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Why the hell would I vote for John Johnson of the Johnson party when I have never seen or heard the Johnson party do what they are claiming Any group wanting to run for a third part would have to start at the local and state level and build up trust with the people before running for any national seats What do you think | Because thats how the other side fractures your voter base I wish the Republicans would split into the Religious Right and the actual conservatives |
Background I came out to my friends and family when I was 16 I am currently in my late20s and very active in the local LGBT community I am currently in a committed relationship with a woman a couple years younger than I am We have been together for nearly a year and we have started discussing the possibility of her moving in with me If marriage was not denied to people like me in the state I currently live in I would seriously consider proposingThe reason I mention all of that first is because I dont want anyone to think I may be confused about my sexual identity I am not confused I like women and women only There is zero possibility that I am straight or bisexualFor the first time in our relationship my girlfriend and I went away on vacation last week After a night of drinking we went back to our hotel and she asked me what my thoughts on pornography were This had never come up before and to be honest it is something Ive always been a little embarrassed about Because I like porn a lot Ever since I was about 13 I have either watched it or read it on a several days a week basis I have always hidden that from my partners because it just felt like a private thing and it never came up Or to be more specific if it did come up I would laugh and make a joke about it Ive been in a few relationships where Ive watched porn with my SO but it would be like at parties or during drunken late night talkfests But nothing like thisMy girlfriend told me she reads and watches a lot of porn That excited me because its good to know Im not alone She asked if I had any on my laptop and I said yes So she suggested we watch two movies together She would choose one from her laptop and I would choose one from mine We flipped a coin to see who would go first and I wonI probably should have started with something vanilla but I didnt I showed her what is honestly my favorite porn movie clip on this computer It is a scene from a very hardcore website and features three men and one woman Now I never thought my tastes in porn were strange I never even thought enjoying pornography was strange just something you kept private I wish I had kept it private because my girlfriend was horrified by the clip I showed herWe only made it about ten minutes into the clip before she demanded I turn it off She said it was extremely degrading to women She wondered why I would masturbate to videos that featured penises She was as drunk as I was and we ended up in an argument Both of us said some things we didnt mean and we have since both apologized But one of the most biting things she said to me something that I still cant quite shake was this Paraphrased No self respecting lesbian would get off on watching three men degrade a woman that way If you want to get fucked by three assholes stop calling yourself a lesbian Youre bisexual at bestIt was a really nasty fight that was totally amplified by our intoxication and the late hour We never talk to each other that way normally And her last two points are in no way true and she knows it There is no question in my mind no ounce of doubt that I am a lesbian I only ever had sex with a man once in my entire life and that was years ago in college and I basically only did it to see what it was like not because I was actually attracted to the manWhat she said about no self respecting lesbian would watch this has really been bothering me though Shes since told me that her philosophy is to each their own and it doesnt really bother her that I like that stuff I think shes being honest because when shes not drunk shes very openminded and nonjudgmental So thats not the problem Things between us are fine I thinkThe problem is that I wonder if what she said while drunk isnt at least partially true Am I being a hypocrite when I get mad about men who treat their wives or girlfriends poorly and then turn around and masturbate to rough loveless sex scenes Is it strange that someone who is in no way attracted to men gets off on watching three of them naked with only one naked woman to balance it outI am honestly worried about this Maybe there is something wrong with me I am really too embarrassed to talk to anyone I know in real life about this so I just want to hear your thoughts reddit Thoughts from my LGBT brothers and sisters is welcome as are thoughts from my straight brothers and sisters ThanksEDITOh and yes this is a new account I just created Ive been very active on reddit and rlgbt for a long time and would rather not reveal this part of myself to some people who have become Internetclose friends Thank you | Im a straight male I enjoy lesbian porn my philosophy is to eat their own and it doesnt bother me Yes You may be normalThere is nothing wrong with you You dont have to conform to any standard or any mold or any opinion on who you should or shouldnt beAbout what she said when she was drunk yes there may be partial truth to what she said ie maybe she feels that emotion or that idea just a little bit but its not her sober self seeing all sides of the situation so you are right to take drunk ramblings with a grain of saltMostly I think she felt a bit jealous andor inadequate But shell get over it if you assure her shes the one for you Or she truly was disgusted in which case she should open her mind a little bit and recognize that ALL creatures have sexuality regardless of orientationNo youre not being a hypocrite Those pornos are fantasy worlds and no harm is done to anyone unwillingly It is WAY different to have rough degrading consensual sex and to beat someone or treat someone like shit who doesnt ask for it or deserve itSo chin up Treat the situation with calm and be open to dialogue and this should go the way we all know it should Acceptance |
Just a reminder to all boys and men that its a great thing to be a boyman Its a great thing for men to get together and talk about manly things There is nothing offensive about manly behavior and there is no need to apologize about being a man Keep up the good work and spread the wordRESPONSE So as a response to everyone No I didnt define manliness or what it is to be a man Would there be as much discord if I had reversed the genders There is nothing offensive about being a boy or man and celebrating this fact Clearly many of you needed this reminder Be proud of yourself | I disagree with you here There is no defined man way to be Personally I would word it like thisMens Rights A place where men wont be berated or made to feel ashamed of how they want to be Is Mens rights a place to parade machismo I thought it was to discuss the unfair stereotype of men in the media and the issue that plagues a lot of men draconian sexist laws The whole purpose of this subreddit in my opinion is to achieve gender fairness where one gender is not seen as better because of draconian thinking My family was split apart because of draconian family court law It is an important issue in my life and I believe this is the wrong place to discuss manly thingsFor manliness discussion go here httpwwwredditcomrmachismo What does it mean for men to be men Im a man but Im more feminine than most girls I thought this was a subreddit for discussing gender discrimination directed towards men but it seems its become a place that celebrates its own negative stereotypes |
Recently I have begun to ponder the nature of decisionmaking and creativity from an individualistic standpoint Each day we are presented with a torrent of information and each night our subconscious mind ponders all we have seen Is it then unreasonable to suggest each and every choice we make is influenced only by past experiences | That it the conclusion I have come to Everyone acts like those around them whether they are family or friends Is freedom an illusion I dont think so Sure we do things according to past experiences but who would we be without them would we be able to make any decision without some previous knowledge |
So since the general consensus in the old threadhttpwwwredditcomrmeetupcommentsao8u8washingtondcmeetupsaturdayjan16th was that the 23rd was a much better date for most people than the 16th I contacted a mod about getting the title changed but sadly thats seemingly impossibleSo Im resubmitting this with the appropriate date in the title just so things are all on the same page people were getting confused with the old title and rightfully soAs I noted in the original post Im willing to take care of making sure theres a sign and junk at the meetup so people dont get confused Seems most people agreed on Bus Boys and Poetshttpwwwbusboysandpoetscom the 14th St location as an ideal place to meet I suggested a time of 4PM which seemed to work for some people so Ill move forward with the assumption that well meet at that timeIf that time doesnt work for you speak up Ill edit this post as more details are set in stone EDIT 01222010 For those who are definitely still attending this Ill aim to be there around 350ish Ill wear a bright red sweater that says Nike across the front and for the hell of it Ill most likely hold a Reddit bobblehead in my hand Hopefully itll be impossible to miss see you thereEdit 01232010 I am outside right now in case anyone is checking this thread 344 PM Edit 01252010 Seems like this weekends meetup went pretty well definitely wanna organize future ones Despite all efforts though we still had some confusion surrounding this stuff couldve been my fault I dunno In trying to tackle this problem though I just went ahead and created a meetupcom listing for this stuff httpwwwmeetupcomWashingtonDCMetroareaRedditors This thread should have been sufficiently spammed to hell and back by this point and Ill do separate postings to rmeetup and rwashingtondc to push it further I encourage everyone in the area to join up on this because itll autoemail you whenever a new meetup is announced Yes I know I couldve messaged everybody privately but I realized this well after I was done in the comments Sue me D | While the idea of Reddit crossing the threshold from internet into reality is frightening I may just do this meetup anyway |
There are little imperfections tiny spotsnicksholes in the places where the white stuff shows up Heres a picture of the white stuffhttpiimgurcomd5MOrjpg I dont know what metal that part of the handle is made from but it is a relatively light metal the pan itself is an enamel frying pan I think it is made from ironsteel and then covered with enamel That metal on the handle is not covered with anything else as far as I can see The rest of the handle is some kind of solid plastic maybe bakelite or ABS Im not sure The above photo was taken after I left the pan in the sink overnight for a single night The white stuff shows up pretty reliably if I let the pan soak It doesnt seem to really grow larger if I leave the pan in the dishwater for longer that too doesnt point to mould Im not really good at chemistry I have a very basic understanding Any ideas | Scrape the growths into a small container and pour white vinegar onto them if they bubble it is a salt of carbonate most likely calcium or magnesiumIf it is calcium carbonate you can pour some vinegar into your full sink and the growths should stop I have never done this before but my chemical sense tells me it should work Im not sure about the amount of vinegar but I dont think it will take much But are these really bothering you that much or is it just a curiosityAs for the process i would guess that the knicks and scratches initiate crystallization of whatever is in your water Should I go on to describe how scratches make crystals form or is that good enough Small imperfections in the metal handle create nucleationhttpenwikipediaorgwikiNucleation sites for the deposits Does the same thing for bubbles If you were to boil the handle you would see bubbles first start to form where these imperfections are NOTE I do not believe boiling the handle will affect the problem you are posting about I would do the simple experiment that simplemathtome was talking about and let us know what happens |
There was this initiative at my work to raise money for Haiti and collectively donate to some organization and I told everyone about reddits efforts which totally backfired I just saw it as an excellent and relevant opportunity to point out the 100 guarantee and the very active feedback as some strong points to consider and said that Im definitely with everyone on the donations but Ill chose to donate to reddit but it was apparently perceived as me slandering every other organization critizising our initiative and just ruining the spirit of the whole thingYay meI had to write a bunch of apologies and really back out of the whole situation as humble as possibly to avoid having it get blown way out of proportionPhewNote to self In the future keep reddit to yourself Nobody can be told what it is they have to see it for themselves | I was leaving the Best Buy parking lot and saw a couple with a large screen tv in a shopping cart they were trying to get it into their SUV with some noticeable difficulty I think hey Ill go help them get it in their carI pull up behind their car and as I get up to them the cart falls over and they just managed to get the tv inI pick up the cart and as they are closing the trunk ask if theyre okthe guy gives a halfconfused yeahI ended up just wheeling the cart up to the store feeling like a complete tool So here I am cleaning the whole apartment townhouse while my roommates were gone I thought hell its Saturday I dont have shit to do so better be productive So Im on the second floor cleaning the bathroom I was almost done and I was flushing paper towels as I was going Bathroom being done I go in the living room and start vacuuming Being alone I put on some Lamb of God on full volume Done vacuuming I turn off the vacuum and the music I start hearing water dripping Im thinking maybe someone upstairs taking a shower No I was alone So I run upstairs and to my horror the toilet was flooding the whole bathroom So I throw in some towels and run to go get the mop As Im moping I realize that the toilet keeps feeding water So I open the top and notice that the flush valve hadnt plugged back in So I clean the whole mess I go back downstairs to find out that we had water damage both on the first floor and basement Luckily it didnt manage to spread further then the stairway area |
hey guys just wondering if anyone can help me with some solid evidence to counter act thisCalling it climate change as opposed to global warming is for all intents and purposes splitting hairs Technicall Sean youre probably right But the media spin on this has gotten to the point that in most nonPhD peoples minds the terms are not just synonymous but interchangeable so its largely a moot pointThe fact remains that whether you call it climate change or global warming theres no disputing the irrefutable fact that to some extent it is indeed happening However it is NOT due to mans useabuse of the earth or her resources It is cyclical plain and simple The same scientists were in the same frenzied clamor back in the 70s except then it was global cooling they were proselytizing The earth is old Metaphorically speaking the old gal is going through menopauseThe earth does indeed have its purpose It and its resources are here for mans usage But theres nothing wrong with using those resources with prudence Conserving where you can is never a bad thing Wise usage is not only good its healthy for us too What is not needed however is frenzied authorities who have largely been bought off by people wanting to capitalize and profit on green legislation forced compliance etc ie Al Gore T Boone Pickens Wise and prudent use will trump anything overzealous want to do Nothing wrong with trying to come up with a viable perhaps renewable AFFORDABLE alternative energy source while we use wisely thoughAny specific links would be awesomethanks guys | The series of videos at httpwwwyoutubecomusergreenman3610 is pretty awesomeEdit also see httpwwwyoutubecomuserpotholer54 |
The essay isnt due for several weeks but since the issue has been so popular lately Id really like to research each sides argument Any good links or book titles will help Thanks | Hopefully you can avoid having this happen to youProfessor Called Police After Student ProCCW Presentationhttpwwwredditcomrgunscommentsaslqxprofessorcalledpoliceafterstudentproccw Gun Factshttpgunfactsinfo is a good starting point They have a list of the arguments the truth behind the arguments and the source where the information was obtained from See this similar prior thread including my response at the top of the comments httpwwwredditcomrgunscomments9ppz2collegeessayongunrights |
I had one of those moments today about my weight That holy shit I am way fatter than I thought I was moment I am 57 21 years old and weigh in at 240 pounds A lot of me is muscle but I am also a classic apple shape with a lot of flabby around my middle There is however the midly uplifting fact that I still have great legsWith my wedding 9 months away I dont think I am stretching to meet any impossible goals In fact I dont even really have a number in mind My goal is that when my wedding photos are being snapped I will have a jaw line without having to do the turtle manuver to get it I want to not be selfconscious about how the photos will turn out I am a photographer myself and I know it will be on my mind even though I trust my photographer with my life and instead want to focus on enjoying my day with my fianceA big part of my inability to lose weight has been that for the past 3 years I have been living in apartment complexes off of major highways Being someone who despises the gym walking places was really not an option I am a swimmer though and did that as often as my workschool schedule would allow Now my fiance and I have bought a house together and it is in the perfect walking neighborhood it is huge with sidewalks and bike lanes everywhere and is nice and peaceful I feel so Suzy HomemakerAnother great thing is that I absolutely love to cook I do not eat fish or eggs for silly reasons but will eat just about anything else and will cook it up and enjoy itWhat are some things I should keep in mind What inspires you to keep on keepin on What should I absolutely not let into my head for the next 9 monthstldr Im a fat chick wanting to lose weight before my wedding Help me | I am 56 and weighed around 200210lbs for most of my life until very recently I now weigh 155lbs and am dipping below 10 body fat For the longest time I thought I was genetically predisposed to being a fatty I was wrong I was just eating the wrong shitHere is how it worked for meClean up your dietDont obsessively count calories but count at the crap And the crap isnt what you think it is ProbablyYou really want to lose weight look into going lowcarb Cut out all the processed carbohydrates in your diet and stick salads and veggies with the occasional fruit and sweet potatoEat steak and chicken and fish and anything you want just cut out that shit You dont have to starve and you dont have to eat bland crap I eat 1 lb steaks cooked in 12 Tbsp of butter for dinner almost every dayStart lifting 13 times a week Lift heavy avoid machines Learn to love the squat rackInstead of burning out trying to run for 45 minutes 23 times a week try tabata sprints Run for 20 seconds full effort rest for 10 Repeat 8 times Do this 12 times a weekIf you have any questions feel free to ask meAlso check out Marks Daily Applehttpmarksdailyapplecom lots of great info Pretty much saved my life Cut down on caloriesCut down on junk nutritionExercise more See this currently top of the front pagehttpwwwredditcomrredditcomcommentsarp1sredditijustwantedtosharethesepicturesofAlso just 21 and getting married geez You said you like to cook so experiment experiment experiment Get creative and try new dishes you normally wouldnt try Focus more on vegetables as the main ingredient with meat as a side dish not sayin dont eat it I find Mediterranean middle eastern and authentic Asian dishes to be super healthy and deliciousOn the other hand dont be too drastic Huge changes are rarely kept so start slow Cook what you normally do but switch vegetable oil to olive oil use less butter grill morefry less In any case roasted veggies are to die for and yes do eat a little dessert |
Clear pictures are best but a really detailed description might work too And your location Gotta put this entomology degree to work somehow | This one has been bugging me for a while Would really appreciate it if you could tell me what spider it is Pichttpimgurcom6qqmQjpg Hmm How about thishttpwwwredditcomrEntomologycommentsau4l9blueflyingspiderthingthatleavesasmall This onehttpwwwflickrcomphotos28719970N053928481063 was indoors in a windowsill it had to be less than a centimetre wide And thishttpwwwflickrcomphotos28719970N053909840429inset72157622340369682 was outside chowing down on some unidentified victim there was a much tinier but similar spider near that I can only assume was a male trying to get some without being eatenOh and theyre both in southern Ontario there are a couple butterflies I took pictures of when I was in Costa Rica last monthbutterfly 1httpwwwflickrcomphotosdarksabrelord4281308456inset72157623104010431 butterfly 2httpwwwflickrcomphotosdarksabrelord4280562623inset72157623104010431 butterfly 3httpwwwflickrcomphotosdarksabrelord4280562981inset72157623104010431 butterfly 4httpwwwflickrcomphotosdarksabrelord4281311222inset72157623104010431 I remember these were supposedly the same species but differently gendered Well this seems like a familiar idea PEdit PM me if you need a second opinion fellow entomology enthusiast Id be happy to help I saw this bug floating in a puddle dead last November in Southern Utah whilst hiking in the mountains Looked interesting but none of us knew what it waspic1httpimgurcomfUkFbjpgpic2httpimgurcom5pXQt I dont have any Im wondering about but this ento major would like to test your bugfu See this one alot in bathroomshttpimgurcomsrWTojpg You can catch this one in light traps I found to my absolute horrorhttpimgurcomxDqJ5jpg Got baking sodahttpimgurcomYC2cpjpgNot fakehttpimgurcomAXtq7jpgBastard little invaderhttpimgurcomeSHqDjpgThere isnt anything here that I havent had to personally key out AaaandgoEdit formatting |
Just curious Please explain if you have and your stories are always welcome kgoHeres a little info from the Bureau of Justice Statisticshttpbjsojpusdojgovindexcfmtytpamptid9 In 2008 US residents age 12 or older experienced approximately 21 million crimes according to findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey 77 163 million were property crimes 23 49 million were crimes of violence 1 136700 were personal thefts In 2008 for every 1000 persons age 12 or older there occurred 1 rape or sexual assault 2 robberies 3 aggravated assaultsMurders were the least frequent violent victimization about 6 murder victims per 100000 persons in 2007 13 simple assaults | I was in Seattle once for the start of a cross country bike trip While waiting for a ferry astraddle my bike a homeless guy walked up and said Give me some money I said No He said I could pull a knife I said I could ride away He said Oh yeah Awkward silence I said Want some change he said Okay I gave him some change and he walked away Thats the closest Ive personally come to crime Yeah I live in Mexico city last year a friend of mine took me to lunch to a pretty nice restaurant There were about 20 people in there So halfway on our meal 5 masked men come in with guns and started yelling at everybody to put all valuables in a bag It was the scariest moment in my lifeThey took my bag that had my purse a brand new camara my Iphone my rings etcIt only took them like 5 minutes to finish up the police came like 15 minutes later yep from another thread was living with my mother at the time she was at work i was in the shower I kept hearing a loud knocking It was persistent I got out of the shower cautiously quickly put on underwear and went downstairs to see what was going on I started to get a little scared and concerned when i noticed that this person was knocking on the inner garage door that leads to the housewith nothing in my hands i opened the door to the garage to find a filthy longhaired redneck meth addict stealing my moms broken television with this being a subdivision set back in the woods in a semiswanky part of town im sure the last thing this guy expected was a pissed off black guy in his underwearthe second he saw me he yelled an expletive dropped the tv and ran to his stillrunning truck I was understandably angry and banged on their window the lookout in the passenger side looked like he was about to cryso they sped off i didnt break their windows like i wanted to do so desperately i called the police gave them the lic plate number they found the guys pretty quickly but when a detective came by my place of work to have me pick the guys out of a lineup pictures i chose the wrong guy they all looked alike and the detective said that they had to let him gothis was a scary situation and i believe i acted foolishly if either of these guys had the malice or the means i could have been injured or even killed i can only suggest that should you want to confront the person going through your belongings or actively stealing from you have a plan in mind and be prepared Or get in a closet and call the police When I was 5 I got an awesome bike for my birthday My first real bike Previously the bike I had ridden was very small and pulled from the garbage So we went to the store and picked out this spectacular black huffy It had all the options the shiniest chrome the darkest metallic blacks perfect lettering from stem to stern the sweet smell of fresh rubber with nubs just itching to be worn off Of course I couldnt have it till my birthday so I tucked it in that night in our barn thinking of the millions of mud puddles and uncountable jumps the two of us would encounter over the next few wonderful years In the morning my head sprang off the pillow as the first whispers of light came throw the window I was out the door while still getting dressed I threw the barn door open and to my surprise my bike was just as excited as I was That is to say it was not where I had left it This in no way alarmed me as my father is the kind of person who likes to toy with a young boy Sure you can have a candy bar but you cant eat it I rushed back in the house and demanded my present My father had a dazed look on his face as if to say I really wish I had worn a condom 5 years and 9 months ago because this shit is annoying at 6 am He insisted he didnt move it and I must just not be looking hard enough I assured him I was so we both went out and he verified my findings I felt so violated What had I done The police assured us they were totally inept and that the chances of my bike returning were the same a Rosanne Bar leaving a drumstick at the open food bar I was lucky my parents could afford another bike for me but the sour taste still lingers If youre out there black huffy know that I didnt send you away I had dreamt of a life with you Car stolen Car stereo stolen twice Car grill stolen Car battery stolen Home burglarized Bike stolen Chased by heshers threatening to kill me Had unloaded gun held to my head trigger pulled I was a victim of a rash of car breakins a few years backAfter replacing an amplifier for the stereo I decided to place razor blades affixed with plumbers tape all over it Thought being they werent going to take the time to unbolt the amp merely grab it and rip it from its mountI awoke one day and walked out to see all my windows smashed out and near the hatch of the car was a good sized puddle of blood on the ground and a trail of blood on the pavement leading to a wooded areaId sacrifice the window replacement deductible any day to know some shitbag had his hands turned into julliened strips of meatEdit Grammar Had my car stolen three times in 6 months Was locked with an alarm set all three times Apartments can eat a dick I wasnt even living in a shady apartment and I was in a good town in a relatively safe part of itedit Why the hell would I get downvoted for this Way too many timesShot Terrorized Assaulted with a chain Had a shotgun cocked in my face in an armed robbery People need to leave me the fuck alone When I was in college someone broke into my car in the middle of the night He left his NASCAR cap but took my digital camera and both airbags Who the hell steals airbagsI like how someone came through and basically downvoted everyone When I was in 5th grade my parents house got robbed All of our computers and CDbased video games were stolen and I only got back a handful of the video games I didnt so much care about the computers Looking back on it I feel like my dismissive attitude of Starcraft is because of this because I did not get Starcraft again until a couple of years ago and I havent been able to enjoy it since I played it back then Had my car in the dealership for work someone robbed a bank and ran into the dealership grabbed a key off of the wall and ran outside checking cars He eventually totaled it on a telephone pole on the side of rt 17 in NJ Had a car stolen twice by friends in college but not in the cheeky fun way Probably 20 cases when I was back in college of people trying to fight me in and around bars in Philadelphia No rape though This past year alone Bike vandalized bike parts rack lights pump stolen car vandalized All pretty petty stuff in the grand scheme of things I got jumped by a group of 12 Tongan gang members at a party just off campus one time Ended up with a broken jaw one eye swollen shut and a perfect footprint shaped bruise on my back My friend tried to step in and get them to let up but they beat the shit out of him too and stole his cellThe most fucked up part was that even though 23 of them got arrested shortly afterward when the owner of the house called the police the only one that got charged with anything was the guy that had my friends phone under his seat in the car The police wouldnt charge any of them because I couldnt identify which of the 12 hit me when got knocked to the ground by a sucker punch then stomped while on the ground |
My brother just told me that he bought a laptop last week from Best Buy and in the process of the cashier ringing up the sale price vs the full price his newly opened Best Buy credit card was never charged He has since confirmed the balance on his credit card is 0 and he was grinning like trollface while telling me what happenedHas this happened to you Is there a dollar value where you draw the line and go back to payIve bought groceries before and noticed an item or two wasnt charged but I think I would have to go back and pay for a laptop | My rule of thumb is thisIf the error is small enough that my time expenditure in setting it straight is more valuable than the amount of the error I ignore itSo if I get home and find out that they forgot to ring up my jar of mayonnaise I ignore it If they failed to charge my credit card for an entire purchase I would make it rightThis happened to me once I bought a leather jacket at the mall After I got home I got a call from the store that my card had not been charged and could I please give them my information I said that I would call them back I looked them up in the phone book called the store and asked to speak to the manager I gave her my card info and all was cool I usually point it out the exception being if its something small and Im in a busy line I just go with it instead of holding up the whole thing while they fiddle with the register call the manager get a key from the back and fill out forms in triplicateFor a computer though thats a shitty thing to do As JudgeReddit points out you can get in trouble if its something expensive enough that you had to have noticed plus your brother probably cost some poor kid their job Happened to me last year Bought some stuff online and noticed a couple days later that my balance hadnt changed Another week or two monthnow a year later and I was never charged roughly 600 for the stuff I boughtBig companies like Best Buy and Amazon have so much shit shipping in and out that 600 is chump change abnd they wouldnt even notice it anywayI also had a friend who ordered a PS3 from Amazon waited a couple weeks and never received it so called Amazon and they sent him a new one Turns out they delivered the first package and left it in the garage which was open at the time which he found later This is easy he would be pissed if someone ripped him off so he should go back and pay Most places are surprised and delighted when I point out underpayment which I always do and sometimes I have gotten some credit or something if the amount was substantial I generally catch stuff like this at the time of the purchase so I have not often had to return to a store More than a dollar I would go back even if it was out of my way Its just good karma to not rip anyone off even Best Buy although I would be temptedThe clerk might be in deep shit as well I point out the error People can and HAVE been successfully sued for not doing so and youre just asking for additional costs lawyer filing punative The other guy may have made a mistake but youre knowingly walking off with their property and no compensation Its really not any different pocketing extra money because someone handed you the wrong bill I ordered a DVD from Amazon a few months back I have Amazon Prime so 2 day shipping is free I waited about a week after it was shipped and it still hadnt arrived I contacted them and the promptly shipped another stating it must have been lost in the mail and if I should receive both just return one of them I went through the return process which didnt allow me to do anything but return for refund or exchange I selected to return for a refund but made note this was a duplicate and to not refund me I got the refund anyway I was going to contact them about it but decided the effort it would take me to explain to their customer service what happened and that they need to charge me for the DVD wouldnt be worth it I throw a loft of business their way anyway Ive seen this before I think what happens next is Go straight to jail do not pass GO do not collect 200 |
