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Buy a used 200L instead of the 400L. I have owned both.
The 200L is two stops wider than the 400 and has half the focal length. Because of this the light required to get a sharp image is about 4 stops lower (2 stops aperture, 2 stops shutter speed). You can use your 200L when the sun starts going down. That's advantage 1.
The 200L is much lighter and smaller than the 400L. Advantage 2.
The 200L is, give or take, half the price of the 400L. Advantage 3.
The 200mm focal length has more uses than the 400L. Advantage 4.
The kicker? The 400L is tack sharp. Holy Jesus or Unholy Satin, I don't know who did this, but my 200L has 90% of the sharpness at 2:1 magnification that the 400L has at 1:1. It's ridiculous. Remember how I said I have owned both? I sold my 400L because my 200 could resolve almost the same amount of detail. With a teleconverter (less money than the price difference), you could get a 200L and 90% of a 400L. That's why you should never buy a 400mm f/5.6L.
As a side note, adding any teleconverters to a 400L will kill the autofocus. If you want maximum reach go with a 300mm f/4 IS. You can add a 1.4 TC for 420mm and keep the IS/AF. It's a bit pricier than the 400L though.
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Skip the 400L. Buy a 200L (and 2x TC only if you print and need the megapixel count). I bought my 200L for $600.
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I would advise that you just save you money. Make sure that when you're out of college and on your own you have a big ol pile of money to help you. You'll need all kinds of things you don't even know about right now and then if you don't have a job, you'll need them anyway and a bunch of rent money. Find a high yield savings or CD and park your cash. You will need it. If you can start your career in no debt, you will be in an excellent position moving forward. It will allow you to start saving/investing in earnest and you will make up any "lost" ground almost instantly.
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Just build up a graduation nest egg and do your best to avoid debt.
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I played through about half of the Enhanced Edition so far.
I'm not particularly impressed with it. Most of the bugfixes duplicated those already available for free as mods. The new features are kinda neat, but very rarely useful.
The only thing the enhanced edition really added that had any inpact of my enjoyment of the game were the new characters and the quests they were involved in - and I do not rate those very highly, either. Adoy's Enclave in particular felt just plain unfinished. The characters and their banter were okay for the most part.
However, despite all these negatives, the developers seem to be actively fixing the problems in a fairly rapid manner. Once (if) they are all fixed, I think it will be a worthy purchase, especially if you do not already own Baldur's Gate, or if you are not confident in your ability to install mods properly (which is absolutely trivial to do, but still).
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New is not so great, but probably worth a purchase for anyone who doesn't already own old.
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Last night at work, I was telling a coworker about a video I saw on reddit yesterday and how it was really sad and made me cry. So, as most sad videos on here, other redditors are like "if this made you cry you should see this." So naturally, I watched about 45 minutes worth of sad videos and then I come across the no cry challenge. He asks what it was and I explain, and start to tell him about the saddest video from yesterday. I can't remember the name of it, but it was about 7 minutes long and it was a camera crew following and documenting the final moments of this man and his dog. The dog had cancer I believe. He had all of his friends say goodbye and him and his wife/girlfriend took the dog to the vet to have him put down and this man was just in tears, as was I. So I then proceed to tell him about the time when I had to go put my dog down because he needed a surgery we couldn't afford. I told him how much pain my dog was in, and how badly I was crying and how when the lady put the injection in, how I could slowly see peace coming into his eyes. At this point in the story, I happen to look up (we weren't really looking at each other because we were cleaning so I was completely oblivious to his reaction and just kept running my mouth) and he says please stop, I can't talk about this. And he turned around and had to compose himself for a few minutes. I felt AWFUL. I still feel awful. It got really awkward and we didn't really talk much for the last few hours. I was fighting tears the whole time. I don't know how to handle awkward situations, especially when its my fault, so when I went to the cooler to get more carrots, I stood in there and just cried for about five minutes. I couldn't sleep last night because I felt terrible.
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I told a coworker about the no cry challenge, ended up telling him about how my dog got put down, brought up some sad memories for him and things got really awkward and I cried in the cooler.
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Like two months ago a co-worker of mine met his mom at our work so they could spend the day together (he wasn't working that day, it was just a nice in-between location for them). He ends up being 20 minutes late, so another coworker and I start talking with her. I ask her if she has any embarrassing stories about him and what he was like as a child. Kind of light-hearted, funny kind of stuff. Eventually he shows up and I'm telling him that I don't believe that his mom is actually his mom. She's far too cool and nice to be the mother of such a dick-bag. I say, "I bet you paid this nice, old lady to pretend to be your mom." And then I froze dead in my tracks. I did not mean to say old. It just rolled off the tongue. I meant to just say nice; like, "this nice lady." But instead I'm a total dick. I still feel bad about it.
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Called my coworkers Mom old to her face, not my proudest moment.
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I grabbed a banana to eat for breakfast on the way to work once. I have about a 45 minute commute that's almost entirely on the interstate, and so after I finished eating the banana, I had no idea what to do with the peel. I felt like I couldn't just throw it out the window because I was going too fast, and I didn't want to risk it sliding all over the place if I set it down. So I ended up just kind of awkwardly holding it for most of my ride.
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I drove about 40 minutes with a banana peel resting on my lap, won't be doing that again
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First, we must distinguish b/t pc to stop, to arrest, and to search. These are separate and distinct.
To Stop: Needs pc that you committed the infraction you are being stopped for.
To Arrest: This is the same as the stop (since it was for a crime) - and therefore you can be arrested for the crime. While this rarely happens - it is completely within the cop's power to do this.
To Search: This is where it changes. The cop must have pc that an "instrumentality of the crime" you were pulled over is in your car; OR separate PC that some other contraband is in your car, i.e. drugs. The search must be limited to those places that could contain the contraband.
A few examples to help clarify.
Ex. Pulled over for speeding. Absent a gun in plain sight or smell of drugs - no permissible search may be had. (the same is true if you didn't have a license - b/c it is unreasonable to believe it is in your car since you would have found it/provided it otherwise)
Ex. Pulled over for fleeing an armed bank robbery. Now there is pc to search your car for a gun - and this would likely cover the entire car since a gun is small and can be hidden anywhere.
Terry-search: It while being pulled over you are acting crazy and the officer reasonably fears for his safety - then he is permitted to do a cursory search of you car for weapons only that are within your immediate reach.
Hope this helps.
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A search is only permitted for specific contraband and being pulled over and/or arrested is not blanket authority to search entire car.
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WARNING Tangent follows: During law school, I read the oral argument transcript before the decision came out. My Civil Rights (aka advanced constitutional law) professor made an entire fact pattern on an exam nearly identical to the case. I was running out of time when I got to it and so I just mimicked the Justices' questions in my answer. He gave me like 28/33 on that question probably because I made it pretty obvious that I read the transcript.
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Reading the oral argument transcript from BONG HiTS 4 JESUS saved my ass on a law school exam.
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Hey, this may not be exactly what you were looking for but something that should be said (JUST in case no one has told you this before); The only time you should feel bad about being yourself is if you have committed evil on others. Don't apologize for being you and don't be shy about being awkward. I myself have an opposite problem, I am an extremely articulate black guy, when I get nervous I fall back on intense vocabulary and body language. one of my friends told me to stop channeling the spirit of malcolm x at a house party... Do I embarrass myself? most of the time. Do I feel bad about being different in how I express myself as a human being? fuck no man. You're a guy I will presume, don't be scared of manning up, defeat is inevitable, but it is never the end.
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It's not the first time you've looked ridiculous and if you're a dude it will most certainly not be the last; you need to calm yourself down in pressure situations, you feel you looked bad and you panicked. Take your time, slow your self down and assert.
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Well here it goes. Flash back to little Victini000 in the big Toronto Subway line, when all of a sudden, the train he needs to get on plays the tune that indicates he is leaving. Just getting out of school, he is really excited to get home, so he runs for the train door. He makes it in on time, but he keeps running and the door claps shut on one of the strings hanging off his backpack. He gets pulled backwards, clips a kid in the arm, and falls on his ass. The mother of the kid was furious, but some people on the train had a laugh as he sits on the floor, feeling more embarrassed than the time he said "porn" as opposed to "Bourne" (the series).
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Ran for a train, train grabs part of my bag and makes me kick a kid a fall on my butt.
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So even the title is misleading. This isn't a "Top 10" list, it's just a list of the 10 of the Most Powerful Female Characters. So while Hermione is the second one mentioned, she's not necessarily number 2. These aren't even the 10 most powerful female characters, these are just 10 of the most powerful female characters. How vague.
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This list is basically a list of female characters in literature who did stuff.
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sigh you're right. I obviously would suggest things like disclaimer saying "are you having legal issues? Then get a lawyer! this is not a law office, it's the internet!", probably a disclaimer regarding jurisdictions, and one of the rules should be "do not ask questions about a legal problem you are having, if that is the case, find a lawyer. This subreddit is for discussing legalities in an academic sense."
regarding identity, I've yet to find a solution to that with anything that is online. Obviously it would require people to generally try to be honest, work based on reputation, and generally be good rather than dishonest.
But, as I said, you're right, it would be something of a nightmare to manage.
Goodness knows the discussion of the legal precedent and the relevance of the cultural moral climates at the time when those precedents arose and the current climes is part of what interests me most about the subject. Threads would explode into massive walls of text, miles high, with
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the size of small novellas.
Thanks for responding though, I wasn't even sure you'd bother reading my thoughts :P
I'm glad you have an interest in not letting misapplication and misinterpretation get out of hand. Could use more people like you in the world.
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hah! I see it too. your browser needs to be around 1100px wide to see it right there. easier to see with night mode turned on, IMO.
It's /r/AdviceAnimals messing with you. For whatever reason, they've got a link to frontpage in the sidebar and they're using CSS to make it show up in the middle of the page. It's showing up as that little red dot.
