Bananas

Cronulla was weird. Just seemed to come out of nowhere although I'm sure with more analysis or talking to people local to the area it would be more clear. Maybe the pubs just ran out beer ? That's a guaranteed way to get Skips to start a riot.

Damn those cards. We don't have the depth, at this level anyway. Not sure if Ivic will go for 3 in the middle Cimirot:Shakhov:Charisis or 2 in which case I'd expect Shakhov to start. Charisis I don't think is at that level. At least, not with 2 in the middle. Will be interesting to see what Ivic tries.

Maybe the U.S. is different to Australia because I know exactly where @ThrylosG7 is coming from. Maybe it was just a different era, a different time. Wogs, Skips, Nips, sure they were originally meant to be derogatory but it changed. If you don't believe me, check out this passage from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_crime_in_Australia. The name Springy Nips was coined by the Asians themselves. In the same way that the name Oakleigh Wogs was coined by Greeks. I grew up in Springvale and I can tell you the Asian boys wore the term Nips with pride. If you don't believe me, I can get Crazy Phong to "explain" it to you. Trust me, you don't want a visit from Crazy Phong.

The Clintons have more people on the payroll.

Everyone was also going to get ice-cream but you all blew it. But seriously, you guys have been getting out of line for a while now. Not every post but often enough. Picture the "discussion" you're having in. Would you guys speak to each like that in person ? If yes, then I'm guessing it would come to blows in short order. To me it just looks like you're all yelling at each other. Oh well, more ice-cream for me.

Merging with machines and consciousness are not the same. And even merging with machines creates weird scenarios. For example, let's say we could make a complete copy of your brain and store that on a machine. You die shortly after. Using cloning technology or some other technology a body is grown. It's got everything except the brain. We get a brain that's been grown, do a format brain: in Windows 42, to make sure it's completely clean with no data, and then copy the data from the machine to the brain. The brain is then inserted into the freshly grown body. Voila! You're back! But is that you ? What if I did the same procedure but with two bodies ?!?! Which one is "you" ? And hence the conundrum. The answer I believe, is that neither of them is you. The "you" that died was a unique "version" or "copy" and it's well and truly gone. Just like when you run a program on a computer. It's executing a copy of the program that is unique. If you end that copy and then run a second copy shortly thereafter, even if the result is the same, they were a different instance of the same program. This is all gets weird quite quickly. And I'm sure if the technology was available, the temptation for loved ones to bring back someone deceased will be strong and in their mind to hell with philosophical questions. Just imagine, Trump being virtually immortal. Lots of Trumps. Trumps, Trumps everywhere. NOW ARE YOU AFRAID ?!?!?! -- edit -- Getting slightly off topic.

A theocracy would be splendid, as long as I was the head of it. Church of Bananasology.

Trump wants to fix infrastructure and create jobs. Here's a "shovel ready" project for Trump. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/12/oroville-dam-spillway-fail-evacuation-orders-issue/

I'll refer this one to @Tzatziki who from what I can tell is the only moderator who participates regularly in this thread. Are you saying he's obtuse or just a coward ? To clarify, there isn't a moderator who checks every post on the forum and there never will be. If you have an issue, the only way to guarantee that moderators know about it, is to bring it to their attention ie. to report it. Calling out a moderator(s), I don't see how that will help you get what you want.

Flat game. No real urgency or energy in our game. Maybe the players are saving themselves for Schalke or maybe it was the rotation. Either way, we didn't play bad but not real good either.

Oh Mystakidis. He tried to reach Boston with that shot.

Biseswar doing a Foutounis.

Ha ha, Biseswar sent him flying.

About time Charisis takes a shot. He's got a decent shot on him.

Hopefully Warda gets a run so we can see him in action. Very curious about this player.

Platanias - PAS Giannina 2 : 2

Never tried it but I think it might be time.

Ha ha, he was TERRIBLE in the first half of the season. Seriously made me wonder why we signed him. Very glad he proved me wrong and then some.

Damn dodgy ads on dodgy streams. One day Nova might get their s**t together and provide an actual legit quality streaming service. I will give you my money Nova. Akoute ?

Klaus nice first touch. Instead of control and shoot it bounced 2 feet away from his foot.

Matos and Leovac both getting a rest before for the Schalke game. Any idea how many games Henrique is banned for ?

http://www.vipleague.co/football/451357/2/xanthi-fc-vs-paok-live-stream-online.html Takes ages to get rid of the damn ads blocking the screen though. It's like they won't let you click to get rid of them for a couple of minutes.

At this stage the idea of a machine that is truly conscious is in the realm of sci-fi. Maybe it always will be. It certainly won't be in our life times as romantic (or scary) as the concept is. If we're talking about machines that can "act" like they're people, that is definitely feasible. Not any time soon, but it's just a matter of time. If the programming was broad and complex enough and the computational power sufficient you'd have a machine that for all intents and purposes "looks like" it's a human. You'd probably have some "base" programming where all the machines are the same and other things could be up to the machine. When I say up to the machine, it's still just following its programming but maybe makes selections/choices that aren't important (e.g. what it's favourite colour is) in a random number generator sort of fashion. Then again, maybe we're doing the same thing except in our case the programming code is in our DNA.

What's rational ? To many posters Trump becoming president is irrational. And yet Trump's victory can be explained in one sentence - f**k you against the establishment. So if instead Hillary became president would this be a more rational choice by voters ? Sure, she might throw them some scraps but she's a blue blood. She couldn't relate to the common man if she tried. The key thing to note (at least for me) is that a lot of people have lost or are losing faith in the establishment and the political class. Syriza, Greek Referendum, Brexit, Trump are all results against the establishment. They may not appear to be logical to some, but to myself they make perfect sense. Whether I personally agree with the results is of no relevance to what I see is happening.

The igloo of iniquity ? Do you have hidden cameras installed ? Where can I put my cigarette butts ?