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Oh, Leela! I feel really stupid now.
ReplyGod, this made my lifetime.
ReplyLumberjack Robocop.
ReplyFully expect that as one of the costumes for the next halloween episode.
Robert Brockway: What is mischief night? Is that like Halloween for pussies?
Reply*laughs forever*
That was fantastic, Brockway really was great in this and I would give anything to meet any of you. Short and simple, thats how you do it Disillusion.
ReplyBen Huh is the CEO of Cheezburger, which receives 375 million views across its 50 sites.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesHuh was born in Seoul, South Korea.In 1999, Huh graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism, although English was not his first language. With regards to this, he said “I got a degree in a language I didn’t speak because I felt something in the power of media that attracted me.” At that time, the web’s influence on journalism was growing exponentially, and so Huh decided to go into a career in the Internet. He founded a web analytics company, which folded after 18 months. After that, he worked at three companies in six years. In 2007, Huh started a blog for fun with his wife about living with a dog in Seattle. Later that year, there was a series of pet food recalls, and the company responsible took down their company website. Huh went through the company’s cached files and found a PDF that outlined the company’s customers, revenues, and facility locations. He posted this to his blog, and the post got linked around the internet. One of the links was from a site called I Can Has Cheezburger and Huh struck up a friendship with the two owners.
In September 2007, Huh connected with a group of angel investors to buy I Can Has Cheezburger. At the time, the site was getting viewed 500,000 times daily, which Huh notes was “fantastic for a cat picture site that nobody understood.” He likes to joke that his investor pitch was “I would like to start a media company by buying a cat picture website. Can you give me $2.25 million?” Huh states that “we felt like that there was a pretty good possibility that we were buying into a cultural phenomenon, a shift in the way people perceived entertainment.”
Currently, Huh runs Cheezburger, which receives 375 million page views a month across its 50 sites, including I Can Has Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, Know Your Meme, and Memebase. The content is user-generated, with users allowed to upload images and add text captions throughout its network of sites. The best are culled by Cheezburger employees and users and posted to the front pages daily. Although Huh doesn’t reveal financial specifics, Wired speculated that the network makes $4 million in yearly revenue, which comes mainly from display ads, books, and merchandise. The Cheezburger Network has raised $30 million in venture funding in January 2011, currently employs 75 people, and has been profitable since it’s first quarter. They’ve released five books, two of which are New York Times bestsellers.
Huh has been a speaker at SXSW, Web 2.0 Summit and TEDx Seattle. In 2010, Huh was named to Fast Company’s list of the “Most Creative People in Business.” He was also named to GQ’s list of the “Worst-Dressed Men in Silicon Valley”; in response to this, he challenged GQ to a fashion duel.
Huh lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Emily and poodle mix, Nemo. He also runs The Moby Dick Project, which aims to change how news is presented. Ironically, he is allergic to cats.
...stop. Please just stop. I'm not even trolling, this is just making me feel sad.
Well that's just grand.
This place is too mainstream now anyway. f**k this.
Never heard of informative trolling before.....
t.A.T.u. (Russian: Тату́ pronounced [tɐˈtu]) were a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.
ReplyTheir debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" (Russian version of "All The Things She Said") was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe. In early 2001, Shapovalov signed a recording contract with Universal Music Russia to release the debut album, 200 Po Vstrechnoy. It was released in May of that year and lately has been certified multi-platinum in Russia and platinum in Europe, making t.A.T.u. the first musical act from Eastern Europe to get the IFPI platinum award. With the release of the English version of 200 Po Vstrechnoy, 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane, in late 2002, t.A.T.u. became the first group ever to get the IFPI Europe platinum award for the same album in two different languages. The album also got the diamond certification in Japan and gold in the United Kingdom and the United States. The album's lead single "All The Things She Said" spent four consecutive weeks at the number 1 spot in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the charts internationally.
In May 2003, they represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Riga, Latvia, with "Ne Ver', Ne Boysia", where they placed third. After that, the duo tried to record a second studio album during the Podnebesnaya show on Russian TV, but the album wasn't recorded and t.A.T.u. have parted ways with their producer Ivan Shapovalov. In late 2004, after Yulia's first pregnancy, the duo started to work on their follow-up again with the new manager Boris Renski.
