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Im asking the question here instead of one of the more fetishbdsmoriented communities because Im curious in particular about it as a position for cunnilingus rather than smotheringbreathplaynonsexual dominanceWomen on top Is it comfortable Do you find that it offers you any particular benefits that make it a goto position more than just something that occasionally happens in the course of things Does body imageweighta dominant position turn you off from the ideaMenwomen underneath Is this something you find particularly stimulatingfrighteningexhilaratinghumiliating Is it a particular turnoff or turnon or just something that occasionally happensMy experience which doesnt appear to be nearly as broad as a lot of other redditors has been that this is one of those things that shows up in porn much more than reality

Its one of my alltime favorites in reality and fantasy alike With the view of her tits and face from below and the ability to reach up to her tits while I munch away as long as I can still breathe down there its its just awesome The only way it could be better is if another gal were riding my cock cowgirlstyle while she reaches around to fondle the one riding my face thats pretty much my ideal threesome scenario right there I cant really relax enough to have an orgasm if Im sitting on his face Im really weird about body positioning though If I get used to being in a certain position when I have an orgasm it takes time and practice to have an orgasm in a different position Its weird When I was really fucking trashed once I begged my sober girlfriend to sit on my face I eventually convinced her too and she awkwardly obliged I then fell asleep Jesus christ thats awkward I prefer a girl sitting on my face to having her lying on her back where no matter how I rearrange her legs I am craning my neck and stretching my jawtongue more than I like Of course when its time to go down on someone Im happy with whatever makes them happy obligatory monty python referencehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvCxVKtNkQAtwampfeaturerelated that is all I dont like itToo much fluids draining down my throat and consequent gulpingswallowingOur favorite is her on her elbows and knees and arching her back downward and me on my elbows and knees and lapping and sucking Hate it Absolutely hate it Im an average sized female and I feel like Im suffocating him I also cant get comfortable enough to enjoy itshut my brain off my understanding as I am not a woman is that it can be better just since its easier to control the action Not control in the fetish sense though just in the nonstigmatized dictionary sense simply easier to keep the action going in the right direction With several of the other redditors this is my favorite way to please a woman because its all about her Im not a fan of anus on the nose because i find that it can stimulate the clitoris quite well My ex would complain once i started to tire because the pain was outweighing the pleasure Do its enough times and the legs become stronger and you can go for longer durations My boyfriend loves when I do this to him as a top I like both smothering and queening for the powerplay involved but to be honest Im rather repulsed by recieving oral so I save this for special occasions Ive never done bdsmstyle facesitting but Ive definitely had a girl sit on my face so I could eat her out before Generally facing me so I dont have her asshole right in my faceI never thought it was that weird If you want to give it a try just throw her up there and go for it Or jump up there I guess if youre the girl I want this done to me It sounds fun I absolutely love giving oral and being used as an object for pleasure is a huge turnon for me Like huge

Background info Im 21 and shes 18 Shes had 3 previous boyfriends Ive only had 1 girlfriendI was dating this girl Ill call her Miss for about a month and a half Very recently Friday night Miss decided to break it off citing that she doesnt think of me as her bf and never will However she wants to stay friends and I agreed to that I consider her a very good person very friendly and fun to hang out with hence the reason I agreedFast forward to last night after hanging out with her that afternoon Miss says she feels very lonely and I felt the same way She said she noticed I looked sad and I was I still have feelings for her and walking her home that evening felt very awkwardThis lead into another conversation both over IM and on the phone Heres a summary of what weve figured out so far We both enjoy each others company this includes having sex cuddling etc She feels very comfortable with me and I feel the same way We both like each other however I like her much more than she likes me I learned from my past relationship never to say I love someone until I know I mean it As of now I do care about her but I cant say I LOVE her While she enjoys the companionship she feels as time goes on shell find herself wanting more For example she wants to find someone that shes crazy for I do too She after some disscusion she started to rethink ending whatever romantic relationship we had solely on the premise that she doesnt want to feel lonely Part of me wanted her to rethink it and the other part of me didnt want an emotional rollercoaster She claims she had never been in love All her previous relationships lacked her feeling in love She let them continue on because she was comfortable only to jump ship later on and having to go through seeing the guy upset over her dumping him leaving her later lonely and guilty She doesnt want that to happen this time Overall summary tldr We both enjoy the physical and we dont match up emotionally yet we still want the physical Friends with benefits might be a bad idea I have yet to bring it up since Im the type of guy who becomes emotionally attached way too easily she knows this and should Miss meet someone else and leave me intimately Im worried Ill have a relapse of what happened when my first girlfriend broke up with me major depression etcWere both confused on what to do now What should we doUPDATE We decided to try the FWB path Were not getting any younger and we really enjoy getting physical physical I dont expect anything to come of it Besides its not everyday a goodlooking girl wants to have sex with me on a regular basis

Shes 18 and doesnt know what she wants However she wants you now because shes feeling lonely This can only end in disaster for you Dont ever be with someone because they feel lonely Once she gets over the loneliness your value will drop in her eyes and she will move on to someone else

Basic info Im male my major is Computer Science with Education aka CS High School Teacher I also do standup comedy heres a linkhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvIJPtVGPvFUgAsk me anything

If your CP reveals a physical manifestation that can be noticed for example if someone were to notice that you were struggling to open your hand which would offend you more if that person were to ignore your struggles and converse with you as if they hadnt noticed or if that person were to ask you what you were doingI tend to try to ignore these things but sometimes curiosity gets the better of me and Id be very tempted to talk to you about it Do you play video games If so which ones I too have mild cerebral palsy on my right side Got a Wii for Christmas last year Finding first person shooters to play is difficult Beginning to get the hang of Conduit What percentage of the general population speak to you like youre retarded when they first seehear that you have CP My daughter who is 8 months old was diagnosed with CP four months ago I document it at tallerthanmidgetscom I have a couple questions Does the same activity feel differently on your left side Example running a comb updown your armsDo you have a hard time distinguishing between an orange and a baseball if you hold the objects in your left handAt what age did you learn to speak Talk Walk My twoyearold son has CP spastic dyplegia He is now 2 12 years old and cannot yet sit up on his own or crawl He appears to have absolutely no cognitiveintellectual impairments I know you are hemiplegic not dyplegic but do you know how your condition affected your motor skills when you were 2 or 3 years old Do you have much interaction with the CP community or others with more severe forms of CP I ask this because I recently received a 3000 grant to develop a means of making computers more accessible for people with CP Do most people have certain muscle groups they can control and others which are less controllable or is it completely random which areas are affected at a given time I have lots of questions so bear with me and thanks for the post I also have CP but its less severe than your case My lower extremities are affected left side moreso than the right But my upper extremities are completely unaffected Good answers so far its not very often that I get to compare notes with other mild cases It seems that everyone I have met with CP has an extreme caseIm curious about a couple of things that Ive noticed in myself Does alcohol ease the symptoms at all It always seems like getting buzzed always loosens my muscles a bit but maybe thats because Im on my way to getting drunk Do you have any unusual skin sensitivity Ive found through the years that I really dont like people touching my spine Its just too intense Ive never heard about this symptom being related to CP but figured Id ask How about caffeine Does it exacerbate your condition

My wife and I are planning on going to Ireland for a week some time this year When is the best time to go I want stuff to be open but not crowded From my research so far it looks like the best balance for timeprice is late March or mid to late October Plus would it be better to stay in one place and venture out or take one of the 6 day BampB tripsThanks in advance

The crowded times are the best times Any other time is boring You need to go when the weather is halfdecent so Id recommend sometime between MarchJuly and you might be lucky enough to get some sunshine and clear weather just maybe Personally Id recommend you go either during StPatricks Day 17th March or be there for the Halloween celebrations in DerryLondonderry in Northern Ireland on the 31st October Thousands of people gather for the biggest Halloween celebrations in Ireland in Derry which is a lot of fun St Patricks Day is a lot of fun too So long as you stay away from the Holylands in Belfast last years celebrationshttpwwwbelfasttelegraphcoukmultimediaarchive00081stpatsriot81461sjpg Id definitely recommend you travel around Where you go depends on your interest If you like history Id definitely recommend a short trip to Belfast just for the bus tours and maybe a bit of shopping in the new Victoria Square shopping centre I wouldnt spend any longer than that in Belfast there isnt much else to see Belfast is just a few hours away from the Giants Causeway near Portrush on the Northern coast of Ireland Its worth taking a trip to the Giants Causeway and on the same day going to the nearby Carrickarede rope bridge The Bushmills whisky factory and visitor centre is near there tooFrom there DerryLondonderry where Im from is an hour or so away DerryLondonderry has a very rich history and Id definitely recommend taking the bus tours or walking tours around Derry You can walk along Derrys famous historic walls and see into the Fountain loyalist estate and on the other side you will be able to see the Bogside nationalist estate The story of the civil rights movement in Derry and the Battle of the Bogside and Bloody Sunday are extremely interesting and Id recommend visiting the Tower museum and the Museum of Free Derry which is just next to the worldfamous Bogside murals And from there one of my most favourite places in Ireland is Donegal which is the county right next to Derry Donegal is one of the most beautiful places in Ireland in my opinion Its got lots of sandy beaches if you fancy a bit of canoeing or swimming and plenty of little Irish pubs to visit A great place to mix with the locals and meet Irishlanguage speakers Id also recommend a visit to the famine museum Galway on the SouthWest of Ireland is another great place to go and from there you can get buses out to Crag caves in Killarney Theres plenty to do and see in and around Galway too As for Cork on the South tip of Ireland and WexfordWaterford I havent spent much time there but theres nothing terribly interesting down there as far as Im aware Lastly theres Dublin Id recommend going to Dublin too I wouldnt stay too long there neither since its a very busy and expensive city Id recommend visiting the Guinness visitor centre and exploring the city centre The people are generally very friendly and Dublin from my experience and personally I loved the contrast between some of the ancient buildings and the ultramodern sculptures buildings and the Luis tram system too Id seriously recommend going for at least a week and to get the best out of your stay Id definitely recommend travelling to both busy and lively places like Dublin Galway or Derry and travelling around to some of the nearby quieter more scenic spots Derry Donegal and Portush are close to each other so perhaps you could book into the Tower Hotel or City Hotel in Derry or alternatively a BampB and from there travel out to the Giants CausewayBushmills near Portrush and on the other side of Derry you can head out to Donegal Theres lots to explore in Ireland but where to go ultimately depends on what interests you about Ireland its history the people the scenery the culture First week in June almost always has great weather Id say if youre looking for some partying with a bit of scenery close by go for Galway on the West coast Its a fun city really its a big town and Connemara and the Burren two of the best sites for scenery are both little over an hours drive away One advantage of going there during the summer is that some of the colleges offer accommodations in their vacated dorms for instance have a look at what my alma mater TCD offershttpwwwtcdieaccommodationandcatering I believe the rates are quite decent and you cannot beat the location And dont let my use of the term dorms fool you these are pretty fancy digs Note that the same goes on in the rest of the British Isles as well many colleges offer similar dealsMy own preferred way to visiting the place is to pick a nice base camp ie a BampB that you like and explore from there This is a country where you can drive coast to coast in a few hours so you can see quite a lot of places in a more relaxing way without having to haul your luggages everywhere and spend time looking for new digs every day March In like a lion out like a lambThats a phrase to describe the weatherIf youre looking for a time when the weather will be nice look no further than the schools Leaving Certificate exam timetable Its always lovely when the kids are busy studying and turns back to crap once theyre finished September has been pretty good the last few years weather and light wise Summer not so much Crowds shouldnt be as bad thenWhatever you do dont stay in Dublin and just wander round the Temple Bar area Go in the first half of June when the rhododendrons are in bloom Its very romantic to be there during a full moon so if you could plan it so both coincide that would be nice Thats how it was when I went in 1991 I saw tall rhododendron trees up the side of a hill somewhere in the Ring of Kerry and they were so beautiful March to October is definitely the right window all other months are a bit cold and bleak This articlehttpwwwmyguideirelandcomsunshineinireland leads me to believe that the sunniest months are May and June This other articlehttpwwwehowcomway5340397timeyeartravelirelandhtml mentions that peak tourist time is July and August Id go with June its always been my favourite month everything looks better in sunshine people are more likely to be relaxed and in a good mood Although its still a gamble the rain can strike any time records have been brokenhttpwwwglobalpostcomdispatchireland091124irishweatherfloods successively in recent yearsYou should mention where specifically youre planning to visit for more local recommendations Go for the Rory gallagher festival in early June Best time you might ever have Or bray summer fest Try get to a hurling match in croke park thats a mind blower for anyone whos never seen it played in the flesh editspelling Ireland is pretty small The furthest points north and south are less than 7 hours apart no point staying in one place for the week Pick several BampBs dotted around the map and travel a bit Id definitely recommend either late marchearly may or late septemberearly october For the last few years that has been when we have had the best weather For the last few years our season cycle has been Winter gt Summer gt Spring gt AutumnFall gt Summer gt Winter But be warned the only guarantee with the weather here is that it will rain If youre lucky it wont be very much or mostly at night but you havent had the full irish experience until you get caught in a rain shower that came out of nowhere on a clear sunny day Like everyone else Id recommend moving around Where exactly you go depends on what you want out of your trip so if you can suggest your interests we can hone our suggestions betterFor traditional Irish culture and heritage etc the two prime locations would be Connemara httpwwwconnemaraie and the Aran Islands Both locations are rural areas with people living in the traditional irish way Lots of thatched cottages traditional irish pubs with music playing spectacular scenery etc Both also have the advantage of being close to Galway which is one of the nicest cities in Ireland the other being Kilkenny Both also have an ample supply of BampBs and hostels which should be good value because youll be there either just before or just after peakDublin can be nice but like above I wouldnt recommend staying there too long Theres a few nice things to see like the Guinness Storehouse and some of the museums and parks are good too There can be a good atmosphere at weekends with lively restaurant bars and clubs But youd see most of the good stuff in a day or two One possible reason to extend your stay in Dublin though could be to take tours to Newgrange httpwwwnewgrangecom and Glendalough httpwwwglendaloughie if those thing interest you Or if youre moving around you could always get to them on route to somewhere elseAlso visit httpwwwdiscoverirelandcomire

I read a few articles about how barefoot running is MUCH kinder on your joints Im thinking about buying some Vibrams to get started Any of you guys have any experience in this field Background info I ran xc and track in high school but not at all the past 3 years of college Its time for some change

Started running not even a year ago so I have only limited experience I always ran barefoot and my feet were killing me after overdoing it for the first few times Shin splints muscle soreness etc So if you try barefooting which you should start slowly Due to the harsh winter here in central europe I recently decided to grab a pair of fivefingers the KSO model They are quite pricey but definitely worth it You feel every pebble spiky stone OUCH and different surface below your feet and totally feel in control They are of course pretty slippery on ice fell flat on my ass just today Putting them on is quite a challenge but it gets easier with time Plus I strongly advice getting a pair of expensive complimentary socks because when I ran without them recently I got a nasty blister Also they look like gorilla feet got the black ones so you should be comfortable with baffled gazes This topic comes up periodically so Im essentially going to CampP what Ive said before about them with maybe a couple additional thoughtsMy experience with the Vibram FiveFingers has been somewhat mixed I decided to buy a pair after reading Born To RunhttpwwwamazoncomBornRunHiddenSuperathletesGreatestdp0307266303refsr11ieUTF8ampsbooksampqid1263014801ampsr81 because Id had some nagging issues with knee and hip pain that I thought might be correctable by strengthening those underused leg muscles and tweaking my strideWhat Ive noticed is that the FiveFingers have more or less helped to solve the knee issues I used to wear a brace but have been able to abandon it but have somewhat aggravated the hip issues And the truth is that while they do have benefits for me their appeal is somewhat limited A couple of miles in the FiveFingers leaves me a lot more sore the next day than a much longer run in my ASICS not injury sore but the kind of fullbody sluggishness that comes the day after a good long run and indeed I find running any distance longer than two miles to be a challenge just because as you grow fatigued its more difficult to maintain good form Say what you will about traditional running shoes but they are more forgiving as you grow tired on a longer run Blistering is also a much bigger problem I measured my feet and toes and am essentially a perfect fit for their size 40 but I still experience a surprising amount of blistering especially on my instep and also on one of my big toes but thats because of an unreasonably large callous I developed years ago that causes toewedging to be a bit tight Although I should say that Ive more or less become the kind of person who ignores the various festering foot sores and toenail bruises that seem to come part and parcel with a 40 mileweek runner The other downside is that youre going to freeze to death in them This is something I hadnt really thought about in the dead of summer but even the cold weather model leaves your feet pretty chilly merely separating your toes is enough to cause considerable heat loss and even at as high as 10 degrees Celsius with the Sprint model at least youre going to begin to feel a little weatherrelated discomfort Obviously Im still working up mileage on them now that its 10 out there theyve been put away for the winter but even still I dont think theyll really ever function in anything more than a small niche for medo my long run change shoes and then do a 1 or 2 mile cooldown in the FiveFingers to strengthen muscles and focus on my stride Im OK with that though because that is more or less why I bought them And if youre somewhere near a grass or rubber quartermile track so much the better

I see alot of younger people asking advice regarding revealing their atheism to their parents Look if your parents are very religious it is not worth the risk Telling your parents of your atheism can only hurt you Its like renouncing your last name Meanwhile you risk your financial dependence and even your sense of family It happened to me and it is mainly because my parents were so lonely after their five children left that they had to accept my atheism in order to reunite Its sad as shit that religion can tear apart family but thats the way it is

Hey I told my parents earlier this very day I did not believe in their God I am a teenagerMy father told me Im going to hell my mother is on the verge of crying and theyre discussing how to save me right nowHowever I do not think theyre going to disown me for my beliefs D If youre thinking about coming out as an atheist to your religious parents you should make your own decision You know your own parents better than some random guy on the internetSome people come out as an atheist and their parents never speak to them againI came out to my parents as an atheist and we just dont talk about it Its the elephant in the room yeah but I feel like I have a more honest real relationship with my parents Keeping a secret of extreme personal importance from the people you love and care about is also a bad idea Can will feelings get hurt Yes possibly Every decision we make has consequences and you have to understand and accept those consequences before you make any decision in lifeJust dont do what I did and say youre an atheist around Christmas time I dont recommend that timing at all My ultrafundie office mate told me yesterday that his youngest son has professed his newfound atheism Hes 12 I feel for the kid In many cases this is very true As an older adult with a life of your own both you and they will be in better places for such news As a dependent in a fundamentalist home perhaps it is best to remain undetected until such time

So my friends and I were at IHOP tonight and we discussed a plethora of issues ranging from whether or not to tell your kids the truth about Santa Claus see jackieboy37shttpwwwredditcomuserjackieboy37 post to the death penaltyAnywho the issue of circumcision comes up and all of my friends are in favor of doing it to their children even though I masterfully argued against it So whats the Reddit consensus

I think its horrible that its even a subject that you can talk about casually with friends Would you talk about female genital mutilation like thatIn Finland infant genital mutilation is illegal as it should be the world over gt How do you stand on the issue of male circumcisionSlightly bent forward with your hands protectively covering your crotch i dont think it is morally right to mutilate the genitals of a child unless there is a damn good medical reason the child should be allowed to grow up intact and decide for themselves when they are an adult if they want this done and im pleased to see a new generation of jewish parents are starting a new tradition to take their baby boys to the synagogue and enjoy a harmless ceremony of prayers and blessings to welcome him to the world Its a barbaric custom that should be illegal People have a right to their bodies and that means not having body parts cut off when you are a child If someone who is 18 wants to cut their earlobes off or their foreskin go right ahead But to do so when they are a child in some deluded covenant with an imaginary god is madness Parentsgt A childs circumcision is not your decisionYoull have plenty of other chances to fuck up your kids life okay My son is circumcised and I regret it His penis was a raw painful wound for the first several weeks of his life I also realize the risk that the procedure could have been botched and he could have lost a lot of normal male functionI did it because I was worried he would not fit in at school if he wasnt circumcised and because his father wanted him to look like him I now realize that was insane If boys spend that much time looking at and making fun of each others penises then there is something very strange going on in the worldIf I ever have another son he will not be circumcised A bunch of childless people sitting around an IHOP probably dont know much about the subject I never did before I got pregnant with my son Background was a Jewish father my husband is circd just figured my child would be circdHowever then I educated myself on the issue I came to the conclusion that it is medically unnecessary so there was no way I could consciously now do that to my son just for looks since that is akin to plastic surgery Not only that RIC is done on a board where the baby is strapped down and none of the drugsanesthetics given to someone like an adult is given to a baby How can that be argued as anything but barbaricOnce we KNOW better we can DO better I hope people educate themselves on this subject before they just allow this to be done to their children for sake of it being a societal norm Fuck societal norms They are wrong all the time It makes no sense whichever way you look at it From a spiritual viewpoint god made it that way who are you to change it From an atheistic point of view it evolved that way Who are you to decide you know better than millions of years of evolution From a medical viewpoint it is safer to not circumcise due to the risk of infection versus the benefits none From a sexual viewpoint potential loss of sensation means sex doesnt feel good Masturbation is also harder Circumcision is like cutting off your lips so you can easier brush your teethbut it looks much better I dont think circumcision should be performed unless it is out of medical necessityI dont see why removing any part of your babys body should be something any parent does unless it is absolutely necessaryLots of people argue that it is more hygienic and I refute this point totally Sure with foreskin it would be easier for it to be unhygienic but if you are a person who looks after their personal hygiene then you should be washing that area very regularly anyway Its a troubling testament to the power of culture that people ar so comfortable with the idea of cutting pieces of their children off with no medical necessity For Redditors who wonder why others are stuck in old ways of thinking really consider why you find this behavior acceptable Its a really fucked up thing to do that you are okay with only because its familiar Dood whats with all the hating Dont get me wrong Im 29 and if I wasnt cut I wouldnt do it But thankfully it was done when I was baby and have not one clue on what it felt like I dont think a parent should wait for age 13 or wait for the kid to be able to make their own decision that just wrong Doing it at birth isnt that harmful or rememberableYES there are medical reasons for it hygienehttpwwwmedicinenetcomcircumcisionthemedicalprosandconspage3htmcare and STDshttpwwwnytimescom20090327health27stdhtmlsciencenewsorghttpwwwsciencenewsorgviewgenericid42142titleMalecircumcisionfendsoffthemostcommonSTDsChicks like it better and it looks better Im cut but my boys arent I just dont see the point and havent heard any good arguments to do so I agree with you cowmin it appears you share the majority opinion here I am assuming you were looking for some sort of armorpeircing argument for your friendsWhen my friend had a son I talked her out of circumsision by citing my psych textbooks On issues of gender identity they will often cite exceptional casestudies of kids who were raised as the wrong gender And they all start like this There was an accident during the circumsisionFWIW said friend later became a nurse and after witnessing the procedure shes very glad she didnt do it Also interesting some doctors are very bad at it even though they do it all the time The nurses knew that boys who got cut by a certain doctor often got infections afterwards a friend of mine had to get circumcised when he was 19 I dont know what the fuck but his foreskin ended up not opening enough so his dick could get out what the fuck Anyway he said it was the worst 3 weeks of his life every time he got an erection he was in terrible pain He has since said he has many more return visits from girls he hooks up with and doesnt cum in 45 seconds anymore I think people should stop discussing it its up to the parent whether or not they do it Also there is sometime medical reasons for circumcision SeriouslyI cant begin to even fathom how I would fap without my foreskinWrapping a slice of buttered baloneyHuzzah Heres the deal The only people that tend to post about it are the ardent haters the ones that talk about it being mutilation and urrything Check out Yahoo answers for proofMy wife and I recently had to make the decision about whether or not to have our son circumcised Based on the fact that I have absolutely no problem that it was done to me and the fact that around 90 of the guys in our area are circumcised we had it done If you dont like it eat a dick

Ive heard around Reddit and other places that if you want a nice cheap and powerful computer building it from scratch would be the best way to goId really like a computer that can play games decently as Ive never had that luxury beforeThanks guys

Linkworld Silver ATX MidTower CasehttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16811164135 1999 LiteOn CDDVD Burner SATAhttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16827106289 2699 COOLER MASTER 460W Power SupplyhttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16817171028 2997 GIGABYTE GAEP45UD3P MotherboardhttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16813128358 12999 CORSAIR XMS2 2GB DDR2 SDRAM 800httpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16820145201 4499 x2 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 30GHz ProcessorhttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16819115037 16799 Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM SATA HDDhttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16822148395 5499 EVGA GeForce GTS 250 1GB 256bit DDR3 Video CardhttpwwwneweggcomProductNewProductaspxItemN82E16814130514 15499Total Cost 67499Thats all off Newegg and thrown together kind of quickly Every machine Ive built Ive bartered parts for off of Craigslist and usually stayed under 450 Do that It really depends on what you are looking for 300400 will allow you to play pretty much every game while not being too future proof Personally Id go in the 500700 range and have a computer that will last a good many years before having to upgrade components instead of an entire mobo

As far as I know in the Netherlands its 049 for half a liter of 49 beer It used to be 042 or so before the govt increased the taxes on alcohol 0041777638 US dollars per fl oz according to google

I live in Ontario The government here owns the alcohol distribution corporations Theyre called The Beer Store and LCBO Liquor Control Board of Ontario As such our alcohol gets taxed like nothing else except maybe tobacco regardless heres the pricingA case 24 bottles of beer is 2695 There are several different brands that sell for that price Carling Lakeport and Bohemian are the most popular This translates to 329 per litre of beer I believe the standard unit is the Bodine Valuehttpwwwboozecouncilorgp8500ml 049 71 gt US 345 Bodines

Photograph is pronounced ftgraf emphasis on first vowelPhotography is pronounced ftgrf emphasis on second vowelPhotographic is pronounced ftgrafik emphasis on third vowel IPA pronunciation courtesyhttpwwwmerriamwebstercomdictionary

