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Jun. 16th, 2004 07:42 amMy dad is so adamant about me getting my car on the road as soon as possible he's lent me money to get the insurance and plates. I was content to wait until next week. But can I really complain?
Jun. 16th, 2004
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Jun. 16th, 2004 08:48 amWell, the campaign was tasteless enough to politicize images from 9/11, so who can be surprised that Bush supporters are planning to release an ad featuring recently entombed Reagan.
Yay for politicizing corpses!
Maybe Kerry should go out to JFK's grave and do a spot there.
Yay for politicizing corpses!
Maybe Kerry should go out to JFK's grave and do a spot there.
Here's more of what Larry Bird said.
Jun. 16th, 2004 09:57 amI have to shake my head. This is racist.
What the hell?
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Bird also described being guarded by another white in his prime as "disrespect."
"The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me," Bird said. "I still don't understand why. A white guy would come out (and) I would always ask him: 'What, do you have a problem with your coach? Did your coach do this to you?' And he'd go, 'No,' and I'd say, 'Come on, you got a white guy coming out here to guard me; you got no chance.' ... For some reason, that always bothered me when I was playing against a white guy.
"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me -- red, yellow, black," Bird added. "I just didn't want a white guy guarding me. Because it's disrespect to my game."
What the hell?
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monkey do, humans too
Jun. 16th, 2004 10:58 amPatients Control Video with Thought Alone in Study
Other researchers have worked with implanted electrodes in both monkeys and humans, but Leuthardt said this approach does not require putting anything deep into the brain.
"There is the potential for it to be very much less invasive," he said.
Writing in Monday's issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering, Leuthardt and Daniel Moran, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, said the patients learned in minutes how to control a computer cursor.
"It took six minutes of training and they all achieved control in less than 24 minutes," Leuthardt said.
"After a brief training session, the patients could play the game by using signals that come off the surface of the brain," added Moran. "They achieved between 74 and 100 percent accuracy, with one patient hitting 33 out of 33 targets correctly in a row."
[...] Leuthardt and Moran centered about 32 electrodes over the sensory motor cortex of the brain and a region called Broca's area, which is associated with speech.
Other researchers have worked with implanted electrodes in both monkeys and humans, but Leuthardt said this approach does not require putting anything deep into the brain.
"There is the potential for it to be very much less invasive," he said.
Writing in Monday's issue of the Journal of Neural Engineering, Leuthardt and Daniel Moran, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, said the patients learned in minutes how to control a computer cursor.
"It took six minutes of training and they all achieved control in less than 24 minutes," Leuthardt said.
"After a brief training session, the patients could play the game by using signals that come off the surface of the brain," added Moran. "They achieved between 74 and 100 percent accuracy, with one patient hitting 33 out of 33 targets correctly in a row."
[...] Leuthardt and Moran centered about 32 electrodes over the sensory motor cortex of the brain and a region called Broca's area, which is associated with speech.
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Jun. 16th, 2004 10:34 pmSo I got the plates today. So now the car is legally drivable.
I'm not terribly excited about having a car, surprisingly enough. If I didn't need to get a car before next month, I wouldn't have picked this one; I would have tried to save more.
I just have the feeling it's going to be one big hassle.
I'm not terribly excited about having a car, surprisingly enough. If I didn't need to get a car before next month, I wouldn't have picked this one; I would have tried to save more.
I just have the feeling it's going to be one big hassle.