In October 2005, they released their second album, Dangerous and Moving, and its Russian counterpart, Lyudi Invalidy, which got platinum certification in Russia, and kicked off a worldwide promotional and concert tour. In 2006, the girls released a Best Of compilation, and then ventured out on their own after negotiating out of their contract with Universal Music.
The third Russian studio album, Vesyolye Ulybki, was released in October 2008 in Russia, and its English counterpart, Waste Management, in December 2009 digitally around the world.
At the end of March 2011, the duo was officially announced as disbanded. Yulia and Lena are both working on their solo projects.
The Little Albert experiment was a case study showing empirical evidence of classical conditioning in humans. This study was also an example of stimulus generalization. It was conducted in 1920 by John B. Watson along with his assistant Rosalie Rayner. The study was done at Johns Hopkins University.
ReplyJohn B. Watson, after observing children in the field, was interested in finding support for his notion that the reaction of children, whenever they heard loud noises, was prompted by fear. Furthermore, he reasoned that this fear was innate or due to an unconditioned response. He felt that following the principles of classical conditioning, he could condition a child to fear another distinctive stimulus which normally would not be feared by a child.
John B. Watson and his partner, Rayner, chose Albert from a house for this study at the age of almost nine months. Baby Albert was chosen because money was offered for his consent in being the subject of the experiment, his mother only made money on the breast milk she sold. Before the commencement of the experiment, Little Albert was given a battery of baseline emotional tests; the infant was exposed, briefly and for the first time, to a white rat, a rabbit, a dog, a monkey, masks with and without hair, cotton wool, burning newspapers, etc. During the baseline, Little Albert showed no fear toward any of these items.
The experiment began by placing Albert on a mattress on a table in the middle of a room. A white laboratory rat was placed near Albert and he was allowed to play with it. At this point, the child showed no fear of the rat. He began to reach out to the rat as it roamed around him. In later trials, Watson and Rayner made a loud sound behind Albert's back by striking a suspended steel bar with a hammer when the baby touched the rat. Not surprisingly in these occasions, Little Albert cried and showed fear as he heard the noise. After several such pairings of the two stimuli, Albert was again presented with only the rat. Now, however, he became very distressed as the rat appeared in the room. He cried, turned away from the rat, and tried to move away. Apparently, the baby boy had associated the white rat (original neutral stimulus, now conditioned stimulus) with the loud noise (unconditioned stimulus) and was producing the fearful or emotional response of crying (originally the unconditioned response to the noise, now the conditioned response to the rat).
This experiment led to the following progression of results:
Introduction of a loud sound (unconditioned stimulus) resulted in fear (unconditioned response), a natural response.
Introduction of a rat (neutral stimulus) paired with the loud sound (unconditioned stimulus) resulted in fear (unconditioned response).
Successive introductions of a rat (conditioned stimulus) resulted in fear (conditioned response). Here, learning is demonstrated.
The experiment showed that Little Albert seemed to generalize his response to furry objects so that when Watson sent a non-white rabbit into the room seventeen days after the original experiment, Albert also became distressed. He showed similar reactions when presented with a furry dog, a seal-skin coat, and even when Watson appeared in front of him wearing a Santa Claus mask with white cotton balls as his beard, although Albert did not fear everything with hair.
Shortly after the series of experiments were performed, Albert was taken from the hospital; therefore, all testing was discontinued for a period of 31 days. Watson wanted to desensitize him to see if a conditioned stimulus could be removed, but knew from the beginning of the study that there would not be time. However, Albert left the hospital on the day these last tests were made, and no desensitizing ever took place, hence the opportunity of developing an experimental technique for removing the Conditioned Emotional Response was then discontinued.
Origami (折り紙, from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper"; kami changes to gami due to rendaku) is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami.
ReplyThe number of basic origami folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. The best known origami model is probably the Japanese paper crane. In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper whose sides may be different colors or prints. Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era (1603–1867), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.
The principles of origami are also being used in stents, packaging and other engineering structures.
Mammography is the process of using low-energy-X-rays (usually around 30 kVp) to examine the human breast and is used as a diagnostic and a screening tool. The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and/or microcalcifications. Most doctors believe that mammography reduces deaths from breast cancer, although a minority do not.
ReplyIn many countries routine mammography of older women is encouraged as a screening method to diagnose early breast cancer. In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that women with no risk factors have screening mammographies every 2 years between age 50 and 74. They found that the information was insufficient to recommend for or against screening between age 40 and 49 or above age 74. Altogether clinical trials have found a relative reduction in breast cancer mortality of 20%. Some doctors believe that mammographies do not reduce deaths from breast cancer, or at least that the evidence does not demonstrate it.
