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@xdc the doc wrote:
Stop trying to anthropomorphize him neon… imagine it is a machine if you will. You cant add things like motivation into a pure thought experiment!
True, but then the thought experiment becomes nothing more than straight forward gambling.
One choice gives you even odds that you will make some money.
The other choice will give you odds of 2/1 against making 1 million.
Then it’s down to the personality of the person being offered the choice. Are they a risk taker or somebody who likes to play it safe? But at the end of the day nobody has anything to lose by taking part, and only something to gain.
However, if the choice was this:
Box 1 – Contains antidotes to the poison given to you and your wife -guarenteed-
Box 2 – May contain the antidotes for your whole family including your kidsThen the motivation for your choices change. As a parent who wouldn’t take the option of box 2?
Well why wouldn’t the supreme being want you to have 1 million dollars? If they have the ability to predict which box you would take, then surely their motivation is the deciding factor?
If the only way to ensure that B2 is definately empty is to take both or to flip a coin then taking only B2 as your own decision should contain $1 million, unless the supreme beings’ got a problem with you.
But let’s be honest, if the ultimate force in the universe doesn’t like you $1000 dollars isn’t going to do you much good…
Granted, you’re now king of the gheys.
I wish that this Christmas no X Factor winners get in the top ten of the pop charts.
@Cha0sEngine wrote:
why would he write a book?? Havent you seen the movies?!?!? ๐
Yeah, but I thought the one where Steve Brown went up against Tina Turner and the bloke from ‘Flying Doctors’ wasn’t so good.
Granted, but it only works underwater.
I wish Insane would stop sending me naked pictures of himself.@TurksMeister wrote:
How did you know his name?!
I almost got run over once… car was doing 60 ish… I didn’t look properly – missed me by less than a meter… now I am road safe!
I forgot I actually got hit by a car just outside my wife’s flat. I’d stayed over and was heading into work with a backpack on andstepped out infront of a car in Brixton. The bumper clipped my foot and span me around onto the windscreen. Luckily my backpack absorbed the impact and threw me about fifteen feet down the road. The woman driving the car pulls over and is in a right state. So I stand up and stagger over to her car.
Now here’s the surreal bit; No body pays any attention to me, but two or three passersby go to check if the driver of the car is okay(!??!?!). Sure it was my fault, but nobody comes to ask me if I’m hurt or anything, if fact by the time I reach the car I’m getting nasty looks from the passersby. I appologise to the woman in the car and tell her I’m alright (turns out I’m not) and that I’m sorry to have given her a scare, all the men just stare at me in silence. When she drives off I hobble to a bus stop and go to work, worried that I’m very close to being beaten up.
By about 10am I’m shivering through shock and my ankle has swollen up. So I get sent home. I have to send my boss an email along the lines of ‘Been hit by a car, going home early.’
@Insane wrote:
Have to say I bet dinner partys at OP’s is rather a good night with the stories I reckon he could tell.. whens me invite?
Sean has a few tales to tell. I’ve relayed that one about the lion to some of my anti-hunting associates who think lions are cuddly and kind. And WET’s told me a few stories about Lord Phartsbury that’d make a good book.
Actually Pharty, maybe you should write a book?
nOm, you’re lucky you didn’t get to hear the Neon/Signal double act. It’d make sailors blush.
Although I still remember when Wipers once used the ‘C’ word.
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Sheesh. After Doc and Stan’s stories I’m never going near the sea again!
My story is more in line with Messy’s:
An ex and I were coming back from watching ‘Airforce One’ (which was utter shit) at the cinema in High Wycombe in her Volkwagon Golf. It’s about 11pm and we’re on the main road heading back when I see the headlights of two cars come tearing around the corner up ahead of us. I say something like “Huh. Look at those two idiots”, when the lead car starts to swerve left and right and then veers head on into us. Julie spins the wheel and the car (Peugeot 309) hits the VW virtually nose to nose.
Loud bang. Glass everywhere. Then a deafening silence, punctuated by the GF moaning about her foot and asking if I’m alright. Bearing in mind what’s just happened I’m expecting the worst, but it turns out I’ve broken my shoulder and Julie has broken her foot. The VW’s engine was practically touching my toes and the Peugeot was like confetti all over the road. When the car hit us Julie had turned the wheel so that he hit our bonnet at a 45 degree angle, so most of the force went through the car, missing us. If she’d turned a fraction of a second sooner or later the VW’s engine would have been on our laps, or the Peugeot would have come through the driver’s door. Either way we’d either be very badly injured or dead.
Unfortunately the driver of the other car wasn’t so lucky. He died about 20 minutes after we got to hospital from massive head injuries and was only 20 at the time. Turns out he’d been racing the other car.
@stan wrote:
@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:
I would have read 1984, but I’m not really into historical dramas.
It started out as sci-fi, does that help? ๐
Sorry Stan, just stealing somebody else’s joke about the comic ‘2000AD’. ๐
I’ve seen the movie Brazil (one of my faves) so I’ll stick with that version of 1984. ๐
As Jimmy Saville might say:
“Now then. Now then. What’s all this then?”
Dazzer’s getting XDC banned from the RIP servers? How’d that happen? I don’t know Dazzer very well, but I don’t think being a haxxor is what you’d expect from a Red Orchestra player.
Is this a case of “he’s so good he must be a haxxor” (something I used to blame virtually every Battlefield player of being), or is COD4 pretty buggy? Or both!
edited because of awful spelling of ‘vertually’@XDC-snell wrote:
@=XDC=OldPhart wrote:
Will see what kind of deal we can cut, our renewal is due end of Feb, so we will speak sometime then over dinner and afterwards back to my city flat. Were when you are drunk I’ll take you Bulawayo style with my Blue train. We may do business after that ?
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How do you think Cowboy got a TV and a couple of DVD players off him for รฦรโรยขรขโยฌร ยกรฦรขโฌลกรโรยฃ50? ๐ฏ ๐ฎ
