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Episodes on Tap
April 2015
March 2015
1: Claims of Rights to Food and Shelter
2: Extreme Cases
3: Being Helpful to a Disliked Co-Worker
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Major Branches of Philosophy
2: Displaying the Confederate Flag
3: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Fractional Reserve Banking, Fraud, and Deception
2: People Unworthy of the Truth
3: Deception in a Business Partner
Rapid Fire Questions
February 2015
1: Developing Resilience
2: Nuisance Limits for New Technology
3: Spouses Sharing Activities
Rapid Fire Questions
January 2015
1: The Importance of Credibility
2: Third Party Payments in Medicine
3: Insulting with Racial Epithets
Rapid Fire Questions
December 2014
1: Managing Differences with Family
2: Forbidding the Sale of Dangerous Goods to Minors
3: Worthy Charities
1: The Reality of Karma
2: Responsibility for Pets
3: Meaningless Gift Exchanges
Rapid Fire Questions
November 2014
1: The Objectivity of Manners
2: Fighting Words
3: Obsessing over Past Conversations
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Moral Arguments for Veganism and Vegetarianism
2: Courage as a Struggle Against Fear
3: Ungrateful People
Rapid Fire Questions
October 2014
1: Voters' Responsibility for Politicians
2: Charity to Strangers
3: Quitting or Waiting to be Fired
Rapid Fire Questions
September 2014
1: The Possibility of an Atheistic Afterlife
2: The Tip Jar
3: Concealing a Pet from a Landlord
Rapid Fire Questions
August 2014
1: Changing Personality Traits
2: Debating Christian Versus Objectivist Ethics
3: Conning Jerks and Blowhards
1: Accepting Voluntary Sacrifices
2: Agnosticism
3: Introducing Children to Objectivism
Rapid Fire Questions
July 2014
1: The Justice of Defamation Laws
2: Pursuing Justice at Great Personal Cost
3: The Cultural Effects of Superhero Movies
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Conservative Allies in Politics
2: Flunking a Student
3: Guilt about Refusing Requests
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Psychological Egoism, Take Two
2: The Purpose of Atlas Shrugged
3: Limiting Another's Generosity
Rapid Fire Questions
June 2014
1: One Thought Too Many in Egoism
2: Drunk Driving in a Free Society
3: Dogs Versus Private Property
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Overcoming an Abusive Childhood
2: Proposals to Ban Muslim Immigration
3: Correcting a Cashier's Mistake
Rapid Fire Questions
May 2014
1: Jury Nullification
2: Moral Judgments of Sexuality
3: Dishonesty in a Manager
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Egoism and Harm to Others
2: The Presence of Juries at Trials
3: Philosophy in Romance
Rapid Fire Questions
April 2014
1: Ambition as a Virtue
2: Happiness without Close Friends
3: Refusing Involvement in a Biological Child's Life
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
2: Being Virtuous But Not Happy
3: Defending Abortion Rights
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Meaning of Marriage Vows
2: Animals as Property
3: The Problem of Overwork
Rapid Fire Questions
March 2014
1: Evolution's Ethical Implications
2: Cultivating a Healthy Body Image
3: The Value of Studying Theology
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Concern for Future Generations
2: Privatizing Prisons
3: Buying and Returning Goods
Rapid Fire Questions
February 2014
January 2014
1: Thinking of Virtues as Duties
2: Overcoming Paralyzing Indecision
3: Sharia Finance
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Justifying Punishment
2: Living on Passive Income
3: The Morality of Price Gouging
Rapid Fire Questions
December 2013
1: Objectivism Versus Secular Humanism
2: Moral Judgment of European Colonizers
3: The Right Time to Declare Love
Rapid Fire Questions
November 2013
1: Free Will and Moral Responsibility
2: Values Destroyed by Statism
3: Leaving an Inmate Boyfriend
4: Privacy in Marriage
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Winning Friends and Influencing People
2: Accepting Government Welfare
3: Mercenary Essay Contest Writing
4: Government Scientists in a Free Society
Rapid Fire Questions
October 2013
1: Revealing a Checkered Past
2: Racist Names of Sports Teams
3: Property Owners Prohibiting Firearms
4: Explaining Facebook Unfriendings
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Social Effects of Economic Inequality
2: Favoritism for the Genetically Engineered
3: The Value of the Ten Commandments
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Free Speech for Corporations
2: Psychological Egoism
3: Objecting to a Professor's Views
4: Deduction from Axioms
Rapid Fire Questions
September 2013
1: Keeping Secrets
2: Choosing an Ultimate End
3: Studying History
4: Moral Blacks and Whites
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Fair Use of Intellectual Property
2: Teaching Children to Share
3: Accepting Risks in Relationships
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Identifying a Central Purpose
2: Immanuel Kant on Sex
3: Becoming an Educated Voter
4: Atheists Patronizing Religious Businesses
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Value of a Central Purpose
2: Self-Confidence at Work
3: Keeping Secrets for Competitive Advantage
4: Hate Crime Laws
Rapid Fire Questions
August 2013
1: Achieving Practical Certainty
2: The Limits of Sympathy for Failures
3: Scolding Other People's Children
4: Responding to Panhandlers
Rapid Fire Questions
July 2013
1: Social Contract Theory
2: Romanticizing Historical Figures in Art
3: Mental Illness as an Excuse for Wrongdoing
4: Fervent Hatred for President Obama
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The "Marginal Humans" Argument
2: Sex When Not in the Mood
3: Responding to Polite Homophobes
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Today's Feminist Movement
2: The Morality of Jailbreaking
3: Racism Versus Moral Decency
4: The Objectivity of Color Concepts
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Common Sense Versus Rationality
2: Jealousy over Love Lost
3: Applying Philosophy to New Domains
4: Marital Infidelity in the Military
Rapid Fire Questions
June 2013
1: Aristotle on the Final End