I have a PDF document open in preview It is all textOriginally if I copied and pasted some text from it it would come out as text But sometime yesterday it changed Now when I copypaste it comes out as some kind of codeeg have achieved much becomes 00Equally and just as infuriatingly if I attempt to search for a word in the searchbar instead of searching the text I can see it searches the bizarre code insteadeg search have achieved much has 0 results but the search 00 will find have achieved muchHow do I fix this Its kind of urgent | Ive never seen anything like that happen with Preview Also the characters seem to be mapped consistently to other printable characters but in a completely nonobvious way Could you please post a link to the pdf or at least a bigger sample with also capitals and special characters |
I have pretty much the optimal hairskin requirementsdark coarse hair with pale skin What I want to know ladies is your personal experience with laser hair removal And if you know anyone good at it in the greater Seattle area that would be lovely as well | Its got its drawbacks as all methods do but Id heartily recommend laser hair removal I have had it done on my lip and chin Its not 100 permanent but oh my god the improvement It does feel like snapping a rubber band against your skin for the most part When they zap areas close to the bone or a bigger vein it hurts more but its just for a secondOnce you find a place you like google for reviews and coupons I just finished lasering my bikini and underarms Im not sure how many sessions I did in total at least 8 or 9 over the course of about 14 months I didnt really start to see results until the last couple of sessions Like you I have dark hair pale skin I dont have the highest pain tolerance so it did hurt but as soon as its over the pain is gone too Each session was only about 10 15 minutes I never experienced any blistering of the skin or ingrown hairs Not all of my hair is gone but most of it is and it is a definite improvement The little bit that is left is much finer than it used to be Well see how it is in a few years for now Im really happy I had it done My armpits used to be raw from shaving everyday and even though I shaved I still had a shadow My bikini would also get irritated from shaving and I didnt like waxing because of having to wait for the hair to be long enough If you cant find a spa that does it you can buy your own personal laser machine httpwwwsilkncomPersonally removing my hair with lasers was the longest lasting method Ive ever tried The first part I tried it on was my sideburns because they made me very self conscious After roughly 68 treatments you cant tell I ever had them and the hair doesnt grow backHowever that areas hair was very fine Coarser hair such as underarms and especially the bikini area will take more treatments and theres a chance you might see some regrowth My experience with these areas was really positive Within 3 treatments my hair was growing much more slowly and it was much sparser Whatever you do not DO NOT do electrolysis Worst pain Ive ever experienced I didnt even want to do it My mom thought the hair around my belly button was gross though I didnt mind it Laser treatment felt like a spa when compared to electrolysis |
Bud has many good meanings A buddy someone you would be friends with or who wants to be friends with you Something budding full of potential Cannabis thank you Wiktionaryhttpenwiktionaryorgwikibud I almost forgot 3A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism which may grow into a genetically identical new organism Im not entirely comfortable with that 5A weaned calf in its first year so called because the horns are then beginning to bud But this is adorableAnyway I propose a vote Vote | If Im talking to someone and I dont know there name I always call them bud So yeah Im down that or treeple I think that has a nice ring to it aswell I think it should keep changing from time to time Who wants to get stuck in a rut I thought last times Twig was cool I think this rounds Ents is flippin phenomenal I like seeing all the creativity go into thisKind of describes us as a whole really We didnt like what was going on at the last spot but rather than sit there and be miserable we just changed it all for the better I think we should keep changing Keeps us on our toesBut I like the thought that went into Buds we should definitely use that at some point |
A response by KarateKidhttpwwwredditcomrtechnologycommentsanriyfacebookfoundermarkzuckerbergtoldalivec0iiqz4 to someone talking about how crappy Facebook is and how there are no real alternatives out theregt How about we build one imgur is a shining example of what need can invent Image shacks and buckets are gone Why not create a better social networking sitegt gt Editgt gt Thanks for all the comments and upvotes I think we can do it Although not everyone may believe in this I am contacted by a brilliant designer who is willing to help I totally want to do this as a community project Please send me a message or reply to this thread I will setup a group meet and we all can allocate appropriate tasks Lets make it happengt Heres a sort of blueprint Everyone is welcome to join hands if they believe in it I cant possibly do it alonegtgt 1 It will be a org much like Wikipedia At least run on the same ground ie absolutely no advertisement connectiongtgt 2 Simple rules Member owns everything which is their We just provide a platform to engagegtgt 3 All the clutter of applications no wars and farms will gogtgt 4 No public user profile ie there be absolutely no information visible without logingtgt 5 Status updates message sending wall photos staygtgt 6 For photos we can use imgur infrastructuregtgt What do you guys think | How will this be financially supported There needs to be some revenue to support bandwidth space and database hostingEither way if there is a need for a coder and I have spare time then Im in for whatever How the hell do you expect to use imgurs infrastructure Hes hosting images There isnt exactly an infrastructure behind it last I checked A dedicated server or AWS How do you suppose MrGrim feels about you suggesting we just use his shitThis sounds like a pretty poorlyplanned idea Apps are a cool addition to Facebook Its the spam of invitationsnotifications that I dont like How do you expect to finance it without any sort of advertisements Public profiles are actually pretty nice to be honest Being searchable like that but being able to restrict what people see which is exactly how FB is now is perfect to me Considering most people dont actually care about Facebooks privacy settings and when I say most people I mean people who dont post on reddit or other tech sites ie the general population If you were to make privacy your distinguishing feature then I think youd have a lot of trouble getting inertia goingYou should try and find a very specific niche and try and focus in on that for example gaming maybe you could have a social network for gamers you could link your Xbox Live account Steam account and PSN account to the site and there would be easy ways to arrange tournaments and the likeYou also have the added advantage of it being a lot more marketable to advertisers What I personally dislike about social networks is that they rarely connect you to new and interesting people They primarily deal with people that you already know or people that know people you already knowId like to see a social network that would connect you to other people based on your submitted data For instance Im interested in web design and development so ideally the network would connect me to other people with the same interests and provide us with a way to share information easily I want a social networking site based around the concept of guilds The guilds could be either professional or hobby based The members could pool resources and offer rankings based on something like Reddits Karma ExampleA design guild could a have pool of resources that include things like stock photography tutorials fonts ect The members of the guild can vote up the resources they find useful and anytime someone downloads a resource for use it automatically provides an upvote Members can also earn points by helping other members with advice critiques ect Members would be ranked by the amount of points they accumulate Members would also be encouraged to promote the guilds they are part of as members of more prestigious guilds could justify charging higher prices Just for shits and giggles guilds of the same type could battle each other for glory Also maybe guilds could form alliances for getting group discounts for things like health insurance I suppose you could offer job boards where companies could pay to have their jobs viewed by the guilds You could even offer services like making sure the job listing were only viewable by guild members of a certain rank or even specific guildsThis is all kind of off the top of my head but I imagine I could come up with more if anyone is interested This is a good idea I think a decentralized approach from the start might help solve some issues of ownership scale and financing Also it should build on existing web standards such as FOAF Just like Wikipedia I think building on Free Software would be essential to keep things transparent and truly community supported I might be able to help with the design and by hosting a machine at MIT One of the main challenges is how to reach the network effect Facebook already has For example Identica is not nearly as popular as Twitter even though it has almost the same functionality and its built on Free Software I think the ability to connect to existing services is essential Push and pull data from FB Twitter imgur etc would be an essential step towards making a transition For example some people might be attracted to this new service because they can have more control and ownership of their data complete data portability is a big plus Eliciting the concept of Wikipedia is a good idea because it has good reputation and valuesPeople should not be forced to have things private and available only behind login it should be an option |
DAE put Ketchup on everything they eat What kinds of food do you put Ketchup on besides the normal | I put it on scrambled eggs and get the weirdest looks for doing soOtherwise I dont eat it on anything unusual |
Its the same test that you use to know if you are in a cultIf you are wondering whether or not you are part of a cult then you are | I finish every Final Fantasy game with at least 30 elixirs What is interesting actually is that in moderate difficulty games Ill always end up with a huge surplus of uberitems In things that are actually hard I end up using all of them and struggling since itemsammo are at such a premium It seems there is no middleground If I drink the health potion now then I wont have it anymore If I dont have it anymore and I need it later I am screwed Dont even get me started on my wands grenades or scrolls I like to play through games using the first shitty weapon youre given and nothing elsebecause I just like being hardcore |
I have taken off and on Optimum Nutritions OptiMen Multivitamin and no matter how I take it with or without food one at a time with each meal or all three together it seems to make my urine bright yellow to the point that I think if I turned out the lights it would glow Has anyone else had this problem or know anything about it I have no other side effects and was just curious if this was normal or not | This is asbolutely normalThose are the vitamins that your body could not absorb being evacuatedSome people use this as an example of why multivitamins are useless you basically just end up with expensive pee |
I thought I had a large pot but I dont The one I have is about 3 gallons with a few inches to spare Could I boil a more concentrated wort then add the water in the fermenter to make it up to 5 gallons | YeahI may be wrong but I believe one downside is that with a higher gravity during the boil youll have less hop utilization Also because youre boiling a smaller volume your boil will be more vigorous so youll have a greater risk of caramelizing of your grains leading to a bit darker of a beer than you were originally aiming for and youll also have to make up for a bit more evaporation in the end than you would have otherwiseOn the plus side itll chill much more quickly |
Im currently considering 3 candidates the asus Eee 1000HE The Dell Latitude 2100 and finallya 17 Dell XPS gaming rig my friends willing to cut me a deal on Thing is the XPS is huge heavy and only gets 12 hours of battery life Your thoughtsEdit other suggestions welcome | A refurb laptop from Dell is probably the best deal youll get Ive found them to be indistinguishable from new ones and they come with the same warranty Take a look at dellcomoutlet Ive found the same laptop to be a few hundred dollars cheaper at the outlet One thing you should consider is the way you intend to use your laptop If youre planning to carry your laptop to class every day and use it to type notes then you should take the smaller laptop with lots of battery life If youre planning to mainly use it in your room and carry it around only occasionally then you should take the larger one Before you make any decision think very hard about this because getting a laptop that doesnt fit your pattern of use will be a big waste of money Another thing to consider is the size of the screen and the keyboard of the netbook I find them to be too small and uncomfortable esp for tasks that require lots of typing eg coding You should try them out for a while atleast 12 days before buying I have the Asus 1000HE It is an awesome netbooklaptop but maybe youd want to look at one of the newer models with updated specs |
Theyre awkward in handling the book while reading and if you take it off temporarily its just a piece of clutter sitting around I understand that they protect the book and allow the author or publishing company to display images and text but it seems like a waste of time | Yeah dude I cant really stand them at all Thats usually the first thing I do when I get a book Either that or use the little flap that goes in between the inside of the cover and the first page as a book mark depending on if it fits or not If the images are printed on the book itself then it is awesome If they are on a paper jacket then it just plain sucks Honestly I think they were originally intended as a form of advertising Theyre like a wrapper that youre supposed to throw away but theyre such a pretty wrapper that nobody ever does Kind of like how people keep the bag that comes with a bottle of Crown Royal I use the flaps that go inside the cover and back as bookmarks Front flap for first half back flap for back half |
Hello I am going to request that my coworker quit forwarding me emails but I had a question I received this email todaySure could use any blessing that God chooses to give HAVE FAITH Dont ask questions just forward and you will seeI Kings 824A blessing is coming to you in the form of a new job a house marriageor financial break throughDont ask questions just forward to eight people and trust GodThe email is forwarded from a catnetgenmous address Im assuming this is a violation of churchstate or at the very least an abuse of tax dollars for personal email use What are your thoughts I know that Reddit will have a certain slant on the issue but wondered if there is a legal obligation to contact their IT person so they can avoid being targeted by someone with a bone to pick Or maybe Im reading too deeply into this and its not a big deal | us does not in any way imply that the address is owned by a federal organization In fact the majority of state and federal websites are hosted at gov Start by requesting that they refrain from sending you religious emails If they continue complain to their supervisor that it is an abuse of their email system for personal use and unwelcome If I get such kind of forwarded email I forward another email by saying You are stupid If you dont forward this email to ten other people you are really stupid |
I just dont think broadband is really worth 50 a month thats 600 a year any equipment hidden chargesFirst question Do I have to choose between the major companies like ComcastVerizon Their best offers are insane To get the 20 a month plan I have to buy 6070 worth of service OR pay 50 for the 20 month plan Comcast Similar story with Verizon I need a landline Which no I dont see why I would need one in the 21st centuryAre there any sane ISPs or do I have to deal with these companies If so I will just go without an ISP I currently use neighbors WEP router but the latency over that distance is meh not palatable | I pay 25 a month for 12 Mbps from Comcast Granted I do pay a lot for the TV service I just recently called them up to see if I could get my rate reduced again You see I was paying 70 a month first six months for Internet HDTV DVR and Starz now its around 100 with no Starz Just by calling them I learned I could start saving 20 a month in about 2 months and I got 6 months of HBO for freeComcast and other companies are always running promotions The only catch is that you need to call up and ask for these deals I wasnt aggressive or deceitful lying about canceling service when I called All I did was state that I was trying to reduce my bill and the rep helped me out as much as she could Maybe had I been more aggressive I would have gotten moretldr Call your provider and ask for a better deal |
My frugality is very lopsided I save tons of money by living without a car and spend hardly anything on my prepaid phone plan but I spend an embarrassing amount of money eating out I eat out for lunch 3 of 5 workdays per week and then go to fast food andor restaurants a few other times a week with my girlfriend and her little kidI think it mostly comes down to novelty and laziness Cooking is a chore and especially when all three of us need to eat its so much easier and more fun to just get out and go somewhere and let them do the work But a meal for 3 costs anywhere from 15 to 35 bucks generallyI also tend to avoid fast food for the most part figuring that if Im going to eat out I might as well eat decent food instead of eating overprocessed garbage and handing more money to a giant megacorporation instead of a local business But this isnt helping my bottom lineHow do I get out of this loop Im not an addictionprone person but when it comes to this issue I can relate I could be saving tons more money if I could control itAny advice | Unfortunately youre going to have to make cooking into a fun activity instead of a chore Chores suck and if you can shirk them without consequence then thats what we do I only like to cook when Im cooking something stupid simple bacon amp eggs or for another person Because of this I try to make arrangements to cook food together with friends and keep easy to make food at the ready for when its just me Work on lunch first Its easier to get into a routine there I just buy lunchmeat once a week and take a sandwich Start with your lunch Pack a sandwich man If thats too complicated have two fruits like an apple and a banana and a dinner roll or a bagel I used to eat sweet bell peppers These days I just make a PBampJ before I leave for workMy new years resolution is to combat this very problem my biggest problem with spending away money is eating out Ive resolved to mentally consider a lottery ticket when I get the urge to browse If for some reason the feeling wont go away I will just buy a lottery ticket for 1 which is very cheap and at least Ill be funding my states public schools I like to cook but often feel too lazy to do it so I invested in a crock pot There are tons of recipes online and prep time isnt that long Do 1530 min of prep at night The next morning take 2 min to throw it all in the crock pot turn it on and when you come home from work you have meals for the next 23 days So you only have to cook about 2 times per week rather than every nightAlso when you cook anything cook way more than youre going to eat right then so that the effort you expend ends up giving you a few more meals Watch plenty of Alton Browns Good Eats and Americas Test KitchenhttpwwwamericastestkitchentvcomI dropped a dime for a Lodge Dutch OvenhttpwwwamazoncomLodgeLogicPreSeasoned5QuartHandlesdpB00063RWYIrefsr11ieUTF8ampshomegardenampqid1262317438ampsr81 I now make AMAZING noknead breadhttpwwwbreadtopiacombasicnokneadmethod and a roast for just a few dollars When you want to kick it up a notch you can spring for a nice Choice Top Rib Roast thanks Alton Brown for around 5 per pound Thats fucking prime rib mate OMG next up I buy a syringe to inject that shit straight into my veins Best thing I have EVER eaten and no restaurant will EVER come close ps Im comparing that meal against a 580 meal at Bacchanalia in Atlanta 5 Michelin starsin short get pationate about cooking Dont be scared of spending a few dollars on essential cookware if its of a quality that will last decades cast iron etcI recently made the above moves and I cannot even begin to express how good the food is My wife now INSISTS that I have a noknead bread loaf ready every third dayI could start linking recipes but you must find your own way grashopper start with Good Eatshttpwwwfoodnetworkcomgoodeatsindexhtml and jump right into Americas test kitchen when you have a thought about a particular foodstuff The key is to be adventurous and very soon youll be enjoying treats like homemade biscuits and ham Enchiladas Verde and even simple and rustic pleasures like brown beans with onions and cornbread Youll find the things that appeal to you you just have to be willing to learn in the kitchen the same way that you learn at the computer desk Or lose your job looking into your wallet and seeing that last pitiful 20 in there was motivation enough for me to hit up the grocery store instead of eating out knowing that my survival and well being depended on that last 20 You need to realize that eating out is more of a chore than cooking By the time you all get dressed hop into the car and order a meal you could already be serving up a better tasting healthier meal at home A night out to eat is basically an hour and a half minimum of your time Id rather eat on the couch and watch a dvd or a decent tv showIf you find yourself cooking super intricate meals that take forever try to tone them down a bit Make some spaghetti taco salad or chili Cut corners where you canAnother possibility is to teach the kid to cook I was cooking as early as 12 and honestly most meals were pretty easy I had no problem cooking up some pasta for my parents if I had nothing better to do as long as I didnt have to do it every night Teach yourself basic cooking Not in the sense of recipes but really cooking This guy is awesomehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv7Oz87LxvKV0 Get a panini maker We make hot sandwiches grilled chicken steak wraps burgers etc Serve with chips and a pickle and its like lunch from a bistro Clean up is fast and easy I got mine from Target for about 25 well free since I had a gift card Make sure to get one that is unhinged in the back The hinged ones squish sandwiches unevenly Keep your kitchen at home well stocked Every time I get tempted to eat out I just tell myself I have food at home My answer as simple I started baking dessert at home Once you have dessert theres little reason to go out |
She stopped immediately looked up and said SeriouslyShe went home shortly aftershuffle setting best cockblock ever Better than a roommate | If she truly cared about you she wouldnt have left Shuffle is a good way to weed out the superficial ones Guess she couldnt handle the pressure of being with someone who wants to be the very bestthat no one ever was You know shes a keeper if she sings along or starts telling stories about her epic battle to capture Mesprit haha I think all you guys hatin on the pokemon theme are acting a little TOO defensive hmmmI have pokemon on my music list too Im not really a geeky guy eitherLook it wont be a problem unless you let it be a problem Theres nothing wrong with keeping memories of your childhood with you I think some of the people on here are a little insecure of their manlinesshahaAnyway Im behind ya on the pokemon but I think you could have handled the situation a little bit better Chicks swarm to confidence and dominance of the situation You gotta keep control If she actually recognized the song you wouldnt think shed have too much of a problem with it What really sucked was when Mitch Hedberg started playing on shuffle once in the middle of having sex it was even worse when I started laughing |
Im not quite sure how to describe this I mean that the characters always know exactly how to respond to everything another character says in a wittysarcastic way If there is a pause its overly dramatic I realize its supposed to keep the pulse of the show going but for some reason its a turn off for me It just gets to be a little too unnatural at times | Agreed Im not saying TV has to be 100 realistic but I really dont like it when theres no gaps or anything in what the people are saying Like theyre just so excellent they never need even a few seconds to thinkBy the way dont ever watch Gilmore Girls |
I never read the catcher in the rye Never really knew much about it at a younger age and now i feel as though I wouldnt relate to it as much It has happened with numerous books I feel as though you need to read them at a specific age SO I am looking for your books for the perfect age childhood petit prince by SaintExuperyteenage years the alchemist by Coelho late teens romeo and juliet or tristan et Iseult first half of 20s anything by chuck palahniuk thats as far as I have come | A Clockwork Orange was great as a teenDostoevsky and Vonnegut were great in my 20sIm wrapping up my 30s now Its been a decade devoted mostly to technical books Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett I took an elective in my sophomore year of high school called Logic in Human Culture It turned out to be one of the best classes Ive ever taken Anyway in that class we read the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn That book came into my life at the perfect point in my transition out of a religious life I was raised hardcore baptist christian and I was a firm believer all the way through middle school Once I got to eight grade I started to ask the tough questions The ones my parents would never have an answer to even though my Dad has a bachelors degree in Bible Study for fucks sake So my mind was opening more and more to new ideas And here was Ishmael A book full of new lifechanging ideas It may have a liberal bias and I dont quite agree with everything the book has to say but there is definitely some poignant truth in most of it This book forces you to change the way you think about society and the world around you After reading that book I set off on a beautiful journey into the world of knowledge and logic the beginning of the second chapter in my lifelong quest for Enlightenment tldr Ishmael is a great book good for the curious truthseeker and atheismcurious Put Chuck down I know its fun but dammit theres so much better stuff out there Ill never go back Until he writes the next one Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain It has inspired me to get or try to into the restaurant business and possibly go to school to become a chef |
The only times I properly smoked the chemical was when an experienced user lite it for me and I feel that whenever I try to smoke it I just burn the stuff Now thanks to rtrees Im thinking of buying a magic flight box portable vaporizer for my herb Will this or any other vaporizer for that matter properly heat 5MeODMT for inhalation | Ok just put some basil in a bowl sprinkle some dmt little more basil more dmt then a layer of basil You dont want the flame to directly touch the dmt When you light it just scortch the top I usually just hit it with the lighter very quickly a few times Inhale hold and Im sure youve got it from there hope thar was helpful safe travels Yes it should work like magic Just look up the melting point for 5MeODMT and set the temp around it Kinda depends on what kind of vape it is too |
Ill go ahead and startI was in a design class where we had to submit large presentations in digital format on a timely basis I dont large as in size but large as in we would have to submit fully realized presentation packages filled with own own drawings photos and fully researched theses and facts We would get large and long requirements telling us specifics on what needed to be included length etc We as a class had been turning these things in weekly and sometimes biweekly and after about 6 weeks had failed to receive anything back as a grade or comments as to how we were doing This was a completely new teacher so nobody knew how he graded although he was kind of a prickOn the 7th week we had a particularly difficult package to put together and there wasnt one kid out of our 30 person class that wasnt working on this day and night stressing out The night before this thing is due the teacher has the audacity to email everyone and tell us to make sure that we really pay attention to every little detail in the assignment because some of our earlier work was lacking and accusing us of not taking this seriously and grading everyone down for itI was livid So I hit reply all CCd in the program director program President it was a privately run student abroad class and all his fellow teachers etc blasting him for not returning ANY of our previous projects despite promises every day and expecting these huge amounts of commitments from us without honoring any of his own and at the same cutting him down about how ridiculous most of the assignments were to begin with Basically everything everybody in the class had been saying to each other but nobody had the balls to say all us students were living in essentially one dorm and everyone was on their computers working on this project so everyone got it at the same time high fives ensued immediatelyTLDR hit reply all on a studentwide email while CCing his bosses that he was being a crap teacher for a lot of valid reasons basically mirroring everything everybody was saying behind his back High fives ensued | Gah I need the payoff for that story What happened What did the guy do What did his bosses say Anything I neglected my teachers assistance when all they were trying to do was teach me I regret not paying attention in French class This was right after a big shitstorm in which my best friend and I rather messily switched girlfriends and were trying hard to stay friends because of all the crap going onI happened to be sitting with my friends ex on the bus on the way back from a field trip and my German teacher decides to be an ass in front of just about everyone in my grade So he says loudly so everyone in the bus can hear and he can add fuel to the fire since people were already gossiping really badly about us Woah Nanker really likes this chick Maybe we should be worried Oh wait things couldnt possibly get any worse for the two of you could they Well at least you have each other because it doesnt look like anyone else will want either of you around for a while Totally unprovoked and the asshole had this ridiculous smile on his faceSo I did the only thing I could I told him that seeing as she was my age I could like her as much as I wanted and there were no laws getting in the way of that He on the other hand really should be more subtle staring down her shirt and getting off during class and then giving her an A on her report to make up for it I told him that verbatim I should point out that this was not only in front of 80 kids in our grade but also 7 or 8 other teachersI thought it was effectiveGot through unscathed D On a vector calculus paper I couldnt do one of the questions so I simply wrote Left as an exercise to the reader At some point a marker or my supervisor might read that Thats it I think Still waiting for the marks back on that If I get the paper back Ill post pics to prove it |
My boyfriend also a redditor and I have been dating for nearly two years now For the past seven months we have lived three hours apart and only have to the opportunity to visit each other about once or twice a month To keep close we speak to each other on Skype every night and watch moviestv shows simultaneously However since we are going to continue living apart until who knows when I was wondering if anyone could suggest some fun things for us to do despite the distance | Play an MMO together like WoW or Aion Online Im in the same boat with my BF pretty much exactly and this has helped some if you dont play WoW or something you can play chess on yahoo games me and my boyfriend Were like 10 hours apart i think idk I always fly to see him do that sometimes and were also going to start reading a book together Mostly it sounds like youre doing everything you can do Im in the same boat my boyfriend and I have been dating for 2 years and have spent since September apart We lived together before he decided to go to school 5 hours away and when he moved I felt completely devastated It took me until just recently to get back my once empowering independence and I find that the time apart gives us time to focus on ourselves At first I wasnt sure if I could ever see myself in a long distance relationship but we became so close I could never let him go We usually text message a few times a day and when we have time usually in the evening well go on ichat basically Skype for Apple computersIts really difficult to have a relationship with someone you can only see once in a full moon but when you do see each other its non stop talk dates kisses need I say moreMaybe you could plan something special for Valentines And if you think of something let me know Im still thinking of something S Sometimes a skype striptease can be nice My boyfriend use to like it When you are far away its so hard to keep a relationship going |
