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So far Im enjoying Braid and Torchlight but I cant stop playing Trials 2 This game is addictive and frustrating best 250 Ive ever spent All in all I got 11 games for about 50 which will last me for quite some time Whats your favorites so far | Mass effect After playing it for an hour I cant believe that I have gone for so long without trying this game Its brilliant Tourchlight Out of the 20 games I got this is the only one Ive played more than 1 hour of yet Im at about 16 in two days actually Sad Shattered Horizon is epicSadly I need a new CPU to better appreciate it the E6600 is just not cutting it Surprisingly enough Plants vs ZombiesBurned gt 250 and spend most of my gaming time on this casual title shattered horizon and mass effect both very awesome games was a bit worried that i wouldnt like mass effect only rpg ive played is FO3 but its turned out to be fantastic |
Subs by BSS Im seeding it on BaconBitsAwesome gifs spoilers httpiimgurcomjGEJUgif httpiimgurcomHiJQvgif | SPOILERS for a clip movie of a series youve already seen lulzIts an inferior product once more While I visually like some of what they did thematically I thought a lot of the changes were illsuited Also gutting the first 34ths of the story to make a longer final fight was a poor poor decision The lack of death also made the sacrifices seem lessened The problem is they did it so perfectly the first time around that anything else really does seem sacrilege This movie was brilliant It rather than recapping the original series did something a bit different and even more over the top while still remaining true to the flavor of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann The ending fight was fantastic and having new content to view was refreshing and satisfying I will say this movie will probably only appeal to someone who absolutely loved Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann the first time around but if you really loved the series you will find this enjoyableIn closing all I have to say Dat fistfight |
Im a beginner when it comes to practicing rocket jumps Ive watched tons of videos but playing with other people doesnt really feel like the right place to practice the techniques What are some beginnerintermediate jump maps to practice Rocket and Sticky jumpingThanks for your help guys | These two links will tell you just about everything about beginner jumpshttpwwwgotfragcomtf2forumsthread412252httpforumssteampoweredcomforumsshowthreadphpt834077amphighlightYucca |
Ok so heres the full story A coworkerfriend of mine introduced me to Reddit over one year ago During a conversation today it came up that his Reddit account was spambanned so that nobody could see his comments and his user page gave a 404 errorhttpwwwredditcomusercweaver When he found out he PMd the Admins no response and then created a throwaway account and PMd the Admins again no response His ban and messages happened over 3 weeks ago and he hasnt gotten a responseWe all know there have been problems with the spam filter but heres the insane thing he rarely submitted links His user stats were approximately 16 karma and and 15694 comment karma Talking to him he thinks hes submitted one link his entire time on the site though over three years he may have forgotten a couple but a spamban seems insane hereI know its just a free user account but those stats are hard to replace and three years of friends will be hard to replicate Please fix the problem Reddit with this user and any other users this has happened to Thanksedit I asked him to grab a screenshot of his user page so you can see his submitted history Most of them are selfwhatever posts so its possible the spam filter went crazy that way User Pagehttpimgurcom8focgedit2 This posthttpwwwredditcomrselfcommentsan8mrredditcanyouseemeithinktheressomething confirmed for him something was wrong saving you the trouble of trying to search for itedit3 Thanks to jedberg for respondinghttpwwwredditcomrredditcomcommentsava8pthreeyearredditusercweaverspambannedfornoc0jkrg4 When I talked to cweaver about this he seemed flabbergasted by it Hes PMing him now I wonder if they got the wrong guy somehowedit4 So I talked to cweaver again and let him know that even I was a little dubious now He provided me with pretty convincing evidencehttpimgurcomg5CMG that he has not been harassing users via PM | cweaver was banned because he was harrasing other users over private messages He was warned to stop and did not If he would like to PM me and explain I will unban his account I deleted my three year old account Slipgridhttp74125113132searchqcachemAkpIHnGuZ0JwwwredditcomuserSlipgridsiteredditcominurlslipgridampcd1amphlenampctclnkampglus because of this Now I just troll the site Sites turned to shit anywayEditAlso it seemed like when you get spam banned they delete your history It happened to me once after the reddit founders left the site and I got them to remove the ban but all my history was deleted I asked them about it and they answered a different questionReddit used to be cool but when we got moderators it started to suck Then people started using report as the downvote button so unpopular views are marked as spam That when really most of the stuff on the front page is viral marketingAnyway back to trolling fuckers Ive messaged cweaver two or three times randomly because I know who he is I dont know if he remembers me though Point Hes a real person Here is his comment historyhttpwwwbacktypecomurlwwwredditcom252fuser252fcweaverEDIT jedberg has posted the reason for this user being banned since I posted this PMs are of course not captured in the archive I linked to Digg pulled this shit on my account and i never got a response from them Are you just like the Digg admins Mr RedditYour move coathatleave Well I searched his username and didnt find any links so he wasnt submitted to the ReportTheSpammers subreddit to be banned Either he was singled out by an admin or sucked into the spam filter somehow The spam filter isnt set up to try to snag people for comment spam is it I know its just a free user account but those stats are hard to replaceIs he going to put the stats on his resume or something Jesus Do what I just did when they fuck you from on high Make another account and never mention it again Just make a new accountwhats so hard about that I have 12 one of which is PDubfeed me your money I was a moderatoradmin for over 5 years for a MMPOG 95 of the time complaints such as this consist of half truths or outright lies The typical MO is for them to try to get their friends outraged and stir up trouble in a forum thread like this to put pressure on the admins to reverse the ban It rarely rarely works out that way and is more likely just to get those others banned as wellwhich is usually fine with the perpmisery loves company and all thatBut you said he had 15694 comment karma and he shows you a screen with 5 PMs on it 3 to the same person and you find that pretty convincing evidence Really My advicedrop it |
This has to be one of the hardest locations to make a move I mean youre surrounded by sweaty people working out most of them beautiful and everyone is checking everyone out some are just more obvious than othersBut I cannot for the life of me think of a good way to approach someone at the gym get a conversation started and ask them out Has anyone done this or knows of a wayHow would you want to be approached at the gym What would work | Dont pick them up with an arched back thats a recipe for a back injury Basically Crouch grab and then lift by rising back up with a straight back Women can be heavy so be careful with this I personally think its a bad idea to try and pick someone up at the gym If youre going to try it do it at a time when they arent actually working out Wait until they are done with their workout and getting ready to leave This way you arent interrupting their flow and they have an easy out if they feel awkward Most people dont go to the gym to socialize so tread softly Put one hand behind their knees the other behind their back raise the hand behind the knees and cradle them in your arms Always make sure you have a spotter Be safe out there I would avoid doing thisI go to the gym to do work Yes I enjoy it Yes I am gorgeous Especially at the gym However I have and will continue to ignore people who try to talk to me while I am doing any sort of physical training Disclaimer My feelingsmindset do not reflect upon all people who exercise Best of luck |
My focus is finance Go ahead AMAThanks Reddit this was fun I hope I could help some of you out Ill keep this throwaway active and will return periodically to answer more questions I think might set up a subreddit to talk about employment and hiring as well | In an interview last week I was asked Describe a time that you misjudged someoneHow was I supposed to answer that and not come off like a moron What happens to a guy who is good in the field he went to school for but hes sick of it and discovered late in life his true calling lies in another industrySay a guy whose resume page 1 lists tons of useful IT skills page 2 speaks of a nice 13 year career in IT including management but who all of a sudden added a third page listing everything hes done on his free time with movie projects screenplays writing graphic novels designing videogames etcIm asking for a friend you see How many sociopaths do you think you meet on a regular basis I think living in NYC working in finance or advertising would be a wonderful lifestyle if I was incapable of guilt Do recruiters have questions that weed out those unburdened by remorse What do you look for during the first interview Is there normally a first interview followed by a second interview if they like you Or is that just for when you are graduatingCould you give some good interviewing tips What to study My last question is why do interviewers do behavioral interviewing I honestly just looked up all the questions I could possibly find and made up like 5 different scenarios to go along with them Youre not really getting downvoted around 70 is normal most downvotes are from bots etc If anything people would be downvoting because youre asking for upvotes Annoying questions you probably get all the timeAre you in NYC or somewhere else in NY Do you recruit for only certain companies or are you a straight up headhunter Also when somebody asks me What is your greatest shortcoming whats a good way to respond to thisAnd finally my buddy is working a miserable job for Citi in Buffalo in the financing department He hates it and loves NYC with all his heart is there any way I could have him contact you with a resume privately of course Hes very good at what he does and I feel like hed do very well somewhere else I work at a midsized financial company in NYC Occasionally Ill get a call from our receptionist saying that someones called the main number and is asking for me by name rather than dialing my direct line Sometimes theyll even say something like theyre an old friend from my time in ltinsert city Ive never been to before in my lifegtObviously I have no idea who these guys are They dont have my email or phone number but they found out where I work on linkedin or elsewhere The bullshit about being an old friend from Tuscon AZ is the best partMy question is what the fuck could possibly motivate a headhunter to pursue such an approach I cant imagine they ever get a positive response to tactics like this No lie my greatest weakness is that in periods of high stress i experience a great need to urinate Is this an inappropriate answer to the canon interview question I just made my first resume last night actually I am pretty happy with it but I have a very poor GPA so I just didnt include it What do you think about that Do I HAVE to put it on there If so is there a good way to downplay it If it matters I am graduating this summer with a bs In computer science Why the hell did you call me at 730 For a PHP job In New York CityMy address is clearly listed as San Francisco and I have PHP nowhere on my resumeThanks for waking me up I graduated a year ago with a BA and since then Ive been clinically depressed which has made job searching difficult How do I explain the year long gap without bringing that up How much is being unemployed for a year hurt an interview and does being a temp for the last few months with very short assignments help I graduated in Finance this last May and took my GMAT during that time I did poorly Like 620 or so mostly due to the math portion Im good at math and a good test taker but I barely studied for the exam 2 weeks of practice tests and the questions were totally different than I was used to Im going to have to seriously study for the math portion and hopefully will get well into the 700s next time I have to stay in NYC so I guess my only choice is to go to NYU Stern since anything else would be useless I currently have a job I really like but not a salary I like I wouldnt be able to live on this salary with my current lifestyle at least if I didnt live with my mom I work in a midsized company which is in the Finance field but I personally do not do anything Finance related here I do marketing research project management etcMy question is this is there any reason I should even get an MBA I do eventually want to move up in this organization or maybe a different organization But right now the only reason I want an MBA is just so my family leaves me alone about it My mom has an MBA and it has done nothing for her she works in IT and not even as a manger but she thinks its vitally important as a back up It seems like the only answer I ever hear to the weakness question is some variant of I focus too much on one task I guess I could improve my time management Just seems like an easy BS answer to meWhat are some other interesting and good answers youve heard to that question Thanks My resume through the years has grown to five pages longContractingcom bombingOut sourcingand well Ive been doing it for twenty five years now I recently got myresume down to two pagesbut feel like there are somegood companies and things done early in my career that arenow absentie SunAMDPreinternetearly days Should I keepthe two pageror say fook it and shove five pages around What is the worst thing anyone has worn to an interview Also what color suit would you recommend a law student to wear to an interview with a big firm This is my dream AMA Quick background Im currently a student finishing my associates in accountingbookeeping after a long 2 yr break and will be finishing my CPA at a local UC in another year1 What are some practical things I can dolearntake besides the required courses that will prepare me more for the industry I have about 2 years straight heavy bookeepingadministrative experience with an IT company but more on the administrative side2 Is there anything I can add to my resume to make me more attractive despite being a student I often get overlooked for positions because I havent finished my associates but I have the job experience and a high GPA3 Im not sure how to explain the blank 2 years of time no school little work on my resume I was caring for a family member with cancer4 You wrote that a CPA is necessary in the industry are there any other certifications that you suggest5 Many of my interviews are with very small 5 or less people companies some dont have websites let alone press releases or financial reports How can I be better prepared for an interview with them6 I fix upedit resumes for friends any general things that I can useavoid to help them land an interview I read a lot of resumejob building blogs so I know to avoid overusing action words not to lie etc but Id love to see your viewThank you so much for doing this AMA Ive got a BS in math from an ivy 2008 Ive been working since then for a software company and Im bored to tears What are my chances of moving into finance and how do I go about doing it |
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I was browsing the PSN store a few days ago and saw that Frogger Returns was one of the topselling games on PSN Ive always liked Frogger and it was only 5 so I bought it My thinking was that Frogger is a pretty hard concept to screw up so it would probably be a decent game Wow I could not have been more mistaken This is easily the worst game Ive played in years Whoever decided that the camera should be at an angle deserves to be punched in the face You cant tell if things are one square or two squares in front of you And worse than that the collisiondetection is horrible and you get hit by cars that arent anywhere close to touching you But the thing that really takes the cake is that there are only FOUR levels Thats more than 1 per levelMoral of the story Dont let your nostalgia get the best of you and dont buy games on PSN just because they are bestsellers | Problem with PSN games is there arent usually a lot of reviews up on the day they become downloadable Im tempted to impulsebuy on PSN almost every week but after a few disappointments I can manage to resist the temptation until Ive read something about a game I remember seeing screens of Frogger a few weeks ago and thinking it looked really ugly Im just surprised its such a big seller Thishttpps3igncomarticles1051059011p1html is what they made of it on IGN Looks like they had similar issues with the game as OP |
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I was walking to class last night and when I was crossing the street I noticed a white van with some logo on it for repair work About 5 minutes down the road I saw it again at my university 15 minutes later as I was about to walk into my building it was parked outside I know it was the same building because Ive since looked up the logo and apparently its a very small company and it was after hours so whats the likelyhood its a different van After a 2 hours class I decided to take an enclosed catwalk on the way back to my apartment and while I was walking across it I looked down made eye contact with a guy in a van The same fucking van It just screamed Gman in my face Has anyone else ever had a Gman moment IRL | Not exactly a Gman moment but Last night I was driving my white van and some Dbag college kid kept following me around I toured the Micron facility that is near where I live The upper areas are full of research labs people in clean suits exposed ceilings all painted sterile white lots of security etc Down below the facility there are concrete tunnels that connect all of the different buildings in the research complex The tunnels are about 20 feet wide and 10 feet tall on average Some areas had chain linked off storage areas filled with various different things wooden crates fire extinguishers etc Occasionally people in clean suits would be driving those open topped golf carts like the ones you see at airports around the facility Totally expected to see Gordon walking or running by |
Hey Reddit throwaway hereHow do you guys cope with the inevitable I have always been keen on pondering the big questions of life but recently it has started to cause me grief I have developed anxiety and occasional insomnia usually because I constantly get reminded of my mortality by feeling my heartbeat Im not hear to whine about all my problems just want to hear how you guys deal with it Or is it simply not something that worries youEDIT A surprising amount of feedback Much more than I expected So far it seems as though the majority of Redditors do not in fact fear death Many people seem to be intrigued by what will happen and only wish for it to be quick and painless doesnt everyone This does seem like a subject many of you have put alot of time into thinking about and I thank you for all sharing your opinions they have been enlightening and helpful I wish you all quick and painless deaths and may we all find the answers we seek | We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats scientists greater than Newton We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I in our ordinariness that are hereAfter sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet sparkling with colour bountiful with life Within decades we must close our eyes again Isnt it a noble an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it This is how I answer when I am asked as I am surprisingly often why I bother to get up in the mornings To put it the other way round isnt it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born Who with such a thought would not spring from bed eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of itFrom Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins Easy I just dont think about it I distract myself and go look at LOLcats or masturbate or something I may die but every atom composing me is immortal and will last until the end of the universe and time When you die you will not get the chance to reflect on your life so there is no reason to reflect on death while you are living I am literally watching my dad go off dialysis since Friday and did the celebration of life party today I might be alone in this but its not the dying part that scares me its the fact that there will be a lot I never knew or understood Its a bit strange that Im OK with the idea of not existing anymore but just sad I guess that theres a lot I wont ever learn dimethyltryptamine its the chemical nature designed specifically for you to be flooded with when you die or almost die it sounds scary but thats the thing nature designed it for you as an epilogue why would it be scary and in the immortal words of futurama everyone experiences the upgrade differently but its the same gist As Internetcool it is to say that you dont fear deathor maybe quote somebody who doesntI would say most people will fear death when it comes knockingI think the biggest thing to figure out is why you fear it so much Are you afraid of missing out on the pleasurable things in life Are you afraid you havent made good use of your time Are you afraid people will look back on you unfavorably Are you afraid of things you will or wont leave behind Are you afraid of what does or doesnt await you afterwards Or are you just afraid of the event the pain and horror it might entailOnce youve pinned that down its time to resolve that Think it through Make the changes you need to change Live your life how you want to live it And dont let it bother you so much its gonna happen whether you want it to or not might as well get all your other ducks in a rowMe Ive come to realize that I mostly fear dying itself Ive done a lot of cool things with my time so far my debts would mostly be covered by the money Ive saved so far and save for a privileged few I can say Ive mostly been good to the people Ive met So Ive got that down BUT flying still makes me nervous cause I dont like the idea of having my head bashed in by flying shrapnel So theres that To be totally honest I dont understand why the thought scares people I mean Ive heard it explained time and time again but its never clicked for me The same thing happens to me when people explain their religionbelief in gods to me I can have it explained to me a million different times in a million different ways but Im missing some fundamental connection that allows me to understand the thought process or mindsetEdit To answer your question directly I dont have to cope its just not a worry for me How did you cope before you were born The same way you will cope after youre dead This doesnt help the issue of generally loving to be alive which I sometimes struggle withBut Alan Watts helped me to understand that we are conditioned to believe that death is the end and the worst thing possibleUnderstand that your energy existed in the universe long before you were you It will exist long after you are gone You actually have existed forever and will continue to exist forever I listen to Pink Floyd amp Pearl Jam Yes I understand that every life must end As we sit alone I know someday we must go Im a lucky man to count on both handsThe ones I loveSome folks have just oneOthers they got noneStay with meLets just breathe Knowing that the inevitable is going to happen I am more worried about how to get the maximum out of the time given to me Death will come when it will It needs no planning In the mean time you and I have minutes ticking by and they certainly need a lot more planning and management Barring an untimely death which could happen the very next minute I think you should be more worried about the list of regrets you will have at the end of your life Focus on minimizing that number Well I try not to think about it too much thats my main way of coping but I also imagine that itll be something like the time when you werent aware you were aliveits kinda hard to describe One day your mind kind of just blinked into existenceyou know your earliest memoriesyet what was before that Id imagine it might be similar that one day you just kind of blink out Paaaaanic attack That is what youre having especially the bit about the heartbeatfear of death combo I recognized immediately I used to get them too and for a long time I thought I was the only one slowly going insane But youre not alone it happens to a lot of us And it can get kind of obsessive If youre losing sleep over it it might be time to see a therapist or reevaluate what medications you might be currently taking even something that seems completely harmless you should look it up anyway and see if anyone else is having troubles This is something Ive seen crop up more and more over the last few years Im almost an expert these days Unfortunately its also become the replacement for what used to be jokes about heart attacks Omg I couldnt find my homework and I had a panic attack As much as people are talking about it more its getting pushed aside as a highstrung lady problem that doesnt deserve serious discussion Which is really disheartening for those of us whove struggled to deal with them daily for yearsWhen I was alone I used to deal with it by this line of reasoning Im a human being having been born into the circumstances I was a relatively safe spot in the United States the US is a relatively safe spot in the world our world is located at a relatively quiet part of the galaxy and so on Im lucky enough to have the cognitive reasoning powers to even be this selfaware in the first place I think about nature how everything is worked into the cycle of birth life death decay Every part of me was part of something else before me and every part of this earth was part of something before it Nature does not waste If you believe that you have something like a soul or at least a consciousness that separates you from other entities it would stand to reason that this consciousness would also be recycled It would be broken down and reformed and mixed in with other things but it is not lost Nothing is lost only changedIf you can I would reach out to a significant other trusted friend or family member Someone you can count on someone you can grab onto in the physical world to ground you or at least someone you can call at any hour of the night Thats the best way for me to snap out of it Make sure they know whats going on with you and that you need their supportSomething else thats helped me recently is meditation But thats only worked after I really started getting better When I tried about a year ago the whole concept of inner peace actually managed to scare the shit out of me and I broke out of it I think it depends on your level of panic When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man you will see not only abundant life all around you but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step Wherever you look you will find death as well as lifeUpon closer scrutiny however you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life but are full of life themselves Microorganisms are at work Molecules are rearranging themselves So death isnt to be found anywhere There is only the metamorphosis of life forms What can you learn from thisDeath is not the opposite of life Life has no opposite The opposite of death is birth Life is eternalEckhart Tolle It depends on your situation in life are you youngold singlemarried living inliving without socialoutcast religiousatheist barrack obamaosama bin laden kurt cobaindennis rodman able to enjoy latte while browsng redditbum on the street G83rd worldHow do i cope with death Lifes too precious to waste on worrying Ill just cross the bridge when i get there I try to be a good person and to enjoy life Dont worry too much no ones getting out of this alive |
My wife and I have been married for 3 years she is just over 5 years younger than me me 29 her 23 I have a few friends I still maintain contact with from college Actually a lot We moved far away from home when we were married Since moving out her a few of my friends have moved to my area One of these friends just moved out here about 6 months ago We all friend wife others went to a football game together first It was fun and gave my wife an opportunity to meet my friendTomorrow I was going to go to an event with my friend along with others when my wife is at work totally asked the wife about this before hand Told her she has nothing to worry about as she has already met this girl Regardless she flipped out Claims she doesnt know this person even though I took the initiative to introduce etc etc This has always been an issueI asked my wife that if I truly wanted to cheat on her which I dont would I ask her permission to hang out with the person ahead of time I honestly dont understand this | Your wife feels threatened You made a connection with this woman years before she came into the picture Shes afraid that your old bonds will win out You clearly dont have much experience with womenYou going out with a girl she doesnt know and doesnt know the extent of your past relationship She thinks youre trying to seem legit by asking permission specifically to lure her into a false sense of security If you cave in now you will be doomed to have this situation repeat itself again and again and again Shes 23 Thats the problem Dont get me wrong Im sure shes awesome otherwise why would you have married her but you also have to take into account that she is still quite young and is probably worried that you will leave her for someone you fucked in collegeBring her along when you hang out with your female college friends and when she does be sure to include her in all parts of the conversationactivities Other than that dont talk about them unless you are going to be seeing them in the near future and want to make sure your awesome wife can come along Basically shes worried you dont find her interesting and attractive because you are hanging out with women you partied with and are closer to your own age Im gonna second the bit about how you should default to favouring your wifes considerations but Im not saying you should roll over and yes dear Sit down with your sweetie and talk to her You obviously feel like this is an okay thing to do she obviously feels like it aint Why She mentioned not knowing the girl but why does that matter Obviously youre quick to defend against the cheating card but maybie thats not where shes coming from at all Find out what her problems are here and see what you can do thats not gonna upset her Alternatively she needs to understand where youre coming from and needs to recognize where she needs to loosen up to prevent upsetting you Folks shouldnt be upsetting each other is my point I disagree with some of the postings I am a woman and this sounds like a monster trust issue If you havent done anything to damage her trust then you should not let her get away with overcontrol Obviously she is your wife but does this mean she cannot hang out with any other men than you Sounds weird I recommend being honest with your feelings to her In my experience its not really that she doesnt trust you its just that she doesnt trust those women around her man Having said that maybe you can bring her out with you next time to put her mind at ease |