2: Dealing with a Morally Corrupt Sibling
3: Studying Philosophy in Academia
4: The Legality of DDoS Attacks
1: Cultivating Powers of Self-Control
2: Lying for the Sake of a Happy Surprise
3: People Too Young to Raise Children
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Meaning of Life as the Standard of Value
2: Broken Relationships
3: The Morality of an Armed Society
4: The Sex Scandals of Politicians
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Objectivism Versus Libertarianism
2: Bad Ideas as a Cause of Mental Illness
3: Doctors Refusing to Perform Abortions
Rapid Fire Questions
May 2013
1: The Ethics of Open Relationships
2: Innate Personality
3: Conceiving Again to Save a Child
4: The Justice of Alimony Payments
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Individualism Versus Anti-Social Atomism
2: Poor Communication from the Boss
3: Visibility of Disabled Children
4: Arranged Marriages
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Taxes Versus Slavery
2: Infanticide After Abortion
3: Emergency Medical Care
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Personality and Sense of Life
2: Helping a Self-Destructive Friend
3: Concern for the Rights of Rights-Violators
Rapid Fire Questions
April 2013
1: Self-Interest in Marriage
2: Atheists Attending Religious Ceremonies
3: Multigenerational Space Travel
4: Drugs as Treatment for Mental Illness
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Reality of Mental Illness
2: The State's Role in Caring for Children of Unfit Parents
3: Resisting Illegitimate Police Action
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Moral Judgments of Obese People
2: Parental Consent for Abortion
3: Atheist as a Negative Term
4: Living Longer
Rapid Fire Questions
March 2013
1: Replying to Intrusive Inquiries
2: Changing Minds on Gay Marriage
3: Dealing with Overzealous Ideologues
4: Buying from Chinese Companies
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Being Someone's Extramarital Affair
2: Epistemic Effects of Government Controls
3: The Boundaries of Art
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Universalization as an Ethical Test
2: Regretful Parents
3: Online Privacy
4: Disruptive Kids in Public School
Rapid Fire Questions
February 2013
1: Spiritual Values
2: Advancing Liberty Through a New Political Party
3: Welfare Reform Versus Immigration Reform
4: Declining a Friend's Plans for Business Partnership
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Value of Marriage
2: Antibiotic Resistance in a Free Society
3: Concern for Attractiveness to Others
4: Semi-Automatic Handguns Versus Revolvers
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Wrong of Anti-Discrimination Laws
2: Objectivism's Potential to Save the Culture
3: Declining to Socialize at Work
Rapid Fire Questions
January 2013
1: The Nature of Addiction
2: Unions for Government Employees
3: Materialism in Marriage
4: Mandatory Child Support
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Solutions to Widespread Racism
2: Recommended Works of Aristotle
3: Veto Power over Abortion
4: Staying in a Marriage
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Free Will and Natural Law
2: Romance Between an Atheist and a Believer
3: Bringing Children into a Statist World
Rapid Fire Questions
December 2012
1: Right to Work Laws
2: Deception in a Crisis
3: Philosophy Versus Psychology
4: The Value of Gift Exchanges
Rapid Fire Questions
November 2012
1: Sexual Harassment Laws
2: Rooting for Antiheroes
3: Child Beauty Pageants
4: Teaching Children Philosophy
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Adopting Ideas by Default
2: Griping Versus Moral Judgment
3: Veganism as Child Abuse
4: Sharing Lecture Notes
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The 2012 Election Results
2: Explaining a Break-Up
3: Keeping Contact with Questionable Family
Rapid Fire Questions
October 2012
1: Circumcision Versus Female Genital Mutilation
2: Why Anarcho-Capitalism Is Wrong
3: Duties to the Government
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Federal Versus State and Local Government
2: Parenting Via Empty Threats
3: Reasons for Everything
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Pursuing Personal Values in an Imperfect World
2: Working for the IRS Versus Collecting Welfare
3: Upselling to Unwary Customers
4: Being Like Hank Rearden
Rapid Fire Questions
September 2012
1: Greed in the NFL Dispute with Referees
2: A Religious Wedding for an Atheist Groom
3: Preventing Information Overload
4: Food Safety in a Free Society
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Morality of Nuclear Weapons
2: Passing Genetic Diseases to Kids
3: Calling the Police on Marijuana Smokers
4: Productiveness Versus Recreation
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Judging People Struggling with Temptations
2: Judging Others When I'm Flawed
3: Chivalry as a Virtue
4: Blue Laws
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Fear of Rape
2: Conflicts Between Family Members
3: Prayers of Atheists
4: Bans on Smoking
Rapid Fire Questions
August 2012
1: Voting for Third-Party Candidates
2: Self-Interest in Parenting
3: Bigotry Against Religion
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Role of Government in Adoption
2: Sex-Selective Abortions
3: Expressing Frustration
4: Hatred for a Friend's Husband
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Overcoming Weakness of Will
2: Deductive Reasoning
3: Advertising to Children
4: Medicine in a Free Society
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Contributing to Animal Welfare Groups
2: Inappropriate Gifts from In-Laws
3: Sacrifice in War
4: Condemning Evil Versus Praising Good
Rapid Fire Questions
July 2012
1: The Morality of Cloning
2: Hypocritical Allies
3: Standards of Beauty
4: Capitalism Versus Altruism
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Five Love Languages
2: The Morality of Exposing Security Flaws
3: The Nature of Happiness
4: The Importance of a Candidate's Views on Abortion
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Multiculturalism and Tolerance
2: Speaking Out Against Bigotry
