I got a computer.
I woke up at 6am this morning. I had a very bad dream that involved a girl. I havent been able to sleep.
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me.
(Source: skyver)
“ People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs. ”-Banksy (via adsertoris, zaschell) (via watkinsthunder)
Holy fuck
à: elladarling
Jesus says fuck this shit. This country sucks Ill see you across the pond.
its snowing!
(Source: porlaputa)
Lets go over some statistics…
But first, let me provide you with some facts.
“Hit rate” refers to the probability that if a woman really does have breast cancer, the mammogram reading will indicate that she has cancer. Of course, different studies have produced different estimates of the hit rate for mammograms (when screening otherwise non-symptomatic women), but a reasonable average figure is about 85%.
“False alarm rate” refers to the probability that if a woman does NOT really have breast cancer, the mammogram reading will nonetheless indicate that she has cancer. False alarms are errors, and again, estimates of the false alarm rate for mammograms vary, but seem to average about 5% (but higher than that for women in their 40’s)
~ 1.5% of women develop breast cancer in their 40’s.
During one yearly screening, ~ .2% real new cases.
If 100,000 women in their 40’s are screened every year, there will be approximately:
200 new cases each year (.2%), and 99,800 cases of women who do not have breast cancer.
Of the 200 new cases, about 85% are correctly detected by the mammogram screening = 170 correct positive readings (hits).
Of the 99,800 women who do not have breast cancer, 1/20 will receive a false positive reading = 4,999 women (false alarms)
Thus, out of the total of 5,169 women who would be expected to receive a positive reading, only 200 are women who really have breast cancer. In other words, of the total number of positive readings (5,169) only ~ 3% are hits, and 97% are false alarms!
Conversation with Bill Maher
- -I live a life of miracles.
- BM-No, you live your life with the same sort of mundane coincidences that happen to everybody in the world. It's not like, you know, if it rained frogs, I would say you had a point. But it rains, and it stops raining.
- -Well, when was the last time you asked for rain
- BM-and it starting raining within 10 seconds? I don't know. I don't ever ask for rain. But if I asked for it really bad and it started to rain,I wouldn't think it was because I asked for it. I would think it's because it sometimes rains.
à: l-ofticried
à: bohemea
okay now i can update from my phone. so from now on if my grammar sucks balls in a post, assume it was a text message.