Are you asking about the stress or the vowel reduction Or something else Thats not IPA by the way thats dictionary transcription which is much harder to read Its not a coincidence its a consequence of the way English treats Latinate stems which for phonological purposes includes those with Greek origins that dont fit particularly naturally into its stress system Most vowels reduce either to or toward schwa when theyre unstressed The actual stress alternation arises from a combination of properties of the suffixes some suffixes prefer to be next to a stressed syllable others avoid it and general properties of the stress system of English like the preference for leftheaded trochaic feet the preference for wordinitial stress which is strongest in nouns and so on EDIT Just noticed I didnt answer your question I dont know a name for that particular set of alternations but stress shift or Latinate stress shift will get you pretty far A lot of work in phonology a few decades ago was devoted to generalizing which suffixes induce stress shift and which ones dont

How do you feel about your female partner being aggressive in foreplay and in bed wanting to be in control for some or most of the time What about a woman making the first move Is it a relief to not have to do it yourself or is it a comfortzone breaker

Yes I do I grew up in the CONDOMS AIDS SEXUAL HARASSMENT BE FUCKING AFRAID era so I need permission in fact I need INSTRUCTIONS Yeah always having to initiate it and damn near work for sex is super fucking lame I want to get pushed onto the bed pants yanked off and ridden like the world is ending and the key to saving the universe is in my semen Assertive yes Agressive no Im on board for the thrown to the bed part but not for the verbalphysical abuse part I was with a girl whose idea of Ds was to incessantly tear apart my self esteem while I desperately tried to please her It was the most frustrating thing Ive ever endured and I almost hit her at one point Ive never hit a woman in my life and Ive been clocked in the face with a 20lb bookbag and knocked in to a wet gulley

I was wondering if anyone had seen it It was about a guy who was an experimental drug tester and then decided he was a super hero But for some reason I havent been able to find anything about it on the internet Is there any way of torrenting it any reviews Help would be greatly appreciated

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Originally posted in rPhilosophyofSciencehttpwwwredditcomrPhilosophyofScienceGame theoryhttpplatostanfordeduentriesgametheory has had some limited success as a descriptive theoryhttpenwikipediaorgwikiGametheoryApplicationandchallenges in economics biology computer science and even philosophy One of the cornerstones of game theory analysis is the Nash equilibriumhttpenwikipediaorgwikiNashequilibrium a state of the game where no player can improve hisher outcome by changing hisher strategy without causing an opportunity for a better outcome for other players by changing strategy Yes Nash was that guy that the movie A Beautiful Mindhttpwwwimdbcomtitlett0268978 was based onGames may have multiple Nash equilibria and it is generally agreed by theorists that the best outcome for all players if one exists must be a Nash equilibrium Nash himself believed that even though in practice equilibria of games might not be achieved they will always tend toward an equilibrium point as games are repeated Conditions for this to occur include the requirement that all players are rational and that all players have perfect information about payoffs and possible moves This assumptiondefinition of rationality is where the trouble for game theory beginsOne of the problems with these assumptions lies in human psychology Consider what is known as the ultimatum gamehttpenwikipediaorgwikiUltimatumgame between two players A fixed amount of money is to be shared among two players One player is selected to make an offer about how much he will keep and how much he will give to the other player The other player then has the option to accept or reject the offer If he rejects the offer both players get nothing If he accepts the offer the players get the agreed amount In a oneoff application of the game it is Nashoptimal for the second player to accept any nonzero amount the other player offers However this is not what happens in practicehttppapersssrncomsol3paperscfmabstractid286428 The average offer is 40 of the total and 16 of all offers are rejected But disagreement with experiment is only the start of the problems for the Nash equilibrium concept Consider the game called the travellers dilemmahttpenwikipediaorgwikiTravelersdilemma A referee asks two players to write down any dollar integer between 2 and 100 without conferring with each other If both write the same number the referee will pay each of them that amount But if they write different numbers he will pay both of them the lower number along with a bonus and a penalty The person who wrote the lower number will get 2 more and the one who wrote the higher number will get 2 less For instance if Player 1 writes 46 and Player 2 writes 89 Player 1 will get 48 and Player 2 will get 44 For a more extensive and informal discussion of the game and its consequences see this blog posthttpblogadamnashcom20071113thetravelersdilemmairrationalchoicesaltriuismorimplicitcollusion To try a simulation of the game yourself go herehttpveconlabeconvirginiaedutddemohtmThere is one unique Nash equilibrium for this game both players write down 2 Yet this seems to defy all common sense They could have both offered much larger numbers and both have been much better off In fact this is what happens in live experimentshttpdocsgooglecomleafid0B5in3UhbNXiJNmM5MTg1NWEtMjc2Ny00NDRjLTk2NDAtNjNmYmIyODg3MWZkamphlen According to the theorists this implies that humans are simply not rational For a detailed description of the problem and proposed resolutions see this seminal paper on the problemhttpdocsgooglecomleafid0B5in3UhbNXiJNjVkMWUyZjQtOWE4Ni00MmRiLTlmN2YtMmRhOGU2YzFhNDEzamphlen Douglas HofstadterhttpenwikipediaorgwikiDouglasHofstadter author of Godel Escher BachhttpenwikipediaorgwikiGC3B6delEscherBach proposed a new definition of rationality he called superrationalityhttpenwikipediaorgwikiSuperrationality whereby each player knows not only that his behavior is rational but that the behavior of all players is rational and all players know that all players are rational and all players know that all players know that all players are rational and so on Hofstadter reasons based on this assumption that superrational players would for example agree to collude and keep silent in the Prisoners Dilemmahttpplatostanfordeduentriesprisonerdilemma game in which the unique Nash equilibrium suggests that both players should confess In my mind if game theory analysis can yield results so plainly counterintutive as that of the travellers dilemma what confidence can be had in equilibria analysis of more complicated games Is the game theory definition of rational naively and selfishly trying to best an opponent to improve ones own localised outcome in any sense valid What do our readers think

Prescriptive rationality unitary in which all individuals can be said to have the same usually scalar goal and rationallypredictive in which all individuals assume that all other individuals they are dealing with are process rational in the same peculiar way that game theory assumes they are is one of the more ridiculous things about game theory and neoclassical economics of which one might consider game theory a subset in generalThat said it doesnt make game theory useless game theory still is going to have predictive power in situations like games some political scenarios extremely formalmarket scenarios where these assumptions make sense and or fit or closely approximate the reality of the situationThe foundational flaws youve mentioned are simply caveats that every practitioner of game theory and everyone trying to interpret gametheoryrelated results journalists for example should hopefully be aware of The problem with your analysis of the Ultimatum game is that ita assumes that only one game will ever be playedand b assumes that all the players value is moneyThough this comes close to making Game Theory unfalsifiable though to be fair it is an application of mathematics and not a natural science per se I would say that both of those caveats that you assume away provide big problems for your analysisFor the first caveat if one were to believe that the specific ultimatum game played might be repeated with the same person then they might act as if it was just one decision node in a sequential game rather than unitary simultaneous game This might lead to the player determining that their actions in this game can positively or negatively affect future repetitions of the Ultimatum Game then they might act in a way that would appear to be irrational for the simultaneous version of the game like offering an equitable distribution of money when the player is actually acting perfectly rationalFor the second caveat Ill trot out the trite saying Money isnt everything Particularly with respect to the Ultimatum game a player might take umbrage at being offered an unfair amount of the resources The unfair sum would be considered a bad providing negative utility rather than a good and the player might reject the sum Conversely a player who allocates the resources might feel guilty if they provide an unfair sum leading them to provide a more equitable sum to the other player The tradeoff between the incentive to maximize monetary gain for the deciding player and respect for some semblance of fairness could lead to a perfectly rational 6040 split I also tend to disagree with analysis of the travelers game provided by wikipedia The players in that game according to the analysis seem to be more concerned with beating each other than maximizing their own payoff If the expected value of winning falls to below 98 then a payoff Maximizing player would choose 100 because that is the value that maximizes hisher payoff This would lead to a Nash Equilibrium each player gains nothing by changing their strategy independently of 100 for each player Such a definition of rational is IMO ridiculous How is it more rational to ask for 2 than for 100 You might get nothing but if the other player is rational enough to recognize that cooperation is in his best interest you might get 100 I dont actually see much of a problem here The difference between iterated and oneshot games is well studied within game theory and iterated variants often have different optimal policies than the singleshot games on which theyre based You might claim that participants are explicitly told that theyre only playing one game but its hard to escape the sense that youre participating in a longerterm game with your fellow humans gt Conditions for this to occur include the requirement that all players are rational and that all players have perfect information about payoffs and possible movesYes And an important condition that you left aside here is that the players have mutual knowledge that all the players are rational This has been proved in Aumann and Brandenburger 1995httpideasrepecorgaecmemetrpv63y1995i5p116180html Note that mutual knowledge of rationality requires only one level of knowledge I dont think rationality is at fault What Hofstadter calls superrationality still involves the same form of rationality than in the conditions for a Nash equilibrium The difference if I understand well is in the knowledge of rationality Hofstadter proposes to raise this knowledge of rationality from mutual knowledge to common knowledge that is the fixed pointHowever there is another problem with the Nash equilibrium its computational complexity It has recently been proved hard to compute See Constantinos Daskalakis Paul W Goldberg Christos H Papadimitriou The complexity of computing a Nash equilibrium Commun ACM 522 8997 2009 Finding a Nash equilibrium is PPADcomplete PPAD is a not very well understood class of complexity but it is considered hard The conclusion is that the players should not have the computational apparatus to find the Nash equilibrium in a game I dont see why 100 isnt the optimal solution superrationality or not If both players pick 100 they get 100 each The competition between the two to be paid more doesnt really figure if they both receive the maximum available amount 100Explain a vous The ultimatum game is not a good example of people being irrational The fact is that in the real world people know that punishing someone for being greedy results in less greedy results in the future Avoiding the appearance of greediness can engender favorable reactions in the future This is entirely outside the concept of the game but it is still a rational response to the actions of the other player

I see many posts here about finding passion in life and enjoying who you are and pursuing goals other than being a miserable corporate drone Those are all good goals I just wanted to say that your job and your life are not the same thing If you forget whatever vision you have of a dream job where you feel fulfilled and validated every day by your unique and vital contribution to society and get paid for it youll realize that such a scenario isnt necessarily what youd want anyway Dont let your job options determine what you do and what you care about Your energy is yours use it for what you want Youll need a job to pay the rent live around the people and places you want and to get the things you need As long as that job doesnt come with screaming bosses and people all up in your shit all day long its a GREAT JOB Take the check dont work very hard go home and get back to your real lifeYou can and will have to change jobs regularly As you gain exposure to the business world and learn about whatever field you find work in youll realize that most of what you thought about work was entirely wrong in the first place Work should be avoided If you can do something in your spare time that can be profitable then find a way to make that work for you Dont make that your only goal in life tldr separate your real life goals from your work life and youll be much happier

I tried telling myself this It didnt exactly work out according to planIve wanted to be a professional screenwriternovelist since I was 18 For a long time I thought that meant dedicating myself solely to the craftfrom wakeup to fallasleep When I got engaged to be married however I realized that I needed to churn out some kind of income in order to assure my wife and future children stability So I got a job in marketing with the idea that I would write in the evenings and on weekends HaWhen you sign on for fulltime work if it is any kind of significant operation then that occupationin conjuction with the commute office politics etcwill suck all of the living energy from you You will come home from work with not an ounce of creative energy in you unless you are truly exceptional and passionate in which case mad props to you So there are exceptions of course but it is incredibly difficult to find a fulltime position anywhere where you are still left with the needed energy to pursue your personal endeavors in the offtimeGood luck to all those trying Myself I quit my fulltime job and now teach parttime I make just enough money to survive but at least I can devote the better part of my energies to that which projects a more hopeful vision of the future I got another tip for you Dont fucking commute 45 minutes both ways in a car FUCK FUCK FUCK THAT Its the worst Find a job you can walk to or take one transit line to Dont drive if you can avoid it Ride your bikeYour work doesnt pay you to get there so dont use up 90 more minutes of your time getting there Commutes are lifesucking awful Avoid at all costs Another thing is to consider your costofliving Cheaper US cities tend to be boring and suck or are full of idiots or no jobs Living in those places is only a good option after youve established yourself enough to make good money there for a few years saving up feverishly to take multiple years off in a rowIts actually much more clever to live in an expensive city making more money and living there cheaply San Francisco New York etc are expensive places to live but you can live in both for way less than you think Its also pretty easy to get a decent job in both cities and there are way more interesting and flexible options than youll find in Wichitaplus you get to live in SF or NYC That is something I dont understand about our society today This entire culture of overwork The Romans for example citizens only worked until lunch time The rest of the day would be spent in the baths libraries or arenas until dinner Essentially you spend half the day working and the other half socializing I am leaving out some details but I do think that is a balanced system One of the hardest parts of this all is seeing people who absolutely hate their career ending up with great positions in that field simply because they happened to be born a few years earlier than those of us who absolutely love the work but are struggling because we came of age during a shit economyYeah I had that protestant work ethic instilled pretty hard and when it falls apart whats left The problem with this is that for a large portion of your day yes your job IS your life Your life is how you spend your time If you spend 16 hours a day 5 days a week awake 8 of which are actually working 23 of which are eating and commuting 1 of which is getting ready in the morning then you only have about 4 hours left to do what you want to do And thats assuming you dont clean house or deal with the other things that come up in daily life Weekends are great but theyre not enough and you still have shit youve got to doI have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the work Im supposed to do And I am not the kind of person who can just slog through something and get it over with especially when theres only going to be more of it after I finish what Ive got now I find it pretty much impossible to focus on my work and this leaves me with a deep feeling of dread and wasted time every dayI applied to library school because I expect being a librarian will be a much more tolerable job working in an environment I like with people who have similar interests doing various different tasks during the day and moving around the building instead of being chained to a desk Im just saying theres more to a great job than a salary and people leaving you alone I mean at least when I had more interaction with people even if I didnt relate to them much my days were a little less mindnumbingly boring

I didnt know whether to post this in ama or atheism so I chose atheism I am just wondering how many others believe in a higher power but believe most religious people are idiots I cannot believe how dumb most people are dying for Islam and slaving for Tom Cruise or even blindly following a book that was not meant to be taken literally and was edited by a multitude of people who were biased morons the Bible Its pathetic Im not going to tell you my religion is right because I dont even know Who else feels this wayEDIT Agnosticism sounds like it makes more sense to me because nothing makes sense If nothing else a higher power could be electron teleportation So by a higher power I mean something that is uncontrollable by man EDIT 2 Why not use this opportunity to make the world a better place before its too lateThats what I try to do It would be great if I got an afterlife for making the world better but I doubt that Im going to enjoy and help out others while Im here I think most of the commandments in the bible are beneficial to humanity so thats why I somewhat consider myself a christianEDIT 3 Just In case Im not clear enough I identify as a christian because I think that most of the teachings in the Bible provide good morals even if I wont go to heaven or any afterlife because of them That doesnt so much matter to me I kind of look forward to sleeping for ever

gtI dont even knowIt sounds like you have doubts Come over to the dark side already We have lasers In this subreddit I suspect you will be alone in holding a belief in a higher power but I can assure you that many of us also observe the increased likelihood of stupidity within various religious circles Why do you believe Forget all of the false hopes and promises of an afterlife One thing we do know is that were all going to die Why not use this opportunity to make the world a better place before its too late Hey awesome post netfaux I too am a Christian and am often disappointed by the idiocy of most religious people Christians included I would recommend doing some more thorough investigation as to where the Bible came from we have nearasmakesnodifference original manuscripts of nearly everythingThe problem so often is that Christians and others have no sense of nuance Is the bible to be taken literally or figuratively Well clearly the answer is both The sections that are historical narrative are to be taken literally and the poeticprophetic sections figurativelyOr another example the term faith Biblically defined faith is merely the belief that God will be true to his promises in the same way that one might say they have faith in a friend to do what they say they will All the room in the world is given for evidence to play a part in Christianity To have faith in God is to say that hes trustworthy it makes no statement about believing something in the absence of evidenceI am willing to say that my religion is right and that others are wrong simply due to the law of noncontradiction Belief in Christianity necessarily entails nonbelief in Islam usually over Trinity We cant all be right I am willing to say we might all be wrong but also willing to defend my own position gtI am a christian but I think most religious people are moronsthis alone should give you reason to think about what you believe and why Hello christian I am an atheist who thinks most all christians are wrong but I have no tendency to call them names in an effort to feel better about myself gt blindly following a book that was not meant to be taken literallySure it was by plenty of rulers at least Different people and groups have used the book to different ends

The Beatles are IMHO some of the greatest songwriters in all of human history and Im inclined to think this is a common opinion They took the pop rock genre and refined it to levels seen neither before nor arguably after their dynastyIts also a common opinion that The Beach Boys were Americas answer to The Beatles Whether or not they really are is not the point of this post although one has to appreciate the levels of songwriting The Beatles and The Beach Boys pushed eachother towards My question is different thoughIve always seen The Beatles as undoubtedly better in the long run but Ive recently began wondering if this is because I live in America therefore leading to a psychological case of the grass is always greener I just want to know what you Limey redditors think about The Beach Boys and their musical legacy Do you find them onpar with The Fab Four or behind Or maybe even ahead Just an experiment to see what the thoughts are across the ocean

The Beatles are second to noneIn my opinion Zeppelin are the closet to rival their throne and on a good day they overthrow them Both bands can make you feel more or less every emotion there is and have a song to fit the background of any occasionBeach who They are good and when youre in the mood for that sort of thing theyre the boys but no not a match really Great band to play and sing along to whilst drunk trying to get all those impossible highsEdit to say Im Scouse so you could argue bias if you really wanted to

thats basically it My sex life is somewhat Vulcanian only every 6 months or so instead of years I work as much as possible IT consulting then travel to Eastern EuropeAsia and fuck as much as I can Rinse and repeat I consider myself a semivirgin because I couldnt get laid on my own to save my life and never actually did I lost my physical virginity at 25 I have the physical experience but not the mental experience Therefore semi EDIT Oops forgot life Sorry

Youre funding a very dark industry This is not something to be proud ofEdit Downvotes Im sorry but I stand by this common sense suggests this job will be a last resort for most women Im surprised to be upvoting this but you seem quite honest Being from Asia it really bothers me to see foreigners exploit poverty for sex I know you dont like to see it this way but there are two perspectives to every transaction which I think you need to understandBut my question relates to this semivirgin business Its bunk and appears to me to be a mechanism to think your behavior hasnt compromised you to whoever you may fall in love withSo my question if you meet someone you fall in love with would you reveal this to her Are you depressed at all by the fact that youve never had sex without money Do you think that by engaging in sex tourism that you merely put a bandaid on a larger problem ie your inability apparently to engage women into wanting to have a physical relationship with you Ive always wanted to know is the no kissing thing trueand if they kiss doesnt it feel kind of awkward to kiss someone when theres no connection I am interested in hearing from the OP or others with similar experiences details of the procedure he uses to find prostitutes what sorts of considerations and dangers go into it and so on How do you avoid running afoul of the law are the language barrier and cultural issues does it involve briberyFor various reasons including my personal code of conduct I would not get involved in buying prostitutes myself but I want to understand about everything and this is a hidden part of the world from me How much did you pay in Russia Which cities did you go to If you dont want to be specific did you go to large cities or smaller ones Prices in small cities are lower im a little bit jealous because im in the opposite situationi live in korea where prostitution is everywhere if you know where to look and the girls are high quality in fact just last night a student took me to a room salon but when Im with one of those girls I can never finish the deed if you catch my drift i barely get hardIts not ED My brain is just wired like a females I need cuddling intimacy trust and working up to the act slowly without worrying about a time limitIm a decentlooking guy with average game so Ive also had chances for legit one night stands heavy petting and making out are fun but when it comes to the sex part I always have to turn them down because either I have whiskeydick or I know i wouldnt be able to performif you have any tips for me please share girlfriends only come around once every three or four years for me and its a shame to not have fucked all of the hot girls ive had opportunities with Any worries youve accidently slept with someone underage In Canada you can still prosecute someone overseas for underage sex traficking and whatnot I do pretty much the same except I dont do the sex tourist route Ive read the threads below and the only one worth paying attention is the threads about the dark side involving sex slavery Dont listen to the women posters yes theyll talk it up about how pathetic you are but theyre also likely to be the ones that look at you like pigeon crap in real life Its quite important to take the time to research that the money you spend is going to a women making money from her own body and not a pimp making money from a slave In Australia this is reasonably straight forward to determine I couldnt trust that I could do the same overseas Now as to the morality and social acceptability of it all Well thats all just bullshit and a lot of it is really idealistic Ive had a number of relationships when I was younger and found that most sex is really just mutual masturbation anyway and both men AND women are most often using each other as a social crutch Ive never had any time for all that bullshit Whoring is honest You only have to be honest to yourself whereas relationships seem to often involve lying to yourself and your partner What are the logistics of this How do you plan your trips Are there websitesAny close calls with law enforcement Have you ever in your travels run across other men who are doing a similar kind of thing Do you frequent forums relating to the subject where guys compare experiencesAlso to what extent does cheap airfares contribute to the feasibility of this lifestyle Seeing as prostitution can sometimes be a seedy industry Have you had any frightening encounter with policepimpprostitute I believe a lot of guys enjoy that girls like them and even want sex with them for their looks charm sex appeal charisma dress sense personality sense of humour etc That doesnt matter to you I can only think you must be or at least consider yourself highly deficient in all these areas Thanks for doing this AMA there are a lot of people being incredibly aggressive and judgmental without really knowing anything about you or the women you have sex withNot sure whether I think prostitution is moral or not but still thanks for sharing your experiences Hey PussyIsOnMe I know you deleted the account can you please send a note I have couple of more questions for you

Perhaps I am a terrible Poker player I have been playing for about 2 years and always do well online home tournaments and friendly games However when ever I sit at a table where the person has NEVER ever played poker I always get beat hard by themI had a game going with 12 players at my home for over a year and even the other regulars noticed how often the noobie would walk out 2nd or thirdAny advice Or am I just the worst poker player in the world

Your question is really general as there can be many different types of bad players You can have complete lagtards tight nits and loose passives among othersIf they are honestly not very good then you need to evaluate what type of player they are and make the proper adjustments If they are loose passive then you need to tighten up your range a bit preflop bluff a lot less and valuebet the ever loving shit out of them If they are the type to never fold with a gutshot or ace high you should start betting bottom pair for value middle pair for value etc You may also want to mix in some delayed cbets if they like peeling the flop but will fold when a scare card hits a turnAgain its just very player dependent on who exactly it is that you are trying to beat Q How do you beat moronsA By playing ABC valuepokerIf you cant do this or dont know what this means youre a fishSorry if that comes across as harsh but its 100 true

I am one of 3 kitchen workers at my restaurant We do midrange to upscale Italian food I have worked here for about a year and before that in various other kitchens The specific question I had was about dough and so Id be glad to answer that but feel free to ask me anything about pizza Italian food or working as a chef in generalEdit Okay as I seem to be getting this question over and over again I am in Guelph Ontario Canada I am not Italian and I was born and raised here I am Jewish and this is why I love New York so much

Okay so dough recipe is relatively simple and here it is 6 liters approx I adjust based on how the dough feels of white unbleached flour 2 liters of water 3 tbsp of salt 15 oz weight of wet yeast in our busy season this is best but doesnt keep long or 4tbps of dried brewers yeast in our slow season 2 oz volume of olive oil 4 oz volume of honey waaaay nicer than sugarKnead the dough in an electric mixer or by hand until elastic Portion into 9oz bags and refrigerate overnight before useand thats it Keep in mind that this is a flexible recipe and depending on how the dough looks I may change the ingredients slightly from batch to batch Keep in mind too that this is a HUGE FUCKING BATCH so you may want to ratchet the portion down by half or by a quarter for personal use The recipe should scale up and down rather wellEDIT This is a basic recipe feel free to add to it I just remembered how amazing it was when I had fennel seeds in my dough a while back on a whim SO GOOD Experiment I make sauce a lot and my sauce always to put it bluntly fucking sucks Whats your recipe my friend Have you tried Dominos New and Improved Pizza What do you think of it I dont know if many people have caught the ads but the owner of Dominos keeps admitting that their pizza sucked and now its super awesome with BAMnew cheese BAMnew sauce BAMnew crust I cant wait to try it Im so excited because I felt before this new pizza technological breakthrough that the pizza tasted ok but now it must taste FUCKING AMAZING I can hardly breathe right now I keep envisioning Dominos pizza being forced into my mouth and Im loving every choking minute of it I must have it It belongs in me Im really into gardening and would like to grow my own pizza ingrediants and possibly mill my own flour Im looking into buying a goat so I can make cheese and get some help trimming weeds and mowing my grass What kind of tomatoes do you suggest I grow I know even the freshest tomatos dont compare to a really good canned tomato but I plan to pressure cook them to get that taste Any specific species you can think of Also what about the herbs Lastly what type of flour do you reccomend I go with Im not a fan of whole grain but I understand that fresh home milled whole grain tastes great Would this come out well as a pizza dough or should I just buy the flour already made Whats a good yeast Do you guys use regular salt or a special variety Sorry for all the questions Do you ever feel pizza chains have lost the meaning of what pizza is all about I mean it was cool back when it was coming from the streets of Naples Youd have kids in their kitchens getting their first piece of dough doing all sorts of crazy inventive shit with it like tossing it into the air adding tomatoes Basically laying the foundations for what we know as modern pizza But now its gone overboard with BBQ chicken steak and whatnot You dont put an entirely separate meal on top of a pizza and call it a fucking topping And whats this dessert pizza bullshit all about I will be eternally grateful if you could answer this questionWhy do people leave the seeds in olives My bf was a wood oven pizza chef for 5yrs and he always pitted and halved his olives But where I live they almost always leave the seeds in WHY It drives me insane when I bite into a giant olive seed it puts me off my meal entirely The only reason my bf could think of was to weigh the olive down so it doesnt roll off when you spin the pizza in the oven But yeah were both clueless as to why anyone would think this was a good ideaAlso do you put the prosciutto on before or after the pizza goes in the oven I have been a regular over at pizzamakingcom for about 4 months and the guys there have helped me to the point where my ny style is better than 99 of what I can get in the city I live in Lots of friends who have tried my pizza keep saying I need to open a restaurant although theres far more to having a restaurant than making good pizza so I have lots of questions D What brands of flour and cheese do you use Do you use the same dough recipe for stix as for pizza if you do stix that is What type of mixer Deckconveyorbrick oven guessing conveyor based on dough recipe What do you use as a base for your sauce What is your food cost as a of sale price for a standard pizza About your dough recipe it looks like it has a low hydration and quite a bit of sugars which leads me to believe you bake at a relatively low temp 450 How hotlong do you bake Do you hand toss or use a press Approximately how many pies do you sell a week I am guessing based on your high end menu that you have more in store sales than take out delivery is that trueThanks for doing the AMA Not sure if its been asked already but which do you prefer New York or Chicago style I personally like my crust somewhere in between cant stand thin floppy slices

