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The Fake Equation
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Posted by daryl on November 23, 2007 @08:39 AM
A few days ago, I was inside of a Wal-Mart (imagine that), and there was a girl who caught my eye. I'm a lonely person, but that's mostly by choice: I don't like people. Still, though, I am a hapless romantic at heart. One of my new favorite films is Buffalo '66. I also liked Garden State [if you are going to flame me, please use my GMail address instead!!!!].
At the same time, I'm a pretty confident person, atleast when it comes to girls, because I don't give a shit really, if nothing else. Normally, then, I don't go obsessing over some chick I barely know anything about. In fact, I don't think that's necessarily what I'm doing now. What I'm doing now is just reflection. I am, on the other hand, a somewhat socially anxious person, in that I almost always go home and consider every line I've uttered that day, in detail (the difference being I always see my conversations with the female sex in a positive light, for whatever reason, as opposed to the horrible torture that is me mulling over my attempts to have an actual friend [because everyone knows you can't be "just friends" with a girl]).
But I see these as missed opportunities. It isn't focused on an individual. In fact, it's shifted since that day to yet another lady I didn't meet. Many, many girls out there accidentally glance my way, smile, and then shyly turn away, and many of them flirt with me, on the rare days that I actually see the light of day, and manage to remind myself what a female looks like with her clothes on. However, one of the reasons I don't like people is because I know very few people who I think of as not being stupid. Since females happen to be a subset of people, depending upon your beliefs, that means females are pretty stupid, too; I'm much more interested in having a partner that might not quite fit in with the rest of the bunch, and the last two candidates I've spoken of to this point, in my mind, seemed to be somewhat interesting to me -- and how many more interesting ladies am I really going to meet, given the likelihood of most of the girls I encounter being stupid (and to disregard, here, the fact that I'm too lazy to go out so as to increase the chance I'll find more who aren't)?
I see it, then, as just another day wasted, in what's going to amount to my pathetically short and boring life. If you're stupid: I've seen the goal posts, but I didn't go in......
So, in the interest of feeding my appetite of romanticism for the day, I've decided to take action. I don't intend on doing something as extreme as what this guy did, but I do intend on doing some serious math. And math is serious.
To be honest, I don't know the first thing about mathematics, but I do know how to be a passionate, devoted, hard-working individual, and, if you don't like it, you can go to hell. I've managed to come up with an equation to calculate my chances of meeting this chick once again:
Cm = Pt / Nw * Pr * Pg * Pf * Pd * Ht * (Ss/St) * Pva
Pt: Number of total people in my city of residence
Nw: Number of Wal-Marts
Pr: Percentage of population in permanent residence (alternatively percent chance of the girl being a resident)
Pg: Percentage of 15-25 female demographic
Pf: Percentage of young females who have families they go shopping with
Pd: Percentage of people who visit Wal-Mart daily
Ht: Average number of hours these people spend in a Wal-Mart each day (some go more than once)
St: Size of Wal-Mart, total, in square feet
Ss: Size of the spot where the chick was found sitting
Pva: Number of days (out of any arbitrary time frame) I will visit Wal-Mart for the average amount of time
Cm: chance of meeting chick (alternatively Cogl, with a term that describes in joules my ability to charm females, which is like 200 trillion)
Here are the numbers I have plugged in to the equation:
Cm = 100,000 / 2 * .98 * .30 * 1.00 * .75 * .08 * (5.0 / 300,000) * 1.00
= 0.0147
= 1.47%
If you disagree, you're stupid, and you probably don't believe in aliens either.
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someone's thoughts on fanaticism
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Posted by daryl on July 05, 2007 @01:36 PM
I just watched an absurdly retarded video on youtube, in which an Islamic extremist was lecturing a rather large crowd. I tried to post a reply to it, but apparently youtube has the worst comment system ever: you can only post 500 characters, the video author can moderate your posts, and you can't post links.
it looks like they've covered just about all the bases for suppressing my free speech, short of me defacing the website, atleast. I can't write what I want in a single comment, and even if I segmented it into multiple comments, they probably wouldn't all be approved by the poster of the video, and it would take a huge effort to go back and forth to the page whenever it was convenient for the video poster to admit my comments to the page. finally, I'm also not allowed to just simply link a posting on my website there so that interested readers can be enlightened by my enormously dazzling intellect. that limitation is pretty easily defeated, though, since youtube's horrible programmers don't seem to know much of shit about regular expressions.
