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+ Show Spoiler +Don't know if anyone still needs a beta key but if you don't have one Win one by either... 1- Telling me how to fix the image. + Show Spoiler +or 2- Buy a TL tank top ($12).I doubt this will happen so guess my favorite smiley to get a key.or 3- Write a sentence (in English) that I don't understand which forces me to look up at least 4 words in that sentence.or 4- Be the 118th person to post in this blog (can only post once per page).
Contest is now over.
   
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lol 118th? this is jst 2 much
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konadora
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That that is, is. That that is not, is not.
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3- I didn't write this sentence myself but I found it while I was searching on the web and I found it kind of amusing. "The most successful cutting plane approaches are based on polyhedral theory, that is they replace the constraint set of an integer programming problem by a convexification of the feasible zero-one points and extreme rays of the problem." From http://iris.gmu.edu/~khoffman/papers/set_covering.html . I don't want a key, just thought it was worth sharing.
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3- Voila this contest is superfluous, I would need a Milreis tossed into a well of some sorts to ward off any hoodoo, but it does have the potential for rigmarole in the end.
Good luck to all!
Edit: Key is for my friend.
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3. so I don't understand what this question is asking so I'm assuming I have to look up any 4 words of the sentence in #3 with a definition. Thus, I went to my trusty friend, urbandictionary.com:
I - A letter that overly energetic high school girls add to their otherwise traditional names to make them "cute".
Example: Cheerleader: Hi, I'm Jenni--with an i! And this is my friend, Christi.
Don't - the act of not doing
Example: don't eat my bananas!!! -oov
*warning - the definition for understand at urbandictionary.com IS LONG* Understand - that capacity of the intellect(with the aid of the body and the senses), alongside reason(with which it exists in reciprocity) which enables man to have insight and substance to the words and concepts he makes use of. not only that but to see, to perceive.
in its essentialy quality of being it is feminine.
for simplicity's sake, we may remind ourselves that we have a brain which has two hemispheres, the left hemisphere correlated with the right hand and has to do with rational thought, reason and logic. the right hemishpehre correlated with left hand, and has to do with imagination, originality, 'irrational' feelings so on and so forth.
the understanding enables us to add new data to an idea, under a concept, words. and synthesize differnt elements from differnt ideas and concepts. it is creative. reason enables us to analyze, critisize. but the understanding enables us to see immediately when its enough, to have temperamence and ingenuity, what time , continuous strife and practice in themselves cannot give us. it is true, reason is that which makes us differnt from the 'animals' (or our 'lower' nature). but in a way the understanding is that which makes us different from robots.
interestinly enough, the term understanding isn't only used in psychology and philosophy, but in our daily regular and subconscious speech.
Example: "now i see, now i understand"
words - An answer to someone babbling on...a sarcastic response to someone talking about a subject that you don't care about or understand.
Example: Person A: "blah blah blah, Last night, blah blah blah"
The beta key is for my friend who has yet to secure one and begged me to get him one which I hope to bring him to TL and the wonders of TL to him in exchange...
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Within the existential morphology and phonology of the human communication schema, the portmanteau is inly used to describe sordid colloquialisms used by the proletarian, which have now amalgamated with middling language.
^what i wrote is probably false. i just wrote it for this contest
EDIT: what i wrote is OC, not some copy pasta. gimme brownie points please
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Lol, Striker look up at the three posters above you.
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On May 15 2010 01:32 kOre wrote: 1-Unmount the drive.
How do?
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offtopic, but I found it adorable how the non-english native speaking posters have sentences that are understandable lol. awwwwwww
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3. Due to the need to manufacture heterojunction bipolar transistor devices with extremely high-doped thin base layers, molecular beam epitaxy is principally employed, although, in addition to base, emitter and collector layers, highly doped layers are deposited on either side of collector and emitter to facilitate ohmic contacts, which are placed on the contact layers after exposure by photolithography and etching.
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On May 15 2010 01:54 BuGzlToOnl wrote:How do?
Try disabling it in device manager.
Edit: Oh no, i misread. Guess it's a virtual drive then? Type diskmgmt.msc in run, then just delete the drive.
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On May 15 2010 02:01 Pika Chu wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2010 01:54 BuGzlToOnl wrote:On May 15 2010 01:32 kOre wrote: 1-Unmount the drive. How do? Try disabling it in device manager. Edit: Oh no, i misread. Guess it's a virtual drive then? Type diskmgmt.msc in run, then just delete the drive.