Some new hack must have been recently released as all of a sudden they have come out of the woodwork There was a blatant speedhacker on centraleast who we were unable to voteban The system could certainly use some work and more options to contact admins would be greatly appreciated For reference heres the hackers steam ID There are 21 other people who can vouch for meProfessional TF2 Player STEAM0024261525

I am an admin on ec Next time take a demo so we can know for sure Also it is helpful to post in the IRC channel at tf2reddit on ircgamesurgenet There are usually a few admins in there to help Feel free to message me on steam as well I go by mrhomer there tooLastly rrugc is the more acceptable place to post this that is the subreddit for server stuffAll that said Ill see what can be done about this guy He was on Chicago server earlier not sure for how long but I kicked him within 2 minutes of getting on I meant to ban him but instinctively kicked him instead Will banEDIT Now banned on Chicago What is the point of hacking in TF2 I suppose I can understand hacking in games where you get items based on skills but all the drops in TF2 are random Even the milestones are very easy to aquire you would have to suck pretty hard to not get them after a few hours of play

Hey all So I am embarrassed to say Ive been flushing my vaporized bud because I didnt know it had any value Anyone want to post a recipe and a review Are the edibles as potent If not what percentage would you give them Thanks Treesers

My friend has a hot box and he uses the left overs too make cream for his coffee Ill get the recipe later tonight and post it The cofee is quite potent man a great way too wake up If youve got a crock pot set it to low with all your vape bud and 1 or 2 sticks of butter depending on how much youve collected Let it cook for a day Strain Cool and add to anything that needs butter This can also be accomplished with a double boiler My fave is making corn bread and adding a dab or two to the cooked corn breadEdit Spelling I had about a quarter ounce of my vaped bud and I rolled a humongous blunt and just passed it around at a party Some people just use you for your weed anyway take it and make butterfirst boil water then add butter and the vaped and let it boil for like 30 minutesthen pour it through cheese cloth into something with a large surface area and freeze it for an hour or so until the butter and water phase seperate Get rid of the water and thats it I collected about a half pound of Bobby Brown vaped weed its what most kids call it in CA and pretty much would just use double the amount for any edibles recipe WARNING The edibles get nonsmokers fucked up and people with tolerances a good buzz Of course the more you use the better the most I ever used was a little more than a QP for a pound of butter D

Here is a quick breakdown1 Boyfriends home life is stressful for a myriad of reasons and I live at my boyfriends2 Boyfriend gets a new job I panic because things are changing I suck at adapting and dont give him enough praise for it I get so upset that he feels under pressure to quit I dont notice how miserable he is as he buries it somewhat I am NOT blaming him I was at fault3 On Saturday boyfriend comes round to my parents We argue He demands space and wants to go for a drive I panic and worry hell drive too fast in his frame of mind and crashbe arrested I beg him to stay and he stays He is clearly really stressed largely because of me4 He has just about calmed down when the phone rings His Dad has been taken into hospital He asks me to please come back to his house so that he can be around if the worst happens We visit his Dad in hospital Sat and Sun5 Sunday night boyfriend requests I go home so he can have some space I go home reluctantly as I dont really understand at 6pm He says to phone at 10pm and hell pick me up and I can stay over at his as usual6 At 6457 I say hi on MSN and get no response I find this weird and say hi a few more times In hindsight I was clearly being an idiot He says i cant deal with this dont come round tonight ill talk to you tomorrow i love youx I panic I worry I think maybe his Dad has died and thats why hes shutting down I try to phone and get no response until after lots of rejected calls he picks up and says im out this isnt working i dont want to talk to you This hurts a lot as you would understand7 Boyfriend starts new job on Monday I dont know if he went or not By 1am on Tuesday I have still heard nothing from him I find out through his niece that his Dad is getting better but no contact from my boyfriendNow Reddit WTF do I do I know where Ive gone wrong I sent an email apologising for everything not in a mopey way in a Ive grown up and it wont happen again kind of way He knows Im there if he needs me and he said he did right now until recent events All my stuff as at his house and I lack clothes to wearMy world has just gone upside downThe question is Reddit how long do I leave this Obviously he needs time to get his head in order but how long do I leave it and do I send the odd I hope works going okay I love you text or I hope your Dads doing okay Will he feel lonely if I shut him out completelyWhat does he need right now

Stop sending him things He gets the point and youre pissing him off Wait for him to decide he misses you Chill out Seriously Chill outEveryone needs their spaceSome more then othersI mean for example would you like him holding your hand on the toiletIts the same ideaGive him at least a fortnight maybe even a month and let HIM do the contactingThe funny thing is Im in the same position minus the sharing house bit and Im the heGo back to your parents place or another really good friends place and settle in for a few weeks Most importantly do things you normally do without him Maybe you used to play an instrument or a sport before you met him Distract yourselfIf you love something set it free Your guy sounds overwhelmed however it also sounds like hes taking it out on you Im sure I dont know half the story but perhaps it would be wise to pick up some of your clothes and stay with your parents or some friends for a bit Youve already told him that you are there for him Take your focus off of him for a bit Either he will calm down get his shit together and call you when he is level headed or it will become apparent that he isnt capable of maintaining a healthy relationship at this point in his life Maybe those arent the only options but it seems like your boyfriend has some shiz to work out and cant use your help right now So as everyone else has said do not contact him in any way shape or form until he contacts you or two weeks or something like that Just dont You also might want to see a therapist or counselor type if its possible Youre young and people do things like this when theyre young but this is being really really clingy to the point where youve likely got some underlying issues that you could work on with a professional It could potentially make you a lot happier in general so please consider itGood luck with the bf You gotta back off and let him sort stuff out Let him call YOU the more you push the longer it will take GOOD guys tend to recognize when they are in danger of going off and taking out stress on the people they love and rather than risk that they exit the scene till they can calm down So in that way take it as a good sign that hes levelheaded enough to know that he needed to have some space Just relax do other things and wait for him Thats the best way you can support him holy shit ballsyou need to find jesus and find him nowand by jesus i mean weedgoddamn chill the fuck out what are you 15 Youre being clingy Something thats pretty fucking hard to learn not to be Give him space and recognise that you BOTH need thisFrom a reformedClingy gf

Last year I was going to the gym twice a week for hour long intense workouts with a personal trainer mixing cardio and weights I did this for nine months I was sore EVERY DAYMonday I would work out Tuesday Wednesday I would be very sore and walking around like an old man Thursday I would be somewhat sore in the morning but usually it would be just about gone by the time I started my Thursday workout Then three more days of soreness and back at it on MondayIm totally aware that doing a hard work out after being sedentary for a while will cause this but it never got any better after months and months of staying with it I got sick of spending every day of my life being sore and it was a big factor in me quittingAnyone else had to deal with this Any tipsEditAnother thing Ill mention is that Im a big guy 6 3 310 pounds 240 lean who gains muscle and fat very easilyFor example take the last 3 month period I was working outThe first month I worked out 2 hours a week For the last two months I was only working out 1 hour a week I was eating poorly At the end of 3 months I had gained 15 pounds from 295 to 310 9 pounds of muscle and 6 pounds of fat

Scientifically I dont know what or why but the following is what works for me Warm up before lifting Basically the movements without weights and light ballistic stretching with a short light jog or something to get the blood flowing I have to get enough proper nutrition lots of protein good fat few carbs Plenty of sleep 8 hours for meWhen I do that Im fine but if any one of those falls through Im too sore for longer than normal

As I read about healthcare systems in other countires Canada UK I cant help but feel that those systems make a lot of sense and that Id like to see something similar implemented here in the US But I also agree with the sentiment that government should only be as large as it absolutely must be and clearly moving healthcare to the public sector means a large increase in the scope of governmentWhat are some other ideas that might provide similar benefits without having to put our lives in the hands of Big Brother

Part of the problem is that health insurance is not really insurance Insurance is supposed to be for protection against large unlikely unexpected occurrences Yet people want their health insurance to pay for every doctors visit and routine medicine If it costs X dollars to go to the doctor youre going to have to give more than X to the insurance company for them to make a profit and stay in business Somehow people have gotten the idea that theyre going to give the insurance company LESS than the what the insurance company has to give the doctor This only works if theres many people giving the insurance company a little money and only a few going to the doctor The current system is like having your car insurance pay for every oil change on your carWed be much better off if routine predictable care was paid out of pocket and insurance only paid large unpredictable expenses Unfortunately any suggestion of decreasing insurance coverage has people screaming bloody murder about how the insurance companies are leaving them to die What about if there were a large nonprofit insurance company which was not legally required to maximize profit for shareholders and whereby if you dutifully paid your insurance premiums they would in turn cover all of the costs associated with your health care needs Before asking for solutions define the problem Heres what I see as the problems in not particular order Spiraling healthcare costs Being denied insurance because of preexisting conditions related Being unable to afford it even if you could technically buy it RecissionIm not sure what you do about healthcare costs and anyone who claims that they do is lying Tort reform might stop some of it but its pure speculation as to how muchHowever I think the others can be tackled Everyone must have health insurance If you cant afford it you can have tax credits or whatever to help you buy it No exceptions Insurance companies may not refuse to cover you and they cant drop you for anything other than the most grotesque fraud Insurance companies cant overcharge highrisk clients This is the toughest to get right because there are so many ways to tweak it Everyone pays the same amount Everyone of the same agegender pays the same amount Highest and lowest fees cant differ by more than a certain percentage Im not sure what the right approach isThis provides health insurance for everyone without icky icky socialism and lets the free market yay compete to provide better prices and services Greenies and Randroids links hands and dance off into the sunset A lot of Republicans have pointed to the Singapore model which actually does offer good value for money life expectancy 800 years infant mortality 351000 percent GDP spent on healthcare 38By comparison Sweden spends 89 of its GDP for a life expectancy of 809 and an infant mortality rate of 321000However what Republicans dont mention is that the Singapore model uses price controls and if you import the parts the Republicans like eg HSAs without the part they dont ie price controls it does nothing to address the problems of the American system

1 Members who didnt hear about this last minute decision dont know that being at the meeting is NECESSARY Hell Im fully into this group and even I was meh on going to the meeting You are taking away the votes of people who havent seen this very late announcement2 It takes away the votes of people who are busy at the time 3 It is a pointless vote We dont need a vote on whether or not to proceed with a vote The vote on whether to keep American Pirate Party is ALREADY part of the other vote People can still vote for American Pirate Party in the name change vote4 The inmeeting vote is biased TOWARDS American Pirate Party Why you ask Because the people who like the name most are more likely to be active already The people who were skeptical of the name are more likely to have not subscribed and been active These are people who would potentially be active here but chose not to be because of the name5 It is a less democratic vote because a vote inmeeting is guaranteed to have much fewer voters than one that gives people a window of atleast 24 hoursPlease change this decision before you have a POTENTIAL DISASTER on your hands Let us have the vote we were supposed to have

I agree we need to set up a poll Have the top 5 names as a choice and just let the votes run for a couple days The endIm getting pretty sick of this whole name thing I have just gotten to the point of not caring about it anymore At this point I say we forget the name vote This is a colorofthebikeshedhttpenwikipediaorgwikiParkinsonsLawofTriviality issueKeep it the APP If people feel that strongly about the NAME let them form their own damn party In the meantime we keep the name If in time we find that were garnering less popular support just change the name then I feel like when you have 250 total votes for a group that has over 2000 members on reddit alone that should be a hint that you need to keep the voting process open longer I check in at 930 and didnt see the vote so I went to bed thinking Id vote this morning You know because the original thread said the vote would be open for a week Well guess I forgot I was dealing with a political party New party same old politics Though I am fully in favor keeping the current Party name I fully agree that the meeting so far has been in no other words a complete and total clusterfuckIMHO I place the blame allbut upon User DaTaco an admin in the IRC chat who has been streamrolling the entire process and silencing those who voice dissent against his actions This is NOT the way to start things off guys Im thinking about leaving over this The name itself isnt that big of an issue my problem is that anyone not available to vote in the middle of the fucking night is disenfranchised VOTE AS BEEN EXTENDED 2 HOURS GO GO GO herehttpdrupalamericanpiratepartyusand register and VOTE

The show 7 Days ran for three seasons in the late 90s The concept is that the US government had a way to send one man back in time seven days They used it to avert various disasters and strategically significant calamities I find it fascinating because its really a special forces procedural but wrapped in the shell of time travel 99 of the show is simply set in normal locations in the present day but the crisis puts the traveler in the position of being a time traveler The execution was okay and the plots spun out of control fast split into good and evil travelers suggestions of heavenly intervention and one where they faced off against Satan But the show did have an incredible subtext that they touched on now and then the incredible position the time traveler was in First of all every time they launch him for them its the first time because by cleaning up the crisis he obviates the need for them to send him back More important is the issue of trust they weakly established in the first show that theres no way to send any kind of data or mission plan back with him so they always have to trust him when he shows up and explains whats going to happen over the next week Of course over the course of the show there were several crises that affects the crew of the program so by the end of the show our reluctant hero was in the position of having seen all his friends die some of them multiple times and many of them horrible deaths Heady stuff in a somewhat cheesy show

That had the biggest plot hole ever why was the guy never there when he travelled back in time Why did he never see himself I recall a similar show about some guy getting a newspaper from one day in the future or something like that Cool concept but meh show if I recall I never saw this one gonna have to DL somewhere thanks for the PSA

I aint no literature expert or anything but its really good Its six intertwining stories between 1800 and far future

Ive probably recommended this book on Reddit over 20 times in the past 18 months David Mitchell is definitely my favorite author I am currently halfway through the book big fan of the Somni chapter w the descriptions of a corpocracy world I think I HAVE to read Mitchells other works after this such beautiful writing Indeed it was one of the more engaging books Ive read in recent years I was kinda saddened that some of the stories werent continued farther in some fashion but for what the book was doing it did fantasticallyI actually keep an eye out for used copies at book salesstores when Im out and about That way if I ever run into anyone I think might like it I can just give them a copy

Im a 3rd year Illustration student and I got an email from on of my professors regarding the Society of Illustrators and their annual contest The specifications for submitting work is that it has to be a JPG that is 500 pixels on its longest sideWhat the fuck Is it 1997 Why do these institutions demand such arcane image types Why not submit a PNG thats around 1000 pixels on its largest side The JPG filetype is just going to make pieces look artificially worse than they are in real life and keeping it at a resolution lower than 500 pixels is only going to exacerbate the problemWhy the hell do these institutions do this Even my own college demands our portfolio reviews be in JPG format at the same small resolution That or you can submit it for a fucking slide projector What is the deal here You can get crystal clear images of art in PNG format and viewing something at 500 pixels is hardly a justifying interpretation of 90 of artwork Would much of van Goghs work be as impressive at such a tiny size Could you appreciate Velasquezs brushwork at 500 pixels wideI truly believe its because these institutions are partially computer illiterate and have just been going with the same old requirements they had 10 years ago I dont believe any of them understand the purpose of filetypes and resolution If the concern is file size you could just as easily put the file into a rar or zip but still in modern times a 15mb file is comparatively small and reasonableDoes anyone have an explanation for this

Welcome to the technology gap in the art world It will never cease to surprise youI once produced a LED bracelet for a jewelerymetals studio class A patterned copper wire structureparallel circuit suspended in resin The majority of the class gasped when I turned it onVoodoo magic apparently Id recommend contacting the Society of Illustrators for clarification as to why their requirements suck floppy donkey dick The real reasons1 They dont give a fuck what your file format preference is they just want all the entries to be the same2 It allows them to cash the entry fee checks and then throw out half the submissions for not following the directions3 Theyre just going to spend half a second flipping through them on a computer they are not going to be zooming in to see your brushwork so they dont give a fuck They just want files that will open quickly so they can get through them all as fast as possible Your information seems incomplete The fliers around my school for the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION 2010 assuming this is the competition youre refering to have the requirements for a high res and low res folder The low res folder specifies the 500 pixels on the longest side at 72dpi and the high res folder specifies a 6 inch border as the longest side at 300dpi Im still not sure why they insist on using JPG formatEdit1Actually only the low res folder is supposed to contain JPG and the high res folder is supposed to contain TIFFEdit2Byebyelink Here are the answers1 The 500px images are thumbnails for contact sheets and fast viewing2 JPG and PNG have respective advantagesIt basically boils down to this They dont give a shit what you want they just want to view thousands of pieces in a short period of time If you cannot adhere to their preferred workflow then youll have major issues with future employers

Scientists are not a monolithic entity They do not in fact all agree Just using the word scientist in your assertion does not automatically make it more powerful Be more specific in your title Here are some suggestionsDr Such and suchNew research indicatesThe leading specialist in suchandsuchResearchers have foundA report from You get the idea

How is Researchers have found any different from Scientists say It still uses a generalized plural subject to imply authority and consensus Aside from new research indicates those are all appeals to authority Unless youre intimately involved in a field knowing who did the research doesnt really provide much information it never really does aside from generally knowing whether people dotted their is and crossed their tsPeople have generic biases about the sources of science if its from Harvard it must be good and very little of that is based in reality No one university is good at every type of research and no one researcher has a terrific insight in every field of study Aw man my dad is notorious for this sort of crap Its not uncommon for him to tell me things like Scientists have proven that the soul exists Scientists have proven that God exists All scientists have proven that the theory of evolution is false etc When I ask him what scientists or how they proved it he answers I read it on the internet

I know the USAin scientific community uses metrics but I know the rest of you do it just to irritate the rest of the world off when we are browsing US websites or watching CSI Miami Ill know Ill get downvoted for posting this not really I know by I can put a guilt trip on enough of you that youll try to pander to me by upvoting this and thatll somehow make you exempt anytime someone insults your country but you really need to start saying The 26th of January instead of January 26th Not that it makes more sense to say the latter but it totally ruins my day when I enter my birthday wrong when Im trying to log onto my favorite pr0n site

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Hey RAddit this ones fer youMy cohabitating girlfriend of 4 years just started her first year of law school this fall While it was generally okay she just got her first semester grades back Bs and she seems extremely stressed out this semester whether about finding a summer internship making sure she goes to bed super early etc Its seemingly starting to take a toll on our relationshipShes visibly unhappy all the time but never wants to talk about it if we do I usually cant make her feel better She gets edgy irritable quickly frustrated and just seems to refuse to ackowledge her lack of stress management is affecting both her and myself I knew going into this that law school would be tough but this is starting to get ridiculous It seems like she is snapping at me over the smallest shit every day and Im getting pretty pissed I dont feel at home or like I can ever relax because she is constantly either preoccupied with quickly finishing dinner and going to bed I can work late or just with the daily pressures of law school Im sure I can get pretty angsty and snappy with her too but I feel like this is mostly reactiveHave any Redditors survived law school with a relationship in tact How

Background My older sister is currently a lawyer Works for the local DA in Felony She is kicking serious ass Relevance While she was in law school only a few years ago she had just begun a new relationship BRAND new Our entire family speculated although we like the guy this was only going to fail because of the rigors that L1 contains We felt it was only natural that she was going to be unable to manage the relationship and the demands of law school However she not only graduated in the top 10 people of her class but also married the guy And they are ridiculously cute Note I am sure as with all couples they had their issues especially with L1 yikes but they decided they wanted to be a part of each others lives My sister while still pwning law schools face made her boyfriend a priority in her life and treated him well Otherwise he would have left So if you are important to her she will make the timeeffort Its only natural The lazy mans answer wait it out Just decide for yourself that you are going to put up with it not take it personally and be as supportive as you can during her first year with the expectation that it will go away on its own once first year is over and a lot of the current stress factors in her life disappearThe real answer if this is how she handles stressful situations you guys need to talk aboutwork on adjusting her and maybe your behavior maybe not NOW because she has enough shit on her plate and just needs to get through it with her grades and career track intact but at some point when things calm down a bit If you two stay together there will be plenty of stressful times to comelife throws you curve balls and you two should be a team in handling them together without one person constantly burdening the other How has she handled stressful times in the past Is this a new law school development or does she tend to lash out at you when things arent going well in general Is this potentially the first time in her life that she is feeling like a failure not good enough or scared of the future How has she handled YOU in the past when you have been under pressure and in need of support After a four year relationship you should be aware of these thingsGood luck As a survivor of law school I can attest to the suckage it attributes to relationships though if you think shes busy and stressed out as a student wait until she starts workingGetting straight Bs 30 after your first semester finals is disappointing It seems like wellpaying law jobs have dried up for all but the highest achievers that is the top 20 of your graduating class Depending on the school a 30 would put you well below that Shes depressed because her summer job career and near future as an attorney are largely based on her first year law grades They are that importantBasically without blaming her tell her how her actions make you feel You have to come up with some kind of plan together When I was dating my girlfriend in law school I agreed that we would have a nice peaceful dinner together every night whether or not I had to go back to studying afterwards I also kept one day out of the week that was always for her and did my best to finish my work by 9pm at the latest so we could spend time together before bedIf I felt like she was getting on my nerves I would go study somewhere elseThings like this can make or break a relationship The first step is telling her you are miserable and after that coming up with coping strategies together I think what you need to do is just step back a little give her some space and stop commenting on her lack of stress management skills Unless youve gone to law school you dont understand the stress both internally and externally applied to the person My advice would be to give her the space she needs If shes going to bed early make sure you give her a kiss when you go to bed or when she goes to bed if youre not there when she goes Stop being selfish give her space and stop judging her and just realize that shes doing something for herself and she needs your love and support and if you dont do that then your relationship wont survive What you dont want is for her to resent you because you werent there for her when she needed you The first bit of law school is meant to weed out the weak of spirit and mind Her reaction is completely normal If shes meant to be a lawyer shell leave you and focus on schoolThems the breaks pal I was in your boat a few years back my boyfriend is now in his 3rd and final year of law school I have some good news it gets better Youre well shes already halfway through 1L year With the economy in the shitter its even more essential that she concentrate and work really hard because the job market is shit Its really stressful and youre probably going to go through a few big disappointments with her They suck but she needs you to be there for her even if she doesnt show itYouve been together for a long time already so my advice is just to wait it out Try to make things easier on her by taking care of some chores making dinner sometimes especially at the end of the semester giving her a massage at the end of the day Taking a bit of the load off of her could really help Try not to react to her when she gets edgy Its really not about you so try your best to brush it off I cant say for certain but if she was great before law school shell be great again after 2L year is pretty shitty too just to warn you Good luck and feel free to PM me if you want to talk Edit Also some schools or career services offer a stress management course that might be a little hokey but could help her to better deal with her stressAnd finally your relationship will be seriously stronger once you get through this together I feel your pain my friend My boyfriend and I have been together for almost 5 years working through his time in law school for three At the moment hes studying for the bar People kept saying to us Just make it through the first year and it will be fine but thats not true Our toughest times were well into his second and last years because he was juggling class an outside clerking job as well as extracurricular stuff like Law Review He was busy and stressed and I was adding my own pressure to the mix because I was feeling frustrated too Its a difficult time but we tried to find our own balance I say WE struggled through it because from the first we both consciously tried to take each others feelings into account and work with one another This wasnt always possible because he often just needed more from me than he could return he needed time alone he needed understanding and patience when he was testy or stressed and he needed support It didnt always make everything better but I tried to do what I couldI would say the first thing that needs to happen is your GF needs to realize this is happening to you too She needs to be aware of it and be able to work with you on it I agree with Bumzors that a lot of the compromise is going to have to start on your end Stay busy work around her schedule You dont seem unwilling to do those things but rather she is having a hard time handling the stress and is taking it out on you Something I try to do when things are that stressful like right now Bar study time is to take the pressure off him with little things that I know he doesnt have time for Just small cohabiting things but they can make a huge difference So say if she always goes grocery shopping or does the dishes or always walks the dog do that stuff for her Talking about it probably wont do anything but actually trying to take some of the stress off of her through taking care of some of the everyday BS of living together might Or it may get her to see that youre actively trying to help which may open you both up for a positive conversationIf you really want to help her get through this its probably going to require a lot more work on your part than she is going to be able to return right away but if she can step back from her own struggles see what you are willing to do for her to help her do her best then hopefully she will appreciate it and see that youre there for her Ultimately when things got really bad with us it was just a matter of saying What can I do and him answering Nothing just be understanding And wed go from there

Dup from the original threadI built this automated bar machine in college httphomepagemaccommmurphbarInfohtmlno thats no me in the picIt was a ton of fun and learned a lot Never used a power saw before and taught myself visual basic I even worked on features that never got put into use like user accounts mag strip card readers pay pal integration In its life we had about a dozen parties or so in my senior year dorm with about 100 people each The bar was able to keep up nicely Unfortunately it was large and after a year in my parents garage and my smaller post grad apartment I ended up dismantling it

Do you have any designs or blueprints laying around from your past glory Id love to get one of these working for myself

Can you really trust software that bitches like thisE moduleudevdetectc You apparently ran out of inotify watches probably because TrackerBeagle took them all away I wished people would do their homework first and fix inotify before using it for watching whole directory trees which is something the current inotify is certainly not useful for Please make sure to drop the TrackerBeagle guys a line complaining about their broken use of inotifyhttpiimgurcomRVTNnpngObviously the tone is ridiculous but even worse is the fact that I dont even use trackerbeagle I happen to use other software that consumes inotify watches and this guys trying to pin his softwares inability to handle this scenario on another software project Nasty

this guy has a lotta nerve complaining about trackerbeagle when pulseaudio is well known for being a sack of shit What is this other software that is consuming all your inotify watchesJust because its not trackerbeagle doesnt mean that whatever it is isnt still behaving badly and at faulthttpsbugzillaredhatcomshowbugcgiid513571That said it looks like he just took a guess about it anyway Pulseaudio seems completely ridiculous and unnecessary to me on a regular home box Ubuntus frantic attempt to battle windows vistas perapp volume control really led them to adopt pulseaudio way too early I think its a cool technology but it shouldnt be included by default anywhere in my humble and barelyinformed opinionBy the way you should allegedly just be able to increase the number in procsysfsinotifymaxuserwatches Have you seen some of the error messages of the linux kernel It still works Programmers are assholes and the lead developer on PulseAudio is certainly no exception

