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  1. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    I get where people find soccer boring, but I really wish I had gotten my son to play youth soccer when he was young. You learn to be so nimble on your feet, and footwork is a huge part of virtually every sport.
     
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    el005639 Founding Member

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    My son in 10th grade sustained a concussion at fb practice he came home the next day saying he couldn't remember anything that happened at school that day. I yanked him from the team and wouldn't let him play again. He was pissed at me but I told him him I could fix his knee but not his brain. I don't know what I will think when I start having grandsons who want to play.
     
  3. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Watched my mother in law die of ALS and with all the studies showing the dramatic increase of that with TBI I am not about to risk it. Hard enough watching it happen to her, I'd lose it if it were my own son.
     
  4. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    March 14th is Pi Day
     
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    fanatic Habitual Line Stepper

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    Go figure..
     
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  6. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Shizuo Shinoda was digging with a bulldozer when he accidentally scraped some markings into a road: later when he drove over the markings he realized that the vibration produced in his car can be heard as a tune. In 2007, a team of engineers from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute refined Shinoda's designs and built a number of “melody roads” in Japan. The roads have grooves cut at specific intervals and depths along the surface so that a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, enabling designers to create a distinct tune. The closer the grooves are, the higher the pitch of the sound. The critical ingredient is the speed of the car: and so a potential safety measure was born. Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving very slowly has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car sick.

    In fact the idea of the musical road predated the Japanese discovery: in October 1995 two artists, Steen Krarup Jensen and Jakob Freud-Magnus, constructed the Asphaltophone in Gylling, Denmark. But the Japanese initiative led to a safety measure that has been adopted, not only in Japan, but also in some locations in Korea and the United States.

    Any ideas for road songs?

    Highway to Hell - AC-DC
    On the Road Again - Willie Nelson
    Rockin' Down the Highway - Doobie Brothers
    Goin' Down the Road, Feelin' Bad - Grateful Dead
    Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
    Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean
    Little Red Corvette - Prince
     
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  8. GiantDuckFan

    GiantDuckFan be excellent to each other Staff Member

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    too much time on my hands-styx
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Tay was an artificial intelligence chatterbot for the Twitter platform and is, perhaps, a story of our times. The bot was created by Microsoft's Technology and Research and Bing divisions; it was designed to mimic the language patterns of a 19-year-old American girl, and to learn from interacting with human users of Twitter.

    Tay was released on Twitter by Microsoft on March 23, 2016 under the name TayTweets and handle @TayandYou. The picture in the question is the one used for Tay's Twitter profile. Within a day, the robot was releasing racist, sexually-charged messages in response to other Twitter users. The bot was taken offline around 16 hours after its launch.
     
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  10. el005639

    el005639 Founding Member

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    I'm told out by baker California,there is a road which plays America the beautiful.
     
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