It isn't the vocabulary that led Dr. Pepperberg to claim his intelligence was on par with a five year old. It was his ability to reason. She always claimed he had the emotional maturity of a two year old, but his reasoning abilities were far beyond that.
There are several Alex anecdotes which lead me to believe he was smarter than Dr. Pepperberg would publicly claim. Late in Alex's life, they were working with him to see if he could understand that the words he was using were made up of separate phonetic sounds. They were trying to get him to understand that the word "cup" was composed of a hard C sound, an 'uh" and a P sound. Alex, who didn't always want to "work" just kept saying "want nut." (a nut being his favorite treat/toy). After 20 minutes or so of working with him, and Alex answering every time "want nut" he gave a different answer ... "want nut, nnnn, uh, tuh"
Yep, I get it he said ... gimme the damned nut.
The most incredible, to me, was when he demonstrated understanding of none. A standard test for Alex was to have several different objects of different shapes and colors on a tray and ask him how many blue, or what color square. Questions designed to get him to analyze what was on the tray and answer a specific question about one aspect of an object. This day, Dr. Pepperberg was asking Alex how many blue. Alex looked at the tray and answered red. At first it appeared to be a nonsense answer, and they assumed Alex was just being a brat since there were no red objects on the tray. They repeated the question, how many blue, and Alex repeated the answer, red. After a frustrating quarter hour of this, Dr. Pepperberg finally said "ok smarty pants, how many red" to which Alex replied "none." Not only had Alex learned the concept of none, but he had devised a means to demonstrate his knowledge to Dr. Pepperberg.
Yeah, must be a completely original idea. Blizzard's Warcraft series of games has featured the Paneran for about a decade now. I'm sure they aren't the only ones.
McDonalds served coffee between 180-190 degrees. Coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
Between 1982-92, McDonalds had over 700 complaints by people burned by its coffee.
The lady who sued, suffered 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and lesser burns over sixteen percent. She was hospitalized for eight days and underwent skin grafts. She sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her actual and anticipated expenses. Her past medical expenses were $10,500; her anticipated future medical expenses were approximately $2,500; and her loss of income was approximately $5,000 for a total of approximately $18,000. McDonalds offered only $800.
She WAS NOT driving the car. The car was not in motion when the accident occurred.
McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.
The company admitted its customers were unaware that they could suffer thirddegree burns from the coffee
Post-verdict investigation found that the temperature of coffee at the local Albuquerque McDonalds had dropped to 158 degrees fahrenheit.
The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages. This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equals about two days of McDonalds' coffee sales. The trial court subsequently reduced the punitive award to $480,000 even though the judge called McDonalds' conduct reckless, callous and willful.
As with anything that becomes huge and popular, the lowest common denominator will determine its end point. Unfortunately, far too many people are too stupid for their own good and will click on applications and surveys just to see a story.
If you had a brain, you realized a year ago that any Facebook link that starts with take this quick survey to see that story is a scam.
Thirty years ago Michael Jordan advertising for Nike meant a huge boost in sales for those sneakers. Its gotta be the shoes! Fifteen years later you had half a dozen basketball players pushing their own brands. Whatever impact the star labeling might have had was diluted. Now? Does anyone care if the shoes carry an athlete's name or endorsement?
Today we are over saturated with ads. We have ads on TV, on radio, on the internet. We have ads on our smart phones and even ads on the ATM machines. I find myself intentionally avoiding products that are heavily advertised.
"they did manage to destroy a cooking cottage industry that was thriving across the US, we saw domestic lab seizures go down dramatically when pseudo went behind the counter."
Try reading the article Mr. Coward.
"The increase was higher in the three states that have electronically tracked sales of medication containing pseudoephedrine since at least 2008. Meth incidents rose a combined 67 percent in those states — 34 percent in Arkansas, 65 percent in Kentucky and 164 percent in Oklahoma."
Any decrease in domestic production was temporary until the producers figured out how to work around the problem.
For 20 years, the DVD rental business offered you a chance to rent a DVD for a small fee. The DVD you rented was exactly the same as the one you could purchase.