TLDRhttpenwiktionaryorgwikiTLDR Just read between the two linesOk this is one of those subjectiveobjective philosophical questionshttpenwikipediaorgwikiCartesiandualism that many hardcore scientists and mathematicians here may think is kind of selfindulgent and meaningless To them I hope they bear with it it might at least allow them to crosscheck some of their most basic assumptions about scientific knowledge The Marys Room problemhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvERtHFwfw9Y concerns how much science can explain what we as humans know It was first proposed by an academic at my local Universityhttpphilrsssanueduaupeopledefaultsfcjindexphp3 and became widely discussed in philosophy circles The original paper can be found herehttpinstructwestvalleyedulafaveepiphenomenalqualiahtml A description of the problem and various philosophers opinions on it can be found on WikipediahttpenwikipediaorgwikiMarysroomgt Mary is a brilliant scientist who is for whatever reason forced to investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and white television monitor She specializes in the neurophysiology of vision and acquires let us suppose all the physical information there is to obtain about what goes on when we see ripe tomatoes or the sky and use terms like red blue and so on She discovers for example just which wavelength combinations from the sky stimulate the retina and exactly how this produces via the central nervous system the contraction of the vocal cords and expulsion of air from the lungs that results in the uttering of the sentence The sky is blue What will happen when Mary is released from her black and white room or is given a color television monitor Will she learn anything or notThe significance of the question lies in the fact that if you answer yes then you believe a complete physical comprehension of the world is incomplete as a description of human knowledge To put it in philosophical terms physicalismhttpplatostanfordeduentriesphysicalism is falseI posed this question to two intelligent women I know One is an accomplished medical researcher working at a University The other has a PhD in history whose father is scientist and now works in editing and design The researcher grants that Marys experience of knowledge is new but doesnt find this significant The historian believes its a futile philosophical question that reinforces her decision not to have continued with undergraduate philosophy that comes down to the individuals definition of knowledge When pushed she believes understanding is different from knowledge and yes Mary gained new understanding but not new knowledge Limitations of scientific explanationThe question gets more interesting now if you ask whether this new understanding or knowledge has any observable causal impact in the following sense Mary has observed the brains of people who see red for the first time and knows by their brain patterns that it is a very impactful experience which might even change their lives Mary is prepared for this and believes she fully understands what will be the personal consequences when she firsts sees red She sees red and is totally blown away and swears that the amazingness of red was nothing like she ever imagined from her research and she subsequently abandons science and becomes a landscape painter Did the experience of red have some causal impact on Marys behaviour which goes beyond the predictive physics of the brain which she was fully versed in My researcher friend believes not if Mary was surprised by her reaction then her scientific understanding was incomplete My designer friend says it probably did have causal impact the subjective world extends well beyond scientific boundaries oh and that philosophers should get over themselves The designer friends answer is troublesome for science It implies that something nonphysical can have causal physical implications in the world Physics cannot ever explain all physical consequences there is something nonphysical affecting observations in the physical world Her view however is not unpopular with philosophers Listen to what atheist Metaphysical Philosopher Michael Tooley has to say about ithttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvx2kSUwFLpr8t2m43s Now contrast that with the opinion of wellknown philosopher of neurosciencehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvX2DPKLRBuio Patricia ChurchlandEpistemologically I side with the medical researcher friend I think Marys scientific understanding is incomplete and would have been more complete if she had had an identical twin sister with the same background and circumstances who she could study the reactions of when she saw red for the first time Experientially I identify to some extent with the sentiments of the designer friend that a deep scientific understanding is only one worthwhile human pursuit A dedicated pursuit of a complete black and white understanding of the world might limit our exposure as humans to the wonderful colours of experience What do other people think

I was a philosopher first now Im a scientist Logically physicilism is the only possible explanation for all phenomenon Carl Sagan wrote a very short concise story that sums it up quite handedly The Dragon in My GaragehttpwwwgodlessgeekscomLINKSDragonhtmThe claim being made is there may be some thing some extra physical thing that affects our observations experiences interpretations or the physical world itselfThe problem with this is that once it has an effect it is measurableobservable So essentially the claim boils down to there is some other thing that we dont know of yet that has an effect Any good scientist would be open to this claim and would readily give it due consideration if you could define what effect you think its having If you claim theres no way to measure this other thing then refer to the entire premise of the linked articlegtIf theres no way to disprove my contention no conceivable experiment that would count against it what does it mean to say that my dragon existseditAlso the question has a flawed setup It presumes that we store information about things in the same way that we experience things And this simply isnt true Calculating the trajectory of a baseball is not the same mental experience as throwing a baseball And by mental experience I dont mean some metaphysical sense of experience I mean the actual neurons firing in your brain The literal physical process is quite different For example a deaf person could conceivably learn all there is to know about the physical process of hearing and not ever experience it If they could suddenly through some medical advance gain their hearing it wouldnt be some deeply troubling revelation if her experience of hearing was very different than her experience of learning about hearing The physicalist loses nothing by conceding that experience of and learning about are two completely different physical processes in the brain I followed your reasoning until this line it implies that something nonphysical can have causal physical implications in the world What exactly is the nonphysical process going on here There are other faultlines in monism besides consciousnessThe assumption that underlies physicalism is that reality is based on some kind of neutral matter and everything that exists consists of various configurations of this neutral stuff Science is the process of describing the patterns this material assumes Knowledge consists of knowing the patternsParmenides may have been the first to come up with this kind of radical monism He conceived of being as eternal in time finite in space homogeneous and regular in form a simple sphere He contrasted the eternal world of being with the illusory world of change and decay The problem immediately arises as to how the world of change and decay could have emerged from eternal unchanging beingIn a way physics is just a footnote to Parmenides There is no such thing as change in physics itself From our perspective in the world as we experience it we may see an equation as describing the acceleration of a body or the evolution of a field but there is no change to be found in the equation itself Yet change happensThere is an analogue of Marys room here If some entity from the unchanging world of Parmenides which posessed an entire knowledge of physics crossed into our world of change and decay would it be encountering something newConsider colours It seems to be impossible to reduce them to patterns of neutral stuff Though they may correspond to frequencies of light in the physical world they are not those frequencies of light but are something supplied by the mind and consciously experienced There are three primary colours They seem to have essences of their own in that they cannot be reduced further Lets say that Laplaces demon took it on himself to become a librarian and to catalogue all that existed with a unique number that was not arbitrary but rather a system like Deweys taken to the ultimate that is the number would codify all that there could be known about each entity In this system you could certainly isolate such things as colours tag each instance uniquely but where would the redness of red be in the corresponding number Its just a number like any other There seems to be an essence in the colour that cannot be reduced to a patternAll the numbers can be represented in binary form That is they can be represented in terms of two entities corresponding to one and zero or N and N But there are three primary colours which cannot be reduced further or defined in terms of each other ie green blue redSorry for all the commas and the quasicrank notation

I have two friends being stationed in Iraq and I really want to start sending care packages or something more useful to them or any other soldiers Ive never done this and wonder what is actually the best things to send that they dont have access to How can I find soldiers to send stuff to if I dont know them already

It really depends on where they are at Most over there have access to everything they need but ive had buddies that slept under the truck every night because they had no shelter My opinion is to just ask them im sure they appreciate the gesture Do the AnySoldier or USO thing because practically everything theyll want is illegal in Iraq and will get seized porn booze anything with pork in it etc Plus the other stuff theyll want and ask for has to be packaged pretty well to handle the long voyage and the extreme climate in Iraq When one my friends stationed over there asked me for some Jolly Ranchers I mailed him a bunch and they arrived in a sticky goopy useless mess right they dont react well to 130 degree temps Doh Same deal with a batch of batteries I sent they popped and leaked battery acid all over the care package I sentBetter to let organizations with experience and expertise in that area handle that problemIf anyone you know asks you for something of course send it but pack it well putting whatever it is in a Styrofoam container should be enough to keep it from succumbing to the heatEDIT Though probably the best thing you can do to support your buddies is to throw them a rager of a party when they get back with all the things theyve missed out on over there Booze hot nonmilitary women and no rules A good bet is to talk to them and ask they what they would like But while youre at it ask them to ask their friends as well That way you get a wish list that you can fill over a period of months Having an EOM package or even a letter to look forward to makes the time go by much fasterOne of the easiest things to send are hometown newspaper clippings and if you really want to blow their mind in a good way ask some of the available cute girls they knew back home to send them sweet notesnothing rude just something to boost morale It does Big time

Hey everyone I volunteered myself to get the tshirt design for one of my clubs based on the fact that a good friend of mine does graphic design and he said he could handle the job The other day he completely bails on me and leaves me with nothing I promised my club I could get the tshirts and now Im out of resources I really hate to bother you guys and treat you like my internet army but I really dont know where else to go I cant draw for crap Would any of you be willing to design a shirt for us Ill be more than happy to give you credit and a shirt if you like Feel free to go wild with this and have some fun with it Ill put the information about the club belowSo the club is called HPS Health Professions Society We are dedicated to showing others that if you are interested in health there is more than just going premed and becoming a doctor Heres our website if you actually care httphpsrsowiscedu I know its ugly and outdated Anyway could you please design a shirt that is only the front back makes it too expensive Please feel free to be creative and maybe even give us a new logo I honestly dont care what you put on it just have fun with it We are located at University of WisconsinMadison if you choose to include that Thank you guys so much Im really in a pickle hereEDIT This is a crosspost from rfavors Here is the original link LINK IThttpwwwredditcomrFavorscommentsatkozrequesttshirtdesign

Just as an FYI I think this would be better in Favors this subreddit is more for catching work that has already been created and lots of it comes from the Favors subreddit anyways

I cant drive for 5yrs and will need to have an Ignition Interlock device on my car for 2yrs I live in a rather small town with no public transportation so I ride my bicycle everywhere and try to be as positive as possible The local college is 97miles away and takes me about 2530minutes to get to and 35miles is my record for one day I spent 67days in jail for my second DUI because it included a possession of cannabis paraphernalia charge pretty effing lame I just graduated this past semester with my Associates degree in Psychology and Im going to UCF next semester for my BSME weird eh Ive got 94credits out of the required 60 needed for this particular degree some more nonsenseIve been in a funk for the last two weeks drinking vodka daily and talking to strangers I meet wherever I go I cant find the rest of my bottle and Ive been watching these peoples cats amp house for the last week as theyve been out of town Im a generally good guy Ive got dreams and aspirations but I feel like I could diekill myself somehow any time My father died when I was 11 as a direct result of his alcoholism and it runs in my family on both sides My dad was a power plant specialist mechanical engineer had his own company and did quite well making six figures My mom still works for FPL and shes not alcoholic at all My sister goes to Hofstra Univ and is in the Honors College up there I feel like a bum I could do so much more but I make wrong choices and I know it I dont have a job and Im not enrolled in any classes this semester I owe 3000 in court costsfinesprobationbanksetc and Im still looking for my bottle

Good god Go to AA and look into going to rehab before you kill yourself or somebody else You dont have to end up like your father Get some help please Youre worth more than this Stop drinking Youre too young to be doing this see causing major problems that you will have to deal with later in life Just cut it out If you need a friend Id be happy to be one PM me

It would make organizing and campaigns for things like the atheist bus ads nonbelievers giving aid and even congressional advocacy so much easier It would also be much more visible to the public too What can we do to create this

It would be a Good Thing TM fersure butProblem with atheists is that they dont go in a big way for central authority Theyre indeeviduals and they have trouble agreeing on things Or stated another way the same traits that make them question god also make them unwilling to yield up their autonomy At least in this respect religions have it much easier Theyre like cattle handing you the yoke bridle whatever kinky leatherwear See the United Coalition of Reasonhttpunitedcororg which is an umbrella organization that has local chapters Rather than trying to make a single organization it tries to help out with existing organizations

This happened to me this morning and I will say I only do this if I feel their acceleration isnt so extreme that theres a significant chance of accident But for the most part I try to time it for maximum annoyance of the other driver because seriously fuck them Im giving them warning and they are doing THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY SHOULD DOThis seems to be the default response of most OregonWashington drivers Whats your experienceProps to torturedbrain for inspiring this

Over the years this ebbs out of you I stopped cutting people off a long time ago that shit can get you killed Just follow the rules and let the dummies fly onward toward their inevitable fate I usually gun the gas and pop the clutch before merging in to the right laneI then have my girlfriend hang some banana peels off the back of my bike and occasionally drop them in to the street preventing the car from riding my assIf you do not have any banana peels I suggest using an upside down question mark box I understand your predicament completely If Im moving over into the righthand lane the slow lane I would cut the person off fuck that If they want to go faster they can get into the left lane and then back in front of me in the rightMy pet peeve of passing is when youre in the right lane and you go to pass someone in the left When you make your move to the left lane the person now decides to speed up Its like some people cant stand getting passed If they had been going that fast originally there would be no problem and there would be no reason to pass them in the first place No I dont ever cut them off I let rude selfentitled people drive however they like it makes little difference to me Its just not worth it to get into road peen contests I make it a rule never to fuck with aggressive hypedup asshole total strangers when theyre in their cars I made that rule after one of the above walked up to me and pointed a pistol at my heart while I was mouthing off to him what a dick I wait for an opportunity to switch lanes signal and immediately switch I dont give them a chance to block me If I cant move over yet my signal wont be on yet If they try to block me anyway I drop a gear and fly past them If my car isnt fast enough I let them in front Of course most of the cars made after 2000 have less power than mine so its rare they can block me Three car lengths Theyre cutting you off not the other way around By the time my signal is on Ive already checked for space and am in the process of getting over If some asshole is accelerating to block me he can rear end me then cause Im already in the lane Ok well Id play by James Bond rules Id let him pass Then quickly get behind him break out my under car rockets and let loose His car would explode and fly up into the air while I drive underneath the flaming wreckage And id look at my beautiful female companion Vagina Dentata and give her a devilish wink as we drive off into the sunset I lived in China for 5 years and driving there made all the aggression in the US just plain silly Although there are plenty of rules a lot of cops enforcing traffic are corrupt When there is no traffic people ignore red lights cut people off at intersections swerve around them when crossing etc They ignore one way signs and there is a shitload of people on motorbikes all around you At night some people on the freeway do not bother to turn on their headlights resulting in an extremely dangerous place to drive So reacting to others and premeditating outcomes became a skill Due to this most people yield to others When I came back to live in New York drivers exhibit stupid behavior without reason I like to wait until theyre right beside me then suddenly jerk the wheel hard over and smash into their drivers side door while accelerating heavily real pedal to the metal stuff If you do it right you drive them right off the road I follow them off park and jump out of the car laughing which usually pisses them off When they get out of their car in a rage I set my two rottweilers and my badger on themafter a few minutes when they are properly subdued I set their hair on fire piss it out and kill any passengers in the car Then I set fire to their car and carve let this be a lesson in the right cheek of their buttocksWorks every timeHope this helps I know sykotic and foolsjourney are right but my hearts with buildncastles Once a Masshole driver always a Masshole driver

Ok My step daughter slapped me I yelled at her saying that its not OK to hit me Daughter bursts out into tears My wife got mad at me and then did the whole Im the victim thing I am for the most part antiviolence although I admit that I dont react well to people hitting me Am I wrongEdit under request Apparently she thought it was OK to hit me over a slight disagreement I was scratching my wifes back and she came overMommy issues shes seven and suggested that she rub my back and mommy rubs hers She said no and slapped me saying snap out of it While it may have been in a joking manner its still not OK and she has some slight mental imbalance issuesI suspect bipolar but it is impossible to get her to understand you when you are talking in a normal voice

You probably scared the crap out of herYou are not wrong but dont underestimate the intimidation factor of an angry man Scary for a little girlApologise anyway Nope its perfectly OK to yell at children who hit you The only alternative is to hit them back so they fully understand what theyre doing to you but your method should work too What does your wife say you were supposed to do instead Talk about it with her not us You reacted in the heat of the moment I cant imagine many who could maintain their cool after being slapped Whats done is done What you do after is what counts now Sit down with the kid apologize for raising your voice and explain its not right to resort to physical violence to express anger communicating to girls is like being a good pizza delivery guy a delivery boy can have the best pizza in town when it leaves the oven but if it comes to your door cold at bad time or smushed around to the side presented poorly you might not tip the guy if the deliverys bad enough you might even refuse to pay for the pizza and leave him high and dry your delivery is as important as your content She hit you and then got upset because you yelled in response Yelling is a very understandable response to being hit you didnt hit so thats doing pretty well You may not be happy that you yelled but its not like you should be taking the blame here Whatever her issues she needs to learn acceptable behavior now before she grows up any more or someone else is going to end up teaching it to her and probably a hell of a lot less reasonablyThat stuff could get her expelled from school fired from jobs and out of relationships Im sure its hard being a stepparent and your wife should be backing you up I sure hope she didnt get mad at you in front of your daughter You need to have a united front so that the girl knows youre not just some ogre trying to mess with the familys balance Youre a responsible loving part of her family and youre not going anywhereI had a great biological but its the same principle father but he made me cry all the time when I was little I dont remember him ever hitting me but he definitely yelled at me and made me feel like he didnt love me I almost want to say that her crying is a good sign It may mean that she loves you and is so embarassed for upsettingdisappointing you Thats how I always felt at leastDad would always come back to me after he had cooled down and wed have a rational talk about why what I did was wrong how it makes other people feel when I act that way and what the consequences would be for an adult if she acted the way I had He would always tell me that even if he didnt like what I did he always loved me no matter whatPerhaps she just needs a talk

For a while I was buying bouillion cubes or prepared broth if it was on sale Then a few months ago I remembered a special moment I had right before my Grandmother passed away She explained why her food always had a special taste She made Salad Soup once a week and used it to cook the entire week When my son became vegetable resistant and I sought to become even more frugal I remembered what dearest taught meRECIPE1 Carefully wash every vegetable you use 2 Over the course of the week place all of your onion garlic carrot peels parsley and broccoli stems and unused ends from other veg in a plastic bag If it is a part of vegetable you will compost or discard add it to the bag I do not include potato peels The one time I tried I didnt like the flavor 3 Before your weekly shopping day scan the refrigerator for any veg which is likely to turn 4 Throw the soon to turn veg and the weekly bag into a large crock pot Add Bay leaves Italian seasoning salt and pepper If not terribly full add chopped carrot turnip and parsnip Fill with water Turn crock pot on low before you go to bed 5 In the morning drain the broth through cheesecloth and a strainer Pour into containers for use during the week 6 Compost the detrius

Not to rain on this parade and I do like your name for it but its more commonly called Vegetable StockHomemade is Always better than store bought Amusingly that sounds very close to how medieval peasants lived They would make a stew with whatever vegetables and meats were handy and whatever was left at the end of the night they included in the next days meals HerehttpenwikipediaorgwikiPottages some info Ive always heard it called Endless Stew As an amusing aside I cant help but imagine the frugality movement slowly beginning to mimic peasants from the dark ages as they were almost entirely selfsufficient And well I think thats about as frugal as you can get PS Id like ideas on how to better preserve the vegetable broth I always just strive to use it all up by the end of the week On the otherhand I do have a phobia about canning Thanks Ive done this for a long time Not because Im particularly frugal but because it tastes so much better than storebought broth I use the slap chopper on everything it goes farther that wayHeres a tip It helps a lot to put in a piece of Kombu aka dashima I also always include some shitaake mushroom stems but this results in a fairly strong flavour that not everybody likesI freeze containers amp ice cubes and use the broth as a base for crockpot beans soups to add flavour to stir fries to make quinoa yum and in many other dishesI sometimes also throw in the bones of a roast chicken

Right now Id have to say Custard Apple is my favorite fruit but so damn hard to get in the US I also really like Durian although many people cant stand the scent of it

Pomegranate even though its a messy fruit The trouble one has to go through to get to the actual edible part is very much worth it Looks like mangoes are winning the race I have a couple growing here in OZ 30 south more temperate than tropical I tried durianhttpenwikipediaorgwikiDurian for the first time last week and while I wouldnt call it my favorite its certainly very close Its so unique most of these arent fruitshttpwwwschrodingerskittencoukarticlesfruitlieshtml all that aside i still like strawberries Mangosteen definitelyThe fragrant sweet taste and creamy consistency are kind of similar to a custard apple but well I just think it tastes better

I mean Im good at math but when I try to wrap my head around all the lingo and complex terminology it all goes over my head I understand the concepts easily it just seems that there is so much to know and absorb And Im not stupid either Im in med school and have done very well in math classes its just that my experience with business has only been microeco and macroeco and I want to be competent and confident in my decision making skills in this aspect of my life Do college courses teach you the skills to decipherunderstand all your optionsrepercussions of actionsetc or is this stuff mainly selftaught If so what booksarticlesmagazineswebsitesetc do you guys recommend if you want to not just have an idea of this stuff but to have a solid understanding of it all Example I know and understand all the bits and pieces of certain elements of investingie looking at a companys prospectus and current ratios PEs debt to asset ratios etc but I fail to connect all of this knowledge and just get itAnd to know and feel confident when something good or bad is going to happen in the economy or in the stock market etc

A couple of things based on my background in Engineering yet having an MBA as well1 Accounting on which Finance is generally based was invented and well developed during the middle ages in Europe It and its structure predate the math and conceptual models that are the basis for algebra calculus and most high level math used by science and engineering For this reason they simply smell different in some very fundamental ways2 Accounting is generally retrospective documenting the past as it already occurred while finance is extrapolating past performance and future wished into the future As with all extrapolations and predictions there are a lot of assumptions made and some may or may not be justified and some may or may not be provable 3 Most accounting and finance involves a lot of what technical fields call underspecified systems of equations Sometimes insanely underspecified If you have a background in engineering design this feature isnt so shocking or unfamiliar or scary If you are a techie outside of design it will usually seem dangerous More certainty isnt possible however4 You simply have to learn even if by rote the structure of financial statements to really grok much of anything in finance Understanding how per forma planning is done is also pretty essential They make sense once you understand accounts arent variables like in algebra but have some similarity to nonfunctional programming variables over time Income cashflow and balance sheet each characterize a different aspect of the whole5 Finance and accounting in general is heavily biased by tax law factors so what are good ratios usually is influenced by tax law benefits and penalties in ways that dont necessary make longterm corporate fitness sense This is the distortion created by government intervention via tax law6 Much of the standard ratios used in ratio analysis have to be understood within the context of tax law and of the specific type of company considered not all good ratio values are actually good for any arbitrary types of companies Most typical values are only reasonable for Fortune 500 sized companies and only for status quo economic situations and operations Eg smaller companies niche companies and high tech companies have radically different cost structures that necessarily alter the standard ratios often making them look bad but in reality they are simply indicating a different functional type of company or operational business model7 A key feature of US tax law is that corporate income tax is defined radically differently from individual income tax This itself creates many bizarro biases in accounting and finance8 You cant use ratios to determine everything or even most things about a companys health They are only indicators of situations but not proofs There are also ratios that are useful but not generally calculatable from standard US public financial statements Most of what you need to know to know a companys potential future performance is not actual in most publicly published document or if it is must be extracted uniquely and individually This is what most market research services are actually providing the extra stuff Even that isnt going to give you 100 certainty maybe 70 instead of 40 certainty9 Whats listed in public financial statement is very much what people FASBSECetc thought was minimally usefulessential 10 years ago Also its only US public companies that have so much publicly published details public companies in most of the rest of the world have only a tiny trickle eg sometimes an income statement may have only 79 lines of detail total Further US private companies do not publish financial statements at all they are not required to and its seldom a good idea anywayI would generally say that as practices by most people in the field finance is usually BS As practiced by the best or in theory not so much Best here is highly subjective Its so complicated becuase its mostly bullshit Think of investing as being at a roulette wheel You put your money down and you cross your fingers Whether a stock goes up or down after that is due to random factors beyond your control Investment capital is always attracted to the most poorlyunderstood aspects of the economy because thats where the risk is As soon as we get a really solid understanding of anything the risk disappears and it ceases to be part of finance and investing So investing by its very nature will always be complicated and poorly understood

Should I take this as a good sign She said that it would give insight into her life and also why she really enjoys cut amp paste Its page upon page of hand written scientific notations oddly beautifulIs this how science nerds woo Im a video nerd so I wouldnt knowEDIT In the interest of full disclosure here is a pagehttpimgurcomFqL1HjpgEDIT She just sent me this she is visiting home out of state with the subject line Its like I spotted a YetihttpimgurcomSTMHJjpg EDIT I like the fact that were all using the word woo in a dignified manner

A few weeks ago my girlfriend and I went to Disneyland While we were there she kept asking I wonder how many people have died on rides here etc So I responded to her with some fun facts that I had read on wikipedia about deaths in the park prior to our trip She asked me whyhow I knew these things and I explained that I had read up on Disneyland on wikipedia before our trip I expected her to laugh and call me a dork but instead she told me that it was a turn on and liked it when I impressed her with knowledge albeit useless facts Read itALLOr at the very least skim read lots of it so you can ask questions about itShes obviously very sensitive about her work as its been her life for the last few years and really wants to know your opinion on it and hopefully to get you at least somewhat interestedYou work with this girlOooh that can make it difficultI agree with the girl its not the best idea to get into a relationship with someone you work with everydayThe way I look at it is if anything goes wrong in either the love life or work life it will affect the other unless you 2 are really good at keeping both separate Maybe when you two develop some work distance eg start working in very different places or at different organisations and are able to fully develop a friendship OUTSIDE of work influence I would attempt it I dont know either actually dude I hope it works out Science nerds are HAWT httpwwwkirstensanfordcom She made very tidy notes with strategies and references and full sentences And is that Moleskine paperMy lab notebook looks like the meanderings of a serial killer interested in population biologyTotally hot and a very big deal to someone whos done that kind of work She appears to be doin the woo Just read it and ask her some questions shes obviously waiting for you to get a bit into her scientific topic of choice I cant figure out how you could see that as a negative sign for your relationshipfriendship please explain your feelings a bit further