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position: fixed; <-- this keeps it stuck in the same spot as you scroll up and down
top: 265px; <-- about three inches from the top
right: 1180px; <-- and on the left/middle part of the screen. it should move in sync with the
right edge of the screen if you resize horizontally.
background: red; <-- red
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r/AdviceAnimals stylesheet, not an RES bug.
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Any person of at least a little fame would get an insane amount of flak for such a statement. That Lauren thinks her prejudice(s) are ok, normal and not mean or political, doesn't make it one bit better or more acceptable. And to call her statement "unbiased" is somewhat off.
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It's not being a Skinhead, that makes that statement wrong
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Harken all to my tale of dream pissing, for I have been further down the rabbit hole than you could possibly have imagined.
Disclaimer, as impossible as this is to prove it did actually happen as stated. You'll just have to take my word on it.
Now, I've been there, done that with the 'dream-pissing-into-real-life-pissing' and so when I was about 8 I had a dream where I was pissing. Suddenly realizing it was a dream, I forced myself awake, mortified that I had wet the bed. Luckily, I hadn't, so I went to the bathroom to really piss. But as I stood over the toilet, I realized I was yet still dreaming! I awoke to discover that the bed had been wet, and was furious with myself, only to realize I was in yet another dream--so I forced myself awake one last time, to actual reality, where the bed was dry, and pissed in the toilet.
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For those keeping count, I had a dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream, and it was very confusing when I actually woke up.
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Yep. Their policies were given an excellent chance for success as a result of the Bush administration. The results have been economic disaster and a loss of regard for the US internationally.
People can be fooled by propaganda for a while and some people will buy a story until the day they die. Eventually, though, the smart ones will no longer be able to deny their own experiences and observations and won't buy the bullshit from the right wing media.
Most people in the US right now have realized that this worship of "job creators" is utter bullshit and doesn't work for either the economy or the majority of Americans. The public is getting tired of being nickel and dimed on stagnant wages while companies have record profits and their candidate for president is ridiculously wealthy but wants a tax break. The "GOP is best on national security" has been shown to be a lie from things like the fallout of the idiocy that was the Iraq war and Obama getting Bin Laden after Bush admitted that Bin Laden wasn't a priority. Latino voters are no longer a "religion and we hate Cuba" voting bloc and the immigration positions of the GOP have been almost designed to piss Latino voters off.
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Yeah, time for new policies
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When I was younger my parents went out for a meal one night, leaving me home alone for one of the first times. Now in my parents bedroom they have two huge oak chests of drawers - the really heavy kind that don't have runners on them or anything, the drawers just rest on the wood of the cabinet. These drawers are super hard to open, you have to give them a really hard tug to get them to budge and when they do they make a very distinctive noise. So anyway, I was sat downstairs watching TV on my own when all of a sudden I hear that unmistakable noise - I quickly grabbed a nearby broom and headed upstairs cautiously (believing there must have been a burglar in the house). But when I get there, nothing - one of the drawers had opened itself wide but there was no one to do so. I was thoroughly freaked out, but talked myself down that it must have been something of nothing and there must have been some simple explanation. So I go back downstairs and sit for another half an hour or so until I hear the noise again - this time I grab my coat and keys and get out of the house. I go to a friend's house nearby and stay there for a few hours until I'd talked him into coming back with me - when we go back, sure enough, a second drawer on the opposite chest had opened itself. I've never been able to explain why they both did this on that night, and as far as I'm aware they haven't done it since - but to this day, I still feel a little on edge when I'm left in the house alone.
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Scared to be left alone in the house at the age of 22 because of some drawers
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I've got to disagree a bit on Aluna being a support. She surely can be played that way, but she's much more of a ganker than anything.
Take into account her abilities:
a chain stun that increases her attack speed.
a trajectory throw that does dmg/ clears trees
A movement speed increase that can slow enemies.
an ult that modifies/increases all these skills.
She's built to stun people, hit them quickly and, if they need to be finished, power sticked.
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It bothers me that people tend to put Ints into the 'support' category just because they're int.
Also, I'm glad you included Behe as a support because he totally is.
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I have gone through two sequences of Accutane and have had zero negative side effects (besides dry skin but that is to be expected). Most of the reasons why Accutane is banned (and it is most people are taking generics these days and don't even realize it) is because of politics and has little to nothing to do with the medication itself. Sure some people have bad reactions to it but that is how all medications are. I have spoken to a lot of my friends and relatives (6 people total) who have taken it and none of them have ever had any issues either. Also keep in mind that you don't hear about the people who are fine because they are no longer on acne websites! Overall I would not hesitate to take Accutane and am actually going to ask my doctor about taking a very low dosage of Accutane over a longer period of time (a practice common in Europe). My dermatologist actually did a lot of research with a team of other dermatologists on Accutane's effect on various organs.
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Accutane is fine for 99% of people.
PS: This is just my own idea and has no real scientific backing, but if you look at the individuals who have issues with Accutane they tend to be overweight which might make sense because accutane is a vitamin A derivative which can be stored in fat cells.
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In my personal experience, yes. At least I'm positive that you don't get notified if someone shares a post with a circle you are a member of. Might be different if they choose to select you as part of their audience individually but I honestly doubt it.
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if you want to give someone a heads up about a post of yours, +mention them.
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r/atheism
It's ironic. They come together to talk about not believing in a God. They post stories about how they 'own' theists in public or on facebook. Or how they are oppressed.
So first off, talking about not believing in something obviously show insecurity. I'd be willing to be that half of the posters in /r/atheism are there for the karma, remove any insecurities about not believing, or they just haven't made a reddit account to unsubscribe yet. Furthermore coming together on a regular basis to talk about a lack of religion is a religion in its own sense.
Second, who actually believes those stories on /r/atheism about people clapping when they own some theist or whatever the fuck it is. Do you know what those stories have in common with the bible? They are pretty unlikely and some people believe them and some people don't. Gosh this place seem to become more and more church like.
Third and final point. Religions have been oppressed throughout history. Suck it up deal with it. It's not like your forced to wear a jew star or anything. Give it 100 years and then your parents won't care what you believe in.
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r/atheism posters are fucking hypocrites who are actually part of a religion.
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I didn't realize it wasn't popular either. A lot of people are saying that it's because they feel insulted because apparently the show is making fun of nerds...I think if you're getting mad that it's making fun of nerds, you're either not nerdy enough or you don't realize that the cool part about being a nerd is that you don't have to care what people think because you're probably better than they are anyway...I play WoW, I use alternate operating systems, I'm a CS major, I show up to parties at the time they're supposed to start, and I can get really obsessive about how things need to be and when I'm interested in something I'll get really fixated on it...I don't think the show is insulting at all...I actually relate to it a lot.
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Learn to laugh at yourselves, nerds are a funny group of people
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And here I was thinking I was the only person who actually despised Big Bang Theory. Part of it is I don't like the humor. The only show with a laugh-track I've ever really liked was Seinfeld. Friends... was nothing compared to Whose Line, though I loved the opening theme song. I also don't like how the show portrays smart dudes as being either assholes or social impotents (though that may be jumping to conclusions). I guess I just have different taste in humor is all. I'm a man who demands exquisite writing and I feel BBT just rapes my ears with forced stale humor.
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I just found out I'm not the only person who dislikes Big Bang Theory and I saw an opportunity to vent my distaste of the show. So I did.
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This is a complicated question, but I think it basically comes down to, do you buy it? Or does it feel like this person, the actor, isn't being true to the situation emotionally?
The more demanding the role, the harder it usually is for the actor to convince you that he is the character he's portraying, and the more accolades he deserves if he successfully pulls it off.
One of the finest performances I've seen in recent memory is Christian Bale in The Fighter. He thoroughly inhabits that character, physically, mentally, to the point where you don't question he is anyone but the loser crack addict brother of Mark Walhberg's character. He doesn't always hit 'em out of the park, but when he does, man is he brilliant.
Johnny Depp is also really good at this, his older, pre "Pirates" stuff much more so than any of his more recent work. Look at a film like Donnie Brasco; he carries that film on his back, brilliantly, because he thoroughly inhabits that character. Never a false moment from him throughout that film.
Oh, and Cate Blanchett too; her performance as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" a few years ago was one of the best I've ever seen in a film, ever. She's probably the finest female actress working today, and probably one of the best there ever was, which is saying a lot given how many great female actresses there are/have been.
It's a skill very, very few actors can successfully pull off, but when they do, there's nothing else like it.
Joaquin Phoenix did it for me this year in "The Master." He's usually a decent actor, nothing special, but his performance in that film was nothing short of brilliant.
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There's lots of good actors out there, but very few great ones. The difference is in how thoroughly they inhabit their character, and, in turn, how much of their performance you buy.
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He seems new, lots of little mistakes, which add up. Not moving crew back to the correct rooms, not investing in a cheap reactor point to fill the open engine slot. Full repairing 4 points of damage to put yourself with too little to buy anything. Targeting the wrong systems. Having the wrong repair procedure and all. Door control. All of these things add up, and as you play you learn the tricks and how to avoid these problems.
Biggest thing that has changed how i pay the game... scrap is a limited recourse, when you waste it on repairs and supplies then this puts you behind. Having a good shield and dodge chance early on saves a lot of scrap to help you in later sectors when you need it to make Victory enabling shop runs.
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Roguelikes
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I feel like I grew up in crazy town. I'm 30 and my parents are in their late 60s and have been making 500k+ combined for decades. They always have been democrats and voted for their taxes to go up when it was up to them to vote. Until I got to college I didn't realize how many selfish well-to-do people there were. Until I went to college I also never realized how many more non-well-to-do-people there were. My parents always distilled in me something to the matter of "we are very, very, lucky to live like this" and also "never spend more than you have unless it is absolutely necessary."