Now, the studios are removing value from the rental DVD, yet still charging the same price for the rental. I have never purchased a DVD for the deleted scenes, or alternate endings, or blooper reels. Sure, they are nice, but nothing I would pay money for.
It is analogous to McDonalds selling a Happy Meal without fries because you went through the drive thru, and telling you that if you want the Happy Meal with fries included, you need to come inside. All I would do, is drive away.
On another note, Mr. Coward, if you want anyone to take anything you say seriously, stop the personal attacks and vulgarity. You come across as a petulant 12 year old. Just because you cannot think your way through the problem and I can does not mean I am "fucking retarded." Quite the contrary.
Couldn't disagree more. Accepting cash is free. As a merchant you don't pay a percentage of the sale if it is paid in cash. You pay a percentage if it is credit/debit.
Keeping cash in the register is not a cost of the transaction. It is a convenience so you can make change.
Couldn't disagree more. Accepting cash is free. As a merchant you don't pay a percentage of the sale if it is paid in cash. You pay a percentage if it is credit/debit.
Keeping cash in the register is not a cost of the transaction. It is a convenience so you can make change.
Lets start with the Bush administration "pressured Germany not to prosecute CIA officers responsible for the kidnapping, extraordinary rendition and torture of German national
"while information may want to be free, human beings are usually better off when it's on a leash"
Typical of government and big business. It's a secret, you just have to trust us. Like we trusted you on those WMDs in Iraq. Like we trusted you about deregulating financial industries.
Government can't be trusted and big media is not doing their job as watchdog on the government because they feed from the same trough.
Tried to post this in the comments on the article, but it doesn't like it :(
Yes, piracy is a problem. No, you cannot stop it. No, you cannot make it go away. No, you cannot legislate it. A bill before Congress which would stop/restrict advertising on pirate sites will have ZERO IMPACT on this problem. Why? Because they are pirates. Do you really think they care about a law like that? This is the internet, they will simply route around that little problem.
That seems to be the crux of the problem here. The pirates are learning how to adapt to the internet and you are not. If someone has pirated your work and posted it online, why would I come to your website to see it? You have to offer something the pirates don't. A rant against piracy isn't going to help. I hear music on the radio for free (or Pandora) yet I still BUY music.
One answer is to Connect With Fans and give them a Reason to Buy (CWF+RTB) something. It doesn't have to be your comics. They can already get those. How about a t-shirt. A mug? Small potatoes I know. How about selling a walk-on role in one of your comics? A fan might be willing to pay serious money for something like that. Why not sell a unique one off comic starring a fan? Sell it for $25,000 or something like that. You might be surprised. That would certainly pay for health insurance.
Many musicians have tried these types of ideas. Jill Sobule funded the recording time for her last album this way. American singer-songwriter Ellis Paul, a musical veteran with 16 albums and 14 Boston Music Awards was able to raise $100,000 to record an album throught the support of 300 fans.
But it isn't just musicians succeeding this way. The Christian Science Monitor changed from a daily newspaper to a weekly magazine, and totally dedicated their news staff to being web-centric. They abandoned a 100 year old daily newspaper and adapted to the new world we live in. The result? In the first year of this change, traffic on the website more than doubled, and paid subscriptions to the paper magazine increased from 43,000 to 77,000.
My favorite radio station is member supported (88.5 WXPN in Philly). Their member drives (and NPR's) are excellent examples of CWF+RTB. They could go on the air and just beg and plead and HOPE people give them money. They don't. They give me a reason to buy. Donate $75 and get an exclusive CD. Donate $275 and get a pair of CDs and an XPN Superhero t-shirt (so you can publicly proclaim your love). They also have options to be a Special Producer ($1500, $2500) and be in studio for live tapings with artists. They have FREE concerts every week with unheard of artists like Joe Jackson, Counting Crows, Gov’t Mule, Patty Griffin, Carly Simon, Shemekia Copeland, Indigo Girls, Barenaked Ladies, Derek Trucks Band, Citizen Cope, Buddy Guy and Rosanne Cash. They give away the tickets and air the concert on the radio.