3: Acting Out Emotions Versus Acting On Emotions
4: Justified War
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Validity of Psychic Powers
2: Managing Office Politics
3: Sanction of Friends
4: The Cost of Freedom
Rapid Fire Questions
June 2012
1: Corporal Punishment of Kids
2: Parenting as a Central Purpose
3: Compartmentalized Cheating
4: Something Greater than Yourself
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Objectively Assessing Yourself
2: Friendships with Subordinates at Work
3: Keeping Up with the News
4: Child Labor Laws
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Staying Objective
2: Deliberately Unhealthy Choices
3: Consuming Celebrity News
4: Refuting Marxist Arguments
Rapid Fire Questions
May 2012
1: Disclosing Atheism to Babysitters
2: Outing Yourself to Bigots
3: Spousal Sabotage
4: Skipping Advertisements
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Warning Others about Dangerous People
2: Responding to an Unjust Firing
3: Investment Versus Sacrifice
4: Downloading Music After Hard Drive Failure
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Self-Destructive Pleasures
2: Privacy in a High-Tech Society
3: Pushy Fundraising
4: Browsing Locally Then Buying Online
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Forgiving Yourself
2: Unforgivable Acts
3: The Meaning of Life
4: Respecting Intellectual Property Online
Rapid Fire Questions
April 2012
1: The Wrong of Utilitarianism
2: The Morality of Working a Government Job
3: Optimal Planning
4: Padding Your Application
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Obligation, Responsibility, and Duty
2: Stockpiling Medication
3: Poking Fun at Friends' Ideas Online
4: Encouraging Friends to Be More Purposeful
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Morality of Breaking the Law
2: The Morality of Vigilantism
3: Stealing Valor
4: Selling Sub-Optimal Products
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Cultivating Good Luck
2: Public Breastfeeding
3: National Identification Card
4: Mulling Over Memories
Rapid Fire Questions
March 2012
1: Unfriendly Disputes in Online Communities
2: The Problem of Too Many Commitments
3: Talking About Selfishness
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Ayn Rand's View of Women
2: The Proper Place of Women
3: The Health of Cynicism and Sarcasm
4: Offers of Prayers for Atheists
Rapid Fire Questions
February 2012
1: Consent in Sex
2: Terminating Online Versus In-Person Acquaintances
3: Compensating the Victims of Your Negligence
4: The Meaning of Faith
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Judging Religions as Better and Worse
2: Telling a Friend about Romantic Feelings
3: Overfeeding a Child as Abuse
4: Interest in a Lover's Writings
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Liking But Not Loving Your Career
2: Patriotism as a Virtue
3: Artificial Intelligence
4: Boycotting Chick-Fil-A
Rapid Fire Questions
January 2012
1: Being Pragmatic
2: Feigning Indifference to Attract a Man
3: Ignosticism Versus Atheism
4: Explaining Atheism
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Acquittals of the Guilty Versus Convictions of the Innocent
2: The Morality of the Death Penalty
3: Alternatives to America
4: Choosing a Place to Live
Rapid Fire Questions
1: SOPA and Online Piracy
2: Mutual Unprovable Accusations of Wrongdoing
3: Dealing with Temperamental People
4: Judging Young Adults Fairly
Rapid Fire Questions
December 2011
1: Rationality in Face of Overwhelming Emotions
2: The Value of Reading Literature
3: Balancing Introspection and Productive Work
4: Optimism or Pessimism about the Future
Rapid Fire Questions
1: An Early Look at the 2012 Election
2: Mitt Romney for US President
3: Newt Gingrich for US President
4: Ron Paul for US President
5: Gary Johnson for US President
Rapid Fire Questions
November 2011
1: Friends with Benefits
2: Obligations to Help Others in Need
3: Political Compromise on Legal Marijuana
4: Lying to a Dying Person
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Meaning of Citizenship in a Free Society
2: The Legal Status of Automatic Weapons
3: Forcing Religious Fanaticism on Others
4: Reasoning by Facts Rather than Emotions
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Admitting Mistakes at Work
2: Aesthetic Body Modifications
3: Evasion Versus Rationalization Versus Context-Dropping
4: How to Decline Too-Expensive Outings
Rapid Fire Questions
October 2011
1: The Purpose of Bankruptcy Law
2: Restrooms for the Transgendered in Transition
3: Private Versus State Prisons
4: Revealing Atheism to Religious Parents
Rapid Fire Questions
1: State Involvement in Marriage
2: Last Names in Marriage
3: Marrying Someone for a Green Card
4: Being Too Much Crazy in Love
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Judging Young Adults
2: Voting With Your Wallet
3: The Evidence for Free Will
4: The Morality of Armed Rebellion
1: Ayn Rand's Alleged Admiration for William Hickman
2: The Validity of Sustainable Agriculture
3: Product Placements in Art
4: Teaching Young People to Use Credit Cards Wisely
Rapid Fire Questions
September 2011
1: Appropriate Contexts for Nudity
2: Public Nudity and Rights
3: Regretting Time Spent at Work
4: Addressing Problems with Neighbors
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Morality of Torturing Terrorists and Criminals
2: Feeling Guilty for Emotions
3: Photocopying Essays for Study
4: Extroversion Versus Second-Handedness
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Activism as a Moral Imperative
2: The Morality of Extreme Couponing
3: Sexting as Cheating
4: Gifting Valuable Memorabilia to the Team
Rapid Fire Questions
August 2011
1: The Validity of Introversion and Extroversion
2: Circumcision and Religious Freedom
3: Lobbying as a Career
4: Working for a Statist Company
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Moral Standards for Public Figures
2: Friendships with People of Opposite Philosophy
3: Friendships with Intellectual Property Pirates
4: Joining Politically Active Professional Groups
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Proper Immigration Policy
2: Cryonics and Life Extension
3: Returning Lost Money