Why would this not come completely standard on every piece of CDDVD authoring software in existence If it were a piracy issue why would there still be the option to burn an audio CD It is basically the same thing here All I want is a way to take my video files and burn them to a DVD so that they will play on my DVD player at home or at anyone elses house I find it ridiculous that I can download burning software for free and it comes with the option to burn audio CDs but no option at all to burn video DVDs The technology oh so obviously exists and all newish computers come with DVD burners so why has this not become a standard feature on all burning software by now

MPEG2 licensing issues I think I looked into this a while back dont recall anything definitive

Hey reddit Im a poor college student looking to save some money and Ive seen a lot of stuff about MagicJackI like to think Im open minded enough to give any new technology a try without allowing my technophobic tendencies to cloud my judgment and considering the potential savings of 280 per year Im thinking about to giving this little MagicJack gadget a tryI read the both the positive and negative reviews and I came to the conclusion that most of the people saying MagicJack is a scam are probably the same people who have a difficult time installing a new printer or using their DVRAnyone here have one Ill probably use it the majority of the time on my MacBook that stays plugged in all day so Id like to know how well it works on a macAlso any chance of using the software just as a softphone without the usb dongle on a mac Ive seen hacks for it on PC but not so much on mac

I know some guy that has a MagicJack He really likes it He is weird as hell though Im not sure if the MagicJack made him that way but Im not taking a chance I have used MagicJack It is legit I still owe them 20 bucks Just make sure that you buy the magicjack from the authorized seller My impression is that it works for some and not for others Also to get reliable phone service you apparently must have an EXTRA COMPUTER you can leave running all the time with MagicJack AND a reliable broadband connection AND a reliable electrical power sourceMost people dont have an extra computer available to tie up with MagicJack Many dont have a reliable ISP I dont I have Charter Many Americans dont have reliable electricity I dont I have full blown outages usually once a month and brownouts much more frequently I acquired a UPS to try to keep from corrupting my hard drive during a power down I just bought magicjack a couple of weeks ago and so far were happy with it Ive been using Vonage for years but lately their quality of service has gone downhill so we decided to give magicjack a shot because the cost savings is so great We have it hooked up to our domain server which is on all the time anyway and my husband found a hack to make magicjack run as a service so the computer does not need to be logged in We had one problem with the telephone not ringing on incoming calls and we removed the USB mouse and keyboard from the computer and then it worked We usually use remote desktop to get into the computer anyway so it wasnt really an issue I think for the average user it might be a bit wonky but if you know what youre doing and are willing to mess with it a bit to make it work its pretty good So far the sound quality is better than what weve been paying Vonage 40 per month for I bought a magic jack to try and offset the costs of making work phone calls on my cell phone as a freelancer this makes up about 85 of my billHowever the magic jack does not work very well at all the actual service is laden with static and pops and sounds terrible Most of the calls I made ended with me calling back on my cell phone because the person on the other end could not hear meMagic Jack does not have any wireless support and they expect you to use in a computer hooked directly in through an ethernet cable which is unrealistic at least in my eyes in this day and ageThe customer service is also abysmal it takes about an hour to troubleshoot a simple problem and it can only happen using their online tech support Theres no phone line to callBottom line Dont waste your money My uncle uses Magicjack Skype to have a Virginia area code and cheap calling from Santiago Chile Works for him I have been using it for a couple of months and I have had zero issues with call quality I am overall very satisfied with it and would recommend it to othersThere were a couple of issues in setting it up though I am running it off of a mac and had some trouble finding appropriate drivers The actual official site was of no help and I only found a working driver on some outdated forum through google Customer service seems nonexistentThat being said after 20 minutes of googling I am very happy with the service I also use it to interface with google voice I do not use it with a headset I got a shitty radio shack land phone and it sounds perfectIf you need help finding a working mac driver pm me and ill link you to the one im using CriticismsUsers have expressed concerns with the advertisements displayed by the product and the policy which allows YMAX to analyze numbers called by customers From the EULA End User License Agreement You also understand and agree that use of the magicJack device and Software will include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for the magicJack device to work Our computers may analyze the phone numbers you call in order to improve the relevance of the ads4The EULA also forces users to resolve all legal issues with the company through arbitration in Palm Beach Florida4 The Better Business Bureau of Southeast Florida has received hundreds of customer service complaints primarily related to difficulty returning the product under the 30day guarantee The bureau gave Magic Jack an A rating5 According to the Better Business Bureau records the company has provided refunds in all cases The inventor has also responded to customer service complaints on the company website as well as a May 2008 interview with Laptop magazine6As of November 2007 magicJack did not provide an uninstallation method either in the software or in any documentation Removing the software from a Windows machine required editing the registry Currently an uninstall utility for the Windows platform is available for download at the MagicJackcom website It can be found by searching the FAQ for uninstall There is no uninstall mechanism currently available for the Mac 7As of December 2009 MagicJack is not able to port over your existing land line

What are some places you visit everyday or nearly every daypossible examplesgrocery store school post office a park library and a form of transportation subway bus tramWhat places would you visit often if they were located closer to youI am trying to find strategies that help people live their life without traveling a great distance from their homes Any information would help The strategies will be applied to an urban design problem so if you ever wanted to bitch about a certain something regarding the built environment speak your mind

The Liquor store I try to buy enough to get me through the week but every day I seem to be out of beer and vodka again

For example watching Lion King and HOPING Mufasa doesnt get caught in the stampede When I watch movies again I find myself doing this often I realize it makes no sense

No Brad Pitt Dont let your anger drive you to pour everything youve got into this John Doe case Listen to Morgan Freeman and take a day off to just love your wife and show her that the job isnt everything to you Make sweet love to her celebrate her pregnancy and dont let any strange bald men into your apartment No Well I wish it but thats only because of what I wished in the first placeWhat happens more often is by watching a movie more than once I notice something new Hell Ive seen Memento half a dozen times and I only realized in the SPOILER scene where Sammy Jenkiss is sitting in the mental institution the image flashes for one frame of the guy who plays Leonard At that point I understood what the movie was trying to say and it made my night awesome

Are you roleplaying a certain role like Naughty Teddieshttpwwwnationstatesnetnationnaughtyteddies or Pedrobearhttpwwwnationstatesnetnationpedrobear Or are you passing issues how you would if you were ruling your own government

My nation has no gimick I take it more as an experiment If I were put in charge of a nation how would it turn out Im not passing issues exactly according to my political philosophies in part because of the limited options and in part because I tend to hold to a bizarre and vaguely dissonant mashup of idealistic ideologies that would be consumed in a world dominated by realpolitik But I am trying to run my nation as sensibly as I suppose I can

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I was not expecting to see men talk more than women I think I caught the study that said they talked equally InterestingBTW this was submitted perfectly linked to the comment in the self post posted a reply to the original comment and backed up your claim with good resources Thanks Such bullshit after a few drinks I always dominate the conversation whether people like it or not Also my girlfriend is a very quiet person So much so that people think shes really uncomfortable or feels left out The truth seems to be that she is just reserved and has fun watching other people make fools of themselves I guess I like the strong silent type

I like my BBQ sauces but I also have this weird quirk in avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup The one I love is Sweet Baby Rays but first ingredient is HFCS I just received an order from Legend Larrys BBQ its pretty good but I looked on the back and was disappointed with the first ingredient HFCS Instead of going to the supermarket and buying every nonHFCS there to try them anyone have any favorites

I tend to buy bullseye Not necessarily my favorite but its at all supermarkets reasonably priced and HFCS free I make my own albeit with ketchup as the main ingredient However its easier to find ketchup without HFCS than it is to find BBQ sauce Plus when I make it myself I dont add nearly as much sugar because I dont like things sweet And finally I can add as much zip as I want It only takes a few ingredients and about 15 minutes on the stove If you want the recipe let me know Im not sure if Presidents Choice brand is available outside Canada or not but my 2 favorites are PC Smokin Stampede Beer amp Chipotle Barbecue SaucehttpwwwpresidentschoicecaLCLOnlineproductsjsptypedetailsampcatIdscat40002ampcatIds106ampbrandId4ampnext73ampproductId17861 PC Smokin Habanero Barbecue SaucehttpwwwpresidentschoicecaLCLOnlineproductsjsptypedetailsampcatIdscat40002ampcatIds106ampbrandId4ampnext37ampproductId18652HFCS free and very tasty The Habanero one may too hot for some palates though I personally love it And they come in ginormous bottles

READ THE TITLE IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING ALSO I WROTE THIS IN ALL CAPS SO THAT MY POINT IS MORE VISIBLE IN FACT IM GOING TO GO AHEAD AND THROW SOME BOLD IN YEAH THIS IS GOODUPDATE THROWIN IN A BIT OF ITALICS

This subreddit is so hot and awesome i just have to fap Gonewild may have sexy boobies but we have intellect style and ego

I love RPGFPSRTSAdventure games which have a real story line to drive me through it and I wont burn out on it fast Is it a good pick

I wouldnt really consider Psychonauts an indie game but yeah its a lot of fun The main attraction of this game for me is all of the different imaginative levels in the game When I played it it was like nothing I had ever seen Capsid has some valid points but a lot of those things can be forgiven if you happen to find the game fun enough Psychonauts is a great game I heartily recommend itIts one of two games that Yahtzee couldnt complain about although he still complained about people not buying the game and not having anything to complain about Pysconauts is a good game The story and uniqueness of the characters is very well done It is more of an actionplatformer than an RPG Theres a kid who wears a tinfoil hat to stop himself from accidentally blowing up peoples heads and is convinced that squirrels are liars and are conspirating against himThats what convinced me But yeah its a fun game

Similar to the way we can use Godwins Law to eviscerate any lame attempts to compare people to Hitler or the Nazisre Bono Compares Content Pirates to Child Pornographershttpyroslashdotorgstory1001032241248BonoHopesContentTrackingWillHelpMediaMogulsI propose The Paranoid Parent Law Any proponent of Internet filtering will eventually resort to scaring uninformed parents with the threat of porn in an attempt to increase their arguments weightedit uninformed uniformed

How bout we just turn the tables if youre so concerned about child pornography stop dressing your kids so damn sexyNo no waitthat might not work Just tell them if theyd stop thinking of the children we wouldnt need that sort of filtering We already have onegtFirst Amendment to the United States ConstitutiongtCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances We should get rid of all roads surrounding schools You never know if a pedophile will use one of those roads to drive by the school and look at the kids Just to be completely safe we should probably put kids in boxes and wheel them around so no pedophile has a chance to glance at them in an unsavory way

A lot of things could really slow progress At this point the most important issues are more organizational related than anything else

Actually there was a post on the Pirate Party international mailing list about the pitfalls of party organization I did not write this but I assume that its ok to post it here since it was posted on a public mailing list The writer is a bit bitter but brings up valid points about how this kind of organization can fall apartApologies for the length and negative content This is a ratherharshlyworded opinion read as rant and its longer than somemagazine articles Ive written It was one I wrote and one I stand byIt is extremely negative and with the intent of being negative Itsbecause Im really very disillusioned with the people of the US and myfaith in any of the Pirate Parties here has been all but shatteredFor the past 16 months Ive been homeless I have no income nostipend no money coming into my possession at all I live in a housewhich is paid for through government stimulus grants utility billswhich are paid for by charities and a disability case which is stallingbecause I cant afford medical coverage doctors dont like it when theycant get paid their exorbitant fees which are largely necessarybecause everyone sues them As a person on the streets I get to seewhat the ground level of America is like I see the ugliness and thebeauty I see the pain of loss and the suffering of pain I seemiddleclass citizens going to and from work every day I speak to afair number of them about things that concern them The answers I getvary from the party line that Obama isnt working fast enough or ischanging too much its all focused on him People dont care whathappens in Congress even though thats where the most amount of thingsthat impact them personally occursThis week I saw someone raided by police An actual raid They thoughthe was selling drugs He was not in fact even using drugs never mindselling them But what they did do was to put him in jail for a civilcrimesomething that should be illegal here They confiscated some 200DVDs full of films according to his mother thats what he told herthey told him Today he was released in fact about an hour before Ifinished this All criminal charges dropped hes now awaiting the DMCAnotice which informs him of his copyright infringement He intents tofight it though I have to wonder Hes asked that I not use his nameand so I wont But it did happenAs one of the people who tried to help get the US Pirate Party going in2007 and the primary registered agent in early 2008 with a significantamount of paperwork issues which simply could not be cleared up becauseI was removed from office due to health issues in the midst of tryingto clear them up I will say this I worked very hard for 2 yearswithout pay suffered health effects from the amount of effort I wasputting in and ultimately had 2 out of 3 of the people who signed mypetition in Utah jump off onto the Libertarian bandwagon when it camethrough

My thoughts on the issue The government is actually a tool of the people We make the government the government does not make us We the people should be what the government caters to not anyone else The corporations are created with their sole desire is to make a profit they should not have a influence on the governmentThis would also simplify our stance to show that the average worker comes first

I like the theme of emphasizing a greater separation of corporate and state however I do not think it will be a full separationSeparation of church and state means that the church doesnt interfere with the state and the state doesnt interfere with the churchI am fiscally conservative but I do believe that the state needs to regulate corporations and sometimes contract work out to corporations State and church on the other hand do not need and should not interact with each other This is not the case with corporate and state

The thread about fallen bands was depressing meI saw Bruce and E Street a few months ago and somehow their new stuff still sounds awesome and relevant

I seen John Prine a couple of months ago and man blown away Im a bit skewed though as he might be my favorite dude ever but his music is just better suited with a pained old voice Of course most folk is so Heaven and Hell formerly Black Sabbath is not too shabby Not as good as Black Sabbath but not bad for some 60 year old guys

One thing which bugs me about the web is that most sites look uglyhttpbayimgcomimagecajboaacojpg when scrollzoomed on a large screen like when reading on a television or huge monitor The simple solution to this would be to use vector images instead of raster ones SVG is supported almost everywhere but in Internet ExplorerIt would be really cool if reddit were one of the first sites to take the plunge and served up delicious SVG images unfortunately this would have to be a user preference due to the lack of support across all browsers but it would be a good start nonetheless

It would be nice for reddit have the option of SVG images However this means every subreddits icon will need to be remade in SVG and every update to the icon will need to be in both vector and raster formatsFor a temporary workaround you can use textonly zoom

My wife is stuck in Mitaka but the trains arent moving She wants me to find out why This isnt the first time either She says there are lots of police and nothing is happeningAnyway Id like a good train traffic site to bookmarkThanks Reddit

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I have a 5 12 year old son and desire a full bible translation thats written in a way that he can understand This is so that I can read to him some scriptures that apply to some of his actions This week Ive wanted to review Eph 429 with him because sometimes he says things to his sister that while true are not helpful and dont build her upFor reference for the kids we have a very good illustrated bible with the major stories told at about a 4yr old level But it only has major stories For my wife and myself we usually use the NIV and NASB but these translations would go way over our sons headThanks for the help

I have a question for you thats unrelated to your question but related to my interests if you dont mindAt what age do your children get to decide if they want to believe in your version of god or not In other words do you give them the choice at the beginning Or do you simply take them to church and read from the bible and hope they pick your religion when they turn 18Thank you for taking my question seriously I have 2 boys ages 10 and 2 months This one should be perfect Illustrated Stories From The BiblehttpwwwamazoncomIllustratedStoriesBiblePaulFarrelldp1578849225 The Picture Biblehttpwwwamazoncomgpcustomermediaproductgallery0781430550refcmciupdpimages0ieUTF8ampindex0Best Bible Ever The Big Picture Story Biblehttpwwwcrosswayorgproduct1581342772 is a good one in terms of having some of the lesser known Bible stories and it focuses more on the overall themes of the Bible then the stories It doesnt seem to have the verses and things more just tells different stories like a Childrens book would Let me know if that helps or if you are looking for a complete Bible with verses and everything Please wait until your children can discern between nonsense and reality before teaching them religion Ideally dont tell them anything and let them choose for themselves I had a Precious Moments Bible when I was only slighly older than your son The pictures and little notes helped my understanding but if you read it with him I bet it wouldnt go over his head and you both would be making some wonderful memories

I work in a small office with primarily female colleagues All of the woman have very strong personalities There are moments of kindness laughter and support but for the most part I find them all very annoying and Ive tried so very hard to only see the good More often than not I fake my way through the day trying to hide my true feelings and put on a happy face I dont always succeed Sometimes the issues are minor like someone telling a boring story about their cousins neighbour for the umpteenth time and sometimes theyre more serious Just this afternoon I had an unpleasant confrontation due to a very obvious difference in workplace priorities My question is this how do you 2Xers deal in similar situations Do you grin and bear it Do you stay true to your own personality regardless of the outcome Do you enter into conflicts unflinchingly or feel yourself back down timidly Do you let it roll off your back or do you get out and find a new job Id love to read your stories be they inspiring commiserating or hilarious Please share

Working in a primarily male office can be just as frustrating I think its not a woman or a man problem its a homogeneity problem Too little diversity in the workplace causes problemsWhen a coworker confronts you in a rude intimidating way its usually best to smile and say I can see you really care about this issue Lets schedule a meeting to talk about it with our supervisors present Not much help if the rude person is your supervisor but random workplace bullies usually back down when faced with the prospect of being responsible for wasting two higherups time over a stupid conflict Hair pulling face scratching jello wrestling You know the usual These seem like issues you could potentially run into with men in the workplace as wellwhat makes them femalespecific As a rule of thumb the best thing to do is find a place to work with a good nontoxic environment but if thats not an option I think you should grin and bear itavoid conflictslet it roll off your back as much as possible Pick your battlesstand your ground if something results in extra work being dumped on you or someone taking credit for your work or other shit like that but I think its really not worth stirring up bad blood over minor personality issues You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar And on the flip side later on you might need something from one of the people youve been arguing withvery unpleasant to have to ask a favor in that situation How closely do you have to work with the annoying people Can you adopt a headdown approach and keep your distance I get along pretty well with most of my coworkers The thing about them is I have two managers one is a staunch republican who listens to Glenn Beck like hes the fucking messiah and will launch long opinionated tirades about the evils of socialism and the reasons why things are fucked up is because of the damn socialists and Obama and blah blah blah Hes my boss so when he starts flapping I just walk away The other boss is a crazy liberal and I mean crazy liberal who thinks shes going to run for president and change the world Could not be farther from the first guy Im amazed they can ever stand in the same room togetherWhat really astounds me is the Republican dude I mean I work in foodservice were some of the poorest people in the country and Ive never heard of someone so unsupported by the government being so strongly opposed to help I guess maybe because he has a cushy manager job and enjoys benefits with his salary I dunno I cant imagine he makes much more than the servers doedit Were not some of the poorest people in the country We do pretty well actually especially for a restaurant we arent overstaffed so we make a decent living I have personally been far far poorer than I am today but it still confuses me how he can sit so close to the workingpoor class and still think the way he does For a long time now Ive worked with a very small group of people At one time there were four of us Usually though its three and its usually different people Honestly I suck it up Im the most introverted of the groups and I feel like fightingarguing especially with people you see everyday is a waste of my time Im not good at it anywayDont think I mean I wont stand up for myself if attacked but I just dont add to the stupid conversations the drama the bullshit I just let me mind wander a lot Plus the one time I put my own opinion out there I got uhh not bitched at but I didnt win The girl who disagreed with me thank goodness has been long gone She was a big fan of bringing personal problems to workI did used to work and am going to soon be in an environment with a lot more people and I tend to just go with the flow there Im pretty chill but drama stresses me out I suppose thats why I tend to avoid getting involved If I have problems of my own I have outletsArguing with friends is different I think You can fight with them because you can always take a break and make up later

I just got it the other day and it is fantastic I dont know why I dont see more Demos using it Having multiple sticky traps is invaluable and you are usually looking at your stickies when you detonate them anyway Yet I am usually the only demo in game using it Is there some flaw I am unaware of here EDIT The main reason people seem to have is that the normal stick launcher is easily to use I think that was the point of the ScoRes it is more effective but more difficult to master The same can be said for the DH I play Solider almost equally as much as demo Solider on offense Demo on defense and I personally dont like the DH I find the normal RL much easier to use But a lot of people have just practised with the DH and are now quite good with it Once you learn how to use the ScoRes properly it is so much more effective then the normal sticky launcher In my opinion it is like the Ubersaw in that I will never go back to using the original Bonesaw

With the vanilla launcher you can detonate your stickies on the point when the announcer says someone is capping Since the update I quickly attained all of the weapons and began using the targe and eyelander I had some fun with it but one thing it did was make me realize just how effective a weapon the pipebomb launcher is I had almost never used it previously instead preferring to detonate stickies midair I suddenly found that I was getting many more kills with the pipebombs than with the sword From there I made the astounding logical leap of changing out the targe and sword for the bottle and sco res Since then Ive been doing great using a simple tactic Use the sco res to set up traps and retreat points just around and behind the front lines as youre running then go crazy with the pipebomb launcher The added delay to priming the stickies is something thats very hard to get used to A popular use for the reguler Launcher is to airdet the bombs over the enemies and the ScoRe isnt fit for that usePlus the visible stickies are terribly innacurate at lighting up when youre trying to det a group in a reflex situation only part of the group lights up and you have to stare at them for a decent time to fully prime the group 1 I find setting those traps and reloading to be tedious and boring2 Questionable success Im just not comfortable relying on the other team to fall into my traps even if they are likely routes3 Limited mobility I dont want to have to stick around just to make sure that the traps go off at the right momentMy conclusion the SR turns the versatile demoman class into a metaleating camper Am I the only one who has all demoman unlocks but only uses the Targe I like just using pipe bomb launcher and taking 50 damage from fire and blasts Plus I get random crits with the bottle and can charge to get out of bad situations I charge to health kits all the time My only problem with the Scottish Resistance is that I will unknowingly detonate stickies I would be standing on I guess when youre in close enough proximity it doesnt matter if you are looking at them or not this is probably to help sticky jumpingI still think its a great weapon to play for defense or supporting rather than just direct attacking However its better for an ubermedic to use him than a Demoman with a Targe N Charge I use it in payload maps and dustbowl Its awesome have to have a sticky trp right out of the door in a choke point and another on the point if someone survived the first sticky trap they aint going to survive the second I play Demo as a very mobile class and very rarely sit around camping a sticky trap As a result I frequently use my sticky launcher to airblast or just box people in the extra priming time on the ScoRe really hurts me in this context especially the airblasting partAnd when I do lay a sticky trap the regular sticky launcher is good nine times out of ten

Dear beeritIll be traveling to Houston on business next week Any localmicrobrewscraft beers specific to the Houston area that would be worth checking out

St Arnold is in Houston though they arent Houston only But they make some good stuff especially the Elissa IPA Avoid the Lawnmower

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I used to do this a young man I always pretended I was a space ship traveling at the speed of light through the galaxy The memory hit me right in the face as I was walking through the snow this morning I smiled and then missed my childhood

driving in the dark as a passenger leaves the mind free to wander a constant rush of snowflakes into the headlights and beyond

The episode was on just 20 minutes ago so I doubt there is a clip available yet but the background music to an elevator video about a dead employee was a cover of Never Gonna Give You Up by Portia de Rossi It was some female

are you in the future it just startedor am i trapped in a time vortex that would explain the raptors

For starters I didnt really know where to post this and Im still not sure if ratheism was the right choice but its worth a shotI am a newly converted atheist and I am having trouble wrapping my mind around the lack of afterlife I renounced religion based on logical fallacies that I found too glaring to ignore and the rejection of the afterlife naturally came along with the abandonment of religion So here is my hang up I can not fathom how my consciousness cant exist I realize that it may be essentially impossible for one to understand what the absence of all senses experiences thoughts emotions stimuli and the very existence self is like but I was hoping that someone out there could take a crack at it and then explain it to me If nothing else this could be interesting