If anyone is interested I make about 50k a year but I live in San Francisco so 50k isn't 50k in most places.
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My parents are baby boomers but they know what is up. Might come from the fact that their parents were in a variety of concentration camps during the holocaust. They have a good idea of what real oppression is. Not this I CANT TEACH CREATIONISM IN SCHOOL "oppression."
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According to these that is not the case. Under Clinton, Revenue increased by an average of 6% per year while Spending increased by an average of 1%. Under Bush, Revenue increased by an average of .4% per year while Spending increased by an average of 4%. So while you are absolutely correct that as a whole Spending has increased at a faster rate than Revenue has, that figure is skewed significantly by the fact that Revenue was slashed under Bush while Spending continued to increase. Had the 6% increase in Revenue been adhered to under Bush, then on average Revenue would have increased 2% faster than Spending. So while you could theoretically argue that the drastic increase in the rate of Spending under Bush was due to an unsustainable precedent set by Clinton, had Bush maintained the increase in revenue set forth by Clinton, he would have maintained the surplus that he inherited . In fact, that surplus would, today, have grown by nearly $1.4T. And that's accounting for a $500B+ increase in spending (under Obama) that arguably would not have been necessary had the increase in revenue been maintained. I'm not an economist so I'm more than happy to be proven wrong if I'm mistaken.
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You're right, spending increased faster than revenue. But only if you ignore the deep cuts to revenue made under Bush.
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There is most certainly inflation, but not as measured by CPI.
When we talk about inflation we simply think of it as consumer price stuff, buying bread and milk at the shops kind of stuff.
The 10 years leading up to the GFC, the Fed increased total money supply by about 85% and CPI only rose by about 35%. There is a 50% difference here, any guesses as to where it went? Remember, money just doesn't disappear.
The housing price bubble was nothing more than inflation in the price of assets, hence the term Asset Price Inflation (API). We had the GFC because the Fed kept money supply too loose leading up to it and when you added in a few other factors, it all kinda blew up.
Anyway, that term API isn't even acknowledged by the Fed or for that matter any other reserve bank around the world.
Currently QE is leading to inflation, just not CPI (which has had it's definition changed last year to reduce, lower CPI -> lower gov. payments linked to CPI) but it is turning up in API.
Bond prices are currently inflated beyond belief, as well as current stock prices, precious metals and commodities.
QE doesn't work, never worked in Japan and it never will in the US.
The current problem is a structural issue that can only be addressed by the government, not something that can be fixed with the one tool the Fed knows how to use.
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There IS big inflation, just not as measured by CPI (which the gov changes the definition of anyway to manufacture a lower number) but in assets
Stagflation bitchezz
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China holds about 8% of all US bonds. The majority of US bonds are held by the federal government in trust funds, the federal reserve and private citizens.
The "what if China dumped" is a non-issue. Short term reactions would include a slightly weaker dollar, which would result in some minor pain for private citizens purchasing imports that would be difficult to replace domestically (like oil) but the weaker dollar would also drive US manufacturing since it would make the US more competitive internationally. Overall, this would translate into an inconvenience for the average American, not a tragedy.
What amuses me when I hear about this threat is the fact that China tries to keep the yuan pinned just below the dollar. So any shock that devalues the dollar will smash their economy. Let me explain: China relies heavily on iron and coal imports from Australia and Brazil to keep their factories running. If they leave the yuan below the dollar the price of those necessary imports will skyrocket and they'll be forced to eat the cost and with their severely low labor prices the additional costs will have to be rolled into their product prices, removing a huge part of their trade advantage internationally. If China unpins the Yuan from the dollar the US's desire for China's cheap goods will dry up, because they will cease to be cheap (this holds true for most of China's export markets). Without a buyer for their exports, China's economy will stall out and fail.
Xinhua is toeing the national party line in the above quote. His statement has more to do with politics than anything else. They know dumping the bonds would be cutting off their nose to spite their face, they won't do it. What China will do is talk about the size of the debt and potentially dumping the bonds as a soft political tool.
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If China dumps US bonds, US gas prices go up a bit, we get more manufacturing jobs and China's economy implodes.
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So here's the deal. I apparently love green. I mean, I hate green in real life (except the outdoors, but I don't like it as a color on things). But I love me some Dark Angels, Orks, and Nurgle.
/couch_moment
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They're awesome.
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Every man's hair loss is uniquie to them. My only tip is, 'if it's gone, it's gone and you should cut your losses".
There's nothing wrong with being balding or bald. It happens to most men. The only problem is if you make a sad and desperate attempt to hold on to the idea that you have a full head of hair long past it being obvious you don't. I have a mate who shaved his balding head to the scalp in his mid-twenties. I promise you he looks better than he would if he combed a scrabbly patch of hair over his shiny scalp every morning,
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Bald heads are always sexier than combovers.
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I am a recent graduate and just moved to Chicago and was very happy to find out that a couple of my schoolmates moved here. Three of my best friends here are a lesbian couple and a gay man.
Keep in mind that I also went to art school, but in terms of men I've had many gay friends. They're wonderful and a great resource. It's also mutually beneficial to each other.
For me I was able to meet some really, really attractive women through my gay friends. Pardon for using such an offensive term but I have no other way to describe it, but a lot of attractive girls are "fag hags", in the sense that they don't have too many lady friends so they gravitate to gay men to be their best friends.
Being friends with that gay guy is a great in to these girls. It means that you're safe and that you can hang with both of them and have your friend vouch for you.
It also works for the gay guys as well. You need to understand that at their core gay guys are essentially the same as straight dudes when they're on the prowl. It's just that their intentions are more well known. I live near Halsted in Chicago, which is infamous for being the gay district, and I always go out and be a bro to my gay friend and wingman him whenever we go to those bars.
It's less pay it forward and more me using myself to his advantage. Just like a regular wingman, gay guys will find someone they fancy but then might get cold feet and bitch out. I on the other hand am a neutral party and since I'm straight can easily start a conversation with the target and wingman him.
It's like when you have a friend who has a girlfriend start the conversation with a woman you want to talk to. Since you made it known that you're not a threat or a target, they ease up, which will allow you to give your friend a fair shot.
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Gay men are the best wingmen you could ever have.
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Straight man: I came from a very conservative community, so from my high school, I never really had any gay or openly-gay friends. But now that I moved countries for college, I befriended one. Sure he's 7 years older than I am, but he's probably the coolest friend I have.
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One.
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Anecdotal Story:
I had sex with my first boyfriend because I felt like if I didn't I would be a bad girlfriend. He was patient enough to say he would wait for as long as necessary and I still felt pressured into it. After the sex I also felt slutty and disgusting. It eventually ruined our relationship after two years. He was very patient and when I explained how I felt he said he'd rather wait than make me do something I didn't want to do. But I kept on having sex with him because I knew he wanted it; I'd even initiate because I thought it would make him happy. In the end I didn't even want him to touch me because if we were together (LDR) it seemed to lead to sex.
That was even when my partner said he would wait, never said anything like "not being interested in a relationship that never leads to sex". So I can only imagine what your girlfriend is feeling right now; and what she needs is help and therapy, not more pressure.
She may one day get more comfortable. But this could be years from now, so if you aren't willing to wait that long I would recommend backing out sooner rather than later. This doesn't sound like something that's going to go away quickly. There's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself. If you really can't see yourself able to go years without sex then this may not be the right relationship for you or her.
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Which do you care about more: sex or being with her?
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Wow, could they be any more vague reporting the cosmic ray thing? Perhaps the reason the IPCC is now more certain of AGW than they used to be is because all the dissenters have left this purely political organization that touts itself as a scientific one.
On the cosmic rays: Greenhouse AGW says the lower atmosphere is where we should see the most warming but this is the part of the atmosphere where we see the least warming. Instead, the heat is accumulating in the upper atmosphere most strongly. I do not see any evidence implicating cosmic rays in the warming but this is a poorly understood area of physics. Since cosmic rays are co-located with the strongest warming it is certainly a valid idea that deserves attention. Personally, I think the upper atmosphere warming could be attributed to Mach's principle which has to do with the aether. Scientists are "99% sure there is no aether" but there is strong evidence that the aether exists.
But I digest... we do not know anything about the aether. What we do know a little about is lightning and red sprites and blue jets These three things -- lightning, sprites and jets -- are atmospheric phenomena that we do not understand; however, the IPCC ignores this ignorance. Instead, they represent that physical processes in the atmosphere are well understood. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Firstly, there is no known physical model that can explain the large scale accumulation of charge that leads to lightning. Then in the upper atmosphere above lightning (where the strongest warming is seen) we have these sprites and jets that move faster than 10% of the speed of light. Why are there crazy relativistic effects associated with lightning? We can't even begin to address that since we haven't been able to come with a model for atmospheric lightning. Then beyond the mystery of lightning, we have the deeper mystery of jets and sprites occurring in the same part of the atmosphere as the strongest warming. Indeed, red sprites live in the thermosphere so it is not far fetched that this process is related to temperature.
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We don't understand the physical processes in the atmosphere very well but IPCC represents like we have a good grasp on things. The IPCC should emphasize the scientific community's ignorance, not its unwarranted certainty.
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I would also recommend a Costco card if you live around one (like I did!). Their pizza prices allegedly haven't changed since at least the 90s (it's like $1.50 a slice for mall quality pizza, I think). They also have lunch time samples, so that can be a good free lunch, and a good way to find cheap, healthy snacks you might not have tried otherwise. Not to mention Sam's Club is a part of Walmart (I think) so if you have reasons not to shop at that hell hole, I would for serious recommend Costco.
Also, learn how to do laundry if you don't. Learn how to remove stains, etc. Especially important if you are a lady, dear reader. If you are going to have room mates, keep a snack stash in your room of non-perishable snacky things that they can't eat.