Like all x-rays, mammograms use doses of ionizing radiation to create images. Radiologists then analyze the image for any abnormal findings. It is normal to use lower energy X-rays (typically Mo-K) than those used for radiography of bones.
At this time, mammography along with physical breast examination is the modality of choice for screening for early breast cancer. Ultrasound, ductography, positron emission mammography (PEM), and magnetic resonance imaging are adjuncts to mammography. Ultrasound is typically used for further evaluation of masses found on mammography or palpable masses not seen on mammograms. Ductograms are still used in some institutions for evaluation of bloody nipple discharge when the mammogram is non-diagnostic. MRI can be useful for further evaluation of questionable findings as well as for screening pre-surgical evaluation in patients with known breast cancer to detect any additional lesions that might change the surgical approach, for instance from breast-conserving lumpectomy to mastectomy. New procedures, not yet approved for use in the general public, including breast tomosynthesis may offer benefits in years to come.
Breast self-examination (BSE) was once promoted as a means of finding cancer at a more curable stage, however, it has been shown to be ineffective, and is no longer routinely recommended by health authorities for general use. Awareness of breast health and familiarity with one's own body is typically promoted instead of self-exams.
Mammography has a false-negative (missed cancer) rate of at least 10 percent. This is partly due to dense tissues obscuring the cancer and the fact that the appearance of cancer on mammograms has a large overlap with the appearance of normal tissues.
A full metal jacket (or FMJ) is a bullet consisting of a soft core (usually made of lead) encased in a shell of harder metal, such as gilding metal, cupronickel or less commonly a steel alloy. This shell can extend around all of the bullet, or often just the front and sides with the rear left as exposed lead. (A bullet that is completely enclosed by the shell is alternatively termed a total metal jacket round.) The jacket allows for higher muzzle velocities than bare lead without depositing significant amounts of metal in the bore. It also prevents damage to bores from steel or armor-piercing core materials. The appearance of FMJ ammunition is highly distinctive when compared to hollow-point or soft point bullets. Historically, the first successful full metal jacket rifle bullets were invented by Lt. Col. Eduard Rubin of the Swiss Army in 1882. Full metal jacket bullets were first used as standard ammunition in 1886, for the French Mle 1886 Lebel rifle.
ReplyFull Metal Jacket bullets have different properties, both in terms of behavior inside the barrel of the gun and also in flight. Whereas hollow point and soft-tipped bullets are designed to expand upon impact, full metal jacket bullets are limited in their capacity to expand. In some cases this leads to decreased target damage. Hollow point and soft tipped bullets are for use against soft targets only, such as game or people, whereas Full Metal Jacket bullets can be indiscriminately used against soft and hard targets, delivering sub-optimal damage to both kinds of targets, but greatly reducing the handling problem in the field, and providing better in-flight characteristics.
Hi! you found my base! I bet you're jealous.
ReplyMaybe I'll start copy-pasting s**t on here...that'd be pretty good for filling space, but it wouldn't really be original content or even worth reading, really, but f**k it. Also, I just remembered that anyone reading this will be viewing all this stuff backwards...but now I just remembered that no one is supposed to read this, I'm just trying to make pages and pages of just me. So chances are, no one will even find this stuff if I manage to bury it with spam.
ReplyHey, someone just downvoted some of my stuff, I just noticed...I've got a hit! also, what are you doing here? this place is mine. piss off. Although I respect the fact that you chose not to mess up my textual fortress with any text of your own, so thanks for that, I guess.
ReplyI was gonna write something short and reflective, but then I realized that would be turning this page into my own little twitter, locked off from the rest of society. So instead, I have to rant or something to prove to myself that this ain't no punk-ass twitter feed. But I don't really live a life worth ranting about, so instead I just remembered: Hey that guy with the winter hat n' goggles with some kinda goatee or chin patch or whatever reading Cracked on his ipad...I was at that 7:00 lecture, and now I know where you live. muahahaha. Also, I want an ipad. sort of. The two statements are unrelated, don't worry, and ignore that guy that follows you home now. I just was interested to discover that I'm not the only one in the area who peruses all this. Though that's not really surprising, this place being what it is. Actually, it's not really interesting, but I didn't have anything more interesting to say, and I need to keep the text count up if I want to get this place lookin' real spiffy, so yeah. More to follow, or not.