4: Deliberately Losing a Pricey Library Book
Rapid Fire Questions
July 2011
1: The Morality of Reverse Engineering
2: Atheists Singing Religious Music
3: This-Worldly Success of Faith-Driven People
4: Police Lying to Suspects
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Effects of Immortality on Ethics
2: The Morality of Hiring Illegal Immigrants
3: The Reasons for Carrying a Concealed Weapon
4: Explaining Egoism to Others
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Calls for Moderation
2: Spying on Children
3: Family Members Spreading Urban Legends
4: Racism in Dating
Rapid Fire Questions
1: Announcing Life-Changing New Beliefs
2: The Morality of Strategic Default
3: Swearing Before Strangers
4: Letting Friends Fail
Rapid Fire Questions
June 2011
1: Morality and Living Well
2: The Risk of Guns with Kids
3: Tact Versus Honesty
4: Staying in an Abusive Marriage for the Kids
Rapid Fire Questions
1: The Virtue of Pride
2: Living Together Outside Marriage
3: Child Support from Unwilling Fathers
4: Profiting from the Ignorance of Others
5: Deflating Bragging Looters
6: Political Bipartisanship
1: Proper Reliance on Experts
2: The Evil of Immanuel Kant
3: Responding to Expressions of Hatred for Work
4: The Morality of Exploiting Flaws in Government Lotteries
5: Appropriating Insulting Terms
6: Dismissing Arguments with Pejorative Language
May 2011
1: The Rights of the Severely Mentally Disabled
2: The Morality of Risky Sports
3: Francisco's Slap of Dagny
4: Imitating the 'Rape' Scene in The Fountainhead
5: Accepting Unauthorized Discounts
6: Buying Votes in Elections
1: Subpoenas in a Free Society
2: Office Romances
3: The Morality of Lending Books
4: Developing Expertise in the Objectivist Ethics
5: Personal Art Recommendations
6: Wealth and Social Responsibility
1: The Morality of Spreading Germs
2: Celebrating Birthdays
3: Married Couples Separating for Their Careers
4: Compulsory Juries
5: Growing Out of Ayn Rand
6: Optimism for the Future
1: Reasoning from the Prisoner's Dilemma
2: Hiring People with an Internet Presence
3: The Morality and Limits of Revenge
4: Building Codes
5: Numbers of Men Versus Women in Objectivism
6: Wealth Creation
April 2011
1: The Basis of Manners
2: Brutal Honesty
3: Right to Legal Counsel
4: Government Medical Insurance
5: Promoting Objectivism
6: The Morality of Sadism and Masochism
1: Review of the Movie Atlas Shrugged, Part 1
2: The Morality of Free Riding
3: Browsing Without Buying
4: Age in Romance
5: Responsibility for Siblings
6: Desires and Determinism
1: Religious Morality
2: Ideological Conflicts in Romance
3: Obligations to Parents
4: Pressure to Procreate
5: Progress in Objectivism
6: Kids and Religion
March 2011
1: Immoral Means to Great Values
2: Optional Values Versus Moral Values
3: Adoption Versus Abortion
4: The Excuse of "I'm Only Human"
5: Objectivist Conferences
6: Laws and Regulations
1: The Nature of Love
2: Unrequited Love
3: Bisexuality and Relationships with Men and Women
4: Hypotheticals in Ethics
5: Recommending the Upcoming Atlas Shrugged Movie
6: Asking a Person Out
1: Concentration
2: Obligation to Engage in Activism
3: Keeping Secrets from a Spouse
4: "That's So Gay"
5: Overstating Character
6: Acting Silly
February 2011
1: Living a Value-Dense Life
2: Christianity Versus Capitalism
3: Being Sentimental
4: Student and Senior Discounts
5: Buying an Evildoer's Book
6: Helping a Stranger in an Emergency
1: Helpful Criticism of Others
2: Evolutionary Psychology
3: Cheating on Work Questionnaires
4: Cheating on Taxes
5: Government Secrets
6: Bribing Government Officials
1: Compromise in Relationships
2: The Libertarian Party
3: Long-Ago Stolen Property
4: Abandonment of Property
5: Gossip
6: Moral Advice
January 2011
1: Unequal Incomes in Marriage
2: Men and Women as Friends
3: Unpaid-For College Classes
4: Stealing from a Thief
5: Causality and Free Will
6: Cultural Pride
1: Honesty about Infidelity
2: Pursuing Someone Already Attached
3: Children as an Optional Value
4: The Morality of Abortion
5: The Value of a PhD
6: Discrimination and Rights
1: Judgments of Actions and Ideas
2: Judging People Efficiently
3: Online Jerks
4: Seeking Popularity
5: Tattoos and Piercings
6: Dating a Pot-Smoker
1: Women Versus Nice Men
2: The Harm of Undiscovered Infidelity
3: Lying to Protect Privacy
4: Important Ideological Disagreements
5: Misused Words
6: Returning Lost Property
December 2010
1: Altruism and Sacrifice
2: Celebrating Festivus
3: What To Do about Wikileaks
4: Eating Pets
5: Topics for First Dates
6: Black and White Thinking
1: Thinking Too Much
2: Talking about Sexual Preferences
3: The Value of College Degrees
4: Criminal Death of a Fetus
5: The Morality of Revenge for Harms
6: Capitalism as Misunderstood
1: Responding to Beggars
2: Responsibility for Cultural Change
3: Toleration as a Virtue
4: Violent Sports
5: Punishment of Government Officials
November 2010
1: Productivity Versus Productiveness
2: Abuse of Animals
3: The Redemption of Michael Vick
4: Facebook Friending Policy
5: Fighting Apathy
6: Cultural Equality
1: Conflicts over Diet
2: Completing Creative Work
3: Hitting Kids in Public
4: Non-Renumerative Work as Productive
5: Finding a Central Purpose
6: Ethics of Public Relations
1: Dealing with Severely Irrational People
2: Arguing Religion with Family
3: Cutting Ties with an Abusive Parent
4: Philosophy as Therapy
5: Applying Value Density to Life
6: Teachers Demanding Confidentiality
October 2010
1: Kindness to Others
2: Career Versus Family
3: Terminal Cancer and Disability
4: Chronic Complainers
5: Irresponsible Adult Children
6: Maintaining Civility Online
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About Philosophy in Action
I'm Dr. Diana Hsieh. I'm a philosopher specializing in the application of rational principles to the challenges of real life. I received my Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2009. My book, Responsibility & Luck: A Defense of Praise and Blame, is available for purchase in paperback, as well as for Kindle and Nook. The book defends the justice of moral praise and blame of persons using an Aristotelian theory of moral responsibility, thereby refuting Thomas Nagel's "problem of moral luck."