Also, someone mentioned a chore sheet, but if you're living alone my advice is to set up a cleaning schedule (and maybe this would work with roomies?) I've been meaning to set this up, but what you do is clean a little bit each day. Like, dust Monday, wipe down bathrooms Tuesday, vacuum Wednesday, mop Thursday, etc etc. That or do everything on one day, like Saturday morning. Speaking as a college student, that isn't really viable though.
Also! If you have insurance (through your parents or otherwise) carry the card on you, or at least a copy of it. I'm a sickly child (or I was) so having that up at college was very useful. If you are going to college, definitely find out about your clinic situation. My campus' clinic offers free (FREE) health screenings and the like. These things usually can run up to $200 (they do full blood work up, general check up, STD, pregnancy tests, birth control). If you are not going to college, there are probably urgent care clinics or the like around that you can also take advantage of. Also, depending on your age and your insurance situation, you might need to get a GP to take care of more serious things.
Wow this is long. umm
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Costco is better than Sam's Club, laundry, snack stash, chore sheet/chore days/insurance&clinic
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When my skylight blew off during Hurricane Isaac, my apartment filled with water. Thanks to renters insurance, I was only out my deductible. In my case, water damage was covered because it came from above.
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consult with an insurance agent. This can be tricky.
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Anything that you plan on purchasing which will not be stored in your room is at risk of being destroyed. Don't spend a lot of money on your furniture and cookware in the beginning. Many people do not know how to treat things of value. I had many of my nice dishes broken/thrown away. I had dirty nasty shoes all over my furniture. People will use your bathroom products and everything else.
Just think about saving up for nice things once you no longer have to live with roommates.
Always keep a secret spare roll of T.P. in your room. It sucks to need it and not have it. I had a roommate once who I swear to god used almost a third of a roll every time she went to the bathroom. What is even more weird is that most of it would be sitting on the top of the trash can seemingly untouched. I have no idea what the hell she was doing with all that T.P.
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Other people do weird things, take measures to safeguard yourself and your treasured belongings.
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I'm pretty butthurt that this comment has 138 upvotes.
The kid is moving out of his parents house for the first time; he probably doesn't own much of value. There is no large financial risk so there is no need for insurance. Expected Value of Insurance Premiums > Expected Value of Loss; you're not only paying for your expected loss but the insurance companies expenses, and profit. This would be worth it if there was any real risk involved. OP would be better off keeping an emergency fund.
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Only buy Insurance to hedge large financial risks, that's what it's for.
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When I was little, I loved to play hide and seek. My favorite spot was in the closet where my parents would keep the wrapping paper for all of our gifts. When I was four (yes, four), the presents under the tree were wrapped with the same paper. It took me a second to put two and two together, but I quickly realized the truth. My dad told me that to keep costs down, Santa would borrow wrapping paper from parents, but he was always a terrible liar.
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I recognized the wrapping paper.
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MY cousin has had a rough time. He went out oh high school and started to work in a plant that did recycling cell phone batteries. Recession hit and the position he had had for over 10 years was downsized.
The guy had been married for a few years, has two children and a wife. On the up side she works and gets paid well.
Onto the point, He had a family to provide for, so he did not apply for EI, he got a job at KFC. The sad part is a lot of people made fun of him for it. Work is work and a dollar is a dollar. You could see it killed him to tell people where he worked as it was 1/3 the hourly rate. He took as many shifts as they would let him.
Moral of the story is everyone needs to work, a job may not be your ideal one but sometimes you need to do what you can to live.
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Take a job as long as it will help you cover your costs and not hurt others. There is no such thing as work that is below someone.
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This is perhaps misguided because of a vulnerable presumption.
The WBC motivation is not exclusively discriminatory, they're also litigious assholes. Part of the schtick is provoking a response so they can sue.
So, giving $1000 to whatever gay cause isn't exactly a bad thing, it may not cause the WBC to shy away.
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WBC is more interested in suits/countersuits/profile than fags.
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There is some misinformation in that article.
The soldier simply said he wore the uniform in Vietnam. As most people know, when you change duty stations, you remove your old patches and add the new ones from your new assignment. It is very possible that the soldier served in both Vietnam and later on the DMZ in South Korea. It is very likely that the uniform could have been worn in Vietnam. To actually disprove the claim that the uniform was worn in Vietnam, you have to prove somehow that the uniform wasn't made until after the conflict, if that is possible. Simply looking at the patches tells us nothing other then where else the uniform has likely been.
Edit: The article is a good read so you get an upvote from me for adding to the discussion and pointing me towards something I haven't read before. Thanks :)
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Using a patch to say where a uniform hasn't been is like seeing a Texas license plate on a car and proclaiming it has never been to California.
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We first met in middle school when I was in 6th grade, her in 7th grade. We were each others first kiss. As what happens to most middle school relationships, we "dated" for only a month or so. We remained casual friends throughout high school and had a lot of mutual friends. After high school we didn't see or talk to each other. She went away for college and upon her return, I ran into her at a party and we exchanged numbers. Now two years later, this is the result!
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Met in middle school, reconnected after college, engaged
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no thanks and
can i ask you something? where are your balls?
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you're a pussy
no sense of wasting my time with idiots
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The first time i had sex i was with a previous girlfriend for about a year and we were both Virgins...the thing was though she didn't know I was a virgin. What had happened was my freshman year of high school i dated this one girl for like 8 months and all my stupid friends kept asking if we had yet and finally one day I just said yeah we did. I thought its a simple little lie that no one will ever find out if I was lying. Turns out two years later I met this amazing girl and she had asked one of my friends if I was a virgin and they all said no. She honestly felt uncomfortable with that because she wanted it to be both our first times. After waiting a year it finally happened and it was awesome. Now i'm no longer with her (unrelated reasons) and realize how stupid I was not confessing it to her. I was just to wrapped up in the lie that I pretty much believed it myself.
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lied about not being a virgin and lost virginity at the sane time as my girlfriend and she didn't know the truth (and still doesn't). If you are reading this Erynn i'm sorry.
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In colorful games (WoW, Trine, etc) I can tell a difference in the vibrancy, but IPS was not the reason I got the monitor. 2560x1600 is really the kicker, and I would say it most assuredly beats out the ever-so-slight improvement I could see with 120Hz over 60Hz.
I realize not everyone's eyeballs are the same, and it could be that mine are too weathered to notice it, but I think a lot of the 120Hz support is self-affirmation of people who are looking to project their purchase decision on others. In the heat of the game, it's just not that noticeable. It does really depends on the type of games you play, as well, though. I don't frequently play shooters, but even when I do, the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz in say, Battlefield 3, is really only apparent to me when I'm spinning my character around in circles, and even then, its a marginal effect. In contrast, the 2560x1600 res is incredibly noticeable, as you have double the number of pixels being displayed compared to 1920x1080 (2,073,600 vs 4,096,000). For comparison, go boot a game at 1366x768 (1,049,000 pixels) and compare it to 1920x1080. That's the fidelity difference I'm talking about.
I also decided to go so heavy into the monitor because I knew that it would last me through several builds, or at least until 4K displays become economical, which won't be for several years.
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IMO, Higher Res > Higher Refresh any day of the week
Edit: words are hard
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I like this! I really do! Some tempered, thoughtful realism that things are probably gonna be alright. I liked his inclusion of the quote: "but there were a lot of hidden story elements that some players may not have caught before, and I’m hoping to make some of that a little bit more clear or directly expressed." I personally love the tinfoil-hat levels of depth in fan speculation around this game a la Gwyn's Firstborn, Serpent Affiliation, etc. but we can take the Dark Lord path as a really good example of taking obfuscation too far.
Talking to Kaathe reveals everything about the fourth Lord Soul, and uncovers the falsehoods of the "Link the Fire" ending and the fear of the Lords. Like, that is a huge story element, and totally sheds awesome new light on the game. Now. How many people are going to find that out on their own, without a guide? You need to sequence-break the game pretty damn hard, for seemingly zero purpose, and with about zero foreshadowing. Sure, ingward mentions the four Kings falling to Dark, but there's nothing to really lead you to believe that there's any reason to beat the Four Kings before talking to Frampt.
For one of the smaller things, totally keep it hush hush. Ash Lake is completely awesome while not really contributing anything critical to the plot besides that Dragons still exist. Which has potential for the future, but doesn't change the immediate plot that much, and even Domhall gives a hint about that.
I'm just saying that something that big, that important, that illuminating to the main plot, something that could add so much more satisfaction to the player's understanding of the story, is going to be missed by such a huge percentage of the player base. And while you can look it up in guides, wouldn't it be that little bit more satisfying to have had a fair chance to figure it out for yourself?
I think it is the coolest thing that something that huge could be hidden, like a great big secret that changes everything. I can't imagine how amazed I'd be if I stumbled across it on a 4th playthrough, and how that would change everything for me. But I can't see any reason I'd ever stumble across it naturally, and that's a damn shame that as cool as that might be for me, another 9 people might never get to know.
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Kaathe was really awesome, shame that nobody'd know he was there since he's so cool.
I should stop waffling around and head to my exam.
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Lol. I tend to geek out over some programming wizardry I conjured up during the day. The downside? I do this to people who have ZERO understanding nor interest in it and either end up with glossed eyeballs or the "dude I have no idea what you're talking about."
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I do this with poor results.
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Minimal make up, often I see some of my friends of random people who look great normally but then they put on extra for a party or something, I really don't like it, granted I don't use it and it's none of my business, but I really like when girls use make up to accentuate and highlight features of their face, like when it looks like they actually don't have make up on.
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Too much make up/eyeshadow
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I'm not at that menopause age yet but I know my mom had a hysterectomy in her 30s and she still had the mood swings and hot flashes when menopause time came.