Ive been at uni for about 3months now and although i have no shortage of good friends or a good social life my block and i have decided that we should definitely meet more people possibly a teensy portion of this being due to wanting to find some good male talent P On the advice of another friend of mine who had been described as aggressivley friendly and has from it made a ridiculous amount of friends i have decided to try and say yes to the majority of oppurtunities that come my way especially with people outside my block although who knows what this will do to my budgetI have also decided that for everytime i go out i want to try and start a conversation with someone new In my head this all sounds very good but although i am often a confident person i see that i might find it difficult to summon up the courage to randomly start chatting to someone mainly for fear they will think i am weird although people seem to do it to me all the time and i rarely think they are too weirdSo i was wondering if anyone else has anytips and definitely good and not tooo weird conversation starters lets presume most conversations will be started in queues for the bar | I usually read the emergency evacuation procedure card when Im in airplane out loud to whoever is sitting next to me Excuse me do you know how much a polar bear weighsI cant say I knowEnough to break the ice Hello ImIf that doesnt work nothing will When I was in college I was a nontalking antisocial loser I would actually stare blankly with a dumb fuck look on my face when someone tried to make small talk I spent a summer working for my uncle who could get strangers to tell thier life stories in line at the grocery store He gave me some pointers and now I can talk to anyone Its actually a critical skill for my job Just say Hi hey whats up how are you in a casual way making witty jokes or conveying your brilliant personality in one opening quip really just makes you look like a prick After that look for their body language and thatll tell you if they are interested in talking If they arent dont push it dont take it personally Dont over analyze your approach and dont expect much Think of it as planting a seed It may grow now later or not at all Plant the seed water with more small talk another day and come back to harvest laterthis tip works great on the ladies And the golden tip Everyone loves to talk about themselves Theyll eventually say something about themselves and then just ask more about it While they talk about themselves pepper the talk with some oh really oh yeah etc This really only works if you are actually interested in other peoples lives If you are not interested in what they have to say then you really shouldnt bother talking to them I always just pick the cutest girl in the room walk up and introduce myself thuslyHi Im a ninja Would you like to see my dinosaur60 of the time it works every time I usually stare at people till they ask what the fuck Im staring at From there the conversation just flows I cant believe this hasnt been said already but joining clubs and societies is the best way to expand your social circle If you go and talk to people there you have a ready made conversation starter whatever the club or society is about Easy I watched a TED TALK that said people were attracted to each other not because of personality traits but rather activities they did together So if some mother fucker is reading a boo you talk about books Or whatever Find someone that looks like theyd be a good fit for you Find an excuse to be near them eavesdrop on hisher conversation make one comment about something they said If heshe smiles or laughs congrats youve got your foot in the door Introduce yourself and barring any fuckups youve got a new friend If theyre wearing a graphic tee thats a perfect start For example if the person has a Depeche Mode shirt on you say Holy Shit I love Depeche Mode and youre set for a good convo with a stranger if you dont like Depeche mode switch immediately to something you do like eg do you like Band you like Theyre one of my favorite bands |
I get my recipes from various places I have a binder that has protective sheets in them and I put my recipes in those I can wipe them down if anything gets on them while cooking The recipes are disorganized in the binder Id like to find a better way to organize them or to store them Any suggestions I apologize if this has already been asked but Reddits search tool isnt the best | I use Gourmet Recipe Managerhttpgrecipemanagersourceforgenet and then I print out recipes and keep them in a folder too If I need to share the recipe or if I accidentally ruin it Ive got a nice electronic copy I have a laptop so I only print recipes off after Im sure that I like them otherwise I just work off the laptop |
We all know every guy has tried and some have even died trying That last inch is the longest in the world Any guys with true walrus skillshttpwwwredditcomrWTFcommentsamxbfwalrusgiveshimselfablowjobwhilepeoplewatch out there care to share your stories or video | Right here Im shy about sharing pics or vids because its hard to hide your face and show your dick in your mouth at the same time |
Is there really a tangible difference in the way to extract these two chemicals or does a TEK that illustrates how to extract one necessarily illustrate how to extract the other Some of the TEKs that brought this question to mind are httpfreezer420chanorgbackupfaqschemfaqhtml httpwwwshroomeryorgforumsshowflatphpNumber10089233fpart1 httpwwwdmt20mcom They always seem to use the generic DMT | gtYou dont need to isolate 5MeODMT to get a 5MeODMT trip You can extract DMT and 5MeODMT from chaliponga or Virola theiodora resin and then take it sublingually The DMT will be almost completely ineffective that way while the 5MeODMT will work really wellsourcehttpwwwdmtnexuscomforumdefaultaspxgpostsampt7307 |
Described as A resolution to strike down Delegateimposed barriers to free entry in a regionCategory LiberationNominee Region Land of the LiberalshttpwwwnationstatesnetregionlandoftheliberalsProposed by The Federal Republic of Unibotian WA MissionhttpwwwnationstatesnetnationunibotianwamissionDescriptionThe Security Council Noting that Land of the Liberals continues to be oppressed under the regime of New Earth and its iron fist delegate Spooks I Defines 1 Native as a nation which takes up residence in a region without the intention of furthering the goals and aims of a foreign force 2 Regional Sovereignty as the collective right of natives to the administration of their region 3 Regional Destruction as the ejection of all of the natives of a region by a delegate whose actions are not supported by said natives Understanding that the World Assembly has the ability to limit the administrative parameters of a delegate Believing that delegates who are not natives of their region generally are poor representatives and participants of the World Assembly depending on the goals and aims of the foreign force which they are furthering Further Believing that the World Assembly has entrusted the Security Council with the solemn task of enabling regional sovereignty while regulating such unruly delegates Recognizing that the delegate of Land of the Liberals is primarily interested in furthering the empire of New Earth and is not concerned with the wellbeing or representing the values of those residing in Land of the Liberals who do not share his foreign interests For he has Banned nations such as Maressia for having a democratic socialist government with no respect for the nature or the spirit of the region in which he is delegate Threatened natives with the decision either to surrender to the authority of New Earth or receive ejection and banishment Implemented a password which is hidden to residents for the purposes of refounding and gaining even more control through the destruction of the region Disgusted that the delegate of Land of the Liberals previously attempted to undermine the World Assembly by temporarily acting above suspicion of all nefarious intentions Aware of at least one native Moralesia which has declared their disapproval of their regions new administration and their wish for a liberation effort Noting that with native support defending and other thirdparty organizations will likely be more inclined to assist with further peacekeeping efforts in Land of the Liberals than before thus furthering the protection of regional sovereignty and the dissemination of interregional peace and goodwill Hereby Revokes the ability of this victimized regions delegate to password protect the region Coauthored by Sedgistan Naivetry and WhamabamaWith 3 days 19 hours before voting closes the voting is heavily in favor nearly 31 for the passing of this resolutionWhat are your thoughts on this resolution and why it should or should not passTLDR A invades B nation from A becomes Bdelegate allegedly does not represent interests of B WA is not happy Punish A YN thanks thecompletegeek2 | Maybe it might be helpful to put a TLDR at the end of these Some of the writing seems superfluousDillyDallying |
This is for the rogue nations who dismiss WA Membership as one of their political aimsIm not sure if this goes for the founder or our new delegate but I wanted to extend my understanding that WA membership might not be preferable for some of our more politically independent nations That said I encourage all such holdouts to take place in WAresolution debates in this forum with the assurance that regardless of their membership status within the WA your points of view on resolutions and the idea of WA membership itself can and will be considered in this forum It is the responsibility of our founder our delegate and all WA members to take into consideration any majority view on WArelated issues regardless of membership statusAs I hope that our WAmembership as a region will continue to increase I can promise that I as a member will do everything I can to reflect the input of all of our nations in my voting record It is my aspiration that given enough time and influence we can make WA membership more appealing to some of our more independentlyminded nations through our active involvement in international politicsSo United Reddit Nations Why do or why dont you pursue WA membership Is it a matter of policy or disinterest for you Speak your mindThe Confederacy of Crab Emirateshttpwwwnationstatesnetnationcrabemirates | Im in the WA because my teddies are nosy and wanted more places to spread their honeycovered philosophyI also went about and endorsed all the reddit nations I could find that had joined the WA at that time I endorse Crabs understanding of those who wish not to join the WA As enjoyable as it is to discuss and debate and even influence issues being bound to the undulations of global opinion can be exceptionally frustrating hence this subreddit exists in part to allow discussion to those nations in the URN which would rather not be overruled as a resultAs for meon a personal level its brain candy an enjoyable critical thinking exercise a chance to debate on something important in imagination only so as to be exempt from any ill consequences On the other hand more globally speaking we have the ability to change the decisions of the World Assembly and the mental paths of its delegates quite possibly for the better for truth for justice for the redditian way |
Ive been on TMobile for a few months now absolutely hating itUnfortunately I was losing my job at the time of the switch and my brother had just started working for TMobile meaning I could save a lot of money by paying about 20month for TMO services versus the 75 i was paying on VZWNow that the Nexus One is out I thought about picking one up and making TMO acceptable except that I would have to get on a normal plan and pay 75 a month for Tmobile service with the phone or pay the 500 fee for the unlocked phone and use it with my current planNow with my corporate discount I get Verizon service for 25 off making the DROID plan Im looking at minimal minutes 1500 messages data come to about 65 In my opinion Tmobile service is not worth more than what Im currently paying for it so Im just going to go back to Verizon Ive checked and I wouldnt have to even pay a deposit or have an activation fee Anyone have any insight or reasoning for me to not do this | Theres always some cool new thing just around the corner Do you like the Droid Have you tried one in person If so go for it I got my Droid about a week ago and its better than I expected from the store demo I have no regrets re upcoming Android products especially since the N1 doesnt seem to be awesomely better HTH yep Verizon will be subsidizing the Nexus One in a couple of monthshttpgizmodocom5440694googlenexusoneeverythingyouneedtoknow Just hold out a wee bit longer and youll get the best of ALL worlds 7520 55month youll save by staying on your current plan That will pay for the full price of the N1 in 10 months |
So Im a fairly new drummer and I was wondering what songs everybody learned on Or if you know of some easier songs that are fun to play i guess to start things off here are a couple songs that were among the first i learned Lit My own worst enemyhttpwwwttabscomtabsphpid5905 Red Hot Chili Peppers Scar Tissuehttpwwwttabscomtabsphpid151651 Bad Religion 21st Century Digital Boyhttpwwwttabscomtabsphpid52033 | Drummer for 15 yearsJust because youre a new drummer doesnt mean you have to play crappy music James Brown Play till you get it right Its easy to play along but hard to get the groove right Go find The Wallflowers One Headlight and play that for an entire week If you can get that one down feel and everything youre set for lifeIm being serious groove is far and away the most important thing for a drummer to get under their belt Dont waste any time watching Thomas Lang doublekick videos on Youtube just learn some grooves Youtube search for Matt Chamberlain and Steve Jordan Notice how theyre playing with huge acts yet arent flashy They make the music feel good |
Ive been a weed smoker for years and Ive experimented with other things such as speed ecstasy although the E I take never turns out to actually be MDMA so technically Ive never done it Salvia Opium DXM only up to the 2nd plateau and things like xanaxIve read all about psychedelics especially acid for months and months trying to prepare myself for the day I finally do it Well this weekend that day will arrive I feel like Ive been ready for months but I havent had the opportunity until nowI will be tripping with three of my friends that I have known since middle school Im in my 3rd year of college and we will be doing it at my apartment Im excited and confident that I will have a great time I will be back here afterward to tell you all about my first psychedelic experience In the meantime if you guys have any advice you wanna throw my way feel free EDIT Spelling its psychedelic who knew | Dont stay in the apt More fun to go outside and experience nature the cold may prevent this Id imagine sledding would be a blast Maybe you have a sober friend that can drive you guys around Do it late in the day so you can experience both daylight and night Its spelled psychedelic I read about psychedelics occasionally for about 6 months before I realised Have fun Dont expect anything dont look for any signs that its working just let it set in With most drugs if you try to force it to work youll have a bad trip Just enjoy whats happening to you and dont try to make anything special happen You cant control acid it controls you gtI will be tripping with three of my friends that I have known since middle school Im in my 3rd year of college and we will be doing it at my apartmentBe prepared for the inevitable rat in a cage feeling and being able to hear your neighbours far too well If they start to argue leave immediately its a massive headfuckHopefully theres a park nearby you can jet off to if needed Its a roller coaster no matter what you are going to be OK waiting for the ride seems to take forever then before you know it youre on the ride and you feel the butterflies in your stomach for a brief bit its all too much and its REALLY fucking scary but if you realize you are safe no matter what you will cool off and enjoy the rest of the ride and come away with something really baller edityes thats a big tangle of words not seperated well but if youre tripping you can handle four lines of garbled text also im lazy thick wool socks to keep your feetses warm in case you take some sort of long journey around outside small units of cash you wont lose dont worry you dont look as weirdconspicuous as you feel an electric guitar andor jimi hendrix music Hey dude I actually just did acid for the second timewell second time with real acid last Friday Myself and a friend went sledding and then walked through the woods to Lake Michigan That was the high point of the trip just the two of us laying in the snow and on the ice along the shore looking at the dark waves crashing beneath us We spent nearly an hour on that shore We could really feel the power of the waves as they hit the ice sometimes the water splashing up making it seem like the Lake was putting on a show just for the two of us It was incredibleMy advice Good music and a good setting are a must Try only to be around people you know Being in public kind of sucks so you might want to avoid that I prefer daytime tripping to nighttime Have lots of weedI enjoy smoking it while Im tripping but I understand not everyone does Also I get fairly excitednervous when Im going to trip on something so weed helps calm me down and eases me into the psychedelic experience better youll definitely want it when you start to come down because your mind will be racing and it helps take the edge off Just relax and dont worryhaving a positive mindset and telling yourself Its just a drug will help if you start to worry at all |
Long story short I used to work as a freelance datingcoach teaching people from an online forum about getting the girls of their dreams A normal session with me consisted of 3 hours of theory psychology and communication theory and 3 hours of infield work ie going to local clubs picking up up girls | Picking up women is easy One trick is to tell them stories that dont go anywhere like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville I needed a new heel for my shoe so I decided to go to Morganville which is what they called Shelbyville in those days So I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time Now to take the ferry cost a nickel and in those days nickels had pictures of bumblebees on em Give me five bees for a quarter youd say |
Ive recently been having a horrible bout of nihilism Im only 19 years old but all I can think about is how meaningless everything is in the context of the physical universe Im hoping this is just a phase because I cant imagine living the rest of my life with this underlying feeling of insignificance in everything I doHas anyone else dealt with an existential crisis such as this and gone on to not have it constantly in the back of your mind | I went through the same thing about a year ago but then I realized that even though a single life or moment or what have you in the larger scheme of things doesnt matter in relation to the physical universe things have meaning because we give them context and substance In the larger picture the universe isnt always as important in our every day life as the menial |
I am always talking to my dad about things that dont add up about 911 and what is really going on in Iraq Yemen and Afghanistan His only response is that if anything of what I talked about where true it would be on the front page of the news everywhere The media hates Bush and Cheney If there was a conspiracy behind 911 the media would have a field dayWhen he say the news about the Underwear Bomber he was like Dan whats the conspiracy behind this I instantly told him it probably to have an excuse for setting up in Yemen since it is practically a part of Saudi Arabia and is a gold mine for oil This is before I read any articles about it on rconspiracy | gtHis only response is that if anything of what I talked about where true it would be on the front page of the news everywhereThats how deep the hypnosis runs if it were true it would be on the mainstream news Umm no Quite the opposite in factgtAre you ridiculed for being a conspiracy theorist Not really because I let people know that Im more of a conspiracy buff I find conspiracy theories intriguing and entertainingI also make fun of ridiculous conspiracy theories so hopefully people realize that Im quite discerning and rational I may be quirky but Im not a kook It all depends on what kind of crowd youre talking to Most people simply dont give a fuck one way or the other and would rather not listen to anything that challenges their beliefs or lack of knowledgeIve been ridiculed for more that one theory that is plausible for instance I personally dont believe that 6 million jews were systematically murdered by the nazis and even if it were true Stalin killed more jews and in north america tens of millions of aboriginals were slaughtered with their culture being totally destroyed why wasnt this taught in highschool Why was the alleged murder of 6 million jews burned into our minds but not the atrocities committed on my own continentI ask people these questions and the best people can come up with is that Im antisemetic Ive found repeatedly that the best way to wake people up is to be as calm as possible I used to get all scared talking about the nwo but it didnt really work as it scared people away Once I started talking about it in a calm way more people were interestedYes you will be ridiculed but thats the way the truth works Every truth passes through these 3 stages1Ridiculed2Violently Opposed3Accepted as being selfevident |
I have set up a stock pile with only that stone allowed in it but the masons will walk miles still for some boiring old felsite or limestoneI want blue statues dammitusing v024181 40d15 if that mattersEDIT Its under stone restrictions in the statusz screen THANK YOU WagglyCocks ehem and Laylo | I believe Microcline is disabled for usage by default Go to the z menu and go to stone There are other worthless minerals like Olivine that are the same way I think |
One domain should be selected as the primary domain and the other domains should redirect to that domain or be set as domain aliases Then use subdomains for the wiki blog formetc | This is very important We need a single web presence and all domains should point to a main one I nominate the org domain as primary if available |
the only other person im close to and I ran away to another country to escape everything Im fucked up and im alone in a foreign country Give me some wisdom reddit Every night I hope im gone I really do I wont respond to you im sorry | That sucks man I am so sorry you have to go through this shit My wisdom for you stop drinking alcohol is a downer and go buy a bag of weed Its not going to make anything go away but it will make the entire situation a bit easier to handle Also do you have any other immediate family who is also upset over your brother Go be with them You say hes dying not dead and that youre close to him so go be with him Undoubtedly he needs you and its very clear you need him too Be with him until you cant Dont not respond to us What is wrong with your brother Can you go back to where you came from to spend time with him Assuming that your brother isnt dying immediately eg terminal cancer is there anything you can do with him now that you wont be able to do in a few weeksmonths It might be worth trying that now rather than wanting to later and realising its too lateAs for love its often said that there are plenty more fish in the sea but usually difficult to accept that this is true Even if youre over the hill and consider life to be winding down it can still surprise youLonger term since youve moved to another country you need to build a life there Its no good just existing go out and live a little If youre not great at meeting people try to find some local redditors there was that post your location submission last week If youve got nothing to focus on then that nothing will become a big void inside you |
Id like to know the outcome of his lawsuit but my google fu hasnt yielded anything other than the original article Does anyone have any information | Here is the linkStudent suspended for insisting hes a white AfricanAmerican httpwwwtheweekcomarticleindex96543StudentsuspendedforinsistinghesawhiteAfricanAmericanandmore I hope he wins its an excellent point and I was just wondering about this with my friends this weekend actually |
Ive personally got a few I really enjoy Stranglethorn Vale everytime Im there I feel like the quests really encourage people running into one another and ups the risk of questing on PVP servers It forces you to group as much as possible unless youre a rogue if you intend to stay alive on a high pop server Most people like Zangamarsh in TBC but I love Nagrand Back in the day I would fly to one of the floating islands and log out I think the scenery is still stunning and is probably one of the better designs to date You can literally see for milesAs for Northrend for some reason Im partial to Grizzly Hills I love the music I love the redwood forest feel its got Its basically Appalachia in WoW and by far the nicest area I think you get to encounter in Northrend | Ashenvale I first started playing when Lord of the Rings had just come out and the zone reminded me so much of Lothlorien magical and eerieSince then my favorite zone has probably been Grizzly Hills The music and serenity stand out in an otherwise cold Northrend Borean Tundra it has everything I love in this game Gnomes Undead Necropolises giant vikings giant walruses giant dragons penguin covered icebergs I like to fly up to Naxxanar sometimes and pretend my death knight is still part of the scourge I posted this a while back here are the commentshttpwwwredditcomrwowcomments9zx4kwhatareyourfavouritezones I would to say Nagrand S Basin STV I enjoy the open jungle esque setting Theres a lot more color and I love the PvP in these zonesOnly problem is with my server all the ally left Malganis Its literally 12 to 1 I camp the SW auction house to find ally Blackrock mountain It had some epic pvp in vanilla We used to show up an hour before raids just to mess with the horde 40mans as they tried to get into MC and BWLI loved MCing people into lava Vanilla STV Hillsbrad for pvp lulzTBC Nagrand for epic orc feel and more pvp lulz Ganking elem plateuxWrath Storm Peaks for Im flying to Ulduar Wonder what will happen if I look down ulp I really like Azshara best looking zone in my opinion just a real shame theres very little to do there |
If you have not yet seen the moviehttpwwwimdbcomtitlett1037705 and dont want it to be spoilt for you then wait until you have seen it before you read any further If you havent heard of it yet are interested then continue if you dont mind the plot being told though I recommend you see it first good movie30 years before the movie takes place there is a war which tears a hole in the sky nuclear weapons most likely and the sun pours through unfiltered Much of earth is destroyed and most of humanity is gone The bible was blamed by many and they set out to burn them all Infact the whole look of the movie is reminiscent of the video game series Fallout in artistic style among other things though the film steers more to the religious messagesOf course there is Eli he claims to have heard a voice during all this which leads him to a bible under a pile of rubble He is told to head west to take the bible to a safe place and he has been on this journey across postapocalyptic America for 30 yearsPassing through a town the self described mayor Carnegie is on the hunt for a bible sending raider gangs out into the wastes to retrieve one with little luck due to all seemingly destroyed and the raiders never learning to read After finding out that Eli has a bible he does mince his words and tells Eli to give him the bible or be shot He reasons that the Bible has the power to control those weak and desperate which is why they destroyed them all It is the bible which has the words to convince people in this postapocalyptical world to be able to rebuild it He doesnt sugar coat his words and Eli refuses to hand of the book and walks away claiming that he has God watching over him This seems to be literally true as even though he his shot at twice while walking away none of them hit him in a literal Deus Ex Machina that seems to prevent any bullet from hitting him and letting him take out dozens of men while fighting on his own Its not until near the end where he is forced to give up the book to save a girl that he gets shot in the stomach and feebly tries to fight before being pushed overHowever he survives this shot when the girl goes back to him and is found stumbling on the highway to continue his several decade long journey without the bibleEventually he reaches San Francisco and specifically Alakatraz Island where a group have dedicated themselves to preserving what they can of the past and are glad to hear that Eli has a Bible which after 30 years of reading daily he reads out in its entirety for it to be printed out into many copies before he dies from his bullet wound Carnegies copy of the bible ends up being worthless to him as it is written in braile and he lost so many men trying to get it he lost influence in the townOverall I thought this was a very good movie I suspected the book was a bible before watching that or it had some kind of plans to build something that could help humanity but did not expect it to be the way it wasIt is interesting the message it is trying to put across such as religion being a force for good or evil depending on who is behind it the faith that people put into things and moreAnyone else notice anything else about this movie that stuck out with them | I think you missed the rather vital plot point and the reveal that Eli was blind which is why he was able to read the braille bible and further rendering all his actions in the movie all the more amazing and guided by god I enjoyed the movie although it was more overtly religious than I usually enjoy |