My radio show, Philosophy in Action Radio, broadcasts live over the internet on most Sunday mornings and some Thursday evenings. On Sunday mornings, I answer questions applying rational principles to the challenges of real life in a live hour-long show. Greg Perkins of Objectivist Answers co-hosts the show. On Thursday evenings, I interview an expert guest or chat about a topic of interest.
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"Unemployment rates were lower in November than a year earlier in 322 of the 372 metropolitan areas, higher in 36 areas and unchanged in 14 areas," the BLS reports. It adds that 288 metros reported over-the-year increases in nonfarm payroll employment, 77 reported decreases and seven had no change.
In the Akron metro area, the unemployment rate dropped to 6% in November from 7.2% in the like month of 2011. The labor force in the Akron metro area rose slightly, to 375,500 from 373,800, the BLS reports.
The Cleveland metro area's data is more mixed. Its unemployment rate fell, but just to 6.7% from 6.8%. And the Cleveland metro's labor force declined in size, to 1.053 million in November from 1.084 million in November 2011.
Even so, both metro areas are solidly on the plus side of the BLS's analysis of labor data.
In November, BLS notes, 29 metropolitan areas still reported jobless rates of at least 10%, though that was down from 68 a year earlier. Akron and Cleveland both are among the 192 metro areas that posted rates below 7%; in November 2011, just 129 metros met that criteria.
Hedging his bets
The Wall Street Journal
runs a
short profile
of Independence-based financial adviser Dan Gaugler, who says that because hedge funds have been a disappointment, he has been shifting clients to mutual funds that use hedge fund-like strategies.
"Five to seven years ago, he was investing up to 10% of his wealthiest clients' portfolios in hedge funds of funds, which promised stock-like returns with bond-like risk by spreading money among private, high-minimum funds that used a variety of strategies,"
The Journal says.
"What they gave us was bond-like return," partly because of their high costs, says Mr. Gaugler, who in 2002 co-founded
Fairway Wealth Management LLC
, which now manages $800 million for wealthy individuals.
The Journal
says, he "now allocates 5% of many client portfolios to mutual-fund alternatives such as Merger Fund and Diamond Hill Long-Short, which are cheaper and can be sold on short notice." Over time, he says he expects these funds to earn a return somewhere between those of stocks and bonds.
Mr. Gaugler tells
The Journal
that a typical client with a moderate-risk portfolio for the three years through Dec. 31 earned 8.5% annually, before Fairway's fee, which is 0.75% for assets of $5 million and lower.
Wait, we're only No. 10?
I can't really vouch for
this lifestyle website
, called AMOG, for Alpha Male of the Group, but based on
this list
, I can at least admire the site's taste in beer,
AMOG identifies the 10 U.S. cities that brew the best beer, and sure enough, Cleveland is there, at No. 10. The short profile name-checks only a few of the highlights in town, including Great Lakes Brewing Co., Market Garden Brewery, Fat Heads and the Brew Kettle.
America's top beer-brewing city? Portland, Ore., according to the site. The rest, in order, are Denver, Philadelphia, Chicago, Albuquerque, Boston, San Francisco, Burlington and St. Louis.
The rest of the story
If the new film version of "Les Misérables" has turned you on to the Victor Hugo novel,
John Carroll University
theology professor Doris Donnelly has some
useful advice
that will inform your reading.
Writing in
The Wall Street Journal
, Dr. Donnelly, director of John Carroll's
Cardinal Suenens Center
, says that "Les Misérables" fans "may be surprised to know that not everyone in France was of good cheer when Victor Hugo published the book in 1862." The anticlerical set, she writes, "was especially offended by the pivotal role of the Bishop of Digne, who helped determine the course of the novel by resuscitating the soul of Jean Valjean."
As Hugo worked on the novel, his son, Charles, then in his 20s, "objected to the reverential treatment of the bishop," Prof. Donnelly writes. "He argued to his father that the portrayal gave undeserved respect to a corrupt clergy, bestowing credibility on a Roman Catholic Church opposed to the democratic ideals that he and his father held. Charles instead proposed that the catalyst for Jean Valjean's transformation be a lawyer or doctor or anyone else from a secular profession."
The pushback didn't work.
"Not only did Hugo hold his ground, but he amplified the importance of Charles-François Bienvenue Myriel, affectionately known in the novel as Monseigneur Bienvenue (Bishop Welcome)," according to Dr. Donnelly. "The book's first hundred pages or so are a detailed chronicle of Myriel's exemplary life, showing that his intervention on behalf of Jean Valjean was part of a long track record and not a singular aberration. Apparently Hugo recognized no contradiction between his anticlericalism and the possibility—or certainty—that grace could be mediated by a just priest who was transparent to the divine and never betrayed the human."
She has a lot more great detail about the history. It's well worth your time.
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I developed a game for the Ahsa 311. With firmware 5.92 pausing the app when suspending the application in the background worked,
but with firmware 7.36 hideNotify() is invoked when the application goes back in the foreground and not when it goes in the background.
[QUOTE]SUMMARY: When suspending the application in the background, the application's sound is still enabled.
1. Download the content OTA.
2. Install and launch the content file with the audio on.
3. Suspend the application in the background.
ACTUAL RESULT: The application's sound is still enabled, when the application is suspended in background.
EXPECTED RESULT: Audio from the content file should not play while the content file is in the background, unless the audio is the application's main feature; for example, music player or radio.
AFFECTED DEVICES: Nokia 311 firmware 07.36.
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Last year the California based company joined with Fairfax and Wilbur Ross to buy a 35 percent stake in Bank of Ireland in a €1.1bn deal and it hooked up with Deutsche Bank to buy a €1.3bn portfolio of loans from Bank of Ireland.