so I figured I may as well post my reply here, since I actually took the time to write it, and I don't see any good reason to just let it disappear forever. there aren't any particularly new insights in this, but just precisely because I'm annoyed I've been disallowed from putting my thoughts down, I'm going to exercise my true freedoms to say whatever I want on my own page.
if a piece of machinery of unknown origin and purpose were brought before my eyes, I would not attribute it to an intellgent creator. the watchmaker analogy is retarded and an absolutely weak teleological argument. please read a book other than the Qur'an.
also, whether or not the Qur'an mentions the moon not having its own source of light or the sun rotating about its own axis, what exactly is your point? the Qur'an may or may not say lots of things (and I'm not going to read that garbage to find out), but that has no bearing whatsoever on whether Allah exists.
finally, I'm not even watching the rest of this ridiculous video, but I'd like to say that we did _not_ first know the earth was spherical because of Sir Francis Drake. I'm not even sure that a flat earth was ever really commonly accepted by any society in history. the hypothesis of a spherical earth extends back many millennia, and was not unique (or even distinct) to any one culture. it was empirically proven that the earth was round by Eraosthenes in 276 BCE. get your facts straight, and, again, pick up another book -- preferrably a factual one.
I guess I'd also like to take the time to address the video author's questions as a post-script, if I may:
You don't believe in God?
that's right. I don't believe in god.
Islam provides you the answers.
islam provides the answers to what? I didn't ask islam anything.
Also, do you really think the Islamic Law is barbaric
yes.
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yo
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Posted by daryl on April 30, 2007 @10:42 PM
this is a test
put your hands up
and clap your feet ;-)HEHE
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this seems familiar
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Posted by daryl on April 25, 2007 @05:11 PM
Pupils are being discouraged from taking A-level maths as schools in England chase higher places in the league tables, scientists have claimed.
just replace fascism with christianity, and this becomes oddly familiar.
what an excellent system. not only do the schools look better, enticing more people to give them money, as well as enticing more students to stay in school under the promise of greater education, but they also get to make everyone more stupid, allowing the furtherance of their disgusting practices.
promising education while slyly allowing the antipode of reason to take foot for the sake of greater security, the sake of the country's resolve, or the sake of anything? isn't that a lot like this?
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I thought I thought experiment
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Posted by daryl on April 23, 2007 @09:09 AM
Judith Thompson provided one of the most striking and effective thought experiments in the moral realm. Her example is aimed at a popular anti-abortion argument that goes something like this: The fetus is an innocent person with a right to life. Abortion results in the death of a fetus. Therefore, abortion is morally wrong. In her thought experiment we are asked to imagine a famous violinist falling into a coma. The society of music lovers determines from medical records that you and you alone can save the violinist's life by being hooked up to him for nine months. The music lovers break into your home while you are asleep and hook the unconscious (and unknowing, hence innocent) violinist to you. You may want to unhook him, but you are then faced with this argument put forward by the music lovers: The violinist is an innocent person with a right to life. Unhooking him will result in his death. Therefore, unhooking him is morally wrong.
source: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thought-experiment/
I wasn't aware that a group of crazy assed music lovers went around making babies inside of people. who the hell is this stupid bitch kidding?
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I know how to find a lot of girls
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Posted by da5id on November 29, 2006 @11:53 AM
C1al1s S0ft Tabs is the new impotence treattment drug that everyone is talking about. Here goes some reasons to choose C1al1s S0ft Tabs:
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chicken or steak
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Posted by Preston on September 28, 2006 @11:43 PM
i prefer steak.
what do you guys prefer?
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sup negros
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Posted by sit on August 21, 2006 @03:32 AM
my telnet program works! hahahahahahhahahaha!
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mephit beta
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Posted by daryl on December 12, 2005 @03:40 AM
hello. this is a beta system of the latest '99years' incarnation. more accurately, this is just the same site with terrible scripting, rewritten only to reflect moderate design changes. have fun.
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