Tom's theory

LB,

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br />Time is a concept.

....suspect that ed is software. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

I'm almost positive that this board is being flooded by some script.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br />Time is a concept.

We have several ways to quantify it.

I'm not yet positive, but suspect that ed is software.

Probably with some manual fine tuning.

If I'm right, it's not a bad example of such things.

I am usually curious about new and/or old things.

LB
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You like of course my long postings? I am also a language lover, like you. I am happy with that. And it's so great the long texts have contents as well.

Don't you like to read thick books, so cozy.

But about time are so many stories.

Have a nice day

Ed

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by eenwerd</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br />Time is a concept.

We have several ways to quantify it.

I'm not yet positive, but suspect that ed is software.

Probably with some manual fine tuning.

If I'm right, it's not a bad example of such things.

I am usually curious about new and/or old things.

LB
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

You like of course my long postings? I am also a language lover, like you. I am happy with that. And it's so great the long texts have contents as well.

Don't you like to read thick books, so cozy.

But about time are so many stories.

Have a nice day

Ed
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Affirmative. Ed Eenwerd is a "spambot". Perhaps the webmaster could look at this problem?

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by eenwerd</i>
<br />You like of course my long postings? I am also a language lover, like you. I am happy with that. And it's so great the long texts have contents as well.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Ed, you have been challenged as being a spambot. Your nonsense replies lacking any substance, incoherent messages, and your failure to recognize anti-spambot addresses tend to confirm that suspicion. So you (and any subsequent reincarnation) will need to prove your humanity.

So to prevent your account here from being canceled, ensure that your first message in this topic answers these questions within the next 12 hours:

What day of the week is the day after tomorrow?
What is the one word that represents seven times two?
What is the third word in the first paragraph on our home page at metaresearch.org ?

If you are a monitored spambot, it will do no good to intervene with correct answers because the next challenge will require a credit card in your name to establish both humanity and that you are of age.

We will immediately institute challenge questions to ensure that no future spambots get through. My apologies to our regular visitors. And thanks to Jan for being the first to spot this case. -|Tom|-

Tom,

I think it may be an AI program that a Dutch Mathematician developed. But there is definately monitoring by an Ed van der meulen.

Here is a link, on another message board (AI) where the text is much more coherant and the poster claims to be a Brain Specialist and Mathematician.

artificialintelligence.ai-depot.com/Arti...Intelligence/46.html

Fascinating if true! How do these programs work? What does it do scan the grammar of previous posts and pick out keywords? And then string together semi-grammatical sentences throwing in those key words? And of course there must be a lot of phrases simply hard-coded into the program too.

Emanuel