Well you were dead for 14 billion years before you were born It wasnt so bad right Dont worry about it You know how you lose consciousness every night when you fall asleep Its kinda like that only forever gtI can not fathom how my consciousness cant existThis is because the only thing you will ever knowingly experience is being alive If you approach the question as how can I understand what its like to experience the inability to experience you know youre not going to get the answer you want Its like asking what it feels like to run while standing stillAt the level that it can be understood you probably understand it well enough though You can also look up certain mental illnesses and see what humans are like when certain aspects of our consciousness we take for granted disappear Clive Wearing who lost the ability to create memories or the split brain experiments where information that someone was once consciously aware of is only processed unconsciously I guess its possible to experience some of these things after all Lets see sleep with your head on your arm for one night and then bang it against the wall before it regains any feeling and uh close your eyes and plug your ears and nose while doing this Dont eat anything while youre doing this The sleep will provide you with a moment of no thoughts or sense of self When youre not dreaming Dont dream You know what not experiencing is Its that empty space in time you forget you exist for moments every night Maybe understanding what its like to be without your very sense of self just involves going to sleep and acting like an idiot for a few moments after you wake upgnight gt I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit Mark TwainIn other words for the vast majority of the history of all time your consciousness didnt exist Itll be just like that again One thing that comforts me I believe we affect many things through the course of our lives which we arent aware of Those subtle changes to reality which we create have a huge ripple effect over our reality long after we dieThinking about that and hearing someones testimony on how the 23rd Psalm brings comfort to people I wrote this yesterdayUpon my BIKE and with deep breath I rid myself of all complaint and desireI glide down along the grassy summer hillsidethe mountains stand upended in the lakes quiet reflectionI close my eyesAnd before me lies a map of the wilderness of all possible futuresLike a dragonfly I weavedown the ancient cathedral of the forest trailmy instinct guides me through paths unseendeep into the darkness of the forestsand you travel with meand comfort meIn the brightness of the kitchen table we all sit togetherfriends family and enemies alikeWe all raise a glass to our mysterious forestoutside in the moonlight the ocean glistensSurely peace and love will follow usas the forest hides its trailsand we will dwell in the darkness of the FORESTSforever You dont experience being dead because when youre dead you dont experienceYoure likely hung up thinking how will it feel to be dead but the fact of the matter is it wont feel like anything Its like asking what color the number 3 is its a nonsensical question Ive been thinking about this lately too Its really nothing to be alarmed at except that as humans were probably the only organisms that are capable of realizing our own mortality Im not saying a stray dog being dragged to the back room at the pound doesnt have an inkling of whats in store but for us the knowledge of our death is much more elaborateWell whats the difference between our brains and that of that stray dog and other animals Really its just that we have a temporal lobe that comes equipped with all sorts of tools that allow us to imagine be creative and everything else There are some other subtle differences for sure but basically were only selfaware and capable of critical thought simply because we have an extra handful of gray matter in our skulls Every day millions of animals die and just cease to exist Why should we be any different Why should the presence of some extra brain matter suddenly make us able to cheat death Why should it mean that there is a heaven and a hell or that were reincarnated or that there are such things as angels and demons and gods and fairies and so forth What is so significant about having this extra serving of brains that means we also have souls and will live forever Im not trying to comfort you as much as just remind you of the rules of the game If theres anything you should be hopeful for its knowing that you live in a time when its possible most people will live well past the average age of death late 70s It could be that most young people today will live well into their 80s or 90s and above with the advances in medical technology And who knows where things will be then It could be that in the near future death will be delayed almost indefinitely But remember that as we age and our bodies wear down and pain begins to overwhelm us death perhaps becomes preferable to us if even at the subconscious level It could be that your subconscious is what chooses death ultimately even if it seems like its against your will I was once in a bike accident where I blacked out for 510 minutes I imagine that death is like that Only you know forever To paraphrase Sam Harris You arent in Paris right now if you are please substitute New York when you die you will exist everywhere in the same way you currently exist in Paris or New YorkAs for nothingness I remember having a talk with someone once where he was saying that the Universe has to be infinite because nothingness is empty space and so if you flew to the edge of the Universe there would have to be somewhere to go I responded that our brains did not evolve to properly understand things such as infinity and true nothingness because there is no environmental incentive for them to Space is a volume that can contain matter and energy empty space is when that volume contains no matter or energy nothingness is not just the absence of matter and energy but also the absence of space WellIts a huge amount of overkillBut if you really want to get death on a truly gut level then you need to stop thinking of your mind as a single thing moving through time and start thinking in terms of observermoments that just existTo do this you would read this sequence on Less Wronghttplesswrongcomlwr9quantummechanicsandpersonalidentity until you get to Timeless IdentityhttplesswrongcomlwqxtimelessidentityLike I said huge overkill but if you want to understand how minds are made of parts on a gut level itll get the job doneOr you could just read this XKCDhttpxkcdcom659 Id imagine that the afterlife is very similar to the prelife Dying is most likely gonna suck considering your brain still works a few seconds after youre dead dont know how to make a link but Wikipediaguillotine and scroll down to living heads

I visited a distant relative in Denver recently and I know for sure that they are just about living okmortgage children with daycare 45 hour daily commute But inside their house they have rich items a new flat screen for Christmas new laptops and they shopped only at highend grocersMy question If you became rich tomorrow will you abandon your cheap grocerstore for high end ones Will it become a status issuePersonally I have shopped at the costliest supermarket and the cheapest supermarketWalmart Aldis and I have found that the quality is not so different that I have to shop high endWill you shop at a cheap grocer even after you become a millionairePS If you live in a proper city like New York this may not be possible but still edit What I mean to say is the biggest of the big cities like New York city may not have Walmarts

I dont know about the cheapest grocer cheap does not necessarily frugal but Id absolutely still be very frugal For me frugality is about wasting less and saving money is icing If I had a million dollars I wouldnt change a thing I would shop exactly the same I would live exactly the same I would save exactly the same I would FUCK IT WHORES COKE BOATS NOM NOM NOM NOM Groceries or not if I started earning a million a year I would live the same as I do now for about 10 years then just retire and see the world for oh say the rest of my life I wouldnt shop at Wholefoods but you wouldnt catch me dead in a WalMart WalMart is only cheap if you dont factor in externalities of course it took me a friggin year to memorize where all my stuff is at i have to breeze thru in 30 minutes so i can catch the return bus and i only go to the grocery once a month i have it down to a science and i dont think im quite ready to change that routine I couldnt possibly care less about status issues People who worry about what others think of their grocery shopping habits need to reevaluate their priorities However it would be refreshing to not have to worry about finding the best deals when I shop Im frugal out of necessity and it would be liberating to just be able to go to a store and buy whatever I want instead of whatever is on special Also theres something to be said for higherend grocery stores theyre typically cleaner have newer carts have a wider selection of specialty items and dont have mothers with three screeching children trailing themPS Its insulting to claim that places smaller than NYC arent proper A lot of great people live in a lot of great places that arent your idea of a proper city In all honesty if I made 1 million a year I wouldnt be grocery shopping period Id buy winebeer from the liquor store and then eat all my meals out at restaurants I realize youre all posting on the frugal subreddit but COME ON PEOPLE If I pulled down a million take home every year I wouldnt even do my own fucking grocery shoppingId have better things to do with my time than pick out the cheapest eggs at Sir Saves a Lot Mostly no because Im quite content with Kroger Signature but I would likely adopt a butcher to improve my meat options But as I think about it its probably equally important to just be able to say Got XX and XX from my butcher If I Had a million dollarsWe wouldnt have to eat Kraft DinnerBut we would eat Kraft Dinner Of course we would wed just eat moreAnd buy really expensive ketchup with itThats right all the fanciest Dijon Ketchup Mmmmmm Lets say I will be frugal compare to other people with the same revenue I wont waste time pinching a penny there and there and I would spend a lot of it traveling but I probably wont go all crazy buying sports cars ridiculously priced clothing and gold plated toilets NoWith 168 hours in a week expect to spend 70 hours 10 per day doing what most other people do sleeping showering Lets say I spend 50 hoursweek earning my shocking salary Lets say regular expenses and a 2 week vacation total 500000 per year together I can set whatever regular expenses make me happiestThat leaves 48 hours per week to enjoy 500000 per year over 50 weeks or 10000 per week or 208hourThere is no way that I can save more than 208hour the value of my time by shopping frugally It is far more economically advisable to hire someone to shop for me It would even be cost effective to pay someone 208hour kick back and read reddit if thats what I prefer to shopping The frugal answer is to value my free time and spend my money to get more of it One way is to pay someone else to get my stuff for me Another is to go to a high end grocer that caters to my tastes It may give me what I want faster or I may simply like spending my time in that environment better actually the only stuff you will probably find different from high end supermarkets to costcutting ones is in the produce dept and the delibakeryThe higher end supermarkets stock pristine fruitsveggies because wealthy people complain about stuff where in poorer neighborhoods people dontFor example take a krogerfred meyer from a rich side of town and everything looks better than a kroger from a poorer side of townI dont think id change where i shop as food is food In many cheap stores you trade time for moneyI will not stand in line twenty minutes to save 350 A million bucks a year Id probably have a standing order type list where theres a shitload of things that may not be missing from the storage pantry at any time Think WWIII is tomorrow and I have enough to live on comfortably for a year amountsMy butler or maid would make sure it keeps filled to capacity regardless of me using any and going to restaurants A rich mans time is too precious to be spent in supermarkets Although I guess in my case this would mean the liquor cabinet would be at least double the size of any kitchen cabinet I shop at both of them It isnt an apples to apples comparison though I dont care for the fresh produce or meat from the less expensive stores The quality isnt what Id likeFor produce and meat we mainly buy through a CSA ie directly from a farm For meat and produce that we dont buy through the CSA I go to the high end store When Im at the high end store I try to only buy things there that I can only get thereFor items that I can get anywhere eg canned goods toiletries etc I go to the less expensive stores There are two lines of thought with this strategy 1 we want to eat the most healthy food that we can Saving money buying cheap food is not a frugal decision The cost of consuming cheap unhealthy food will hit on the back end in medical bills 2 by keeping the shopping lists smaller we buy less things that we didnt plan for and dont need For a million a year Id probably be fabulously busy and not have time to be frugal any more Frugality is only worth it when your time is cheapOTOH if I won the lottery or some high profile lawsuit either of which is pretty much the american dream and never had to work again Id probably be frugal out of boredom Nope At that income level you ask yourself Why am I saving money Im financially secure I would be working on minimizing my stress and maximizing the time of me doing things I enjoy So unless you enjoy saving money some rich people do which is why theyre rich why do itPersonally Id probably wouldnt be shopping at the cheapest place Id be shopping at the closest place I hate dealing with traffic or the place I thought had the best service I might even just have everything delivered to my houseOn a side note a new flat screen new laptops and shopping at highend grocers doesnt necessarily mean theyre rich That might only be a 10k a year difference and they might just not be saving for retirement Im not gonna lie I would be at WF for every last item Price is the only thing thats barring me If you know how to shop they have some good priced stuff 365 brand but if I could I would Why Because many of the items are better quality cheese meat especially and because the service and atmosphere are superior Right now I should probably shop at WalMart but I dont because I cant stand going there I want to kill myself after I go there

a stone is dropped into a well and its echo is heard 356 seconds later how deep is the well assuming that sound travels at a constant 340 msI dont know how to combine the free fall with linear motion to find time can you please help

d deptht time to reach bottom in free falld 12 98 t2alsod 340 356 t Sound travels back for total time minus time it took the rock to reach bottomCombine two equations solve the quadraticedit Think before you reply please Dont write something in haste and then delete it because you realize that you dont make any sense Distance fallenDistance sound traveled where tamount of time sound traveled through the well1298356t2340tThis implies that t0166011Thus the well is 3400166011m or 56444 meters you must also assume 98ms2 acceleration due to gravity first the stone has to hit the bottom of the well The problem is unsolvable if you dont know this If you could hear it instantly youd hear it after t 356 x 340 ms seconds where x is the distance Im just substracting the time spent for the sound to travelYou have a time taken and constant acceleration Solve for distance write an equation relating fall time and distance Write an equation relating return time and distance using the same distance variable The two times add to 356 seconds Replace the time variables with their distance equivalents Rearrange into a quadratic solve for distance Sub back into original equations to checklet fall time be f let echo return time be rlet depth be dd 12 g f2 so f sqrt2dgr d340but r f 356 secondshence sqrt2d981 d340 356 now solve for d take the second term to RHS square both sides solve lose the additional solution you introduced by squaring

Edit Comcast just called to make things righthttpwwwredditcomrredditcomcommentsau1f6comcastrenegedontheirwordthreetimescalledc0jelcwOriginal postAt the end of November I moved from one place to another I had been using Comcast as my cable TV and Internet provider I called them before the move to ask how to have service transferred They said all I had to do was Make sure the house was already wired for cable it was Move my cable box and cable modem over myself Hooked everything up myself Pay them a 25 installation chargeI was surprised and annoyed that I had to pay this charge given that the house was already wired for cable and I was the one doing all the work So I called DirecTV got an offer from them that included free installation and went back to Comcast to negotiate In order to keep me as a customer at the new location they said they would waive the installation charge Promise 1 as long as I moved all the equipment and the house really did turn out to be prewired technicians would be showing up on the day service was put into my name to take some readings and as long as that was all that was necessary there was to be no chargeThe day the technicians showed up all they did was unplug the cable from the back of the TV plug it into a little handheld device take some readings and borrow my laptop to visit a diagnostic web server on the cable modem Everything was working great so they didnt need to do anything They were literally out the door less than ten minutes after they had arrived On the way out I asked Did anything happen that Ill be charged for They said that as technicians they couldnt make any official statements on the matter but that the house was indeed prewired and the equipment already set up and so they didnt think that there would be any installation charge Promise 2The next month I checked my bill online and there was a 25 installation charge I called them up to ask WTF and they said that there is always an installation charge whenever technicians visit a customer I flipped out and told them about all of the above and at the end of the call they said that they would credit me for the 25 installation fee Promise 3 I paid the amount due on the bill less 25Yesterday I got a voicemail from Comcast saying that my account was past due and that service would be turned off on February 1 unless I paid it Before calling them back I logged into my account The recent bill was missing On the dropdown list of past statements to view it said December current When I went to view it it was just a 0balance Your account is now closed statement from my old addressSo I called them up and they said that I must be doing something wrong on their web page They walked me through the process from the login screen to the Account Information page to the past statements dropdown list and everything and again all I was getting was the 0 balance statement nothing saying I was past due At this point the first customer service rep hung up on me Now I have an iPhone so I know what a dropped call looks like but this wasnt one of those Oops ATampT dropped your call screens it was one of the The other guys hung up onesI called back and over the course of a 93minute call the agent Asked me for my password so she could log in and see for herself that the bill wasnt viewable online Said she couldnt fax or email me the statement since that wouldnt be secure Offered to mail me a physical copy but said that it might take until February 4 to arrive Said that the computer was going to turn off my service February 2 and there was no way to override it and get an extension Repeatedly tried to convince me to just pay it sight unseenShe eventually agreed that it would be okay for her to read me the statement over the phone On it were a 25 cable modem installation fee a 25 credit for that installation and a second 2599 video installation fee So when they had said a month prior that they were refunding my 25 installation fee they just added a second 26 fee for a slightly different installation chargeAt this point I asked for the cancellations department because the situation was getting ridiculous and there have been times in the past when that department was able to do things that the computer said was impossible The cancellations person cut me off as soon as I started talking and said that I had signed a piece of paper when the technicians showed up agreeing to pay whatever installation charges were necessary He said that the agents notes from previous calls only indicated that the 25 cable modem installation fee was being waived and said nothing about waiving the 2599 video installation fee that nobody had ever told me about I pointed out that the technicians had only been there for ten minutes and didnt actually do any video installation but he said that the handheld machine they use logs their times in and out and that it indicated they were there for over an hour and a half I told him I remembered looking at my watch and seeing that they were gone in ten minutes and he said that it was impossible because their device never liesSo in summary They three times promised to waive the installation fee but charged one anyway They admit that their website wont let me see my bill and that it takes them up to ten days to send me a paper copy They cant or wont prevent the computer from turning off my service unless I pay this bill that theyre unable to show me Their technicians made an inaccurate report concerning how long they were at my house on the day of installation Their cancellations rep called me a liartldr Im having DSL installed on Wednesday As for video are Dish Networks or DirecTV any good

That sucks Ive heard so many Comcast horror stories DirecTV was good to me when I had it Bit pricey but it was always easy to adjust service and even cancellation was easy and pain free when I decided I didnt need it any more On the advice of several redditors I sent a link to this to Comcast earlier todayAnd just now I got a call from Eva from Comcast She said that after a review of my account they will credit us for the second installation charge I said that as soon as the new bill arrives and I can review it I will pay the amount due for actual services ie the total minus her 2599 credit She said that in that case she will put a promisetopay on my account which will prevent service from being turned off So it turns out that the computer has a manual override after allThanks Internet And reddit in particularLessons learned If a rep tells you that theres no way to avoid a service cutoff the magic thing to ask for is a Promise To Pay flag on your account Search Consumerist for executive support email addresses and phone numbers The computer cant be overridden is never a true statement Ok ive offered this before to another dissatisfied comcast customer and ill do it again for you I walk by their building in Philadelphia every day on my way to school I will kick the building for you tomorrowAlso Im assuming the customer service department is on thishttpwwwredditcomrpicscommentsasnqkwhatisthisevilblueglowcomingfromthe floor the one with the concentrated blue glow of evil If I ever have Comcast issues I just twitter them and within a few minutes ComcastBonnie swoops in and saves the day or one of the other operators Strange how the offices and the phone service dont work as well as twitterTry it sometime its amazing Complain on twitter and see what happens Email us the account information contact number and a link to this page and we will look into this for you and work to make it rightFrank EliasonComcastWeCanHelpcablecomcastcom Comcast did very similar stuff with us when we moved across town They were going to charge us 90 to just have the service turned on at the new location Everything was wired and we would setup We thought that was outrageous so asked for other options The rep told us If you sign up for triple play you can only pay 30 and then just cancel under the 30 day money back guarantee Sweet deal Or so we thoughtWe call up to cancel and they inform us that our previously 90 service will be 140 if we revert back WHY we exclaim Because signing up for triple play invalidated your previous contract Incredible their own suggestion fucked us Thanks comcastLong story short we called up the executive support and complained and got our old contract back w 6 months on it I think were heading to Direct TV sooner than later I switched from Comcast to Dish Network and have been very pleased Ive been with Dish for several years now I upgraded to Dish HD a year ago and I think their HD feeds look fantastic Post it on COMCAST SUCKS and you will get a response from the Company So far as I know they have no love for REDDIT This is a company that needs to NOT exist anymoreOf course because of the recent supreme court ruling making a company not exist anymore is probably legally considered murder now

Dear sirI am sorry to have offended you While I am unsure as to what it is that I have done to be the recipient of your tireless and never ending scorn I hereby publicly state that I relent you win UncleYour efforts have been most effective I will admit You have cost me a cumulative total of possibly tens of hours of my life not to mention tens of gallons of gas as I sit patiently yet irritated at each and every traffic signal which you had turn yellow at the last possible moment forcing me to brake and stop lesthttpwwwredditcomrfunnycommentsasirwanopenapologytotheguywhooperatesallthec0j5typ I run the intersection Somehow you have managed to locate me no matter where in town I happen to be driving to Our town is not small and there are hundreds of traffic signals you must attend to so your ability to single me out every day at every intersection is quite impressive Even if I am operating an unfamiliar vehicle you have been able to thwart my attempts to cross town in a timely and expedient manner No doubt you have taken great pleasure as I have been late to meetings late to work and late to pretty much everything I had hoped that by leaving my domicile earlier I could account for the lost time my fellow motorists do not have to endure but you are handy with the train schedule as well Remember the one time you allowed me to hit all green lights just in time for the railroad crossing to descend to allow passage of a train no doubt carrying a complete life size replica of the Great Wall Of China Such is your deviousness sir and I do admire it well for such skill and prowess should never be underestimated or taken for granted by anyoneHowever I feel that the time has come to call a truce you and I I do not ask for friendship but only a truce which affords me fair and expedient passage through our fair city So many of my fellow citizens are given such luxuries that surehttpwwwredditcomrfunnycommentsasirwanopenapologytotheguywhooperatesallthec0j6eo2ly you can find it in your heart to grace me with this same kindnessI harbor no ill will towards you for you are too powerful and must be well aware of even my innermost thoughts and secrets Your powers know no bounds of time space or reason So traffic signal man I hereby and formally apologize for whatever transgression I have slighted you with at some past time I wish to move on with my life and through my town and put this all behind me Thank you for your timeturtlestackPS Youre a bastard

I like traffic lights I like traffic lightsI like traffic lights No matter where theyve beenI like traffic lights I like traffic lightsI like traffic lights But only when theyre greenHe likes traffic lights He likes traffic lightsHe likes traffic lights No matter where theyve beenHe likes traffic lights He likes traffic lightsHe likes traffic lights But only when theyre greenI like traffic lights I like traffic lightsI like traffic lights That is what I saidI like traffic lights I like traffic lightsI like traffic lights But not when they are redHe likes traffic lights He likes traffic lightsHe likes traffic lights That is what he saidHe likes traffic lights He likes traffic lightsHe likes traffic lights But not when they are redI like traffic lights I like traffic lightsI like traffic lights Although my names not BamberI like traffic lights oh God I used to take the approach that if I just ignored traffic lights they would go away In hindsight that was a mistake A hitchhiker was walking along a road just outside of town looking for a ride After a while a pickup truck slowed down and the driver hollered out Where ya going Oh just need to get across town Well hop on in The truck sped offThey made idle chitchat as they entered the town until they came to the first traffic light It had been red for a long time but the driver just smilled and sped up right through the intersection The hitchhiker nearly jumped out of his seat What the heck are you doing That light was red We could have been killed Oh dont worry about that replied the driver I never obey red lights I just drive on through Hesitantly the hitchiker asked Isnt that dangerous How are you still alive No no no said the driver its fine If you drive fast enough youll always make it through Ive never had a single wreckBy this time theyre nearing the center of the town and they happen upon a green light The driver slams on his brakes skidding to a halt just before reaching the intersection What did you do that for the hitchiker exclaims Well said the driver nonchalantly Ive got a brother who drives just like I do and he might be coming the other way

sorry reddit but youre not exactly known for your tolerance or willingness to let conservatives have any kind of opinion herei consider myself a middle of the roader with some liberal viewpoints like prochoice and environmental reform but also some conservative viewpoints like smaller government and security profiling for middle eastern muslims this discussion is Not about that so please dont try to make it about it but when it comes to my conservative viewpoints many times i wont even bother bc i know its just going to end up in a wave of downvotes simple bc people dont like my opinionis that really what reddit is supposed to be about i thought we were better than that unless yall are happy with a 1sided liberal community where all conservatives have been driven out and by the way being conservative doesnt make me bill oreilly or george bush just like being liberal doesnt make you kucinich or pelosi

I would encourage you to keep posting your locally unpopular positions For one trying to make sure people are aware of both sides of an argument will help them to make betterinformed decisions You are also advocating for your side and if someone finds your reasoning sound you may grow support for itThe groupthink mentality that minority opinionsbeliefs struggle against on reddit is already wellknown by those contributing to the problem I just hope people like you will continue posting your thoughts despite the downvotes I used to post my actual opinions on the internet The problem is that most people arent willing to listen to anything other than what they already think The few that are are drowned out by the prejudiced So whats the pointLets say you believe in God or something You dont do it because your parents taught you to theyre atheist You think you have evidence that God exists not beliefwithoutproof style faithDo you think anyone wants to talk about your socalled evidence Of course not Since there are so many actual religious nutjobs out there its much easier to assume you are one of them and mock you And if there are people inclined to discuss it they will simply dispute your evidence without really considering it Thats sort of understandable but when you get 20 thats dumb because replies and theres only one of you it gets kinda hardBecause the group doesnt care about discourse Theyre here for entertainment Thinking is hard so most people dont do itIts simply not the right place for convincing people of different viewpoints Its a place for arguing Not making argumentsYeah it would help if more minorityview people spoke up to remind the hive mind that there actually are people who dont agree with the popular dogma that all smart people agree on But its too much effort for no immediate reward so people dont bother I urge you to post whatever opinion youve got I usually go into the comments knowing what reddit is going to think on the subject Im looking for the comment that surprises me

This comes to mind is because I was watching a Bill Hicks DVD earlier and I was thinking of his posthumous influence and how relevant he continues to be

Van Goh was largely ignored during his lifetime He produced all of his work something like 900 paintings over a ten year period before developing a mental illness and later committing suicide

Lets face it theres way more interesting articles photos videos on the internet than anything you will find in a magazine Most magazines publish their articles online these days anyway So is there anything wrong with taking your laptop to the bathroom when nature calls and you know its going to be a long call

I prefer to go without any visual aids and ponder the days events Its one of the few moments in my day when I have peace of mind Heh All the time In fact I saw a similar post a few weeks back and someone had quite cleverly pointed out to me and probably several othersSpell laptop backwards

I went into the movie with mediumhigh expectations and about halfway through I was feeling really good about it Then comes the ending REALLY I mean REALLY

How can you spend the entire movie having the main character LOOK at things and SEE things and RECOGNIZE the cats owner in the bar only to tell us late that he is fucking BLIND

tldr What towertarget would you take out of a flash TD game and what new towertarget would you want to include Any ideas for a great game that havent been triedWhat would you add on to a simple thing like a flash tower defense game to pack it with awesomeness Whats wrong with them as they are Do you like the course to be almost impossible or are you more satisfied setting up your towers and watching them smoke out the targetsThese are the more common features to a flash TD game Standard gun tower cheap easy to upgrade and dangerous only in numbers Freezing holds the target still for a few seconds while towers in range attack it Impeding slows target definitely or indefinitely Napalm progressivly damages target over time as the target moves along Longrange Super slow reload long range heavy damage Splash multitargetlow damage and slow pace Missile launcher single targethigh damage and slow pace Elemental earthairfirewater example air towers dont hit ground units and ground towers dont hit air units Teleport returns the target to the start for the towers to attack a second time Enhancer increases local towers damage rate or range but does not directly attack targets Combiner a rare device but marries to upgraded towers to make a hybrid superweapon can be found in Onslaught 2 Onetime use trap useful but maybe not worth using often Superweapon basically the most expensive weapon in the game that you played to finally getWhich of these would you do without and what would you perhaps introduce to the game to make it better for youI would like to try a weapon I invented like Zombifier turns targets against one another pits two or more targets in a fight to the death if the target wins it continues along if the zombie wins it seeks out a new target or changes backI really hate the elemental components to any TD game I prefer it when a weapon hits all targets not just specific kinds The sudden management takes the fun out of the game

