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Like the color scheme somebody picked for this.

Computer pioneer Alan Turing's remarks in 1950 on the question, "Can machines think?" were misquoted, misinterpreted and morphed into the so-called "Turing Test". The modern version says if you can't tell the difference between communicating with a machine and a human, the machine is intelligent. What Turing actually said was that by the year 2000 people would be using words like "thinking" and "intelligent" to describe computers, because interacting with them would be so similar to interacting with people. Computer scientists do not sit down and say alrighty, let's put this new software to the Turing Test - by Grabthar's Hammer, it passed! We've achieved Artificial Intelligence!

All the stories on the FP are about labor relations and corporate shenanigans. So anyway, do you like Star Trek or Star Wars better? Anybody still ike to read old school sci fi, for example I really love Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League stories - the swashbuckling adventures of intersteller trador Nicholas van Rijn and his Solar Spice and Liquors company, David Falkayne, et al. Good old basic space opera.

I always expect to see a James Bond villain or some sexy robot women in the room.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this question. I assume it's probably just server loading, but it's odd because it tends to happen in individual threads. Like when the Reply button sits there with the busy arrow and never completes, I can comment in another thread with no problem, retry the hung comment and it still hangs, even in a new browser instance. It's as if an individual thread gets stuck for a while.

I've seen $50 electronic items advertised as stocking stuffers. But for me that seems way extravagant. I think the term refers to candy and silly little goobers, that cost a few bucks. But I know inflation has been crazy so maybe my sense of numbers just hasn't caught up. Thoughts?

Nothing more to it - I just love pizza

I'm not participating this year - in fact the one and only time I tried, something really life-shaking happened in the middle and I never finished. But that's another story. My daughter did nanowrimo as a high school project and came through it with a 60k word teen romance novel. I was just curious how everybody's doing at this point.

I made chocolate chip cookies today and brought one downstairs to where my main computer is and ate it - they really turned out good. So I've been sitting here wishing I had brought more than one cuz I don't don't feel like going back upstairs, then just now I look over to the side and boom, half of the cookie is still left. Sweet! And when I say these turned out really good I mean awesome.