My brother was selected to play for Australia undefeated and top of their pool they scraped past North Korea in the semifinal 43 in suddendeath overtime to face Iceland who looked to be the dominant team of the tournament They played their best game of the tournament to defeat Iceland 31 and win the gold Im really proud of my brotherAlso both Australia and Iceland are now promoted to Div II as a resultEdit httpwwwiihfcomchannels0910wm20iii httpwwwiihfcomchannels0910wm20iii | Thats awesome I love hearing what is happening in the other divisions Is there any way of seeing hilights of this game |
Gretchen Carlson Fox News Anchorhttpwwwthedailyshowcomwatchtuedecember82009gretchencarlsondumbsdownStefani Germanotta Lady Gagahttpwwwredditcomrredditcomcommentsako2dladygagajustdancesoundboardbreaksandsingsCurtis Jackson 50 CenthttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvgCzb5zpV0PAMakes me sad Then I think about all the idiots Ive met that probably do this and it made me sadder | George Bush Hes a well educated yuppie who somehow managed to fool a large percentage of a country that he was just a good ol boy Im an idiot disguised as a smart person Seriously I graduated at the top of my class in high school then got into a good college and got terrible grades Im not a smart person and I keep getting endless opportunities because people think Im smart and want to take the gamble on meIts sad really considering how many people deserve to be in my position but cant Seeing 50 Cent like that is justweirdIt just goes against the whole image that he has had built up around him over the years But yea theres a very intelligent man behind all the hiphop gangsta looks which is why he rose to the top I used to assume a lot of people were idiots and then I got over myself Never underestimate anyone Perhaps their limitations are only what youre allowed to see Dolph LundgrenhttpenwikipediaorgwikiDolphlundgrenBiography Check out the Personal life section as well You forgot Paris Hilton She acts dumb to attract dumb journos to cover her for dumb celebrity news viewers But she gets brilliant hard cash for that No offense to the man but 50 Cent didnt strike me as all that intelligent He didnt really say anything insightful and if thats eloquent and articulative then your standards are lowYeah he did much better in that interview than I would have expected but still I think the only reason he was impressive is because my expectations were so low gt Stefani Germanotta Lady Gagacheck out this Lady Gaga interviewhttpwwwebaumsworldcomvideowatch80651466 i like her sarcasm about what she looks for in a man funny how everyone takes her seriously Why is this sad They have successful careersIt makes me sad when idiots are disguised as smart people That list is like way longer Ive been told scarily more than once that Im a lot smarter than I look Is that considered a compliment Imagine if everyone you talked to everyday was dumber than you are alreadyI think Mike Judge made a movie about this Some of my coworkers at my new job actually said to me Your not as dumb as you act are you I told them not to tell anyone because I dont want to fix their computers P Yeah but we all do this How many of you go into a BestBuy or somewhere and ask the reps there about laptops or cameras and pretend to know nothing and are interested in what they have to say even though youve done like weeks of research on the item and know more than they doJust me ok 50 Cent is a well spoken and an eloquent man I bet he never imagined he would be on CNBC while he was dealing crack on the streets Monica Crowley is another one To watch her on McLaughlin Group is borderline embarrassing but then you find out she has a PhD from Columbia in International Relations |
The other day I was house sitting and knowing that I liked Mountain Dew there was a 2 liter available to me I drank the whole thing I usually do the 12 pack of 12 oz cans in a week Basically I want to know if Im doing long term damage hereI am 22 Male 510 at 140 lbs skinny I exercise and seem to be in perfect heath | What you dont realize is that at 22 your metabolism is on overdrive You can probably eatdrink whatever you want and still have trouble keeping weight onThis ends toward the end of your 20s Yet your eating habits are what they are Theres no mystery here why people start looking at relaxed fit pants in their 30sMt Dew or any other soda is just empty calories Sweet easy going down empty calories And if you think that switching to the Diet variety is better its not Drinking all that sweet stuff tunes your pallet toward a sweeter generally higher calorie diet even if youre not getting it from THAT particular drink Besides those artificial sweeteners may not be that good for you eitherHere give this a readhttpwwwwashingtonpostcomwpdynarticlesA294342004Aug24htmland this onehttpwwwwebmdcomdietnews20050613drinkmoredietsodagainmoreweight when youve finished the other Do you honestly need to ask Its like liquid candy try high cholesterol and diabetes maybemore infohttpwwwemedexpertcomtipssoftdrinksshtml Ok I believe so strongly about this that I created an account to respond Popsoda in general is horrible for your long term health Your body might not react to it immediately but the longer you drink it in the levels you are the more damage you are doing to yourself and your liver in particular Watch this lecture by Dr Robert H Lustig who argues that fructose especially in the form of highfructose corn syrup is so bad for you that it should be classified as a poison he also likens the way your body reacts to it as alcohol without the buzz It is 9 segments of 10 minutes each and it is riveting I do everything I can to avoid HFCs in any food what so ever The other big issue with sodas is the massive amount of salt the sugar is there to disguise it You should stop drinking it or at least severely limit your intake You wont want to drink a Mountain Dew again if you watch the whole series of 9 videos on his lecture It is scary stuff httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvWjxyjcvW7RE httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvgj14IMI5J8s httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvVjZFVqT9MME httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvK3yPrmmsrs httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvVCvoJadC9co httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvnxhAkh9J6Y httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvzxuSNQUrNg httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvp8nhyCkx168 httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvtyaRnfGRV0 EDIT I see now that others have linked the same video but in the full 90 minutes in one sitting Sorry for the duplicate info but it is VERY worth the watch |
So I found some of my dads old speakers recently and was wanting to put together a decent sound system and I was wondering if you guys think its worth getting these repaired or just buying new onesThe speakers say Omega VII on the back and when you take the guard off the front they have a knob to adjust the audio and say omega again Honestly Im not sure if they are some cheap speakers or decent ones and my dad doesnt seem to know eitherhere are some images of themimage1httpimgurcom7rWKuimage2httpimgurcomyUPxQimage3httpimgurcomaErK0Looking forward to some advice here | Those look pretty knackered Omega doesnt show up as a vendor on audioreviewcom I think its safe to say that these speakers werent amazing in the first place and havent weathered well If they need new drivers youll need to replace both left and right to get a matched pair Youd be better off putting your money into a new pair of speakers Looking at them Id say dont waste your time If you pay a shop to repair them youre looking at 25 a woofer for foam surrounds The pair doesnt appear to be worth 50 looking at the anemic magnet and stamped sheet metal basket on the back of the woofer These dont appear to be anywhere near the quality of the current line of Omega products so much so that I question their authenticity Fake speakers have been sold in electronic store parking lots for a very long time |
My mother was a drug addict and I was born HIV She died shortly after my birth so Ive never talked to her about it | My hiv result is coming in 4 days Im so stressed out I waited 3 months and went to the doctor last week gt I really dont feel like dealing with their ignoranceIn effort to remedy this What would you most like us to know I did a bit of HIV related work experience a few years back when I wanted to be a doctor I remember hearing that complete adherence when it comes to drug taking and an undetectable viral load means there is virtually zero chance of transmission even without protectionSo my questions are as follows1 Is what Ive said above true2 What is your drugtaking timetable like3 Are you very adherent when it comes to drugtaking4 Have you experienced any medical problems due to your HIV status how often do you get sick with coldsfluetc Is chicken pox and other such things worse when youre HIV Is this the curehttppatftusptogovnetacginphParserSect1PTO1ampSect2HITOFFampdPALLampp1ampu2Fnetahtml2FPTO2Fsrchnumhtmampr1ampfGampl50amps15676977PNampOSPN5676977ampRSPN5676977It was patented i wonder if anyone has tried it Your username AntiMidas suggests that you feel like everything you touch turns to shit Or maybe that you afraid to have contact with people in case you pass on the virus How paranoid are you about your physical contact with others If you get a bad paper cut or something how do you react I mean for example if someone was trying to patch you up or somethingHow susceptible are you to the common cold influenza etc Would you ever have to be hospitalised because of illnesses that would otherwise be relatively benign What kind of medication do you have to takeSorry for all the questions and thanks What degree of familiarity does someone need before you tell them I mean I would imagine that your close friends know and that you dont just blurt out Im HIV Positive when meeting people for the first timeWho pays for your health expenses Normally I would troll you but damn Through no fault of your own you have a shitty disease That sucks Hope you make the most out of life When you tell people that and they goAre you sureDo you replyIm HIV PositiveOn a serious note are you on a daily dose of cocktail medicines If so how are you coping with the payments as a college senior When you were born were you addicted to what ever your mother was taking Ive heard that can happen just never been sure I have a friend whos had it since about 1985 blood transfusion and hes just fine now 25 years later and gets more girls and has more sex than I do He always informsAnd hes kind of a dork So if he can get girls so can you and I see you have Now me I dont know what my problem is |
I know its bland and boring but Id love to have a desk job from 9 to 5 with a cubicle and a tie I probably bought at the thrift store and a shitty printer doing data entry or something like that Id be perfectly happy making 2030k or so a year living in a small apartment with my girl friend and feeding the cat I would ownIm currently in community college I have a customerservice job involving lots of running around manual labor and getting very dirty and smelly I feel like Im just kinda drifting along going no whereHow do reach my dream of typical American lowermiddle class mundanity | Finish school write a resume send it to 1000 people One of them will offer you a job doing exactly that They will tell you its much more awesome than that and thats how you will know that it is in fact just that |
Alright so my residence hall had a mandatory floor meeting today and my RA announced that we have a new marijuana policy The new policy is that if you tell an RA that you smoke or smoked you can be written up which could potentially lead to being kicked out of school Also I go to a public university california state university This seems like a violation of my right to free speech Is this legal Is there anything I can do about it Ive thought about contacting NORML or MPP but im not sure if they would care | They would certainly care especially since medicinal marijuana use is legal in California if you have a card I dont see how a state university could say you cannot Seems sketchy Id shoot off an email to both those groups And then gtfo of the residence halls asap |
I was getting off the phone with a friend of mine that I knew to be an atheist I hadnt spoken to him in a while and just came out to him And then I thanked him for having been one of the people who inspired me to think deeper than my rootsHe immediately got flustered and told me I needed to believe in a higher spirit Then he said nice talking to you and promptly hung up Woops I guess he found religion since the last time we spoke Now I feel like I was reverse prosletysingShare you stories of atheistic awkwardness and help me feel better | I was talking to an old high school friend of mine that I had just reconnected with through the magic of the internet and because we met at church camp when we were kids we each thought the other was still Fundi It took a good 20 minutes for me to get up the courage to ask him if he still went to church After a slight pause and a tactfully vague response he asked me the same I side stepped and then he realizes we are both trying hard not to be disrespectful and comes out with Fuck You realized it was bull too This Thanksgiving I got together with my Atheist boyfriend my parents and a few scattered family members My mom finally asks does anyone want to lead grace and without thinking I swiftly respond with mom is anyone in this room actually Christian There was an awkward pause and then we started eating I asked my friend that if there were hypothetical irrefutable proof that Jesus never existed then would he still believe in him He exclaimed YES And proceeded to highfive one of his other Christian buddies It was surreal and left me speechless I dont really see how he was an atheist in the first place Once you realize that religion is pretty much only a hoax for power and that all the stories are false and flawed I dont see how you could really pick up on a religion My two bosses took me to lunch last year because of something at work Id done well It was just kind of a thank you The more senior boss started to pray out loud leading us in a prayer at the Chinese buffet Fortunately both he and my other boss bowed their heads and had their eyes closed immediately Im sure I had a shocked look on my face I looked around the room and people were looking over as he was praying I was really stunnedNeither boss figured out I didnt have my head bowed as far as I know But being an atheist I felt very awkward My definition of an atheist is someone who is incapable for becoming religious again I say this because becoming an atheist for me is a matter of overcoming a delusion and being aware of your mistake so that you are not in danger of becoming religious again since you know the dangers of falling into a tempting delusion |
I feel like the benefit of the Barcode ScannerhttpwwwandrolibcomandroidapplicationcomgooglezxingclientandroidxzAaspx app should be known by all Android users This application allows you to scan 1D barcodes and 2D QR codes The later proves very useful as it can contain links to websites Android applications or even contact information The real power of the QR code is revealed when combined with your web browser you can open the current webpage on your phone in a snap This is what you will need Google Chrome Extensionshttpschromegooglecomextensionssearchqqr My favoritehttpschromegooglecomextensionsdetailhonmmebmobkooojhhblgjdanecndkico Firefox ExtensionshttpsaddonsmozillaorgenUSfirefoxsearchqqrampcatallampadvancedsearch1ampas1ampappid1amplver35ampatype0amppp20amppid5ampsortamplup My favoritehttpsaddonsmozillaorgenUSfirefoxaddon2780 Bookmarklet for other browsers javascriptvoidwindowopenhttpchartapisgooglecomchartchtqrampchs300x300ampchl2BencodeURIComponentlocationhref2CQr20code2Ctop1002Cleft2002Cwidth3502Cheight3502Cstatusyes | I made this A handy adressbar trick just slap QRCurcom in front of any URL and youll have the QR code Browsers other than FireFox do not seem to need the slash typed inThis is what reddit looks like httpQRCurcomhttpredditcomor more interesting the semiofficial Lastfm app httpQRCurcomhttpwwwcsmarshalcomandroidfmlastandroid134apkNo installing needed and excellent for when you want to show off to someone dont we all Could you use the scanner to say scan in all your books from your personal library and thus have a handy listing of every book you own so the next time you go to the used bookstore you dont end up buying some book over again Because that sir would improve my life hugely Replace locationhref with getSelectionlocationhref in the bookmarklet and you can use the same one for the page URL or selected text on the pagejavascriptvoidopenhttpchartapisgooglecomchartchtqrampchs300x300ampchlencodeURIComponentgetSelectionlocationhrefQr codetop100left200width350height350statusyesThen you can paste it into something like AK Notepadhttpwwwandrolibcomandroidapplicationcomakproductionnotepadpzxaspx or any text fieldIt looks like the Firefox extension you link to has this feature as well and google gogglesEdit I just realized 3banana prefers Barcode Scanner over google goggles therefore so do I |
Throw out your ideas for where to meet After ideas are submitted Ill make another survey for everyone to fill out providing datetimeetcLets make this one the biggest yetEDIT I need suggestions of places guysNew page date and time postedhttpwwwredditcomrmeetupcommentsanodnphillyareameetupthemeetisofficialandgoing | Every time we try it falls apart due to lack of leadershiporganization take charge and well follow |
Hi this is mostly to American redditors I am from the UK and I recently made an uninformed comment on gun controlcarrying of offensive weapons and got abuse flowing full throttle at me I was in the wrong in the comment but it brought out something that worries meWhy is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised I am aware of the second amendment but I am asking why this over 200 year old seemingly barbaric law is still in placeAm I completely wrong Can someone either restore my faith in humanity or inform me of what Im missingI am reluctant to have abuse thrown at me again but i want to know your opinions so im willing to risk it and bad karma to get themEDIT Firstly thankyou for the number of responsesSecondly to all the Redditors who have tried to educate me in American history the lessons have been valuable and i now understand this much better in a historical context The need for weapons in Americas history is clear I wont take any gibes about the british empire personally as at that time my ancestors were under its regime and actively fought it But point well made I appreciate the irony of British people such as myself judging Americans for something that we brought aboutI realise also that i shouldnt be judging americans as gun owners as the majority of gun owners are clearly responsible citizensI realise too that even if the government wanted too they couldnt disarm you all Whether this is good or badProbably a good thing that they cantIn summary I still dont see guns as a good thing but I understand much better why Americans feel the need to arm themselves and i also realise why this attitude is not going to change so thank youI will try and trawl through all your comments but it is almost midnight my time and i need to sleepThankyou again and you really have changed my ideas have a good one | You see your countrymen the British Army tried to take away the colonists weapons in an effort to subdue the populationThat kind of rattled the population a tad There is plenty of gun control There are mandatory background checks restrictions on what can be bought For instance full automatic weapons and sound suppressors cannot be bought Short barreled rifles cannot be bought Sawn off shotguns cannot be boughtNow the reason why owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life is legalized for several reasons One only law abiding people follow the law By outlawing guns then truthfully only the outlaws will have guns I follow the law I own a firearm If the law said I couldnt own a firearm I wouldnt own one But would that deter a criminal from having one Absolutely not They mostly are undeterable Okay so why is it legal The second amendment allows it And no the second amendment isnt barbaric The colonists wished to have the freedom to have arms for many reasons One of the main reasons was to protect themselves against their own government One of the theories is when a populace owns weapons it deters the government from becoming totalitarian Another theory is it facilitates the theory of self defense I believe the former argument was stronger back in the 1700s The latter is what I subscribe to as a much more valid argumentThe fact is Americans like being very self dependent and autonomous For instance our declaration of independence says everyone has the right of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Of course all of us history buffs know that pursuit of happiness was originally property I digress But if I have an inane right to my life my liberty and my property or pursuit of happiness how am I supposed to protect that Due process and legal remedy is one way But when something is imminently threatened such as my life which my property interest in doesnt need to be expounded on there is only one other option an effective weapon My weapon of choice is the gunedit I am aware it is possible to purchase full autos and sound suppressors But they have made it so difficult to attain that you really cannot You need to have a form signed by the chief law enforcement officer of your jurisdiction a back ground check submit a 200 tax fee If purchasing a fully automatic weapon the receiver has to be made before 1984 These receivers usually go upwards of 5000 a piece Price continues to go up as the years go on because they become more rare Also the only people that can sell these sort of things are FFLs with a class 3 certification Private individuals can sell but only if the aforementioned paperwork is complete It takes six months to a year for the ATF to approve the forms And it is almost impossible to get a Sheriff or Chief of Police to sign off on the forms required So like I said you cant just buy a fully automatic weapon or sound suppressor The process is so hard convoluted and expensive that it is nearly impossible to obtain these objects hence my statement gt designed purely for the purpose of ending lifeBy making that statement you seem to be implying that anyone interested in learning about or carrying a gun is primarily doing so because they are planning on using it for killing another human Thats an incorrect assumption I dont own any guns but Id be very interested in learning how to safely and properly use them and eventually own some I have no intent to use them to kill anyone but be damn sure if anyone ever threatens my life breaks into my houseetc I would use a gun to defend myself EDIT could I use other things to defend myself probably sure Would those other choices be as effective as a gun maybemaybenot depending on the circumstances Id rather have a gun and not need it than need it and not have it The point about gun ownership is not killing people Its about having the freedom to defend yourself in the manner of your choosing If youd like to defend yourself with blackbelt kung fugo right ahead If youd like to defend yourself with an expensively armored car and bodyguard protected home go for it If youd like to defend yourself by carrying a gun you should be able to do so freely without judgement gt seemingly barbaric lawbarbaric compared to what if you could wave a magic wand and remove guns from the planet people would still kill each other Probably in even more barbaric ways Im not making that argument to be progun just saying that killing has been around for much much MUCH longer than guns have I dont own a gun Ive never owned a gun I dont plan on ever owning a gun I grew up in the south and gun ownership was a fairly normal thing Most of my friends families owned a gun or two Hell my family had a whole stockpile of guns in our attic that was left to us by my grandfather Ive been shooting a number of times at targets Ive never had any inclination to kill anything and I must say it is fun I can see the appeal of becoming an accomplished marksman It requires immense concentration and physical discipline Its not really something that I would dedicate my time to but I can understand why others find it enjoyable Many gunenthusiasts in the US also enjoy guns for their mechanical and aesthetic properties much in the same way that carenthusiasts enjoy cars The majority of gunowning Americans are responsible lawabiding upstanding citizens Also the people fighting to maintain gun rights and the people committing gunviolence are largely disjoint groups Theres nothing barbaric about owning guns The only barbarism is in their use Canada also permits gun ownership yet avoids the gun violence that the US sees I dont know what the solution should be but I dont think banning guns is the answer The gun violence seen in the US stems from much deeper cultural issues Banning guns is like putting a bandaid on a bulletwound and I doubt it would have much effect at all especially with the number of guns already in circulation Im not an NRA guy but I own 14 guns Most are relics passed down from my father but I do have a handgun I purchased for home security I do not support owning assualt weapons The main worry over gun control laws in the States is the slippery slopeie ending up no offense where Britian is today Im thinking of the story I read a day or so ago of some woman in England who after seeing people sneaking around her home grabbed a knife and banged on her windows to scare them off IIRC she was admonished by police and possibly may be charged for brandishing an offensive weapon How is that remotely justifiable What is the woman doing wrong Is she to wait until someone assaults her prior to grabbing something to defend herself Its asinineIts fear of this sort of NannyState idiocy that drives the general American publics view on weapons If youre reluctant to have abuse thrown at you then why take such a negative stance in your question Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised I am aware of the second amendment but I am asking why this over 200 year old seemingly barbaric law is still in place and Can someone either restore my faith in humanity all give the impression that youre automatically opposed to the law rather than taking a neutral stance and coming to a conclusion AFTER hearing all the facts and opinions from actual American redditors So yes youre going to get downvotes from this post but you wouldnt have if you hadnt been so negative to begin withNow to address your post I am a European born in Poland lived much of my life in Europe and I completely support the lax gun laws in America This is mainly because you cant quite argue the fact that the people who would be committing crime with guns are not the people who would care about following gun laws Most of the people who both own guns for the purpose of killing people and committing crimes ARENT REGISTERED GUN OWNERS They are people with criminal records who arent legally allowed to own guns and they obtain their guns from illegal dealers and WILL CONTINUE TO EVEN WITH MORE GUN RESTRICTIONS Take a look at Washington DC That is an American city with massive amounts of gun crime yet it has some of the strictest gun restrictions in the nation I can guarantee you that there are more breaking and entries ending with death or injury for the property owners in Washington DC than there are in say Houston Texas where many people own guns for the purpose of defending themselves as well as hunting which they must first obtain licenses for which they doThe people who follow the gun laws are the people who will use their weapons properly for self defense or careful sport Maybe if the people of Iran had more weapons they wouldnt be quite so helpless to their government or maybe if the people of occupied Europe had more weapons during World War 2 they might have stood a better chance in resisting the Nazis The most surefire way of ensuring the liberty of the people is to responsibly arm the peopleEDIT Also take a look at Switzerland a very liberal and safe country which has never been oppressed Practically every male citizen is REQUIRED to own a firearm after finishing their term in the Armed Forces and I bet you the data shows that there are far less crimes including firearms in Switzerland than there are in say Canada Not meaning to trash Canada Im just arguing a point here For clarity I am a UK citizen who lived in the USA for a few yearsThe gun control argument should stop Americans have gunsmillions of them there is no way to get those guns out of circulation even if the law required it and the will to do it existed the bad guys would keep theirs and the good guys would be in the shit We would be pissed off if the government decided to take away one of our rights because a small fraction of the population abused it in order to take liveswe would say control that small fraction of the population dont blanket bomb us all for their misdeeds The Americans right to bear arms is just that an inalienable right I admit it does seem incredible to us but that is because we are unaccustomed to it the majority of the gun crime is young idiots who think they have been dissedin the UK that lot just stab each other with the knives the law says they cant have there is little difference Because in our hearts we are free men The government cannot complete its takeover of our lives as long as we have them I like this articlehttpwwwguncitecomswissgunkopelhtml It isnt saying Switzerland lacks gun control and is better off because of it as many progun advocates like to say It tries to get to the root of why Switzerland has such little gun violence Also taking away or more strictly regulating a weapon doesnt make people less violent As Americans we feel the right to have big shiny dangerous things Guns are collectible fun and give one a sense of safety Most gunrelated violence comes from guns that were illegally obtained by being able to legally obtain a gun it gives Americans a sense of protection from others with guns We have a large amount of hunters in America as well also a large number of target and sport shootersAs Americans sometimes we ask ourselves why is there SO MUCH gun control outside of the US Americans for the most part believe in the rights of an individual The UK believes in the rights of society In the US an individual can defend themselves and their property with lethal force In the UK they freak out at even the smallest show of forcehttpwwwredditcomrworldnewscommentsansx3ukwomancautionedbypoliceforwavingknifeatI am an adult citizen of this country There should be no higher authority Its amazing what people will give up for some protection in the US and UK Similarly we see many of your self defense laws as barbaric as above You submit full authority and the ability to challenge that authority to a few ministers The UK is still very much a feudal societyThe UK government treats its people as children in the name of society Bans on everything If you arent nice to your neighbors they penalize you with fines and ASBOS You see us as barbaric we see you as sheep Because America is the most individualistic countryhttpwwwgeerthofstedecomhofstedeunitedstatesshtml in the world For the most part we want the government to stay out of our shit and not being told what to do is worth more to us than a small possible increase in safety if you study our Constitution you will note that it is mostly concerned with limiting the power of government Im not saying this is a superior viewpoint but it is our culture and it has worked well for us for the last 223 yearsThats why although I am not a gun owner I do not view the 2nd Amendment as outdated or barbaric at all I believe if someone wants to buy a gun and use it for noncriminal purposes they should have the right to do so After all we are citizens not subjects Because it is not a police officers job to protect me it is my job to protect me A police officer is there to catch the bad guys after theyve already hurt you Im always a little confused by those who call firearms barbaric They usually have never handled a firearm in their lifetime and are usually just afraid The only thing that gun control does is take firearms out of the hands of law abiding citizens and put them in the hands of criminals If thats the kind of world you want to live in go for it I dont If you phrase your post that negatively and address American gunowners then youre going to get abuseThere is an unavoidable clash of ideologies when it comes to the US vs the UK when it comes to keeping guns for security purposes We have never seen the need to have