I don't claim that piracy is good, just inevitable. Always has been. Its just cheaper and faster today. If you are failing, YOU are failing. Don't blame the internet. Don't blame pirates. Quit looking for someone to blame. That is just lazy business thinking. The internet has changed the world we live in and you are hanging onto the past. You need to adapt.
(Sorry for the double post, some of it got eaten as tags)
Product placement is not a bad thing. Horribly done product placements are. I would change the channel in a heartbeat the moment any of those product placements hit. They were so Truman show.
They are trying to write the commercial into the show and it didn't work. Instead they should try to be more natural about it. I know it's a soap opera, but you have to do better.
Jim: "Hey Bob, can you grab me a Pepsi out of the fridge?"
[show Bob getting a Pepsi out of the 12 pack]
[Bob looks at can as he hands it to Jim]
Bob: "Pepsi, huh?"
[Jim opens Pepsi and takes a sip]
Jim: "Ah, now thats good."
Not too difficult there is it?
Head and Shoulders recently had a campaign that I heard on Mike & Mike (ESPN Radio) every morning. They were having a best hair contest featuring their spokesperson Troy Palamalo (sp?) of the Steelers. It was a cheesy 8 person contest where fans voted on the best hair, and the winner was pitted against Troy in the finals. It wasn't a commercial, it was the hosts discussing the contest and informing listeners where to go to vote. It was advertising, but it was interesting. If you want me to pay attention to your ad, you have to make it interesting. The examples above were anything but interesting.
Product placement is not a bad thing. Horribly done product placements are. I would change the channel in a heartbeat the moment any of those product placements hit. They were so Truman show.
They are trying to write the commercial into the show and it didn't work. Instead they should try to be more natural about it. I know it's a soap opera, but you have to do better.
Jim: "Hey Bob, can you grab me a Pepsi out of the fridge?"
Bob: "Pepsi, huh?"
Jim: "Ah, now thats good."
Not too difficult there is it?
Head and Shoulders recently had a campaign that I heard on Mike & Mike (ESPN Radio) every morning. They were having a best hair contest featuring their spokesperson Troy Palamalo (sp?) of the Steelers. It was a cheesy 8 person contest where fans voted on the best hair, and the winner was pitted against Troy in the finals. It wasn't a commercial, it was the hosts discussing the contest and informing listeners where to go to vote. It was advertising, but it was interesting. If you want me to pay attention to your ad, you have to make it interesting. The examples above were anything but interesting.
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He is broke
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Interesting ...
I hadn't made the connection before, but you are right. The recorded music and movie industries are behaving like terrorists.
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Re: How Smart Was Alex The Parrot?
There are several Alex anecdotes which lead me to believe he was smarter than Dr. Pepperberg would publicly claim. Late in Alex's life, they were working with him to see if he could understand that the words he was using were made up of separate phonetic sounds. They were trying to get him to understand that the word "cup" was composed of a hard C sound, an 'uh" and a P sound. Alex, who didn't always want to "work" just kept saying "want nut." (a nut being his favorite treat/toy). After 20 minutes or so of working with him, and Alex answering every time "want nut" he gave a different answer ... "want nut, nnnn, uh, tuh"
Yep, I get it he said ... gimme the damned nut.
The most incredible, to me, was when he demonstrated understanding of none. A standard test for Alex was to have several different objects of different shapes and colors on a tray and ask him how many blue, or what color square. Questions designed to get him to analyze what was on the tray and answer a specific question about one aspect of an object. This day, Dr. Pepperberg was asking Alex how many blue. Alex looked at the tray and answered red. At first it appeared to be a nonsense answer, and they assumed Alex was just being a brat since there were no red objects on the tray. They repeated the question, how many blue, and Alex repeated the answer, red. After a frustrating quarter hour of this, Dr. Pepperberg finally said "ok smarty pants, how many red" to which Alex replied "none." Not only had Alex learned the concept of none, but he had devised a means to demonstrate his knowledge to Dr. Pepperberg.
One smart bird!
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Re:
Since when is probably a legal argument?
If I own a gun, I probably shot someone with it.
If I own both a car and alcohol, I probably drove drunk.