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Do they plan to ship the Dart VM with Chrome or they plan to use Dart to generate JS serverside, just like Microsoft does with Typescript as a way to improve development and maintanability of web page code?
Phoronix: Chrome Now Supports Concurrent JavaScript Compilation
Do they plan to ship the Dart VM with Chrome or they plan to use Dart to generate JS serverside, just like Microsoft does with Typescript as a way to improve development and maintanability of web page code?
They plan to ship Dart VM in Chrome. However, right now Chromes garbage collector is
too simple and too limited to support more than one language in a good way, which means
they have some work to do before they can ship Dart VM. Also the Dart VM is still in a
pretty early stage so they might want to do more filing before shipping it.
The biggest advantage of these multithreaded architecture should be responsiveness.
Responsiveness and performance are two very different things.
But of course background compiling of JavaScript to get optimized executable code should increase performance too.
In the future all apps run on JavaScript and it will be faster than native (it already is in some tests):
If browser behave well they shouldn't even download scipts tagged with "application/dart"Code:// Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors. Please see the AUTHORS file // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file. (function() { // Bootstrap support for Dart scripts on the page as this script. if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('(Dart)') === -1) { // TODO: // - Support in-browser compilation. // - Handle inline Dart scripts. // Fall back to compiled JS. Run through all the scripts and // replace them if they have a type that indicate that they source // in Dart code (type="application/dart"). var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script"); var length = scripts.length; for (var i = 0; i < length; ++i) { if (scripts[i].type == "application/dart") { // Remap foo.dart to foo.dart.js. if (scripts[i].src && scripts[i].src != '') { var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = scripts[i].src.replace(/\.dart(?=\?|$)/, '.dart.js'); var parent = scripts[i].parentNode; // TODO(vsm): Find a solution for issue 8455 that works with more // than one script. document.currentScript = script; parent.replaceChild(script, scripts[i]); } } } } })();
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|The Linux Year
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The year of the penguin, some people hailed 2004 at the turn of the year. And in many ways it was.
Was it because the march on the server space continued at a relentless pace? Because there were big announcements around desktop installments? Because there was finally some realistic perspective about the threat from SCO, or the threat to Microsoft? However you look at it, the penguin's tux has never looked more pristine or ready for business. So here we'll take a stroll though the last 12 months that sharpened the creases and quickened the pace of the Linux-based platforms.
The year kicked off to an announcement from Microsoft that became a refrain for the succeeding 12 months: Microsoft's argument that Windows is more secure, cheaper, more reliable etc ad nauseum, if you choose the right scenarios, configuration, workload and research groups: Redmond's 'Get the Facts' campaign.
SCO launched into 2004 by opening fronts across the globe, promising litigation and licensing for its Unix intellectual property claims worldwide. Novell, having completed its SUSE buy, announced it was joining the ranks of Linux vendors offering indemnification against such claims.
Then at New York's Linuxworld show, SCO ruffled Novell's new Linux plumage, filing its 'Slander of title' lawsuit, alleging that Novell's claims of residual ownership of elements of Unix had damaged its bid to license the platform.
Other tidbits for the month included the formation of the 'Desktop Linux Working Group' by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), SCO mails US members of Congress with its complaints, and puts a $250,000 on the head of the MyDoom author responsible for a subsequent DOS attack that took down SCO's website.
Signs of the resurgent interest in Linux blossomed in February when French Linux vendor Mandrake announced it had a business plan that would steer it out of bankruptcy protection.
SCO-wise, we saw it dropping key complaints in its case against IBM around trade secrets, but adding another that IBM had been selling Unix-based products even after it had terminated IBM's licence.
In the PR war, the OSDL argued that Novell throwing doubts as to SCO's claims gives Linux users every reason to wait until the case is settled before agreeing any licence. Advice which, come SCO's quarterly results, many took wholeheartedly. For its part, Novell refuted SCO's claims saying it was impossible to claim damages if you can't establish ownership of the thing you claim is being damaged.
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And you thought college tuition was a budget breaker! How about $45,000 a year for the average nursing home stay? No low-interest student loans or scholarships here. So what's a typical, middle-income family to do? If your parents were fortunate enough and well-off enough to have purchased long-term care insurance then the financial hit will be minimal. But if they don't have it, which accounts for 98 percent of us, here's what you should know.
Under very limited conditions Medicare will pay for some nursing home care costs for those who require skilled nursing or rehabilitation services. Here's a shocker: Medicare pays for less than 10 percent of all nursing home bills! Most people think Uncle Sam picks up the tab. Wrong.
If you are fortunate enough to have some of the bill paid by Medicare, then you've got to make sure that your parent goes to a home that is certified by Medicare. Not all are, so make sure you ask. Here are the five conditions your parent must meet before Medicare will pay for any care:
- Skilled care is required every day as an inpatient.
- Your parent has been in the hospital for three consecutive days, not including the day of discharge.
- Admission to the nursing home is made within 30 days of the hospitalization.
- Admission to the nursing home is for the same condition as was the hospitalization.
- A physician must certify the need for skilled nursing or rehabilitative care.
If your parent meets all of these conditions Medicare may pay up to the first 100 days of your parent's nursing home stay. Even then, after the first 20 days Medicare will pay 80 percent of the bill, so hopefully your parents have a Medi-gap policy to pick up the other 20 percent. After the 100 days, you're on your own. Please pay attention to the words—limited, some, and may—there aren't any guarantees. Be sure to ask the hospital social worker to explain the conditions and terms to you.
Bottom line? Don't count on Medicare to pay your parent's nursing home bill!
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State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) offers trained volunteers who can help you sort through your parents' insurance issues, such as figuring out what coverage they currently have, whether or not they qualify for other government programs, or if they have policies that duplicate each other. They can't recommend a specific policy but can answer many of your questions about how to pay for nursing home care. You can find SHIP's number in the blue pages of your phone book or call your local area agency on aging. You can call Medicare directly at 1-800-633-4227.