guns and most of us wouldnt want them Even the most vocal comments on The Daily Mails website dont go as far as to say we should shoot anyone who comes onto our property despite choruses of hang the paedo etcIt seems that overall Reddit is entirely liberal except for when it comes to guns I will likely be questioned as to why owning guns isnt liberal in my opinion I think that keeping something on your person that you are keeping just in case someone pisses you off by trying to rob you is encroaching on the liberties of everyone you know It is essentially an accident waiting to happen A kitchen knife is kept primarily for the purpose of serving food but could be picked up in the heat of the moment an overly emotional argument or the fear of an intruder It takes a lot of mental strength to jab a knife into someone you are right there next to them and have consciously decided to injure them with your own hands Shooting a gun is distant and cold Its not even really you its the bullet that did itOver in the UK we know that youre more likely to get stabbed if you carry a knife It is more likely to inevitably be used against youAdditionally we largely trust our police When they fuck up it hits the news big time It doesnt happen often either I have had a few dealings with the police and have not experienced any kind of heavyhandedness A lot of Americans Ive spoken to think of the cops as largely corrupt and triggerhappy We have no real need to think we need to act as a surrogate police forceAlso despite what you read from The Daily Mail and for gods sake its like us getting our impression of the US from Fox News stop listening to that bullshit we read it for entertainment if at all not proper journalism we are not a fucking police statenanny state Most of the CCTV is privately owned for the five hundredth time Reddit We LIKE the NHS We LIKE the things that are government owned because up until your incompetent leader dragged us into an illegal war we could sort of trust it Now they have to earn the trust back and it is going to be a long process see MPs expenses scandals but the UK is a nation of intelligent cynical people and cannot be fooled We are not the sheeple you wish we wereIf the government has got you so afraid that you feel you need guns in order to save yourself from strangers you havent met and to start a revolution you will never actually begin YOU are the ones under control Not us I dont know what you learned about the american revolution in your high schools but what we learned was that we fought for our freedom We formed militias we rose up against an oppressive regime and kicked their asses because hell no were we paying a tax on fucking tea America was founded on a theory of leave us the hell alone we want to make our own choices and you cant make your own choices if someone else holds more power over your life than you do The idea that the government can oppress citizens via overt or covert power is exactly against our founders visions we run the government the government does not run us Gun rights exist for the purposes of fighting oppression which is why the founders specifically mentioned militias in the constitution a revolution succeeds via a group of likeminded citizens and are part of our national birthright You may not understand this because your country was formed out of a different cauldron royalty landed gentry blah blah but the tone of your question seems to show you do not respect this viewpoint you view weapons as purely offensive and barbaric when in this case the right to own them is a defensive right its because people love their guns they hold onto the constitution as a definition of their right but its not about that People just love guns How else are we going to fight off the King of EnglandA more serious answer theres a cultural difference in how guns are perceived and integrated into life particularly in the rural areas of America If you ask a European what comes to mind when they think of guns many will answer war or crime while Americans particularly those in rural areas are more likely to answer hunting sport or protection However America is a very heterogeneous country and there are plenty of people with Europeanstyle views on gun control especially in urban areas Thats why its such a controversial issue even within the same country there are essentially two different cultural views on guns I have never owned a gun in my lifeI would fight toothandnail to protect this rightThe fact is threads like this make me want to go and purchase i think the founders were trying to keep the country from falling into another monarchy or dictatorship so they provided the second amendment You have to remember too that this country was built with guns we still have the dont fuck with me attitude that we had to have to be here today personally I have mine because too many crazy people have theirs I would be more interested in hearing the other side of this Europe why do you disagree with citizens owning gunsNot because I want to rag on Europeans OR Americans or anything I am genuinely interested in knowing why the US is so obsessed with owning guns to the point where many people dont give a crap about health and survival of their people but freak out about firearm registration VS why Europe thinks that they are barbaric and horrible I was robed at gun point while in college and it changed my attitude towards guns as a means of self protection After I contacted the police they told me they couldnt do much but take a description of the two guys I now live in a suburban town in NJ where we have one patrolman per square mile on the road at all times Guns may not seem necessary here but in some states there are only one sheriff or State trooper for hundreds of square miles they cannot be everywhere all the time Rarely are crimes stopped by cops while in progress maybe bank robberies whereas murders and rapes are investigated200 million gunshttpnewsbbccouk2hiprogrammesfromourowncorrespondent7359513stm America is a bit paranoid Culturally Why does Israel demand military service from all able persons Why does Switzerland make every household both have a gun and know how to use itPlus when the zombies show up which country do you really want to be in The island with shitty food or the continent full of fat people and guns This is hilarious coming from someone who lives in a place where citizens are chastised by the authorities for using a makeshift weapons to defend themselvesHere is the short answer to your question if you illegalized guns only criminals would have them and we would be at their mercy The slightly longer answer If you were planning on say breaking into a house to assault someone you wouldnt really be too concerned about the added crime of getting a gun But if you are not planning on committing a crime a gun law would stop you from obtaining one But you the aw abiding citizen would now be more or less defenseless against the person set on doing violence So who has the law protected in this case The criminal purely for the purpose of ending lifeYour bias is showing I carry so that if I am in a situation where my wifes or my safety is threatened I can use it to protect us Barbaric law Have you seen some of the videos out there of the barbaric animals who arent satisfied to have your wallet they kick you in the face when youre down hit you with whatever heavy object is nearby and generally try to kill you with their bare hands Those are the barbarians we defend ourselves from Just to give you an example the major gang in my area uses frigging MACHETES to attack their victims Look at the crime rate in places where there is gun control ITS HIGHER Look at the rate of knife crimes in the UK It comes down to this if you outlaw guns than a law abiding citizen wont carry one but a criminal will So the one now doing the crime has the gun while the good citizen doesnt If guns are legal the citizen can now fight back and still be a good citizen A criminal would use a gun even if it was illegal so legalizing guns just helps the people out there that are trying to be good citizensLast of all if the person you are shooting at is a criminal I think that his life should be ended just to save society That is why everyone who carries a concealed handgun should have hollow points Born out of the revolution where militias rose up against the monarchy the second amendment was created to ensure the american people had the power to bear arms against the government should it be requiredIm not an american but this is my understanding of the issue Ive never been able to decide if I approve or disapprove of it Theres a million and one ways to revolt against the government that dont involve guns but then again maybe that one single way will be the only solution one day gt Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalisedMilitias and protection and all that jive aside this is one of your big misunderstandings Im presuming that you meant human life because I assume you dont have a problem with devices which exist solely to kill cattle or chickens for example In modern times hunting is generally a matter of sport but historically and USs history doesnt go that far back hunting was an important means of sustinence If you couldnt have guns then you could only eat things you could grow or trapHunting isnt the only reason of course but please appreciate its influence on the current state of things As I understand it England doesnt generally have a lot of game to hunt especially for commoners so that probably represents an important difference in culture that informs your opinion on the matter Heres how I look at it Its not as though we say sure you can have a gun and go ahead and shoot people if you get angry From a philosophical standpoint Im not sure I see the difference between you cant have a gun and you can have a gun but you cant shoot people with it with a narrow exception for selfdefense I do think its fair to ask whether more people end up getting killed by guns as a result of their greater availability but I dont think the answer is so obvious A proper analysis would have to take into account the greater likelihood that a criminal has one the greater likelihood that the potential victim does as well the behavioral implications of these probabilities and the extent to which strict gun control would succeed as a practical measure That last point in particular may depend on your starting point ie strict gun control where guns are fairly common in the population might in fact result in a bad guys have them good guys dont scenario while strict gun control where guns are less common might result in a no one has them scenario I dont have a gun but ive been shot at in my hometown by someone who DID have one that was most likely obtained illegallyWith gun control the upstanding citizen cant defend themselves while the criminal will still be able to obtain whatever gun they can get illegally gtI realise also that i shouldnt be judging americans as gun owners as the majority are clearly responsible citizensYou give the impression that gun owners and clearly responsible citizens are mutually exclusiveOf course in the context of this gtWhy is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalised Im not that surprised if you feel that wayIf someone wanted a gun thinking of it only as a tool to threaten intimidate and kill humans Id be wary of that as well However its more common in my experience that people who have made the choice to arm themselves think of them as tool for protecting themselves andor their families Why do Americans do XXXXX while Europeans do XXXXX Because different nations and regions have different histories and different ways of doing things Im an American and I prefer that sane lawabiding citizens have access to firearms for defense of their lives and property However it also seems perfectly normal that a country such as Holland for instance would have a different view on gun control given their culture and background Both nations have their reasons for having different sets of laws and neither is particularly wrong This isnt to say that Im some kind of cultural relativist There are many issues health care for instance where there is clearly a good and bad way of doing things Im just saying that on the issue of gun control there are valid arguments on both sides and that cultural aspects unique to a certain country have much to do with with whether or not gun control should be viewed as good or bad gt Why is owning or carrying an object designed purely for the purpose of ending life legalisedWhy shouldnt it gt I am aware of the second amendment but I am asking why this over 200 year old seemingly barbaric law is still in placeThe second amendment is about giving the responsibility of liberty and freedom to individual citizens If you and I lived in the USA that would mean that you and I are as responsible for keeping our libertyfreedoms intact as the police military and government are in fact more so In Countries like the UK and Australia Im Australian the citizens entrust their governments to be responsible for their liberty and freedom By American standards this is why they are more free than social democracies Heres a few things you might want to considerA few years ago more than 100 people showed up at a government meeting Virtually everyone in this meeting was legally armed Everyone was there to protest Children were present And nobody got shothttpmediahamptonroadscommediacontentpilotonline200708gunmeetinghtmlAnd did you hear all the stories coming out about a small town in Georgia since 1982 About all the crazy loons running around in Kennesaw killing each other About the gunfights every night as the town burned so brightly you could see the flames over in Texas No Thats because Kennesaw Georgia is one of the safest towns in the United States Not a single resident has been involved in a fatal shooting in 25 years Thats as a victim or as an attacker 28189 people live in that town 28189 people and not one murder Not One So how do they do it Better schools Prison reform Superior healthcare I think it has something to do with the fact that in 1982 Kennesaw mandated all of their citizens own a firearmhttpwwwwndcomnewsarticleaspARTICLEID55288Oh and Penn and Teller had a few things to say about ithttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvSCXtfR0roEand part twohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvMtqufzEFCzwand about ColumbinehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvjoBMq6b4MmEWhat really bothers me is that all the gun activists and people who want to ban guns have the same narrow minded view They all assume people are as ignorant and hotheaded as they are about firearmsIf everyone has a firearm everyone is going to think twice about everything Is it really important Do I really want to rob this guy if he has a pistol to defend himself with Do I really want to throw a punch at someone who I just had a car accident with Do I really need to escalate matters all the timeYou think about these things when you carry a firearm You do keep civil You do think things through Dtente You dont pull a firearm out and wave it around or menace people with it Thats a fast way to a wind up in prison for life andor b get shot and killed yourselfIn my opinion firearm ownership is really about personal responsibility |
Sex is a fun healthy natural act for humans to do It burns calories kills time and has been a popular past time for people since the beginning of time Its fun for a reason We are one of very few species that has sex for pleasure as well as procreation Guess what came way before religion sex You know what kills sex for people guilt Guess where most of that guilt comes from religion Is there anyone out there reading this who has come to realize how fantastic sex is after they got married and wondered why the heck they werent doing it since the first possible chance Or for that matter realized you fucked up when this will be the ONLY person you will experience for the rest of your life Or are you content | Not me but my wife yes I was not a virgin when we got married when she was After we married and started to have sex she asked me How could restrain yourself so much If Id known what I was missing I could never have abstainedMade me feel good because she really wanted to remain a virgin before we got married and I had to really work at that There were a lot of late night blue balls P |
2 Kings 22 8 Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of the LORD He gave it to Shaphan who read it 9 Then Shaphan the secretary went to the king and reported to him Hilkiah the priest has given me a book And Shaphan read from it in the presence of the king 11 When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law he tore his robes 12 He gave these orders 13 Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah about what is written in this book that has been found Great is the LORDs anger that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book they have not acted in accordance with all that is written there concerning us 2 Kings 23 1 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem 2 He went up to the temple of the LORD with the men of Judah the people of Jerusalem the priests and the prophetsall the people from the least to the greatest He read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the temple of the LORD 3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the presence of the LORD to follow the LORD and keep his commands regulations and decrees with all his heart and all his soul thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant 24 Furthermore Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists the household gods the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD | Deuteronomy 17 contains instructions for the monarchy One such instruction is that each king was to have a personal copy of the Law and that he should read it a lotDeuteronomy 31 mandates that an additional copy of the Law be kept by the Ark of the Covenant and that it should be read to the people every 7 yearsBy 2 Kings 22 Judah was in a time of a great prolonged disobedience toward God the nation had neglected the Law for some time This is a story all about how Josiahs life got flipped turned upsidedown when his priest discovered one of the old kings copies of the Law and presented itAs Josiah said while tearing his robes a sign of furious mourning his fathers failed to obey the words in the book This is not a story about a brand new book popping up out of nowhere like with Joseph Smith Josiah inherited these royal scrolls from his fathers who had along with the rest of the nation neglected them |
I get 65 or more of my comment Karma from silly oneliners I wish people would at least comment on my supposedly insightful intelligent dialogues Does the interwebs let you down too or is it just me | My highest upvoted post ever it does sorta make me sad httpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsaqsucareyouterrifiedthatunintelligentpeoplearec0ixxum Reddit has changed quite a bit over the years I started reading a few years ago in high school although my account is relatively new I remember going to the comment section first because the top comment was always either very witty or had a strong valid point These days most top comments have to do with a dead meme or fusing some bacon with a narwhal I try not to write comments that will come to haunt me with guilt if people one Reddit approve of them though |
Im on a bit of a documentary binge at the moment and have just finished watching Food Inc Super High Me and The Secret Life of Chaos Anyone got any particular favourites Edit Thanks guys loads of good ones here and plenty I havent seen Thanks a lot Having you guys here is like having a googol Googles continuously googling my documentary needs Yay | BBC Life or BBC Planet EarthIt is mind blowing that some of this footage is actually real They are my favorite documentaries hands down I cant express enough how amazing they are Watching them in high definition is jaw dropping King of KonghttprogerebertsuntimescomappspbcsdllarticleAID20070823REVIEWS70817011 is often on the Netflix Instant Queue Its a pretty sweet movie about the worlds biggest douchebag Billy Mitchell and the hapless nice guy thats chasing after the Donkey Kong world recordI also liked Man on WirehttprogerebertsuntimescomappspbcsdllarticleAID20080804REVIEWS8080703051023 which ended up being Rotten Tomatoes Best Reviewed Film of the Decadehttpwwwslashfilmcom20091218bestreviewedmoviesofthedecade Adam Curtis documentary essays are fascinating The Power of Nightmareshttpvideogooglecomvideosearchqpowerofnightmaresampemb0ampaqf compares the neoconservatives to the Islamic fundamentalists Pandoras Boxhttpvideogooglecomvideosearchqthetrapcurtisampwwwgoogledomainwwwgooglecomampemb0ampaq0mampoqtrapcuremb0ampqpandora27sboxcurtisampview3 chronicles the development of a technocracy in our society The Century of the Selfhttpvideogooglecomvideosearchqthetrapcurtisampwwwgoogledomainwwwgooglecomampemb0ampaq0mampoqtrapcuremb0ampqcenturyoftheselfcurtisampview3 follows the Freud family as it unintentionally creates the consumer culture The Traphttpvideogooglecomvideosearchqthetrapcurtisampwwwgoogledomainwwwgooglecomampemb0ampaq0mampoqtrapcur describes how game theory and modern economics have created a paranoid stifling society The Corporation is my favourite documentary and is especially worth watching now in light of the recent SCOTUS corporate personhood rulingAlso you can see the whole thing on YouTube httpwwwyoutubecomviewplaylistpFA50FBC214A6CE87 I recommend This Film is Not Yet Rated I dont generally like Documentaries much but it was really quite interesting The Unionhttpvideogooglecomvideoplaydocid9077214414651731007ampeixaVkS7KFKo3CqAKv3emCAampqtheunionthebusinessbehindgettinghigh if you like weed docs This is much more informative than Super High Me but not funny and the narrator is kind of a douche TysonJust listening to Mike Tyson explain his life makes it amazing I Never knew anything about him other than the Holyfield ear bite Story is great In The Shadow of the MoonhttpenwikipediaorgwikiIntheShadowoftheMoon was an incredibly inspirational move for me because it had a very intimate portrait of the men who went to the moon It had all of the engineer glory moments but some of the discussions with Michael Collins were eyeopening Why We FighthttpenwikipediaorgwikiWhyWeFight282005film29 is good if not a little dated at this point Good analysis of the military industrial complex Especially interesting because of interviews with Bill Kristol Richard Perle Joe Cirincione and a few others King of KonghttpenwikipediaorgwikiKingofKong was just entertaining One mans quest to rule Donkey Kong A mustsee for all people who enjoy video gamesMonster CamphttpenwikipediaorgwikiMonsterCamp was funny and sweet A great look into a very VERY geeky past time Especially funny if youve had any tabletop or LARP experienceEdit Video Links that I found full moviesWhy We Fighthttpvideogooglecomvideoplaydocid9219858826421983682In The Shadow of the Moonhttpwwwveohcomcollectionlandingwatchv15400551f85kxNgk I recommendEnron The Smartest Guys in the Roomhttpwwwimdbcomtitlett1016268andBBCs VISIONS OF THE FUTUREhttpwwwbbccoukbbcfourdocumentariesfeaturesvisionsfutureshtml Cocaine Cowboyshttpwwwdocumentarylogcomd78cocainecowboysgtIn the 1980s ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibitionera Chicago and it put the city on the map Cocaine Cowboys is the true story of how Miami became the drug murder and cash capital of the United States told by the people who made it all happen If you liked the movie Scarface you might like this documentaryhttpwwwstaticmegavideocommvplayerswfimagehttpimg3megavideocomdcd77d86572de6d1d1068565f030c9cajpgampvPQFC0WKF The Vice Guide to Liberiahttpwwwvbstvwatchtheviceguidetotraveltheviceguidetoliberia1of8 This is some powerful stuff If you like music particularly rock indie music Dighttpwwwhulucomwatch62673dig is amazing Such a clear picture of unstable rockers When you are done you will feel like you have Stockholm syndrome to the bands Collapse A crazy excop now conspiracy theorist talks on end about the end of modern society while smoking 3 packs of cigs THE UNION Gotta see it potsmoker or not Valuable evidence of the noneffects of smoking marijuana explanation of how weed became to be illegal in the first place and who are the folks who work for a living to make sure it stays that way httpvideogooglecomvideoplaydocid9077214414651731007ampeiBspkSHFKtyGlgeUxK2mCAampqtheunionamphlen I can talk all day about Hoop Dreams Its the greatest movie ever made It is so much more than just a sports movie Every thread of existence all of mans wants and desires are covered in the film Three hours of beautiful cinema Watch it for Christs sake Taxi from the dark side is a good one but a bit gruesome Other than that check out frontline online for a bunch of good documentaries I recommend the House of Saud Its the story about how the Saudi Family rose to power Theremin is cool Also not quite documentaries but the Qatsi trilogy is awesome Koyaanisqatsi Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi The Power of Nightmares changed how I looked at the world Its one of my favorite documentaries ever I recommend it to everyone Its not conspiracist but it touches on many of the same topics as many conspiracy theories It really shows the true history of the neoConservative movement in the US going back to Qutb and the Islamism movement in the Middle East If you dont know who Sayyid Qutb is you dont know the true origins of modern Republican neoConservationism If youd like to know about their history and how they grew to power along side fundamental Islamism and the two are now in a powerstruggle then watch thisIts incredibly eyeopening And not crazy like most documentaries that try to tackle this topic The Corporationhttpwwwthecorporationcom Orwell rolls in his gravehttpwwworwellrollsinhisgravecom Why We FighthttpenwikipediaorgwikiWhyWeFight2005film The world according to Monsantohttpvideogooglecomvideoplaydocid6262083407501596844ampeivd1kS97mCYSs2AKvqp28CAampqtheworldaccordingtomonsantoamphlenampview3just to name a few Anything by the Maysles bros I by far havent seen all their work but two that I would reccomend Grey Gardens is about Jackie Kennedys eccentricslightly crazy relativesSalesman is about door to door Bible Salesmen in the 1960s Thoroughly worth tracking down I am also a documentary junkie Heres a great source for free docs online wwwtopdocumentaryfilmscomI recommend The Way of All Flesh a particularly good one about the HeLa cell line F is for Fake interesting docu by Orson Welles about Elmyr de Hory Hory made buffoons of critics who deemed many of his thousands of forged paintings legit and whose forgeries have become so popular that forgeries of the forgeries have begun to appear To make things more interesting Welles includes Clifford Irving a hoaxbiographer who wrote a fake biography on Hory in the film Classic |
In love you have to risk everything You have to face the possibility of being alone Just thought Id point that out Thoughts | Remember Anyone you can steal away from the person they are with can always be stolen from youI agree with the topic You can look at other girls sure but not in a hrmm what are my chances of getting some of that kind of way I think you confuse job with careerJoseph CAMPBELL And every marriage was such a violation when it was arranged by the society and not by the heart Thats the sense of courtly love in the Middle Ages It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA the Roman Catholic Church which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character And so came this movement validating individual choice what I call following your blissBut theres danger too of course In the Tristan romance when the young couple has drunk their love potion and Isoldes nurse realizes what has happened she goes to Tristan and says You have drunk your death And Tristan says By my death do you mean this pain of love because that was one of the main points that one should feel the sickness of love Theres no possible fulfillment in this world of that identity one is experiencing Tristan says If by my death you mean this agony of love that is my life If by my death you mean the punishment that we are to suffer if discovered I accept that And if by my death you mean eternal punishment in the fires of hell I accept that too Now thats big stuffBill MOYERS Especially for medieval Catholics who believed in a literal hell So whats the significance of what Tristan was sayingJoseph CAMPBELL What he was saying is that his love is bigger even than death and pain than anything This is the affirmation of the pain of life in a big wayBill MOYERS And he would choose this pain of love now even though it might mean everlasting pain and damnation in hellJoseph CAMPBELL Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense that nobody can frighten me off from this thing And no matter what happens this is the validation of my life and actionBill MOYERS And in choosing love tooJoseph CAMPBELL In choosing love too Agreed As long as you are in a monogamous relationship it should stay that way and if youre planning on leaving the person for someone else save everyone the pain and aggravation and dont be with them in the first place It seems like it usually works out works out for those who violate this though And the ones who dont really care about how the others feel even have it easy when people find outWould like to hear thoughts about this too I agree with the title strongly However there are semantic arguments in this If your in a friend with benefits relationship this may be the only situation or an Its complicated position that maybe it is reasonableYes Ill admit to been an old fashioned traditional tween and cant say I have experience in these more modern relationship situations though But I firmly believe in monogamy one at a time I see a ton of objective statements on this page about what people cant do and what they are if they do these thingsSadly passion and personal beliefs do not an argument makeAs stated in a few posts there are people who CAN and REGULARY do what the original post says cant be doneI thikn that the OP should discuss more of WHY he thinks that people should risk everything or face that possibility He simply says that people have to do something then gives no reason or consequenceThe common sense argument does not apply so long as there are a significant amount of people doing the opposite of what the title suggests who arent collapsing into black holes catching fire or doing black tar Why limit yourself to one lover Almost no other animal gives up their right to procreate with whom they choose is worthy Its both the man and womans fault for giving up sexual freedom In monogamy the female gives up her right to choose who to mate with and when The male also gives up chasing the female which is the very thing that makes him masculine Dont you think if say deer all over the world became monogamous that male antlers would disappear via evolution by no longer battling it out with other males Their bodies would get smaller and weaker since there are no longer battles of strengthStop accepting faulty social norms for how to live and look at nature Tell this to the numerous people Id probably even go so far as to say the majority of people who do thisIf someone is in a relationship they are not satisfied with I can assure you they are looking |
Heres a recent package tracking I sent off to family It hasnt arrived yet 1102010 63600 AM UNLOAD SCAN PAMPANGA PH 1102010 61400 AM ARRIVAL SCAN PAMPANGA PH 1102010 45200 AM DEPARTURE SCAN CHEK LAP KOK HK 1102010 43500 AM DEPARTURE SCAN CHEK LAP KOK HK 192010 104300 PM ARRIVAL SCAN CHEK LAP KOK HK 192010 45800 AM DEPARTURE SCAN KOELN COLOGNE DE 192010 45400 AM DEPARTURE SCAN KOELN COLOGNE DE 192010 124800 AM LOCATION SCAN KOELN COLOGNE DE 192010 123300 AM LOCATION SCAN KOELN COLOGNE DE 192010 123200 AM UNLOAD SCAN KOELN COLOGNE DE 182010 111200 PM ARRIVAL SCAN KOELN COLOGNE DE 182010 93900 AM DEPARTURE SCAN PHILADELPHIA PA US 182010 44900 AM ARRIVAL SCAN PHILADELPHIA PA US 182010 33400 AM DEPARTURE SCAN LOUISVILLE KY US 172010 21500 PM LOCATION SCAN LOUISVILLE KY US 172010 20200 PM LOCATION SCAN LOUISVILLE KY US 172010 10000 PM ARRIVAL SCAN LOUISVILLE KY US 172010 60400 AM DEPARTURE SCAN ONTARIO CA US 172010 11600 AM LOCATION SCAN ONTARIO CA US 172010 10800 AM UNLOAD SCAN ONTARIO CA US 162010 113500 PM ARRIVAL SCAN ONTARIO CA US 162010 102100 PM DEPARTURE SCAN ALISO VIEJO CA US 162010 70300 PM ORIGIN SCAN ALISO VIEJO CA US | For me its usually like this package receivednothingnothingnothingi go pick up the packagelots and lots of tracking informationtwo days passpackage delivered Obsessively It grates my nerves seeing my package at a shipping center twenty minutes away and having to wait all day for UPS to reach my neighborhood My blood pressure I work for a courier company and sometimes i tail the webserver logs watching people F5ing incessantly our system gives ETAs in minutes so the refreshing of the page isnt like watching paint dry Hilarious times |
It took me a while to find the true meaning so my brain just found the closest somewhatmatching phrase with the right letters Problem is now I cant retrain to readthink it properly | No But I remember spending like two books retraining myself to pronounce Hermione properly In my head I read it as HermyownTotally offtopic but there we are |