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Re:
Since when is probably a legal argument?
If I own a gun, I probably shot someone with it.
If I own both a car and alcohol, I probably drove drunk.
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Panderan in Warcraft
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Picture worth 1000 words...
http://tinyurl.com/5tye8n8
McDonalds served coffee between 180-190 degrees. Coffee served at home is generally 135 to 140 degrees.
Between 1982-92, McDonalds had over 700 complaints by people burned by its coffee.
The lady who sued, suffered 3rd degree burns over 6% of her body and lesser burns over sixteen percent. She was hospitalized for eight days and underwent skin grafts. She sought to settle with McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her actual and anticipated expenses. Her past medical expenses were $10,500; her anticipated future medical expenses were approximately $2,500; and her loss of income was approximately $5,000 for a total of approximately $18,000. McDonalds offered only $800.
She WAS NOT driving the car. The car was not in motion when the accident occurred.
McDonalds' quality assurance manager testified that the company actively enforces a requirement that coffee be held in the pot at 185 degrees, plus or minus five degrees. He also testified that a burn hazard exists with any food substance served at 140 degrees or above, and that McDonalds coffee, at the temperature at which it was poured into styrofoam cups, was not fit for consumption because it would burn the mouth and throat.
The company admitted its customers were unaware that they could suffer thirddegree burns from the coffee
Post-verdict investigation found that the temperature of coffee at the local Albuquerque McDonalds had dropped to 158 degrees fahrenheit.
The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages. This amount was reduced to $160,000 because the jury found Liebeck 20 percent at fault in the spill. The jury also awarded Liebeck $2.7 million in punitive damages, which equals about two days of McDonalds' coffee sales. The trial court subsequently reduced the punitive award to $480,000 even though the judge called McDonalds' conduct reckless, callous and willful.
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Re: Re: The Race to the bottom
I use Facebook to keep in touch and connect with people. I turned off 3rd applications and I haven't noticed anything missing.
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The Race to the bottom
If you had a brain, you realized a year ago that any Facebook link that starts with take this quick survey to see that story is a scam.
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Over saturation
Today we are over saturated with ads. We have ads on TV, on radio, on the internet. We have ads on our smart phones and even ads on the ATM machines. I find myself intentionally avoiding products that are heavily advertised.
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Re:
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Re: Re: Re:
Now, the studios are removing value from the rental DVD, yet still charging the same price for the rental. I have never purchased a DVD for the deleted scenes, or alternate endings, or blooper reels. Sure, they are nice, but nothing I would pay money for.
It is analogous to McDonalds selling a Happy Meal without fries because you went through the drive thru, and telling you that if you want the Happy Meal with fries included, you need to come inside. All I would do, is drive away.
On another note, Mr. Coward, if you want anyone to take anything you say seriously, stop the personal attacks and vulgarity. You come across as a petulant 12 year old. Just because you cannot think your way through the problem and I can does not mean I am "fucking retarded." Quite the contrary.
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Re: Re: Cash vs. Credit
Keeping cash in the register is not a cost of the transaction. It is a convenience so you can make change.
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Re: Re: Cash vs. Credit
Keeping cash in the register is not a cost of the transaction. It is a convenience so you can make change.
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Re: Re: Re:
Can you name one person whose life has been endangered due to the documents published?
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Re: Re:
Lets start with the Bush administration "pressured Germany not to prosecute CIA officers responsible for the kidnapping, extraordinary rendition and torture of German national
I'm sure there will be more.
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Re:
Typical of government and big business. It's a secret, you just have to trust us. Like we trusted you on those WMDs in Iraq. Like we trusted you about deregulating financial industries.
Government can't be trusted and big media is not doing their job as watchdog on the government because they feed from the same trough.
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Tried to post this in the comments on the article, but it doesn't like it :(
That seems to be the crux of the problem here. The pirates are learning how to adapt to the internet and you are not. If someone has pirated your work and posted it online, why would I come to your website to see it? You have to offer something the pirates don't. A rant against piracy isn't going to help. I hear music on the radio for free (or Pandora) yet I still BUY music.