Medicaid programs are run by the state, usually the department of public welfare or human services. Medicaid pays the nursing home costs for people who have a low income and limited assets. Today, Medicaid pays for seven out of 10 residents—it's why state welfare budgets are hemorrhaging.
Most people start out paying for nursing home care through their own savings and spend down to a point where they qualify for Medicaid. Every state has different rules for qualifying, so you should contact your local area agency on aging or welfare office to find out your state's eligibility requirements.
Some people think that you have to spend yourself down to poverty to qualify which means the spouse will lose his or her home and spend the rest of his or her life in poverty. But federal laws protect enough of your parent's assets so that the one living at home isn't forced into poverty.
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Q-School Racing StyleWritten by on October 1, 2007 Proven Methods For Qualifying Quicker
Qualifying up front is very important for several reasons. The foremost is to avoid early trouble as the cars farther back make their moves to the front. Overaggressive driving is usually observed very early in the race, and you don't want to be in the middle of, or behind, that process.
Too many drivers, who are otherwise successful, are terrible qualifiers. Why, when in practice and in the race they can run comparatively fast laps, do they fall down when it counts the most? We have not only discovered the correct method for qualifying, we have also discovered and will explain to you why it works.
We decided to conduct a test session and somewhat of a school and asked our friends, Mike and Kristal Loescher, to instruct a team whose qualifying often leaves something on the table. Marty Zehr, whose son, Dalton, will drive our NASCAR Late Model stock car this year, admitted that they could use some help when approached to participate in this test.
An experienced instructor at the FinishLine School is BJ McLeod, a Florida Super Late Model champion who spent time with Dalton for this test. BJ has a lot of wins to his credit, and more importantly for this effort, a lot of fast times in qualifying. He teaches the driving method developed by Mike and Kristal, which we reported on in the CT article "Head of the Class" (July '04, pg. 81). This is where I took the three-day driving course and where we explained the correct method for driving a stock car. Much of what follows will sound familiar to those who read that article.
Dalton has raced very well in the past and ended up Second in points in the ASA Late Model South series this past year, his rookie year. That is a very good finish, but it could have been better had he qualified better during the season. In a race where he had the quickest and most consistent car in the field based on practice laps, he qualified a disappointing 16th and ended up getting caught up in a first-lap jam up where he got hit from the rear, ending the night for that car.
Had he qualified in the Top 5, he would not have gotten in trouble in that incident. This scenario is typical of many racers, and with a little help and explanation, we think we can help. All you have to do is follow along with this process and try to understand how gains are made and time is lost by your qualifying process, be it right or wrong.
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This question sounds like a no-brainer, but we first need to understand what exactly makes for a fast lap. Of course, it is the recording of the least time possible from starting line to starting line, but there are several factors that play into creating the fast lap.
First, there is turn speed. If you can get through the turns at 68 mph during practice, then that speed should increase by about 2 or more mph on fresh qualifying tires. In a previous article, we found that 1 mph on a half-mile track was good for about 0.2 second, so we should pick up around 0.4 second per lap on fresh tires.
There is also the factor of more aggressive acceleration. That again plays into the fresh tires being able to grip and hold better when asked to accelerate the car earlier than it did on used tires. If we can begin accelerating sooner, then we should gain more speed over the length of the acceleration zone for maybe another 0.1-second gain per straightaway.
With new rubber on the car, we have theoretically gained 0.6 second over our practice times. A good qualifier can do this on a consistent basis, or even better. How do they do that? Let's break this fast lap down and see why it is faster.
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The turn entry must be perfect in order for the rest of the lap to be good. Here is where it all starts. If you, the driver, have found the point in practice where you absolutely cannot go in any deeper and still whoa the car down to make the turn, you need to back up the point where you get off the gas at least three to five car lengths.
In our test, BJ drove Dalton around the track and instructed him on where to lift, how to brake, where to get off the brakes, and when to begin to accelerate. The best entry is when the lift point is seemingly premature, and the worst entry is when the entry is delayed.
Most drivers will tell you that it feels fast to overdrive the entry. This is because it takes a lot of effort to drive the car. It is a bit exciting and dangerous, for sure, but it is not fast. Early lifting will help stabilize the car and cause it to settle sooner. Once the car is settled, it will be ready to accelerate sooner. Accelerating sooner means that our acceleration zone has lengthened. If we accelerate longer, the car will attain a higher average speed, and that is where the extra 0.1 second per straight comes from.
Backing off earlier allows us to use much less brake, and therefore, we will be faster through the normal "braking" zone. That is the area between the lifting point and the point where the car settles into its turn attitude. A lot of time can be left "on the table" in this portion of the turn.
With the entry correct and the braking phase faster, the acceleration can begin sooner and the middle phase will be faster. All three of these phases will be faster, as will the entire lap.
Incorrect Turn Entry
The absolute wrong way to enter the turn is to drive in very deep, hammer the brakes, and then try to gather up the car in order to begin to accelerate off the turn. The deep entry does several bad things.
First, we have to slow the car down to the allowable midturn speed in a much shorter length of time. We can only do this by applying a lot of brake. We slow the car down quickly and probably end up slower than we could have negotiated the middle due to lack of feel as excess load is transferred to the front tires.
The "table" portion we talked about is now slower than we could have driven it, the middle is slower, and the acceleration point is pushed farther around the turn as we wait for the car to settle down. We have gained a slight amount of speed in the first phase, lost some speed in the second phase, lost speed in the middle phase, and ended up accelerating late and at a lower speed. All of this adds up to a net loss of several mph and three to five tenths per turn.
What Drivers Do
Driving the car deep into the turns is uncomfortable because of the work it takes to overcome that mess, so skilled drivers will naturally back off earlier in practice so that in running 10- or 20-lap segments, they won't have to work so hard. The early entry allows earlier acceleration, and the lap times are decent.
