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Post
#214143
Topic
what happened to ric
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/214143/action/topic#214143
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You don't have to worry. I'm here! I've been posting too little lately - compared on how much I used to - and I've been taking too long to respond on the OT tournament, sorry! But nothing related to that violence thing, it's ok now. I've been really busy lately, the project I was working with has ended and I was busy trying to roll in into something else. It was one hell of a month for me, but things are back on track, at least for a while... I'm not gonna be as present here as I used to, but I'll still be posting here every now and then - if you pay attention you'll see I've posted on some threads lately. I have no intentions of leaving this forum.

Thanks for worrying and stuff, I had no idea people actually realized I wasn't around! But I'm ok, and I'm still active on this forum, you won't get rid of me so easily.
Post
#212560
Topic
Modern Myths?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212560/action/topic#212560
Time
Yeah I know the Magna Carta's real, and that Arthur could have existed, and Robin Hood might have been based on one person or a group of persons, but that makes those myths.

Or like that story of the piper who is asked to remove the rats of the town with his flute, but when the town dosent pay him he makes the children get out by the same way... That was based on a real incident, a tragedy that occurred lots of centuries ago, but no historian was able to decipher how did it happen, why did it happen, and if it happened like the story.
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#212556
Topic
Photography submit your pics!!!!!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212556/action/topic#212556
Time
Not sure if the images are going to show up but still, the only pics I have here not showing myself or someone I know:

http://www.geocities.com/ricarleite/air1.jpg
One of the things I fear the most Everytime I survive a plane trip (I don't travel on planes, I survive them) I take a picture of it, if possible. This was not the last one, there was another after this one.

http://www.geocities.com/ricarleite/air2.jpg
This guy was playing at the airport, as I was waiting to move to the gate (where I was going to wait another 90 minutes due to delay *sigh*), the reason I took a picture out of him is because he was unbeliveably BAD. He couldn't play his sysnthetizer. Couldn't sing. When he started to do a rumba-esqe version of My Way, singing in spanish AND english, I decided I should have a photo of him to remind myself of HOW not to sing.
Post
#212549
Topic
Help with a logic puzzle
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212549/action/topic#212549
Time
No I think jack Spencer Jr has come to a good conclusion. Let me see if I got it straight.

Let's say that the e1 has 2000 dollars. That means that the other envelope could have 1000. And what if the first envelope has 1000? The second one could have 2000. Same thing, but with different envelopes! In an infinite number of possibilities for the contents on the envelopes, it dosen't matter which one you pick, as there are equal odds of anything from 100 to, theorically, infinite dollars being in any envelope.

This reminds me of that mathematical paradox in which a contestant in a game show is asked to pick a door from three doors, two of them have nothing behind, the other has a prize. After the contestant picks a door, the game show host opens yet another door, showing it to be empty. Now we have two doors, the one the contestant picked, and the other one, still unopened. Should he change his mind and choose the other door? And why?

Surprisingly, the answer is YES he should. I'll have the answer here later.
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#212432
Topic
Help with a logic puzzle
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212432/action/topic#212432
Time
Well, from what I understand, the answer is that it makes no difference if the envelopes are switched.

e1 = x (money you might get by picking the first envelope)
e2a = 2x
e2b = x/2

Okay? So, what are the odds of each event?

There is 100% of chance that the envelope 1 contains x dollars.

There is 50% of chance that envelope 2 contains x/2 or 2x.

The universe you have is: e1-e2a and e1-e2b, 50% of chance for each.

On e1-e2a if you pick the first envelope, you lose x. If you pick the second envelope, you gain x.
On e1-e2b if you pick the first envelope, you gain x/2. If you pick the second envelope, you lose x/2.

There is 25% of each choice be made.

Pick E1, lose x
Pick E1, gain x/2

Pick E2, gain x
Pick E2, lose x/2

Hmn... Seems to me it's more logical to switch, as you can lose the less and gain more dollars if you pick correctly.

BUT since NO ONE is going to give 100 dollar bills into envelopes to someone like that, WHO CARES?!

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#212072
Topic
Skype
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/212072/action/topic#212072
Time
Skype works sort of like MSN messenger. You register for free, and you get an username, to which you can use to talk with someone over the internet, with a microphone, audio, and even a webcam - it can be through text too. The beauty is, you can buy credits for it, and use it to call regular phone numbers, even internationally, by paying the same as a local call. The Sype system redirects the call through the internet, and into a phone located at the city you are calling, therefore, making it a local phone call. You can also subscribe for an actual phone number, which re-directs the calls into the Skype program no MATTER where you are - this feature is only presente in some countries, Brazil, USA, I belive in Europe and Canada as well. If I subscribe it with a phone number from São Paulo Brazil, and I'm working in England, they can call into the São Paulo number, paying only for a local call, and Skype will redirect through the internet into my computer, and I'll be able to call them. Skype even offers real voIP phones you can hook up to your computer or internet connection, and using you Skype login, have it as a real phone - with the same features as the program.

I'll be moving real soon, and I won't sign up a phone number anymore. I'll hook up the internet there and buy Skype credits and a phone number through it.
Post
#211154
Topic
Jokes thread : Reloaded
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211154/action/topic#211154
Time
A man wanted to buy a lottery ticket, but could not choose the numbers. So he asked the girl at the booth taking the tickets to help him pick up the numbers.

"OK", she said, "first of all, in which month is your birthday?"

"August.", he replied.

"OK so let's have the number 8 here. Now, how many children do you have?"

"Three.", he replied.

"OK, so let's have the number 3 here. Now, how many books have you read so far?"

"I'd say about nine..."

"Ok then... Let's have a 9 here... OK, now, how many times a month do you make love to your wife?"

"What? Oh I can't answer that, it's too personal..."

"Well you did ask my assistance, and we are not totally strangers now, you can tell me that."

"Okay... twice..."

"Just twice a month? Ok, ok, fair enough. Let's have 2 here... Now, how many times did you have anal sex with another man?"

"WHAT?! Who do you think I am, some fag or something?!"

"No, no, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. Here, let's consider that as zero. So we have so far 83920. Here's your ticket, good luck!"

So the next day he picks up the newspaper, and the selected numbers are 83921.

"GOD DAMN IT! Just because of a little lie I didn't become a millionaire!"
Post
#211131
Topic
Skype
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/211131/action/topic#211131
Time
Over here, as well as in north america and some parts of europe, one can buy credits with a credit card and even have their own "regular" phone number as to the Skype phone, so anyone can call it, and you can call anywhere in the world paying about the same as a local phone call - mostly because Skype transfer the call through the internet to a "phone" located on the city you are calling.