There is something which I have never understood in Economics who are the wealth creators in society In a service sector economy like Great Britain there are lot of business services companies which help make things more efficient consultancy add things up audit help sell more marketing etcHowever from what I can tell they dont actually create wealth Suppose I am the owner of Debenhams UK version of Macys I hire a consultancy to make a more efficient supply chain auditor to keep finances in better order and marketing agency to sell more goods Hopefully I have therefore1 Cut costs2 Understand my company finances better3 Sold more itemsBut have I created wealth For myself yes but for the economyAll I can see is that my actions if successful would bring me greater market share amp revenue by depriving the other companies who have not made similar successful actions as me TLDR How is wealth created not accumulated from elsewhere by individualsorganisations in a service based economy | I think what youre looking for is that all wealth comes from actual products being produced and services rendered In the case of many products these are produced in China or other places today However any wealth increase from these rudimentary aspects comes from technological development and increased efficiency industrialisation division of labour and all that which our service economy excells atSo you get the handson wealth by industrial production and services rendered but the fact that we optimize this by improving technology labor division or new lines of thoughts and ideas to solutions this all creates wealth too by letting us make more products cheaper and render services more effectively Short and sweet summaryWealth comes from farming EDIT And here is some sound evidencehttpwwwvisualeconomicscom100yearsofconsumerspending and increased REAL wealth comes primarily from innovations that increase the productivity andor reduce the costs of agriculture Best recent example would be Norman Borlaug and the Green RevolutionhttpenwikipediaorgwikiGreenRevolution Innovations both major and minor in mining refining engineering manufacturing and even transportation amp information distribution can as a secondary thing greatly enhance the relative productivity gains of agriculture at least half of Borlungs Green Revolution was due not simply to dissemination of new seedcrops but of the knowledge information and techniques needed to grow them properly And certainly everyone can understand that engineering innovations leading to better machinery can reduce the costs of growing crops improve the distribution system etcVirtually ALL the rest of the work people do is at best a tertiary phenomenon meaning they are innovations that improve the productivity of the secondary sectors which then trickle down and improve the productivity of the primary agricultural sectorLonger more explanatoryWhy is agriculture PRIMARY Simple because everyone has to EAT and the lower the percentage of the population and the less effort andor resources that are needed to grow harvest process and distribute the foodstuffs then the larger the percentage of the population that can devote itself to additional innovations in either the primary secondary and tertiary levels which ideally form a positive feedback loop and further increase the productivity of the other levelsThe truth is that we have reached a point of diminishing returns Each new innovation for example the combination of GPS technology linked with inexpensive computers onboard farm tractors while a technological marvel that has produced productivity gains cannot come anywhere NEAR rivalling the gains produced by the switch from horseteam powered farming to the later steam gasoline and diesel traction equipment and bulk transportation vehiclesAnd likewise a lot of OTHER innovations are seeking replacements for existing dwindling resources For example a lot of innovations in the energy sector are necessary simply to MAINTAIN the level of energy resources that are otherwise dwindling disappearing or becoming more expensive to produce So the net increase here tends to go unseen because it is actually the REPLACEMENT and thus prevention of LOSS of productivity that would otherwise result from a reversion to previous less productive methodsBut the vast majority of a service economy is simply by virtue of what it is UNLIKELY to produce any huge gains Sure having someone else around to inexpensively mow the lawn or do the laundry CAN free up some time for people working at the tertiary level of innovation but the increase in productivity and wealth creation will be relatively minimalSo in most cases of a service economy the benefits are not very focused on production for example would anyone have known or bothered to realize that back in circa 1998 that doing the laundry for Larry Page andor Sergey Brin might free up a few hours of time each week and as an ideal result might bring about the Google phenom a few weeks or months earlier But would that potential benefit really be worth providing free laundry for everyone And how else would one foresee and focus the benefit to where it would be useful And furthermore is there any guarantee that even DOING something like that would be a good idea Often enough it is the LACK of a service that drives innovation if there had been an uberexcellent paperbased document archivingretrieval service available at CERN where at the snap of his fingers he could have had ANY document he wanted would his superiors have bothered to buy Tim BernersLee that NeXT computer and let him fiddle around yet again with his funky web idea The web might still have come into existence but perhaps a year or even a decade later and in a slightly different formatmannerThe point is that unless a service does something phenomenal either in scale saving a small number of peoplecompanies a tremendous amount of timecost or in scope saving a LARGE number of peoplecompanies a small but important amount of timecost then it is unlikely to gain us as a society all that much as far as improved productivityThat is NOT to denigrate nonagricultural innovations certainly the world has been made a more enjoyable place by the innovations of Video tape DVDs etc and in some tertiary ways these have increased productivity and therefore wealth by being an increasingly inexpensive and wider way of disseminating technical informationAt the same time a lot of it depends on what you mean by wealth if you define it in ways OTHER than productivity then video tape and DVDs and etc have made a LOT of us very wealthy back in say the 1960s the only people who could afford an inhome projection room and a library of movies were extremely wealthy people like Howard Hughes but today even relatively lowincome people virtually anywhere in the world can have not only a large screen but a whole library of movies and at a very affordable levelAnd likewise things like Ebay and Craigslist as services have made it far cheapereasier to linkup people with resourcesBUT such things are relatively few in number the vast majority of service economy is a relatively flat phenomenon simply because innovations in them do not garner multiple orders of magnitude improvements And valid arguments can be made that a significant number of services area actually a drain on the resources and productivity of society Does the proliferation of gambling casinos really improve society Or does it act as a parasite siphoning off resources and channeling them into activities that at best have marginal utility even as entertainmentIn your example of a company improving its supply chain and lowering its costs IF you have either a decreased the sale cost of the item andor b increased the availability of previously scarce goods and yes your actions MAY affect your competitors in a similar fashion then you and your competitors might have increased the wealth of society in a slight manner by either improving the life experience of customers ANDOR by decreasing the timeeffortmoney that the various customers buying those goods will need to expend to get them meaning they can then expend their timeeffortmoney on other items a small percentage of whom MAY then as a result create some innovation which will further increase our overall productivity as a societyBut and heres the key every level that we go in degree AWAY from the primary agriculture the ROI impact of innovations becomes less and less and it becomes harder and harder to properly quantify whether they are a positive neutral or in some cases even a negative wasteful phenomenonThe world is a complex place and one never knows what odd and seemingly unimportant innovation a perfume mister for example might lead years or even decades later on to someone else repurposing it into a significant and entirely unpredictable innovation the carburetor and internal combustion engine which then opens the door to everything else from cars and tractors to powered flightNevertheless it still comes down to people having enough FOOD so that they can then tinker and innovate in other areas hence the primary source of wealth and civilization itself is ultimately agriculture everything else is just contributoryHope that helps I wouldnt discuss this in terms of wealth but in terms of value When people talk about value for money what they are really talking about is how their money translates into the goods or services that they desire and then how these goods or services fulfill the needs or wants that they haveAt the end of the day you convert your time into money with a job This is based on your salary so if someone earns more than you for the same amount of time even though the loaf of bread still costs 1 it costs you more than it costs them because of the time conversion This then means that each and every person has a relative cost they incur each and every time they consume So often even if you arent producing original value items goods or services that translate directly to the needs or desires of consumers if you are able to effect the relative costs of the value you are still contributing to the system Essentially we are all affecting everything around us and it either contributes or costs according to absolute or relative valueThe value of money for example is greatly ignored by the vast majority of the population but if your wage doesnt at least match inflation you are actually losing value That is why I am so skeptical about the system because I believe that in general the people who have so much money that they can actually use their moneyvalue to create more moneyvalue then devalue the money that is already in the system and I believe it is deliberate so that people cant become powerful and free themselves simply by savingTo be honest most people never even get to that stage because before you save you usually concentrate on cutting costs the main one being houses and ofc most people dont own their own home for the vast majority of their life so its an ongoing treadmill Seems like the definition of wealth needs to be defined Some would say that value adding is not the creation of wealth I have heard some say that wealth is only created when resources are placed in commerce In other words mining agriculture manufacture of products milling etc Primary productionMineral and energy extraction from our environmentFood production is a subset of and massively dependent on other energy extractionYou can have iron ore extraction without the Internet or natural gas production without modern agriculture bit not the other way aroundIt is a set of tiers thats why they call it primary productionThe service sector is a lubricant that produces efficiency gains in the flow of goods and money and thus is awarded a cut of those gains as without it a greater proportion of material would be wasted economically speakingPhysically speaking this is swamped by the inefficiencies created by producing consumer goods with no genuine market demand reliant exclusively on emotionally driven advertising chewing up discretionary spending at the cost of consuming resources that could perhaps be better used elsewhereIm not promoting subsistence living but there is a moral difference between the transaction involving a cute dressup suit for your dog and the one involving penicillin and because our annual resource flows are finite the production and sale of either raises the price of the otherAt the moment we all have enough money to buy both especially as we often give little regard to savings and many service industries exist to make sure that we are aware of the dog suit that its in a nearby location in this seasons movie character and that we have a credit card to help us alongWealth can be defined even in the absence of currency as the ability to obtain and use resources This is dependent first and foremost on primary production The idea that efficiency creates wealth seems specious to meAt its most basic wealth is created by improving some material good through the expenditure of energy Growing food cooking a meal building a house clearing a forest making a tool etc Edit added the following The only way that efficiency can contribute is by making it possible to produce the same output for less input energy or raw materials Its hard to imagine how this could have a significant sustained multiplier effect gt 10 on an economyEverything else seems more like an accounting trick to transfer the created wealth from one set of hands to another The real world seems to bear this out with the increases in efficiency during my life time alone it should have been possible to maintain the same lifestyle of less and less work expended whereas for the population in general this has clearly not happened In fact the opposite is true for mostWhat seems obvious to me is the dramatic increase in wealth over the last century and a half or so is due mainly to the injection of vast amounts of energy into the economy mainly chemical energy in the form of petroleum One gallon of refined gasoline has the same potential as 26 man hours of labor Whatever efficiencies weve gained are due mainly to the use of this energy Theres been some progress on making energy use more efficient but it has been vastly more productive to simply increase the available energy by increasing the rate of extraction of oilWere eager to credit financial innovation and various socioeconomic philosophies with the vast increase in wealth when it seems much more likely these are the side effect rather than the cause or at most a minor contributor Rather its the massive increase in input energy we can thank and the financial and political contribution has been largely to figure out to concentrate the wealth into the hands of an oligarchyAt least thats my opinion In the Debenhams example all of the actions you suggest would create wealth More efficient supply chain means lower prices for customers therefore letting them consume more Keeping finances in order would allow you make your business more efficient and lower prices for consumers Hiring a marketing agency allows you to make people come to the realization that they will be better off if they buy your goods This again improves the wealth of your customers otherwise why would they buy your stuff If the business chooses not to lower prices but to turn the efficiency gains into extra profit then a competitor can do the same thing lower their prices and steal away all of your customers making those customers effectively wealthier gtBut have I created wealth For myself yes but for the economyIn this situation wealth has been created so you answered your own question How that wealth gets distributed depends on a number of thingsFor instance you are assuming that after lowering your costs the prices of goods stay the same Well youve got competitors and theyre doing the same thing So its quite likely that your prices will come down delivering some or all of that created wealth to consumers in the form of lower prices Wealth is created when there is a difference between the minimum price a seller will accept for an item and the maximum price a buyer will pay for an item The agreed upon sale price results in some nonnegative amount of producer or consumer surplus and that amount is the wealth that is created during every transaction Cleaning lady comes in your house Performs the service of cleaning your house Your clean house is now more worth than your previously dirty houseDoctor comes to see your kid Performs the service of diagnosing your kid with pneumonia and prescribes the necessary cures Your healthy kid is now more worth than your previously ill kidResearcher goes into ITER lab Performs the service of figuring out how to make energy from fusion Your country with a cheap supply of electricity is now more worth than your previous country that had to import oil 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This was inspired in part by this threadhttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsap8zuserverswaiterswaitressesbartenderswhatisthe and reading about customers that dont tip Let me say that I always tip when I eat at a sitdown restaurant especially when Im with a big group and we split the check However I literally never leave a tip when Im at a takeout place or a sitdown place where the service consists of ordering at the till and waiting for your number to be called so you can go and get your food and then busing your own table after youre doneDoes this make me a dick I mean they leave a line on the credit card receipt for a tip but I just leave it blank I consider my gratuity payment for good table service so I dont see any reason to tip if Im serving myself | If its a sitdown restaurant that also offers takeout I tip for takeout If its just a fast casual place where you can either stand in line to order food or get takeout I only tip if its brought to my car or they go to some sort of extra trouble for me If its a regular restaurant that just happens to offer takeout the person packing my order is probably a waiterwaitress who got taken off the floor where they could make tips in order to pack togo orders that are less likely to tip Waiter friends have told me this is a bummer and really annoying so I try to tip in that situation As a general rule NOThe only exception I make to this is for a select few establishments I frequent where I have any sort of rapport built up with the proprietor I go there often so they appreciate my business and I often get more than asked for Thus they get 10 or so for being generous Its symbiotic |
So Ive never really dated anyone before Im 24 but I met this girl recently online and we went out last week We did the dinner hanging out coffee thing Im told dinner is pretty bad for a first date but we pulled it off really well So I need to ask her out again but I dont just want to do the same thing againWhat are some fun date things to do Also it feels a little forced to be doing this I mean I was looking at things to do around town but would I go to a book reading of my own accord Will she think its a little weird to have to go some kind of event I dont really know what she likes to do but I think I have a fairly decent idea whether she will like a particular activity | I like museums and zoos That way you can just walk around and talk and if an awkward silence comes up theres always something right in front of you that can spark a new conversation The point isnt to just go do random shit to impress her especially early on Go do something you like doing For example I love football soccer and have gone on dates to watch my local side play Not early on in the dating but early enough that they know how much it means to me If you dont like book readings then why take someone there when youre just going to look bored is a movie out of the question some people think thats boring but if you do that first it gives you something to talk about esp if its a really good movie then you start talking about other movies you like other work the actors have done she says she never saw this other movie someone was in but wanted to you rent it and have her over for pizza for the next date theres cuddling etc |
As a male this happens often and usually happens at food related establishments Ill be in a drivethru or in line at a fastserve restaurant and after receiving the food I paid for they give me my change back However the change comes as a package of coins on top of bills on top of my receipt Three items which need to go in three different locations Usually change goes in pocket bills go in wallet and receipt gets thrown away I usually feel pressured to get out of the way so I hurriedly put all three in my wallet my pocket or the passenger seat so that I can move for the next customer I hate feeling this pressure Cant I organize my shit before driving awaySo what does Reddit do Stay and do it right or GTFO the way | I can tell if Im going to get change back or not and I prepare my wallet for quick delivery of my change |
Before I begin let me state that I got caught 6 months into my stealing spree I was 16 at the time currently 19 The reason I got caught was because I kept stealing from the same spot for monthsI had a Super Walmart right across the street from where I lived I would go in there with a friend who would keep an eye out while I stole I had the store mapped and knew which exits and entrances to take and when to take them I knew how to sneak a bookbag into the store or even a handbag I knew how to make it seem like I just bought what I stoleIts your turn to ask me any question you wantThings I remember Ive stolen3 PSPs in a dayXbox 360 EliteGaming ControllersSeveral PC GamesSeveral Console GamesComputer MiceLCD MonitorsDVD Player Tennis Rackets Camping Set Keyboards Video GPUs 4 Gameboy SPs in a day Memory sticks and hdds Bunch of sushi lol Headsets Spray Paint Cans Cigarettes and Cigars Candy and lots of it etcTheres a lot of stuff that I cant remember but ask away Ask me anything about it really This might be an informative lesson for you thieves out there who are looking to do something like thisBut now Im 19 matured financially good etc and I would never steal again not even candy The day I got caught was one of the worst days in my lifePS Yeah Im a nerd hence I stole all of that electrical equipment | Did you know that you werent actually stealing from Walmart but directly from the suppliers The only time that Walmart actually owns their merchandise is for a fraction of a second when its scanned at the registerEverything else is VMI Vendor Managed Inventory In the UK a lot of equipment is behind glass how were the products stored When you got caught what was the repercussion I actually work at a WalMart currently every day it seems like some poor soul tries to steal usually electronics Theyre often too obvious and clumsy and tend to get themselves caught pretty easilyHow did you get caught and do you think there was any way you could have done it differently to avoid it How much money did you make off of the stuff you stole Did it ever occur to you that you would get caught at the time How come you didnt go to another store location Or did you just steal from the same place out of convenienceWhat did your parents say to the whole ordeal I feel you I was thrown in jail for 5 days with a year of probation Worst days of my life At least I was fed |
Hey Reddit Id like to learn to type faster and was hoping I could get your input Wha tis some good software to use Are there any other good options to help me out beyond learning software | Its really about practice I like httpwwwtyperacercom since its pretty fun to compete while typing I improved my average from somewhere around 80 wpm up to about 105 on the site Outside of programs though you need to actively analyze the way you type to get better Identify your bad habits and actively try to change them itll make you slower at first but in the long run is good for you For example I used to never use my pinkies and shift my ring fingers to hit pinky keys my middle fingers to hit ring finger keys and my index fingers to hit a massive number of keys It was only after I sort of willed myself out of these bad habits that I could really improve my typing I feel I still have some bad ones like I never use the right shift and I never hit the spacebar with my left thumb and it wont be a program that will help me fix those problems httpwwwtypingwebcomtutorcoursesThis is a really good website to hone your typing skills It really helped me out It is free and works in a web browser I learned by doing I never used a program I just gradually got faster and here I am today with roughly 100 wpm To be fair I started typing when I was about 10 and heavily at about 12 Heres something that helped mehttpwwwredditcomrsomethingimadecomments9esl1somethingimadeisandeddownallthekeycapsto |
This is a weird moment for me There was a topic the other day asking if anyone actually likes beer As a kid even a few years ago I still thought WTF how can anyone LIKE beer But in Dublin I remember getting giddy over the Budweiser there after a week of drinking Budweisers at my uncles in New Jersey I cant remember the taste of it so I dont know if this Czech brewed Budvar is any different but its fucking delicious It actually tastes GREAT | I never really got this its a not hugely above average Euro Pilsner in my eyes If it wasnt for the Bud name I doubt it would be exported I personally prefer Urquell and its not really closeComparing it to US Bud though is silly though Budvar I live in Vienna weve got a TON here and its very very very good you cant compare it to US Budweiser Its so much better I posted this below You can buy it in the US but its called Czechvar I have had it and it is very good I can find it at all of the liquor stores around me DCLinkyhttpwwwbeverageundergroundcombiznewsfindthisbeerczechvar Okay heres the thing Budweiser US is a Pilsner Pilsner means a beer like the ones made in Pilsn Czech Budweiser actually means beer from Weis if I remember correctly So Budweiser USA is an American Pilsner imitating a specific Czech style of beer The EU recognizes local names monopolies so Burgundy has to be from Burgundy Lombardi has to be from Lombard and if youre called Budweiser you damn well better be from Weis so Anhauser Busch lost the rights to the name Budweiser in the EU And in case you were wondering Pilsner Urquell actually means The Original Pilsner and it is made in Pilsn Czech Its called Budweiser but its not Anheuser Busch its from the 13th fucking century The Budvar Budweiser name was the original Budweiser but the AB Budweiser was the one that got the brand name in America and is much better known to everyone A lot of off licenses in Ireland have started to sell it nowOut of interest where did you have it in Dublin A lot of places sell it compared to smaller towns but its still hard to find Ive been living in the Czech Republic for a year now I can promise that if any of you come for a visit you wont miss American beer in any way I dont This local stuff is pure love |
This is pretty difficult for me to write about though I have been meaning to post about this for a while so I hope you can help me out Im from the UK but recently moved to Germany and anyone around Europe will know that The Spliff is the way to go here When people post about it a majority of people from the Americas will talk about how they would never mix the two Ive been toking since I was 18 now 23 and was basically blazed throughout University where I learned to roll spliffs and enjoyed it very much and still do Ive never been a cigarette smokerStill its been a good four years and regularly smoking unfiltered tobacco for that long has got to do a number on your lungs Theres a number of reasons I want to give it up but the best reason I can give is that at the end of the day its a shitty shitty drug and I dont want to give any more money to these companies nor do I want to continue to increase my risk of emphysema or lung cancer the former is something Ive heard is much likely to happen to spliff smokers over cigarette smokers due to holding the smoke in your lungs for longer Not to mention its so much more addictive than weed that it seems stupid to add it in that wayToday I still primarily smoke them and it seems like its more out of habit than anything else I have a nice bong sitting in front of me and every time I smoke a spliff I think man this would have been better if Id just had this weed without the shitty tobacco and put it in my bong instead and yet it still sits there unused and waiting to be cleaned every time All of my friends locally and back in the UK are still enjoying their spliffs which makes it much more difficult as I feel like not partaking in a joint going round causes some kind of schism in our bondUnfortunately most weed smokers here wont ever concern themselves with the health risks if you ask them about it and will instead just use justifications like its better socially rolling with tobacco is just how we do it or it makes joints burn slower etc which are valid but the complete wilful ignorance of the damage being done to our fellow stoners bodies is a little bafflingSo is there anybody else out there who can relate to this I understand the answer is basically selfcontrol and dont give a fuck about what others think about you but Im sure in a few days Ill start getting that craving to roll a nice satisfying spliff instead of using my bong or something else The tobacco must be the biggest reason for it but itd be really nice to have some kind of affirmation from others who have gone through the same thing other unusual advice or just a chat on the subject from you awesomely friendly peopleMaaaan that was long Sorry if it was a bit much for any of you people currently on a 10 | You could try a dugout and bat Its not the same as a joint but its incredibly portable and would simulate the joint smoking experience more accurately than a bong High School I used hash to quit smoking cigs more and more hash each day until I couldnt smoke more than one University I used tobacco to quit smoking pot more and more American Spirit until I was barely smoking pot I still prefer to use tobacco in my Js but I also toast my cigarettehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvz8EOg6CX26ot0m42s before Not saying itll make it a lot healthier but it does get rid of a lot of the nicotine and a lot of other crap which makes smoking smoother Another alternative is herbal mixes which they now use in a lot of Amsterdam cafes Personally Im not a fan as I think it makes the taste a lot harsher and overall doesnt taste as nice Only other alternative is rolling pure weed joints but I feel that you waste a LOT of weed that wayEither that or use a bong vaporizer etc End of the day nothing beats a nicely rolled joint for me um Ive never made wacky tabbacky just smoked the straight ganja oh oh oh roll a twisty oh oh oh a tiny twisty My old manager quit drinking and started smoking He went from being an unpredictable asshole to a really funny nice guy |
I just realized that I have dozens and dozens one of which is Ice Cube Today Was A Good Dayhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv8CPlFIEkXQ | Come To Daddy Pappy MixAphex TwinInterventionArcade FireCome TogetherThe BeatlesYou Know My Name Look Up The NumberThe BeatlesBack Where I StartedThe Derek Trucks BandScarlet BegoniasGrateful DeadMoney Money LiveGrateful DeadThe OceanLed ZeppelinThis Is The New ShitMarilyn MansonHumanMetallicaScreenagerMuseSit down Stand up Snakes amp LaddersRadioheadLuckyRadioheadOrganic AntiBeat Box BandRed Hot Chili PeppersTearjerkerRed Hot Chili PeppersStrip My MindRed Hot Chili PeppersCool Calm amp CollectedThe Rolling StonesLimelightRushHannibalSantanaMind Eraser No ChaserThem Crooked VulturesIm Lonely But I Aint That Lonely YetThe White StripesA Martyr For My Love For YouThe White StripesMy Heads In MississippiZZ Top Mr Bungle Ma Ma Meeshka Mow SkwozhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvIQKnjZHJ38k best holy shit Im really stoned song ever 8 I have 13 songs in my music collection that are 420 seconds They bring me pride and I would love to share them with you trees Sound Of A Gun Audioslave Revelations Pink Boris Pink Maps Emancipator Soon It Will Be Cold Enough Doomsday June Of 44 Four Great Points Colony Of Birchmen Mastodon Blood Mountain Suffer In Truth Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve Gravity Rides Everything Modest Mouse The Moon amp Antarctica Screenager Muse Origin Of Symmetry Summer Gypsy Nujabes Metaphorical Music One Day All This Could Be Yours Oceansize Effloresce Sit Down Stand Up Snakes amp Ladders Radiohead Hail To The Thief Lucky Radiohead OK Computer Schizophrenic Prayer Riverside Rapid Eye MovementEnjoy Incubus Here In My RoomIncubus LeechMatisyahu Fire And HeightsMetallica HumanModest Mouse Gravity Rides EverythingOzzy Osbourne Time After TimeThe Cruel Sea Seamans LamentThe Flaming Lips Its SummertimeThe Frames The CostThe Fugees FuGeeLaThe Pineapple Thief My Bleeding HandThe White Stripes A Martyr For My Love For YouThe White Stripes Im Lonely But I Aint That Lonely YetTom Waits Blind LoveVan Morrison Have I Told You LatelyZiggy Marley Keep On DreamingZiggy Marley And The Melody Makers All You GotEDIT Formatting And I ended up giving up on formatting it right Incubus PsychopsilocybinhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvsESRgf9MkU Led Zeppelin Bring It on Homehttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvwz4gRjIHRA Nebula The Eagle Has LandedhttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvpqSn6r8Lpjc |
What can I do in order to get a working understanding of designing my own circuits Specifically what should I readstudy I can of course design extremely simple ones and do the relevant mathAt this point I am interested in modeling sine sawtooth and triangle waves Square waves are really easy it seemsDigital synthesizers seem to make use of microprocessors Is this outside the realm of ECE | For digital read up on DSPhttpwwwdspguidecom and electronic music in generalhttpcrcaucsdedumsptechniqueshtm |
I know it sounds a little late and maybe unbelievable but it just kind of jumbled together and clicked about ten minutes ago Im gay Im 19 years old and Im JUST NOW realizing Im a homosexualIm 100 progay couldnt be more liberal surrounded by people who would love me either way but Im still shaking It just all makes sense now like it took me half my life to even REALIZE something so stupidly obviousI need someone to talk to Someone I dont know irl Its just really REALLY nervewracking to have such a huge epiphany about myself out of nowhere and what it may mean for my futureI need a hug Update I feel better I cant thank you peepz enough You pretty much turned my identitypanicattack into a chunky epiphany I think Im going to be just fine Soooo im gonna go play some call of duty Thank you lt3 Update 2 I slept on it and I feel MUCH better Obviously this is a part of my identity that Ill have to place in my life now that Im aware of it Maybe I should tell someone Lol its still a little weird how suddenly that revelation hit me last night but my mind is settled I just know Im going to be fine Thank you Reddit for keeping me comfort when I needed it most lt3K back to my regular account ps Front page Neato | Congrats you just discovered a whole new crayon in your box Have fun with it Take it from someone who struggled with it far too long it is and it isnt important to you who are Its a pretty fundamental part of your being and it will influence who you are in ways that you least expect it It will give you insights into the world that are pretty awesome Its not without its headaches but without headaches life is shallow and boringCheers hugIts not as bad as you think Right now I can look back and laugh at all the stupid shit I did when I was in your situation with respect to my friends and to me thats the important part Come out when you want to but just know that you have friends Youre gay and you know that now Youre still you you just know yourself better Take a breath and keep telling yourself that itll get better dont worry about it It took my until I was 20 My biggest fear was that people would start expecting me to act differently and that Id become this completely different person In the end Im still the same person I just know myself a little better nowHope that helps Dont worry what age you are Im 25 and still trying to figure out my orientationIt is terrifying when you start to realise things like this but it is okay And it will be okayYou havent changed Your personality is still the same You are still the sameRelax take your time and enjoy yourself Be safe and you will be fine Look at yourself in the mirror Youre looking at a gay man Love him accept him grow with him Say it with me Im gay and Im totally cool with itNow coming out is difficult Make sure to take it at your own pace Dont rush it if you dont want to A lot of my friends didnt really come to the full realization that they were gay until about 18 or 19 Youre not a late bloomer or anything its just modern taboos make it much more difficult to explore that part of yourself until you have the chance to be on your own I grew up and still live in Utah so you can guess how hard it is for people around here to come to grips with themselves Cheer up dude it doesnt mean youre a different personyoure just gay now Consider yourself lucky because so many of us have families who would hate us if they knew we were gay And dont call yourself stupid because you arent Sometimes it takes a lot to find yourself and sometimes you subconsciously ignore the signs Ive pretty much known I was gay since my teens but I deluded myself into thinking I was straight but sinning until I turned 21 Good luck kid What makes you think you are gayAlso I agree with the other commenter You are still the same person you were yesterday You have just recognized what your dating preferences are Enjoy call of duty get your mind on other things FYI my offer to chat still stands just PM me some time if you ever want to talk Heheh dont worry I was I think 19 too when I figured such things out I had my little moment of omg It makes so much sense and some retrospective looks at past relationships and resulting epiphanies My only real panic moment was what will my friends think and I went crying to my best friend at the time to see what she thought and she was like Yeah so I already knew that Im glad you finally figured it out PYou sound like you have supportive friends who like you for who you are not some labels new or old Youll be fine Enjoy your call of duty Dude theres guys who are in their forties married with children who finally realize theyre gay Youre in your gay prime and its not too late at all Go get em tiger Being gay is quite the most awsome thing evarIts like being a unicorn in a valley filled with mules Celebrate yourself Welcome to the familyLook at it this way Gay people are forced to examine their lives I mean really examine who they are and present that examined life to the people who mean the most to them Ill probably get downvoted for this but I would say that most straight people dont or arent forced to do this The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being Socrates |
