This is in the news now, they had sentencing or something today.

Sick, sick story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapp...cee_Lee_Dugard

damn i fell for it

can we create a wiki page for breastaurants... what a great word

http://www.businessinsider.com/breas...ategory-2011-5

Nice!

Liked this marketing line for the beer upsell:

"We have a certain language and we train that among our waitstaff," DeWitt says. "If you ask for a beer, the waitress will ask 'Do you want the man size or the girl size?'"

I mean i think it would be fun for us in the 2p2 thread to create our own entry

I once went to a breastaurant and saw two lesbians dining there. True story. I thought that was funny.

That really was expanding time and killing my mind. Thank you!

Occam's razor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor


Testing the razor

The razor's claim that “simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones” is amenable to empirical testing. The procedure to test this hypothesis would compare the track records of simple and comparatively complex explanations. The validity of Occam's razor as a tool would then have to be rejected if the more complex explanations were more often correct than the less complex ones (while the converse would lend support to its use).


In the history of competing explanations this is certainly not the case. At least, not generally (some increases in complexity are sometimes necessary), and so there remains a justified general bias towards the simpler of two competing explanations. To understand why, consider that, for each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there is always an infinite number of possible, more complex, and ultimately incorrect alternatives. This is so because one can always burden failing explanations with ad-hoc hypotheses. Ad-hoc hypotheses are justifications which prevent theories from being falsified. Even other empirical criteria like consilience can never truly eliminate such explanations as competition. Each true explanation, then, may have had many alternatives that were simpler and false, but also an infinite number of alternatives that were more complex and false.

^ makes me think of that sherlock holmes line they recite in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country:

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Sherlock Holmes

that's just a simple "proof by contradiction" though, right?

Asian escorts spam to expand your mind!

Should I be weirded out that I've already clicked this link at some point in time?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

In 1978 Vietnam invades Cambodia because the Khmer Rouge are demanding Vietnam cede large tracts of land to Cambodia, slaughtering Vietnamese, and generally being dicks. China decides to do something about it because Cambodia is its only ally in the region. Because Vietnam is allied with the USSR, China masses troops on the Soviet border, puts them on high alert, and informs the Soviet Union that they will declare war if the Soviets interfere. China then invades Vietnam, the bulk of the Vietnamese army being away in Cambodia...

nice vietnam war post. I'm vietnamese and it's embarassing how little I know about vietnam. Until last week, I knew almost no details regarding the Vietnam war. Just general stuff like vietcong = communist vs south + america and guerilla tactics owned.

it's all very interesting when you start reading about every single leader/general/president's wife/vp involved.

My Vietnamese neighbors invaded our street with poorly-parked automobiles.

i searched, didn't see this one posted

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest..._using_a_sword

^^^I don't know if "historicity" or "historiography" are words, but they're both in the opening paragraph (and Mozilla's SpellCheck seems OK with them).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrap_rage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HubZInAs0-A

The caption for the picture reads "Ron Lynch, CEO of Titlet Kilt." the name of the breastaurant is Tilted Kilt...

too easy...

Historicity

Historiography

edit: I didn't read those articles so I can't vouch for them being worthwile "killing time" articles. I just had to look up whether there were articles on those terms...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom..._Little_People - Midget theme park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galton–Watson_process - I'm gonna change my last name to Smith or some other popular surname

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin - Punk rock singer who was ****ing insane

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourtee...able_questions - 14 philosophical questions Buddha refused to answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster - Deadliest industrial accident in US history

I've been on the verge of hysteria trying to open a few clamshell packs

That's a good article.

When I get packages in that stuff now the first thing I go for is the pair of scissors that came with my knife set. They're the only things sturdy enough to get through the consumer-proof packaging.

Going back to the always ending up on philosophy theme. If you start on "Latin" and follow the rules you always end up back on "Latin". edit---nah nevermind.