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One more acquisition this week. I cannot save money, I spend it all the time, I prefer to live the present. We never know when I'll change my skin color and die like MJ

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I bought inline skates. I couldn't understand why the colors for men and women are different. I didn't like the colors for women and I asked what is the difference between the models and they said that only the color and the masculine is higher on the calves. I tried both and I felt the masculine slightly more comfortable so I bought them. I also prefer the color. I don't like rose, white and light blue, black is much better.

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I posted the picture of my paintings on MySpace and for my surprise one of them was missing and look what I got on my inbox:



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19 jun 2009, 20:32

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We had to delete one of your photos

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We had to remove an image (or images) from your account because they violated our Terms of Use. Our site is for people as young as 13, so we can't have certain kinds of pics (nude/sexually explicit, violence). Find out more about content we don 19t allow at http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms. If you continue to violate our Terms, we may be forced to remove your account.

If you find an image which you feel is in violation of our Terms, please feel free to use the 'report image' link below the image.

Thanks for your understanding.

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Since a couple of days ago some friends were sending a link to me
Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test
Strings experiment shows limits of feline intelligence


It will cause outrage among some cat owners, but research suggests the pets are not as clever as some humans assumed 13 or at least they think in a way we have yet to fathom.

Psychology lecturer Britta Osthaus says cats do not understand cause-and-effect connections between objects. She tested the thought processes of 15 of them by attaching fish and biscuit treats to one end of a piece of string, placing them under a plastic screen to make them unreachable and then seeing if the cats could work out that pulling on the other end of the string would pull the treat closer.

They were tested in three ways, using a single baited string, two parallel strings where only one was baited, and two crossed strings where only one was baited.

The single string test proved no problem, but unlike dogs (which Osthaus has previously tested) no cat consistently chose correctly between two parallel strings. With two crossed strings, one cat always made the wrong choice and others succeeded no more than might be expected by chance.

Osthaus, of Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, said: "This finding is somehow surprising as cats regularly use their paws and claws to pull things towards them during play and hunting. They performed even worse than dogs, which can at least solve the parallel string task."

The study helped show the limits of feline intelligence, said Osthaus, who conducted the research while a teaching fellow at Exeter University. "If we know their limits we won't expect too much of them, which in turn is important for their welfare. I am not trying to say cats are stupid, just they are different. We are so anthropomorphic we can't see the world through their eyes."

There is just one consolation. Humans don't understand string theory either.
On the red letters they say that dogs performed better than cats, but if you visit the website of the researcher.

On the site of the researcher you you only see articles about dogs and all them say that dogs also didn't solve the problem.


An article about my research in The Guardian, UK national newspaper, 27th December 2002:
MacLeod, D.: Man's best friend is not so clever.

Osthaus, B., Lea, S.E.G. & Slater, A.M. (2005). Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) fail to show understanding of means-end connections in a string-pulling task. Animal Cognition, 8(1), 37-47.

Dogs do not understand means-end connections via a string.
Talk given at the Comparative Cognition Conference, Florida, USA, March 2003.

In 2002 the guardian also published it
Man's best friend is not so clever


On the website of the university where she works I found the same article about cats.
With a little less sensationalist title
Expert's research shows cats don't understand string theory



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I'm ashamed of Dutch people, how can the majority be so stupid. The party that got most votes was a freak Christian party and the second one a extreme xenophobic party.
The Christian freaks already
forbade the magic mushrooms and are doing everything to forbid coffeeshops, they are also trying to forbid shops to work on Sundays, it's already fucking boring here because shops close so early. They'll also soon forbid abortion and gay marriage and it'll be back to the middle age.
If the PVV gets stronger all black people will be sent to Africa, and here with black people I mean not only africans; Morrocans and Southern Europeans are also called black by Dutch racists, even I am black here.

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I used acrylic paint to make it.
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