How about instead of begging maybe try giving her a nice warm bubble bath? And just for safety reasons maybe you should be naked too. I mean no reason to soak the clothes. I recently did this for my girl with totally no intention of sex,(trying to make her feel less self conscience about laying there naked and exposed getting a scrub down, I got undressed too but not in tub). Well she got so relaxed before it was said and done i was in that little tub too.
If she doesn't like baths, then how about a good massage with some sexy smelling lotion? Or spend so time just kissing. Do y'all even kiss much anymore? That seems to be the starting point for most LBD.
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Dont give up. Don't cheat. Give sexy baths and massages. Kiss the girl. Good luck
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2 elements for whether the search of a minor in school is legal:
Reasonable grounds for suspecting search will turn up evidence
Search is not excessively intrusive in light of age and sex of the student & nature of the suspected infraction
It'll depend upon your specific state's laws, but look up the TLO v NJ Supreme Court decision. You don't get full-on 4th Amendment protections the same way that adults do. Practically speaking, your school administrators can do a hell of a lot you won't like if they can come up with a reason for it.
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Rights for minors? Ain't no administrator got time for that.
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I use mine for the obvious drawing and notes. S Note is my goto for notes and love the abilities to write out formulas and it will look up the answer on wolfram alpha. Also you can draw shapes if need be and it makes the lines nice and straight or perfect circles etc. Another thing i do is RDP (Remote Desktop Connection) into my work computer from somewhere else in the office (available on any android or iOS device) or VNC (virtual Network Connection) into my Raspberry Pi ;) and the S Pen allows me to get precise clicks to close out windows and press the start menu instead of having to use my fingers. I only have a motorcycle for transportation and when i need to use my phone with my gloves on the S Pen comes in very handy.
I have a few favorite abilities:
Multiwindow multitasking -- i have jellybomb rom which allows for any application installed to be multiwindowed instead of the few apps samsung tries to restrict you too. I can run two games (Ingress (+1) and Zynga poker for example) and watch a video with Picture in Picture.
Wireless tethering.
Remote Access to computers -- Ok so try to follow along here. I have a Raspberry Pi which is a very simple ARM computer. Using the USB otg cable to power the Pi from my phone and I have the wireless tethering running on the phone with a usb wifi dongle attached to the Pi, i can remotely access the Pi using my phones screen where ever i am while simultaneously providing internet access to the Pi (it does drain some battery powering the Pi from the phones battery). So i ultimately get access to a version of Debian or Linux OS with its own resources through my phone.
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i know, lastly the one thing i cant wait for is the SCREEN RECORDING ability. Not sure what i would use it for but it was advertised and i want it dammit.
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Congrats for spotting. This is one of the pillars of playing your part in BF3, sometimes, it's better not even to take the shot if you know you can't make it (since you'd be giving off you location), but just by spotting and with a x7 scope, you're at a safe distance, you're giving your team mates a chance of flanking them, or at least avoiding. And once they're engaged by your team mates, shoot, even if you don't kill you're still suppressing them, reaping those points for assistance / suppression, and most of all helping out, and it still is the best medicine against campers. Recon stands for reconnaissance, and not "stupid sniper camper"
Why do people underestimate spotting is a mystery, it's fast, easy, and helps everyone out (specially on hardcore). Personally, when I'm the gunner in tanks, I'm always spamming the spot button, on the look-out for mines / c4's and enemies in general.
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Congratulations for spotting, and doing your job, soldier
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I completely agree with you that Tree is underutilized. However, I think that his tower healing ability is not as effective in the pro-scene as it is in the pub-scene.
Think about pro games you watch. T1s are often given up fairly easily and we accept that these will likely go down without an extreme fight most of the time. The T2 and T3 towers are what matter most, and often the pushes against those towers are 5 man unrelenting pushes. They aren't the kill half the health and leave pushes that happen more in pub games. They take the entire tower and Tree wouldn't be able to save them.
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Pro teams push really hard on towers, Tree can't stop that.
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Our wedding DJ played the real Enter Sandman at our reception (by request) as we got introduced to the guests as a couple. Then again, we played all cool music, including my wife walking down the isle to the Beatles wearing rhinestone Doc Martens. When we where shopping DJs and they saw our song list, we had DJs fighting over wanting to DJ our wedding. Over the years, most of our guests have commented that our wedding has been the best wedding they ever attended.
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Kids, play cool music at your wedding.
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says she gets paid less than minimum wage
doesnt spend free time trying to better herself or make more money.
I honestly thought she was going to break down and cry a few times there. Something clearly happened in her life that brought about her passion, and I highly doubt its because of what happens to others. "Where was the NYPD when I needed them," she screamed. She really needs to find someone to talk it out with... I hope she finds that peace she is misguidedly looking for. That officer is a true professional, I don't think I'd have the patience to put up with her tirade. Kudos to him!
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LEO true professional, woman sounds like something bad happened to her- maybe seek counseling?
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I'm not saying she's not a philanthropic person. I'm saying her art is terrible while at the same time pretending to be the height of culture.
Tons of opportunity, no talent, but everyone pretends she's some astonishing avant garde princess because of who she is.
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fame is a sexually transmitted disease and she's got a bad case of it.
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It's just my opinion but music is one place where, to me, success is just measured by doing what you love. Music is supposed to be art. You write a piece of music that means something to you and you say to hell with whoever doesn't like it. When artists create music for the sake of "winning" they're bastardizing that realm of art. It'd be like finding out that Van Gogh cut his ear off and acted like a lunatic because he knew it'd make him famous.
Nickelback takes a lot of flack for being a fabricated group that was made to simply sell records, but in all reality almost all music that you hear on the radio these days is the exact same way. They just get shamed for it because they're actually somewhat vocal about chasing the top of the charts... At least most pop stars are in denial and actually believe they're real artists.
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Nickelback is the same as pop music, but admits it.
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those words are simply how I write
It took me a long time to realize that when I wrote the way I spoke, people perceived it as condescending, flowery, and stuck-up. I didn't want to come across that way, so I began to consciously tone down and simplify my sentence structures and word choice.
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Just because that's "simply how you write" doesn't mean it's not fluffy. It's not about what HR wants - it's about being aware of how you're being perceived.
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Woah dude, she's freaking about a damn movie? It sounds like she may be a bit immature and you're definitely taking things too harsh. If you can't resolve a simple issue like this, she's going to take you for a lot more money down the road.
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Don't be pussy whipped by her jealousy.
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So, a few things to keep in mind here that may or may not be confusing you:
1) Our Sun is somewhere in the middle-to-smallish range of stellar masses. Stars come anywhere from about 120 times more massive, to about 12 times less massive.
2) Just like celebrities, the bigger the star, the faster it burns out. (Lindsey Lohan: burned out quickly. Foghat: still probably touring somewhere in Des Moines.) True, our Sun will last somewhere in the ~10 billion year range, but the very massive stars may only last about 1 million years - i.e. 10,000 times shorter lifespan than our Sun. There's plenty of time for lots of those to have occurred over the age of our universe.
3) Only large stars (about 5 times the mass of our Sun) end in the explosive Type II supernovae and seed a wide portion of the rest of the galaxy with heavy elements. Smaller than that, our Sun included, and stars will end as planetary nebulae, quietly shedding only their outer hydrogen layers to the small local neighborhood.
4) It's only in supernovae that the really heavy elements are produced. Beyond iron, fusion becomes endothermic (it requires energy to produce heavier elements instead of releasing energy), meaning that you need a huge release of energy to make those reactions occur.
With all that said, there are a few other stellar life-cycle considerations here. Really massive stars that go supernova in only a few million years haven't had time to leave the stellar nursery. In fact, this event - the first supernova from the most massive star in the group - is usually what cuts short the production of new stars in star-forming regions.
Moreover, there's good evidence that the first supernova can often trigger more supernovae from stars in the region. The combined effect of multiple supernovae can produce a "galactic fountain", producing enough of an over-pressure to pop these heavy elements out of the plane of the galaxy, and subsequently raining this material down over a very wide area.
Whether the bulk of the heavier material in our own solar system came from just one such event or multiple fountains isn't terribly well known. The fact that our Sun is unusually metal-rich (as are most stars which support planetary systems) may indicate multiple such events.
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Our Sun burns quite slowly compared to the massive stars that actually produce supernovae. Chances are there are quite a lot of supernovae that went into creating the heavy elements in our solar system.
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But is there any reason to think such a dimension exists?
Quite a few years ago, I was given a task at work. The task was to take the textures for [our game under development]( and make them smaller. See, the way things were going, we'd need two DVDs to store the entire game . . . and gamers hate that . . . so either we needed to cut a large chunk of the game, reduce our texture quality considerably, or crunch the textures down by a lot.
The end solution ended up being best described as "horrifyingly complicated", and I'm not going to describe it in detail here (unless someone really wants, I suppose.) But part of it involved treating 2x2 texel chunks as points in a 16-dimensional colorspace, then doing various processes on that point cloud.
In the end, I managed to compress the textures enough that we didn't have to compromise on either game length or texture quality.
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Even if it doesn't map directly to physical space, sometimes abstract concepts are useful in truly unexpected places.
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Okay, imagine that you're doing an arts and crafts project. Say that you want to put a small dot on your project. To do that, you cut a really tiny piece off of the end of a string with a pair of scissors (don't forget to get supervision from the teacher when using the classroom scissors), and you get your tiny dot. Next, you want to put a line on your project. To make a line to put on your project, you take a square sheet of paper and use scissors (don't forget to get supervision from the teacher when using the classroom scissors) to cut a really thin slice off of the end of the paper, and you get a really thin line. Next, you want to put a square on your project. To make a square, you take one of those wooden blocks that you play with and cut a really thin slice off of the end of it with a band saw (don't forget to get supervision from the teacher when using the classroom band saw). When you're done, you have a square. Now, you want to put a cube on your project. To make a cube, you find a tesseract shaped object and you take a really thin slice off of the "end" of it with a multi-dimensional laser (don't forget to get supervision from the teacher when using the classroom multi-dimensional laser).