What I mean is do you think there could be an app or maybe a third party pen or something that would allow you to draw on the iPad just like a Wacom and use it for doing Photoshop design work | The capacitive touchscreen in the iPad is not pressure sensitive like a Wacom stylus and tablet Further the iPad input also would lack the angular and rotational information provided by the stylus So it would be a poor replacement for a Wacom tablet and penWith that said a poor stylus is better than no stylus Just like the demonstrated drawing tool at the unveiling it could certainly provide location and ellipse sizeMaking it work would simply be a matter of creating an application that identified itself as a bluetooth tablet from the iPad With existing or custom Mac OS X drivers one could then use it as a tablet It should be possible with an iPod Touch or iPhone as well I keep pointing these out httptenonedesigncomproductsphpThey also have an app that turns the trackpad into a wacom tablet on your macbook pros |
Okay so Im a college student who has taken one semester of calcbased physics wherein we learned nothing of properties of objects approaching the speed of light and I have a VERY rudimentary understanding of the theory of relativity but the topic does interest me Correct me if anything I assume to be correct is just flatout wrong I have read that as an object approaches the speed of light time slows down and ultimately theoretically stops if that object were to somehow ever reach the speed of light which Ive also read is impossible So I propose this hypothetical again if anything is just completely impossible or entirely infeasible let me knowSay we as humans are able to build a spaceship capable of traveling at extremely high velocities and is able to accelerate to just 22 ms slower than the speed of light We then have Zack Greinke 2009 AL Cy Young award winner from the great Kansas City Royals who is on this space ship throw his fastest fastball at 44 ms in the same direction in which the spaceship is moving What would happenIf any clarification is needed let me know Edit Questions Im wondering about how fast would the baseball really be moving standing inside the spaceship and observing the baseball would there be anything strange wrt observing the velocitytrajectory of the baseball would the baseball have any effect on velocity of the ship does increasing mass come into playEdit 2 I appreciate the input guys Cant wait to get into some of this stuff next semester p | Relativistic velocities dont add the way newtonian velocities dohttpmathucreduhomebaezphysicsRelativitySRvelocityhtml He would see the ball move away from him at 44 ms where an external observer would see the ball moving away from Zack at an almost indiscernable rate which ends up being something like 219999ms plus or minus several nines slower than the speed of light This is possible because of the difference in the passing of time for Zack and the external observer Its counterintuitive for anybody versed only in classical physics Theres something else about mass changing but I recall reading something to the effect that this is a common falsehood Im not even a knowledgeable amateur but as far as I know you cannot add that 44 ms to the speed of the spaceship directly The formula used for calculating the speed of the fastball relative to an outside observer would still result in a value below the speed of light gt Say we as humans are able to build a spaceship capable of traveling at extremely high velocities and is able to accelerate to just 22 ms slower than the speed of light We then have Zack Greinke 2009 AL Cy Young award winner from the great Kansas City Royals who is on this space ship throw his fastest fastball at 44 ms in the same direction in which the spaceship is moving What would happenZack watches the ball leave his hand at 44 msSomeone far away will observe the ball move at just slightly faster about 0000006437ms faster if my math is right At relativistic speeds you cannot simply add velocities I dont have the math to describe precisely what happens but essentially from the outside the ball would appear to travel more rapidly than your ship but still less than c Edit Its worth noting that at nonrelativistic speeds you also cannot add velocities However the difference between the naive and correct calculation is infinitesimally slight at common speeds Its only when you approach an appreciable fraction of c that the numbers diverge |
Right now me and the woman I love are going through a tough time and whether we make it through is up to her and her alone My feelings for her are strong and its painful knowing that she may not still feel the sameLove is truly a feeling that is unexplainable It is also fragile and needs its own place to grow and become stronger Like a flame you cannot put too much on or it gets smothered and goes out but you cant put too little or it wont burn Like a child learning about love i smothered it I put too much on and may have put out the flame I learned that it is a give and take where you have to put faith in the other person to feel the same Its a scary thing to do and my fears got the better of meI was so afraid of losing her I pushed her away I got clingy and it wasnt fair to her for me to do that I want to be able to live my own life do my own thing but what I want the most is to be able to do all that with her still in my life But right now I have to give up all control and all of my own desires to let her decide what she wants on her own I fear that telling her what Ive realized will push her away more but part of me fears not telling her cause the sameWhat do I do Should i let her know how I feel and what Ive learned and hope we can get through this and let our love grow to its full potential Or do I put this behind me learning from it for the future knowing she may never come back | Ive worn your shoes not along ago bh3wThere is an old saying that goes If you love something set it free if it returns its forever yours if it doesnt it never wasIf you truly love someone you have to set them free to love you back If you dont give them an option then its not really love and of course you can end up pushing them away instead I had this happen to me recently tooId suggest let it cool for a week or two and let them try to track you downIn a fortnights time if she still hasnt gotten back to you dont be too proud to message them quietly asking for a chat or meet up for a chat in a neutral place At the same time dont expect too much as she may take longer to get ready or wants to move on elsewhereGood luck dude Break ups suck nothing much can change that You say love is unexplainable and youre right so leave it at that and dont trivialize everything you felt and experienced with this love is a candle and I fucked up and smothered it stuff Its unfair to blame yourself fully because relationships take two people If indeed everything you said was true than there should have been a conversation long before the breaking pointIf shes interested in continuing your relationship shell let you know Then would be an appropriate time to discuss both your issues If shes not interested it will suck to put it bluntly but thats life and blaming yourself to her wouldnt have helped anyways My advice to you is to let her go and consider all the ways you both contribute to the success and failure of your relationship Ifwhen she comes back you go from there Honestly Ive been in this situation I got far too clingy insecure smothered her eventually to the point that she had a breakdown and wanted to take a break not to see other people but legit to spend some time apartDuring the break I found my independence again realizing not to validate myself through a relationship She on the other hand got more and more better about everything that had been wrong forgetting most of what had been goodWhen we got back together it was extremely rocky I had to fight her tooth and nail not to just end it and felt pretty hopeless at times Eventually something clicked and she realized Id changed for the better and slowly everything started improving Now things are so much better than they ever have been on both endsMoral of the story is ignore these people saying you smothered it and to give up No matter how much you drench a log you can dry it out and light it again to make a retarded analogy If you realize this than whatever you do telling her or not its okay because now youve taken on the mindset that love needs space and closeness at the same time To have goals and to help build each other is important but communication is always important not an overwhelming amount of it just an effective amount Tell her in simple ways that you know your mistakes and because of certain reasons youve acted on impulses and not for the well being of the relationship and tell her during the time you two take a breather you will work to internalize that understanding and discipline to learn from itAdmitting your mistakes and owning up to it is one of the most attractive features women recognize Let her in on your epiphany It will give her all of the information available when it comes to making her decision But keep in mind that she still may not come back If thats the case youve learned your lesson and you can go forward with your new relationship insights Since were sharing heres one of my relationship epiphanies You cant make someone like you I had a boyfriend who was still pretty involved with his ex and generally kind of a selfish dude I did my best to show him how awesome I was so that he would start to really like me I baked him cookies I blew him I offered to take care of his plants while he was out of town Basically I tried to be the sweetest most thoughtful coolest and sexiest girlfriend I could be and it didnt change the fact that he just didnt like me that much So I had my epiphany dumped his ass and took my new found knowledge to the dating world For the past two years Ive been dating a guy who loves me for exactly who I am and Ill never beg someone to care about me again Why do redditors seem to think letting her go is the best option F THAT Fight for her You are still techincally together and you want to stay together so be proactive You know better than anyone what makes her happy so do that Then if it doesnt work out let her go Only let her go once the relationship is OVER |
I would imagine if no family restrooms are available using a public restroom is kinda hard I see dads coming in with thier boys and Im thinking moms helps the girls but what happens when the parent and the toddler are the opposite gender what if you have to go do you leave him outside | No you take him or her inside with you regardless of whether its a mens room or ladies room People readily understand and accept the fact that toddlers just cant use the bathroom by themselves and ignore them Im a little surprised you had to ask but I guess sometimes its just not obvious Nah Ive seen moms in the bathroom with their male kids all the time I cant say for the opposite obviously Its a very very bad idea to just leave your kid outside where someone could snatch them or they could wander offIt only starts getting weird when the kids are getting older like 89 and should really be going alone Ive taken my girl into mens rooms a hundred times when she was a toddler Just go into the stall with them they need your help anyway In all that time I never received a single bad look from anyone Pretty much no big deal |
Been a speeder my whole life I go over the limit for certain situations or to have fun cruising and average about 1 ticket a yearIve tried every trick in the book play it Ned Flanders polite play dumb play the I have to crap right now card etc and have never once gotten out of a ticket It seems like everyone I know has run into some cool cop that let them off but Ive never seen one How have you gotten out of a speeding ticket | UK here it never happens We also have Penalty Points System max 12 points you lose your licence thereafter you get 3 points for speeding Its even more ridiculous now that we have speed cameras everywhere When I was younger I used to take my bike out early on Sunday mornings 56am and tear up the country roads Not a fucking chance nowadays Sucks to be us really |
I just installed STALKER Complete 2009 mod and apparently when the time is right you can witness something really coolThats right a comethttpimgurcomRZeoSjpgIt gets brighter as it fallshttpimgurcomlwxAajpgFor a moment its day againhttpimgurcom8sq0EjpgGone as suddenly as it appearedhttpimgurcomWlbhJjpgI have no idea what this might mean or whether it will ever happen again I do know that Ill be spending a lot more nights at the Barwaiting for it to pass by again | gtand something amazing happened and now I can talk to animals Its really cool but totally secret And you know what Lifes never been the same Well now you have to wander over to where it landed use the magic candle that your father gave you and bring it back to your true love Comets are objects that orbit the Sun and can usually be seen in the sky for extended periods daysweeks What you saw in that game was more like a large meteor a meteorite passing through the atmosphere Actually this was backstory discussed in the movie Stalker I recommend watching the movie as the game is based off of it It is a great movieCall of Pripyat comes out in less than a week Its supposed to be even better this time STALKER is one of the de facto games I always got giggles in Just so many moments in the game where the dung is literally hitting the fan and I am almost dead and out of nowhere something happens or help arrives or I do something totally random and it works out I loved Stalker SOC played it twice There are only a handful of games I have played more than once I tried to play Stalker CS and I just could not get into it Is there a mod that makes CS play more like SOC Its always nice to see little details like this added in the game Makes it much more enjoyable Its one of the reasons why I loved Final Fantasy XI so muchI havent seen a whole lot in Stalker since I seem to die every 5 minutes Ive had to look over my shoulder every couple of seconds just to stay alive so I havent had much of an opportunity to see things like this P Is this added as part of stalker complete 2009 or is it already in socIts definitely cool though Heres a pretty cool log of the comet eventhttpforumssteampoweredcomforumsshowpostphpp13200010amppostcount502 found by artistpavel the designer or one of them for Complete 2009 He has been posting a lot on the Steam forums since SoC went on sale on Steam and shares some good knowledge in the rest of that thread What I find goodbad is the variability of the itemsIf you go through and miss an item if you reload from a save point they arent there anymore which is sad if you miss something and find out about it laterEither or best 149 I spent on a game in a long time |
Is there anything wrong with doing 10 sets of 20 pushups various types throughout the day Ive been doing sets typically 515 minutes rest in between throughout the day trying to do 200 reps every other dayIm also greasing the groove on pullupschinups doing something like 10x4 throughout the day as wellIm wondering if there are any issues with thisAdditional notes I do stronglifts 5x5 but am taknig a break I wanted to maintainboost my chest endurance as its my weakest muscle and doing pushups is possibly anywhere at anytime pretty much | Random comment about pushups that people can probably benefit from if you can adjust to doing regular pushups on your knuckles I highly recommend it Saves your wrists Works well for me at least I would think about doing pushups and increasing the reps each set having the last couple sets be to failure Burpies are awesome but it can wear on the knees after a while Back when I was in highschool I took a martial arts class for a time They did a Power Session at least twice a year maybe four times I dont recall The point of these Power sessions was to push yourself to the limit Do as much as you possibly can Normal classes started with exercise and stretching Power sessions were all about pushing yourselfDepending on what beltlevel you were you were encouraged to do your best to meet a certain number of each exercise type I dont remember all of the exact numbers of each but Ill try to guestimate as best as I can what they actually were Mind you I was a white belt at the time so I was expected to do not do as much as the highbelts were doingJump Rope 500x Pushups 200x Crunches 300x Rope Climb at least onceHonestly thats all I can really remember of regular exercises That was the first time I ever successfully managed a rope climbOf course you couldnt be expected to do all of this at once You could pace yourself however you want doing them in whatever order you wanted You could take breaks whenever you needed But you were expected to push yourself hard each time to build up strengthI think I could bust out 3040 pushups at one time before my first power lesson After the power lesson I was busting out 100 pushups at a time without much troubleLong Story ShortTrying to relate an anecdote to your question What I have a tendency to do is do a couple of sets each time pushing myself to my max Do as many pushups as I can do then try to bust out a couple extra to really push myself Take a break and then go back to it a little bit later Obviously each time the your reps are going to be fewer and fewer as your muscles get more and more tiredThough Im not experienced of how smaller sets a larger number of times across the day im sure it will have the desired effects Maybe its a better way to do it I dont know But I have a tendency for overdoing things like that XDAlso important as other people have mentioned Make sure you get enough rest giving your muscles time to heal and recuperate or you wont be getting the full benefits of your hard work |
Many times now posts have been made such as this one Beheaded Dog KidhttpwwwredditcomrWTFcommentsarzipboyholdssevereddogheadpostspicsonthe or the Hati Hell on Earthhttpwwwredditcomrredditcomcommentsaqgohwhatishellonearththisishellonearth picture After they are posted there is no way to flag them to warn users or otherwise Can you give adminsmods a way of doing this and possibly give the users a way to report links that do not warn users | The guy who posted the beheaded dog asked me if I would add the NSFW tag I wish I could have or that he could have httpwwwredditcomrWTFcommentsarzipboyholdssevereddogheadpostspicsonthec0j39bw |
I used to roam Yahoo questions to keep my vocal pedagogy chops up but got really sick of 13 year old girls asking how to become pop stars Any questions relating to vocal health or vocal technique I am happy to helpUpdateSee a full posting of warmups and exercises herehttpwwwredditcomrLearnmusiccommentsaw2o6iamavoiceteachercontinuationvocalwarmups | Im not a singer by any means but have a few questions for when Im singing in my carHow can I learn to sing in key consistentlyWhere can I learn to expand my vocal range Particularly when it comes to yelingscream notes like you find in grunge bands from the 90sWhat vocal techniques and exercises do you find to be the most useful Links books or resources to learn said techniques I am a musician but not a singer I can hit pitches well I know a few breathing exercises and I can hear lots of harmony but I hate the sound of my voice From what Ive heard youre pretty much stuck with your voice as far as tone goes but are there any exercises to change it a bit Is this something that singers focus on the way a saxophonist might How do I became pop star LOLOk jkFor real is there anyway to improve my vocal range Is there any way to improve my shoutsinging so that I can singscream better There are a few people who have asked about scream singing so Ill just talk about it in a reply that is not to a single commentMy training is in classical technique so Im not as well versed in such severe vocal affectationsThat being said I believe the trick to getting good clarity and focus in screaming has to do with placement Since vocal muscles are all intrinsic visualization plays a large part in vocal technique Imagine that the sound is coming out of a very forward placement like the space between your teeth and lips How much do voice coaches charge to train someone On average What credentials should I look for 2 questionsHow come somedays I can sing right along with a song and hit the notes Some times I cant get it even closeFor instance Fall to pieces Velvet RevolverSometimes I hit the beginning and soemtimes just all over the placeAlso how do I find my voice When I sing along to a song I seem adopt the singers style Like the velvet revolver song all throaty and if I sing to jackson Browne all cleanWhenever I try to just sing I feel I fall into a singers style even if i try to go clean and let it go it just comes off like a famous singer singing it Like a crutch Make sense |
does anyone fancy having a meetup on the first Saturday of FebEDIT 1Marquis of Granby this Saturday 7 PM sound acceptableEDIT 2The marquis at 7 seems like a good place to meet up we can argue about whether to stick or twist after a drink sound fairEDIT 3As suggested by Booster link to the pubhttpmapsgooglecoukmapsfqampsourcesqamphlenampgeocodeampqThemarguisofGranbyshaftsburyavenueampsll515134310128945ampsspn00014490002886ampieUTF8amphqThemarguisofGranbyshaftsburyavenueamphnearampll515134130128945ampspn00014840002886ampz19ampiwlocAEDIT 4 Was unable to get a new phone sim today ill post a number tomorrow morning if i get one then In any case once you get to the pub there will be a table with a piece of paper on it saying reddit | If you mean standing in a pub with a group of total strangers making awkward small talk and desperately trying to think of a way of injecting a funny redditrelated meme in to the conversation then HELL YES Im inCan I suggest a Wetherspoons pub The reason being that theyre cheap tend to be quiet and are generally fairly cavernous6th Feb is the first Sat BTW Sounds like a good idea but I have to ask are you all going to kill me and turn my skin into a hat |
Serious question no disrespect intended I just thought it would be an interesting conversation starter | Because the cops that get in the way like that usually either wind up desk jockeys or get firedIts the same as any other job Gone are the days where you can throw a spanner in the works and have the whole corrupt organisation crumble while you laugh with glee These days the cogs of the machine will just chew the wrench up spit it out and bill you for the inconvenience If I get foodpoisoning at a restaurant I do not open my own restaurant I sueYou shouldnt have to justify a complaint or negative comment about a police officer getting away with unprofessional or illegal conduct by actually dedicating your entire professional life to trying to become police commissioner Several years ago I was part of the NYPDs civilian police officer program also known as the Auxiliary Police I volunteered every week sometimes as much as 12 hours I used to wonder why so many people hated the police and gave them such a hard time and because my family would not allow me to join the military i still felt like i had to do some kind of civic service for New York City after 911 So i signed up to join the Auxiliary police program in my local precinct Ever since ive been involved in foot chases Ive settled disputes and responded to car accidents involving injuriesdeaths We never got paid for what we did and we never got bulletproof vests for what we did but i enjoyed what i was doing while i was thereBut i stopped doing it for reasons i cant elaborate on right now Ive seen a lot of things that most civilians dont get to see within a police station Ive seen cops falsify police reports and a bunch of other things that make you question professionalism on the force This is not to say there arent decent officers but when youve been involved with the program you see a lot more things most outsiders dont get to see and honestly i cant say i dont agree with those who despise copsI can do an IAMA if my post generates enough curiosity However i suspect that most of you figure that a real cop posting an IAMA has already been done and hence a civilian one not be neededEdit I wanted to add that civilian cops arent treated fairly in the force despite their likelihood of running into the same dangers regular officers often face even if we choose to avoid it Up until about a month ago I was a cop The majority of what goes on in the station on the road and on the beat is pretty above board Now the problem is the 12 of the time when it isnt I saw some serious bad shit go down just because my fellow officers thought it was the right thing judge and jury and all that shit I got lit up not once but twice because I refused to arrest someone after being told to by my supervisor Sgt I am sorry but there was absolutely NO reason these two individuals should have been hooked up It was just some of the more jackass officers and a supervisor on a power trip Long story short I got a meeting with a Lt on both occasions Lt Just assume they are lying to you You can always apologize later Wow so much for civil rights and all that stuffAs far as the job goes It was fucking crazy There was a standard that everyone was expected to meet We were on a 12 hour shift and to meet the standard the historical performance expectation not a quota mind you haha would take you 2 hours if you were incredibly slow this is day shift So basically for the other 10 hours you could do what you wanted Some officers even went home and basically kicked their feet up for the majority of the day Funny thing was if you dared go out and be a hard charger IE doing the job for anything more then that 2 hours you could expect to have a little chat with a supervisor Keep in mind that this office had one of the highest levels of activity in the stateNights were basically the same deal Go out and hook up one guy a night per car and you were good My partner and I had it down to about 2 hours from the time the lights went on till we were back out looking for another one Of course when our numbers started getting to high it was another meeting and slow it down The cynic in me says the problems are so intrinsic to the institutions themselves even a dogooder with the best of intentions has his hands tied trying to enact real and lasting changeCf Barack Obama The Wire Chinatown Because Id be arrested have drugs planted on me and have 18 cops testifying against me within a week I think thishttpwwwtedcomtalksphilipzimbardoonthepsychologyofevilhtml explains a bit too well worth the watchI personally wouldnt want many of these redditors among other critiques in the world in the force |
