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Comment Re:Survival? (Score 2) 272

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia in case anyone is interested.
"Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact. The term originally referred to a condition following acute brain damage, but recently a congenital form of the disorder has been proposed, which may be inherited by about 2.5% of the population. The specific brain area usually associated with prosopagnosia is the fusiform gyrus.
Few successful therapies have so far been developed for affected people, although individuals often learn to use 'piecemeal' or 'feature by feature' recognition strategies. This may involve secondary clues such as clothing, hair color, body shape, and voice. Because the face seems to function as an important identifying feature in memory, it can also be difficult for people with this condition to keep track of information about people, and socialize normally with others."

Comment Re:LOTR (Score 1) 272

I tried real hard to find flaws in his appearance as I'd heard people complain and came to the same conclusion as you. I found it hardly noticible though. Had it not been pointed out to me that people didn't like the Clu 2 cgi I probably wouldn't have noticed the uncanny valley. Then again, it worked for me in the movie because he WAS a program.

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Comment Re:This is pretty much what I've been telling peop (Score 1) 973

Odd. I see road construction through most of every summer, most notably on an overpass (aka bridge) I would very much like to use to get to work in the morning. Do you live somewhere that tax money only goes to somewhere like Afghanistan like, say, Afghanistan? If so, I'm pretty sure if you look hard enough can see US tax money going to bridges there too.

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