It's telling me all data will be deleted. I don't want to delete all data. o_O!!
Also yes its an external HD.
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3) But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace soubriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona. Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.
I'm sure one of those sentences has 3 words you don't know
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It's an external HDD you have plugged in?
I don't really understand what you need, you want that H: doesn't appear there/not a partition anymore? or you simply dislike the fact that it shows a broken icon for the drive in explorer?
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Dislike the fact that it has the broken icon. ^_^
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How about follow what i wrote on my first post and then instead of deleting the partition try giving it a different letter assignment. That might fix it.
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at 1st
First make sure the right drivers are installed if any came with the drive. Try a different USB cable. Turn off the power of the driver briefly and then turn it on again. if using a USB hub, try plugging the external hard drive in a USB port directly on the system, not using the USB hub. probably just compatibility problem.. hope that helps
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As the coon asked his fellow bogan to carry the kwacha bag, he pointed his chopper at the brumby rider - trying to take aim but not a good shot with the extra hand occupied with the bag - he thought about how he missed out on some extra bugalugs and wondered if he would've been up for it had he taken his vegemite before the last night's buck's night.
I made this sentence myself, btw. But yeah, I decided to look up some words...so that probably should disqualify me.
A sentence I should make without looking up the words? I don't know if you specified that, but I would guess you would prefer it... I don't know. I'm too lazy to figure out what you would need to look up.
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On May 15 2010 01:28 BuGzlToOnl wrote:1- Telling me how to fix the image. ![[image loading]](http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1909/keyc.jpg) There you go:
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After nearly 12 hours of testimony yesterday by scientists, a hearing on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in court continues today. Many scientists are skeptical of this technology, but several recent cases suggest that lawyers are increasingly interested in using it to sway juries. Based on yesterday's testimony in a federal court in Tennessee, it's hard to say whether one side or the other is gaining the upper hand, says University of Pennsylvania cognitive neuroscientist Martha Farah, who flew to Memphis earlier this week simply to be a spectator.
"To me, it's very exciting," Farah says. "They're trying to decide if this [technology] should have a role in a criminal trial." She says she was surprised by the first day's events, which she recapped with ScienceInsider last night. Going in to the hearing, she says, she assumed that the fMRI lie-detection method "didn't have much of a chance" to ruled admissible by the judge, Tu Pham. But now she's not so sure. The scientists behind the method have "some impressive sounding evidence, and understanding the problems with it requires fairly involved scientific and statistical reasoning," she wrote.
The first to testify in yesterday's hearing was Steven Laken, a cell biologist and founder and CEO of Cephos, a Massachusetts company that offers fMRI lie detection services.
Late last year, Cephos was retained by the defendant in the Tennessee case, Lorne Semrau, a psychologist who is fighting charges that he defrauded Medicare and other health insurers with wrongful claims. Semrau's attorney hopes to introduce fMRI scans performed by Cephos as evidence that he is telling the truth when he says he had no intent to commit fraud.
According to Farah, Laken "spoke in very strong and confident terms" about research finding that certain regions of the brain become more active when a person lies. Laken also described the procedure undergone by Semrau, which, to make a very long story short, involved having his brain scanned as he answered questions about details of his case, and comparing those scans with others taken as Semrau answered a different set of questions, unrelated to the case, after being instructed to intentionally lie on certain questions and respond truthfully to others. (The methods are similar, but not identical, to those used in two studies published by Laken and other researchers affiliated with Cephos: a 2005 paper in Biological Psychiatry, and a 2009 paper in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.)
On cross-examination, it came out that Cephos had originally planned to scan Semrau twice, with each scan addressing different aspects of his alleged misdoings. The first scan indicated he was telling the truth, but the second indicated he was lying. Laken noted that the method has a high rate of false positives (33% according to the 2009 paper) and argued that the second scan may have been compromised because Semrau appeared to be fatigued. When Cephos repeated that scan 2 weeks later, it indicated that he was telling the truth. Prosecuting attorneys questioned why fatigue would influence the results and argued that this do-over was arbitrary and indicated a lack of standardization in the procedure, one of several guidelines used to establish the admissibility of scientific evidence.