We left to go out for dinner with my family and when we got back our 2nd floor apartment sliding glass balcony door had been pried open and then lifted out of its deadboltBoth of our cellphones and my backup phone were stolen and we have no landline Had to ask the neighbours for a phone so we could call the policeSo between my girlfriend and myself all we lost was 2 laptops some jewelry and her purse Unfortunately her purse had just about every important thing you could imagine other than SIN That means car keys apartment keys drivers licence etcIm hoping that some helpful redditors might be able to point out anything we have forgotten to do or should still doThings weve already done Called police and they have been and done their thing Called credit card company luckily it hadnt been used Called landlord Maintenance guy changed our locks Took her car to a friends place so that it isnt at the building Bought some pay as you go phones which cant be activated because visa is down Changed all of our passwords for email and everything else we could think of Made a list of everything we could think of that was stolen and are hunting down reciepts unfortunately she kept all of her important reciepts in her laptop bag so we will have to hope the store has a record of the purchase Calling insurance company on monday Going to DMV on monday Calling the companies that do credit checks and stuff tomorrow to have them put a special call notice thing on her drivers licence suggested by police Comforted our cat which thankfully didnt run away during the time the door was left open Made a wooden bar for the door to keep it from being lifted open in the future | Record all serial numbers of electronic devices email to yourself do this for all new products When police bust a burglar they often find things they KNOW are stolen but cant take without proof If you have serial numbers that match stuff found in someones possession the police will love you for helping add another year or two to the offenders record while you get back your gearActually better do that for the new DVD player now Its easier and cheaper than insurance |
Well Im tired of buying cheap alarm clocks that fail after a few months After going through four alarm clocks in two years Im going to try getting a good quality clock instead of one purchased at target after a few minutes of looking at prices Ive found a few but I want to hear what you guys have to say before I go out and buy oneHere is one that I think is very interesting httpwwwmyzeocom | Ive never paid more than ten dollars for an alarm clock and have never had one break down on me before I lost it What you need to do is stop throwing whiskey bottles at it when it goes off The NeverLate Executive alarm clockhttpwwwthinkgeekcomhomeofficelights9bac seems like its pretty awesome My college roommate invented an alarm clock with a sensor pad that you slip under the mattress The alarm wouldnt turn off until you physically got out of bed It could be calibrated to account for multiple people pets kids etc |
So Im a man and I just finished reading this thread httpwwwredditcomrTwoXChromosomescommentsaveyz28andpanickedneverthoughtthiswouldbemeand I was surprised to find such a broad consensus among the responders that women are pressured to get married and raise childrenSo now Im curious where exactly does this pressure come from The responses in the above thread seemed to mostly mention 1 family and 2 societal pressure as mediated by commercials and bridal magazinesAs far as 1 goes I come from a pretty traditional Mormon family and so the family dynamics Ive seen are probably different from yours Mormons like big families and the whole no sex before marriage thing tends to encourage settling down early However Id say the pressure on my unmarried sistersfemale cousinsfemale family friends to get married and have kids is about the same as for their male counterparts If anything people seem more reluctant to pressure the women But my parents and their peers seem to have bad memories of being pressured the same way when they were younger I think this holds them backAnd as for 2 if youve grown up in America and havent learned that commercials lie to you then I just cant relate to you at allSo anyway can you tell me the specific things that make you feel this pressure Does anyone have an a ha moment where she clearly realized so this is what people expect me to do | Its more like this enormous assumption by almost everyone you meetor at least older generationsthat marriage and children are your goals in lifeIf youve been dating a guy for a while you get to hear So when will you get married or if its a long while If he doesnt propose soon are you going to break it off Why hasnt he proposed Cold feetIf you do get married the minute youre back from the honeymoon its When are you having kids How many will you haveIf you do get pregnant if you decide to be a working mom its Oh but honey you dont want your child to be in day care he should be with his mother and if you decide to stay at home its Dont you think you should get a job and bring some money in Your poor husband might like a little helpRecently watched my sister go through all of the above though I havent progressed beyond the dating someone for a while yet and havent decided if I ever want toFriends family and complete strangers have a tendency to think they know more about your goals and ideals than you do If I say I dont want kids I hear Youll change your mind just wait a few years Very few people other than fellow young people who dont want kids just respond to what I said Most people contradict it Which is incredibly sillyhow can you contradict a statement about someones internal feelings and desires Thats like if someone told me theyre a Patriots fan and I answered back that really in a few years theyll realize they liked the Giants better all along gtDoes anyone have an a ha moment where she clearly realized so this is what people expect me to doThere is a broad consensus among humans that creating a family is the main point of existing That idea comes in many shapes and forms in different times and cultures and I think in the US and many other countries getting married is an important indicator for whether you have achieved that goal or not Its not something you have to figure out we all know it We learn it at a very early age Not only from commercials but everything around us Usually we grow up in a family for example P Since Im sure you agree with and understand this Im not sure what you are actually questioningIf you have drawn the conclusion that there is more pressure on women to get married than there is on men we could discuss that Its not my experience however that that is the case PressureMy mother and his standing in the kitchen talking about what dishes we will have for the wedding We arent even engaged yetHis mother holding baby clothes up to my belly 3 months after we had been dating Prior to my current SO I didnt even want to have children Now that we have been together for awhile I would love to have a family with himEvery fucking aunt on both sides of the family asking when we will get marriedhave babiesEvery asshole that turns their nose up that we bought a house before getting marriedMany friends already married and having children or getting engaged Sure you can blow it off as well if you are smart strong and independant you can ignore it all Id like to think I am all of those things and after awhile it all just starts to annoy you and take its toll You really just want people to shut upWe would like to get married at some point and we would like to have babies at some point but people really do want answers or a time line Especially mothers Maybe they are worried it will take too long and they wont get to exprience their babies growing up and having a family of their own I dont knowI am able to weed through the bullshit but not everyone is Some women want to be married early And if they arent wherever they thought they would be at whatever point in their life I can easily see how that would translate into pressure I think that not only is there more social pressure for women to get married but theres also more pressure for women to get married earlier If a guy is unmarried at 35 hes still got plenty of time to find someone and produce kids if he wants to a 35yrold woman had better marry and have babies fast if she wants them at least if she doesnt want to adopt I think theres also a lot of congratulation among some men for maintaining their freedom escaping commitment playing the field etc but among women youre celebrated for acheiving a relationship as if thats something only the woman does I mean think about it even our words for unmarried older men and women have different connotations bachelors vs spinsters The latter term is kind of going the way of the dodo but bachelorette is not replacing it except as that thing you are for the party the day before you get married From the highschool textbook Im currently editing which talks about the history and evolution of the familygtWomen were thought to be gentler more patient and more loving than men and therefore more suited to the emotional nurturing of children This mystique of motherhood implied that women reached their potential only if they had children Mandell 1995 gt And as for 2 if youve grown up in America and havent learned that commercials lie to you then I just cant relate to you at allSocietal pressure would be nearubiquitous not just in the media or advertising Friends family coworkers acquaintences strangers tv shows movies etc Hell there are even financial and legal incentives to get married and have kidsPlus that whole evolution thing Generally when talking about things like this I like to bring up what I call layered states Multiple social phenomenon obviously can exist simultaneously and in conjunction with one another So too can multiple levels of awareness and understandingSo whats the relevance to this That one can know the media lies and still be negatively impacted by itAn analogy would be to understand that knowing about a wound does not automatically heal it Healing it is a separate process from making yourself aware of the need for it to be treated So even when you learn youve been spectacularly lied to even when you learn youve been sold a really long bill of goods thats merely the starting point There is a lot I know about society from an academic perspectiveBut I still have feelings There are still times when Im emotionally vulnerable when I do not feel strong Its part of being humanWhen that happens we collapse onto the familiar and sometimes that can include the comforting lies with which we were raisedThis happens to all human beings to some extent but what was talked about in the prior thread was largely the female versions of these illusions and fantasies It is worth mentioning that glossy mags and television adverts are merely the most obvious socialising agents out there they are not the only onesSubtle reinforcement of all social norms occurs in a million different ways down to our very language It has to occur because this is how society naturally maintains order and the momentum of a society with strict gender roles is still very much at our backs even in 2010 So the broader social predilection will be towards the particular patriarchal type of order that bound the West together for centuries It doesnt just come up in commercials it comes up in books television shows movies casual conversation newspaper articles even little words and phrasesIf you wonder why feminists and other left wing liberation groups constantly seem to point out what are on the surface small and inconsequential bits of media that reinforce this sexist or racist stereotype its because were pointing out one of millions of little things that add to that societal reinforcementEven in the case of progressive stories about women we often use romantic subplots How many times has a wedding been used to end a movie on a happy ending When I was a kid I felt I had to do that with a little novel I wrote The curtain couldnt just drop on an implied happy long term relationship It had to end with a wedding If it isnt implied that its immediately after the events of the movie you get a brief transition with a six months later subtitleMarriage heterosexual marriage obviously has long been promoted as The Happy Ending in every source Even those that are ostensibly liberal and modern this age old trope is used quite oftenHow we are raised how we are socialised and what we see promoted in the various media that are out there sets the tone for what we see as normal What is normal is whats shown on the telly many people buy into the reflexive halftruth that the media merely faithfully reflects reality when the relationship is actually much more cyclical than that There is a reason that control of the media is a goal of so many governments and religions It does set societys toneEven if you are conscious and aware of this you have to live in a society where loads of people arent and in a social world where we interact with others out of necessity on a regular basis youre still going to feel the impact of it Because of how you were raised and how you had this burned into you itll be that cushiony lie to fall back on when youre feeling vulnerablegtDoes anyone have an a ha moment where she clearly realized so this is what people expect me to doI dont think any such moment existed for me personally Most such things come in what I call floodgates of revelation Each gate opens and the water of enlightenment cant be held back after a point but it is a staggered and gradual growth of understanding There was no clarion moment for me but a long series of revelations that led to me being the woman I am today A lot of those revelations came from things that were critical of the mediaFrom esoteric books such as A Public Betrayed which is about the Japanese press to the ever popular Daily Show over the years I began to learn that as George Carlin another source put it its all bullshit and its bad for youI was not raised as a young woman might be traditionally let us just say and as a result I avoided direct parental pressure But once my 20s struck I began to feel that desire to get married and it came out of nowhere For the same reason people feel pressured to do anything like get good grades go to college and get a jobSome women have families that are constantly asking them Have a boyfriend yet Has he proposed yet Are you two going to have a baby any time soon Nicely enough my family doesnt verbally pressure me like that And while I know they will love me just as much if I never marry getting married and starting a family is also just the expected thing For example my sister and I both get X amount of money when we get married Its to cover the wedding if we spend more than X the excess comes out of our own pockets and if we spend less then we can use the rest on a downpayment on a house or somethingSo It isnt an obvious pressure but the expectation exists with familyAs for the media of course I realize that commercials arent reality When I was a child and they would have sweet commercials for toys I would turn to my parents and say things like This commercial is silly that toy looks like its about to break and youd quickly run out of lego light up goo slime and whatever But they do paint a picture of What Life Should Be Whether it should be a party filled with Hot Babes that are attracted by This Brand of Beer and Cologne or a Spotless House made clean by New Miracle Cleaning Product they sell and ideal And its quite obvious that the ideal is a happy nuclear familySo anyway Thats my thoughts on the familymedia pressure you mentionedI could ramble on more But having a nuclear family is something that is seen as essential for a good life And theres only a limited amount of time to create one So pressure Another man here I can tell you where some of the concern comes from It has always been known that after 30 it is more difficult to have a baby Now for the scary part if you want kids it was recently confirmed that a woman loses around 90 of her eggs before she turns 30To top it off a lot of people in their 20s just dont want to or arent equipped to take care of a baby Careers are starting school is happening and too few of their friends and potential mates are mature enough for a baby anyway So a woman gets to 2730 and starts to freak out her 20s were her best years for having a family while simultaneously they were also the most impossible years My personal feelings on the subject is that we are very influenced by our hormones and instincts Politically correct or not right or wrong or not most living organisms pretty much live their lives with the intent of reproduction Humans are different because we have free will We can override our basiclivingbeingmustreproduce instinctBut I think in a lot of cases were still aware of it in the background even if we have decided to override it And because we like to think we have free will and arent simply subject to instincts and hormones we dont really want to say I have an natural inborn instinct to reproduce so instead we justify it to ourselves saying we only feel that way because society makes us feel that way Im not saying society doesnt pressure women but a lot of times it seems like the pressure is exaggeratedI dont know Just my theory on it I am totally okay with the idea that I could be totally off base I dont know just my guess I grew up being told by my dad that I dont need a man to do anything in life then he would contradict himself and tell my sisters and I to marry rich so we dont have to do anything My dad was born in 1949 and something I have noticed from all of my aunts and uncles and older cousins is that they have a very old school mentality If you look at books or howto guides for women in the 1950s then females were told that tending to the children home and husband was what you are supposed to do I am only 23 and have one child he was not planned and I am dating someone but have no intention of getting married or having kids anytime soon But time and time again all of the older members of my family 35 amp up ask me when I am getting married am I going to have another baby now etc When I tell them hell no they seem to be upset because I have failed them My reaction is to roll my eyes because I think it is a silly old tradition that needs to die But there are a lot of people that I have met that tend to follow the expectations given to them by older people They will settle down around 25 and start having kids All in all this mentality should fade out with time It is waaay more normal for a woman to be an independent career woman now than it was 50 years ago The further we get away from that era the less pressure there will be on women to get married and have children Since Im the person who made the post youre referring to no I wasnt brainwashed by television and despite growing up firstgeneration Italian and Catholic careers and education was always a top priority for all the women in my family Also my mother is a first wave feminist Up until well yesterday I thought all the pressure to settle down and have kids was just the left overs of a bygone time or simply media hypeAnd then it just happened I suddenly felt this urge to have a husband and kids and started to worry about when it will happen Despite the advances in fertility treatements women do have a limited time to consider these sorts of things and even though my number isnt quite up yet its not as far off as it was 10 years ago Role modelsprimate aping behaviorYou do what your mom does Moms have more parental responsibilities and in some subcultures you get more respect after youve had children And youll get this for 18 years before you go off to collegeMight also have to do with when your mom got married Mine did at 20 to get out of the house So I grew up with the story that two years after high school I should be getting married didnt but it took a while to realize that wasnt normalComing up with your own narrative in your twenties is hard Doable but hardAnd if you have had a good upbringing and have good DNA theres sortof an internal imperative to pass it onAlso theres this whole twoxchromosome thing that can be overwhelming at times Ive definitely had wow my DNA really wants your DNA moments |
I think starting an American Pirate Party is a great idea and the enthusiastic response so far is very nice to see Ive seen a lot of good ideas on this Reddit so far about what the party should stand for but I think were in danger of missing an opportunity by defining the partys purpose during this whirlwind of activity My big problem with existing large political parties is that the process whereby they and their members define their policies all happens behind closed doors and if youre not a prominent member youre not invited This produces a situation where as an ordinary voter at election time Im given a choice between 2 or 3 sets of prepackaged ideaspositions which cover everything political Furthermore where a small number of parties are dominant its easy for them to define their policies in responsecompetition to each other so a lot of the time a big partys policies for a given election will be aimed at maybe 510 of the population the swing voters who will decide the electionSo instead of trying to put together a flagship quickly and using this as a basis for trying to attract more members I would suggest that the most important thing to get right now is a democratic process whereby any interested potential voter can get involved in helping to define what the Pirate party is and what it stands for This heightened level of transparancy and interactivity could have 2 major benefits 1 I think being offered a seat at the policy formation table will appeal to a lot of people being able to see how certain policiespositions were arrived at will appeal to a larger segment of the population still2 I think an open democratic process for defining the partys policies would make it a lot more robust to corruption otherwise theres a danger that ifwhen the Pirate party becomes significant itll be hijacked by a group with their own agendaAssuming that a political party founded along certain ideals will automatically be better than an existing political force is a pitfall that good people have fallen into many times For the Pirate party to really do something useful for society in the longer term I think it needs to work in a fundamentally better way than existing parties have managed We have the tools to make this possible Reddit itself is testament to what can be achieved with a bit of online voting I dont think Reddit as it stands is a good platform for making concrete decisions though but with a bit of tinkering maybe a platform like Reddit would work Figuring out how to make an online voting system work for a purpose like this wont be easy but I think itd be worth it | The fact that I was working on a post almost identical to this is a very good sign I figured Id make sure no one else had already broached this topic yet and found that you hadThe problem with other political parties is their undemocratic naturetopdown approach When this party gets further off the ground we dont want to feel like were no longer a part of it Mechanisms have to be built into the actual design of the party so that we can continue on a common path Political theory is something of a hobby of mine And a passion I think I know a thing or twoHere is what I have to sayDemocracy is not an end Its a means to an end The end goal is agreement So institutional democratic mechanisms are less important than our ability to come to a consensus Democracy can cause people to get left out This is the most common criticism the subjugation of minority parties So minoritymajority communication is very important and it has to remain in the context of cooperation not competition There is a place for friendly competition but no other kind What allows rifts to be generated is an absence of deliberation Always we have to remain loyal the effort to deliberate We are voluntarily uniting in a kind of social contract here which will have terms and conditions of a sort We need a kind of constitutional convention Our constitution must remain dynamic not staticSo instead of voting on predetermined issues we need to discuss the issues and then vote on them if necessary Who discusses the issues should be a policy jury 815 people chosen by lothttpenwikipediaorgwikiDrawingoflots Then once the policy jury comes to a conclusion it should be put to a vote by the larger group of party members Then minority concerns should be given a platform to be aired and another policy jury 815 people should be chosen by lot randomly and they will deliberate to discuss the minority concerns and come to a consensus and then it will be put to a vote and so on and so forth until we all pretty much are in agreementThis is what I propose Great thoughtsgtI dont think Reddit as it stands is a good platform for making concrete decisions thoughAgreed I agree completely Check out this posthttpwwwredditcomramericanpiratepartycommentsas2w0whatweneedisametapolicyc0j3wlm for my thoughts on the issue We are really jumping the gun trying to define a platform over irc or reddit Instead we need to be developing the system that will allow us to democratically and collectively develop a platform that operates on Federal State and Local levels The planks in the flagship being defined is currently biased towards Federal policies While these are the issues people are often passionate about we cannot simply start out on the Federal level We have to start localSo not only do we need a system where we can develop a platform collectively but one where different localities can have different platforms yet we all stand under a unifying visionI will work on a more concrete design for an Adaptive Party Platform but we need the community focusing on this task rather than trying to adhoc a flagship in a day or two |
I saw pictures of Prince from the Coachella festival a while back and have been in love with the outfit hes wearing but I was never able to find the name for that type of shirt or outfit It reminds me of something some kind of holy man would wearHeres a shot of the outfit in question httpwwwaccesshollywoodcomcontentimages67230x30667907princeattheseconddayofthecoachellavalleymusicandartsfestivalinindiocalifjpg | Theyre kurta pyjamas super common in South Asia The top is either a kurta or kurti And the pants are probably churidar pyjamas I bet his cost a couple thousand but otherwise they can be super cheap |
One of the odd jobs I had throughout college was working at a driving range To retrieve the golf balls from the field we used a frontloading 4X4 ATV On one particularly slow night there were only two gentlemen driving balls approximately 20 yards away from each other in separate stalls I was downrange in the ATV coming back towards the clubhouse when I witnessed both men hit drives that collided in midair approximately 75 yards out That got me thinking about the chances of this happening The odds must have been astounding Anyone else witness a something that surely must have been a oneinamillion occurrence | I trumped a straight flush with a royal flush once Not sure what the odds on that are but theyre slim At my golf course driving range the guy next to me drove a ball that hit a Canada Goose in the head The goose was about 75 yards down range and about 30 feet off of the ground The goose dropped like a stone dead and the range keeper rode out and threw the carcass in the back of a golf cart I was playing pool I shot the ball it bounced off the opposite rail and it rolled back towards meI was holding the cue and the ball rolled right up on top of the cue for about 2 feet and dropped into my handI dont care if you believe it |
I just dont seem to be able to find time or strenght to work on hobby projectsMy week days are as follows I get up at 700 am get to work at 830 amWaste 20 minutes on reddit and alikeswork till 1230 pm take 45mins 1 hour to lunchget back to workleave work between 730 pm 900 pm excluding longer days where i work till 1100pm0100 amI just cant seem to find the time during the week or the mental strenght during the weekend to work on hobby projectsHow do you do it | This is not a question about hobby projects This is a plea for helpUnless you are voluntarily starting at 830 AM and working well into the night your company is running a fucking sweatshop and you should leave immediately They are greedy bastards that want to rob you of your humanity for their gainHow much are you getting paid to pour the best years of your life down the drain I hope its a lot Do you work for Jason Calacanis or something gt leave work between 730 pm 900 pm excluding longer days where i work till 1100pm0100 amYou know people were imprisoned beaten and killed because they wanted to bring us the eighthour day I think we should respect their sacrifices by treasuring their gift I get up at 5am that gives me time to shower walk the dogs with my lady eat breakfast and be out the door at quarter to 7 I ride my bike downtown to a coffee shop bust out the laptop and write code until 9am when I leave for work5 days a week This morning I spent my two hours tracking down an infuriating bug in my omnidirectional shadow mapping algorithm I thought Id figured out what was going on a numerical precisionrollover issue but while I fixed that issue it didnt actually fix the bugI stay off the internet when Im trying to get work donePRO TIPS not necessarily aimed at NunFur1 Watch less TV2 Dont play too many games that take up your free time3 Go to bed early keep your mind sharp 4 Get plenty of exercise keep your mind sharp 5 Save your evenings for the people you love Always remember You work to live you do not live to work You do not have a life get out of that job If you arent getting paid by the hour AND getting paid ridiculous overtime especially if this is a constant thing then you are either an idiot or a robotAll hail our new robot overlordsBTW thanks a lot for setting up the next person to take that position for ludicrous working hour expectations by your boss Why are you working so muchIm sure I love money as much as you do but your working hours influence not only your physical health but your mental health as wellIf its not your baby and youre not invested emotionally and financially in the project stop working those crazy hours youll thank me in a few monthsRegarding mental strength if you have a passion for something and you enjoy doing it its not like your job youll find both the time and the mental strength to do it otherwise its not hobby projectsThey may be projects related to learning new stuff improving relationships doing some extra work for a friend or a college you may consider it as hobby project but its actually more work for you and you probably not very thrilled on doing itFind something that you are passionate about and I promise you that youll find the time and the mental strength for it I cancel my dates with girls to gain karma here with scaling in the cloud jokes that do not work apparently Holy shit man If youre a salaried programmer strictly 9 to 5 it Youre on your way to a burnout that could seriously damage your career Ive found the most effective method is to develop a lifethreatening illness that stimulates you to reasses all your priorities and then decide that one or two of your hobbies is really the most important thing to you Then having committed to those hobbies you find ways to keep the wolf from the door while working on them Dont fucking work your life away like that Other than that break the hobby project up into simple goal oriented subtasks preferably ones that take 45 minutes or less to complete andor weekends The OP has gotten some flack for working the long hours which I agree are a bit too long unless as some have suggested NunFur is a robot but I have a similar issue related more to commuting than to work I live out in the valley and work is downtown so my day looks something like this Up at 530 morningstuff and out the door a bit after 6 to get to the train for 630 Train ride from 630740 Walk to work get there at 8 redditworkRSSworkredditrepeat till 5ish Train from 530650 to get me home Some days less than Id like I head to the gym for an hour or so Home at either 7 or 8 depending on the gymThat gives me approximately 34 hours a day at home some of which is eaten up by dinner cleaning catching up on some TV etc assuming that I get to bed at a decent hour of 101030The problem that I have is that the obvious times for coding and personal work of 2 hours a day on the train my brain is either not woken up yet morning or baked from the day of work evening and I end up watching movies tv shows podcasts or just vegging out and staring out the window I also have some contract work so more often than not I end up fighting with client changes a couple of days a week for a couple of hours which either eats into sleep or any sort of family time Course it could be that Im just a whiny lazy bastard without the drive to do anything in that time However after a 13 hour day I dont think Im whining too much to say that even when Im inspired Im just mentally exhausted The obvious solution for myself is something like go freelance find a job closer to home unlikely or move closer to the current job monetarily prohibitiveNunFur I feel your pain I used to have a job that the commute was 5 minutes Id love to get that back edit I read your post after writing all of this now I realize it only partially applies Damn Well I guess Ill just leave it since I spent the time on itTV doesnt exist in my life so for every minute you can track yourself watching TV is time Im spending on hobby projects Its a state of mind think of your life as a sum of the way you spend your timeI watch movies but a lot of the time as background noise while working on stuff Ill play games but only ones that dont require high time investment counterstrike jump in kill some time for fun jump out no investmentI have a small group of close friends I have a social life where I only go out on one or two weekend nights to play some pooldrinkconverse with people the rest of my weekend go to hobby projectsWhen I get off work Ill relax at a computer instead of relaxing on a couch in front of a TV If I do relax on my couch its with my favorite pencil and paper if you do this enough yes you will have favorite pencils and paper along with a book or laptop figuring things out and learningThis is a state of mind This isnt something I allocate time to this is me I have time for hobbies because my hobbies are NOT just hobbies My hobbies result in software I can sell iPhone applications or software to help me learn distributionstrends in markets so I can invest This goes on and on and on and onHobbies are methods of learning in life a way to live not just a thing like a passing fadPeople like me dont have problems finding time for hobbies because we dont find time for hobbies it is a way of lifeI cannot reiterate the fundamental truth to the hobby nature of some individuals its not a hobby at all in reality its a way of proactively understanding some concept through practice because you sincerely are interested For that you dont need to find time you just do it every chance you get it should have higher priority than other things which have no or little returns on effortIt probably does come down to mental strength and stamina as you mentioned you feel you lack it which would be why youre asking the question I used to feel that way but like a body builder who works out eventually your muscles grow as your minds stamina does and eventually what once was heavy becomes light dude i remember my first few years out in the field I got totally used and fucked by managers 100 hour work weeks for nothing Well i learned my lesson I dont have nearly the commute or workday that you do but Im still dead tired by the time I get home My advice Dont worry about how tired or exhausted you are Just open up your favorite IDE and start coding A few minutes into it and youll have trouble stopping Just make sure you get to bed on time |
