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QUOTE (iamshack @ Nov 23, 2011 -> 12:28 PM)
Ok, so I read up on this a little last night at work, and from what I could tell (I was blocked from viewing a lot of the sites), it is impossible to pull off unless the craps dealer consistently allows one to not bank the dice off the back wall. It may be possible to master the throw so that you barely bounce off the back wall and thus minimize the randomness intended by that surface, but most dealers will force you to throw the dice (or die, I suppose) harder.

 

The surface of the wall they force you to bounce the die off of is made up of pyramids intended to produce a truly random result (and not allowing you to bank the die off a flat surface).

 

I think impossible.

 

then why would the state outlaw dice? seems bizarre

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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Nov 23, 2011 -> 02:12 PM)
then why would the state outlaw dice? seems bizarre

I don't think the state would care about whether a game could be beaten in regards to whether or not to legalize it.

 

I think the law was probably created to try and limit full-scale casinos from operating within its borders.

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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/disco...yans/51387348/1

 

Mexico acknowledges 2nd Mayan reference to 2012

 

 

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin site.

 

Guatemalan Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun gestures as he pays his respects at an altar in Tecpan, Guatemala in 2009.

 

By Moises Castillo, AP

 

Guatemalan Mayan Indian elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun gestures as he pays his respects at an altar in Tecpan, Guatemala in 2009.

 

Most experts had cited only one surviving reference to the date in Mayan glyphs, a stone tablet from the Tortuguero site in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

 

But the National Institute of Anthropology and History said in a statement that there is in fact another apparent reference to the date at the nearby Comalcalco ruin. The inscription is on the carved or molded face of a brick. Comalcalco is unusual among Mayan temples in that it was constructed of bricks.

 

Arturo Mendez, a spokesman for the institute, said the fragment of inscription had been discovered years ago and has been subject to thorough study. It is not on display and is being kept in storage at the institute.

 

The "Comalcalco Brick," as the second fragment is known, has been discussed by experts in some online forums. Many still doubt that it is a definite reference to Dec. 21, 2012 or Dec. 23, 2012, the dates cited by proponents of the theory as the possible end of the world.

 

"Some have proposed it as another reference to 2012, but I remain rather unconvinced," David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin, said in a message to The Associated Press.

 

Stuart said the date inscribed on the brick "'is a Calendar Round,' a combination of a day and month position that will repeat every 52 years."

 

The brick date does coincide with the end of the 13th Baktun; Baktuns were roughly 394-year periods and 13 was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas. The Mayan Long Count calendar begins in 3114 B.C., and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.

 

But the date on the brick could also correspond to similar dates in the past, Stuart said.

 

"There's no reason it couldn't be also a date in ancient times, describing some important historical event in the Classic period. In fact, the third glyph on the brick seems to read as the verb huli, "he/she/it arrives."

 

"There's no future tense marking (unlike the Tortuguero phrase), which in my mind points more to the Comalcalco date being more historical that prophetic," Stuart wrote.

 

Both inscriptions — the Tortuguero tablet and the Comalcalco brick — were probably carved about 1,300 years ago and both are cryptic in some ways.

 

The Tortuguero inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.

 

However, erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible, though some read the last eroded glyphs as perhaps saying, "He will descend from the sky."

 

The Comalcalco brick is also odd in that the molded or inscribed faces of the bricks were probably laid facing inward or covered with stucco, suggesting they were not meant to be seen.

 

The Institute of Anthropology and History has long said rumors of a world-ending or world-changing event in late December 2012 are a Westernized misinterpretation of Mayan calendars.

 

The institute repeated Thursday that "western messianic thought has twisted the cosmovision of ancient civilizations like the Maya."

 

The institute's experts say the Mayas saw time as a series of cycles that began and ended with regularity, but with nothing apocalyptic at the end of a given cycle.

 

Given the strength of Internet rumors about impending disaster in 2012, the institute is organizing a special round table of 60 Mayan experts next week at the archaeological site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, to "dispel some of the doubts about the end of one era and the beginning of another, in the Mayan Long Count calendar."

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Our new controller from Mexico has some friends that are really into the Mayan thing... to the point where they have dug tunnels and are storing food. She said that there are even more incidents then what's documented about all of this but no one is allowed to talk about it. Basically, it will all come out very close to the date so that too many can't prepare for the impending doom.

 

So, we all only have a year to live, and we're all gonna die. Coolness.

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QUOTE (kapkomet @ Nov 25, 2011 -> 08:56 PM)
Our new controller from Mexico has some friends that are really into the Mayan thing... to the point where they have dug tunnels and are storing food. She said that there are even more incidents then what's documented about all of this but no one is allowed to talk about it. Basically, it will all come out very close to the date so that too many can't prepare for the impending doom.

 

So, we all only have a year to live, and we're all gonna die. Coolness.

 

If the world is going to end, then why store food?

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QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 25, 2011 -> 11:11 PM)
If the world is going to end, then why store food?

 

 

:lol:

 

I kinda thought the same thing. But supposedly, this will kill off all us puny people and purge humanity from the abyss - only leaving the really strong to survive. Or something.

 

Me say caveman.

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I need to vent:

A few months back, my boss announced he is retiring in October of next year. I've been needing some additional help (I rely on volunteers) with some things that I do. When I asked for help getting some more people involved, he told me "maybe my replacement will help you." (paraphrased) The good news is that he is retiring in 11 months. The bad news is I need the help NOW!

 

And just today I've had people asking me to do something that I dont have the volunteers to do. I was asked: "well, cant you just do both at the same time?" umm... no, I can not be in two places at once and you rely on me WAY too much. I have been actively looking for a new job since May and I will be very happy when I get a new job and see how much they miss me covering their asses all the time.

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QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Dec 2, 2011 -> 09:07 AM)
Ronald McDonald is visiting my work today to talk tot he kids about bullying. My guess is he wont be telling them to eat healthier as well.

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Donovan McNabb - McDonald's... I'm lovin' it.

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