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A tesseract is the 4D equivalent of a cube.
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The clock speed is only comparable within the same processor model.
Clock for clock, Intel is better. This is also why they cost significantly more.
So how do we compare CPU's? We look at benchmarks. There are a number of both synthetic and real-world benchmarks performed on a number of CPU's, regularly.
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GHz means nothing. Benchmarks means everything.
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40 Minutes til kickoff and I'm freaking out.
Standard Scoring, 2WR 1 Flex
Wes Welker @Jax
Roddy White @ Det
Lance Moore @ Dal
Stevan Ridley @ Jax
I have Sid Rice, Greg Jennings and Kenny Britt on the bench but I don't think they can fit into my lineup.
Roddy's hurt, but not injured. Does he pull off a big TD or do JJ and Gonzalez see all the action?
Welkers hurt...but not injured. Does he see the bulk of Brady's TD passes when they beat jacksonville 7834 to 3 or does Lloyd and Hernandez steal the spotlight?
Is it inevitable that Ridley gets to run the ball up and down the field once NE is up by 7831 after the first quarter or will Bellicheck not trust him on the field quite yet?
Lance Moore has been my BOY all year long, secret weapon all the way. Looks like Romo and Brees are gonna have a good old fashioned shoot out show down, think my main man Moore will explode?
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HELP
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TIFU by falling asleep while watching porn.
This happened 2 days ago, but I digress. And throwaway because the involved person in this story is a redditor and I would like them to never think or read about this scenario ever again.
2 nights ago I get home from work and ask my roommate if she wants to go for a drive to pick up some groceries. I'm pretty tired so I tell her I'm going to nap for an hour and then we can go, and she agrees.
While I'm nestled into my bed, nature calls and I decide to grab my laptop in order to fulfill my animalistic desires. I find some good porn and begin to fap (or shlick? whatever girl fapping is). I finish happily, and I'm super exhausted. The porn is still going on but I say fuck it and just close my eyes..
I wake up to the sound of someone opening my bedroom door, and I'm so shocked by the fact that my bare ass is facing the door and I have lesbian fetish porn on my laptop a foot away from my face, that the only thing I can do is just pretend to still be sleeping.
I hear my roommate gasp and say "SHIT" and closes the door really quietly. I wait a long ass minute before getting up and collecting myself at the situation that has just occurred.
I then went upstairs and acted like I didn't know it happened, and so did she.
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I fell asleep after masturbating to porn and my roommate came to wake me up, catching a full view of my bare ass and vagina as well as fetish lesbian porn on the laptop next to my face. We are pretending it didn't happen.
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TIFU. Dutch-ovened myself, puked.
Last night, I decided to go out for ice cream. I'm lactose intolerant, but my stomach hasn't been acting up lately, so I thought I'd have a treat. I had a cone and I felt fine, other than a little rumbling in my stomach before bed. That night, I had a strange dream, where I was being chased by a monster through a jungle. I kept running, and pulling down leaves, in hopes that I'd trip up the beast. I could feel it getting closer, and I found myself being overcome by waves of nausea as its rancid breath washed over me. I shrieked, as my leg caught on a vine and I went sprawling across the jungle floor, the beast's breath filling my lungs and making me cough and choke...
And then I woke up, still coughing, and realized that I'd pulled all of my blankets over my head, trapping in a night's worth of half-digested milkfarts. The smell was so powerful that I barfed in my mouth, splattering specks of puke willy-nilly as I wrestled my way out of the stanky blankies. Then I took a shower and did one of those things where you slide down the wall and cry, as the realization that I farted so bad that it gave me a nightmare fully sank in.
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Dutch ovened myself, barfed. I'm also probably never going to go to the jungle or eat ice cream again.
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TIFU while peeing.
Just happened. I'm wearing gym shorts. You know, elastic waistband? So I'm doing my business when my thumb slips off the waistband, causing it to shoot up into my exposed gentlemen vegetables. This resulted in a rather spectacular stream of homemade lemonade covering the side of the bowl, the floor next to it, the shower curtain and parts of the bathtub.
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Thumb slipped, junk whipped, everything dripped.
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TIFU my tongue.
So today, I fucked up my tongue.
I was helping a customer look for something in the grocery store I work at, and the item wasn't on the shelf. It was a certain brand of frozen ravioli that we sell. I told her I'd go in to the walk-in freezer and take a look around. So far, fairly normal. No problem.
I go to the walk-in, open it up and go inside. I look around and don't see any boxes with that company's logo. Then I see the big, metal wheeled carts that we stack the bags of ice and other frozen products on. They're bare metal, and about 6' tall. I see the bare metal, and in a moment of infinite genius, I think to myself: " I wonder if my tongue would get stuck to that like in the movies ". (I live in an area that experiences no snow or ice in the winter, so I honestly would have no way of knowing)
Well, in another moment of my infinite genius, my brain decides " Let's not just wonder... let's find out! Experiment time! " Tongue comes out, touches metal, and the shock of the cold causes me to jerk my head back. I feel resistance as I jerk back. Then I taste blood. Then I see, on the cart, a small little patch of tongue that used to belong to me.
Luckily the damage I inflicted on myself wasn't too bad. IT stopped bleeding after a couple of minutes and it doesn't hurt any more than a moderate food burn would.
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I'm a fucking moron
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I was standing at the bus stop in front of my school with my girlfriend one day. When the bus got there, two other students went to put their bikes on the bus' only two bike racks. Then this crazy lady started screaming Nooooo! You can't do this to me! I'm not waiting another half hour! When everyone turned around to see what her problem was, we all noticed that she, too, had a bike and had been waiting to catch the bus. The only problem was that she waited until the bus got there to unlock her bike from a nearby pole. She got in the students' faces and continued to curse and scream at them, after which she began bawling. When the students awkwardly blew her off and proceeded to get on the bus, she went over to the bus driver's window and repeated YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I guess she was hoping that he'd kick one of the bikes off in order to include her own. However, he too blew her off. After she realized she wasn't going to get her way, she hopped on her bike and rode to the next bus stop. When everyone on the bus realized what she was doing, we all began to jokingly warn the students not to get off. Sure enough, we saw her at the next stop. When she saw that the bikes were still on the rack, she began yelling and cursing again . Except this time, she flipped off the bus driver as well as the students. We were all afraid she was going to hop on the bus and kick their asses lol. Luckily, the bus driver drove off before that could happen.
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Crazy bitch at the bus stop almost kills fellow students due to not having enough bike racks on the bus.
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When i began maining ADCs i played vayne, because when you've mastered here, shes more rewarding then any ADC. The only thing that you should keep in mind is that Vayne is bad in all-in situtations if she doesnt have ult (Pre 6). You can do amazing plays with her (1 sec invis op in TFs), also she is a "hypercarry" (Means that she will carry way better then most carrys, because of her absurd damage.)
Cait however is quite the opposite.
She is really good early game because of her long range (650, most ranged ADs have 550) therefor its easy to snowball early on. However i believe she has the lowest damage lategame, someone calculated that.
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If you want to play aggro early on get Caitlyn, if you want to play passive and farm play vayne.
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You're leaving out the other side. She wasn't like, "hows the weather" and he replied "how many orgasms?" She was unhappy with her relationship with her husband and was confiding in her boss her frustrations with the lack of intimacy in her own marriage. Thats where the Lamborghini comment came from. She was bitching that her husband never put out which he replied with "thats like having a Lamborghini in the garage and never driving it".
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The assistant was crossing the line just as much as he was.
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Yep. First off, I'm female. About 8 years ago, when I was 12, I used to go to a church youth group (it was one of those "my parents made me" things). There was a guy there who was pretty nice, whom I'd talk to occasionally just to be nice. Then I stopped to church.
Fast forward 6 years. I went to church again once for a church event celebrating anniversaries of various church-goer couples, including my parents for their 20th anniversary. I see this guy there. We chat a bit just to be nice, then I reluctantly exchange phone numbers with him just to catch up.
Now I had been dating my boyfriend for about a year and a half at this point, when stalker guy confesses his love to me ("I've been in love with you for the past 6 years", "You are my only friend who actually talks to me"). Oh dear. I was just talking to him to be nice. Just through texting, he had learned where I live, where I work, etc.
Then he starts randomly showing up at my house uninvited and unannounced. Once on my birthday when I was just having a little homemade dinner party with my boyfriend and my two room mates, to give me a present (a painting of my pet bird he had painted himself).
Once he showed up randomly at my work. Apparently he had come in twice before to look for me, but I wasn't working those days. So he just decided to keep coming into my work until I was there.
I've told him many times that I had no intention of dating him or anything, and I eventually got engaged to my boyfriend (about a year later), after which he still didn't get the point. I didn't want to be too harsh with this guy because he has some major depression problems and didn't want to harm him in any way. Eventually it just got way too much for me and I firmly ended all contact with him. I'm not sure is he was okay after that.
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Acquaintance I reconnected with randomly showed up at my house and my work uninvited and unannounced, and I couldn't shake him off because I was afraid he might kill himself.
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I had an exgirlfriend stalk me for about a month. She broke up with me by cheating on me with her boss. Her boss then tossed her to the side and all of a sudden i was "the perfect man" and "the love of her life". For the first month i saw her car EVERYWHERE. Infront of my house, at my school, at my work at my cybercafe at my favorite sushi place. I saw her driving behind me on the way to work multiple times. So that tapered off when she lost her job and lost her car, but she followed my on facebook for a while. Then, one drunken night, i contact her and we chat for a bit. I tell her that i am not in love with her, and then she explodes. Goes off on this mega schizo rant on FB about how a darkness has stolen her only light, how she knows for a fact that 2 "whores have taken her man, and she will, with the grace of god, destroy them." She then flat out says she is going to kill them and calls them out by name. I confront her about these allegations, and she says that her boss (the boss who she cheated pn me with.) told her I was sleeping with the girls. One girl is a check who i have know since she was 11 and is, quite literally, my sister since i lived at her house for 4 years. The other chick is my bro, thats about it.
