I've *heard* of those. But unless they were self-organizing they wouldn't stand a chance round here.

Now all you have to do is get the paste out of the tube, how hard can that be? Follow the instructions:

For best results (huh? how many results can there be?):

1. Squeeze from the bottom and move upwards.
(only nerds do that, everyone else squeezes from the middle)

2. Place toothpaste in the center of the brush (I cheated this morning and put it on the tip)

3. Do not eat.

4. Discard empty tube. (I was planning on saving them).

5. In case of accidental overdose..huh?

Hey, I do the folders thing too. :s

I also check mail fairly often, but then I'm subscribed to all kinds of notifications... however, in my defense, I rarely actually <reply> to emails straight off. Anywhere from a few hours to a few months is to be expected.

5. In case of accidental overdose..huh? >

These are incredibly vague and that toothpaste company is asking for class action lawsuits. 'Do not eat' just isn't enough these days -- you have to specify that the product should not be eaten, drunk, consumed, swallowed, injected, or otherwise ingested.

As for the empty tube, aren't they worth saving for re-use? Or heavy metal extraction? Or building houses? Or something. So if they want us to discard them, they're hiding something.

Nice to see you there at the end of the game, a sorry end indeed for Vallejo, though indeed, analogy seems present and applicable re the unavoidable "inaccuracies" by GMs in complex positions, and "our" irrationality in a more general sense/perspective.

"For children under 6 use a pea sized amount."

Are we still talking toothpaste? Or is this some process for *making* children?

And I don't think I want to even imagine pea-sized amounts of ... whatever ingredient they have in mind.

Live games drew me to this place in the dawn of time. I must've lurked for a year before finding a voice (and then look what happened). But they don't feel the same anymore.

I get so weary with ... people posting minute engine evals, as if they mattered ... people failing to understand the battle of wills going on, and the *enormous* ability of every GM ... people doing the <lol> thing when a blunder is made (even though they need an engine to see the said blunder) ...

I could go on. It's the volume of people who fail to grasp the dynamics of top-level OTB tournament chess, that's what depresses me.

Me? Depressed? Never. I *expect* the world to consist largely of idiots, and it rarely lets me down.

First, last night you said your blood was boiling, for good reason in fact, and today (or "later" last night), you treat us with a rare but timely rant.

Rants are good. Especially from you. I think I have largely blown my ammo on the subject, and what amazes me even more, recently, is the sad fact that an "authority" like Gert Ligterink, former GM and above average chess columnist, recently did the same in his weekly 'Volkskrant' column... That is, he casually blurted out an engine refutation without realizing he embarrassed himself by doing so, like indeed the ignorant amateur with his engine on his lap; no context no perspective... Just FOLLOW the machine, and another column was finished just in time; half an hour's work, or less... You just do not *expect* - and I can not tolerate - such a lack-lustre attitude, from a master level player, who grew up in chess way before the chess engine era. And having been there, in the OTB arena.

Anyhoo - the trend is all over the place, and the interesting comments on the dynamics of OTB competition have simply been pushed back as if by an eightteen wheel cement truck.

There, I feel better now, because "we know better", period.

But it shouldn't happen for the exact reason you mentioned: the clash, battle of wills, and the alertness towards the OTB dynamics, and addressing those.

JG Ballard, Zodiac 2000: "The Taurean computer, seeding its limitless possibilities..."

Scorpio = Psychopath, Virgo = Stripper, Leo = Radar Dish, Pisces = Astronaut, are a few others.

Ballard reckoned the system should still work, as long as we replace the archetypes seen by Chaldean farmers 3000 years ago with their modern equivalents.