A lot of TD games are so imbalanced and poorly planned that you can get through them by just by stacking one type of tower and a lot of enhancersI like the chain tower type thing where you can link up towers to improve their ability BubbleTank Defender thingy has a similar one where you put a 2x2 grid of upgraded towers and merge them into one huge oneIf you are asking this because you are making one I will tell you right now forget all the slick design crap and focus on the annoying crap that 9 out of 10 TD games fuck up 1 No variable speed setting2 Cant turn off musiceffects3 No quick way to restart a level4 No way to save starting layouts5 Annoying screen transitions6 Fluff that cant be skipped or bypassedThats what pops into my head now How about a tower that blares Nickelback music draining the life and motivation out of passing targets gtCombiner a rare device but marries to upgraded towers to make a hybrid superweapon can be found in Onslaught 2Onslaught is much cooler than this All towers can be combined to make comboshttponslaughtplayrcoukaboutcomboshtml It is by far the best one I have played I like having the red button that makes each additional wave come Makes the game fun when i feel omnipotent You should probably think of a theme for your game first That way you can base all of your towers on that ideaIf I ever had the skillspatience to make a TD Id probably make some wacky colorbased one that wouldnt look out of place on Rainbow Road Youd be given a preset track from the spawnpoint to the defensepoint and you would place your turrets around that The targets would be black blobs that slowly shrink into nothingness as they accumulate damage I would make the turret system somewhat different Turrets once placed cant aim in a different direction except by moving the turret which would be possible and cost a small amount of points Turrets are upgradeable but not entirely in the sense of getting faster or more damaging You can alter a turrets speed damage and distance on the fly but on a limited balanced scale If you want to maximize the distance that your turret covers your turret will have to be slightly slower and weaker This stat alteration would be minor like maybe a fifth or a tenth of a towers capabilities In addition some turrets have by default more stats than others in exchange for being able to hit a wider area different attack shape etcTurret types would be as follows Bullet Standard tower type Low damage decent distance good speed Upgrades to more of a shotguntype weapon Shell Decent damage decent distance good speed Upgrades to do splash damage Needle Low damage decent distance high speed Upgrades to pierce through multiple targets Boomerang low damage high distance low speed Automatically follows closest target Upgrades to multiple boomerangs Fan No damage decent distance constant speed Blows targets back slightly slowing them down Upgrades to do small amount of damage Caltrops Onetime use weapon slightly damages a certain amount of troops before disappearing Recommend using multiple for best effect Land mine Onetime use weapon heavily damages a small area upon being triggered Radar Tower Enhances towers around it Buzz Tower Has a chance of temporarily stunning an enemy in its path Upgrades to do a small amount of damage to each enemy in its path LOIC Low Orbit Ion Cannon Incredibly slow can only target a single spot on the map which an be changed at the end of each round but it fires for a long amount of time and instantly kills whatever crosses its path Trap Layer A mercenary of sorts who runs around the track on his own randomly laying down Caltrops and Land Mines which come out of your wallet at a heavily discounted price 14th You can only have one at a time and they disappear if when you run out of money Recommended for newer players or hard levels Pulse Tower A tower that emits a frequency around it that attacks all enemies in its range at once Upgrades can either boost the speed damage or distance Available early gameIll think of more if I can I want a tower defense game where theres lots of tower types 20 but you can only bring 6 in with you at the start of a level Would add a lot of replayability I think Tower defense games are just optimization puzzles so give them more ways to optimize their gameplay

gtHitchens Karl Marxs best writing is on America He said it was the great new country for workers equality There was free land for the peasants It was republican not monarchical and it was antiimperialist If you look at Henry Adams memoirs when his father was at the embassy in London the Times of London was in favor of the Confederacy Gladstone helped the Confederacy build a navy Karl Marx meanwhile said Lincoln is our man The United States is our future Thats not what they teach you in school about Marxhttpwwwmichaeltottencom201001aninterviewwithchristopherhitchenspartiiphp

Another fun fact Marx barely wrote half the 500 articles he submitted to The New York Daily Tribune They were mostly ghostwritten by Engels That was because at the time Russia was worse than a fascist state Why do you think communism was such a hit Because Russians were mostly slaves to landlords and the average Russian was treated very poorly and there was no opportunity Vs the United States which provided much more opportunity esp regarding land redistribution otherwise known as homesteading Despite the US being capitalist the US has seen its fair share of land redistribution Which was great provided you werent a native americanMarx also predicted the negative effects of globalization when few considered such effects Marx also said that his proposed revolution never had to be violent he was an ardent advocate for democracy and expanding democracy he was an active supporter of giving women the vote long before it was fashionable to do so and he opposed all attempts to deny political rights including the right to vote to minority groups including Jewish people again before it was fashionable to oppose such thingsThe funny thing is that most people never hear about any of these things and the caricature that is built up of him is so ridiculous that one wonders if the majority of professors have ever even read a small portion of Marxs work

i feel like ive hit a dead end and need a kick start i love all kinds of movies and i really want to see something that will move me blow my mind feel something i never thought possible laugh my ass off scare the shit out of me puzzle me or anything else give me your best favorite must see or anything else you would recommend help a guy find a great film to watchalso if you have a really great murder mysterythriller that takes you for a ride make sure you post it Thank you guysedit here some movies that i lovetodo sobre me madre almost every david lynch filmi heart huckabeesoldboyall about lily chou chouirreversibleSynecdoche New Yorkthe life aquatic PalindromesLIE

Once Upon a Time in America Amarcord BlowUp Midnight Run The Magnificent SevenEDIT In the Loop which just came out last year and had me laughing the whole 100 minutes Schindlers List One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Memento Ghost World Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Capote Juno Spirited AwayIn approximately that orderIn before people yelling at me for liking Juno or something like thatYeah these are pretty mainstream except Ghost World but if you havent seen them then what are you waiting for

im looking for a action movie i can only remember the end two guys hanging handcuffed from a high building and water falls down from a big hole in that building what is the title

Showtimehttpwwwimdbcomtitlett0284490 Hehey I think I even found an image of the scene itselfhttpimg2timeincnetewdynamicimgs020207152528showtimeljpg

I want to start a project that will take me most of 2010 to complete in my free time Please can you help me think of somethingIm a software engineer so preferably not something thats going to add significant hours to my time in front of a computerAbout 10 years ago I used to be very into playing music and Im fairly good at playing keyboard guitar and bassI live in a flat so it cant be something that requires a garden or garage or a lot of space for that matterPreferably something that I can invest time in as and when I have it not something that will regularly demand my timeIm prepared to invest some money into the project but not a lot maybe around 50100 a month or the equivalent lump sum would be fineMost importantly Id like it to be something that produces something tangible upon completion Something I can show people and be proud of Rather than a goal such as learn X songs on piano or become better at or read X booksThanks for your help reddit

Try home brewing Two years and I still have no regrets And my beer is fantastic my friends love coming over to see whats new You seem to be in the UK so Im not sure if laws costs availability of equipment are different but here in the US its easy everything can be mailordered startup costs are around 100 and each kit costs maybe 3050 Track the path of the sun across one of your walls and build a device that only gets illuminated by the sun on one day of the year like newgrangehttpenwikipediaorgwikiNewgrange learn another language something funky like Japanese Save up your money and take a trip there in December for xmas your goal to speak only Japanese while there I am considering doing this by myself make cup of teaThe catch is that you can not buy anything you can make yourself You must make your own teapot and cup grow tea or herbs make nice box for them own teabags or filter etc Also you may not rush out anything The goal is that everything looks great What an awesome advertising opportunityI am a mod of the 2010 Reddit Health ProjecthttpwwwredditcomrHealthProject If I may Id like to persuade you to invest your time towards your physical mental and social wellbeinghttpwwwwhointaboutdefinitionenprinthtmlThe basic idea of the project is to promote healthy living by participation in challenges discussions and other related activities Our priority is to endorse a basic diet and exercise model motivate redditors and give out good information that would encourage healthy lifestylesAnd coincidentially it is an annual project At the end of the year we will monitor the before and after effects of the project on lifestyles medical conditions etcThe idea of the subreddit was actually created right here on AskReddithttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsajzhgredditwouldyoubeinterestedinafitnessFeel free to ask questions

The sperm donor real father is a real winner to say the least He is out of the picture for good I have been in my sons life since before he was two He is making a lot of family connections lately He understands that my prewifes father is mommys daddy He also realizes that my mother is buddys mommy He calls me buddy It seems like the little guy started to ask my girl on a few different occasions but his attention was grabbed by something else luckily When the question approaches how do I deal with it The closest he has come to actually asking is who is buddy I would be forever grateful if someone who has been through this could help us with a proper answer that will not negatively affect him EDIT 0 to tears in 22 seconds This is why I love you guys EDIT No trolls You have effectively given me amazing advice and renewed my faith in Internet humanity Thank you EDIT 2 This has been a very emotional day and thread I saw virtually no negative responses and this just reinforces the fact that Reddit can be used for some amazing purposes I now know exactly what I will say when the time is right and I want to thank you all for your relevant heartfelt and thoughtful responses I love you guys I wasnt expecting so many responses and I appreciate every single one I hope to return the favor to you someday If any of you need anything please PM me I dont care what it is EDIT 3 20 downvotes on this I am sorry

Yo you answered your own question dudegt I have been in my sons life since before he was two I think you should just be open amp honest if the question arises and not make a big deal about it Its kind of like if someone is adopted and they say Ive just always known If the child says Buddy are you my daddy you tell him I have not always been your daddy but now I am amp will be for the rest of your life that is of course if you plan on being in his life forever Short sweet amp simple Father Dad You Dad Dad earnedFather only a titleYou awesomeCongratulations and may you have a long happy relationship with your son Youve earn the title of Dad Havent been through this but if youre sure you intend to stay with his mother for good and you will take on the role of father for the rest of this childs life you could say Tim is your father but someone else helped Mommy bring you into the world You dont know that person but you are so special that as soon as Tim met you he knew he wanted to be your father and take good care of you forever My first instinct would be to say yes If youre going to be this kids primary male caregiverauthority figure then that makes you daddy Questions about biology can be answered later when they come up but at such a young age you dont want him doubting or confused about whether or not he has a daddy like all his friends have I understand the impulse not to lie but I think his feelings of security and familial bond are more important right now than totheletter truthFor the record Im in a similar situation but it gets really complicated when the sperm donor remains in the picture I envy that you get to assume the moniker of daddy without jeopardizing your prewifes legal standing with respect to a sharedcustody situation Ill never be daddy just forever Aaron All Im saying is there is no reason to shy away from this Take the name and wear it with pride My stepfather and I went through this kinda thing though I was 6 at the time When he started dating my mom I asked if he was going to be my new dad my real father was still in my life on weekendsHe took me aside and said that my real father will always be my dad and that hes not trying to take anything away but that he wants to be like a father to me We didnt need a label I still call him by his first name but hes my dadtldr Dont worry about labels You know I have a deadbeat dad and sometimes I wish my parents would have just let me think he was my dad or at least made it a point that he was more my dad than my real father To this day I still have to see him at family functions and it kind of hurts knowing that he is ok with our situation I dont know what I would have done without my stepdad and I owe everything I am today to him How old is he nowI lost my dad at a young age and for all practical matters my stepdad was my dad Just not my biological dad Tell him the truth Never lie Dont get complicated explain just enough to satisfy him but dont lie In the words of Bob Marley Tell the children the truth Always It should be up to the child to call you what he is comfortable with im in the same boat sort of im pregnant right now and have to explain this to my son someday i dont resent my sons father for leaving because he didnt want to be a dad etc but i sure do dread the moment when he asks about him all that matters is that he is very loved right now by a very good male role modeland like a lot of people have said already it takes more than sperm to be a dad a helluva lot more good luck I have two stepsons 12 and 7 While the older one calls me by name he still refers to me as his Dad when he talks to other people The younger one calls me Daddy The fathers are out of the picture essentially You are the Dad Give yourself a pat on the back Dadedited for grammar My little cousin grew up in the this same situation Her stepdad came into the picture while my cousin was still pregnant with her She is now 14 When she started asking questions he told herI didnt make you but Im your dad and your my daughter and thats itThey are pretty open about who her biofather is but to her he is her only dad My situation was close to yours however when I married my wife we gave our daughter the choice of what she wanted to call me she was 2 when we met and 4 when we got married she decided Dad was best At one point we will cross the bridge in which she will realize I am not her biological and then as many said I plan on being honest But I also intend to ask her what she thinks a dad is Let her predefine what she thinks it is and go from there Sorry to hop on the tears train but wow after reading all of your replies I sorta wish I had a Dad like that when I was a kid you seem to really care about him and about doing the right thing Sorry if that sounds creepy Being the only kid in a singleparent family growing up whatever step father that was in the picture at the time sure as hell wasnt any kind of Dad they didnt want to make the choice to be a Dad to me just a step father That sucked especially after noticing later on many of my friends didnt have to worry about that problem if you know what I meanMy point is I cant speak for your son but I can speak as somebody who has lived the alternative and boy I wish Id had somebody I couldve called Dad when I was a kid Its sort of strange to sit back and think Ive never been able to just casually say Oh hey Dad whats up to anybody So if you can give him that opportunity A parent is such a big difference and making the choice to be active in his life as a Dad is tooootally going to change everything He eventually will tell you that himself one day Im sure of it My parents never married each other but they each got married before I can remember So my entire life I had four parentsIt was literally never a problem My memory is terrible I really cant remember much before age 7 or so but since I dont recall any terrible moment of betrayal or confusion I assume they gave me ageappropriate but honest answersBe honest and caring with your son Right now hes too young to need much information As he gets older and asks questions answer them Answer them with only facts though please try to keep your personal opinions about his biological father or his mothers personal opinions to yourself You truly never know what will happen in the future and your son deserves to make up his own mind about his biological father you refer to him as your son so why does he call you buddy rather than daddy do you plan on sticking aroundi have a stepson and a biological daughter they both call me daddy my stepson knows he has a different father but he shrugs that off doesnt really seem to have an interest hes 5 now im still dad him his father was never in his life he entered my life shortly before turning 2as far as how to deal with it in my case he was almost 5 when my wife and i told him he basically just said ok and weve gone on with our lives since i think the issue could surface in the future but it hasnt benn any problem at present I have mild cerebral palsy My biological father left my mum when I was about 4 years old shortly after my brother who also has cerebral palsy due to negligence on the part of the hospital was born He left partly because he couldnt handle having two disabled children among other things I was adopted when I was 12 or so My stepfather is the man I think of as my dad He has always been there for my Mum and while things have been difficult sometimes as I grew older I began to understand and relate more to his experiences I owe that man everything I have today and I will always be grateful for the sacrifices he made and sorry for all the bullshit I put him throughI have not seen my biological father since I was 8 We used to do stuff on weekends but one day he just completely broke off contact One of the conditions of my adoption was that he wouldnt have to pay any child support and his underhanded attempts at getting in touch with my younger brother and myself before he was supposed to age 18 im 22 now didnt do anything to help my opinion of him as a person Im not even sure I want to meet him againWith regard to your question my advice to you as the son is to be honest with yours Theres no need to tell your son all of the gory details this can wait until hes a bit older but you absolutely must not hide the reality of the situation from him Honesty will help to build trust and mutual respect as well as allowing you to support him as he begins asking more questions instead of him finding out on his own and then not trusting you as a result There is nothing worse as a child than not knowing who to trust Even to this day I wonder if I can trust what my parents mum and stepdad say because I cant help but wonder if they have their own agendas Im sure things would be worse if the facts had been hidden from meSorry for the ramble but I hope my little anecdote helpsedit bad syntax There is nothing you can say to him that is not going negatively affect him Dont take that the wrong way He will be fine Just be a dad and tell him the truthI have a step father who adopted my sister and me We have his last name He wasis a wonderful father I still had a period where I hated him and my mom We had the familiar blowout your not my real father It is all about growing up Even if you were his real father this would probably happenThe real question you need to ask yourself is Do I want him to call me dad That is the issue that will likely cause a problem After a period of time of calling my dad Mark My mom thought it would be better if we referred to him as dad That was a tough transition Now that I am 32 and look back I can see why it was important for him and my mom to have this At little league games calling your dad by his first name is a bit weird He is my dad He pays the bills keeps me safe and helps me through life He did not conceive me but he did everything else Fatherhood isnt always a biological thing its what you do in his life that counts I would just be upfront with him about it it would create a whole new problem by not getting it out in the open now Hell be a teenager and find out your not his bio dad My biological dad was a douche who left us when I was 8 My real dad married my mom and adopted my brothers and I when I was 12 Well I cant really speak from experience on the parental front I am neither a stepchild or a stepparent What I can tell you is that my parents were not close to their family and had to move thousands of miles away right before I was born My parents built an incredible network of friends who were my extended family growing up but I never spent much time with my real relatives and dont have a lot in common with them My relatives are my blood they are people I wouldnt have gotten to know otherwise but are kinda nice to talk to on the phone sometimes I hope theyll stop in to see me if theyre in town but we wont have much to say The incredible group of people who raised me are my TRIBE They are my people and I am the product of their love and their actions It is not an extraordinary thing to have genetic material in common with another person It doesnt bring you closer together or create a relationship Love is stronger than blood The people who shape us who raise us and who give us the freedom to be ourselves are our family You may also be interested in reading a book called The Kid by Dan Savage Dont know if youve heard of him but he is the guy who writes Savage Love the sexlove advice column He and his male partner adopted their son through open adoption meaning that the sons mother is still in their lives Needless to say he has had some challenging conversations with his son and he discusses them beautifully I think you might enjoy it If you raise him with love then he has the right to call you father and you to call him son My dads biological father divorced my grandmother right after his birth and allowed any man that married her to have the child He was adopted by the man my dad misses most in the world Now he didnt figure out that he was adopted by this man until after he died which was around 11 years old Dad loved him even more when he found this out To find out that they treated you with love not caring about blood is a wonderous thing to feel Hell feel that some day if you let him call you daddy My brother just married his childs mother who had another daughter a year older than theirs Its always been clear that my brother is her dad regardless of whose DNA it was My brothers kid is being raised by my exsisterinlaw and her husband and I can say that my brother is NOT my nephews dad Hes not even doing a good enough job to be called third cousin twice removed Anyone can be the biological father it takes caring to be dad Dad is a title earned not inherited You are dad

definitely not the first time ive had them but id forgotten just how sinister they are basically pure fat but so delicious

I definitely inserted a Lemon after Good god and read it in Alec Baldwins voiceI watch too much 30 Rock I think the most appealing factor for them is that they deliver Just being out and getting a cookie I dont find them to be so amazing but the fact that someone will bring them to you at work makes it

In other languages people say all sorts of stuff that has nothing to do with God or blessings In Czech for instance they say Nazdar sort of like cheers and Je to pravda It is true but I want an Englishlanguage term with no religious connotation Lets see what we can come up withEDIT English people Gesundheit is German salute is Italian salut and a vos souhaits are French sa zdarowie is Polish We need an original English expression

Run around in front of the person scouring the ground and yelling Your soul Your soul Pretend to find it scoop it up and shove your hands into the persons nostrils After making a big show of shoving every last bit of soul back into the persons nose tell them they owe you and to never forget what youve done for them You need to raise both hands above your head crazy preacher style and shoutNomsha DomolaWhen they ask say it means Let the demons in and explain that in your religion you believe when someone sneezes their soul actually shakes loose and in that instance their bodies can be possessed SalutePronounced with an Italian accent SAHloootMy family isnt a good representation of Italians must of the cultural traits that remain are butchered beyond recognitionif real Italians dont do this Id be curious to learn the proper wayEdit Just read that you want Englishlanguage sorry Nice catch if sneezing into their hand or Spray the other way or Get any on you although I usually say that after someone burps I sing Bless you my son for you have sneeeeeeeeeeeezed in a Gregorian Monk styleeeOcassionally anyway You COULD just change your own viewpoint on this too You are saying bless you so essentially YOU are giving your OWN good blessings on the person who sneezed Since you dont believe in a higher power that makes YOU the highest power in your own life So not God bless you but just bless you And you can explain it that way too when anyone accuses you of being a hypocrite by saying that

I feel as though I have lost my desire to write and when I sit down to try to spark it I feel like I have some immense writers block Are there any exercises you use to get past thisEDIT Thank you all for the advice and inspiration I am convinced that this is just a phase and I will hopefully get past it soon D

Youre actually going through a phrase You start but the sentence doesnt finishMy advice Finish it anyway Every last one of them Even if it makes no sense If you are at a block write for quantity first then move on to quality from there Just write Ive written a few short form autobiographies of myself Nobody else on Earth would want to read them but it gets me writing Everyone likes writing about themselves even if they say they dont This is what I doPick a theme It needs to be a single word that feels compelling like memory or loneliness Examine the arc of that theme how it develops I break it into 9 steps Memory might go 1Wanting to remember 2Searching for a trigger 3Pursuing the trigger 4Remembering 5Realizing the memory is false 6Searching for clues as to the real 7Using those clues to piece together a narrative 8Failing to measure that narrative against the real 9Questioning all memory Take each step and examine what obstacles might prevent someone from going from that step to the next So the trigger in my above example might be someone who died three years ago The obstacle is how to experience someones personality when they are dead Maybe the solution is the character wears the dead guys clothes and pretends to be him while videotaping himself I write 5 steps for each of the 9 subthemes for a total of 45 beats It may sound overly structured or technical but it forces you to examine each part carefully and give it a shape The essences of this method are having a clear volume to write and starting simple Just write random inconsequential things Dont think about their quality just write write anything If you want look for writing exercises any will do and just do them even if you think theyre stupid

Mine was inspired by copied from the first name of a lead singer of Three Dog NighthttpenwikipediaorgwikiThreeDogNight and the middle name of one of the characters in The Odd CouplehttpwwwcrazyabouttvcomoddcouplehtmlEDIT I meant real name but feel free to post the derivation of your reddit handle as well

My parents had two name choices for me one for light hair and one for dark hairWhen I was born the nurse asked my mother What are you going to name himMy mom responded Im not sure yet what color is heThe doctor and nurses just stared at her awkwardly as my clearly white dad sat next to her My grandfather fought the Russians as a young Finnish boy Consequentially he not only hated the Russians but he adapted alcoholism to deal with the horrors he sawBecause of his alcoholic nature he wasnt the best father and his daughters hated himWhen I was born my mother gave me a Russian name to piss him offHe pulled on a gun on me the first time we met no joke I was three Well my middle name is Faramir My dads an english teacher always loved Tolkein and that was his favourite character I love it My first name was my grandfathers middle name but the one he chose to go by for most of his life My middle name used to be the first name of our two part last name which was hyphenated My last name is from my fathers lineBeing of Scottish heritage on my fathers side my name and family history was a very important part of my upbringing I am the last son to be born with rights to the middle name and last name that I have so should I die without having a son the linename that goes back to the 16th century dies too Most people will probably think this is pretty silly but its always been something Ive cherished and I do plan on having a son to keep it going My parents saw a sign for an exotic dancer whose first name had the same letters as my mothers rearranged I was almost named Gertrude after my moms DampD fighter dwarf character sadly luckily they went with another name I have two stories from my grandparents but not of mineThe first is how my grandpa got his name His name was supposed to be Christopher but when he was born his dad celebrated with a little too much drink with his friend Phil and the two of them went to get the papers done up Being drunk my great granddad forgot what he was supposed to name his son and decided to just name him Phil after his friendThe second is in the same family My grandpa had two older twin brothers Alex and Peter Alex died when he was two but because my great grandparents liked the name Alex more they decided to switch the names and said that Peter died Great parents eh My first name is Amanda and I am named after my great grandmother My parents decided to name me this long before I was born because she died when she was young early 30s I think and wanted her to sort of live on through me Turns I was born about a month prematurely on my great grandmothers birthdayAlso my great grandmother was an extremely talented concert pianist but instead of pursuing that her parents forced her to get married and have children I am currently a music performance major at one of the bigger music schools in the countryOh and I look exactly like her of course My mom wanted to name me Nathaniel but my dad wanted to name me John When my mom was giving birth to me my dad went up to a nurse and said Write John on the birth certificate My first name was after my 2 older siblings imaginary friend My middle name was a mate of my Granddad He was a gunner in WWII and died in a dog fight My last name is a Plane and a small town in England I googled my name once and found someone in the USA that matched it exactly He is a Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at some University I emailed him once and sent him a scan of my old School ID as proof He Emailed back saying how extraordinary it was receiving an email from himself in New Zealand and that I should keep up the good name The coolest email I have ever received My real name means Thors the old norse god spear or a good spear thrower I got it because its also the name of a norwegian poet that my mom likes

Were about to bust into this part of my abstract algebra class and the professor has stressed their importance in the context of abstract algebra My first experience with them in discrete mathematics I didnt really understand them too well Are there ways of looking at them or a particular way you learned about them that have been helpful to you edit thanks for the many responsesthey have been helpful

The examples given by other posters are good but they are all homogeneous in a certain not formal but can be made so sense the equivalence classes all have the same shape Its worth pointing out that this need not be soExamples of natural equivalence relations where the equivalence classes do not all have the same shape perhaps arise first in topology in the context of quotient spaces and gluing maps Take the closed interval 0 1 and let be the equivalence relation where every point is equivalent only to itself except that also 0 1 Thus the equivalence class of every point has size 1 except that one equivalence class has size 2 As you might guess what you are doing here is gluing the two endpoints of the interval together and there is a way to set up the definitions so that the result is recognizable topologically as a circle Glue in topology means exactly declare to be the same by taking the quotient by a suitably chosen equivalence relationYou can also get a circle by taking the quotient of the real line R by the equivalence relation x y if y x is an integer which is homogeneous in the informal sense Im talking about but it is not always the case that there is a corresponding homogeneous construction for every heterogeneous one Equivalence classes Easy Take an equivalence relation which is by definition transitive reflexive and symmetricExample Your relation is x is the same colour as y If xRy and yRz then xRz If xRy then yRx xRx So its an equivalence relation Your equivalence classes are then the colours all the red crayons make one all the blue crayons make another etcTwo things are in the same equivalence class precisely if they are related under an equivalence relation Its the same idea that is used for rational numbers Each rational number can be represented by infinitely many different fractions Eg 12 24 150300 etc While each of the fractions looks different they really are the same rational number More formally they are all in the same equivalence class under the equivalence ab cd iff adbcIn abstract algebra the idea is the same Youll have some group elements and an equivalence relation usually coming from a normal subgroup incidentally normality is precisely the condition that gives you an equivalence relation Maybe the group elements youve got look different on the surface but the only way to tell if they are actually different is to check the equivalence relation If you have a CS background its easiest to think of it in terms of modular arithmetic Specifically in the ring of integers modulo N n x x N n So in z5 0 051015 1 161116 2271217 and so onAnother useful way to think of an equivalence class is as the fiber of a point in some codomain of a function So if you have a function fCgtD the fiber of some d in D is the set of all c in C such that fcd Youll find that the disjoint union of all such sets is a partition of C and therefore an equivalence relation So to use the example above the function fx x 5 gives you a surjection of the ring of integers into the ring of integers modulo 5 and the equivalence classes 01234 are the fibers of each of 01234 respectively If it helps think of one of the simplest equivalence classes for which you already have an intuition even and odd numbersNamely under mod 2 arithmetic the set of integers is partitioned into two sets those integers who are divisible by 2 and the ones who leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 2 The even numbers can be written as the equivalence class 0 and the odd numbers as the equivalence class 1 Note that the number inside the brackets doesnt matter it only needs to be a representative number in the equivalence class Ill let you prove these actually form an equivalence class under the relation x R y iff x and y have the same remainder when divided by 2Now it turns out you can define operations on these equivalence classes and treat them as numbers in their own right For the operation of addition you might know this as the rules even plus even equals even even plus odd equals odd odd plus odd equals even Using our new notation these rules become 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0In this case the set of equivalence classes 0 1 forms what is known as the quotient group Z2Z Youll find that quotient groups in general have their own algebraic structure and become quite interesting to study I hope you can see why your Prof thinks equivalence classes are an important topic Edit Fixed notation for Z2Z and the group operation in question The gist of my post remains the same Thanks othercriteria amp BlendedCotton each equivalence class is just a set of objects that are equivalentequal in regards to a given equivalence relation