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Exgirlfriend breaks up with me, gets tossed aside by new guy, stalks me for a few months then threatens to kill 2 friends.
She now lives with her mom and believes that she can fly, and that her dogs have seen her fly. Acid can fuck you up children, and shes living proof. Thats another story all together though.
Edit: For clarity, i never once got with either of the girls. Im on an iPad, so yall can deal with the typos.
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Yes. I was stalked by a guy who had a major crush on me in high school.
Why?: I'm rather certain I was the first girl to reject him and he found me as some sort of challenge from there on. He was the most popular guy at school and I just assumed he was asking me on a fake date to be a dick (I am super socially awkward, he is not). He was not. He did not take my rejection very well.
What did he do?: He would follow me home in his car (I walked home) for about 3 years, he told the entire school that I was his girlfriend (he had an actual girlfriend, too, of whom he did not refer to as his girlfriend), and he would just ogle at me whenever he saw me, but wouldn't really speak to me. Oh, and he would pick fights out of nowhere with my boyfriend and escalate them to the point of getting both himself and my boyfriend sent to the principal's office.
He still contacts me from time to time, but always acts like it was an accident. He asked me out when I was a sophomore in high school. I am now a senior in college. I think he may have some problems.
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Most popular guy in school asks me out, I reject, he follows me around and annoys my boyfriend.
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Devils advocate.
I've had my car keyed dented and scratched and I park FAR away from everyone else and I only ever take up one spot.
But I get it... I get keyed/dented/scratched anyway and NO ONE has EVER left a note, not even a "Sorry, I wish I could pay for it" and I'll tell you what I would be 100% fine if someone did it by accident but cared enough to say "Sorry I can't afford to pay."
Makes me wonder why I don't just take up 2 spots every time I park... at least that way I won't get all the accidental ones anyway.
The only people parking next to me are the people who are going to damage it and leave may as well make sure they never park next to me...
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People are douchebags and this guy is no worse then those who would ding a car and leave and I know someone reading this has done it and you're WORSE then this guy
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I think i get the general appeal of it. Its a nexus of Martha Stewart, Oprah, craft stores, food network, Home and garden TV & Magazine, etc, etc. So if your into those things, then it gives you a place not only to shares things you find, but what other people have found too.
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Its a subreddit that's been given a face lift and had all regulation removed, and been marketed (successfully) to women.
(Also on a side note I don't know anyone who is into pintrist that's not in a relationship. So maybe that's part of it or something.)
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Guys your talking about a game that came out almost 14 years ago. You can complain about the first Mario, metriod, and Kirby games the same way, they each had their flaws. Every starting game had its flaws and Pokemon is no exception. Even with the flaws it came with, at it's time it was an amazing game that nearly everyone loved. Now that everyone's grown older and in this advanced age you see it's flaws more and unfairly compare it to current versions. People felt gen 1 is the best because it's simple, fun, and something new. Atleast appreciate it.
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it was the first Pokemon game, HM01 it some slack
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Actually, mammals are a separate branch from all living creatures we call reptiles. If you want to consider Dimetrodon, which looked like a reptile, a reptile, then you'd have to consider mammals reptiles too, because Dimetrodon and mammals are more closely related to each other than they are to lizards, turtles, etc. But because non-mammal synapsids are all extinct, it makes more sense to just consider them a separate group.
Birds, on the other hand, evolved from within the dinosaurs, and are more closely related to, say, Tyrannosaurus than they are to Stegosaurus. Therefore, they should be considered dinosaurs if we follow cladistics. Dinosaurs, including birds, are reptiles, because they are more closely related to crocadilians than they are to lizards and their kin. No one knows where turtles fit into it--that's actually a matter of scientific debate.
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Birds are dinosaurs and therefore reptiles, but mammals are not reptiles.
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Every year my mom stocks our stocking with chocolate and candy. Last year I got a massive family sized bag of Reese's. I ate all of them (around 100) in the span of some shitty Christmas movie. I spent the next hour throwing them all up. To this day, I have never had another Reese's.
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I ODed on Reese's and have now been clean for a year.
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Former 5 year vegan here. I started dating a cook and she really wanted to start cooking for me, and I figured I'd give in a little and at least try some of her cooking, especially since I wasn't going the healthiest vegan route and really needed the protein. The results: I tried chicken once and it took a great toll on my body. I felt mentally and physically awful (maybe guilt had it's way with me), never again. Fish didn't have any negative effects (affects?), and for the last year or so, I try to include salmon or sushi into my regular diet. Haven't tried red meat, mainly because even if it did sit well with me, I don't like how it effects (affects?) the body in the long run; it's just bad for you. But, and I try to stress to people who ask me that, even if it's just fish that you're eating, you can't call yourself a vegetarian anymore.
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chicken was bad, fish was fine, personally didn't want to give red meat a chance.
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My ex of few years ago told me how she lost her virginity.
She had a very difficult personality that kept her from having any sentimental relationship with guys, she realized it was her fault, however once she started university and saw all her friends having boyfriends, her status of being a virgin made her feel insecure.
Her friends told her to just do it, find a cute guys and do it, it would have been easy for her, she's a beautiful girl, however to her eyes the idea of a one night stand was too slutty and dirty.
She was 23, never had sex, she became obsessed, so one day she called this guy that was in one of her classes, she didn't like him at all, no attraction what so ever but she knew he would have sex with her, so they did it.
It was fairly quick, wasn't good at all, she didn't feel much, from that she went down a spiral that took her to pretty much fuck any guy was willing to fuck her, that meant a lot of guys, form college, than from work, she pretty much fucked 80% of her coworkers at any job she had.
She felt empty and not loved, despite having as much sex as she wanted and as kinky as it can be she never quite enjoyed it, until she fell in love.
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just be careful, use protection and try to do it to enjoy it not to get rid of a pimple
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I thought about being a bit more elaborate, but ICEFARMER made a pretty comprehensive and spot on list, so I'll add this tip:
Make sure that at least once, preferrably early on, you have a slight tiff (not a full-on fight or anything) where she's clearly in the wrong.
Most guys just dismiss this when it happens, or let her have her way because its a nothing moment and it means nothing, but don't do this--if she is wrong, make sure she is capable of admitting that she can be wrong.
If she can't (especially if it's really unimportant) then you might be in for some really turbulent times. Dating anyone who HAS to be right ALL THE DING-DONG TIME is absolutely exhausting and will murder your happiness.
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Don't be "Yes, Dear" guy
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Maybe I'm missing a big point, but if I may propose some follow-up questions: How is this different from the inflammation caused by strength training? When correlations are made between mood and exercise, it often seems the consensus is that people who exercise regularly are happier. Is this more for aerobic? Does the decreased inflammation throughout the entire healthy body outweigh the inflammation caused by exercise? Is there correlation between resistance training, where there can be a substantial inflammatory response, and depression?
I realize /r/science and there may not be much more than speculation out there at this point, but just fuel for discussion/thoughts.
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Exercise causes inflammation too, how is this different (or is it) from chronic inflammatory responses that may affect mood?
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Why do you automatically assume they went off meds on their own?
I don't.
I consider it a possibility. a very major one as anyone with an ounce of sense would.
hence why I asked.
>Noncompliance with medication is a very common feature among bipolar patients. Rates of poor compliance may reach 64% for bipolar disorders, and noncompliance is the most frequent cause of recurrence.
I also wanted to be clear in case any poor unfortunate read his post and did something monumentally stupid and suicidal as a result because with the limited information he gave someone could actually get hurt. as in real people. really dead.
>We conclude that noncompliance with medication is associated with suicidal ideation.
Encouraging people with serious mental health issues to go off their meds or to self medicate is a very bad idea.
there's a lot of "alternative" scammers who do just that telling them that their problems can be solved with magic water or vitamin tablets and well meaning dupes repeat it thinking they're helping people.
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piss off. You're not adding to the discussion, you're not being insightful.
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Something must be redirecting you. I'm running Google Chrome / adblock, and it's fine here. [See included picture]( Also I scanned the latest windows binary, no viruses.
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I am serious when I post links. I will never post something misleading or that contains viruses.
*Edit: Damn your username!
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If you ever need anything searched, PM me. That was not a challenge, but honestly I've been on the net since 96; I love a challenge, have not came up empty yet. (Not withstanding impossible searches like: (pink elephants with blue dildos having sex with albino midgets.)
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I have a twisted mind, can find most anything.
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I actually had gratification disorder (AKA infantile masturbation or benign idiopathic infantile dyskinesia) so I have been "masturbating" for as long as I could remember. As a young child I would actually lay on a chair or similar object and the pressure on my clit would bring me to orgasm. There was sometimes a bit of humping involved, but not really. It's hard to explain. I never understood why I got in trouble for doing it so I would do it behind closed doors and do everything I could not to get caught. It felt good and my parents never told me why it was bad so I did it anyway.
I also enjoyed riding in the small seat/shelf in shopping carts for the same reason. As a female I was able to press against the metal bar that went between my legs and it felt good. My parents didn't know I was doing anything bad -- which I liked -- but it took longer to reach orgasm and sometimes didn't work at all -- which I didn't like.
It wasn't until I was much older (and even a bit after my "birds & the bees" talk) that I realized I was actually masturbating and that I understood why my parents would yell at me for doing it. I felt so stupid and it felt so wrong.
Even after this discovery, however, I continued to masturbate in the same way because I didn't know any different. Eventually I learned "normal" ways of masturbating and have only gone back to "chair humping" once when I couldn't orgasm after over an hour and was very frustrated. I was able to orgasm with my old method but it wasn't very satisfying.