Hey relationshipadvice Occasional commenter longtime reader first time poster hereI need to know if Im overanalyzing which I tend to do or if this is a legitimate concernIve been dating this guy well call him Craig for about a month now but weve been romantically involved in a nonsexual way mind you for about two or three months now Hes a great guy a hard working man and we seem to be just about as nearperfect for each other as you can get ButHe cannot compliment me In all the time weve known each other he has not once given me a compliment thats satisfied my needs One time he was drunk and I asked him to tell me something sweet and he said You are a beautiful girl Not bad right Granted he was drunk but thats better than nothing RightLast night I said Craig tell me something sweet before we go to sleep so I can have sweet dreams And he has nothing Five minutes pass and absolutely nothing So I tell him to just go to sleep and he does And just now I asked him the same thing Craig tell me something nice something sweet to make me smileAnd he comes up with In my opinion you have a great sense of styleReally all Ive been looking for is something like you make me happy or Im so glad you spent the last of your vacation here with me or I think youre an amazing girl or Youre really smart and I like that about you Nothing like even close to being along those lines Its all been superficial nonsenseGranted he hasnt been in a relationship in a year or two and may have gotten out of practice I just dont know if thats sufficient enough to excuse this And I dont know if Im overreacting But in my opinion a stranger could do betterWhat do you think relationshipadvice Am I out of line or is my boyfriend completely slacking as much as I feel he is More importantly how do I get him to tell me things Id like to hear to know he cares about meedited for clarity | You sound like a cool girl but some guys just arent poets Not all men have the capacity to stare deeply into your eyes take you gently by the chin and tell you that you are the most beautiful woman in the world Does your boyfriend satisfy your other needs Does he rub your back when you mention it hurts Does he make dinner for you when youre tired Walk the dog when its rainingSome guys arent great speakers so they show their love through action If hes not showing his affection through actions then you have a problem but if he is we could just as easily be seeing a thread next week titledRA i do everything I can to make my girlfriend comfortable and happy but she is upset at me because i cant make up flowery speeches like in the movies What do i do Hi Im also one of those guys to whom giving compliments does not come easy and my wife also complains about my lack of attentiveness From her I know it is not mere fishing for compliments but an important part of being in a relationship to be appreciated Actually that holds for me too although I like the token of appreciation less verbal and more physical To me giving compliments for no good reason often feels as flattery even though I am aware of their importance Anyway the feeling of being appreciated is clearly important to you so if Craig indeed appreciates you otherwise you have an entirely different problem at hand then you have to make it clear to him that it is important to you that he expresses that one way or another You probably have to repeat the message quite often as this clearly does not come naturally to himThat said an emotional pop quiz just before going to sleep is stretching it a bit to say the least probably the equivalent of you being asked to tell a real funny joke just after waking up Give the poor guy a break and a clear message IMHO youre over sensitive its great to be in a relationship with someone you care about who obviously cares about youBut I understand you got needs too You can try talking to him but seriously with most guys thats a red flag Best thing to do is to train him Next time he does anything nice no matter how remotely small give him a big hug and say I love it when you do nice things for me or when you say nice things Give it a try and let us know how it goes Tell him not reddit what you want were not psychic Great relationships have great communication I would reframe this if I were you He is a person not an extension of you Instead of seeing this problem as a flaw in his character recognize that what bothers you is your own issue and not his responsibility He is showing you he cares about you already Believe him You want sweet dreams Snuggle up to him and fall asleep petting him breathing in his scent whispering to him about how much you adore himYou want sweet words Tell him you crave that Give him specific examples Remember when you said XYZ I felt so loved Its about you not him Tell him what you want with clear concrete examples Not as a duty hes shirking but as an opportunity he can choose to embrace HiI understand where you are coming from A lot of comments on here point out that words are not as important as actions and that some guys have a hard time expressing their emotions verbally hence you are unreasonable for expecting romancemovie speeches from your bf Here is what these comments are missing IMO1 Actions speak louder than words True but words contain a dimension that actions sometimes dont For example lots of nice men will do the dishes bring home dinner when you are tired or walk the dog in the rain if you are their mom They will do considerate things for their friends their relatives anyone they feel affection or a sense of obligation toward Its nice to get the little extra touch of feeling romantically special and that often comes from words that he would not say to anyone else2 Men have trouble expressing their feelings OK so most men dont have twenty writers scripting sonnets for them but come on thats not what the OP is asking for She is asking for something very simple something that should be at the surface of any deep pond of emotions She is not asking for flowery prose just a sentiment I love you You are pretty I am happy to be with you Thats all The excuse that men cant identify and verbalize these very basic thoughts and feelings just because theyre men and their minds dont work like that is not very convincing More likely and I think this is what the OP is afraid of is that he isnt feeling these things to begin with and then of course saying them feels like a sham After a long relationship with someone its easy to just assume that you know how the other feels that you love and care about each other blah blah cause this was established in the beginning But people and their feelings change If you fall into the complacency trap then you wont know when or if things have changed and you might find yourself with a person who doesnt feel the same way heshe used to feel even though you still do all the nice couple things by rote Every so often it helps to reexamine your own feelings and desires and LET YOUR PARTNER IN ON THEM Asking him before bed to tell you something sweet would make me want to stab my eyes out It is absolutely emasculating I agree that he should be complimenting you more but asking for it before bed is just annoying If I were laying next to the most attractive girl I know and she asked me that I could think of nothing to say that wouldnt make me feel like my balls were being rung out You should just have a frank nonconfrontational breezy conversation with him about how you would like him to compliment you more that it really means a lot to you and would make you feel good He should get the picture then more than saying HEY YOU GIVE ME A COMPLIMENT RIGHT FUCKING NOWedit dont even say you never compliment me because clearly he has Saying something like Id like you to compliment me more would be much better I almost feel like youre asking him if the dress youre wearing makes you look fat He probably has no idea what youre looking for You can try to explain it to him but you need to be prepared for him not understanding the difference as well Dont force itMy BF is the same way I think it just makes him uncomfortable I had a talk with him about it and then after everything felt forced and awkward Some guys cant just say you look cute today Im so happy were together blah blah blah If hes a good guy its definitely something to look past I seem to be out of step with most of the other advice here but only a month into being romantically involved and he doesnt say nice things about you That sucks especially if its something that you need to hearSome of us need reassurance compliments and nice things to be said about us more than others Hes not going to all of a sudden start complimenting you six twelve or twentyfour months from now If you need your man to say sweet little things to you occasionally well Really all Ive been looking for is something like you make me happy or Im so glad you spent the last of your vacation here with me or I think youre an amazing girl or Youre really smart and I like that about youStop watching chick flicks and burn Twilight Saga books Most men dont really say them They dont stare into your eyes and say You complete me |
Hey guys Im a senior this year soon to be off to college next year I got in early decision Im going to a good school and I should have a lot of fun and learn a lot while thereNow my problem is that everyone is always fantasizing about how great college is and while I dont deny it will be fun I feel like I will never connect with people the way I have with my high school friends Some of them I have known since the 1st grade some are neighbors and some are like brothers to me We have all grown up together and I cannot fathom the idea of leaving them behind and growing up I wonder if I will ever feel about any of my future friends the way I do with my current ones Also Im worried I will never connect with a girl the way I have with some Ive hooked up with in the pastI dont think Im the only one who thinkshas thought this way about graduating HS Is there any advice anyone out there can give me thats not too cheasy | I thought this exact same thing so I went to a safe college close to home where almost all of my friends went and I thought it would be perfectBig Fucking MistakeAfter a while we noticed that none of us were making any new friends at all It got to be pretty pathetic with all of us in our safe little circle while people all around us branched out and experienced new relationships etcWe all got tired of each other and we just started falling apart One by one we all either moved back home or just broke away for good I finally got out and Ive transferred and all is relatively wellWe still see each other during vacations Makes it more of a special occasion Its better that way Years and years ago I heard a woman being interviewed on her 107th birthday When asked what she felt was the secret to her longevity she said that at a very young age she had accepted that things always change and always tried to find the positive aspects of it when they didShe thought of life as an adventure to embrace and enjoy rather than a journey to dreadI thought she was a very wise old woman and have often thought of what she said I think her wisdom applies to your situation Dont dread the journey Enjoy the adventure Id say that if you have a lot of close friends in high school youll have a lot of close friends in college And other people laterA good friendship takes work and effort if youre one of those people that spends time working on friendships then youll not suddenly change when you get to collegeEDIT Also high school and college are both temporary Its the people that remain friends when close proximity isnt strengthening your relationships anymore that you will find are your most important friends im in my second year of university last year literally 100 of my best friends moved 300 miles away from where we grew up to live within 15 miles of eachother were from LA we all moved to the sf bay area we all went to different schools and we all hung outthis current year about half of them moved back to LA Were still all great friends we just dont get to see eachother as often we all do art and music though and still talk over the internet and so we get to talk a lot still it doesnt feel weird or strange seeing them over break like right now things just ease back to normal it is weird not knowing all of the little things that theyve been up to and I miss it but when it comes down to it the best part about people you know and care about is that the little things dont matter you are still friends and enjoy each others companyone of my best friends though like best best Im on the verge of no longer being friends with we both are learning to produce music using computers he has always been extremely competetive I am so uncompetetive that I dont even play video games but since almost the day I went back to school and he stayed down in LA he just wont talk to me without being a huge dick because he is in such a competetive mindset with our music endeavors that he has just been tripping balls over me I guess I try to share with him and learn from him but hell have none of it it only took a couple of months before I just couldnt believe it any longer and just gave up trying to talk to himIm back in town now and have tried to hang out with him and he just cant do it he thinks we are competing and is just so threatened by my noncompetetiveness I must just look like such a relaxed pro way out of his league or something when really hes probably better at what we do than I am and I appreciate his tips and knowledge whenver he shares with me that everything I say he takes as an insult i thouht he had just become a big headed dick until we hung out a couple days ago and I realized he just was being extremely competetive I plan on hitting him up tomorrow for a good talk where I will tell him how awesome he is and I am and how if we werent both awesome we never would have been such good friends for so long He knows Im not competive and seems to have forgotten and I know hes super competetive hes just been so competetive that I havent even realized thats what was going on so I think when I tell him this hell realize he has been having a really nasty ego trip and that he can relaxbasically the only thing that has gone sour is this relationship and its an easy fix now that Ive thought about it Just make sure you dont have misunderstandings or anything because they fester when you arent always with your homiesoh jeeze wish me luck guysonelovealso college is fun Ive met a lot of cool people and found out that they live near me in my hometown and my old friends love my new friends and vice versa my friends are generally so close that I havent come home and found that they are all of a sudden better friends with other people and I feel left out but I can imagine this being a problem since going away to college is a scary experience and might make some people latch really hard onto new friends so that when they see you again they may have routed their friendship energies from your friendship to a new one i imagine though that it would only take a solid time together to get back on trackbest of luck woo woo Heres my advice Dont dwell on oh well I wont connect with these people as well as my other friends You know what happens You miss out on a lot of great friends I made a lot of friends on my dorm floor last year and while a lot of them still hang out nobody ever invites me Im not in any of their groups Its probably because I thought well these people arent like me they arent like my friends back home who Ive known for a long time These people wont get me Now I regret it because the longer Im away from home the further I seem to be getting from my good friends back home I missed out on a lot of friendships because I always had in the back of my mind that they werent going to be as good as the friends back home This year I pushed that out of my head and now Im making friends a lot better with people on my floor I could totally see myself hanging out with these people next year and I find myself enjoying all of their company more than I did last yearDont think of it as replacing your old friends rather adding new friends to your life Those old friends will still be there Dont worry so much about it |
I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world Ronald Reagan | Exploit the situation this may be our last night on earth you dont want to die a virgin do you SETI Reply Protocols Note By resolution of the Board of Trustees on 17 August 1997 The SETI League Inc officially endorses the following Protocols and respectfully requests that our members embrace themProposed by the SETI Commitee of the International Academy of Astronautics 1995 1 International consultations should be initiated to consider the question of sending communications to extraterrestrial civilizations 2 Consultations on whether a message should be sent and its content should take place within the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space of the United Nations and within other governmental and nongovernmental organizations and should accommodate participation by qualified interested groups that can contribute constructively to these consultations 3 These consultations should be open to participation by all interested States and should be intended to lead to recommendations reflecting a consensus 4 The United Nations General Assembly should consider making the decision on whether or not to send a message to extraterrestrial intelligence and on what the content of that message should be based on recommendations from the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and from governmental and nongovernmental organizations 5 If a decision is made to send a message to extraterrestrial intelligence it should be sent on behalf of all Humankind rather than from individual States 6 The content of such a message should reflect a careful concern for the broad interests and wellbeing of Humanity and should be made available to the public in advance of transmission 7 As the sending of a communication to extraterrestrial intelligence could lead to an exchange of communications separated by many years consideration should be given to a longterm institutional framework for such communications 8 No communication to extraterrestrial intelligence should be sent by any State until appropriate international consultations have taken place States should not cooperate with attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligence that do not conform to the principles of this Declaration 9 In their deliberations on these questions States participating in this Declaration and United Nations bodies should draw on the expertise of scientists scholars and other persons with relevant knowledge Republicans would blame Democrats for being weak and encouraging the alien invaders Democrats would turn to the lobbyists to figure out what to do Christians would say God is punishing us for accepting gays more openly Fox News would say the aliens are Democrats Goldman Sachs would ask the aliens if they need help financing the invasion I think the Aliens would be fucked Wed be making alien hamburgers in no timeHumans are the most vicious cunning and evil creatures in this solar system If they were serious about an attack theres very little we could do they have tech we can barely imagine while we barely have the ability to leave our own orbit and our vehicles that CAN leave orbit arent equipped for fighting Our most massive and destructive weapons are more likely to hurt us than them when deployed and actually its highly likely we wouldnt even be aware of how when where and why they were attacking so its really difficult to try to guess how things would go If a race of intelligent life is advanced enough to progress through the vastness of space and attack our planet we are already fucked No resistance could be mounted humanity would crumble I think that if aliens are upon us we should probably expect that they have better technology eg weapons In short there will be no time to worry about patching up our differences a la Ronald Reagans fantasy prepare yourself to be enslaved and converted to a Gelgamek religion I dont think our differences will vanish I think theres always going to be people who would want to profit off of other people For example while the world mostly could mostly unite in resistance against invaders one set of people might try to sell others out and try to benefit from working with the invaders Kind of like the resistance in the Netherlands in WWII Not the whole country united in resisting the occupation some started working with the Germans A lot of those people did it for their own personal profit which I think is a huge motivator |
Supposedly Thom Yorke had to distort his voice to sing this song in order to distance himself away from the songs brutal and horrible nature I was just wondering what exactly the lyrics in the song meant They seem somewhat depressing to me but not too such an extent that Yorke would refuse to sing them normally Thanks | Quite a few of their songs are violent Not in the gangsta driveby kind of way but more like a psychotic serialkiller I know a lot of Thoms lyric writing is similar to the Hail to the Thief album cover in that he writes down many phrases that come to his mind then pulls together a few that seem to fit a particular songs feeling A lot of song writers use methods similar to this In the end you create a story around the phrases that you have pieced together then use that story to help produce and playsing the song I would bet that this song was written in that manner Ive always seen it as a song about the band gtI slipped awayI slipped on a little white lieBuilding themselves up as something they arent Ive heard Thom can be pretty cold and that the band hates their own single Creep that made them populargtWe got heads on sticksYou got ventriloquistsThe heads on sicks being the band and then the label magazines and so own manipulating that lie furthergtStanding in the shadows at the end of my bedUnable to sleep given all the lies gtRats and children follow me out of townCome on kids Hes now the piper for something he doesnt believe inThough a bunch of random phrases is hard to stick together The robotic like voice really helps tie it all together for me |
Going to buy a new laptop and looking at a macbook pro Im not particularly great with computers so I wanted to know if the extra price for the mac over an apparently comparable laptop is justified Im happy to pay the extra if the product is really that much better but if I suspect Im paying a premium in order to buy into the mac brand then Im not interested In terms of usage I generally just use it for surfing the internet and listening to music No video editing or anything like that and minimal gaming Thanks in advanceEDIT Thanks for all the info guys thats been really helpful I guess the reason I was thinking of going for the pro rather than just the macbook was just to leave me more flexible if I should eventually want to do more complicated stuff The customer support sounds like something that I would be prepared to pay a bit extra for | Why you should Versatility They can run Windows or OSX High resale value Old PowerBooks on eBay still command high prices Design Features MultiTouch trackpad backlit keyboard Magsafe OSX Expose and SpacesWhy you shouldnt Build quality is going downhill Glossy displays You are likely to become a douche fanboy like myself You are paying a premium for the brand What that gets you is hardware that the OS is essentially designed around Ive used Macs almost exclusively for the past 78 years Ive never had a system freeze or anything like the blue screen of death Everything just works The included software is hands down better than anything included with WindowsIf youre not looking to do any gaming or editing you may want to look into a MacBook instead of the Pro Both will suit your needs just fine but the MacBook will give you all the benefits of the OS and software at about two thirds of the cost Im a recent Macbook convert and I would warn you that if you get it you will turn into an annoying Mac arsehole just because the thing makes using a computer a hell of a lot easierIt doesnt save the world or do such amazing things like some people say but I rarely if ever get any annoying pop up messages or errors Everything just runs pretty quickly too and it makes Windows seem quite clunky and disjointed in comparison Go for the Macbook not the pro for what you say your requirements are In college we were issued a brand new IBM Thinkpad every two years or if it was necessary sooner We had access to a 24 hr turnaround helpdesk on campus that would fix ANYTHING wrong with our laptops Sounds great Well by the end of the two year period those laptops were borderline paper weights Seriously they were junk after two years My Macbook Pro first gen 2006 is still loading and operating at likenew speeds going on four years of daily use I had planned to buy a new laptop over a year ago and just never got around to pulling the trigger I am pricing up a new Macbook today and am realizing I can sell this MBP for almost the entire cost of the new one gt I generally just use it for surfing the internet and listening to musicSpending a lot more for a Mac doesnt make much sense for this My 11 yr old son got a dell netbook for christmas It cost Santa less than 50000 and hes been doing exactly what youre after without any training or issues since Christmas All I had to do was enter the key for our wireless and he was good to go Im not particularly great with computers Then yes you probably would like a mac No video editing or anything like that and minimal gaming Then you might be able to go without a pro and save a bundle Good luck I have a dell and regret not buying a Mac not because of the software but because of the hardware Its portable nice screen nice graphics nice sound better than a Dell good keyboard better than the dell and the touchpad is big and has nice scrolling features etc The 1 reason to buy a Mac you dont need to mess with it It really does just work It does what you tell it to do and gets out of your way It doesnt crash or need maintenance or require you to know anything at all to use it daily for years Simply put youd have to be actively malicious unbelievably stupid or in way over your head to screw it up yourself If youre not street smart on Windows youre dead in a couple of monthsWhen things fail Apple has your back but BUY APPLECARE Theyll replace things that cost many many times the cost of Applecare for free if you have it Seriously I walked into a Genius Bar complaining about my battery and I went home with a new one for free 10 minutes later |
Ive been working out for about 3 yrs now I started for the purpose of losing weight I lost 30 pounds in the first 4 months doing nothing but cardio and barely eating After I lost the weight I started to lift weights but didnt want to pack the weight back on so my eating habits didnt change After 2 yrs and zero gain I stopped doing cardio and ate more and continued lifting My weight started to go back up and my clothes were getting tighter so I wasnt losing fat and gaining muscle Last year I completed P90X I did the whole 90 days I followed the diet plan to the tee I gave up pop candy and fast food a long time ago so it wasnt that difficult to eat the things the plan laid out because Ive been eating like that since I started working out I just wasnt used to eating that much I was eating 25003000 calories a day during those 90 days Before it was about 1100 or less More often than not it was less So after 90 days of P90X I still looked the same I did all the exercises except for one handed pushups couldnt do those and I was able to keep up with all the routines Im back at the gym and making zero progress I change my workout every 3 weeks I try to up my weights but cant do it I started being able to bench press 140 lbs and still only able to do 140 lbs but I can do 10 pull ups and I weigh 200 pounds go figure I have family and friends that I see 12 times a year and they dont notice anything different about me so I know my body isnt changing Im 42 years old so I know age plays a factor in this What can I do to make gains in the gym | You might also want to get a blood test to check for testosterone levels If youre deficient enough it could be setting you back If this ends up being the case then the doctor can prescribe a monthly testosterone boost We dont know what your current program is so its hard to say But try the followingPick a novice strength routine SL SS 5x5 whatever Just something you will like enough to stick to I like SS cause its aggressive and will transition nicely into an intermediate routine Just do the programs as they are designed Dont add anything Stick to big compound lifts Eat so your lifts go up Start with a number I dont know your height or bf but I am guessing it will be about 3500K Eat good foodseparate and large topic If your lifts stall eatsleep more stalls are another long issue to deal with If you are gaining too much fat but your lifts are still going up on schedule cut the cals by maybe 200 per day Everybody is different and I have not noticed a magic numberpercentageschedule that is universal The rules are strong guidelines that often need tweak based on individual differences After a few experiments youll figure out whats best for you Set realistic goals and map your path to them Be consistent I cant stress this enough I find it easier to focus on one thing at a time Right not I just want to get stronger dont care if I am a little tubby within reason Ill worry about looks later Having fewer goals makes it easierIf you post more info you might get better suggestion In general the above strategy works close to 100 of the time Also p90 is not designed to get you bigger and stronger appreciably It has its merits though You are not old enough for age to be a major factor unless you are having hormonal issues Your recovery might just not be as spry as someone half your age Again more info is needed Edit Also Im not 20yo either I think fish oil and vitamins help So does glucosamine ice and ibuprofen |
Im a MontanahttpenwikipediaorgwikiMontananative from Billings MT living in Bozeman MT for college Ask away | Sweet My little brother goes there too Beautiful town and Bridger Bowl is my absolute favorite ski resortWhat are you studying |
Im of the school of thoughts that negs are a little tryhard anyways but if youre going to Neg people remember that negs are not insults Negs are backhanded compliments that men who are sexually interested in a woman would not normally giveFor instance Nice nails are they real is a neg because typically guys who are interested in a girl would 1 not comment on their nails and 2 not ask if they were realDespite what Mystery has taught I dont think the point of a Neg is to lower her socalled bitch shield This perspective makes it seem as if youre destroying a part of a woman Things like this are the reason pickup has a bad rep A neg is to demonstrate that YOU are comfortable around women like HER and you dont have to supplicate to her Losers give compliments Guys who are comfortable around women dont hand out compliments like candy When I meet a guy who starts off with youre beautiful my first thought is that Im the hottest girl hes ever met That automatically disqualifies him based on preselectionTo repeat a neg should not be an insult The point is that it should demonstrate that you are comfortable treating her as a normal human being rather than as a hot girl youre approachingIve been negged several times by guys in bars and clubs Amateur pick up artists are everywhere nowadays Barely anyone does it correctly Really please for the love of god work on your negsOne final note a neg is only useful if the girl youre approaching is used to guys slobbering all over her These girls assume that guys approaching them are going to supplicate like all the other losers hence negging is helpful in helping to break that preconception | Can you give me some other examples of good negs and bad ones I dont neg but Im curious as to what you think would be good |
It seems to me that our situation as citizens doesnt change much whether you have a Republican or Democrat in office I think if we stopped bickering between liberal and conservative and started demanding our politicians actually DO SOMETHING wed be much better off | 545 PEOPLEBy Charlie ReesePoliticians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against themHave you ever wondered why if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits WHY do we have deficitsHave you ever wondered why if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes WHY do we have inflation and high taxesYou and I dont propose a federal budget The president doesYou and I dont have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations The House of Representatives doesYou and I dont write the tax code Congress doesYou and I dont set fiscal policy Congress doesYou and I dont control monetary policy the Federal Reserve Bank doesOne hundred senators 435 congressmen one president and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly legally morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this countryI excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress In 1913 Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bankI excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason They have no legal authority They have no ability to coerce a senator a congressman or a president to do one cottonpicking thing I dont care if they offer a politician 1 million dollars in cash The politician has the power to accept or reject it No matter what the lobbyist promises it is the legislators responsibility to determine how he votesThose 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault They cooperate in this common con regardless of partyWhat separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits The president can only propose a budget He cannot force the Congress to accept itThe Constitution which is the supreme law of the land gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes Who is the speaker of the House She is the leader of the majority party She and fellow House members not the president can approve any budget they want If the president vetoes it they can pass it over his veto if they agree toIt seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted by present facts of incompetence and irresponsibility I cant think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government then it must follow that what exists is what they want to existIf the tax code is unfair its because they want it unfairIf the budget is in the red its because they want it in the redIf the Army amp Marines are in IRAQ its because they want them in IRAQIf they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people its because they want it that wayThere are no insoluble government problemsDo not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish to lobbyists whose gifts and advice they can reject to regulators to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power Above all do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like the economy inflation or politics that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to doThose 545 people and they alone are responsibleThey and they alone have the powerThey and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employeesWe should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess Divide and conquer HehttpenwikipediaorgwikiJuliusCaesar said that more than 2000 years ago They exist because the majority of people whether Republican or Democrat are not intelligent enough to maintain nuance in their political ideology The result is two simplified political platforms without grey area or complexity merely one of two sides to pick with your side being completely right and the other side being completely wrong During a discussion I recently had with one of my friends we came to a similar conclusion The two parties are almost treated as sports rivalries now Im a Cardinals fanDemocrat so Im not supposed like anything the CubsRepublicans do as an organization or fanbase and vice versa After living in Germany for 6 years I can safely tell you that our twoparty political system in the United States is absolutely ridiculous The Germans use a coalition system where dozens of party will then make coalitions with each other based on the other parties beliefs It allows for more diversity in the party system in addition to stopping the endless bickering we encounter in the United States Although I know it will never happen here I would like to think that we could one day adopt this system In fact most people disagree what they want the politicians to actually do so your demands to DO SOMETHING by implication NOW is really not going to help divide and conquerdefuse any rational analysis on any topic by debasing it into a Democrats v Republicans issue Does anyone agree that on earth religion and politics mostly exist to keep the populace busy fighting amongst themselvesNothing against any particular religion or type of government Just that in general we are too busy disagreeing with each other to make great achievements for the populace as a whole Not that I care about upvotes or downvotes but I wish people downvoting would comment Do they disagree and think there is merit to our current system The left right thing ahs gone too far and neither side makes sense anymore How the far left people in rworldnews or rpolitics thaink theyre any better than foxnews is beyond me Its funny that you bring that up Let me share a little something I realized recentlyIve been through two years at a subpar art school so far There were only three majors there fine arts graphic design and interior design who worked in an entirely different part of the building and nobody ever saw them There seemed to be a quiet bitterness between the GD and FA majors it could have been that most of the GDers were brainless girls that go clubbing on the weekends and the FAers were mostly hipsters The two groups never really did much togetherNow Ive transferred to the SMFA in Boston where they dont have majors They encourage you to take whatever the hell you want so long as you have a goal in mind I felt that this dissolves the barrier between interests and directions and brings the students closer together However were so deep in this rightleft wing bullshit that I doubt a similar system could ever work Smart people dont like stupid people and stupid people dont know theyre stupid No sir Nonlethal takedown only Presidents not the president anyway you know thatHunter Gathers |
