Pavlovian Conditioning

At least people are catching on. This website can show you if you have swine flu: http://doihaveswineflu.org.

There are three possibilities to obviously conclude from this website.

a: People are getting smarter
b: People are getting conditioned to this sort of thing
c: People are still idiots, and are following what basic newsgroups feed to them.

LSAT and JD

If the LSAT is anything like the practice exams I've looked at so far, getting in to law school will be simple. I don't get how people can say it's difficult. Or maybe I'm missing something.

You should Twitter me.

Re: FCC

The FCC has been given leeway to further censor free speech on the radio. Justice Scalia, according to the article, says "It was [reasonable] to determine that it made no sense to distinguish between literal and nonliteral uses of offensive words".

Why were no linguists involved in this decision? Words themselves, as one could ontologically argue, have no meaning, and are more accurately defined as sounds we've adopted to represent a series of emotions. If the FCC effectively "bans" words we use now, our language will evolve to create new emotive facilitators.

The big picture, Justices, is that you've given the architecture to the FCC to ban words at their own discretion. The bill of rights was created to protect dissenters and minorities in a nation ruled by democracy. This is a blatant breach of the 1^st Amendment, and in time, you will lead our people to suffer.

This is ironically sweet in some way. I'd like to believe the UN will make an initiative to end stupidity, but like any good corporation, it needs to keep its own self-interest in mind. Slime mold is apparently more intelligent than the Facebook collective. In above study, the mold controlled a robot to move out of the light. My dear friend Robert and I were discussing the potential of creating vehicles for this slime to create servants for chores, or more.

In some distant way, I'm reminded of Flubber. Only this slime is yellow, and not quite as bouncy.

Also from New Scientist, and in more recent news, Japanese scientists created a chemical that moves of its own volition. The impacts of this discovery could create an AI system with no electronics.

Abligurition: Such is my Life

... and is also why I'm poor. But I feel the merriment that comes with food and drink to be quite worth my spendthrift tendencies. The heat makes want for a softer world, and if it means throwing my money to the wind, then have at it!

Winter Cometh to Stranger Lands

The Catskill winter wanes -- Soon enough, the whiners will spark up again to complain about the heat. It's bad enough I had to deal with them all winter long.

Non sequitur moment,

If you want to get noticed, do one or more of the following:

1. Invent something
2. Be outrageous
3. Use psychology

The first gives the greatest testament to your account. The second is most effective, but shortest lasting. The third is most powerful, but if you're caught, your social status drops significantly. So far, I've had the most success with the second.

On the bright side, I'm looking forward to a single next semester.