After lunch, the court heard from Marcus Raichle, a neuroimaging expert at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis. Farah says Raichle raised questions about the strength of evidence that increased activity in the brain regions examined in the Cephos scans are specifically related to deception. The same regions become active during a variety of mental tasks, Raichle said. He also noted that Semrau was in his 60s when the scans were taken, considerably older than the 18- to 50-year-old subjects who participated in the published studies.
Farah sounds like she would have liked to chime in at this point about some things that were going undiscussed. "No one asked me, but the thing we have not a drop of data on is [the situation] where people have their liberty at stake and have been living with a lie for a long time," she says. She notes that the only published studies on fMRI lie detection involve people telling trivial lies with no threat of consequences. No peer-reviewed studies exist on real world situations like the case before the Tennessee court. Moreover, subjects in the published studies typically had their brains scanned within a few days of lying about a fake crime, whereas Semrau's alleged crimes began nearly 10 years before he was scanned.
Next on the stand was Peter Imrey, a biostatistician at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. Farah says he began with a lengthy exposition on statistics and several examples from epidemiology that didn't seem directly relevant to the Semrau case. "I worry that some of the problems raised by Imrey may seem like academic hair splitting," she said as the court adjourned for a break late in the day. But later in the evening she texted to say that Imrey was landing some more direct hits on Cephos, raising serious questions about their methods.
At the end of the day, it wasn't clear who was winning, Farah said. But she says that Judge Pham seems determined to hear everyone out. "I think that we are getting a fairly complete picture of what's known and not known about the validity of this method."
its more than 1 sentence but i hope you don't understand some words ;d
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On May 15 2010 02:37 538 wrote:There you go: ![[image loading]](http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww92/tl_t538/random/fixed.jpg) Almost. :p
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A branch of willow tree swung like a pendulum into the face of a nearby crochet-knitter who couldn't believe that serendipity would be such a deprecating and derogative contingency to deal with; he also fell into the river and was promptly and swiftly devoured by piranhas.
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On May 15 2010 01:53 caelym wrote: Within the existential morphology and phonology of the human communication schema, the portmanteau is inly used to describe sordid colloquialisms used by the proletarian, which have now amalgamated with middling language.
^what i wrote is probably false. i just wrote it for this contest
EDIT: what i wrote is OC, not some copy pasta. gimme brownie points please
i. phonology - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes ii. portmanteau - blend: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings iii. sordid - morally degraded iv. colloquialism - characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
... Pm'ed.
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On May 15 2010 02:14 Pika Chu wrote: How about follow what i wrote on my first post and then instead of deleting the partition try giving it a different letter assignment. That might fix it.
... Pm'ed.
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contributing it for the 118th poster, i hope someone deserving gets it (i dont have one )
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you people need some more posts till 118...
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I hope someone who wants it gets that 118th beta key!
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I wonder who got the sentence contest key
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I think 118 is aiming a bit too high. Perhaps, you should include "or the last person to post for 24 hours", that way you get maximum thread length. In fact you could just get rid of the 118 part and see how long you can keep this thread going (before it is locked).
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people need to post before 118th, and the page isn't that far yet, so post away! =)
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So wait... I see that #1 and #3 got their beta keys... but who got #2?? You said a smiley... so can these guys work?
> :r :z


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Well obviously your favourite smiley is the thumbs up one you keep using!
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I will guess your favourite smiley in a sec.
It's this: 
This is for a friend btw.
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On May 15 2010 04:45 QuickStriker wrote:So wait... I see that #1 and #3 got their beta keys... but who got #2?? You said a smiley... so can these guys work? + Show Spoiler +
LOL. Ok I guess you "win". It's btw.
... PM'ed.
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Made me go. 
... PM'ed. . Contest is now closed, 118 was too high.
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On May 15 2010 05:48 BuGzlToOnl wrote:Show nested quote +On May 15 2010 04:45 QuickStriker wrote:So wait... I see that #1 and #3 got their beta keys... but who got #2?? You said a smiley... so can these guys work? + Show Spoiler + LOL. Ok I guess you "win". It's  btw. ... PM'ed.  Thank you!!!!!!
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On May 15 2010 05:59 BuGzlToOnl wrote:Made me go.  ... PM'ed.  . Contest is now closed, 118 was too high.
wooooah, THANK YOUUUUUUUUUU
never expected it T_T thank youuuuu
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