So not really a huge trouble but trouble nonetheless I have been dating this girl for almost a year now and although she wants sex quite often I really am not that interested The problem stems from a past relationship that was completely destructive to my selfesteem and although I love her to death my current girlfriend is not very physically attractive How can one overcome such things in order to be a better boyfriend | If you figure out how to feel physically attracted to someone you dont find physically attractive when they are otherwise great I would like to subscribe to your newsletter |
I had been mostly a commenter on reddit for years but when I wanted to contribute my own submissions I was always puzzled because they ALWAYS died with 0 comments 0 upvotes 0 downvotesLater I learned about the spam filter and I always crossed my fingers whenever I submitted a link or self post to avoid a false positive by the filterNow my procedure when submitting a link is what I explained on this submissions title I have noticed that the FIRST time you submit anything to a subreddit its almost 100 certain it will be banned After a moderator unbans that first submission of you you can safely assure that further submissions ON THAT SUBREDDIT wont be banned But I suggest you should always check one never knowsIf this is common knowledge to you please dont downvote this as there are plenty of new redditors which are good members of the community and feel alienated because they cant contributeEDIT Addendum If a moderator takes a lot of time to answer your request gt 1 hour maybe its better just to delete your post and resubmit it again When a submission is old and has no votes it has no visibility neither on the HOT page nor in the NEW queue BUT now that a mod has unbanned a submission of yours even though you have just deleted it there is a high chance it wont be caught by the spam filter again anyways check check check the new queue | I agree but as I fall into regression I want to note that this posting is providing information This information may cause confusion and confusion causes problems This may lead to an unauthorized or unskilled use of Reddit which will result in the completed disruption of all physical laws governing the target subreddit Do not attempt ANY operational tests without the full support of the local administrator Please follow the instructions but be wary of instructions Suspect instructions They will write instructions when they want you to do something Instructions are usually broken down into small steps This makes you smaller thus requiring you to have more instructions I noticed youve read this second and last Why Thanks for this I have been aware of this and the spam filter has really been pissing me off Usually I just delete and try to resubmit the link It works sometimes but generally takes a few tries But now I will actually do the PM to a mod so hopefully I can just submit at will in the future Thanks again Damn Ive always wondered that figured it mustve been the sites I was linking to until selfposts fell into the abyss too Thanks for the info on how to actually solve this problem |
Its super irritating when people dont put it in Also maybe put something to this effect in the side bar of the subreddit so newcomers can know about it We have the spoiler info why not the K and EThanks that is all | On a scale of 15 how irritated are you about those 30 seconds you lostEDIT Im seriously curious While were at it can we make a special tag for Klazart commentaries Listening to this guy makes me homicidal It boggles my mind that we have to bring this up again after the last sub got 70 upvotes not even a month ago |
Bear with me Im obscuring some details in case some coworkers read this And sorry for the wall of text EDIT formattingI feel like Im in the midst of a crisis I am in my mid20s working as a web developer and living in a large American city I got this job right before the market dropped and unemployment skyrocketed so I was hesitant to leave even when it was really bad and I probably could have found something better plus it was my first real job and I wanted to get a year of experience to avoid completely ruining my resume I dont much like my job but it is stable I get benefits and I have been saving up cash which is awesome However I feel like Im so young that its stupid to stay in a job that I really cant stand 90 of the time and that is not advancing me in a direction I want to goNow I know I sound like a typical quarterlife crisis and I didnt really have a plan when I started this I moved here because it was relatively close to home and where I went to college My plan was vague to live in the city support myself get into some trouble and work on some writing and apply to graduate schools The first 6 months of this plan were an utter disaster I drank I smoked all my relationships were in tatters and the few friends I relied on in school to keep everything together were thousands of miles away pursuing their own goals I have always been an anxious person as Im sure many redditors can sympathize with At some point around the spring last year I decided this was too much and started therapy I found a good therapist and Ive made some wonderful progress on getting control over my life I have been taking classes from music to acting to writing and started to take part in some activities that I never thought I could doAll of that is great but I feel like Im making no progress Ive been pushing myself and doing what I can to pursue these sort of creative goals however vague and ill defined they are but I still havent applied to graduate schools and I dont even know that I want to go anymore I dont know what Im doing anymore The friends I had a few years ago are drifting away from me getting into serious relationships or getting married I feel like I missed the boat somewhere and Im still grasping around trying to figure out who I am At the same time I feel myself aging My time is slowly disappearing and I try to hold onto the memories as best as I can but I cannot believe how quickly everything has happened Every year gets shorter and I never have time to work on anything but my job There has to be a way to balance this out and get on the track to a life I will be proud of but I dont know how to do it anymore I feel alienated lost and aloneI guess I dont have a specific question and it always irritates me when people post on AskReddit without a real question I guess if I had to phrase it as a question Id ask Is my life over before I got to even begin it | Believe me when I tell you that you will look back and wonder what you were so anxious about Hang in thereThe best way to handle the situation you are in in light of the current horrible job market is to research other companies and jobs until you find one that really appeals to youOnce you have a few really attractive options pursue those companies and get an interview any way you can Actively work your way into one of those positions while maintaining your current employmentDont quit your job and hope for the best out of frustration You may be left with no income no insurance etc This is no way to move forward Being out of work sucks and can make it even more difficult to find another job No offense but you are panicking for no good reason Im not saying your life is a box of roses but at least you got family and friends to fall back on in case of an emergency I know this reads shitty but you really need to try and relax Its not the end of the world and youre still young My advice to you is to minimize your bills look for work and stop worrying so much before you give yourself an ulcer This is but a momentary set back The more you dwell on the depressing things in your life the worse youll feel Before you go and do something stupid suicide please talk to your friends family and therapist |
There was time that itd keep me up at night knowing that the universe as I knew it was just thatthe universe as I knew it from my point of view And that when I die and stop perceiving I have no guarantee that anything was ever real or a shared experience with others and itll all disappear | Im currently deployed to Afghanistan sitting on a FOB in the middle of the Afghan dessert in the south There are no lights here at night except the few that are on the FOB no electricity except what we bring here and this being a warzone the FOB is rather blacked out at night when there is no moon out it is DARK Im from the DallasFt Worth metropolitan area a huge brightly lit urban mecca i can see Orions belt at night and thats it but here there are STARS more stars than i thought id ever see short of being in the middle of the ocean and i can see the milky way with the naked eye little thing to most people but me out here truly awe inspiring you probably all know this but its what always blows my mindTake a grain of sand Look at it Now hold it out at arms length Get an idea of how big that is how much of your field of view percentage wise is covered by that grain of sand In 1995 astronomers took the Hubble Space Telescope and pointed it a but of sky that was about the same size as that bit you obscured with a grain of sand When they processed the image thishttpenwikipediaorgwikiFileHubbleDeepField800pxjpg is what they saw In that image are nearly 3000 galaxies Not stars but galaxies each one containing hundreds of billions of starsAll in a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at arms length Do a little multiplication Blows my mind every fucking timeTLDR Hubble Deep Field I get hung up on the fact that we mankind have been able to figure anything out at all about how our universe works The fact that we have figured out ways of studying atoms gravitational fields dark matter black holes and even the chemical makeup of planets millions of miles away from us is astounding to meThen I remember that we are still only at the tip of potential scientific discovery And I happily anticipate what we may find out in the future I am not one to dwell on mortality however I wish that I may live forever if only so that I may be witness to the vast knowledge that mankind will obtain over time Scale The fact that things are so huge and far apart in space that they had to come up with a unit of measure which one unit is equal to the distance light travels in an entire year WTFThe fact that the sun is 92 MILLION MILES away yet you cannot look directly at it without going blind and the heat radiating from it can burn your skin Trying to grasp where it all came from I know there was the Big Bang but what was there before that and where did it come from Also the sheer size of some objects and the distance between us and them Plus there has to be life somewhere else probably a shit ton of it across the universe about 6 months ago i was sitting with some friends outside of our local costco eating some Heroically priced Hebrew national hot dogs when the two frat bros in the table behind me had this conversationFrat bro1Dude space is Really bigFrat bro2 yeahFrat bro1Yeah its kinda freaking me out Im always astounded by the fact that Im here Me Specifically Let me explainThe universe was somehow created That in itself is some kind of cosmic miracle of science From that universe which is ever expanding a dinky little solar system was born and in that dinky little solar system there was this baby little planet And then somehow on this little rock all the right elements came together to create the basis for life Somewhere throughout billions of years of universe a little cell was born That cell grew and changed and then there were organisms that didnt look like that one little cell anymoreAnimals creatures plants living things And from each of those things a new one was created They developed from one another If just one condition had been different humans might have two heads or not exist or hell Earth as we know it wouldnt exist If just one little tiny detail wasnt spot on life wouldnt exist on EarthAnd then theres the development of living things into mammals into people into the creation of what is solely and uniquely you If I had one ancestor that didnt survive a flu a thousand years ago I might not exist as me Yet again just one small detail on the great canvas of the universe is the total makeup of what I am I owe all of me to billions of years of growth and perfect timing gtLook again at that dothttpuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons773PaleBlueDotpngThats here thats home thats us On it everyone you love everyone you know everyone you ever heard of every human being who ever was lived out their lives The aggregate of our joy and suffering thousands of confident religions ideologies and economic doctrines every hunter and forager every hero and coward every creator and destroyer of civilization every king and peasant every young couple in love every mother and father hopeful child inventor and explorer every teacher of morals every corrupt politician every superstar every supreme leader every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeamgtgtThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner how frequent their misunderstandings how eager they are to kill one another how fervent their hatredsgtgtOur posturings our imagined selfimportance the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe are challenged by this point of pale light Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark In our obscurity in all this vastness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselvesCarl Sagan Look at the sky and realize how small we are Then look at the ground and realize how big we areThen PARTY HARD Andrew WK I was reading The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking and The problem I kept running into is what is beyond the known universe We dont know where it ends because we cant travel faster than light Also we dont actually know what a black hole is Is it a portal to another dimension Just a big ball of nothing ARRRRRGH This is why I stopped reading I got too many questions and not enough answers OK so the universe is 14ish billion years old Its size though is estimated to be at least 93 billion light yearshttpenwikipediaorgwikiUniverse in diameterGiven that nothing moves faster than light I just cant wrap my head around that That every time you look up at the sky you are probably looking directly at thousands of ancient civilizations millions or billions of light years away but you cannot see them or contact themThat everything we see is what it was in the past and not what it is todayThat although light moves faster than anything else in the universe it takes an hour just to reach Pluto That all the dominoes played out in such a way that we even exist The odds of that are probably smaller than the odds of finding an atom in a vacuum larger than the known universe That something so stupidly awesome can contain such awesomely stupid peopleThis is humorous anything like the prior posts is just too depressing The fact that 96 of the universe dark matter and dark energyhttpwwwcsmonitorcomUSA20100106NewfindingsondarkenergybackdiscardedEinsteintheory is invisible The fact that it all ends one day in a cold death with atoms spread so far apart that the average density of the universe is 0 Nothing we do will ever be meaningful because eventually even the universe turns into nothing The fact that my consciousness was transferred to my body in this exact floating rock out of any of the other infinite possible locations in the universe at this moment in time out of any other possible points in timeThe idea of my consciousness somehow blows my mind I mean WHY AM I ME And why now I feel like its much more than that but really hard to put into words but it makes me wonder if anything really existsGuys do you exist 10Sentience How am I aware and how can I know what other things are awareIs my cat sentient He seems to beIs bacteria sentient If it can detect light is it seeing it the way I can see light through my eyelids Or is it just reacting to it like a computer Sure it doesnt have a brain so it cant think about the light But does that mean it cant seeBacteria probably arent sentient actually I cant see things that dont go through my visual cortex but I still react to them my sleep patterns get programmed that way etc Everything is probably like that for things without brainsBut my cat Can he see and think Ive seen him hesitate while making a decision That makes me think he does But my computer hesitates before making tough decisions tooI think sentience is the ability to remember previous internal states I can remember what I was just thinking usually I think thats sentience Maybe In the summer my friends and I take a midnight trip to the beach The closest city is at least an hours drive so there are no man made lights to dim the stars We lie back in the soft grass listen to the waves break on the shore and stare into the milky way Few words are spoken but someone always asks the question Who the fuck keeps giving Tyler Perry shows I always get hung up on the size of everything It pushes my minds ability to comprehend to its breaking point when I hear that the universe is X sizehow the hell did we figure this out I know my question is likely explained somewhere but I doubt I have the tools necessary to understand the explanation Oh and I have a difficult time putting distancessizes into scale There was that one site that showed a step by step comparison of the moon to the Earth to Mars to the Sun and so on and within only a few slides the Earth could not even be seen in comparison By the end the size of the planetstar dont know was so large it was literally impossible for me to even imagine it in any real sense I dont think I will ever be able to fully comprehend the massive scale that is necessary when discussing the universe it is just phenominal Scale The edge of the observable universe is 465 billion lightyears 44x1026 meters away The nucleus of an atom is on the femtometer scale 1015 meters This blows my mind that there are structures that are so much smaller and larger than we are This videohttpwwwyoutubecomwatchv17jymDn0W6U is a good example showing earthscale and up The natural occurrence of symmetry Also that given a lack of predators and an abundance of resources life tends to evolve beauty and eccentricity see the Birds of ParadisehttpenwikipediaorgwikiBirdsofParadise of Papua New Guinea Everytime I look at the sky in the night I remind myself that I am looking at the past as the lights from those stars left them many many light years ago An excerpt from Cosmic Voyage narrated by Morgan Freeman You havent had your mind until you watch thishttpwwwyoutubecomwatchvqxXf7AJZ73A The shape of the universe As a child you imagine the universe being like a bubble and if you could just get out to the edge you could see what the universe is made of or peer beyond the edge Then I read A Short History of Nearly Everything where Bill Bryson discusses that if you went to the edge of the universe you could actually loop back and wind up where you started like going off the edge in a 1980s video game and coming back to your start point I tried to imagine that in 3d and was completely blown away That my time in this wondrous universe is infinitesimal and finite yet the urgency I felt to learn and discover and grow is diminished for the one person who I shared this gift with has already passed from the universe as I perceive it I usually give myself the old mindcream when Im outside by myself at night Ill look up and realize that I am on a fucking planet in spaceIt reminds me of the movie Aliens when they show the actual surface outside Just a huge black vastness nothing separating you from the voidUsually my brain will shit its medulla into its pants around then |
This was brought up in another AMA a while ago and some people mentioned that theyd like to know more Ill give tips or answer questions as time and homework allow The original discussion came up herehttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsal56swhatistheworstthingagirlhaseverdonetoc0i600x | Maybe you should go drag the guy who hasnt left his house in 6 years to a bar Would you accept that challenge When I was in college I had a few wingwomen like yourself The problem I was attracted to the wingwoman Unfortunately the wingwoman always tried to hook me up with her ugly friends Variation on the theme of the friend zone I hated dating in college Did you ever have this happen to you On behalf of socially inept guys out there this is a sincere and honest thank you The world needs more angels like you Would you consider it as a career somehow How would you rate yourself on attractiveness I feel like an unattractive woman would not garner the same response in the bathroom situation as a more attractive one do you do this just because youre a generally nice girl or do you get some sort of compensation from this I saw a craigslist ad where a guy was offering to pay 30 an hour for a wingwoman and to compensate her for any drinks she had to pay for do they reciprocate and play wingman for you to help you get with guys or are you just entirely too good at what you do for that As a fan of How I Met Your Mother I always thought the Haaaave you met his name here was a good pickup line It would surely work on a fan of the show and I think a lot of girls would go for it anywayThoughts Reddit needs you more than your homework PPaste your homework somewhere wed fix it for you But for now stay with us Wingwoman why is it that I will invariably fall head over heels in love with you and then have you reject me leading me to be a blubbering mess Are you a tomboyWhy do you feel they need your help Do they ask you to be their wing woman or you do it out of your own interest Are your friends looking for casual sex or a dateedit gmr I wish I knew more people like you Most read all of my female friends are pretty worthless in this particular areaUpvote for being awesome |
Stranger so you believe that we all evolved from nothingStranger which became somethingYou um not nothingStranger that turned somehow into a money and then finally humansYou noStranger monkeyYou thats not how it worksYou great apes and humans have a common ancestorYou from which we divergedYou it is more like we are cousinsYou than father sonStranger so since a watermelon is made of up 90 water and a cloud is made up of 100 water then does that mean they are cousinsYou | Actually everything in the universe is made up of the same materials so yes watermelon and clouds could be considered cousins |
Please upvote subscribed if youre still subscribed or unsubscribed if youre unsubscribedI am of the opinion that the more liberty minded people there are there to participate in the vote the more we can make people aware of the situation as we know it | I dont care to convince people that they should embrace liberty if they dont want to I just care to convince them not to tread on mine every time I come to reddit without logging in I am quickly reminded of why I unsubscribed from rpolitics also ratheism The most annoying thing about rpolitics to me is the sensationalizing and editorializing of the submission titles I want to read opposing viewpoints from all sides and many of the submissions are very good But its hard for me to bring myself to click on something that says PRORAPE TEABAGGING FASCIST RELIGIOUS FUCKWADS POUND THIS COUNTRY IN THE FUCKING ASS AGAIN FUCK THIS IM MOVING TO CANADA Unsubscribed September of 09 It was pointless to keep reading it Its a shithole of socialism and libertarian viewpoints are outnumbered 50 to 1 I unsubscribed It was depressing to read so many unthinking sheeple desperate to be oppressed by their government It was one of the first reddits I subscribed to and it was THE FIRST one I unsubscribed from them dudes are crazy fundamentalist I have been slowly weaning myself off from rpolitics and this poll prompted me to solidify my distancing I unsubscribedPlus reddit makes me wait 9 minutes between posting comments over there It makes having conversations very annoying |
Omegle conversation log20100121Youre now chatting with a random stranger Say hiStranger hey aslYou 26 F UKYou yuStranger im 17 us m Stranger am i to young to talk to Stranger You no youre okayStranger oh okay Stranger so what do u use omegle forStranger You mostly cyber sex webcam bored chatsStranger wanna play senarioYou whats scenarioYou come on Im interested nowStranger like you start with a location and we go back and forth saying what each one of us would do Stranger this is sexual clearly You we are in a motor garageStranger when u start i need a little bit more infoYou okay Im in a smart business suit and blonde shoulder length hair spanish descent and Ive driven in my car for a checkup because its like busted and shitYou I need you toStranger so i ask whats the problem missYou I need all my inner workings lubricatedStranger i say oh do u now for that i think i need to take you into the back room for some more details You I giggle and play with my hair and follow you into the back room for every little detialYou detailStranger i ask you to sit down on my desk and tell me the problemYou I sit on your lap and loosen my blouse sticking your face into my breastsStranger i start to move my arms up or body and begin to rubs ur tits which are how bigYou Double D breasts I starting to get wet and grind on you with my hipsStranger then u start to feel my huge 9 in cock start to get hard while i pull down ur blouse to find ur small erect nipples You I pull your cock out of your pants and lift up my skirt to reveal Im pantiless shaven and start rubbing against you gentlyStranger u come to find that my cock is shaven as well and i take my hand and start to finger ur tight little pussy You I kiss you passionately moving your hand from my pussy and forcing myself onto your erect cockStranger i pick u up and put u on the desk on ur back and start to fuck ur pussy super hard Stranger whille ur tits bonce up and down You You like big tits dont you that gets you hornyStranger panties really get me going but u didnt have any onYou Well Ive got a garter belt and thigh high leather bootsStranger you sexy bitchYou oh you love it you stud I pull you from my pussy turn onto my belly and push your big dick onto the ring of my asshole moaning gentlyStranger and i start to put my cock intto your sexy little assholeYou I moan and ask for it deeper and harder bleeding slightlyStranger i grab ur sholders and thrust deeper into you You I begin to scream your name bleeding heavily from the ass I cant control it my leg starts spasmingStranger i dont stop i go harderYou I want to go on top but because youre going hard I grab you by the face and drag you to the floor riding you with my bleeding ass and wet pussyStranger i tell you that im about to cum and ask where you wnat itYou Just before you cum I cant take it anymore and stand up off your cock above your face I cant control what youve done to my ass I loosen relaxing my muscles and spraying blood and shit all over your chestStranger not hotYou Listen dude Ill be square with you Im a 22 year old male and Im sitting with my girlfriend and a spliff after having sex Like actual sex Im really sorry to do that to you dude But its been hilarious HELLO REDDITStranger so this is awkwardYou My friend this will be awkward for many years to comeYou have disconnected | ooh you mean you can get on the internet and pretend youre someone else So cool and original How did you ever think of that You should be an artist Youre a dick and your girlfriend is a dick for watching you do this Youre both dicks and since you two had sex that makes you gay So does cybering a 17yearold dude when youre a dude In fact that makes you about as gay as a pile of gay guys boning You should move to a hippie commune that doesnt believe in the internet and you can actualize your gayness in real life |
I was excited to know I could instantly stream movies but only being able to aimlessly scroll through titles has become annoying If I want to find a specific movie I still have to look it up on my computer and add to my instant stream3 Any word on them changing this setup | Even the interface on the Netflix website is pretty terrible I have been using instantwatcherhttpinstantwatchercom to add movies to my list I heard somewhere that once they finish working on streaming for the Wii they are going to redesign the UI across the board Maybe they need to learn the limitations of all systems using the streaming API and come up with a universally acceptable UI |
so over the last 3 months i tried to save a dying relationship We finally ended it yesterday after we talked for a long time about what was wrong she told me it wasnt fair for me to treat her like a princess while she brushed me off all the time i know i can move on eventually but is there anything i can do to resist looking at her facebook and stop feeling so damn sad i dont know if i should go out and get a good slump buster or man up and go it alone | The problem with asking for advice is that sooner or later the advice covers every shade of the spectrum My advice runs deeply contrary to much of what is here1 Give yourself an hour or two to cry No Im not kidding or being farcical or patronizing Find a quiet corner and let it all go Cry for everything you will miss Cry for everything you did Realize that this is the risk of emotional attachment I think you will also realize it is a risk worth taking Then take a really deep breath and look at the future2 If bagging women just for the sake of doing so isnt your thing then dont start now I disagree with almost everyone here on that point Getting under someone else you care nothing for is bound to make you more lonely Hey now Im having sex and I have no feelings about it Yippee Pass I say this without passing any judgement on people who chose this route My brother was famous for this approach and it served him well enough Just dont choose it if it is wrong for you Yeah a slump buster is great for the manly man but maybe its okay to not take your understandable loneliness out on someone else3 Do not agonize over her online presence It will leave you cold and angry and that never helped anyone Just walk away Grit your teeth and move on The whole princess line you mention in your post sets off a myriad of alarm bells in This Old Guys head It sounds like female code for Im leaving and I need to let this really sweet guy down easily If youre a guy and you havent heard this line or the equivalent you need to get out more4 Do something Anything Just do it I know you dont feel like it But you are not doing this for her or for what you had You are doing it for yourself Jog Climb Mountains Go to art shows Take up Judo Learn to play guitar Go fishing And yes depending on your age get out there in the clubs or bars or church services or whathaveyou with your friends Be open to the idea of meeting someone new It will happen again and in the way you want it to if you just give it a chance gtbut is there anything i can do to resist looking at her facebookRemove her But tell her why youre doing it first and say youll add her back in time |