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Had gratification disorder (AKA infantile masturbation or benign idiopathic infantile dyskinesia) and have been masturbating for as long as I can remember.
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Last year my girlfriend was addicted to painkillers, she was supposed to be on suboxon to ease off the addiction and avoid withdraw but while i was at work she swapped them for percocets and other opiates and she mixed them with xanax. She was an embarassing mess, especially this was my brother, father and step mother's first time meeting her. We then went to her mother's and she was in withdraw and took off in my car with her five year old son. Seh got lost and her step father and I had to go get her. When we got there she was high and had been driving that way with her son in the car. That was Christmas Eve, christmas day I had to work and I got a call from her that she was having an asthma attack and her nebulizer wasn't helping so I rushed home to find that she had overdosed and the steroids and epinephran in her nebulizer was the only thing keeping her alive.
We broke up for a while, she's been clean since then but I got to spend yesterday taking her to the hospital because she is now suffering from guilt and depression and is suicidal.
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last year girlfriend ODed this year she ended up in psych hospital
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doesn't club come with a pass to some party?
the main thing is that if you do not already have a monocle, you should purchase one. this chained single eyepiece is a staple for club-level ticketholders and you will feel pretty silly if everyone is looking at you through a single swank lens and you are staring back with normal glasses or, worse, nothing, like some chump who rides airplanes in the economy section or down with the luggage.
also, you should, while watching the game through your monocle (you will be close enough that you obviously won't need your opera glasses but these can be used to advantage on occasion), remove your top hat so as not to obscure the view of the (presumably monocle-wearing) gentleman behind you, as that would be a rude indication of poor breeding.
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get a monocle you lucky bastard
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When I was around 10 The DSi came out. Since the touch screen was broken on my DS lite, I decided I would save and buy a new DSi since they had an upgrade offer going on. You trade in a Ds lite and get a DSi for like $80. I walked into the gamestop and handed the guy at the desk my DS. He took it made sure I was wanting the upgrade offer and everything, then started walking to the back. I stopped him and told him the center of my touch screen would not pick up anything. He took it anyway, took my money and handed me a DSi.
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Honesty is the best policy
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There seem to be mixed opinions here, and none of them are wrong.
This is a case-by-case kind of thing; it depends on how you feel and how your family is.
Here is how things went for me:
I was 16 or 17, I don't really remember. I had gone to a Catholic elementary school, but a public high school. In high school I went to the "Sunday school" that my family's church had for teenagers preparing to be Confirmed. I did everything I was required to be Confirmed, and decided not to. If you're Catholic, you know what Confirmation is, and I couldn't go through with it because it felt dishonest since I was agnostic. I "came out" to my father (the most religious in my family) in a meeting with my pastor that I had scheduled to let them know I didn't want to be Confirmed.
They were very understanding. My pastor actually agreed that I shouldn't be Confirmed if I didn't feel like I was truly Catholic, and encouraged me to find my own spiritual path. My father just wanted to understand, and while he seemed disappointed at first, I talked to him for hours explaining how I felt and what I believed and why I didn't feel those beliefs were compatible with Catholicism.
My family accepted who I am and what I believe, and my dad stopped pressuring me to go to church with them, lead grace at dinner time, etc. I do still go to Mass with them at Christmas, Easter, and things like that, just because I think it's important to do something as a family, and I want to support they're beliefs just like they do for me. In fact, this past Christmas I was the only one that didn't complain about the super long service.
But this is my experience, with my family. I know parents who would respond much more negatively, and you should be cautious. You know your family and only you can figure out how and when to "come out."
Just know that we're here for you!
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Each situation is different, do what you feel is right
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I feel you man. At my heaviest I weighed 287 and it hurts to just live overweight. The guilt of what you're doing to your own body can really, truly hurt. It's good you are having this wake up call though. Changing your mindset is a huge part of changing your life.
Weight loss is made in the kitchen and it was a hard fact for me to handle. Exercise helps but improving your diet is #1. Start tracking your calories, I use MyFitnessPal.com (it's free) but there are other trackers out there. Record everything you eat to the best of your ability. Even on your bingier days you'll notice that you eat better when you're watching it.
Experimenting with food helps a lot too. You could really love some healthier foods but you'll never know if you don't give them a try.
Also try to stay away from soda. I try not to "drink my calories" and stay with just water, and a black coffee if I'm feeling tired at work. Three 20 oz bottles of soda are as many calories as a fairly large dinner.
I'm nowhere near an expert but all of these changes have helped me lose about 46 pounds so far, and I'll keep using them to lost the last 40ish I need to hit my goal. Every 10 or so pounds you can feel a change in your body and it feels great. Celebrate these changes and be proud as your weight goes down.
Oh and also it isn't the end of the world if you eat too much in a meal or day. Don't get discouraged or beat yourself up just remember to do better in the future.
Wow that was a lot of stuff.
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Track your calories using Myfitnesspal.com or other trackers.
Don't "Drink your calories"
Try new healthy foods (Salsa had surprising little calories for the flavor)
Celebrate the wins.
Don't be too hard on yourself on the bad days (I struggle with this sometimes, it's natural)
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Today, I binge-ate. I ate an entire pound of baby carrots.
I know in my heart that I'm not actually solving the problem behavior, just replacing what goes into my mouth. Solving the deeper emotional problem is a longer-term thing, and, like you, I couldn't keep hurting my body with this self-destructive behavior. At the very least, switching food to binge on something non-destructive buys me time to work on the emotional component of over-eating.
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If you have to binge, binge on fruits and vegetables.
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yes. i chewed ice cubes for 3 months straight. i'd eat about 8 trays a day, craved them intensely, and only stopped chewing when my mouth burned and my teeth hurt. i saw a doctor after the chewing got so bad that i chipped the plastic binding off my permanent retainer when i was chewing a cube, and he took my blood. my iron was dangerously low (hemoglobin was 7, iron was 13, it was really bad).
usually iron deficiency is accompanied by intense fatigue, i didn't have that. i just had the ice chewing. that's what made it so dangerous - if i waited any longer, i'd need a transfusion. get your blood tested.
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i chewed ice for a looooong time and discovered i was severely iron deficient.
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As a person entirely skeptical and who has read the various rebuttals and debunking of the Ancient Aliens program, this doc seems to be an entire setup to be upset about the interpretations of the ancient Hebrew texts the program has referenced.
I'm glad we cleared up that the Ancient Aliens episodes were so incorrect concerning their interpretation of the Hebrew bible. Most importantly, that the story of Noah is more accurate than the similar Sumerian versions. It is too bad the program inaccurately believes that the Sumerian texts are the most accurate accounts. Ugh.
As someone who feels that all of these religious stories are, at best, interpretations, these texts really constitute no real historical accuracies. If there are geological, archeological, anthropological, or other scientific forms of evidence to back up the specifics of the Inca, Sumerian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc, accounts of past events, I am always curious to hear them.
As silly as it is the History Channel program always defaults to "Aliens", I'm also unimpressed intellectually with religious assertions making similarly poor scholarly claims.
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the effort was a good one but by the end, the religious began to take precedence over the scholarly and scientific path the documentary began its journey upon.
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I'm not entirely sure this is a serious question.
Your average gym membership is $40/mo. That breaks down into roughly $10/week or $2 per weekday (most people don't hit the gym on the weekend, but we need this number later, so it ends up being roughly $1.43/day). In order to recoup your losses to the gym, you need to be able to make back $1.43 while at the gym every weekday.
I suggest investing into a medium-risk mutual fund. I had success with the T.Rowe Price mutuals before with returns on average around 6% (beating out the national average when banks were giving decent interest rates on savings accounts by a whopping 3-4%). Therefore, in order to make (on average) the $1.43 required, you would need to have almost $8,500 invested to "get swole off the interest".
EDIT: In fact, you wouldn't need that much since I ballparked; a more accurate daily-cost would be that $40/mo * 12 / 356 (which is $1.35). If we assume that down years drop to 2% return, and that would be a really down year for a medium-risk investment [casual aside, during the housing market crisis I had a medium-risk investment with T.Rowe Price and it returned 4%, so we're being pretty cautious here], then you would need $24,000 invested to cover the cost in earned.
Also, and this does warrant being brought up, but these are dividends and therefore are taxable. You will have to look to your own tax bracket to determine exactly how much you will end up paying to the government, but you can usually assume that 30% will cover it; so take whatever investment is required, and we'll use that $24,000 for our example, and add an additional 30% to cover the taxes lost (though these are not strictly linearly related, we can basically treat them that way for small amounts).
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invest $31,200 into a medium-risk mutual fund and use the dividends earned to pay for your gym membership.
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The place I work at has a pretty old guy for an administrator/janitor-manager, who generally just annoys me a little by saying hello to me and when I say it back, he doesn't hear me and complains that I lack politeness.
But one day, he uttered something that was hard to believe. We had a problem with the janitor who didn't clean as often as needed and called the administrator to solve the situation. He then proceeded to wonder what is the problem, because 'we had a room full of women - very good for cleaning and mopping floors'.
From then on, I do not bother to make sure he hears the 'Hello' in the morgnings. Tit for tat or in this case, lack of respect for lack of respect.
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Old administrator still believes that if a janitor isn't doing his/her job, the women should pick up the slack.
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In all instances that is obsession with a form entertainment, socially acceptable gamers are gamers who are not consumed, it's okay for someone young to be saturated with activities because they are expected to "find themselves". A grown man should have already found himself, he can still play games, but is expected to have little indication of any his activities (no gaming posters, but an xbox, no movie posters, but a blueray/dvd, no fishing pictures on his wall, but a couple fishing rods, ect)
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do what you want, but do not be consumed by one thing. Do as much as you want , but do not saturate yourself with "trophies" . This is what we believe to be acceptable.
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