ReplyMuahahaha this thread is so mine.
ReplyShit. I've been strung out on that extra strength caffeine that comes in those neat little packs, and I think I'm about to crash. Shouldn't type and drive.
Reply-sent from my iphone
yeah right, like I have a fuckin' iphone. who needs smart-phones when go-phones are 10 bucks a pop? maybe people with a life, I guess. Shit, there I go again, shootin myself down, like I ain't getting enough of that already - f**k I did it again- my therapist says I need to stay positive, but I know for a fact that he's a total hack, 'cause I know exactly what he's really thinking, 'cause he's me. On another note, this page is mine till it dies, bitches. unless this random post spamming gets noticed. god I hope not. right now it's like I actually have s**t published on the internet, except not. but almost the same thing. I wasn't trying to be a writer anyway. too much [redacted] involved in that venture. also I heard it doesn't pay very well. so I'm gonna try and get a job as an engineer or something. Anyway, gonna take a break, get some sleep, go tour some sustainable energy shitbrick at like 6 in the morning for some reason, not like I can't just get all the info from whatever website I'm sure those smug Leed bastards have.
With the current low comment count on this page, I feel that now I have a chance to really make my voice be heard. So here we go. This is an old fable-type thing, that I just finished adapting for the "modern audience":
ReplyDeep in the darkest jungles of old time Africa there were two tribes and they hated each other. One tribe lived at the foot of a massive mountain and they panned for gold in the river and mined for gold in the mountain. They were rich. The other tribe lived in a swamp area and lived on crocodiles and fish and they were poor. They never visited each other except to raid each others grass huts and plunder them. Of course there were pretty poor pickings when the rich tribe raided the poor tribe, but it had become a time unhonored tradition and each tribe kept the tradition alive. One day the chief of the rich tribe had a visit from his resident snitch who said, "Chief - The poor people have heard about your solid gold throne and they are planning to come over tomorrow and steal it from you." The rich Chief was beside himself, he loved his gold throne and so he called in his resident wise man and asked him what he should do. The resident wise man said, "Chief, you must make the Gold Throne disappear! I suggest that you get your men to stick long wood poles into the roof of your Grass palace and using pulleys and your strongest men stick the throne up in the roof of your Grass Palace. The poor people will not be able to see it up there." The Chief immediately ordered this to be done. The very next day the poor tribe attacked and swept through the village searching everywhere. They found nothing! The rich tribe were hiding in the mines in the mountains and when the poor tribe left the rich tribe came out and went back down to their village and began a great celebration. The Chief stood in the center of his Grass Palace and looking up at the roof started to crow..... "Those poor fools. right over their heads and they missed it." Suddenly there were several tremendous large bangs and the wooden poles supporting the Gold Throne snapped and down came two tons of Gold Throne on top of the Chief, crushing him to death. The Moral of this story is...... People who live in Grass Houses shouldn't stow thrones. I totally nicked this, though, because I'm not intelligent enough to make my own/ don't have time. Actually, the only reason I posted this is to make a wall of text so all those other comments would look puny compared to my big swollen cock.
Totally meant to say something else at the end there.
Can't wait it's my favourite thing on facebook. Looks like I'm staying up until 6am ADST. lol
ReplyGrr i got distracted writing that I meant Cracked damn it!
I have nothing to say about your comment, but if I reply to you I will, at least in my mind, have taken over this comments page as my own. I think I'll come back here from time to time and fill it up with my ramblings. Unless someone else finds it. That would ruin my day. until then, however, it's time to make me a nest.
Onest!!! Haven't even read it yet.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesThere's nothing to read dumbass.
Do you know what a video is? It's where theres some talky talky people on the moving picture frame, coming at you across the nets of inter!
It's astonishing that somebody making stupid comments with a trollface as their avatar pic can still get people commenting on how stupid their comment is. I mean, even I feel compelled to do it.
Seriously, your stupid comment made me angry enough to comment and I knew you were only trying to make me angry. How does that even work?
@OldMisterJim
Uhm.. That would be called successful trolling. Encouraging them is always appreciated..
This site seems to me to have a rather large amount of people who are blissfully unaware of trolls. bless 'em. I wish I could be like that, and not have to deal with all the sarcasm, errata, corrigenda, obfuscation, and low level quantum mechanincs that make up the rotten underbelly of the internet commenting system.