Backstory I recently broke up with my Girlfriend of 3 years Actually she broke up with me I was talking to a friend about things related to the relationship I was saying that I didnt think the relationship was a bad thing we both got at least 2 very solid years of being happy The last year had its good moments but was mainly in a state of declineI made the comment that my Girlfriend should have left me about a year ago A year ago we were doing fine right up until I hit her I still think that it is one of the worst things biggest mistakes of my life I did no physical damage but I dont think that makes it much better a bit but not much She responded with the quote above And said that it happens people lose their temper Its just one of those thing you just wash your face brush your hair and walk back downstairs I dont want to believe that it is that common or that it is at all okay to do what I did I just want to know is it really that common we are talking the smallest of physical violence meant in a malicious way or does she have terrible choice in menThanks | Ive never hit a woman Never will I never try to intimidate them by smashing objects near them eitherI want my girlfriend to feel safe around me at all times She should never have to worry that she might say something that would send me into a rage Poor quote and untrue Violence is never justified period Temper badgering alcohol there is no valid circumstanceWomen who put up with being hit are almost as big of a problem as the men who do it I was slapped by my then fiance who is now my ex wife At the time we were in an argument and she lost it I nearly did too but I was way bigger than her I restrained her bordering on punching her I dont think I breathed in those moments I should have broke it off then She never hit me again but she turned out to a real downer in regards to me If I would have hit her then I would have been labeled abusive for the rest of my life She did plenty of things she deserved an ass kicking for but I am glad I never hit her No one should be hit everyone should maintain some control Ive never been hit by a man have never hit one and I dont think its normal to hit somebody even if you loose your temper That would mean that hitting is your first reflex which is not a very constructive way to resolve conflictsI did broke my bfs rib once but well lets say that even a small weight put on a rib while in a weird position can be dangerous I have never ever hit a girlfriend I find it utterly unacceptable and would councel anyone who was hit by their so to leave the abuser No No that is not true It is crap like this that lets women and men in violent relationships justify it in their mindsI was in a violent marriage for ten years The first few times were just smacks Then it was the famous I never hit you with a closed fist And then it was very very bad Ive never hit a woman I am enormous and strong and would crush themI am able to scare them into submission by simply bellowing or tearing a door off of its hinges Sometimes a demonstration of physical violence is the only thing that makes sense i would never hit my lady Except you know in some kinky stuff but thats different and she enjoys it But seriously if I ever hit my lady and she didnt leave me Id leave her so that I couldnt ever hit her again No not normal None of my boyfriends has ever hit or attempted to physically intimidate me Maybe I am just really lucky Maybe its the fact that if any one who sleeps next to me were stupid enough to hit me he would wake up on fireAs to wortshapes comment I think you need some help if you think intimidation is an automatic need in a relationship There are more ways to abuse a person than actual violence The person you love should know they are safe with you I really feel that the world beats us down enough with out those that we love pitching inIt is important to know in an argument when to take some time out and walk away I knew women who went out of their way to go out with wife beating psycho dickheads My friend had a portable TV smashed on her head was then dragged screaming by her hair about 600 meters away and beaten like hell even more She then married this guy claiming that she loved him despite his problems What the fuck Life isnt complete for some unless it is 100 drama She has terrible choice in menIf someone cant settle their differences with someone else without resorting to violence they have a problem I dont care if its a man or woman Violence doesnt make your views any more valid and it doesnt make you any more articulateSure it can be infuriating if it seems like the other person isnt listening Arguing about the same old stuff around and around can be very aggravating But there are better ways to break through a stalemate than abusing the other personWe have a few that we use One is the 20 minute break for humor If our conversation is getting acrimonious we take a break and say something we think will crack the other person up Sometimes its not as funny as we hope but at least we get points for tryingAnother is to put a bookmark in the conversation If it seems like we arent getting anywhere one of us will ask to put a bookmark in the conversation and pick it up later we specify a time and place That generally gives us time to mull over the situation and its not that uncommon for us to meet at the specified time and agree on a solution in under 2 minutesA third is a take on a popular board game we issue virtual Get Out of Jail Free cards If we want to say something but were not sure how to phrase it and we dont want to infuriate the other person well ask for a GOOJF card and the agreement is that if the other person agrees we can say the halfbaked thing and not get in trouble for itIn the end we care more about fixing our relationship and loving each other than about being right which also helps My hubby rocks |
I do love my iPhone but I really only use it for web browsing porn and Facebook however it hardly justifies my 110 monthly bill It was jailbroken but seeing as how appuluous was all but shut down I didnt get much use out of the jb Basically Im wondering how much I can get ballpark for my nearly mint 16gb 3gs and what I should replace it with Im looking for something that is fairly customizable and not a piece of crap Ive only had it for a few months so its a no go for any discountsAny help would be appreciatedEdit Besides the obvious fact that I should have thought this through a little more my question is morphing into Is there a way to save more money with ATampT I have tried various TMS codes all were a no go Would it require a different phone | How did you end up with 110 monthly bill What crazy plans are they setting you Americans up with Not trying to reel you back in but AppTrackr and just torrenting satisfies me for cracked apps and Im really only jailbroken to multitaskcustomize home screen and get it to the state it should have been in the first placeAnyway Lots are probably just going to say this one thing If youre sick of your iPhone and need an alternative go for an Android phone Its also got a community and a growing application store with a refund in first 24 hours but only once However I havent had a firsthand experience with Android |
I recently picked up Demons Souls So far Im on soul level 41 and its been a blast I havent played a game thats challenged me to this extent This game and MGS4 are reason enough to own a PS3I never was a big fan of RPGs I played some Zelda and some Final Fantasy I avoid MMOs like the plague I dont want to listen to whiney 14yearold douchebags while Im trying to quest The point of an RPG should be to make you feel like youre working towards an ultimate goal and not some pointless escapade in a fantasyland The great thing about Demons Souls is that as a part of the current generation of video games it has achievements ie trophies on the PS3 I have made it my lifes mission okay thats a lie its really more shortterm to win the Platinum trophy for Demons Souls I think its the only Platinum trophy worth getting You can sit on your cloud of uber l33tism and say I am above the common folk for I am the slayer of Demons Who knows what this could mean when Sony decides to do cool things with trophiesI have determined it will take at least three new games up to NG until I can earn Toughest Soul Trophy You have to learn every spell and miracle which requires demon souls you can only accquire once per play through and theres three NPCs you can learn magic through each with their own unique spells learned via demon soul This wikihttpdemonssoulswikidotcom has been invaluable in helping me plan out my quest to conquor Demons SoulsWhats great about Demons Souls is the manner it puts you through hell You start out as a dead guy no matter what you do You can get your body back but only if you work hard and learn from your mistakes Rest assured whenever you do make a mistake this game will knock you down and if youre down too long it will stomp on your genetalia Ive had my ass handed to me multiple times Sure Ive gotten upset at some points I lost 8000 souls while trying to kill the Dragon God but like any endeavour if you fail you simply try again Sure youll be dead again but there are methods made available to circumvent the effects of being living imparedBut what I like most about Demons Souls is what seperates it from every other MMORPG I could give less than two shits about as a living player you can summon up to two peoplemaxto help you on your quest You cant talk to this other person they either know what theyre doing or they dont The most interaction you can have with other players is gesturing to them Its fantastic I dont have to listen to some nasallyvoiced kid spam into his microphone I dont have to read asinine text chat that adds nothing to the game And at the end of your epic battle you can rate other players and thats it Youre questing your way through the most horrifying and desolate landscape in the universe with a little help from your friends But theyre not always your friends because sometimes theyll spawn in your world and try to kill youAnd of course the messaging feature is a nice supplement to the game Ive avoided many pitfalls and ambushes thanks to it Some of them even pointed me towards awesome treasures Im glad they thought out a predetermined set of messages because lets face it if people were given the ability to write whatever they want on the level every other message would be penis or some variation thereofI want to meet the person who designed this insanity I want to give him a hug but at the same time I want to punch him in the face I cant remember the last time Ive been so engrossed in a video game FFVII perhaps but I cheated my way through it If anybody wants to quest with me my username is my websiteLurchworldcom Maybe Ill see you on the battlefield and together we will slay demons and quest for glorybtw you can catch the plague in Demons Souls if youre not careful This game will give you a disease if you fuck up I love this game | I recently got this game as well I am loving it so far even if I do have to put the controller down and walk away from it every now and then I have a few questions though I am at SL44 and so far I have downed Phalanx Tower Knight ugh Armored Spider Adjudicator and Flame LordNow I understand that I can give the red hot soul to Ed but where do I go from there What weapon should I be going after and how do I make it Im playing a knight almost all melee For equipment I am using 7 Long sword and 3 Dragon long sword 3 Purple Flame shield and the starting armor I like the long sword the piercing damage on the R2 attack seems to work really wellAlso what boss should I be aiming for next I LOVE Demons SoulsThis game actually got me excited to be playing video games again and thats quite a feat I just bought a PS3 for this game I love it A question though for other players I beat Phalanx and then died and am back in soul form I then went back and got my bloodstain but no body How do I get that backAlso I heard that speccing either magic or melee is the way to go Im loving my light bucklerrapier and some magic mix character though Will I have a problem keeping my dexterity and magics both up to par demons souls can kiss my ass I prefer nonabusive loving relationships You guys are all battered gamers enabling eachother Losing 8000 souls seems like a lot early on Wait until you lose half a million I love Demons Souls I love that I can help other people and that they can help me I dont try to beat any bosses in Soul Form Typically I try to play to the fog right before the boss drop the blue eye and then help someone else I get revived for doing so replay the map to the same spot again and then pick up other blue phantoms to help me A truly amazing game challenging and immensly satisfying at the same time I actualy avoid playing it sometimes because Im afraid of going back to soul form and losing my hard earned soulsIf you dont have it you seriously dont know what youre missing |
Im awful at drawing and always have been What can I do to improve Im not expecting to become an artist Id be happy enough just being able to draw little doodles and MSpaint comics Any advice | Im glad you asked I have also struggled with drawing When I was little I could never stay inside the lines in coloring books As I got old I took some classes but nothing really helped I could not make the images in my head appear on the paper Everything changed when I met SangTua the CraftsmanSangTua the Craftsman A reddit community choose your own adventure story as requestedChapter 1SangTua is a kind of underground celebrity in art world He designs moving sculptures from liquids and plastic casts His work has been displayed all over the world There is a show at the MET in NY this year You should check it out if you get a chanceI met SangTua in undergrad when he was a guest lecturer for some sort of seminar that the liberal arts school was hosting I didnt see the lecture though in retrospect I wish I had No I met SangTua as he was being accosted by campus security for cutting down a tree with a pocketknifeSangTua was wearing an illfitting business suit Hed cut the bottom half of the legs off the suit to turn them into the ugliest shorts youve ever seen On his feet were a pair of simple leather sandals If you had seen these things you would not have noticed What you would have noticed was the tricorner hat he was wearing You know the kind like the Americans wore during colonial timesThe security guards were standing about 10 feet away from SangTua One of them gripping his belt as if he had a gun to pull out Of course he didnt and this was before tasers so I was think maybe pepper spray The other guard was talking into his radio saying how they were having an incidentI had noticed the situation too late as I only became aware of this complete loony when I was about 5 feet away from him as I exited the administration building I saw the guards first because one of them was making a hell fuss I thought he was talking to me at first but I quickly realized that he was talking to crazyMcGee over here next to me as he was attempting to cut down this significantly sized tree beaverstyle with a pocketknifeDude I said because I talked like a jackass in those days Dude those guys are getting pissed you might want to put that knife wayThe strange man kept on chipping bits of wood and he did not turn to me as he said Knife will know when work is done I no need tell it His accent was foreign and strange to my earsYeah but dude I continued youre kind of destroying campus propertyThe man said Campus will no mind Campus will keep wood Campus will keep also much beautyNow the guards were talking to me Hey kid why dont you step away from this guy before you get hurtThe man said I no hurt boy Boy stay Boy maybe learn something Not like you teach Maybe learn to seeThe campus guard said Youre getting him agitated Take a hikeI said he seems pretty calm to meBefore the guard could replay the man said See Boy want to stay You go I teachAt that moment an Assistant Dean stepped out of the administration building behind me He said to the man Excuse me Just what do you think youre doingI am fixing the beauty said the manYou are destroying school property said the Assistant DeanThe man stopped chipping away at the tree and turned to face the Assistant Dean He spoke calmly You invite me come here teach art Then you invite me talk art No one understand talk art Now I do art Boy learn Maybe you learn tooThe Assistant Dean was at a loss for how to handle this man You say we invited youThe man nodded You say SangTua come teach art I come teach artThe Assistant Dean was exasperated I dont understand how destroying school property is art he saidAhhhh said the SangTua You see building How long has building stand hereThe Assistant Dean thought Uh this building has been around since at least 1933Yes is old building said SangTua How long you think window thereHe was pointing to a secondstory window in the center of the administration building The trees branches had grown to obscure it The Assistant Dean said Same amount of time I guess Thats my office window What about itYes is old window said SangTua How long you think tree grow hereThe Assistant Dean shrugged I dont know fifty years maybeSangTua nodded I think tree here sixty yearsThe Assistant Dean waited for more but the man just turned and resumed chipping at the tree I notice he seemed fairly close to felling the thing AND said the Assistant Dean impatientlySangTua said You go to office You look out window You will understandI said I think hes almost done anywayThe Assistant Dean shot me a cold look Then he looked at the damage to the tree and told the guards to keep everyone awayThe man paused and looked at the Assistant Dean again You go to office now Take boy You will understand He will learnThe Assistant Dean paused and said to the man you dont even think about leaving Practice experiment with all sorts of crazy drugs realize that altered states of consciousness dont really help improve anything in your life practice some more Draw more Practice quick gesture drawing to give you a feel for capturing the underlying shape of what youre drawing rather than minute detail Get some good instructional books like those by HogarthhttpwwwamazoncomBurneHogartheB000APHOOKrefsrnttsrchlnk2encodingUTF8ampqid1263162855ampsr82 and Bridgmanhttpwwwamazoncomsrefnttathrdpsr1encodingUTF8ampsortrelevancerankampsearchaliasbooksampfieldauthorGeorge20Bridgman but focus on drawing from life not just from the books Pick up Drawing With The Right Side Of The Brain It wont turn you hyper good but youll have some basics and wont suck so much |
Lots of people are seeing issues with GreyBlackVertical colored line crashes in Radeon 57xx and 58xx series cards People hoping for a driver fix but they were hoping for the same thing last month This is just an FYI if youre in the market for a new mainstream cardSome forum posts with relevant infohttpforumsamdcomgamemessageviewcfmcatid260ampthreadid124747httpforumsamdcomgamemessageviewcfmcatid260ampthreadid124747httpforumsguru3dcomshowthreadphpp3391755httpforumsguru3dcomshowthreadphpp3391755httpwwwtomshardwarecomforum27375333radeon5770verticallinesproblemshttpwwwtomshardwarecomforum27375333radeon5770verticallinesproblemsEDIT Adding more posts as they are pointed outhttpwwwhardforumcomshowthreadphpt1466677httpwwwhardforumcomshowthreadphpt1466677httpwwwtomshardwarecomnewsATIRadeonGreyScreenCrash9529htmlhttpwwwtomshardwarecomnewsATIRadeonGreyScreenCrash9529htmlEDIT2 AMD released new drivers today Jan 27 ver 101 Issue is not fixed with new drivers but is now acknowledged as a known issue in their release notesgtIntermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on thescreenPage 6 of the release noteshttpwww2aticomrelnotesCatalyst101releasenotespdfEDIT3 If anyone is still following this issue its finally got a hotfixhttpsupportamdcomuskbarticlesPagesGreyscreenandverticallinecorruptionsaspx | I have a 5870 and was experiencing this problem You can increase the voltage with the MSI Afterburnerhttpeventmsicomvgaafterburner program or flash your bios to a newer versionhttpwwwtechpowerupcomvgabios61848ATIHD58701024091112html |
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Dear God what the hell is this I will not look any closer in fear that I may be killed and eaten by whatever has created this egg sac of death httpiimgurcomH9S8njpghttpiimgurcomwhM7qjpg | Youve got yourself a serious arachnid problem From what I can tell the king produced a queen in the original nest Soon there will be a primary nest which the queen will guard She will be able to have reproductive offspring of her own When that happens your town is dead and the next one and so on Put a garbage bag3 layers under it cut it down and finally throw the whole thing in the center of the sun Easy How to Identify Spider Egg Sacshttpwwwehowcomhow4886667identifyspidereggsacshtmlgt Look for any weblike casings around the pouch Female spiders will often wrap their eggs into a little case which can contain up to a few thousand spider eggs Im sorry to say but your house seems to have gotten the bad case of the flu You should get it checked out Perhaps it was made by some tent caterpillars Example nesthttpwwwbiokidsumicheduimagessignsbuildtentcaterpillarnestjpgOnly way to know for sure is to crack that sucker open and find out though D |
I love it when Im watching a movie and somebody in the movie says the title Im not sure whyCan anybody name some movies and maybe provide some quotes of movies where this happens | Michael You know your average American male is in a perpetual state of adolescence you know arrested developmentNarrator Hey Thats the name of the show Star Trek First Contacthttpwwwimdbcomtitlett0117731Dr Zefram Cochrane So youre all astronauts on some sort of star trek Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind when Mary reads to Dr Mierzwiak a fragment of Alexander Popes Eloisa to Abelard from Bartletts QuotationsHow happy is the blameless vestals lot The world forgetting by the world forgot Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Each prayr accepted and each wish resignd The Godfather Apocalypse Now if you count that its written Fight Club Snatch You Only Live Twice Johnny Dangerously Spies Like Us The Big Kahuna Fire Walk With Me Nuda v Brne Bored in Brno Goodfellas The Departed Casino Ghostbusters Lord of War Mulholland Dr 24 Hour Party People if you count song lyricsetc |
MineAbout two years ago I broke up with my longtime girlfriend and had started seeing other girls One of them lets call her Lisa and I had a thing for each other for a few months She was really attractive so of course I wanted stuff to happen between us so we start hanging out and going to parties together Around midAugust my buddy lets call him Al had a party in which I invited her to This party was a basement party and all signs had basically pointed to this night being the night we became official or whatever you want to call it Anyways all throughout the party I had hinted we go upstairs and be alone this hadnt been a problem other times wed hung out but she denied me of this and she starts making out with almost every guy there After a while she could see I was visibly pissed off and we were both pretty drunk however I kept my dignity She walked up asking me whats wrong and I said nothing trying to keep having a good time with my buddies She responded is it cause I wont make out with you Lets go make out right now and I said uhh no thanks and walked right by her to the other side of the basementA little bit later after I was done having a good time Id started going home and sent her a text basically saying how bogus it was to have pulled that move and that I didnt want to see her again I deleted her from facebook but until about two weeks later the beginning of september I hadnt deleted her from myspace because I couldnt remember how and then I found out and did itThe next time we talk was two and a half months later in the middle of November I was with my buddy at the time getting some pizza and she calls me She said she had some newsShe was two months pregnant with a guy she hadnt even met when I deleted her from myspace This phone call explained shed started going out with him like a day after she met himIn short Stop hanging in midAugust lost ALL contact with her by early September and by midNovember she was two months pregnant with a guy she barely met that COULD HAVE BEEN MEHOLY FUCKAnyways whats your story | I had a Kawasaki 900 Ninja when I was 19 years old 20 some years later and Im sitting in a normal chair typing this on a standard keyboard I had a pregnancy scare with my most recent ex The one who threatened my life with a gun and wrote a poem about raping me I dont think Ive ever been so happy to finally see Aunt Flo |
News story about a dude getting his grow busted Cops use a phony ransom note with savvy lingo but dont recognize the names of some of the most popular and prominent strains Salient quote in the last paragraph of this storyhttpwwwcnncom2010CRIME0106floridamarijuanabustindexhtml | Who the hell is reporting something like that A passerby sees marijuana plants growing in the woods and runs to the cops Im sorry but that person needs to get their priorities in order neither the man nor the plants had done any harm or injustice to them Charged him with selling Shouldnt they charge the cops with selling The Dude was obviously BUYING 6 plants for 200 Shitty story and laughable error on the cops partbut seriously what the fuckWho in gods name would respond to the ransom Effort etc asideits an obvious setup Guy got too greedy |
I work for one of the major two cell phone companies Youve seen the commercials Im sure Let me start up with the fact that recently our unlimited plans dropped by 30 bucks if you are on the previous unlimited plans we are not going to switch you to the new plan unless you ask Did you know that Ask away | i feel sorry for you call centre work is down right painful I know the pain of dealing with idiotic customers on the phone Give us a story where youve had to pass on information that annihilated a customers spirit andor bank account right there and then What is your general experience with direct dealers What do you hate most about dealers and what do you love most about them Out of every 10 calls how many of the calls do you get cursed at And whats the best story you have about being cursed at |
I just watched tonights episode of the daily show and it was refreshing to see someone who at least understood the issues and seemed very passionate about trying to find a solution | Id vote for her if she ran for president When she first got that job she didnt seem very activist more spokespersonish But now it seems like she realizes something must be done and that shes one of the few who knows enough about what the heck is going on to be able to do something about it |
Hi RedditMy network currently consists of 16 servers and is practically split down the middle between CentOS and Windows boxes I was wondering if any of you have recommendations on Open Source backup solutions or any tips on helping to select one Im currently looking at Baculahttpwwwbaculaorgen and it seems to be a pretty solid choice but was just wondering if anyone had any others they prefer more or gotchas I should be looking out for with BaculaPS Im also really curious to hear from anyone who has triedis using Amandahttpwwwamandaorg | Ive been very happy with Bacula It saved my ass quite a few times There was no problem setting it up with two Overland Neo2000E units gtbudatedate dmY gtsudo tar cvjpf backupsbackupbudatetgz sameowner excludebackups excludeproc excludemedia excludedev excludemnt excludesys excludetmp 2gthomeerrorlog Amanda is excellent highly recommended The vTape concept takes a little reading to get comfortable with for me at least but it is easy once you get the hang of it Other advantages for Amanda Development is active and funded by Zmanda They include even in the free community version a VSSaware Windows backup agent This is the primary reason I went to Amanda VSS keeps all you VSSaware application data consistent Clientside compression so light CPU requirements on the backup serverI had previously used BackupPC but moved away from that because it is not VSS aware and the two protocols used for windows servers rsync and smb both have limitations on windowsI ruled out Bacula because it appears to be developed mostly by one or two people and does not appear to show the same level of effort and community support as AmandaTo date Ive done 2 restores from Amanda and both were successful I like rdiffbackuphttprdiffbackupnongnuorg because it is relatively simple and yet understands incremental backups By comparison tar is simple but doing a full backup every day is not practical and its lack of usable support for incrementals is annoying tar does support incrementals but I didnt find it very easy to userdiffbackup also gives you the ability to list the time backups were taken and to restore a set of files from any pointintime snapshot in a single step And it allows expiring everything older than say 90 days without having to parse filenames of tar files or anything to determine which ones to deleterdiffbackup also supports either backing up to a local filesystem or going over ssh It does not support writing a backup into a single big container file the backup is a tree Im not 100 fond of that partIt doesnt support any reporting or scheduling or load balancing or anything fancy like that and the rdiffbackup program must be installed on every machine you back up But the good news about installing rdiffbackup is that its pretty easy even if you have to install Python by hand and run the Pythonbased installer |
I would begin sometime after I graduate high school I want to jump in before I get too caught up in anything My only problem is that I really have basically no money though I have everything else I need Also I am in Maine so I could go right from the east coast all the way to the west coast I would appreciate any experiences advice motivations etc | Pack light over 15 kilograms of gear is too much This may seem obvious but youd be amazed at how little you can get out of 10Kg This is an example of too muchhttpenwikipediaorgwikiFileReiseradbeladenjpg Get good paniers a strong rack a patch kit a couple spare tubes a few handy tools allen keys screwdriver chain repairer can be obtained in one specialised bike tool May want to get a spanner for the pedals if you want to take it on a plane for repairs Tools are important Stuff will break You dont need to necessarily know the ins and outs of bike maintenance though because you should be able to figure it out by yourself under the heat of the moment Always know where the nearest bike store is This can make a terrible fucking ImSeriouslyGoingToKillTheShemanoCompany terroristmaking day into simply a bad day Get a tent You arent always going to make it to the town If your bike breaks down you can also chill out for the night and deal with the problem in the morning instead of going berserk If you can get them in USA get one of the 2 second tents Some outdoorsy people bag them out but I found them great for a nohassle option when its pitch black Wear a goddamn helmet or Ill come over there and strangle you if you are one of those bike riders who doesnt Your skull isnt as thick as you think mate You are also going to be near some traffic moving a whole lot faster than suburban traffic You arent going to be riding more than 80km50m per day Do you guys use m as an abbrev of miles Slow down and take in the sights If you get stuck dont be afraid to knock on someones door and ask for help Ive broken down before and ended up staying in a home with random refugees as well as camping on a cops lawn In both instances they fed me and offered me a shower etc etc The worst someone can say is no Its complete bullshit that you cant do this sort of thing in cities too People are not a majority of complete fuckwits its just the fuckwits have had vocal training and can therefore project their voices really well Maps are shithouse Use them but dont trust them If its cold where you are going you wont need as much warm clothing as you might think Ive ridden in 0C with a shirt on and Im used to Australian weather Its when you stop you get cold Ill think up some more stuff for you if I remember |