During the year, our driver might have run in the 16.30's in practice and expected to turn 16.00's in qualifying. It would not be unreasonable on new tires to gain 0.3 second or more, but two things happened. The car was slower in the first qualifying lap and even slower in the second lap.
The first lap was driven hard to heat up the tires, and the second lap was a banzai lap intended to produce a fast time. It was executed by driving in way too deep, using lots of brake, and then, after a prolonged period of trying to get it settled down, accelerating late at a lower speed. He did all of the wrong things and it showed in the times.
At one race, I observed another driver's qualifying lap and would have sworn that it was very slow. It turned out to be the fastest time of the day. It looked uneventful, and that is exactly what it should have looked like. He backed off early and smoothly, rolled into the turns with little braking effort, squeezed the throttle early, and rolled off the turn without one wiggle or twitch. And it was fast.
An Explanation of the Process
BJ McLeod has a lot of poles to his credit in and around Florida. There are a lot of good drivers who can also put down a decent couple of laps, and he manages to best them on a regular basis. Here is how he explained his process: "I run my qualifying laps many times over in my head before I even get into the car. I know when I am going to lift and when I am going to begin to accelerate. When I leave pit road, the thought process is all over-I know exactly what I am going to do and I do it."
He doesn't let emotion or the heat of the moment drive his car. He does exactly what should be done by lifting at the correct point, letting the car roll into the turn and settle down, and then beginning to accelerate as soon as the car is ready, which is earlier than most. The lap times tell the story, and it works.
Lifting early feels like it will be slow. It takes a lot of discipline to work against the tendency to over-run the entry. Doing what works out right on the stopwatch and against what feels right is a process that has to be learned and memorized. It has to become second nature. Once you see the results, you will know what has to be done.
The Results When we arrived, we shook down the test car, which was Dalton's regular series race car, by turning a few laps. Then, BJ took Dalton for a ride in the school's two-seater car to show him the various points on the track and how to drive the perfect qualifying lap.
Next, we ran two-lap qualifying runs in Dalton's car on cold tires. We used the same used tires as before, but waited a sufficient amount of time between runs in order to cool the tires. Remember that this was in the middle of the day on a Tuesday. There was no rubber on the track, and it was hot and greasy. The track remained consistent during the entire test.
The first run was done just the way he had always qualified and was a 19.8. On the next run, again on the same but cooled tires, and with a little instruction from Mike and BJ, the time fell to 19.50. We waited some more for the tires to cool, and then, with a few more corrections, the time dropped again to 19.30. By further fine-tuning the process, we were seeing 19.0's.
After the school was over and everyone had left, Dalton practiced some more (with the same tires and setup) and got the times down into the 18.80's. The first runs from 19.8 to 19.5 could have just been getting the tires scuffed and the track blown off, but the real gain was around 0.7 second. At the races, when Dalton should have been three to four tenths quicker on new tires in qualifying, he was sometimes that much slower. With the method taught by Mike and BJ, he might now be able to start up front or even get a pole or two this season.
Mike often refers to the process as "slowing down to go fast" because that is what it feels like to a new student. The reality of the process is that you allow the car to maintain a higher speed instead of slowing it down, and the entry is then faster, the middle is faster, and the acceleration zone is longer. All of this adds up to a gain of 3-4 mph per lap (average), or six to eight tenths of a second. That will put you very near the front every time.


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I've used one of those old c-media boards I bet it works perfectly under Windows and BSD :P .... same goes for the OPL2SA3 on my Tyan Thunder 2 ATX >:-)
the card itself was flawed maybe, decent output but "brittle", maybe drivers were of low quality both in ALSA and OSS.
it was convenient to have things in a single place (volumes and application mixing) though pulseaudio would be more powerful (I heard pulseaudio would be especially relevant when adding usb microphone, bluetooth audio etc. which I've never done yet)
now KLANG promises to be JACK compatible. this is interesting. the problem with JACK is, you install it with a few applications and nothing happens. dead silent. or Ardour complains things are'nt set up and shuts down when you launch it. so, how the hell do you set everything up, I don't know. I know my way around the command line and do a bit of network admin but don't know how to get started on this.
oh, there are THREE audio systems, somewhat overlapping on each other. well easy thing is getting rid of pulseaudio first (crippling a bit your computer) and see if you can understand something about your empty QjackCTL.
that's just a big barrier to entry, especially as I merely want to launch software and see if it works, in the remote hope I can get friends who tinker with music to use linux and Free software, Free plugins and synths and stuff etc.
I'm totally isolated, as everyone who uses a computer for music purpose is on Windows, where everything works by double-clicking setup.exe (or maybe use a Mac). time is wasted apt-getting non working or garbage quality software in the repository as well, even when they use ALSA and/or pulseaudio and thus should be easier to get working in theory. Actually I can't even play doom with a midi soundfont, on an OS which has doom and quake as the only games. (with timidity and prboom, a combination that worked on windows)
so, KLANG pretends it can do everything in a single place, be both OSS and JACK compatible, midi, do pulseaudio things. (route things into other things, so maybe I can have a software audio compressor that works, on my global output? something to prevent screaming ads or youtube from firefox, weird filter tricks, music player output to a second stereo output etc.
I don't know if KLANG is a real answer to that.
I'm not even trying to rant, this is what happens to me any time I want to have fun with sound in linux.
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I've used one of those old c-media boards I bet it works perfectly under Windows and BSD :P .... same goes for the OPL2SA3 on my Tyan Thunder 2 ATX >:-)
1. KLANG is not OSS, it just connects on the same valves thats all.
2. KLANG is not user-space like others (pulse, jack), SUPERB!!!
3. It can replace almost everything, SUPERB!!!
4. If the development goes fast, then its a SUPERB idea.
And no, you can't get lower latencies by moving the audio server into the kernel. As the developer of Jack already explained, you would save a grand total of two context switches. For some reason I don't imagine that those two context switches are going to cause massive lag. :P