One answer is to Connect With Fans and give them a Reason to Buy (CWF+RTB) something. It doesn't have to be your comics. They can already get those. How about a t-shirt. A mug? Small potatoes I know. How about selling a walk-on role in one of your comics? A fan might be willing to pay serious money for something like that. Why not sell a unique one off comic starring a fan? Sell it for $25,000 or something like that. You might be surprised. That would certainly pay for health insurance.
Many musicians have tried these types of ideas. Jill Sobule funded the recording time for her last album this way. American singer-songwriter Ellis Paul, a musical veteran with 16 albums and 14 Boston Music Awards was able to raise $100,000 to record an album throught the support of 300 fans.
But it isn't just musicians succeeding this way. The Christian Science Monitor changed from a daily newspaper to a weekly magazine, and totally dedicated their news staff to being web-centric. They abandoned a 100 year old daily newspaper and adapted to the new world we live in. The result? In the first year of this change, traffic on the website more than doubled, and paid subscriptions to the paper magazine increased from 43,000 to 77,000.
My favorite radio station is member supported (88.5 WXPN in Philly). Their member drives (and NPR's) are excellent examples of CWF+RTB. They could go on the air and just beg and plead and HOPE people give them money. They don't. They give me a reason to buy. Donate $75 and get an exclusive CD. Donate $275 and get a pair of CDs and an XPN Superhero t-shirt (so you can publicly proclaim your love). They also have options to be a Special Producer ($1500, $2500) and be in studio for live tapings with artists. They have FREE concerts every week with unheard of artists like Joe Jackson, Counting Crows, Gov’t Mule, Patty Griffin, Carly Simon, Shemekia Copeland, Indigo Girls, Barenaked Ladies, Derek Trucks Band, Citizen Cope, Buddy Guy and Rosanne Cash. They give away the tickets and air the concert on the radio.
I don't claim that piracy is good, just inevitable. Always has been. Its just cheaper and faster today. If you are failing, YOU are failing. Don't blame the internet. Don't blame pirates. Quit looking for someone to blame. That is just lazy business thinking. The internet has changed the world we live in and you are hanging onto the past. You need to adapt.
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Product placement ...
Product placement is not a bad thing. Horribly done product placements are. I would change the channel in a heartbeat the moment any of those product placements hit. They were so Truman show.
They are trying to write the commercial into the show and it didn't work. Instead they should try to be more natural about it. I know it's a soap opera, but you have to do better.
Jim: "Hey Bob, can you grab me a Pepsi out of the fridge?"
[show Bob getting a Pepsi out of the 12 pack]
[Bob looks at can as he hands it to Jim]
Bob: "Pepsi, huh?"
[Jim opens Pepsi and takes a sip]
Jim: "Ah, now thats good."
Not too difficult there is it?
Head and Shoulders recently had a campaign that I heard on Mike & Mike (ESPN Radio) every morning. They were having a best hair contest featuring their spokesperson Troy Palamalo (sp?) of the Steelers. It was a cheesy 8 person contest where fans voted on the best hair, and the winner was pitted against Troy in the finals. It wasn't a commercial, it was the hosts discussing the contest and informing listeners where to go to vote. It was advertising, but it was interesting. If you want me to pay attention to your ad, you have to make it interesting. The examples above were anything but interesting.
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Product placement ...
They are trying to write the commercial into the show and it didn't work. Instead they should try to be more natural about it. I know it's a soap opera, but you have to do better.
Jim: "Hey Bob, can you grab me a Pepsi out of the fridge?"
Bob: "Pepsi, huh?"
Jim: "Ah, now thats good."
Not too difficult there is it?
Head and Shoulders recently had a campaign that I heard on Mike & Mike (ESPN Radio) every morning. They were having a best hair contest featuring their spokesperson Troy Palamalo (sp?) of the Steelers. It was a cheesy 8 person contest where fans voted on the best hair, and the winner was pitted against Troy in the finals. It wasn't a commercial, it was the hosts discussing the contest and informing listeners where to go to vote. It was advertising, but it was interesting. If you want me to pay attention to your ad, you have to make it interesting. The examples above were anything but interesting.
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