EDIT Ok Im not sure that you kids know what Im talking about Im talking about having a straight up panic attack when consuming too much weed in some way Im NOT talking about being worried about the law or paranoia And Im looking for info on the chemical explanation behind said panic attacksSo what chemically happens in your brain when you get the fear It happened to me once smoking Spice and almost happened smoking pot several weeks later but I distracted myself enough for the second episode that it didnt precipitate I want to know what neurotransmitters change to make one go from feeling high and great to being reduced to the worst panic attack imaginable and the certainty that they will dieIm not sure if theres another term for it but I googled marijuana and the fear but didnt find what I was looking for Any help | Weed can definitely cause paranoia The actual neurotransmitters involved are many various neurotransmitters have more than one function in your brain Its not so easily reducible like thatThere are some neurotransmitters that are more involved in fear than others however GABAhttpenwikipediaorgwikiGammaAminobutyricacid comes to mind It is an inhibitory aminoacid whose absence could cause anxiety or paranoia This listhttpenwikipediaorgwikiNeurotransmitterExcitatoryandinhibitory may helpOther neurotransmitters that are involved when smoking ganja are dopamine and serotonin Perhaps the relative ratio of these and not their absolute levels is what causes the anxiety Like I said the brain is more of a soup of chemicals acting in harmony and not a bunch of isolated levels of transmittersEdit added links Spice has a CB1 targeted cannabinoid CB1 has a few levels nice high fucking high paranoid and completely fucking insane The thing about MJ is it doesnt just target CB1 It also has chems which target CB2 CB2 is has a few levels nice feeling sweet no pain drowsy and put your ass to sleepWhen you had Spice your CB1 went to level 42 most likely Then I bet you had some sativadominant strain and nearly peaked a 39 on your CB1Research cannabinoid effects on the brain and I dont mean smoke as much as you want Read the research reportsAgentLiquids response is a good one tootldr switch to an indica blend and stay away from Spice there are some new legal blends out there which arent so specific to the CB1 The release of norepinephrine in response to stress is the main thing that causes a panic attack Having a bit of a GABA gamma amino butryic acid agonist such as alcohol will reverse a panic attack Kava and theanine also work very well at reversing the fear I havent gotten the fear on weed before but Ive encountered something similar on mushrooms IMO it is related in some way to your ego I just had to learn to let go of everything go with the flow and not fight itWhat kind of thoughts go through your head when you experience the fear What set and settings are you inIve heard of strong pure sativas giving a more psychedelic high than other strains |
Its run by a guy on the other side of the planet News Corp was created in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited News Limited was created by Murdoch from the assets he inherited in 1952 following the death of his father Sir Keith Murdoch and subsequent expansion The main asset left to him was ownership of the Adelaide afternoon tabloidhttpenwikipediaorgwikiNewsCorporation | Rupert Murdoch hasnt lived in Australia for 30 years He occassionally comes back and tries to push his right wing agenda here He is an American Wrong In an effort to expand his television interests further in the United States Rupert Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985 Once upon a time he was Australian |
I did a Reddit search for what its worth and didnt find anyone asking this question How did you find out about Reddit Did a friend introduce it to you Random Googling I personally was looking for badracistdead babyhilariousoffensive jokes on The Google and found a thread on Reddit that was ONLY the jokes I wanted I was in heaven Like minded people who dont say f1rst or fag on every thread Holy ThisIsAwesome Batman I lurked for a month or two then decided to try the whole user name thing Once I signed up I realized that I could sort the subreddits that I liked andoh it was almost too much for my young heart to take Anyways enough about me and my pathetic story Whats yours | Was on Digg for a while saw tons of comments about Reddit Tried it out a couple times and hated the layout Once I got used to it and realized how awesome this place was I stopped going back to Digg Be honest though the comment system is a little hard to get used to at first and the blue and black text on a white background is also weird at first I actually was intruduced to the site by the talk on TED Im an insomniac so its a god send One can only watch so much porn |
Regarding this postgt httpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsaovpwijustgotrapedihavenoideawhattodopleaseDismissing the probability that this is not a true event it still does not give anyone the right to treat it like humour Rape is a serious event and even though prison buttrape jokes are made constantly there is such a double standard where individuals are concerned It is not acceptable to tell a man to man up as the same it is not acceptable to call someone a pussy for the fact that there happens to be a girl stronger than them Many of you also took the chance to belittle the alleged rape victim about his faith Oh so he got raped but hes Christian so what Not cool Reddit Not cool Not only that but there are comments calling him an idiot and stupid for being Christian and saying that he can get no sympathy just for that Get over yourself there are many who are leagues above you and are religion as there are nonreligious Your beliefs do not affect your intelligence your intelligence affects your beliefs | I dont know I saw a lot of honest and helpful responses in there and a lot of good discussion More than you would get on most other sites Id wager Yeah there are assholes on the internet and as a sites popularity grows so does the potential for stupid comments Thats why we have that down arrow and hide button Im not defending the comments but I think the systems we have in place to combat them are working pretty well Downvoted for being an obnoxious metapostThis submission is worthless since noone who responded unpleasantly to the post you linked to will care or in any way modify their behaviour after reading it I also find it deeply annoying when people try to characterise an entire userbase based on the actions of a few individualsYou are also stupid and displaying a misunderstanding of selection bias Even if we assume that the number of negative replies to the original post is equal to the number of positive replies protip its not then this still fails to support your assertions about the average reddit user since the trolls who just wanted to berate this guy would have been far more likely to respond than the average reader trolls dont care if they repeat what someone else has said or have nothing to add they just want to trollYour conclusions are incorrect and the preachy selfrighteous way youve written your post annoys the fuck out of me Can any consolation be found in the top commenthttpwwwredditcomrAskRedditcommentsaovpwijustgotrapedihavenoideawhattodopleasec0inzu1 of that thread I admit to not reading through very much of it but the highest comment threads I sort by best are the most supportive ones Now that schools are progressively teaching people how to be critical and skeptical of pretty much everything you get a lot of sarcastic and mean kids who just want to prove something Nowadays many look at those who have strong faith as nothing more than zealous idiots Given the past actions of religious zealots in the historical sense I cant blame redditors for reacting that way but I do think its wrong to base all judgments of people on the worst of their actionsLighten up reddit |
Because the only bullet points above the fold make it seem that waySuggestionsTake the word prostitution out of the 2nd bullet point it immediately provides political opposition far too much cheap ammo And is legalizing drugs really our 2nd order of business As someone whos going to federal prison in less the a month for drugs I can say this issue is close to my heart but more important in our list of priorities than health care Or the separation of religion and government Or Campaign reform Bump those bastards to the topThe order of our goals is very important especially if youre going to number them2 | What can and should separate us from Libertarians is an emphasis on social justice things such as health care and living wage IMO In my opinion healthcare should be treated like education A right not a privilege That is why we need a strong public option in the same way we need a strong public school system I also want to see separation of corporation and state We need to emphasize that government is not the enemy wasteful government is Also that we advocate for various corporate restrictions Here this is whyhttpwwwfacebookcomphotophppid31073130ampid1571310465 were not libertarian Heres why I think legalization ought to be high on our list of priorities1 It signals a radical break with how things are done now2 Prison overcrowding the cycle of crime our prisons create3 Gangs they make money selling drugs take away the money you destroy the gangs4 Cartels in Afghanistan Mexico and Colombia make a ton of money off of drugs and use it to kill people Again get rid of the money get rid of them |
I find that about 1 in 10 have great insights and really teach me something George Leonards Mastery and The Richest Man in Babylon author were two very good ones I recently read | This is a bit weird but that dog whisperer dude wrote a book on dogs No training tips really it was just a book on dog psychology Im telling you that book changed my life My dog no longer drives me bat shit insane because I finally understand whats going through his peanut of a brain Allen Carrs The Easy Way to Stop SmokinghttpwwwamazoncomEasyWayStopSmokingNonSmokersdp1402718616refsr11ieUTF8ampsbooksampqid1263588509ampsr81 Finished it last Friday and havent smoke since It really is easy The bibleoh here come the down votes But it seriously does help me daily Ive never really read any other self help books but I did read Sullys book about landing on the Hudson That was a good read The Game by Neil StraussMore of a novel than a selfhelp book but considering its about people who teach selfhelp courses and contains many of their philosophies and advice it fits the bill The Game completely changed the way I thought about women and my approach to them More than anything else it helped transform me from a neurotic mess with women to someone playful attractive and confident Its only of the very few sources of courtship advice for men that goes beyond spouting useless cliches such as Just be yourself and actually gives you practical advice you can use I really love Robert Greenes books The Art of Seduction and The 48 Laws of Power They arent really self help books in the traditional style and theyre more complicated than the titles seem They teach you how to deal with people and get what you want from them using examples from history of what to do and what not to do The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle and Oshos The Book of Secrets Selfhelp bordering on philosophy but it was life changing for me Its Called a Breakup Because its BrokenhttpwwwamazoncomItsCalledBreakupBecauseBrokendp0767921852 It totally got my head on straight after my most recent breakup Its not a selfhelp book but The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts is my favorite book of all time and is probably the only book I can think of that allowed me to empower myself and reshape my thinking at a relatively young ageI recommend it constantly The Intelligent Investor It wont teach you how to make millions on the stock market but teaches you the principals mindset and foundation to have when dealing with investing The only two that ever helped me were The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr David Burns and Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Suzanne Jeffers Theres a lot of worthless pop psychology out there and I had to wade through a lot of crap to find those Creating True Peace by Thich Nhat Hahn Hes a Buddhist monk of international renown His ideas on mindfulness and defining and combating nonphysical violence have stayed with me and helped me through a number of rough patches I still reread pieces when I start to get angry about big things This onehttpwwwamazoncomJugglingCompleteKlutzJohnCassidydp0932592007I stopped reading after the first few chapters once I got the basics down The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand RussellI dont think a single other book has helped me as much as this onegtMy purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary daytoday unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer and which is all the more unbearable because having no obvious external cause appears inescapable The Lazy Mans Guide to Enlightenmenthttpfreespacevirginnetsarahpeternelsonlazymanlazymanhtml is short simple and free Codependent No MorehttpwwwamazoncomCodependentNoMoreControllingYourselfdp0894864025 is really great It focuses a lot on having a loved one with alcohol or drug addictions but its also really useful if youre getting out of a relationship You can apply it to any situation that leaves you needing to rely on yourself Change Your ThinkinghttpwwwamazoncoukChangeYourThinkingCBTOvercomedp0091906954 is a great book to teach yourself Cognitive Behavioral therapy especially when you cant afford a shrink to help you If You Had Controlling Parentshttpwwwcontrollingparentscom is fucking amazingAs well as Toxic InLawshttpwwwamazoncomToxicLawsStrategiesProtectingMarriagedp0060507853Read it read it read it Absolutely lifesaving |
For the large part of my 5 year programming career I have been working on my own I never had anyone question the way I do stuff that I am responsible for Recently I had another developer slightly more experienced join me He comes up with solutions that achieve a similar end result but in a different way Now for the first time I have to justify why my approach is better How do I keep my ego under control How do I tune my head into learning from the experience How do you deal with this on a daily basisEDIT Thanks for the advice I love you guys | Youre both wrong You both write bad code You both introduce bugs and regressions Youll both lead the project into ruinsOnly together can you catch each others mistakes and produce something that might be considered tolerable Communication communication communication If the two of you have different ways to achieve the same result explain why you think your way is advantageous and let him explain why he thinks his is advantageous Chances are that if you both know your stuff the better solution will probably be clear after the conversation Ive realized there are three types of decisions Those where the other guys proposal would be a huge mistake Those where mine has advantages but the other guys has different advantages Those where I really cant decideThe first type you need to be worried about eg if you work at Adobe and someone says Lets rewrite Photoshop to be pure Erlang because Erlang is shinyThe second type you can discuss but if your team is size N be prepared to lose at least N1 out of N discussions That way if you lose less than that youll be happy This is stuff like naming conventions for functions whether or not the Singleton pattern is good or bad etcI was a lone wolf programmer for the longest time essentially from age 11 to age 35 and never saw the difference between the first two After all when programming I had to type something and was always trying to figure out what was the best choiceBut when I started working with other people I realized there are a very large class of things that are good to discuss amp have opinions about but in the end theyre not that important Photoshop isnt a success because it uses the Singleton pattern or because it doesnt There may be a little more technical debt with one choice or the other but not muchThe other thing is theres a big ADVANTAGE to being flexible If the other person has good arguments for something in the second group and you cant talk them out of it then youll cause less friction and be a better asset to the team if you do it theyre way Its partly people skills other people are in the same boat as you they like the patterns they use and you can make them happy when you do it theyre wayAlso youll learn more if youre continually forced to do things different ways You develop a sense for the space of possible solutions rather than refining your particular styleYouve already done the hardest part realize that neither of you is wrong its just that the styles are different I manage a 15 programmer game team we see this frequently Heres one small bit of advice When talking about code design always consider if it has business value Im assuming your are in a business here not a charity If so ask yourself if what you or your coworker is doing makes any difference to the end user Programmers often get caught up in this kind of thing and forget the big picture Does the other guy have to justify why his approach is better Or only you You both need to explain your solutionsSometimes you will obviously want to combine parts of both of your solutions Other times it will be less obvious but you still be able to use the other guys ideas But if he isnt able to realize when your completely different solution is better then you may be screwedYou will probably have to accept that the best solution isnt always going to be put in place and just worry about making sure that it will do the job even if it doesnt do it as well as what you wantedPersonally I have found that many other developers will happily waste days weeks or months of my time solving problems that have already been solved several different ways This is one thing that can really be hard to put up with You should consider not putting up with it However that thought pattern may get you fired or you might have to kill the other developer Listening to external criticism is a bit like listening to selfcriticism except the suggestions are not as predictable Are you in the habit of critiquing your own ideas Do you regularly question the orthodoxies inside your own headThe good thing about other people is sometimes they force you to say out loud Ive always done it that way thats the way I was taught and thats the most intuitive way for me and once you hear yourself vocalize those explanations you realize how pitifully inadequate they areBut also realize there is a lot of room for honest disagreement that doesnt have to be resolved You can agree to disagree Pick your battles The geeks that we are wed like to believe there is one true logical answer for everything but more often than not thats just not the case Realize that many of your most cherished programming principles are really just statements of faithEven if you think his suggestions are bugridden and unmaintainable why deprive him of a learning moment and yourself out of the satisfaction of saying I told you so or vice versa by sticking to your guns Rarely is a programming mistake so severe that it can never be undoneAlways listen to the advice of others but dont expect that you need to come to agreement with them on every little thing You own the code you make the decisions Just take responsibility when things turn out the way they do gtHow do you deal with codevelopers who have contradictory ideas I kill them Violently When I join a new organization I choose the most experienced talented programmer pick an argument with him over something inconsequential and mundane and then I open him up like a tin of beans in front of everyone and feast on his intestinesThat way the rest know not to fuck with me EverEspecially not over thisif else vsifelseThe laces were out They were OUT Lawyer up and isolate your repository You need to protect your code first and foremostBut if its a relationship you want to keep and willing to work at try talking Edit If he wants to use tabs instead of spaces or uses emacs instead of vim dump him instantly Work on a noncritical project together for a little while like find a common code base that the two of you can work on together and normalize your habits a bit The more you work with this person the less problems youre going to have with them if you communicate a lot Find a way to normalize Make it clear what the priorities are in some cases dev speed some other performance some other being generic portability clarity etc In that context and only in that context try to justify your view And try to understand hishers Be ready to compromise where the differences of the two approaches are not huge and be ready to take responsibility if you think youre right and you really shouldnt do it the other way You may be wrong you ought to read dont make me think even if it does not apply to programming directly here a quote for yougt testing moves the discussion away from the realm of whats right or wrong into the realm of what works or doesnt workyour ways better fine show them I have to slightly deal with this as well However its best to look at it this wayIts not your code It belongs to your employer If someone were to overwrite my code yeah Id want to know why but I shouldnt really take offence to it because it doesnt belong to me I got an experience with this early in my career Another young developer in the company was working on an experimental and interesting feature and I joined him in his efforts at nights kind of skunkworks styleAfter a while we came up against a problem where we were both very sure that our solution was right but none of us was willing to back off This ruined the fun and I lost interest and stopped working on it and it eventually petered out to nothingIve always regretted that I didnt just say OK lets try it your way Im a QA engineer but this is how I deal with belligerent developers who refuse to see things my wayI put on my nicest happiest face and invite them over for dinner I offer them a glass of wine which of course is spiked with ketamine and LSD I then tie them up and take them to my basement and strap them to my frog chair and proceed to do unspeakable things to them for about 12 hours until they start to come down from the acid Usually thats all it takes gt How do I keep my ego under control How do I tune my head into learning from the experience How do you deal with this on a daily basisThese are questions for your psychotherapist Not being glib here Im quite seriousHeres what mine told me A learn nondefensive communication techniques B get some lessons in cognitive behavioral adaptation C take up some kind of mindfulness practice eg meditation Always be prepared to admit the other guys idea is better The sooner the better not to waste time but its never too late to admit that the other way was betterEven if you come back a year later and say yes you were right it helps When one person does this other people will do it too because it turned out that surprise surprise you didnt lose anything by admitting you were wrongIf youre good then the other guys will know anyway No need to protect your ego Aptitude showsAnother tip criticize both ways Acknowledge the shortcomings in your solution but point out that they are minor compared to the other guys solution if they areThink of it as two different ways not your way and his way Well either your approach is better and then there exist a sound justification that you are aware of and can communicate to others or it isnt and you should not focus on justifying it Generally just dont focus on being right and remember that if you suck that means youre learning and thats good for you Conversely if you dont suck that generally means youre not learning Why care about whether your approach is better Determine which approach is better regardless of who proposed it Being able to explain even to yourself in a measurable way why your idea is better is important part of this job I love when someone has different ideas I like to learn and I like to be right so one of these things is going to happen Just learn how to explain well Performance issues Show me profiling results Your design is more flexible Show me how quickly you can modify it for some reasonable requirements change You want to denormalize DB Show me why it is good in this particular case You want to use some open source framework Show me how it saves your time doing some stuff that we actually needI really hate it when someone says their approach is better than mine and claiming it to be faster or simpler or more flexible or more secure or more standard or more readable or whatever without even trying to prove itOften when someone says that something is good what it really means is that it is something they are familiar with or is the only way of doing some stuff they know about For instance some senior C developer who hates javascript because obviously good language is compiled statically typed classbased object oriented and therefore everything else is wrong Even on projects where I work as the sole developer for key architectural decisions I organise a white board session and ask other developers to shoot my design down I get them into a frenzy mode where the goal is to slam my design and to identify as many issues as possible I know that at the end of this session if the design survives then it was an excellent design There is no EGO allowed in the engineering world You have to actively seek ridicule and humiliation in order to become a better engineer Eventually youll improve and youll take white board sessions as a challenge to see just how good you have become It may be humiliating at first but the end goal is what is important |
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So say you have 100 beads and five colors where there are 20 of each color and you want to make a necklace where two of the same color cannot touch So redbluered is legal while redredblue is illegal How many different necklaces can you make What is the solution and how would you solve this | I tried approaching this with a classic how many different permutations can you make from the letters in a word containing multiple of the same letter question So you take a word like PEPPER and you see there are 6 ways to arrange letters but 3 of them are the same P and 2 others are the same E so accounting for duplicates we have 6 32ways to arrange those lettersPerhaps applying a similar strategy would help you narrow it down For example you know for a fact the number cannot be as large as 100 205which Im not entirely sure simplifies down to something so nicely yet thoughFrom there Im thinking it may be easiest if we think of the string not as being comprised of 100 individual beads but rather 50 bead pairsSo how many pairs do we have Lets assign colors red green blue yellow purple are my choices RGBYP5P2 on that set gives us20If my math skills serve me correctly So we have 20 distinct pairs that we can deal with At this point Im running dry We have to account for the fact that using one pair begins to limit our choices on other pairsI hope this method of thinking could begin to help Perhaps it would help by starting the problem by thinking inductivelyInstead of 20 of each color how about 2 You forgot to specify whether to factor in the looping of the necklace which makes a big difference For a threebead necklace made from three different beads the sequences ABC BCA and CAB are all identical if we dont care where the sequence startsYou also need to specify whether reversing the direction counts as a different necklace because if it does not then for a threebeader ABC BCA CAB CBA BAC and ACB are all the sameNote Im not giving answers here since I have work of my own to do |
Ok it is time for me to learn cocoa touch I know php perl a little python a little ruby bash tcl all the top down procedural stuff About 15 years of it here and thereI am not really a programmer I use it as a tool to make the ideas I need to start the businesses I want to run My passion is running businesses applications are a process that needs to happen within the businesses I want to runI do think I am a fair programmer My one terribly weak spot is in OOP I barely mange to get by and perhaps because I am mostly a web based developer I have never really seen a strong reason to use a ton of OOPMy girlfriend who has zero experience in all this want to learn to make iPhone apps as well I can hold her hand through the basic conceptsI open up xcode and Interface Builder and this MVC stuff just throws me for a loop I think I need a few intro classes to get me up to speed I learn terribly from books learn better from example and epperience but think there is a wall I need to get over firstI am fine to just hire people to do my ideas however every time I do that I end up rewriting it all or going over it and am not happy with the work Solid resumes but they seem to lack real world experience and put out rather buggy stuff I tend to think I need to do these on my ownI was going to stick with web apps and try to leverage the web app on the iPhone as a new platform but simple things like file uploads are missing putting a huge barrier on some ideas I mean no file uploads you are at a pretty solid wall to start withCan someone recommend me a set of classes that I can get into to get me that initial pushI looked at the iTunes U Stanford stuff that was a bit over my head I need to stuff just before thatThanks | Its great that your girlfriend wants to get involved Couples can have an enthusiasm that catches fire eg Charles and RayBernice EameshttpenwikipediaorgwikiCharlesandrayeames If the iTunes U Stanford stuff is a bit over your head as it was mine I highly recommend two other podcasts Hot Cocoa video podcast httphotcocoalasteditcomwww interesting Kevins last tweet iPad doesnt offer enough over the iPod Touch for me me I want 2 Mobile Orchard audio podcast httpwwwmobileorchardcom Intro classes to Cocoa classes exist some on YouTube and others just in text I recommend using your machines text to speech in whatever browser to pretend its a podcast and follow along Works wonders for my wandering attention Just start sketching stuff together simple as you can and customize one of the Apple demos until you get something that works on your machines I guarantee the rush of real life will make it worthwhile Best o luck Always represent tldr MVC makes sense after awhile of doing it Apples way Which is seriously easy after 8 hours of WTFFUU |
I have a new computer Quad core 4 gig RAM 1Tb drive running the latest version of Linux Mint 8When I rip CDs to mp3 using RipperX and Lame my computer grinds almost to a halt Even simple things Firefox and Thunderbird are almost unusable I get the greyed over screen thingAlso I find it takes quite a bit longer to rip a CD in Linux than it would in Windows XPAnyone know why or can suggest a better way to rip CDs to mp3 | Check that UDMA is enabled on the CD drive This may helphttpthedaneshprojectcompostshowtoenabledmainlinux |
I for one just completed my first iPhone game link to iTuneshttpitunesapplecomusappchillyzombiesliteid350353692mt8 and its free too I was totally obsessed with it for months | A weekly YouTube sketch show that me and my best friends from middle schoolhigh school all work on together Weve got a pretty good audience going and I am very proud of several of the videossmbc theaterhttpwwwsmbctheatercom I just bought an original 1981 TRON arcade cabinet I plan to restore it like new I havent started the project as yet |
I recently met the girl Id like to spend the rest of my life with Shes plain out amazing and she feels the same about me My parents who are hardly supportive of anything I do dont like her Theyve gone through the measures of not letting me see her Im a senior in High School on the days that I actually have spare time I have basketball everyday even on most Saturdays so I have no spare time except Sundays which Im usually grounded by my parents for some indirect reason thats plain out ridiculous eg getting a B on a reading quiz for AP Lit I feel like my lack of seeing her its been almost two weeks now is going to have her lose interest in me ultimately losing her altogether Shes not a hardcore girl my parents are just extremely controlling and like to take away whats most important to meSpeaking of her Im also in another issue she drinks When she drinks she drinks a lot This has recently before I met her led to sex and a blowjob with two disgusting guys respectively Shes promised me shell not try to get drunk and shes been keeping it so far by not going full out shitfaced but I really want full assurance I know I cant handle any drunk sex accidents while Im with her and Ive brought it up to her plenty of times Ive had plenty of alcoholics in my family and I dont want her to end up the sameI know Im a pussy compared to other people here and especially the kids in Haiti but I just needed to get it off my chest I got so angry I punched a hole completely through the drywall in my house cutting my hand up and injuring my wrist pretty bad My hand got stuck somewhat inside the wall if that tells you anything how angry I was at another lost weekend with the girl Im beginning to love | You are a senior in HS so at most 5 months until you graduate and can move on with you life Im assuming you are headed to college since you are in AP Lit I know that August seems like it is ages away but hang in there Have you tried talking with your parents about why they dont want you to see herTell your girl exactly what you told us that your parents are controlling and not getting to see her is driving you up the wall She is much less likely to lose interest if she knows why you cant see her and that you still care in spite of thatI ruined my last semester in HS pining over a guy I know love is really powerful but please dont let your frustration with a crappy situation keep you from enjoying the good parts of life What do kids in Haiti have to do with your problemsFirst issue many people have is minimizing their own problems by comparing themselves to others Dont do that |
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