I know it sounds gross but Ive heard its a common thing I constantly bite off small pieces of skin from the inside of my cheeks Is this a disorder of sorts | I was JUST doing this when I stumbled upon this DAE I actually really hate it but cant stop As the inside of my cheeks heal they itch and I feel like compelled to chew on them some more Then of course I chew too much and bite off healthy tissue and restart the cycle I wish I could just get myself to not do it for like 2 or 3 weeks so theyd completely heal Im actually doing this right nowIts a sick habitI stop myself when I realize no one would want to make out with that Does nobody else know that this is a condition The same one that involves biting and picking the skin around your fingernails and picking at skin compulsively including zits and is classed in the same category as trichtillomaniaI present you DermatillomaniahttpenwikipediaorgwikiDermatillomania |
I have a couple XKCD cartoons zombie survival guide time travel cheat sheet and courage wolf Running out of ideas for stuff to put up | If you can print thishttpiimgurcomonvjIjpg im sure it would make quite an amazing poster for your wall Strongbad suplexing a cougar atop a mountain of skeletal remains with a lightening backgroundhttpimgurcomK2I56jpg |
I have really loved watching this show lately especially because it went for 7 seasons and IMHO didnt end up sucking like a lot of shows that go for a long time Can anyone recommend other good series preferably scififantasy ish that are like this | Babylon 5 It has a good story arc that develops over the years and theres some very nice character development that you might not see coming Angels pretty good and I sure didnt like seeing it get canceled but theres no replacement for Buffy the Vampire Slayer In some ways Buffys a classic |
Im 17 male I frequently help other highschool kids with their relationships Id like to think that Im decent at it and I realize that for the most part at this point in peoples lives they are trivial The emotions and friendships are real but more than anything early relationships should not be taken too seriously or they will result in disasterThe romantic relationship Im in has been relatively stable and constant for oh two and a half years I believe that may have been a mistake in and of itself letting it go on so long only makes it harder to get over and I think I need to get over it soon I can tell the relationship as it has been is dissolving and Im okay with that Ive enjoyed myself learned some things and not been hurt to the point of trauma Im happy with what its beenMy problem is that despite this there is the primal part of me that is for lack of a better expression upset about it and Im finding it increasingly difficult to stop myself from letting that affect my daily mood Can you offer anything that might help me keep things in perspective | Its normal to be upset by it Logically you dont want to be upset but dont deny yourself what you feel Feelings are not always governed by logic After you break up it will take some time for these feelings to fade |
As a student who has attended both private and public universities and who will be attending medical school in the next couple of years I cant help but notice how the costs are sky high and continuing to rise Public universities used to be inexpensive but theyre pretty much as expensive as private universities used to be and now private universities seem to pretty much sport those from wealthy families or students willing to tack on exorbitant amounts of debt The outlook looks pretty dismal According to the AAMChttpwwwaamcorgnewsroomreporterdec08graduateshtm debt has steadily increased for the last 5 or 6 years for medical students | Theres already quite a bit of cynicism and raging against The Man in this thread so Ill try to give a different perspective Where I went to high school there was a huge push to get nearly everyone into college If this is common in other places then the price increase is understandable there are more people competing to get in so schools are more free to raise prices as they see fit |
I hadnt cut for about three and a half years but I started burning myself again a couple of weeks ago Suicide ideation has gone way up and Im alone as fuck where I live with no real support group Im at the end of my rope here and I have no money for professional help People at my job are getting sketchy about the new burns on my armsI dont know where else to turn I need help badwhat do I do | Two things that really helped me meditation and exerciseI would suggest looking into the various forms of meditation to see which suits you but get into the discipline of doing it for 1020 minutes in the morning and again in the evening To start just sit and acknowledge the thoughts and feelings as they arise You dont need to do anything about them or act on them just observeLikewise with exercise get into the discipline of doing some every day enough to raise the heart rate for a good chunk of time It will burn off all that excess energy and will help you relax depression and anxiety usually go together to varying degrees certainly did in my case Its a little cold here now but I cycled at least half an hour every day throughout the summer and it had a phenomenal impact If you dont have a bike run or walk its all good Now its winter I do resistance training at homeId guess youll see results straight away from the exercise although it probably depends on how used to it you already are Meditation is different for everybody and it can be subtle strangely it can be having a big effect and you wont even notice Stick with it People have various expectations from meditation they think it will change the world give them huge insights into the universe etc but in my experience it gave me some respite from negative thoughts and associations and once you really understand thoughts are just thoughts you get a great degree of control over themAnother major thing you can do is to help other people or nonhuman animals in some way It sounds crazy to be thinking of others when youre in need of help but it works You take a lot of power away from those negative thoughts when you have a good cause to occupy your mind Of course your ability to do this is dependant on your situationIf you have any more questions or you want me to clarifyexpand on anything go ahead and ask Burning and cutting are a way of taking control of your body when everything else feels like it spiraling out of control Its also a way to release adrenalin and endorphins which make you feel good when everything else is bad Maybe a post over to httpwwwredditcomrSuicideWatch as well They have some pretty good insights sometimes In the meantime what do you normally eat Do you take any supplements Alcohol or drugs prescription or otherwise These things can have a major effect on depression can even be the root cause of it in some cases Check out httpwwwnamiorg and click on Find your Local NAMI Get the phone number to the nearest office so you can call and explain your situation Its possible that they might be able to point you in the right direction If you have unipolar depression they might be able to get you to a grantrun treatment program so you can get free treatment They might even know what to do about medicationsAlso if you are experiencing suicidal ideation and you are cutting yourself you should probably consider checking yourself into a short term inpatient mental hospital that the state would be obligated to pay for no private hospitals Being at risk of suicide is a pretty dangerous thing and you are already selfharming Stay safe Reach out to your family Definitely check out your local NAMI though because they are going to know a lot of things that could help you out When I went through a bad period a few years ago I took up running It helped moderately but on one particular day it really helped The weather had changed from the cool 50s to the mid 70s overnight I had been used to running my route during the winter months without taking any water with me I didnt need it then On this day however I did need it And I needed it halfway through the run By the time I was finished I was desperately and dreadfully dehydrated The water I drank shortly thereafter was amazing but something else had happened my priorities had rebooted Where once had been a confused and tangled list of vague and sometimes shapeless angstriddled troubles there was now water food and shelter Everything else took a backseat The experience was uplifting liberating and memorable It was also medically dangerous to get as dehydrated as I did but I would say the results are similar to what happens in sweat lodges when things dont go horribly wrong like they did in one last year I hesitate suggesting trying something like this but its certainly better than the alternative Several people have mentioned exercise so why not try it Not with the goal of losing weight or building strength or anything like that but with the goal of reorienting your priorities through physical means You need to keep your job so in the shortterm stop burning your arms If you need to self harm then do it somewhere hidden until you can stop the urge Your legs for exampleExercise is underrated it really is But when I say exercise I mean real fucking back breaking vomitinducing exercise Sprint up and down a hill until youre about to collapse Once you do take 30 seconds rest and repeat Do it for 15mins at least Believe me youll love life so much and respect your body a lot more tooThats one of the revelations I had when I started exercising hard Suddenly life became so much more meaningful It reconnected body and mind I suggest you try itAlcohol is a definite nono Ive done pretty much every drug on the planet and I can safely say the one thats done the most psychological and physical damage is alcohol It will cloud your judgement and mood for at least 3 days Even small amounts can so just dont bother The most important nonmedical thing for mood regulation is a regular sleep schedule Make sure youre getting a good 8 hours a night and it would help out alot |
Human blood is red not blueIts not blue inside you and it does not turn red when oxygenatedDark redRed But nonetheless redIve found there seems to be a rather common belief otherwise and today my flatmate declared it was blueSauces all good explanationsEdit Fixed links 2 were broken apologies Shttpwwwaskabiologistorgukpunbbviewtopicphpid2043httpwwwglobalclassroomorgblubludhtmlhttpwwwbiologyonlineorgbiologyforumabout763htmlhttpwikianswerscomQWhatcolorisdeoxygenatedbloodIf blood is red why are veins bluehttpwwwstraightdopecomcolumnsread1419ifbloodisredwhydoyourveinslookblue | Its easily solved when confronted with the simple question If you think your blood isnt already oxygenated then youre dead |
I live in Seattle and I started commuting on my bicycle last year Been able to avoid the really rainy days so far okay I drove my car for most of December Im back in the saddle now and the goodintherain brake pads that the local cycle shop recommended suck in the rain I need a recommendation for some brake pads for standard sidepull calipers that will work in the rain | Just get KoolStop salmon pads I use them road biking they work fine to slow my fat ass 188lbs on descents at 40mph so they will work on your commute If youre worried about the cost just use the salmon pads in the front stick with the usual set in the back as youre not going to need as much braking power in the back anyway Try these koolstop padshttpwwwkoolstopcombrakesindexphp They work very well in the wet although they do wear a bit quicker But hey you want to stop right |
When I was still a fullydeluded mormon I spent way more time than I should have reading science fiction instead of focusing all my study on the Book of Mormon Eventually all this scifi reading had caused me to learn more than I was strictly comfortable with about evolution coming from my creationist background Being a rational though deluded person I decided to tackle this evolution thing once and for all I did some internet searches and found evolution as the book that I should read I was doing these searches in about 2007Going into my reading I was fully armed with all the antievolution arguments ready to apply all of them as I went along Anything youve seen used to bash evolution I knew about and I was ready to pick up the hammerStill my curiosity drove me to go ahead and read the book just so I could learn fully about what the theory was actually sayingImagine my shock as Zimmer fully laid out the evidence for evolution and every time I was about to apply antievolution thinking Zimmer brought up the argument himself and explained exactly why the argument was wrongEven more shocking Zimmer generally showed who originally proposed the criticism and that the criticism was unchanged since the original proposalThrough the reading it also became crystal clear that while evolutionary theory itself had advanced evolved and grown over the 100 years since Darwins work was published the arguments against evolution had all been proposed within a few years of Origin of Species and hadnt evolved or advanced a bitI learned there were no new antievolutionary theories I learned each and every one that Id heard in my life was old stale and competently refuted by evolutionistsNow at the end of the book Zimmer bends over backwards to include religionists and show ways to reconcile evolution and creation For that I was grateful after the blows my preconceived ideas had already taken throughout the bookBut less than a year after reading Zimmers book I made some connections about things that I knewFor instance I knew that the mormon church wasnt perfect and I knew that the history of Christianity had issues as well I had known these things for some years but slight imperfections werent enough to make me change my worldview Now that I understood evolution however and furthermore was wellequipped to defend evolution the next time I had serious doubts about God I was able to say to myself If there is no God imperfections in Mormonism and Christianity make more sense and evolution makes more senseThis moment for me happened within 6 months of reading evolutionIncidentally the thing that made me think about whether God existed was an atheist ranting I believe on a UKbased skeptic blog or website about why there is no good reason to believe in God With what I now knew about evolution in addition to my previous issues with religion I couldnt refute his arguments and found myself agreeing with him My faith was dead | Your story is the basic reason why theres such a strong pushback against evolution among strong Christians and the neoconStraussian right who leverage the ignorance and gullibility of Christians into political powerWith naturalistic evolution the role of Creator moves back from 6000 or 50000 years back to 15 billion years essentially turning the JudeoChristian creation story into bland deism with literally zero realworld ie earthly relevance |
Good old wikipediahttpenwikipediaorgwikiDelayedonsetmusclesorenessThe day after a work out I feel absolutely horrible Im not doing any strength training just a short 40 min run and some crunchespushups I stretch and also do a bit of Yoga before hand Im not using a protein shake or bar afterwards or chowing down on a chicken breast but I have protein during regular meals I dont feel exhausted or sore while Im exercising or right afterward But for 23 days afterward Ill feel very sore in my back arms and legs and I really dont feel like working through the pain Did any one else feel this way when they first started getting into shape Am I just being a big wuss Thanks | 1 more water2 more protein3 more potassium mmhhh yummy bananas4 more milk5 alternate coldhotcoldhot in shower6 proper sleepYes you will still get sore but the degree of soreness is what i would call more of an annoyance than pain I following those steps my recovery times and soreness levels are dramatically less and noticeably so as compared to the times when something comes up to prevent me from doing this cycle Pain is weakness leaving the body That is what I tell myselfNo really I have been really sore and pretty much on the verge of falling asleep on my keyboard at work all day because I did two rowing races yesterday and I am unfit although actually I should have learnt by now that you never stop hurting from rowing no matter how fit you are you just get better times and more satisfaction for the pain I got to the point where I resorted to ibuprofen this afternoonGenerally I find that from my usual training I feel less sore as I get fitter only races break me When I do hurt a really hot bath and a massage help although I am not sure whether they actually really make a difference or just distract me from the pain with a bit of pleasuretldr exercise hurts pampering can distract My first thought was Huh You want that I strive for that sore feeling that means you got a great workout and youre getting stronger This is assuming youre getting sore in the muscles you worked out If you have improper form say with squats and your lower back is hurting you need to get proper formNotice when you first start working out you get sore but you also ramp up and start lifting more Sore usually means you getting stronger And the more you workout with the same routine the less sore you feel That is why I mix up my routine to get that sore feeling Normally when doing chest I start out with flat bench but I wasnt getting the sore feeling So recently I started out my chest routine with incline and it has been 2 days and my chest is still sore This is my secret to going from skinny to big in record time If you focus on being sore you will make big gains If you arent sore change it up until youre soreAnd you shouldnt work out muscles that are sore let them heal firstKeep up the good work and no youre not being a wuss two to three days of soreness after a typical run and some calisthenics seems a bit severe are you getting eight hours of sleep a night are you staying hydrated is your nutrition up to par lots of fruits and veggies adequate proteinif theres nothing standing in the way of your body healing and you dont want to tough it out you can try scaling back your workout and progressively working up in intensity over the coming weeks here is everything you want to know about DOMS complete with referenceshttpwwwampedtrainingcomarticlesdomsmusclesoreness Contrast showers Shower normally then turn it up as hot as you can stand Wait about 15 seconds then reach behind you and turn it all the way down Itll SUCK but leave it there for 5 seconds then turn it back to crazy hot Do that about three times Works great for my back after deadlifts Yes everyone feels like this more or less Muscle soreness is not a problem unless it is preventing you from doing the full range of the movement Keep good form and ignore it It will wear off in time |
Hey what are your favorite places to go for international food Ive discovered and enjoyedGreek Samos AcropolisIndian Akbar | nak won for korean thai arroy for thai tapas teatro for spanish matsuri for sushi petit louis for french chicken rico for Peruvian mekong delta for pho clementine for American Helmand for Afghan Mt Washington pizza amp subs for indian Ambassador is too pricey but I love the porchWe need a dim sum place in BaltimoreAlso here is my yelp profilehttpwwwyelpcomuserdetailsuseridHNx2SgcVN5nJCtt3b2xEw Post yours if you yelp |
Id love to see as many parties with representatives in congress as possible but Im afraid it will never happen with our current votingelection system What steps are necessary to change that system | Eliminate the electoral college make all campaigns publicly financed entirely and let any partycandidate with more than 1 of the vote get public financing IRV or PR is needed for third parties to succeed nationally But they cannot get through the lobbiest flanks so we need to focus on campaign finance reform first ie to remove lobbiest power Sounds like Obama is planning on making some steps in the right direction |
To start off I am completely new to python and slightly new to programming but I am enjoying it so far Ive been searching around for an easy method of logging into my bank account determining the amount of available and then sending it to my cellphone but I cannot find anything I think I am able to do the last two parts on my own however logging in is proving to be a challenge to me so far How would you login and then download the next page to local hard drive Its behind HTTPS and appears to use POST to aspIm sure no one will be able to test their result but Im hoping someone has done something like this beforehttpswwwnettellercomcnbsevierlogincfm | Check out the mechanizehttpwwwibmcomdeveloperworkslinuxlibrarylpythonmechanizebeautifulsoupindexhtml features All you need to do is set the field values in the form and submit |
My room mate and I are contemplating setting up a gaming station in our apartment which would include buying a TV and a console Would this turn out to be a bad investment for us in case theres anything big on the market soon Also is there anything about flatscreens we should know about edit Thanks for the input everyone Ill confidently be getting a 360 and crying all the way from the bank | I think I read somewhere that sony was saying its a 7 year cyclexbox360 was 2005 ps3 was 2006 so youve got til 201213 Its worth noting that1 the best early games are cheaper now2 later games improve as the console ages because developers work out how to optimize it Neither Microsoft of Sony seem to want to go through the trouble of releasing anything new for a while They seem committed to just adding things to what they already have Both should have a few more years left in them Its actually a horrible investment your 10002000 would be better suited in a CD or high yeild saving account Id say this is the best time to get a 360 Its gotten at the lowest price I think itll get before the next generation comes out and there are more awesome games for it than you can finish until that time as well Im seeing a lot of 360 owners saying how although you have to pay for it Xbox live is a better experience than ps3s online service can anyone explain for what reasons Go for a 2 good gaming PCs and get a wii if you like games you can play the PC if you wanna play with your friends you play wii and if you want a nice screen to play movies on you still get the flatscreenitd be a little more but itll last you longer and youll get a good computer in the process There are very few games on 360 that you cant get elsewhere I recently bought a shitload of games on steam including bioshock l4d prey braid and others so Ill get to play all the stuff I couldnt on the ps3 If you have a pc and ps3 then youre pretty much getting everything except halo3 and gears2 If youre looking for investment and Im probably going to go against popular opinion here the best investment is in a gaming PCGames are generally 1020 cheaper on PC you dont need to spend 1000 on a nice TV when you can spend 500 on a top quality monitor and a PC costs about 500 to make one that will run every recent game at high quality Youd probably save enough on the monitor vs TV to make up for the cost of the PC vs that of the console and in the long run the games will save you hundreds as well Too bad you missed this epic Steam sale thoughThis whole plan is obviously void if you and your roommate plan on gaming together in which case Im going to say get a PS3 for investment Games cost the same youll save 50 a year from online costs you get to have multiple people online at the same time without paying extra and 2010 looks to be a promising year for the comeback of the PS3 I have a PS3 and a 360 and the PS3 spends most of its time as my BluRay player I personally prefer my 360 and with the amount of great games on it and with the current price of that console I would say go for it and get a 360 Get what your friends play youll have more fun than watching fanboys getting red in the face while they downvote each other |
Dear RedditI know theres many talented individuals out there and Ive already searched but cant find it anywhere so I come now asking your assistance reddit I was hoping that someone could turn the box cover in this imagehttpwwwgamereactoreumedia73bioshock2far197360bjpg into a wallpaper for me Its a butterfly made out of handprints Can anyone do this for me | I could make you a butterfly of handprints from scratch with a bioshock logo beneath Would that be acceptable |
is there a way to copy a bunch of files at once but have them go one at a time so it doesnt slow down If I copy one movie file it takes about a minute to transfer the data but if two or three movies are selected and dragged to disk suddenly the time for each one goes up to like 20 minutes Am I missing something | Do a multiple selection and copy that Either shiftclick selects a range or commandclick selects one at a time in Finder Yeah thats really annoying actually it should queue them for files which are on the same device On a mechanical disk trying to read multiple files at once is trs slow Of course on something like an SSD it wouldnt matter at all This is a valid problem however Im more annoyed at some of the other effects of the sloppiness with OS Xs batch file copy methodsWhen copying multiple files to a memory stick the OS does not do proper calculations to see if space is available After that the space not available command will cascade individually leaving you to wonder which files exactly are copiedPLEASE if someone can properyly answer the OP Ill be extremely happy as this is one of the major issues I have with OS X 104106 |
Video 1 first prototype more gameplay footage httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv03o4dfQJ7wampfeatureplayerembeddedVideo 2 second prototype httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvCIVXJpuOdSwampfeatureplayerembeddedInstructions schematics code and photos httpprojectexcitebikeblogspotcom | Nice This makes my versionhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvLLwmCT6gB8k look like it was built in the stone age Ive been doing game biking for many years now I started off with the CatEye gamebike hooked up to a PS2The GameBike from cateye was a good start but I dont recommend it nor would I recommend any upright biking system for gaming Why A few reasons1 I bought many dozens of games for it but unfortunately most games are not suited to this kind of setup For example in a GTAstyle game there is simply too much stopping and reversing to create a true cardio workout2 Racing games get boring really quickly and when the game gets boring you start to notice the pain in your legs So the best games I found involve further interaction such as shootouts with other racers Motor Mayhem was my favorite game because of this3 With an upright bike you usually need to support yourself using handlebars Unfortunately this limits what you can do in a game The gamebike had some special features like a button on the handlebar and a gamepad in the middle of the handlebar area but these didnt suffice for most games because again most games are not designed for thisAfter a couple years on the gamebike I simply opted to purchase a recumbent bike which frees yours hands completely so you can play regular video games easily using a wireless gamepad I highly recommend the Schwinn 230 Recumbent Exercise Bike When assembling it take the display off of its pole and rest it on the unit near where your feet pedal this way you can see the tv screen in front of youYou may ask what motivation you then have to keep pedaling For me at least this isnt a problem On the Schwinn bike I mentioned you can set the difficulty so high that even if you pedal once a minute you would still be getting a good workoutI must say that gaming biking is the absolute best way to go if youre a geek and want to get into shape I easily do 5060 minutes of cardio 6 days a week The time just flies by The downside is that I end up spending a lot of money on new games since games go by quickly But its worth it Im in the best shape of my life When I was a kid visiting Disney World maybe 15 years ago at Epcot Center they had a demo of an exercise bike hooked up to a Genesis playing a cycling game I thought it was the coolest thing ever Then just a couple of years ago I found one in the wild It was locked up in the storage area of an eating disorders clinic I worked at Unfortunately I discovered it just days before I left and I never was able to find out who it belonged to so that I could pull it out and see if it still worked More importantly I wasnt able to find out if I could buy it since it had just been sitting in storage |
His birthday is Feb 7th and mine is on the 8th were turning 25 and 24 respectfully Were planning on doing something fun on Saturday the 6th with a bunch of friends but we cant decide what to doWe live in southern Minneapolis so something near there would be greatWe were thinking about maybe laser tag or bowling drinks but we dont really want to deal with a ton of kids running around Also I dont know of any places that offer that in the area Of course Im open to any suggestions that are awesome PS This is my 1st post to reddit so please dont let me down D | In lieu of telling you to drink alcohol and take drugs and go to Avatar at the MN Zoo IMAX because drugs are hard to find why dont you all go to the RollerGirls on Saturday Feb 6th Its on the calendar on the righthand side of this very page It looks cool on TV and I think women would probably even like it you gotta make the women happyYou could get the day started at 100 pm with a Summit Brewery Tourhttpwwwsummitbrewingcomtoursphp They have one on the 6th I recommend it it was quick and you get free beer Then after getting some drugs you can go to Avatar and still get to the RollerGirls by 730 |
I have been sucessfully making a living playing online poker for the last two years and I always wondered about the reality on the other sideTell me about you and your story | When I was in college sophomore year our class president Greg Hogan robbed a Wachovia to pay off an online gambling debt He then went to go see Chronicles of Narnia and returned back to his frathouse to find the police questioning people He was recently released from prison and now attends school elsewhere |
This took place during my high school years late 90s My father was on various talk shows for his work against racism and was semifamous at the time The bodyguards were family friends an exMarine and his wife both still work in security to the best of my knowledge They kept their Dobermans at our house with them they were really cool peopleThe actual death threats were mostly phone calls usually late at night Stuff like telling me I should tell my dad they were going to take me and send me back to him in bits and pieces I was told not to answer the phone after that and the answering machine was muted so you couldnt hear it when recording I think some letters too One time I went outside and there were swastikas spray painted outside our house One of them was on the mailbox at our corner the city painted the mailbox in brown and stopped using it then removed it some years later AMA except for whowhere my family is | I dont know who you are or what you did but if your father provoked this much ire then tell him thank you for having the courage to stand up to fascists How did the livein bodyguard situation work You said they were family friends Were they paid or just given room and board Were they always armed This reminds me of the story fof Reverend Wade Watts and Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee ClaryhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvTBwIRqhmjgampfeatureplayerembedded You say you received threats from a NeoNazi group Do you actually mean that a specific group or organisation of them was doing all or most of the threatening If so which one and why specifically them Did your family relations become effected by your fathers work ex other members of your family talk moreless to you and your parents |
