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I like reading Marcus Aurelius, and dropping random statements into a void of random onlookers via the modern electronic medium

: )

I do like Daniel Dennett. Read a couple of his books, hard going but worth while. I never realised he was a proper beardy weirdy though

100% beard man.

Apologies for that. Let me clarify, as per the advert, these are Mon Chasseral wheels consisting of DT rims, DT 240 hubs and spokes. The freehub is Shimano compatible.

The wheels are precisely as in the advert at the vendor. I wouldn't sell anything else.

Thanks for pointing that out Dammit.

Whoops! sorry.

cyn·i·cal/ˈsinikəl/Adjective

1. Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
   
2. Doubtful as to whether something will happen or is worthwhile
   
   
   

I wouldn't say pseudo-profundity is either motivated by self-interest or worthless, nor are it's peddlers and consumers insincere.

I would say it's more rooted in wilful intellectual dishonesty and emotional thinking, it's adherents are incredibly sincere and take a lot of comfort from the inane ramblings of the various posturing gurus.

P.S - Mon Chasseral 1450 wheelset is excellent.

Does he maybe mean that the wheelset has a Shimano freehub?

Ah! I see !!! That might explain everything.

These wheels, front and rear with Shimano hub.

DT Swiss Mon Chasserals have DT hubs.

I am not being (much of) a pedantic tosser, but Mon Chasserals are something different, if you have Shimano hubs then what you are selling here is DT rims on Shimano hubs not a Mon Chasseral 1450 wheel set.

(for example the '1450' in the name refers to the weight of the wheelset with DT hubs, so is not applicable here)

Build your frame from the broken dreams of your youth.

(Or chicken bones)

man that is deep
#furiouslyclappingforthisprick^

Well that's kind of the point, it's not deep, it's pseudo-profundity of the type you quoted ("Truth is the breath of my life" ...etc).

My point is that anyone can knock out this kind of crap, it appeals to an audience who willingly drink up anything that ticks the right boxes.

Stick the words 'wisdom', 'truth' and 'life' into a blender and out comes anther cup of profundity soup.

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Here you go, Daniel Dennett has a good take on this theme:

YouTube - Whitman's Mind: Dan Dennett on Spin & Deepity

Shit tutorial. Too much jargon.

Yeah, I tried to keep it simple but it's difficult to do without the technical explanations.

Here's a simple version for the non-technical, foreigners, women, gays and the Spanish.

1) buy some brakes.

2) get them powder coated.

powder coating looks nice...I could use it also outside the bike world...is there any tutorial? My experience stops to the airbrush and RC model paintjobs...

Tutorial:

1) You take the brakes completely apart - so you have only the big main 'arm' parts.

2) Go to Google and type in these three words: 'powder coating switzerland'

3) Choose a local powder coating place, choose a colour, send or take the parts you want powder coating to the powder coating people.

I bought some standard silver brakes, stripped them apart and then got the parts powder coated white:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4127/whitegoodspd5.jpg

Looks like a cock.

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. . . or lazers.

Nitromors

split it biatch.

: )

If you split can I take the photo.

Gary Reggae:

YouTube - How to play Ska organ - part 1

^love that tune

racist

There's no certainty that you would end up, in Derren Brown's experiment, in throwing 60 heads in a row. There's just a greater probability of it happening, the more throws you make.

Agreed, keep throwing and there is always the hope that something specific might happen.

That's limit theory, no?

Never heard of it.

Derren Brown did an example of this. Wait long enough and you'll get 10 heads in a row, 60 tails in a row, whatever...

The idea that all things are possible is self-refuting as far as I can see.

I'd say wait long enough and you might get 10 heads in a row or 60 tails in a row, but it's not certain that it will happen.

If on the other hand all things (in this example - combinations of 100 coin flips) are certain given enough time, then it is 'certain' that there will be a sempiternal run of heads (killing off all other possible outcomes).

Depends what you mean by that, while there is only a 1 in 2^100 chances of getting 100 heads, there are a lot more chances of getting 50 heads, so you're much, much more likely to get 50 heads than 100 heads.

Ah, it's back, the problem !!

: )

As a unique sequence, 100 heads in a row is as likely as any other unique sequence (for instance 50 heads followed by 50 tails).

(There may be variations of 50 heads and 50 tails, but there are no variations of 100 heads).

Look at that.

lol.

Monty Hall making me sick, must stop thinking, need drink.