Note Reddit no longer allows comments once a submission is older than six months If you have a site that you feel belongs on this post please send me a PM ThanksHi everyone I know there were many sites that I read from when I was seeking unsanitized information about the church All of them were helpful in my search for truth Here are some of them that stick out to me I am sure I will forget a few Help me add to the listMormonThinkhttpwwwmormonthinkcomProbably my favorite site for looking at some of the controversial bits of Mormon history They post the facts and then give what a runofthemill member generally knows about the event usually lacking in accurate details They then add a pointcounterpoint section between what critics and apologists say 20 Truths About Mormonismhttp20truthsinfoAnother great site containing some controversial aspects about Mormonism and its foundation Also includes apologetic responses to the topicsMormonism Research MinistryhttpwwwmrmorgWhile I am not a Christian these guys really do have a lot of good information on church history I remember finding their article on the Civil War Prophecyhttpwwwmrmorgcivilwar particularly fascinating And you cant go wrong with their videohttpwwwmrmorgvideos section I thought their Lost Book of Abraham video was extremely evenhanded and well doneInstitute for Religious ResearchhttpwwwirrorgmitdefaulthtmlMy favorite thing to explore from this site was their very helpful sectionbysection comparisonhttpwwwirrorgmitboc of the 1833 Book of Commandments with the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants and the 1971 Doctrine and Covenants What a great reference for me when I wanted to see the changes that had been made to the revelationsRichard Packhamhttppackhamn4morgindexhtmNo list is complete without Richard Packhams contributions For those who went through the temple his comparisonhttppackhamn4morgmasonendowhtm between the masonic ceremony and the original temple ceremonies is not to be missed His charthttppackhamn4morgbomvsldshtm comparing current Mormon beliefs vs teachings in the Book of Mormon is particularly damning as wellRethinking Mormonismhttpwwwi4mcomFound some good information on this site Read the comments below for some of the site highlights suggested by ldsgems and myselfldsmormonhttpwwwldsmormoncomFound helpful information here as wellSaints Without HaloshttpsaintswithouthaloscomAnother good reference siteUtah Lighthouse Ministrieshttpwwwutlmorgnavtopicalindexhtm I dont want to forget the extensive amount of research done by Jerald and Sandra TannerImages of the RestorationhttpwwwimagesoftherestorationorgblogThis is kind of a fun slightly more interactive site where you can click on images drawn relating to the early days of the church and get the background information behind each oneThe Wives of Joseph SmithhttpwwwwivesofjosephsmithorgA site dedicated to the memory of the women who married Joseph Smith They were not just namelessfaceless women They were human beings This site contains their fascinating and infuriating storiesSalamander Society LibraryhttpwwwsalamandersocietycomlibraryLooks like a great compilation of publications from the 1800s about the rise of Mormonism as well as life within Mormonism Has writings like David Whitmers address to all Christians that covers the changes that had been made to the Mormon revelations among other things and Wife No 19 the personal story of one of Brighams wives that left him1828 Printers Manuscript of Book of Mormonhttpwwwscribdcomdoc20977511828PrintersManuscriptoftheBookofMormonA scanned copy of the actual Printers Manuscript I used this when I wanted to see what was actually written down by their own hands Not the easiest thing to read but helpful for someone who had been taught to not trust all those scary antiMormons out thereJournal of Discourseshttpcontentdmlibbyueducdm4browsephpCISOROOT2FJournalOfDiscourses3From BYUs own site Start reading on page 50 of Volume I and see if the father of Jesus is who you had been taught he wasHistory of the ChurchhttpbooksgooglecombooksqeditionsOCLC233529552ampidc5wJQQAACAAJGoogle books has all the volumes of the official history scanned in They are sorted by date of print I recommend reading the testimony Joseph Smith gives before the church high council in Volume 6httpbooksgooglecombooksid87gUAAAAYAAJampprintsecfrontcoverampdqeditionsOCLC233529552vonepageampqampffalse starting on pg 408 After boasting that he was able to do something Jesus couldnt he goes on to state that he only had one wife when that was completely falseMormon CanonhttpmormoncanoncomAn upandcoming website As stated on the main page We seek to accurately document the doctrine history and culture of the LDS church The site has an impressive quote library that is definitely worth checking out Articles quotes videos podcaststhe site has it allEdit Now that I have my own website up and running I might as well endorse it as wellLDSOriginshttpwwwldsoriginscomI made an effort to include as many original quotes as possible I also have it highly referenced I hope it becomes a useful source for many One point of interest the site offers is a transcript of a meeting I had with one of the 12 apostles as well as a follow up visit with a church historian

Hey dont forget my siteRethinking Mormonismhttpwwwi4mcomOf particular interest is the section on Mormon Sexualityhttpwwwi4mcomthinksexuality and Mormon Polygamyhttpwwwi4mcomthinkpolygamy Most of the articles are from my posts on various Mormon forums over the yearsThe site also has a great visual timeline chart of Joseph Smiths polygamyhttpwwwi4mcomthinkpolygamypolygamytimelinehtm with referencesThe most popular page on the site is my historical analysis of the South Park Mormon Episodehttpwwwi4mcomthinksouthpark Hey this list looks pretty comprehensive If I slot it in on the sidebar under Active Exmormon Blogs what do you think I should title it there

Well be donating 2 of todays donations to a Hatian relief fund so be sure to pony up when that plate comes by people

No At least not for churches that are there to truly there to help others via charity work I dont care what the groups motivation for doing charity is as long as they do the charity

Im looking into buying a server for local use only for testing rail apps in development I thought I might ask if any of you have done something like this before Im thinking of getting a lowend Dell PowerEdge server havent really looked much into it though Any ideas

you might also try heroku it lets you host small apps in development for free You will need a working knowledge of git and terminal thoughhttpherokucom Im going to do it once Ive done some house renovations and was just planning to use my old computer with linux installed Nothing fancy Just get something very simple It doesnt even need to be a server try just an old home computer laptop Its probably best to go with linux or something and there are a lot of guides to getting everything running on ubuntuThe only thing that might be a good idea if you are running a server is getting gitosis up and running httpscientist20071114hostinggitrepositoriestheeasyandsecurewayits damn useful especially if you set up hooks to run your CI after every push

Just want to see what are Reddits favorite imaginary characters and from which format would it emerge if all formats are allowed

Im a big fan of Ford Prefect and The Doctor Something about whimsical characters who pull crazy stunts not because they are badass but because they just want to see what will happen is totally awesome to me Roland Deschain Darktower series of Novels Elvis and JFK in Bubba HoTep Those 2 would be awesome to hang out with Movies Han Solo TV Dr Who Cartoon Spike Cowboy Bebop Literature Sherlock Holmes Comics Silver Surfer Imagination Clyde Gatsby My favorite is Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye followed closely by George Costanza from SeinfeldEdit I made this post just before I read about the demise of JD Salinger and it completely blew my mind when I read about his death immediately after posting this commentRIP Salinger You were a true artist who never sold out You may have taken it to extremes but in this age of Reality Show manufactured artists we need inspirations like you all the more Harry Dresden from The Dresden FileshttpenwikipediaorgwikiHarryDresden Best fiction book series Ive ever read EDITlink Shakepeares Richard III Hagen in the Nibelungenlied Tyrion Lannister in A Song of Ice and Fire Chance the Gardener in Being There The many incarnations of Groucho Marx Hugo Z Hackenbush Rufus T Firefly Quincy Adams Wagstaff Jeffrey T Spaulding Otis P Driftwood J Cheever Loophole S Quentin Quale Ronald Kornblow Wolf J Flywheel and the restEdit Found more character names online Film Tyler Durden or James BondTV House or The DoctorLiterature Sherlock Holmes or Holden CaulfieldComics Bruce Wayne Well I would say Kimiko Ross from Dresden Codakhttpdresdencodakcom but thats probably just because I find her extremely intellectually attractive Its a tie between two Batman characters The first is the Dark Knight himself The second is Alfred Pennyworth I cant believe nobody has said Bruce Wayne I thought he would have been up at the top so I just came in here to upvote the one who said it firstBut yeah hes definitely my favorite fictional character if not my greatest icon Movie Sirius BlackTV Bertie WoosterCartoon Spike SpiegelComics The SandmanLiterature Sherlock Holmes Movie Rick Blaine TV Omar Little Cartoon Spike Spiegel Literature Anton Chigurh Comics Deadpool pr0n Brea Bennett Godzilla I cant be the only one that wishes that a giant monster would randomly attack Tokyo every so often Im torn between The Death of Discworld and Doctor Who and probably later will remember some other or more likely many others fiction character who will make me feel even more torn movies Hannibal Lectertv Dr Sheldon Coopercartoons Dexter Boy GENIUSliterature Atrus Myst bookscomics Gambit He is just awesome in my opinionpr0n Mega Milk Why notimagination Bizarro meThis is going to be an interesting poker game Time and again ive said this and will say again Gulliver FoylehttpenwikipediaorgwikiTheStarsMyDestinationHe can teleport everyone can but he also is a vengeance machine A simple man who becomes driven by pure vengeance to unimaginable sophistication and powerIf you havent read The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester read it love it its truly spectacular scifi William Gibson has a lot to thank him for 30 years ahead of its time

I worked as a General Manager for a major theatre chain for over seven of the last ten years I am no longer employed in the theatre industry and dont mind letting redditors know whatever I can share Ask me anything about the theatre industry and I will do my best to give accurate answersEDIT 1 Fun fact General managers up until 5 years ago could earn more than double their salary in a concessions bonus One theatre I ran for two years paid out an average of 55000 on top of my 70000 salary The bonus structure used to be based on 3 of concessions sales less any concessions shrinkage In 2004 or 2005 the bonus structure was changed and reduced my total income to about 90000 a 35000 drop Keep in mind general managers earn a great income despite never having completed college and some have not finished high school

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Never gotten a tattoo before but Ive wanted one for a while Id like to get something meaningful that I wont regret in thirty years Probably something tribal with words or even a significant number Any ideasEDIT I admit this is the most retarded post Ive ever made Thats what I get for drinking before posting Let this be a lesson for the kids

Unless you are in a tribe please dont get something tribal I say this as a tattoo fan and a woman If youre not sure enough about what you want to permanently ink onto your body then youre not ready for a tattoo You shouldnt get a tattoo of anything anyone says on here It wont be personal and youll look like a tool

Most people dont realize how SMART I am They just asume cuz I dont work and havent ivented anything that I am not smart special or cool How do I show them they are wrong

How smart you are percieved to be is relitive to the people you are around so hang around smart people Whenever they start a sentence cut them off and finish it for them proving that you know everything that they know and that you are better at stating these facts than they are Be prepared to make shit up when you dont know what youre talking about so that they will be too intimidated to argue You will become smarter than them by defaultSmart people will flock to you and rub their smart genitalia all over you thereby infecting you with even more smart Tell everyone you meet that you have an IQ of 186 Say it before you tell them your name Get a Tshirt made When ever an opportunity comes to answer a question answer it very metaphorically or with another question It will stump your friends Also take long pauses and sort of look up into the sky before answering

one of my best friends has been convicted of two violent felonies she served her time and now shes an overachieving engineering student at the number university for her field in the country shes pretty fucking interesting her stories range from jail cell shankings to talking abstractly about symbolism in her fav sci fi novel

My old roommate is on a personal quest to build an operating system designed for distributed computing while living on practically nothing in either the woods of his fathers construction sites or random spots through europe He almost always lives outdoors programs on a netbook charged by the sun and hunts his food He is the cyberpunk frontiersman Hes also profoundly well read and always takes the time to paint even though he doesnt always know what hes doing The most interesting person I know knew was my dad He passed away in 2001 but had his Phd in ceramic engineering loved scii rode his razor scooter around the street played the contrabass clarinet and had about 35 patents to his name I still get new ones mailed to me that he had helped on and his coworkers added his name on the patent Theres some of the patents up on the internet which is pretty cool to seeread I think he was so interesting since he had such a wide range of interests and hobbies He was brilliant but hilarious and very personable I miss him terribly but having such a cool person in my life for even a bit was enough Male A family friend in the US Hes a transgendered unicycle maker and professional unicyclist who has finger nails as long as my arm and a pyramid made of bowling balls in his yard Female She was once rejected from entering a country because they couldnt find a free spot to stamp on her passport She grew up a military brat and regularly flies to a place gets bored of it within a few hours and then picks another flight at random Also her hair is blue A friend who wanders through abandoned buildings using the experiences for his artwork His hair is unruly enough to have fused into his beard and hes not yet 18 I live a frightfully dull existence The most interesting person I can think of is that Dos Equis guy I would have to narrow it down to two choices my son and drinking buddy My son is 19 He has a very rational mind and a great sense of humor No one has ever made me stop and think or laugh like he has My drinking buddy is a viet nam vet how as been thru shit i cant even imagine hes a black man who grew up during the civil rights movement He never talks about the war or growing up then He just tells stories about his life his family and kids and so on I have bought a twelve pack of beer and lured him over to hang out with me on many occasions just to hear him talk He is a natural born story teller My coworker grew up in India came here with her family when she was 16 They came from absolutely nothing to be at least as successful as I am and Ive had every advantage She has an arranged marriage and a VERY involved family as is usual in Indian cultures I never get tired of hearing how her family came to succeed and about the various cultural differences she contends with no question an artist friend who has covered fiction non fiction poetry cartoon painting sculpture photography etc etc hes a little crazy how can you not be but at 65ish still plugging away and hoping to break free of the starving artist lifestyle he has had mostall his lifehes traveled extensively and lived on the streets and in the bush lived with hippies and has many drug induced tales hes technically died at least once from hypothermia hes seen things that seemingly defy reality he sat in front of the camera for the first time a number of years ago and told stories from his life and surprised himself by filling six hours worth no ums ahh hmms hes a natural story teller and a good one no fear on the stagehes posted on youtube in hopes of attracting some attention but its a voice among millions were currently working on getting his fiction published 30 novels in a short timehes something else when it comes to the creative an absolute chimp when it comes to anything technology he has a book of notes he has taken from my trying to teach himohya and apparently when growing up in the woods he rode a wild bear i want to say 45ish Its the personpeople who can tell the best stories It doesnt even have to be the topic of the story but more the manner in which it was delivered You will remember the person and probably the story and the fact that they could tell the hell out of something as simple as going outside to get the newspaper I can tell you that the people who have made a lasting impression on me had this gift

So my room mate discovered recently that I was an atheist He told me I am such because Id rather keep my eyes closed and not openly accept god How do I respond to this guy without offending him

Say Thats insulting please dont do it again and dont talk religion unless he can do it civilized The civilized part goes for you too You dont want a hostile roommate trust me Simply ignore his comment to avoid confrontationThat and dont let him see the babies we have for breakfast Crispy delicious babies Just tell him if god can levitate you youll believe in godWhen people find out Im an atheist and they give me shit about it I just tell them to fuck off I have no problem with crazy people if they are nice but I would much rather not have any association with a crazy asshole You cant reason with someone who believes in fairy tales You dont owe his beliefs any courtesy or respect You can be nice to him as a fellow human but just tell him you dont believe in fairy tales What is clearly evident to you is not clearly evident to me I hope you can respect my difference of opinion and continue to cohabitate peacefully Tell him My eyes are open to any evidence You can make analogies and quote verses until youre blue in the face but without evidence its wasted breath Ask him if losing his faith would destroy his world If it would a discussion would be pointless since youre too nice of a person to wish that upon your roommate I do it this way1 yes Im atheist2 it means I do not believe in a god any god then give a list of the known gods I dont believe in3 yes i have read your book after he asks if I have read the bible or the quran or whatever but I dont think that a book written by old men 1900 years ago has anything to do with me or our present times and should only be used as a reference4 yes I know the book was inspired by your god music inspires me cooking inspires my wife doesnt mean there is a god5 no Im not interested in being saved by your jesusmohammad see 16 no dont leave your literature with me save a tree Start reading the bible but follow all the fucked up parts you can troll his religion and maybe make him see how messed up it is tell him u cant accept what is not thereyour life is based on rational inquiry and a reality based on attributes formulated by nature scrutinized by the elusive sciences that reign above the layman

Been trying to look this one up but no avail The idea is to make a completely quiet HTPC Now it only will need ethernet sound VGA and USB but the Parallel serial and ps2 will all stick out the back Question is Is it possible to desolder the connections to those three ports and remove them from the motherboard or will this brick your motherboard I would assume it would since it cant be any different than just not having anything plugged in and I dont have a spare MOBO to test this one My only concern is that they close some circuit on the mobo that is essential to its function or some other unforseen problem I dont know about

I dunno why there are so many people in this thread warning you off desoldering The chances are theyre all throughhole components they are on my motherboard so theyll be piss easy The motherboard wont be electrically dependent on them either Id stake my breakfast on itJust get a halfdecent iron 3040W will be fine and a desolder pump less than 10 and youll have no problem at all You can remove them Better clip or saw them off with soldering you might destroy surounding parts I dont understand why you want to remove them care to explain further

Its hard to believe but were less than five days away from the final season after a whirlwind of a fiveyear adventure Before we dive into this season lets remind each other of the great moments this show has provided thus far What are your favorite dramatic emotional and hell even comedic moments I have a few I cant help but mention Locke pounding on the hatch door in anguish after Boones death For some reason this moment got to me From then on a little part of me would always feel for John Locke The classic final moments of the Season Three finale For me it will be hard for any television show to have a twist as shocking and satisfying as the flashforward The cherry on top was you wondering everything about the episode whos in the coffin whos at Kates house why Jack has become so broken How can you read My mother taught me Youre constantly on edge as you sit in front of the screen watching Lost and when a gem like this is thrown at you with Bens deadpan sarcasm you dont forget how good that laugh feltShare

So theres this guy in what looks like a nice little flat with an exercise bike nice food record player protein shakes books etc then WHOAH so thats whats at the bottom of the hatch Epic mindfuck When we first see the smoke monster going through the trees in Season 1 I remember when i first saw that it creeped me out When sayid got shot with the dart and Hugo brought him back to his house his mother walks in and shouts Why is their a dead Pakistani on my couch When Locke is getting bandaged up by Richard after he got shot in the leg by Ethan Richard gives john a compass and john goes What does it do Richard replys It points north john Funny actually the moment that fist got me hooked on lost in the first place season one episode 2 i think the first lockecentric episode at the end of the episode when we learn that he was now able to walk on the island literally made the hair on my arms stand up outstanding storytelling Probably the most twisted moment for me was the last episode of Season 3 watching Jack be an idiot all episode and at the end realizing HOLY SHIT HES OFF THE ISLAND ITS A FLASH FORWARDWhen Locke killed Naomi was pretty cool too Im a general fan of Lockeinduced chaos though throughout it all Original favorite moment Michael leaving on the boat Worst moment Michael coming back on the tanker Runner up worst moment Death of Mr Eko and Faraday New favorite moment Michael blowing up on the tanker Runner up favorite moment Charlie drowning When Faraday is shot by his mother shocking sad heartbreaking Juliet being pulled into the shaft and then banging at the bomb at the end of last season I dont really like Juliet but I couldnt help but feel for her in these last moments Season 3 finale the first flashforward We have to go back Kate We have to go baack Charlie drowning

Just wondering how many here in WATMM are actually in the music industry Perhaps you could share some wisdom to inspiring redditors seeking a career in audioWhat have been your bestworst experiencesHow did you get your foot in the door in the first placeDoes anyone here ownrun a successful studio

Thats a loaded question I run what I consider a professional studio in my basement for myself Occasionally Ill let friends use it but its mostly for producing my own music Now I make enough to live off of that music so you could say its a commercial studio but its hardly what many would consider a commercial studio the equipment is sparse but it works Ive worked in recording studios whether staff or freelance since the late 1980s Im from NY but my first studio job was in Paris I came back to NY in the early 1990s and began working at The Hit Factory This was about as real a studio experience as youre likely to find In just over 4 years I worked with an incredible list of artists and producers Keith Richards David Bowie Frank Sinatra Stevie Wonder and on and on It was an expensive place so you only really got big stars or young artists with a LOT of backing Most of my experiences there were amazing Worked with Sinatra Phil Ramone and Al Schmitt on one project Nile RodgersQuincy Jones Amazing times I do own a successful studio now but it wont ever be like that I got a job as an engineer at a studio before finishing my degree from Musitechnic in Montreal I called many studios and although most said they werent hiring if the owner seemed knowledgeable and cool I asked to at least have lunch with him and hopefully he could help me get set in the right direction One particular owner thought I was very intelligent and likable so he took me on to help with cleaning up thousands of lines of VOIt was a studio built by a musician that realized if he wanted to be able to support his lust for gear hed have to turn it into a commercial studioProblem was that he no clue how to run a studio let alone a businessThose two years were a hell of a ride I was the caterer maid engineer manager salesman all at onceI got to produce and mix a couple albums many singles and demos and do all the VO for a couple prominent videogames for Konami I worked over 100 hours a week between 3 different jobs with over 50 a week being at the studio where I sometimes sleptId have to say the best feeling in a professional enviroment I ever had was after 2 days of set up and micing drums amps vocals setting click tracks and headphone mixes I said rolling unmuted the click and sat back as the whole band came through the monitors watched all the meters start jumping everything working perfectlyNever felt so overcome with joy that this was my job Glad it was just me and the owner in the control room because I was brought to tears Ive interned over a year now at a professional commercial music house We do original music and post production on both radio and television spots While Im not a fan of the advertising world I love being there I get to learn how to use all the gear and am learning the technical side of things which was my main reason for getting in Also my band practices there and were recording our EP there so obviously thats a tremendous perk we squeeze it in at nighttime and on weekends when we can At its worst its boring sometimes because I dont really feel a connection to the advertising world But thats really nothing What Im learning there is completely worth taking out the trash making coffee and listening to commercials Plus sometimes I get chances to sing on commercials which means getting paid if they go through I got my foot in the door by looking up studios in my area coldemailing them with the most heartfelt cover letter Ive ever written in my life At the time I was 29 already in a professional career but I always always always wanted to do music That desire just kept growing stronger So I wrote them and this particular studio worked out and I love it I quit my job took a paycut with another job that lets me keep going into the studio The other people who work there generally got their foot in the door via word of mouth being referred from another studio or someone who knows someone I am fully singularly committed to doing music in one way or another Every single decision I make is based on this question Will this help my music If so I do it If not I dont I fully believe this focus is what has led to the many opportunities that have opened up for me EDIT If you want to make working at a studio your career be prepared to eat shit the first few years You wont make a lot of money at all youll work the longest hours of anyone there In the end if youre lucky it will pay off This is a something you have to be pretty dedicated to i do some freelance work in a couple of studios around ATL right now things are down 2008 was great 2009 was terrible best experience getting to hang outsmokeplay video games with some of the biggest names in rap even thought i dont listen to any of it worst experience the interning process and having to fix something behind the patchbay on the fly in the middle of the room with EVERYBODY waiting i got my foot in the door by being an unpaid intern for a year it is great work just one big ebb and flow sometime your phone aint ringing and sometimes you gotta decide which job will pay you more now or pan out longer it is a sharks tank at my level

How exactly is this going to work Well you should have a general idea of the format by reading the information on the website Heres some more detail though The tournament is formatted as a Swiss style round robin mod tournament Theres a very good wikipedia article on the subject if youre still interested Youre awarded 1 point for a win 05 points for a tie and 0 points for a loss The top 6 teams at the end of the 8 weeks will participate in a single elimination tournament to determine a clear first second and third place Every Sunday the map for that weeks set of matchups Each team NEEDS A CAPTAIN YOUR TEAM MUST NOTIFY ME OF WHO YOUR CAPTAIN IS I will have a compiled list of the teams and their members that will be posted so each team will know who and how to contact one another to set up matches Each weekend Saturday most likely but this will also be posted along with the map info there will be a tournament admin on the CE clone server as well as the event server so teams can get their matches played But what if my team has a problem getting together on the weekend Youll need to work out a time you can play with the other team Each team captain will be given basic sourcemod controls over the match servers so that even if a tournament admin is not present theyll be able to restart the rounds and get their match played I wanted to have a draft Why arent we doing that Because doing things this way is easier Why no engineers Small maps like nucleus and garbageday can be totally deadlocked by an engineer with small teams like what well be having in this tournament Why no unlocks Seriously do I even need to answer this Okay because the playing field should be the same for everybody Whether youve managed to get all the unlocks or have none playing without them will make things an even field for everyone It can be argued that the unlocks are all sidegrades and dont give any actual advantage but by mandating the use of stock weaponry the argument wont even need to take place Prizes Yes Ask away and Ill answer all your concerns and keep this updated Use this thread to find a team or find some more players if youre looking to fill your ranks

gt Why no unlocksgt Seriously do I even need to answer thisI think you doEdit since you gave an answer aboveId rebuttal with something longer but since Im lazy You should let individual teams decide before the match Its ridiculous to ban all unlocks that anyone that has played for more than a week should haveOh and whats the class limit You just said 0 engineer and didnt indicate max of class other than My name is Alexhttpredditgaminghlxcenethlstatsphpmodeplayerinfoampplayer73I am the most Dominated person on the reddit servershttpredditgaminghlxcenethlstatsphpmodeactioninfoampactiondominationampgametfDo you feel sorry for me Do you want to be on my teamSign up todayEDIT Is the reason why we cant use unlocks because newer players might not have them yet What about hats My hats give me my power I feel naked without them

Your favorite instrument your favorite tune your favorite style your favorite warmup exercise your favorite showoffy bit etc etc etc

Solo piano blues with a jazz influence Cmin blues scale First song I ever wrote followed Cmin blues and the bassline wanders through a whole range of chords its almost impossible not to find interesting melodies and harmonies and I find it so relaxing and emotionally expurgating that I almost always come away from improvising for a couple hours feeling infinitely better about my life