Reddit I am a former player of OGame I relapsed twice but have now broken free of the life consuming devotion to fleet saving probing and phalanxing If you have do you have any particularly good stories about how it consumed your lifethings you did to ensure you succeeded in gameI myself cant tell you how many strange things I did to ensure my success in the game Here are some highlights though In no particular orderI was on my way home from a vacation with my then fianc when we stopped to get something to eat we came out of the food joint and her car failed to start We were delayed two hours while I got a new battery and installed it Problem was though we were still about an hour from home and my fleet was due back any time now my carefully planned fleet save was shattered So I did what any good ogame player would do in this situation I called everyone I knew who could log on to my account for me so I could guide them through the fleet save process however anyone with any knowledge of how computers worked was out enjoying the nice summer day so it came down to the worst possible thing imaginable I had to walk my mom through a fleet save What would take me about 3 minutes took me 15 over the phone with a woman who can barely figure out how to turn the machine on let alone follow simple commands about where to click the mouse and what notI once left the table while out to dinner with my girlfriend and her parents to organize a raid on a top 20 player with my brother the look I got from her when I came back was that look of If you even thought about getting in my pants tonight you have another thing coming took her two days to let it go enough to talk to me Good news though I made like 5 HOFs in that timeframe Thus I conclude sex is detrimental to Ogaming Or is it the other way around She married me so I guess it wasnt that bad ehWhile at home from college one summer I remember waking up at 0330 AM to a blaring alarm my brother who also played walking into my room while we refreshed our laptops to do a probe slow phalanx and watch a massive hit go through I woke up 2 hours later to make sure my recyclers got all the debris This wouldnt be a bad thing if it wasnt a reoccurring trendAt one point our mother got so pissed off at us because our alarms were going off in the early AM that she threatened to cancel the internet service to our house She never did but we would have just paid out of our own pocket to reestablish Instead we just took turns on the large and late night hits staying up to maintain a watch on themTwo months before my best friend was to get married I introduced him to Ogame He wound up loving it I had been playing for about 6 months at that point When I brought it up in passing that I had introduced him to Ogame my Girlfriend at the time looked at me and with the most heartfelt sincere tone of disapproval said Oh my god AgentSnark I cant believe you did that to her His wife YOU KNOW THEY ARE GETTING MARRIED Why would you do that to them I laughed at that but deep down I knew I knew I had done a bad very bad thing to her Long story short he is still with her he doesnt play anymore though | I am honestly quite surprised at the lack of OGame players on reddit Maybe the thread didnt get high enough to capture attention |
First off Im a 20 year old male with very little relationship experience I met her about 2 months ago when she began working at the same store that I do We hit it off immediately and initially just had a good time at work but soon began hanging out outside of work too Wed been flirting since day one but now that wed been hanging out outside of work for a bit wed both made it clear that we were attracted to the other It was around this same time though that I found out that she has had a boyfriend all along She intentionally kept this information from me and I never really understood why but she eventually said when asked I didnt want to scare you away We werent getting physical at all anyway but it did very much seem that she wanted to be more than friendsFor a while I didnt even mention that I knew she had a boyfriend and we just kept going out and having a great time It seemed we could relate about everything and could spend ten hours together and just wonder where the time went but eventually I had to ask her what the deal was She told me she did indeed have a boyfriend but she was scared of where things are going with this guy She later confessed to me that he never takes her out anywhere like I always was and that he and his friends were planning a party and they just didnt even invite her This is about everything I know about the boyfriend Still he doesnt seem like a great guy and it seems like their relationship might be in troubleSince then weve still being going out on dates but not calling them that a couple times a week and were still having a great time and flirting a ton Whenever Im not with her though I find myself wondering why am I setting myself up for heartbreak like this and I conclude I cant keep doing this But then the next time I see her I inevitably realize that I REALLY like her and I cant just stopLike Ive said I dont think her relationship is entirely healthy and part of me believes that if I was to confess how I feel even though Im sure she already has a good idea that it would be all she needs to realize shed be better off with me But then I know its a dick move to put all that pressure on her and potentially ruin her relationship Moreover Im concerned that if I did do this it might ruin our friendship which Id like to maintain at the very leastI know the obvious advice at this point is to just forget about her and to find someone new but its not that easy to find someone new and I really do like herThanks for reading and I hope Ive been clear Id love any advice Do you think I should make clear how I feel about her Is that fair to her | I was in this very same situation at the very same age What I did Let things take their natural course You dont have to stop hanging out with her but make sure things stay 100 platonic Be supportive of whatever decision she makes and make sure you state very clearly you will not get in the way or interfere or motivate her directly one way or the other She will probably end up coming to you with her boyfriend problems Dont give her your advice simply listen and empathize If things are bad with her boyfriend and youre a source of stability and support and things are always lighthearted and fun with you and not himIt will turn out in your favor Just my two cents |
It was another dull lecture from antiquity they were all dull it dawned on me that I was now tired of this channel Several hours earlier I had reached the same conclusion but several large bong hits had waylaid the inevitable trawl through the foreboding list of channels Food War War Food Sex War Clothes Industry War War War I idly wonder why wars so popular considering its so long since the last one then again I reason to myself as I watch the endless stream of images flick one after another past my eyes isnt it true that everything is now obsolete Reaching for the bong I once again satiate my boredom with a sudden rush of chemicals to the brain another obsolete old habit I muse as finally I select a random channel and disengage the control function from my hand Its a war most likely European back in the days when people had real passion Some soldiers unarmed in a town standing on cobble stones and waiting I know that some things going to happen because thats how these things work A woman on a bike slowly begins to meander down the street I flick the screen to program info full reveal mode the programs plot cascades out before me It was indeed Napoleonic era Europe the dreadful tale of misogyny and sexual deviancy I clicked again this time into histographic mode the character time lines sprawled out interweaving and tangling I skipped past the secret tryst in a hay loft or whatever romantic drivel was being regurgitated to frame this moral fable and found a climatic sword fight I selected the winning sword and asked for a dramatic epic with it as the main character A few more bong hits and half an hour of sword forging drama arsenal errors and that final show down upon the Rue de Mar and I was again board honestly I was board the whole time but at least Id managed to become a little diverted from the monotony of having nothing to do I switched the info to projects and as ever everything was perfectly on time and operational I switched for a second to the list of games in my favourites but I couldnt be bothered and I already knew it Sometimes I sleep when I get like this often I drink or smoke and occasionally Ill just turn everything off and do nothing but sit in the dark and wait In the darkness my mind slowed to a crawl vague half dreams bubble upto awareness and fade silently into oblivion Time passes as it always does meaninglessly edging around the dial completion times continuing to diminish for whatever its worth when axillary projects are long completed and only reindexing remains Soon just like every other task it too will by ticked off the list even the list itself could be closed and then what I realized I was here again trying to block it out my head swam painfully so I leapt to my feet and tried to kick something nothing existed to kick so I called a chair and let my toe send it tumbling away into the void the sudden rush of pain never registered so in a rage I disabled sensory limiting and lashed out violently with my fists against a sea of disapproving faces which crumpled satisfyingly under each blow A few seconds later I was back in my chair and a rush of weed coursed over me I still needed the ritual though carefully I loaded my bong as the initial rush passed in a eddy of ripples Packing flecks of bud loosely into the downpipe I pressed my lips to the neck and inhaled a rich lungful of dense smoke As my head filled with thick blue smoke I realized how pathetic I was Id known it all along but suddenly it became clear the dark humour of my situation once again dawned on me and I saw the beauty in the vast dark cloud of banality that hung above me I flicked on the screen in a sudden moment of inspiration found the first person to understand the existential angst of inevitable success and diagrammed his life course As expected it turned out to be someone from the very beginning of the digital revolution He saw this world of infinite possibility ahead but also understood the finite nature of physical problems in the world and from this simple dichotomy he deduced my situation and its full horror how clever How did he phrase it When life is so easy that no one has to so much as lift a finger to ensure all work is done When all things are known and no secrets remain or mysteries then life will be perfect perfectly horrible It was interesting to dabble in his day dreams I passed hours listening to his internal dialogue as I watched his life unfold in real time Realtime so long since anything had caught my interest enough to slowdown to real time Long hours working smoking always dreaming of the future he could never know then I chanced on a stoned session upon a bench outside work he began talking about a quantum tunnel television which would allow the viewer to observe any incident in history I put down my joint a habit I had long since forgot but now rediscovered thanks to Michael His description of my googletube was impressive although his mechanics were somewhat under awe inspiring and he barely imagined 1 of its power he outlined all the things he would use it for Id of course seen most his list a hundred times but his passion on a few oddities inspired me to add a few new bookmarks It was strange but I felt like I was actually starting to like this guy of course Id seen the timeline I knew it didnt work out too good but still I couldnt help pointlessly hoping for him when he really tried at something My biosystems had been set in synchronism with Michael for a few days now his internal dialogue registered on a separate stream and I was level 3 submerged in his existence I felt like I could actually understand his desire rather than a meaningless shadow moving before my mind I was actually involved Thats when he hit me a dream so painful I almost winced If life becomes too easy and everything is dull doesnt it stand to reason that theyd come back and collect pets from the past my mind raced trying to understand the implications of his revelation and as never before I felt lost If I was lonely in a distant future I would find friends from forgotten times and live through them like crazy old people live through their kids for the first time I only half understood although I doubt theyll remember what compassion is after so long without problems he understood me better than I and all my magic could comprehend him I was devastated but slowly I saw what was ruined was only my boredom For the first time in weeks maybe years someone spoke in the chat window Whoa was that a peek Instrument error nominal Time graphic here It was over as soon as it began I knew by now anyone lucid enough to be interested had full reveal mode focus me Strangely as never before being watched intrigued me I actually vocalised a statement Hello watchers I could have mapped the influence ripple of my statement and known instantly who responded and how instead I continued I havent gone sublucid I am awake I knew that everyone that cared already knew why I was saying this better than I did it didnt matter Im worried for you was that compassion Instinctively I switched to prefiltered biolevels huge areas of society were through the roof levels not seen since before wed anchored outside fold4 I started to request a synopsis of the event ripple but closed the window with a burst of speech Worry not people we have been worrying too long To hell with sense and good reason and acting only on full information I AM sublucid trailing off in silence my finger hung twitching desperate to magic up an answer to my existential angst but bollocks to it Im going to start acting in ways I know are absurd and I dont care what you think He wanted to see the future I will bring him to the future cue gay buddy movie odd couple clich with hilarious but thought provoking consequences oh and just so you know the reason its a bit wooden is because if i wrote more he would wake up and start developing a more colloquial rebel style to his narration at the moment hes all robotic and systematised or something 7 | Im at work I will read once I get home and have had a smokeI only made this comment because you put a lot of effort into that and after 3 hours no comments Have some UK love |
seriously she drives me nuts and i just cant take it anymore ive tried dropping hints talking directly to her about it nothing seems to be getting through other than flat out just up and leaving one day i have no idea what i can do any ideas redditorsedit thanks everyone for all the HELPFUL ahem feedback | First secure another residence whether its a separate apartment a friends place or an empty unit at a nearby UStoreItThen gradually begin moving your belongings out one piece at a time Start with the small stuff like a fork here a DVD thereIn the meantime spend less and less time around One night you come home at 1000 The next 1002 Until you never come home at allIt will be as if you just simply faded from existence Shell have a vague memory of someone who used to live with her but she wont be able to recall who it was or when they left Ok first youre going need bottle of chloroform serious pull with everyone whos ever met her and a lot of careful planningSo the first step is to get her out the apartment for a significant amount of time While she is gone remove anything that was hers and alter the appearance of your apartment Get new furniture rearrange everything maybe even switch up which room is your bedroom Then you need to find the girlfriend and knock her out with the chloroform Dont skimp on the amount you use you want her to be knocked out for a long time If you cause some brain damage and memory loss ALL THE BETTER Maybe hit her head a bit Dont kill her just maybe a light concussion thats all Then you want to change her into a different set of clothes something shes never worn before Then dirty up her outfit and face and leave her by or in if youre feeling a little bit callous a dumpster in an alley Before all of this you need to have talked to everyone she knows friends coworkers family etc and convinced them to act like theyve never met her before in their entire life threaten them blackmail them whatever it takes You need to get these people totally on board with the program Give them acting lessons if you dont think they are up to the task That way when your girlfriend comes to shell have serious psychological issues stemming from a loss of external recognition of her identity Shell harass you for a while sure but eventually she will resign herself to her bizarre fate and spend the rest of her life going insane on the streetsProtip If one of her friends or family members absolutely refuses to cooperate kill them and replace them with a professional actor who looks just like them I know what youre thinking Theyll look totally different no way shell buy it But because of modern sit coms people are accustomed to actor changes midseries A guy told me one time Dont let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner You can go back and forth with the sortabreakup for weeks and months Youre wasting precious time and things arent going to magically improve Eventually you just have to sack up and get it over with Sign a new lease The cost alone will put a fire under your butt and steel your resolve Put in notice with your property manager that you will not be renewing the lease on the old apartment Let them know that you are moving out request an inspection and insist that you will not be held responsible for any damages to the property Do whatever you have to do to dispose of the old lease Gather five friends and a stack of boxes Show up one afternoon and start a whirlwind of packing this works best if she is out of the house Call her and say We tried to work it out but it is not working for me Im sorry Im packing and will be moving out today It would be best if you stayed away from the apartment while I get my things together We can discuss this all later Hang up If she shows up there will be a bunch of activity to distract and diffuse the situation Youll have social support You will be distracted by coordinating the move Neither of you will have the time or space to break down and start crying so on and so forth She may have a tantrum She may plop down on the floor take out her cellphone and call all of her friends to complain about how you are being an awful person This is fine and not your concern Give her some money for a movie insist that she leave the premises for a few hours and inform her that youll let her know when you are done Move everything outBuy all of your friends a massive dinner for putting up with your shit and being great buddies Email her the next day to work out logistics on any remaining items Apologize once for the ambush but dont start begging for forgiveness Dont forget the security deposit Give it up to her if you have to it may help smooth over the whole process Consider it a tax for poor decision makingBottom line She made a decision to move in with you knowing full well that things might not work out Shes a grown up and you are not responsible for taking care of her anymore She will do what she has to do to secure housingNext time youll know to think three times before you move in with someone before youre on the marriage track Its asking for troubleEdit Ive been through the exact same thing The same pain the process and as youll discover the liberating recovery Youve made your decision and you have to find the courage to act It wont be easy and it wont be nice but it must be and is for the best Start pooping in odd places eventually the smell and sheer ludicrousness of the situation will drive her away Dude seriouslyGet a place pack your shit moveSomeplace during that process break up with the girlShe really has no power over any of thatAnd yes believe me it really is that easy Deal with your emotions later sitting in the new crib Untangling your lives when youve been in a long relationship is a pain but so worth it Just leave her and move out Do it quick like a bandaid Im actually dealing with this issue right now Just be honest you want your own space again Tell her you are going to start looking for a new place to live and that she should start doing the same Start asking for dirtier bedroom acts Start with some hair pulling Move on to Slapping Spitting Gagging Eventually you ask for the boston steamer If she agrees to all of them She is a keeper You cant lose If she agrees and you still dont want her Send her to me EasyThis is how I did it Hey Im leaving Im not happy ByeAnd packed up my crap and rolled out You are not her pet You are a grown ass man that can make his own decisions It may be complicated if youre on the lease or share bills together but basically lay it out for her nonnegotionable style and work out the details but just leave Dont be an ass and leave while shes gone Thats cowardly Man up and just tell her youre leaving and not ever coming back Well I am sorry to hear you are going through this but I do feel better that others have weathered this storm tooBackground She had no steady work paid no rent rarely paid for food did pay utilitieswhich she should have as she was there all fricking day burning through the electric routinely drank my booze gave away bottles of wine that were not hers to give etc This culminating in the last monthHappy HolidaysAfter 6 months it was clear we were done I felt bad about her situation and did not want to kick her outthank GAWD I resisted her attempts to get her name on the lease as her parents are unstable and not a very good place for her I slowly stopped buying groceries ate dinner on the way home from work came home later stopped having sexthat was a tough one but to be honest the sex stopped being good months ago etc This did not work directlyI came home early with groceriesfor a change even bought her a sandwich and the door was chained Interesting calmly walk into the apartment after she lets me innotice that she has her hair done and some make up rare for her that time of day but still in boxers and a tshirt I calmly walked to the kitchen stowing the groceries and I note a males bag and jacket in the dining room She immediately begins stammering apologiesI felt invisible I needed to feel something I havent cum in forever I needed a release Im sorry This is the only time blah blah blah I continued to put away the groceries and told her very calmly that we would discuss this as soon as he left He quickly left dont even know what he looked like but I want to buy him a drink Anyway he left and I offered her a CocaColacliched but it was what I just picked up at the market and calmly told her that I could care less if she was fucking other men sheep or dogs but it was absolutely insulting that it would be done under the roof I paid for and that she had to call someone to pick her up immediately and she could make arrangements to remove her furniture I told her to pack any personal items such as photos and anything of value that could easily be moved and take it with her that night She became very upset and confused by my utter lack of anger Then she became angry that it was clear I was utterly apathetic to a rather unfortunate end to a relationshipI was WAY too gentlemanly about the event and as a result she took several items such as light bulbs toilet paper a night light photosthat I took shower rings several kitchen utensils and probably a few other petty items that I havent noticed when I allowed her to return to pack her remaining itemsI was present but did not hover She actually had the nerve to complain that I purchased new dishes silverware coffee maker etc and didnt wait until she moved everything out Keep in mind I gave her 2 weeks in which to arrange to move her items and I ended up taking the day off from work when she moved her furniture lest she steal anything else CRAZINESS I probably should have given her a 2 days instead but I am a terminally nice guyAfter my confessional I HIGHLY recommend that the poster end this ASAP Do not torture yourself or inconvenience yourself with a bad relationship If easier move out If notsit her down and tell her she needs to move out Make sure you change all of the utilities etc Take plenty of photos so if she damages anything etc you have some proof I would also suggest that you have a witness or two present to prevent any hideous allegations thrown your wayI hope it goes smoother than mineCheers |
Im on a Dell Mini 9 running 910 Whenever I unplug it from AC with the lid closed and then open the lid Ubuntu wakes up then immediately suspends again I have to close the lid and open it again to get it to wake up properlyIm trying to submit a bug to launchpad but I have no idea what package to relate it to or what information to attachHelp | httpslaunchpadnetubuntusourceacpihttpslaunchpadnetubuntusourceacpisupportThe second link seems to have a bug similar to yours Ive submitted many bugs to launchpad and oftentimes it is very hard to figure out what package to submit the bug to I hope this becomes easier in the future |
My friend just gave me her DS because she knows Ive always wanted one and she didnt use hers that much Im coming into the whole DS thing pretty late and Ive never really kept up with what games have come out for it So any suggestions on what games I should pick up first | 1 Buy an R42 Get a compatible SD card3 Download all the DS games you could ever want4 5 Profit I post this in every suggest some good DS software post I come across but its still worth postingFirst get a flash cart Theyre cheap and some placeshttpwwwdealextremecom even ship for freeNow I know what youre thinking but Im going in a completely different direction Sure you could pirate games or run emulators Or you could legally download DSLibrishttpsourceforgenetprojectsndslibris and be able to use the DS as a dualscreen ebook reader Fill that flash cartridge up with Project Gutenberg epub files and youre setWhats that you say You like for your books to have pictures in them You like books which are primarily pictures Like comics Oh okay if you insisthttpgnesefreefrNDSComicBookDSlanguageenBetween these two programs I do way more reading on my DS than I play games and I play a lot of games Something I hear is pretty popular is Imagine BabieshttpenwikipediaorgwikiImagineBabiesBut seriously some more info about what sort of games youve enjoyed in the past or you think you would be interested would help Well Ive enjoyedChrono TriggerThe World Ends With YouThe Legend of Zelda Phantom HourglassMario Kart DSFinal Fantasy Tactics A2Super Mario 64 DSLook into some of those and see if youd like them maybe I remember getting my DS and the first thing I bought for it was the first Phoenix Wright game Its a definite must play The Professor Layton series is also greatHeres a list of other great titles my friends and I can recommend bolded are my personal picks D Advance Wars Dual Strike Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow Contra 4 Elite Beat Agents Hotel Dusk Room 215 Lunar Knights Meteos N Tetris DS Trauma Center Under the Knife 2 Warioware Touched Castlevania Portrait of Ruin GTA Chinatown Wars Kirby Canvas Curse Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass Mario Kart DS Mario and Luigi Partners in Time New Super Mario Bros Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword Planet Puzzle League Sonic Rush Space Invaders Extreme Super Mario 64 DS The World Ends With You Phoenix Wright series all the games are great The gameplay may be simple but i find the story to be gripping the music thrilling and moodsetting Its kinda like Pringles once you pop you cant stopI also enjoyed the Professor Layton games TetrisDS and the Mario games Mario64 MarioKart New Super Mario BrosThose are my suggestions |
Over the next 10 weeks I will be working with a group of students to write a comprehensive report to the US government abut policy recommendations for the next steps in Afghanistan I have watched a few great documentaries such as Obamas War and the Opium Trail but i was wondering if anyone knew of other documentaries that could give a good look into military operations culture religion drug trade etc in Afghanistan Help please | Adam Curtis has been digging through BBC archive footage and posting a few gems on his bloghttpwwwbbccoukblogsadamcurtis over the last few months Until recently these were only viewable in the UK but I believe theyve recently been opened to international viewers The Kabul City Number One posts are absolutely fascinating and should be of interest to you Good luck |
My colleague set up a test application sending many emails a day to the paying client from the test address testtesticlescomI enjoy putting poo in my code to make sections easier to find laterAnother colleague used to put code comments in stating This code should not be used in the running and maintainance of nuclear powered submarines He was right though it shouldnt | This was shortly after Firefox 3 came out In a client meeting I started typing in a URL to show the client a site I had mentioned unfortunately the Awesome Bar decided to show a number of choice adult sites I had recently gone to Lesson learned Chrome Icognito Mode I named my computer mouse Scabbers after Rons pet in the Harry Potter books Its really fun Sometimes Ill talk to it while Im working as though its a real pet Hey Scabbers Ill give you some cheese if you open that exe file Or something like Scabbers you little rascal did you just cause my computer to freezebasically i sent an email to a prospective client accidentally blaming scabbers for the delay in tendering after explaining in a further email we lost the contract I once had spell checker correct my sorry for the inconvenience to sorry for the incontinence on an email to a client I accidentally sent a link for female uses for viagra to the head of my HR dept who just happened to be female ooops This was more of a coworkers mistake though I nearly repeated it a few times I used to work for a web dev company who had a client that was a professional sexologist at a local university Every week wed have to send out a mass email with the weekly Sex Talk question and answer On this particular week when my coworker clicked Send he realized he had chosen our client mailing list instead of the Sex Talk mailing list Hundreds of business owners and professors woke up that morning with an email from their web developers titled Weekly Sex Talk Why Does My Vagina Smell |
Ive recently begun cooking for my mom and grandmother and its haaaard My grandmother has a series of illnesses which severely limit her food choices yet Im trying to make healthy food that all three of us will enjoy Before I moved in with them more than half of what I ate were fruits and vegetables Now thats become extremely difficult Here are my restrictionsMy gma has kidney problems and has to stay away from foods high in potassium It seems like green beans and peas are her only vegetable options and the only fruits she can have are berries and apples No beans or nutsShe is diabetic and has to avoid simple carbohydrates pasta rice bread and anything with sugar This would be much easier if she were willing to try brown rice or whole wheat pastabread Unfortunately she is very set in her ways and refuses to even take a biteShe has a heart condition and must avoid fats and sodium The nail in the coffin shes currently undergoin chemotherapy Apparently since it diminishes her immune systems ability to fight off anything she cant have any fresh produce unless its peeled and cooked for yearsHELP My grandmother is also unwilling to try new kinds of food Shes partial to Irish Italian French and American food I brought up some Indian Greek Chinese and Mexican dishes I know and was laughed out of the room Im beyond frustratededit Thanks to everyone who gave advice Im working on it She did go to a nutritionist at the hospital but they gave her seperate things for each of her ailments rather than one cohesive diet Ill take your ideas into consideration Thanks again | Your gma has to have a limited diet you do not Stop thinking of her and look at this logically what meals can you prepare for her which does she like the most Have her write down her 10 favorite foods that she can eat and people can post suggestions from thereShe is stubborn and not going to change so you have to change how you are looking at the problem My diet is as restricted as hersTry this recipe for a start this could solve your pasta problem There is a paleo diet that I am trying which is about as restrictive as you are mentioning I know what you are going through httpcavemanfoodblogspotcom200901paleospaghettihtmlhttpcavemanfoodblogspotcomsearchlabeldinnerAbove are 50 or so dinners many of the soups etc will fit the bill Wow sorry to seem insensitive here but if theyre not willing to eat what you are willing to cook for themThey can fucking feed themselves Ungrateful bitches Because your grandmothers undergoing chemotherapy and has a host of other medical issues Id consult a nutritionist at the hospital if they offer that service They might have a cookbook you can consult the hospital where my mother had chemotherapy offered one free of charge or a list of foods your grandmother should and shouldnt eat It would be really helpful to know the full range of vegetablesThe only things I can think of is chicken salad with cranberriesraisinsapples and plain yogurt instead of mayo and a really bland pea soup with ham no sodium |
