", which is patently false. We've had a church wide welfare service where people can get financial help for over a hundred years. We usually have people providing aid in disaster areas before most emergency releif organizations are even in the are...

-Ease of training. The claim that ability to train is not a sign of intelligence is utterly proposterous. You train a dog by association and positive/negative reinforcement, and you do it over and over until they make the connection between a command or a word or an object with a concept. Like &quo...

Wrong. The fucking point of a scientific experiment is to test an idea by setting up a condition where it can be falsified . If an experiment is set up in such a manner that the idea is not tested by a genuine attempt at falsification, then it is nothing more than intellectual masturbation. No it's...

I would have to say the dog in this case is far smarter than the wolf. The dog found and kept a reliable source of food, while the wolf is constantly risking starvation by not cooperating with the humans. By allowing humans to enter the pack, the dog provides itself with a much better chance of sur...

THat, and anyone who could carry it would definitely be shot a lot (it's a target!). I don't think shields are particularly effective tools in the modern world. Especially if you have explosives to fight them (grenade launchers? That shield should make a lot of drag). Or even armour penetrating rou...

Actually Wong, Trainability ISN'T a sign of great intellect. In fact if training can take over instinct, this is a dangerously stupid trait, contrary to an animals chances of survival. Let's say you train a dozen dogs to 'know' that on a certain course which it has to run, all dark coloured spots on...

Hmmmz... let's see Leeloo from the Fifth Element. The three main characters from The Firewarrior's Guide to the Universe... (Ok Murphon is wearing heavy powered armour, but the impression that that makes ends abruptly when he speaks) Gizmo from the Gremlins movies. Shakespearian fairies (Puck can ca...

I have this whole mouth full of teeth intended for the devouring of meat... let noone tell me I shouldn't. It would be against my nature. This is a poor argument at best. There are many things in our nature that we choose to override out of a sense of morality. From my point of view as an organism ...

I have this whole mouth full of teeth intended for the devouring of meat... let noone tell me I shouldn't. It would be against my nature.

Malkavian costumes... lots and lots of Malkavian costumes... Nothing over 5th generation.

chaos ensues as the town is taken over by psychopatic, oracle vampire ancients.

Hmmmmzz...

Rincewind the Tau....

I rea-ea-ealy like this concept

how would they know to remove the helmet, having never encountered such a thing before. Prove to me that going for a head/neck strike is in some way NOT going to be one of the first actions of a Sith facing off against such an adversary. Have you ever SEEN Juggs' helmet? it's frikking hard to tell ...

Don't you just love the way that if you ask a creationist how 'god' came into existance he'll say 'God has always been and will always be', but if we try to say the same for the universe, we're not allowed? Sure, eventually we'll probably discover that the universe wasn't always there, but Science i...

With passive chips, they might be able to minimize skimming while the passport is open by equipping readers to set off an alarm if a radio ping is transmitted from the wrong direction or at the wrong time. I can see it now: "Everyone please turn off your damn cellphones, I'm trying to get my p...

Erhm... No offense, but where exactly in the Jedi/Sith archives does it say 'When you encounter the Juggernaut, take off his helmer because it give him his protection from your mindfucking abilities'?

Oh... right... nowhere, so they don't have any fucking clue it's the helmet doing the trick. \

Geez, I remember a year or two back the kids the IT department at my college, which had by then used chips on student cards to record student data for use in getting books from the library and food from the cafeteria, used school equipment to hack the chips and add vast amounts of 'lunchmoney' to th...

Fine, don't listen to the red shirt, but I'll repeat myself: "Hathor", the episode, shows clearly that the Goa'uld queen Hathor wants Daniel Jackson, a human completely devoid of a symbiote, to fertilise her and considdering the fact that she wants to turn the base's male population into J...

C'mon people, think Hathor. She took Daniel as a mate to make her larvae... Meaning Goa'uld use foreign reproductive material to create larvae (though it's unknown whether they convert a fertilised egg of the host species or whether they fertilise their own eggs with the material of a foreign specie...