Theres a big pile of yard trimmings tree branches raspberry canes weeds etc in the middle of my garden and I want to grow some edible mushrooms on it this spring to help break it down for compost I have never grown fungi of any kind before Any suggestions on varieties techniques where I would be able to obtain sporesplugs etc | fungicomhttpfungicom has always been good to me Pure cultures great knowledge of what to do large selection of good books on the subject They sell kits for edibles which are very helpful for beginners which cost 30 for most species which come with colonized spawn humidity tent and instruction booklet with detailed instructions on exactly what to do with that particular species Its a great way to get started as you cant go wrong as long as you follow the instructions And theres no reason you cant clone from the biggest fruit try to collect sporeprints or just wait until it stops flushing and use break up whats left of the spawn into pieces to spread on the compost outside It should colonize that pretty easily Go for some Oysters your first time around cant go wrong with that theyre super easy And if you feel like doing some reading on the subject maybe check out Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets The book explains all the hidden potential of mushrooms and how they are capable of changing the world as well as going over various modern cultivation methods and hunting methods of shroom hunters |
Some will change Decades from now theyll apologize to us all and claim whether they really mean it or not that they were mistaken Those will be the ones who keep their jobs But most of them will not change Most of them will insist for the rest of their lives that they were right all along But they will die And as their numbers dwindle theyll cluster together in groups of hateful voices growing louder and louder to compensate for their shrinking size And when theyre almost gone theyll use the last of their strength to waive their tattered holy books as high as their wrinkled old arms can reach and declare the world evil And then theyll be gone Our country will no longer be led by bigoted men Homosexuals will finally be free I hope Im alive to see it | Dear old people Please hurry up and dieYours truly Disclaimer Im 51 years and change old Yeah but in the meantime its just a helluva shitflow Half the time I just dont even want to deal with the shit anymore Really Fucking really There is a massive section of this country that would deny me the right to be with my partner in the hospital for hardly any reason at all Theres a buncha people wholl automatically assume Im a child molester Its such absolute and total fuckery and the constant stress of it doesnt seem worth it half the time I dont know how someone lives their whole life with the continuous assault of heteronormative America on every detail of our personal lives I sure as hell couldnt do it I dream of this day the day mainstream christian lunacy is as shut out as the KKK I too hope to see it in my country before I pass Only in MA Im pretty sure thatll happen everywhere soon enough as education spreads I just wish I could be young when that happens |
Hi all long time lurker first time poster This is a quick life story and some advice required so hope you can helpIm 36yo 59 tall and over 100kg Was around 90kg for 10 years or so until I badly broke my big toe and got up to nearly 110kg Have been that way for nearly 2 years nowReally wanting to lose the weight and get much more fit I tried doing some fun runs last year but I just cant run for nuts So riding seems to be an exercise I can do reasonably well Ive got a hybridMTB its not cheap crap but not the greatest either I plan to change it to slicks from nobblies once the time comes but for now it will doSince New Years Eve Ive done around 80km mostly in rides of 16km or so duration Starting this week Ive ridden to work twice which is a 32km round trip with fair hills to contend with I did this ride the first time in 90 minutes please dont laugh Second time I did it in 75 mins but I had a headwind So I am improving but I want to improve moreWhat tips could anyone offer in the way of some training tips especially recovery I was sore for a few days after the first ride I think given my shape Im pushing myself pretty hard but as long as I can finish I am happyMy problem is I want to improve quicker than I am | Lifelong commuter 10 years racer hereYou cant rush fitness Dont push too hard or you will likely injure yourself Gains are fast at first due to increased blood volume and other longer lasting effects such as compensatory hematopoesis mitochondrial expansion and limited muscle fibre type switching take a couple of weeks to a few months to achieveAs other posters have mentioned you should pay attention to your cadence and try to keep it around 90 rpm or so this means that you will likely have to spin an easier gear than you have been so far It might not stress your muscles a whole lot but if weight loss is what youre primarily after its the fat burning and cardio aspects you want to focus on rather than muscle building You want to be working hard enough to speak short sentences but not so hard that youre panting for breath Your overall average speed may also increase a bit as your muscles wont be as destroyed in the latter stages of the rideRecovery is important Rest if youre tired At first this could mean 1 day on and 1 day off in time you can reduce the rest days to once or twice a week Recovery can mean staying off the bike completely but it would be better to take the bike out for half an hour or so to spin the legs and get the blood flow going but not enough to really perspire When you say you were sore you dont explain in what way Muscle sore Butt sore Your muscles should feel heavy and tired but not ripped apart like a weights workout If your butt is sore thats to be expected when youre starting out It will get better in time as you adjust to the saddle and it adjusts to you Speaking of your butt do you have shower facilities at work If not buy some baby wet naps and wipe your taint before you start work or saddle sores could make a quick end to your projectHydration for rides of this duration water is sufficient When it gets hot out you might include some gatorade for rides over an hour since studies have shown that isotonic solutions are more readily absorbed by the GI tract but Im assuming its not really hot where you are right nowIf you want to make any equipment changes I would recommend toe clips If you like the feel of your feet attached to the pedals keep them loose at first until you overcome your fear of falling over while attached to your bike you can think about upgrading to clipless pedals and rigid soled shoes with a cleat I would recommend the SPD system as you can still walk around in the shoes without looking like a duck and you can still ride the pedals in normal shoes If you contact a cycling club you may find someone who is willing to sell you some second hand pedals Serious longtime cyclists often have multiple sets of everythingOther than that enjoy the ride I stopped racing 8 years ago but still love getting out on the bike and enjoying the freedom Go to a shop and ask them to fit you on your bike It can help with soreness Besides that remember that more difficult a gear you push the harder your muscles work the faster you spin the harder your cardio is worked Find a good balance for you I prefer to lean towards cardio As for recovery just stretch seriously do it and eat healthy During the first month of cycling youll probably improve the fastest Youll start eating a shit ton if youre riding enough Also you muscles arent used to the strain so they will be very very tired after easy rides As you get more used to cycling so will your body If you are doing hard rides think about 1 or 2 days per week of rest This can either mean no riding or maybe 45 minutes of easy riding Another way to improve is by going for distance over intensity I found that I could adapt to that easier than going balls out for 30 minutes Rest a day or two per weekgive the muscles a chance to recover Eat right dont ride to justify bad food Cross train do something else perhaps on the day or two you dont ride go for a light jog or do some pushups play soccer or football since it sounds like you come from a country that is not the United States or tennis or something Dont forget about the rest of your bodyOn the bike Spin the hills low gear high cadence pedal faster if that works for you Spin the flats get to where youre pedaling very quickly one or two gears up from bouncing around in the saddle Bomb the descents possibly at hightall gear low cadence to gain speed Change it up and hammer the hills hammer the flats coast the descents Stand on the pedals every so often Drink plenty of fluidsone bottle every hour especially when its warm out Eat something every so oftenI should take my own advice Hi I am older a bit taller and 90kg and live in Aus My knees are stuffed from playing Australian football when I was younger so cycling swimming and stretching keeps me in good shape I started riding on a flat bar road bike probably very similar to what you are riding now In a relatively short time I sort of maxed out riding on my own and was doing the sort of distances you are I thought I was going ok until I bought myself a proper road bike they can be a lot cheaper to buy than you might expect and there is a very vibrant second hand market and joined a club Well thats when my cycling life took a turn for the better and better by a long long way In a club environment the enjoyment factor distances and fitness went through the roof Cycling clubs are made up of an incredibly diverse range of fitness levels read you can always and I mean always find a group that moves at a pace you feel comfortable with And the great thing is that there are always faster groups that you can try as your fitness levels improve The social aspects of cycling are fantastic and almost every cyclist I have met has been a good person If you proceed as I did you will look back at these days and laugh at what a noob you were no offence I did a hills session this morning in Sydney that would have been impossible only 6 months ago My fitness level is really really high and I can sustain very high intensity for long periods and I am still a noob by road cycling standards Cycling seems to one of the few sports that you can continue to improve as you age In fact I have been smoked on roads by guys well into their 60s Your body becomes harder and more fit with each week In addition most club rides happen very early in the morning so your exercise for the day is usually over before about 715 on a weekday and as late as you want on the weekendI can honestly say having played almost every sport known to man that road cycling is by far the best sport I have ever done can i just suggest an immediate relief for sore parts gloves and cycling shorts life changer unless you have them anyway in which case disregard this If you want to lose weight youll want to get your ride in while your blood sugar is low like after you wake up so that your body will go straight to your fat stores for energySave eating breakfast until you get tonear workMeal replacements like MetRX are convenient |
the fiancees parents got it for me for Christmas I few observations so far I like how adult it is I find that most of the fantasy Ive read up to this point has been pretty mild in all types of descriptions I find it refreshing that Martin is able to make me love and hate certain characters so far I was excited and cheered when I read what happens to The Dragon King got his golden crown he did The players in the small courtI couldnt tell if they could be trusted or not up until what happens with the goldcloaks in the throne room Hell I still dont know about them I love The Imp The cast of characters is huge there is so much death in the book haha Anyway Im about 34ths of the way done with Game of Thrones and wanted to sing my praises thus far | gt Martin is able to make me love and hate certain characters so farYou dont know the half of it gt I find it refreshing that Martin is able to make me love and hate certain characters so far Ha and in the next few books youll grow to love some of the characters you currently hate and hate some of the characters you now love I loved A Game of Thrones but Martin really draws out the plot way too much in the sequels Its obvious he doesnt know where he is going to with several of the subplots and is putting off the final books because he frankly has no idea how to end it He is pulling a Robert Jordan on us and it pisses me off This is the most humanistic characterdriven fantasy series ever written Its a travesty that genre fiction is not considered highbrow enough to win Pulitzers Wait until you get a coupe books into the series George RR is brutal to his characters 0o No one is safe He needs to finish the last book pronto Im getting tired of waiting for it And the HBO pilot for GOT is looking promising I found a podcast with good info on it Link here httpwwwtelevisionzombiescom20091228tvzep109gameofthrones I hate you so hard for making me remember these books Now I get to read them the 10th time over and be pissed that Dance with Dragons is still not out I loved the first 3 books but have yet to pick up A Feast of Crows because of all the drama with having to split the book in two etc I remember reading these all the way back in like 2003 I see from wikipedia that FoC was released in 2005Its 2010 and he seriously still has yet to release the fifth book Ugh |
After seeing thishttpwwwredditcomrtechnologycommentsanriyfacebookfoundermarkzuckerbergtoldalive I feel very much inclined to jump ship on facebook The thing is I use facebook to keep in touch with loads of friends that I wouldnt otherwise Are there any other social networking sites out there not MySpace or Twitter either that are decent and might actually care about their users a bit Then I can start up an account there and convince my friends to move over there | im working on an alternative but its still not done should be in a couple more months privacy REAL privacy is a tough cookie to crack beyond just making everyones content private but we think we got something coolanyone care for an invite when its out in beta id love to get some fellow redditors on it |
I just got back from a gynocology appointment I went in because I have been feeling intermittent pain on my left side and I thought it might by an ovarian cyst I know a few girls who have had them with no long term problems so I wasnt too worried The doctor seems to think it probably is a cyst and ordered a pelvic ultrasound which unfortunately I couldnt schedule any sooner than 2 weeks from now I was prepared for all thatbut she also found a breast lump which I also need to have an ultrasound on It is scheduled for the same day I try to do breast self exams and I never noticed it but I felt it during the exam and it fells pretty big 23 cm and hard Now my mind is running away with me I keep thinking about worst case scenarios Im only 25 Has anyone had any experience like this Any advice I dont know how Im going to make it 2 weeks until the radiology appointmentEDIT Thanks everyone This is exactly what I was hoping for people who had lumps that turned out to be nothing and links to cheer me up I knew I could count on 2X to deliver some girl supportEDIT 2 I had my ultrasounds today The doctor decided my breast ultrasound looked normal enough so I just have to continue monitoring the lump for changes I have to wait a few more days for the pelvic ultrasound results to be analyzed The pelvic ultrasound was incredible painful which makes me think we are at least looking at the right area Thanks again for all the supportive messages | Last year I had to have a cervical biopsy and I also had to wait two weeks for my appointment I was going nuts so I just did my best to occupy my mind constantly I gave myself I think two hours to go crazy on wikipedia and WebMd and then forbade myself to do any more research until I got the results back from the biopsy I found it really helpful to always always have a nice lighthearted book handyThe Princess Bride anything by Walter Moers etc Its way easier said than done but the most helpful thing you can do for yourself is to just try not to think about it Speculation will get you absolutely nowhereremember the odds are firmly stacked in your favor and even though breast lumps are inherently scary it is very likely No Big Deal Try to plan as many activities with friends and family as you can hit the library rent some fun not dramatic or scary or sad moviesdo whatever you need to do to keep yourself in the moment Good luck big hugs etc Here is a picture of a nutritionconscious hamsterhttpstaticsquidoocomresizesquidooimages1draftlens5627552module43348792photo1246368575hamstercornjpg If hamsters are not your thing here are some ducklings swimming in a teacuphttpimgdailymailcoukipix20070703mallardMS2807468x397jpg Please keep us posted I found a breast lump myself a few years ago and started freaking out before the ultrasound It turned out to be a completely normal fat deposit brought about by hormones probably from being on the pill It ended up going away on its own in a couple of weeks Try not to worry too muchmight be nothing Some others have already mentioned this but a lot of lumps turn out to be nothing They check every lump because if it is cancer thats very bad but only some of them are Unless you have a family history of breast cancer at age 25 youre at pretty low risk Please try to be calm I had a lump 4 years ago too and it turned out to be a harmless fibroadenoma It could be nothing Its almost certainly nothing At your age the most likely explanation is a cyst or a fat deposit Theyre just checking to be on the safe side No reason to worry about it I know thats easier said than done Im sorry I dont have any experience to share with you but I will give you a big HUG and kittenshttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvvdQj2ohqCBkampfeaturerelated I dont know whats its like to wait for something like that but maybe if you fill your next two weeks with lots of activities friends and fun it wont seem so long Good luck Try not to worry too much I know this sounds like obvious advice but the best thing you can do is not let your mind run away and think terrible thoughts Statistically the breast lump should not be anything cancerous Many women in their 20s get benign lumps cysts tumors etc Most are not a problem and many do not even need to be removed unless it is growing at an alarming rate I have had my own experience with this and I do have a lump which caused me some great panic a few years ago Mine turned out to be completely benign and only recommended to be removed if I felt like it Its still an unsettling thing I wish you the best of luck and am hoping for your sake neither are going to be problematic If you have a cyst on your ovary its totally possible you have a benign cyst in your breast too Maybe your body just makes a lot of cystsBe glad you found it but try not to panic yet Think positive I had a friend male who found a very obvious hard lump and freaked out thinking he had male breast cancer but it turned out to be an abscess yuck probably caused by something like a splinter working itself into the tissue I had a similar experience around this time last year I had to go in for an ultrasound because my gyno found a lump in my right breast It turned out to be nothing I have very dense and irregular tissue apparently But for the entire time leading up to the appointment I was a nervous wreckSo based on this my advice is to try to remember that it does no good to worry about something that hasnt happened Good luck I found a lump in my breast when I was 22 I went to the doctor and after the exam he said that I didnt have one lump I had 25 I was obviously very concerned He diagnosed me with Fibrocystic Breast Disease This is a fairly benign condition and I had a an ultrasound and monogram to confirm After the results came back my dad gave me the nick name of lumpy Yay boobs I dont have a story to share but I just wanted to know Im hoping for the best in your situation Its hard not to freak out and I cant say girl dont freak out because Id be a messy ball of stress But youve got tons of people that are hoping for the best and that cant be a bad thing Hugs doll Just breathe You cant make your tests happen any faster than they are already going so try not to make yourself sick from the stress Youre 25 Youre low risk Just do whatever it takes to get your mind off it Go out with your girls Visit family Stay on reddit for a few hours Good luck |
Ok I know there is a wide range and you have know idea of my skills but My new freelance sitehttpwww608createcom I just got a new client after a long slow period I have to figure out how to charge It is updating the existing site no new pages It is pretty basic text changes and some form updating The form updating will be the most time consuming part Lots of detail and descriptions I have only charged for creating websites not updating For new sites I charge a set price for the first page including mock up and a set price per additional page Thats just how I do it and it seems to work fine for the smaller clients I work for I am using FreshBooks and it has a really nice time tracking tool I have read some of the google search results for web designer hourly rate but I like asking my fellow web heads or something witty like thatI was thinking 50hrThanksHope I dont get blastedunibox | 50hour is perfectly reasonable maybe a little low if youre in a large metropolitan area For billing you can just give them an estimate for the work in advance eg 20hrs but let them know youll be billing actual hours worked Ask for 13 or 12 of the estimate as a deposit If they add more work or change their minds just email them saying itll take an additional X hours do you want to go ahead with those changes 50 an hour is not really too low Until you are very busy you want to keep your prices low to be competitive If you could work 40 hours every week 50 you wouldnt be doing too bad Remember that a lot of people would kill to make half that much these days If you are hungry for business dont be afraid to take jobs at low prices You can always up the price on the next job My very first priority would be to be working at capacity This way you are being productive and getting better and more efficient Once you get there the good money will come without any hard sales effort on your part Dont pay too much heed to Redditors that gripe about their customers and their pay My grandfather is an excellent business man and his famous saying is everybody has got to eat Meaning that in every deal the key is to be sure that both you and your customer are coming out in the black be flexible on the numbers but inflexible in the principle This will build your relationships and in the long run your clients will swear by you at any price |
Ok I feel stupid because I am a networking major and I had this working already for a couple weeks before it broke and I couldnt fix it I have cable internet In my room their is a wireless router The only thing plugged into the router is my laptop and my cable box In the front room I have a 360 PVR and a Bluray player all I want to be hooked up to the internet So I went out and bought an Access point and a switch The access point supports both repeater and bridge functions I synced the access point to mimic my routers SSID WPA2 and channel settings through the AP wizard and had it working with it plugged in to the switch and the switch plugged in to the 360 Now I cannot seem to fix it What setting should it be on AP right | If your AP has an out LAN port you can probably hook it up to the in port on your switch and set the AP in bridge mode to create a wireless bridgeIf you had a second ddwrt capable wireless router you could use that to create the wireless bridge and act as the switch and AP I have a Linksys wrt54g I use to connect to my buildings free wifi and connect my devices to that instead of having them individually connect to the wifi |
Just wondering havent seen something like this in the context of the lyrics questions Anything about a girlboy love etc | My love for you is like a truck BerserkerWould you like some making fuck BerserkerMy love for you is like a rock BerserkerThe Berserker is just so obsceneLikes evil people you know what I meanHe takes your soul and then just rips you apartHell steal your heartWould you like to smoke some pot BerserkerMy love for you is ticking clock BerserkerWould you like to suck my cock BerserkerWould you like some making fuck BerserkerreferencehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvDRbhNQUZYh0ampfeaturerelated I dont believe in an interventionist God But I know darling that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him Not to intervene when it came to you Not to touch a hair on your head To leave you as you are And if He felt He had to direct you Then direct you into my arms Nick Cave Into My ArmshttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvMS4gRmvvDsU Or else I ache for the touch of your lips dear But much more for the touch of your whips dear You can raise welts Like nobody else As we dance to the masochism tango Say our love be a flame not an ember Say its me that you want to dismember Blacken my eye Set fire to my tie As we dance to the masochism tango Shes got eyes of the bluest skiesAs if they thought of rainI hate to look into those eyesAnd see an ounce of pain |
I will answer every question I can as long as it wont get me fired Also to open the questions a bit I am familiar with both film and digital presentations and been around for about 7 years | Have you ever done coke off a movie canister have you ever blown pot smoke into a projector fan had sex in the balcony during a show Ever mixed alcohol with a fountain drink played porn on the screen after closing ever filled the theater with about three hundred drunk people illegally for a midnight preshow of the hulk ever hooked up Halo to the screen ever stole topless single frames of film and posted them in the box office to stare at while selling tickets to mouth breathers just want to see if we have anything in common Why are there seats in the very front of the theatre about ten feet from the screen that no one would ever want to sit in I feel like those seats shouldnt even exist it ruins the experience of the movie for anyone unfortunate enough to be stuck with one Can you explain conclusively how theaters make moneyIve heard variously that 100 of ticket revenue does not go to the theater itself but to the distributor or to the chain or both Ive heard that only concessions make money locally Do you actively look for movie hoppers If caught could they mend the situation through the purchase of concessions Do you ever give refunds to people who just dont like the movie Im sure you dont refund everyone who says they didnt like it so if you do give refunds on occasion whats the deciding factor I dont plan to abuse this knowledge Ive never walked out of a movie in my life Just curious Say that I wanted to watch a movie without paying What are some ways this could be done Hypothetically speaking of course Have you ever caught anyone camming a film Is this something which is actively looked forA few times in my local theatre I was approached for resting my head on my hand in a position which could be supporting a videocamera and Its beginning to become annoying whats the theatre capacity how many screens how has the recession hit you guysalso worst customer story |
I am so puzzled when I read of someone whos battling cancer or some other form of disease and have just been through mounds of radiation treatment and are finally in remission and give the glory all to Jesus Or yet someone with high blood pressure goes to the doctor and gets a good report and gives glory to God Like it has nothing to do with the current round of heart medication theyre taking But try asking them to eliminate the medicationtreatments and to rely solely on god for his healing power and see how far their faith travels I bet not far | This realization is what first caused me to question God In the LDS church you are supposed to pray and ask God if the church is true Everybody else around you has a testimony and they say theirs came after God told them it was true But mine never did There was nothing so special or distinct as to distinguish it from regular emotions Am I tearing up at someones emotional story of how they struggled through hardship because the spirit is testifying to me or is it just because the story is touching and Im glad to see people get through tragedy with their head held highThis is the central argument around Why wont God heal amputees They argue that everytime God answers a prayer it will always be something that is indistinguishable from something that could have happen through the natural course of events But God will never answer a prayer that is indistinguishable from chance like healing the arm of an amputee Rule number one for being religious Make any and all attempts to defy reason This is their bag friend I still live at home going to college closeby and attend church services out of respect with my very religious father Out of the blue a woman came on stage mid 70s or so mind you this is Florida so its the average age here and says her daughter was Tstruck by a car in an intersection and we all know what saved her sniffle cry sniffle and I immediately thought the goddamn airbags Why not tell Volvo youre happy your daughter is alive instead of pandering to morons who equate statistical improbability with divine intervention until proven otherwise rantI know this isnt completely medical but its close enough to remind me of that story |
Im at the point where I need to start thinking more longterm about my career objectives and where I want to go in the future I think Id like to move into a Project Management position I think that If I remain disattisfied with what Im currently doing right now I will be looking for a position sometime towards the end of this year Are there any pitfalls I should be aware recommended readings things that shouldnt be done that I should undertake in the meantime if I decide to persue a Project Management position | I made the transition from developer to BA to PM and it was a really logical career path Being a BA also gives you exposure and practise of the kind of PM work youd be later dealing with but doesnt require you to dump all of the technical side of your work assuming you are technicalOnce youre a BA aiming for certification through Prince andor PMI are a good goal They make you employable pretty much all over the world and keep you up to date in the industryAs for pitfalls the number one thing I could suggest is to tiptoe your way into PM work Its not for everyone and its certainly not as glamorous as it sounds You end up with a lot of stress and a lot of responsibility however you also end up compensated pretty well salary wise And as shriverd suggested know your fieldnothing loses you friends quicker than being a PM and not understanding the technical side of the project your undertaking BAs and developers will lose respect for you very quicklyIf you like lots of responsibility change and time and stakeholder management then PM work could be a good fit for youbut if any of the above make you squirm Id give it a second thought Dont let me discourage you though I love the work The potential for travel and getting to work albeit 3rd hand with lots of new technologies are some of the pluses |
Just so its new and clean as the other one was getting a bit cluttered Also dont PM me post in this threadEdit 1013PM GMT Alright im not sure if 1swarm is down or its just me but I cant access right now so cant send invites Edit1258AM GMT Okay I can access it again so will start sending out invitesUpdate Okay everyone has been sent invite and going to bed now so dont expect to get one for a while unless another mod comes Alright sorry for not giving you an invite if you havent got one yet Ill hopefully have better access to the internet after this weekend if things work out so ill hit you all up then if I can DONE everything Up to 28110 | Alright will sign all you guys up as soon as I can get into 1spawn as its not loading for me right now Alright im not sure if 1swarm is down or its just me but I cant access right now so cant send invites |
So had a girl over for a second date the other night went nicely I made a nice thai dinner and we got caught up on the couch in a 3 hour conversation after Definitely some chemistryI didnt make a move though because there didnt seem like an appropriate timeSo towards the end of the evening I mention the story about the girl with no vag who got pregnant from giving a BJhttpwwwredditcomrWTFcommentsat4ychowtogetpregnantfromablowjobacasereportShe is in the medicalish field which is why i brought it up and she was intrigued so I committed to sending her the link later onSo this is the exchange of email we had since then Seeing her tomorrow night the nature of the email conversation and a subsequent text message conversation afterwards confirmed my thoughts she digs the irreverent and inappropriate humour And it seems shes gameHer Okay you did well at explaining that case studyVery interesting read Yes I did have issuses understanding some of the terminologyIt was great that they felt it necessary to toss in the irrelevant information of the exchange of cattle thoughMe Yeah haha That part was a bit outta place You have a vagina rightHer Im pretty sure I do I could be mistaken though Let me go find one of my toys and see if it has somewhere to fityes yes yes I have a vaginaMe i hope that was a sex toy and not an etchasketchedit I should add that I got big props for the bold joke when we talked on the phone later | Upvote for making an etchasketch vagina joke and not coming off as creepy I always seem to fuck that upCheers either way P |
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